The Forrest City times., 1897-08-13

ADNlCEs received Dy the steamer Del gic state that the Japanese govern ment has decided to totally abolish the export duty from the commencement of the thirty-first fiscal year in April next
 "THE PLUSGER," submarine torpe- do boat, of the Holland type, designed for the United States navy, was sue cessfully launched at the yards of the Columbia iron works, at Baltimore, Md, on the 7th.
 FAILURES throughout the United States for the week ended on the 9th, as reported by K. G. Dun X Co.,, were 2S7, against 240 for the corresponding week of last year. For Canada the fail ures were 2a, against S2 last year.
 OLD inhabitants of Malaga, Spain, relate that when Canovas del Castillo was young assistant master at a school there gypsy woman told his fortune. She predicted that he would become great and would meet with a violent death.
 THE Heraldo, of Madrid, says it un- derstands that the United States gov ernment has decided to wait four months longer for the pactication of Cuba, and that unless it is accom- plished by that time the United States will undertake the protection of the insurgents.
 THE Canadian authorities hav. cre- ated a post office at Dawson t. his makes three offices establishe8 ts# em in that portion of the Northwest Jerri- tory. The other two offices are at Forty Mile and Fort Cudahy. The mail will be carried by the mounted police from Dyea and Ssaguay.
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 THE German government has again entered formal protest against the application to German sugar of section five of the new tariff act, by which such sugar would be taxed with a higher duty than that from other countries, because of the payment of an export duty by that country.
 Ar a recent meeting of the Dominion cabinet decision was arrived at that, on account of the official reports from Dyea relating to the increasing rush of miners for the Klondike fields, it was necessary to send another detach ment of 100 Northwest mounted police to the Yukon district at once to maintain law and order.
 CONSIDERABLE alarm has been caused in Bombay by the publication nf ial tat ttctt ehn { l, there were 1,071 deaths there during the week ended on the 9th, of which 220 were from cholera and Is from plague. This total death rate is equal to 65.61 per thousand, or double the normal rate.
 THE Industrial World, published at Chicago, said on the 5th: Railroad companies are entering the market for large additions to equipment. A south western system purchased 1000 cars last week at St, Louis, and there are inquiries at Chicago from the Illinois Central and other roads, with prospects of some extensive purchases.
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 CoNsUL-GENERAL HAYWARD, in a re- port to the state department, states that during 1896 American vessels num- bering 247, of 24S, ,aS3 tons, entered at Hawaiian ports, while vessels of all other nationalities numbered 139, of 284, OLA tons. These are the only for eign ports where majority of the car rying trade is now under the American flag.
 THE big battleship Indiana sailed from Newport, k. l., on the 5th, for Halifax, N. S., where she will be doeked, cleaned and painted. She is the first of the battleships that has been sent from the United States to a foreign dock for lack of docking facili- ties at home, but it is probable that others must follow before the New York dock, the only American dock capable of receiving these large war vessels, is repaired.
 SILVER certificates sold on the New York stock exchange, on the 4th, at 57, and bar silver was quoted at 57 as against 57S, the low record of the previous week. The price of Mexican dollars also receded to 44A. These are all new low price records. Bullion dealers assert that there is no espe- cially heavy offerings of silver in the worlds market to account for the con tinued fall in price, but that there is practically no demand.
 A TERRIBLE outbreak of the great volcano of Mayon, on the Island of Luzon, one of the Philippine group, occurred on June %, and up to July no less than 500 persons were engulfed in the fiery streams of lava and de- stroyed, and it was expected that the number of fatalities would reach at least 1000 Fifteen villages had been burned and the destruction of the cities of Bacaca, Malipot and Libey was drought to be certain.