The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1895-11-29
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
Personal AND POLITICAL

SENATOR CALVIN ;. BRICE, Gov. ELECT
Asa 5. Bushnell and Col. W. p. Orr. of
Piqua, o., it was reported on the 22d,
have become owners of the nat
ural gas plants, supplying Sidney.
Troy, Piqua, Dayton. Springfield and
other Ohio towns, and also of the
Springfield illuminating gas works.
The caravan which was under the
direction of the British trader Stokes,
hanged in the Congo country by Capt.
Lothaire, the Belgian. who charged
him with selling arms and ammunition
to natives. has arrived at the coast of
German east Africa with $40, 900 worth
of ivory.
REV. DIR. CORNELIUS ". VAN DYKE,
translator of the Bible into Arabic,
who died suddenly in Beyrout, Syria,
was acknowledged by experts as the
best Arabic scholar in the world.
THERE is movement in Newton,
Mass, to erect monument or memo
rial tablet to the memory of the late
Rev. DIR. S. f. Smith, the author of
America" who died in Boston re-
Gently.
Mr.. TERRELL, United States minis
ter to Constantinople, asked the porte
for permit allowing the United
States cruiser Marblehead to proceed
to Constantinople, but the request was
refused on the ground that only
powers signatory to the treaty of
Paris can expect such permits.
On the 23d Henry Widmer, leader of
the orchestra at Days New York the
alter, died of heart failure in a cab at
the door of his residence.
REPRESENTATIVE OTEY, of Virginia,
announces his purpose to intr oduce
bill to appropriate S27, 1000, 900 fcf
the benefit of ex-confederate SOL
diers, conditioned upon an equal
amount being appropriated by the
states in which the confederate vet
Grams live. He says SGT, 200, 900 repre-
sents the proceeds of captured prop
erty turned into the federal treasury
during the war. and that the people
of the south have moral claim to the
money.
EARLY on the morning of the 25th it
was rumored in Paris that Alexander
Dumas, the distinguished author, was
dead. The report was not confirmed,
but it was known that NJ. Dumas con-
dition was desperate
On the 25th Arthur Arnaud, the noted
French communard, died in Paris.
IT is announced that Chief Engineer
X. r. Leitch of the cruiser Boston has
been added to the long list of naval
engineers whose health has been
ruined by overwork resulting from
insufficient appropriations.
On the 25th George Banker, the cv-
clist, arrived at his home in Pitts burgh,
Pa, from his tour of the principal
cities of Europe, bringing with him
the title of champion of the world and
several trunks filled with valuable
trophies won in sixty-three of the
eighty events in which he participated
His trip was also a financial success.
On the :5th Mrs. Harriet A. Haynes,
whose father ran the first steamer on
the Hudson river, the Experiment, died
in st. Thomas, Ont. She lacked two
months of being 100 years old.
THERE is talk among the Indiana
populists at indianapolis of reorganiz-
ing the party. with the unders landing
that Eugene Debs shall be made its
candidate for governor, if he will ac-
cept.
On the 25th Capt Wheaton refused
to accept the release of the suspected
schooner j. w. Foster, at Lewes, Del. i,
and abandoned her to the government.
The crew remained, and Capt Wheal-
ton went to Philadelphia to seek legal
redress.