The Forrest City times., 1895-05-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

Tree kindergarten, orphans home and other benevolent institutions of that city receive smaller sums. Miss Annie Turrell, the niece who was severely burned in attempting to save Mir. Her ron from the flames in California which caused his death, receives S1O,O0O.
 ON the 16th Lieut. Gen. Schoield started from Washington on his tour of inspection, going first to Memphis, Tenn, where the interstate drill and encampment was being held. He was attended by Lieutenant-C -Colonels Scho- field and Sanger.
 EDWARD PAYsoN PITCHER, principal of New York city grammar school. died suddenly in Newburg, N. Y.. eight hours after his marriage. Organic heart trouble was the cause.
 THE London People publishes a state ment by the Tich borne claimant which is virtual confession of his fraudu- lent attempt to obtain possession of the Tichborne estates and title. He admits that he is Arthur Orton, the son of a butcher of Mapping. The state ment is accompanied by sworn affida- wit by the claimant attesting the truth of his confession.
 THE seating capacity of the Illinois club was taxed to its utmost, on the night of the l7th. by the people anx- ious to hear the much-talked-of debate on the silver question between w. H. Harvey, author of Coins Financial School" little volume that has at tracted much attention during the present silver agitation, and Prof. J. Lawrence Laughlin, of the university of Chicago.
 JUDGE HENRY $. PRIEST has resigned his position as United States judge for the eastern district'of Missouri, and Judge Elmer B. Adams, one of the most prominent attorneys of the state. was named by President Cleveland, on the 17th, as Judge Priests success sor The date of the change has not yet been announced.
 ON the 17th Peter Fl. Burnett, the first constitutional governor of Califor- mia, died in San Francisco. He was so years old, and a native of Tennessee He filled various judicial offices and served term as justice of the supreme court of California.
 A DISPATCH from Tien-Tsin states that Lii Chang Fang, Lii Hung Chang's son, had been appointed commissioner to perform the odious duty of handing over the island of Formosa to the Jap anese.
 ON the 18th Cuthbert Powell Wallace, pay director of the United States navy, retired, died at the Hotel arlborough in New York city. He was born in the District of Columbia. He was attached to the sloop Preble in 1s61-62.
 FATHER LETELLIEs ST. Jus, pastor of Holy Rosary church at Lake Linden, Mich., has created a sensation in Cath ollie circles by preaching a sermon in which he strongly upheld public schools, denounced their detractors as un-American and urged that every boy over 14 years of age be sent to public rather than parochial schools.
 IN indorsing Rear-Admiral Meade's request for retirement, President Cleve- land said: ''The president regrets ex- ceedingly that the long, active service of this officer, so brilliant in its early stages and so often marked by honora- ble incidents, should at its close be tarnished by conduct at variance with a commendable career, and inconsis- tent with the example which an officer of his high rank should furnish of sub- mission to the restraints of wholesome discipline and manifest propriety."
 ON the goth, by a divided bench, four of the associate justices dissenting. the supreme court of the United States de- clared the income-tax law, passed at the last session of congress, to be up- constitutional. The money already collected under the law will be imme- diately refunded.
 ON the 18th Charles H. Hinman, sec- retary and treasurer of the Northwest ern Travelling Mems association, died of Bright's disease at his residence in Chicago. Mir. Hinman was a charter member, and one of the founders of the association.
 CARL BROWNE and J. s. Coxey ad- dressed the Central Labor union May day celebration in Cleveland, 0. Browne predicted that the gold forces of both parties would combine on Grover Cleveland as the most relia- ble candidate, and he suggested Coxey as the Moses who would lead the silver hosts, through the peoples party.
 DR. GUZMAN, Nicaraguan minister, was, on the 20th, authorized by his government emphatically to deny the report that war is imminent between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The dis patch states that there are no causes for disagreement between the two a...4.ias and that fhoir rola finns a -a