Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-22


 TIE Junior Order of United Ameri- can Mechanics of Pennsylvania held it's thirty-sixth annual state meeting in Mekeesport beginning on the l7th.
 TIE British foreign office, on the 17th, denied the report that the sultan of Turkey had accepted the plan of the powers for reforms in Armenia.
 A DESPATCH from Shanghai, on the 17th, said that seven of the prisoners convicted of complicity in the recent massacres were executed at Kn Cheng, on that day, in the presence of the for eign consuls.
 TIE provincial synod of the Church of England in Canada, in session at Montreal, on the 16th, rejected mo- tion to authorize the use of the re- vised New Testament in the churches under it's control.
 TIE Paris Journal says the report finds eredence that Mr !. E. Eustis. United States ambassador to France, will shortly change places with Mir. Theodore Runyon, United States am bassador to Germany.
 TIE quarto centennial reunion of the Society of the Army of the Gumber- land. meeting in conjunction with the dedication of the Ghickamauga and Chattanooga National park, was held at Chattanooga, Tenn, on the 18th.
 
 THE Spanish transport steamer San- ia Barbara arrived at Havana, on the 1sth with additional troops from Spain. She was enthusiastically cheered upon her arrival by a large crowd of people who gathered to wei come her.
 A DESPATCH from Madrid. on the 17th, said that Gen. Martinez Campos had written to senor Ganovas del Castillo, the Spanish premier, declaring that the Cuban rebellion is q great deal more serious than it was at the time of his last report.
 TIE Deutsche Warte declares that the island of Chu-San, off the east coast of China, will be ceded to Germany and that a German colony will be founded there. The paper adds that Germany will obtain additional terri tory near Tien-Tsin.
 TliE water in the bay at Alpena, Mich, reeeded suddenly, on the 18th, lowering the level about three feet and leaving several vessels on the bot tom. It came back gradually. The same phenomenon occurred last year about the same time.
 A TRAIN from Vera Cruz, on the Mexican Interoceanic railway. was de- railed, on the 18th, between Pueblo, and the City of Mexico. Several pas sengers were wounded and it is re- ported that the conductor, engineer and fireman were killed.
 TuE steamer Shamrock arrived at Marseilles from Madagascar, on the 10th, with l43 French soldiers, who had been invalided home, on board In addition to these she landed 365 in- valid troops at Algiers. Forty sol diers died on the passage home.
 
 THE Cotton States exposition at Att lanta, Ga, for which preparations had beenunceasingly making for two years was formally opened, on the 18th, President Cleveland, at Gray Gables, near Buzzard's Bay, Mass. staring up the ponderous machinery by touching an electric button.
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 FOLLOWING the example of the jus tices of the supreme court of Pennsyl- vania, the judges of the common pleas court of Philadelphia have decided to wear gowns while sitting on the bench. The gowns will be fashioned some what after those worn by the judges in the courts of England
 PRoF C. " RILEY, for many years entomologist of the department of agriculture, and we'll known among scientists in this country and Europe, died in Washington, few minutes after midnight on the 18th, from in- juries received few hours before by being thrown from his bicycle.
 TIE weekly statement of the asso- ciated banks of New York city, issued on the l4th, showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, Ss, 161, 1925; loans, increase, S4. .sSs. .101; specie. de- crease, $19fl, 600; legal tenders, de- crease. $7,524,7oO; deposits, decrease. S. O9l, 100; circulation, increase, Sl57,- GOO
 TIE Mora claim was paid, on the 18th, by senor Dupuy de Lome, the Spanish minister to Washington, hand- ing to Acting Secretary of State Adee draft on the Spanish fiscal agent at