The Forrest City times., 1897-09-17
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

fixed the value of his new home at s20,- 900. and his personal property at $780, ] GOO.
 ANOTHER sensation has developed in the Mitchell county Qa.) dedication. Some person or persons broke into the county treasurer's office and vault at Mason City, and burned and destroyed a large part of the records, which were under examination by an expert. ADvICEs from Uganada state that a mutiny has occurred there among the troops of the Congo Free State. in the Toro district The mutineers, it is said, killed 59 Belgian officers and de- stroyed all the forts.
 1 MARQUIS DE RocHAMBEAU, grandson of Count Rochambeau, who command ed the French contingent in America during the revolutionary war, died re- gently in France.
 IT was announced in London. on the 9th, that a concession to complete the Panama canal had been given to En- gland.
 ! SIX YOUNG men were drowned in a yacht near Windmill point in Lake St. i Clair, above Detroit, Mich, on the sth. The disaster was caused by four others, who rocked the yacht till it capsized. The drowned men were in the cockpit when the craft went over
 | HoN. WM. J. BRYAN was a passenger | on one of the trains wrecked in Kansas on the night of the Sth, and was fore most among those who aided in rescu- ing the passengers from the wreck and in ministering to the injured. F. LAMB, of Portland, Ore, who re- 1 turned on the steamer National City, l from Alaska, is authority for the state ment that over fifty men have already died of scurvy this summer in Dawson.
 A SECRET organization which has for i its object the liberation of Canada and the adoption of republican form of | government has been organized by the l French Canadians at Lewiston, Me-, and else where Ill Maine and in Canada. THE annual report of the auditor for 1 the interior department issued, on the 9th, showed that the amount paid for pensions during the last year was $l40, 477.637. The payments on pen sion account for the fiscal year 1896 was Sl3S, 722, 127, and for the fiscal year of 1895 Sl40, ,5aS,64l; 1894, S137, ll9, ,551, and for 1895, S.54, 5522l The cost of the service last year was S3. 90 per sl.o00; for 1896, s4.O7; for 1895, S4; for 1894, S3.77, and for 1893, S3. 35. | JAMES K. WILLARD, Elmer Dwiggips and John Dwiggins, who compose the firm of J. K. Willard x Co.,, bankers and brokers, with offices in New York city, Buffalo, Washington. Philadel- phia and Montreal. Can., assigned, on the 9th, to Jas. l.. Starbuclx, with pref erence for SEQ, 900 to William II. Oster- bout.
 JAMES R. HAMLIN, grain broker on the St Louis Merchants exchange, was found dead in a bath tub at the Ter minal hotel in that city on the 9th. He was an excessive thinker and his affairs are said to be in bad shape. A FRiGHTFUL accident, by which probably 40 persons lost their lives and nearly 200 were injured, occurred, on the 10th, 111 miles west of New Castle, Col, caused by a collision between a l special Colorado stock train and a Denver x Rio Grande passenger. After the shock of the collision the wrecked cars caught fire and many of the pinioned victims were incinerated. l OFFICIAL dispatches from Havana confirm the report that Calixto Garcia and Jesus Rabi, two of the insurgent generals captured the town of Victoria de Las Tuuas, defended by seven forts. The Spanish garrison, consisting of 300 men, were all taken prisoners.
 A FOREIGNER, who is said to have been Baron Max von Schrader, lieu tenant in the German army. who had been at Ostend, Flanders, during the entire season, committed suicide on the 9th. The deceased is said to have lost S400, 900 in gambling.
 ON the 9th, the Official Gazette, of Madrid, published the new customs tariff of Cuba. Nearly all American goods are subject to lower duties.
 CONSUL ArwELL reports to the state department from Roubaix. France, that there is good market throughout t northern France for California dried fruits particularly prunes, dried peaches, raisins and candied fruit
 AN attempt to bribe Judge Watkins, of the circuit court of Huntington county, Ind, to grant divorce, re- suited in Martin Keplinger, a promi- nent farmer, being hauled up before the judge and fined for contempt of court.
 A SPECIAL from New Castle, Col, says: The body of Robert Ostrander. engineer of the Colorado Midland stock train which collided with the Rio Grande passenger, was found in the debris of the wreck. The head and one arm were burned off
 LATEST reports of the Santa Fs wreck in Kansas place the list of cas- ualties at IA killed, 1 missing and Is injured, at least two fatally. Severa, of the bodies of the victims were in- cinerated.
 SINCE March last in the territory tributary to Kansas City, Mo, seven pos.al clerks have been killed and eight have been so badly hurt as to be incapacitated for service.
 EMPEROR WILLIAM personally com