The Forrest City times., 1894-10-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL


 Sandusky (O) common pleas court, on the 27th, by Houston Smith, of Toledo, against the members of the family of the late ex-President k. E. Hayes. The plaintiff alleges that his wife re- ceived permanent injuries in runaway caused by large dog owned, boarded and harbored by the Hayes family ct Spiegel Grove.
 ALLEN c. WILDE, of the firm of J. Fl. Wilde & Co.,, well-known merchants of Chicago, has been adopted by the widow of the late Prof. Garrison, of that city. Mrs. Garrison, before her marriage, was Lady Mary Berry, of England, and heiress to extensive es- tates there. Mir. Wilde is 33 years old, and a prominent society and club man.
 ON the 27th the president issued . proclamation granting pardons to all Mormons convicted of polygamy.
 ( YELLOW FEVER is reported epidemic throughout .the republic of Salvador, and the mortality is very great. The disease is fatal to foreigners, taking them off inside of twenty-four hours. Among the first victims was American Consul Pollock.
 ON the 2Sth indictments were found at St. Cloud, Minn., against Paul Bor- dreau, l.. E. Foster, w. R. Brohan, Lloyd and Harry Egbert and George Amo, all of St Cloud. for taking part in the Great Northern strike and hin- dering the passage of mail trains.
 ON the 2sth Capt. Henry w. How gate was taken before Judge Benedict, of the United States district court of New York, and admitted his identity. Judge Benedict signed an order for his removal to Washington for trial in the supreme court of the District of Columbia.
 THE emperor of China attributes the recent defeats suffered by his forces to incompetency and corruption, and this fact has caused almost a panic in the palace, and has rendered the position of affairs in China extremely serious. JACOB ZAHNT, building contractor who built several Worlds fair build ings in Chicago and lost money on similar work at the Mid-Winter ex- position. committed suicide in San Francisco by gas asphyxiation. DR. LEYDEN, of Berlin, summoned to Spala to treat the czar, advises that the latter be sent to Livadia, Greece. IT is said that the appointment of Prince Kung, the Chinese emperor's uncle. and the presidents of the for eign board of admiralty to act as co-di- rectors with Lii Hung Chang in the con- duct of affairs is looked upon in Shanghai as partaking of the nature of coup d'etat.
 THE bodies of the crew of the sunken schooner Home were washed ashore near Manistique, Mich. Those of Capt. c. P. Henderson and Alex Berkeuoslki were identified, but the others could not be recognized.
 ON the lst the grand jury of the criminal court of the District of Columbia brought in an indictment against II. 0. Havemeyer and John F.. Searles, of New York, and Allan Louis Seymour, of Seymour Bros & Young, brokers, of Washington city. CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw will deliver an oration at the laying of the corner. stone of the Commercial Travellers as. sociation's new hall at Binghamton, N. Y., on the 9th.
 ON the 1st Baron Blanca, Italian minis ter of foreign affairs, was in conference at his seat at Castel-a-Mare, with Her. man Stump, the United States superin- tendent of immigration and the Amer ican consul at Naples, with reference to the adoption of regulations for the protection of emigrants