The Forrest City times., 1897-06-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

GEN. REBILLoT, who is 75 years of age, fought duel with swords, on the 10th, with NJ. Camille de St. Croix, the author of an article on the part taken by the general in the coup d'etat of December ?, 1851. Gen. Rebillot was wounded above the eye.
 DANIEL OCoNNELL, son of the Irish liberal of the same name, died in Lon don on the 10th.
 THE degree of IL. D. was conferred upon ex-President Cleveland by Prince tonuniversity on the 16th
 A DISPATCH from Havana, on the 10th, said that Gen. Quantin Bandera led large force of Spanish soldiers from their barricade into ambush and there fell upon and annihilated them.
 ON the 24th there will be solemnized in Bismarck, $. D., the wedding of a Sioux Indian maiden and foreigner of wealth and social prestige. The bride will be Picture Eyes, the daugh- ter of John Moose an old warrior who has sealped many white man. The prospective groom is Thomas Dulaine Cronan. an Irishman.
 MORE tea is now afoat on the Pacific ocean than ever before at one time, in order to enter before the Dingley bill goes into effect. One thousand tons of the new crop has been landed in Ta- coma, Wash, and I2, 000 900 pounds are on the ocean. The Canadian line is also bringing heavy shipments.
 ToLAN ISRAEL GIDEON BARNETT. of Montreal, Can, claims to be brother of the late Barney Barnato. the South African diamond king. He says Bar nato's real name was Barhey Isaac Alri Barnett.
 THE bronze statue of Winged Lib erty" presented to the battleship Mas sachusetts by the Bay State, was un- yelled. on the 17th, by Gov. Wolcott.
 ISAAC NORTON, cashier of the United States internal revenue department in San Francisco, committed suicide on the 11th, taking carbolic acid.
 Two THOUSAND men. women and chil- dren, made desperate by hunger, pa- raded the streets of Matanzas, Cuba, on the 18th, demanding bread. Private residences were broken into and gro- cery stores footed before the Spanish police, with drawn swords, succeeded in quelling the riot.
 SEVERAL. weeks ago a COW belonging to Joel Beasley, farmer near Centre town, Ohio county, Ky, was bitten by a stray dog afflicted with rabies, which fact was unknown to the farmer. who continued using the milk. While milk ing the animal some of the fluid en- tered small scratch on the palm of his hand, and on the 18th he dled of lock- jaw.
 ON the 18th a cyclone passed over the outskirts of the city of Paris, France, causing the loss of about twenty lives and in turing about ninety persons.
 A DISPATCH from Calcutta, on the 18th. said: Almost the whole of the province of Assam has been devastated by the earthquake. The ruin is appall- ing. The courts treasuries. iails and hospitals have collapsed. The loss of food supplies is enormous. The crops are mostly ruined.
 TIE Akron (O.) police will equip a street car as a travelling prison, in which to transport unruly folk from Lakeside park and SuInnit lake, where there have been numerous Sunday rows The jail on wheels will also be used for patrol wagon in case of ne- cessity.
 WILLIAM CRAwLEY, a miner, met death in a horrible manner in the Nickel Plate mine of the Jackson Coal and Mining Co.,, north of Brazil. Ind. on the 18th. While drawing pillars the roof fell before he could escape, and his body was crushed into a shapeless mass by many tons of slate. Crawley was 45 years of age and married.
 Do ALL you can for bimetallism" |" This quotation is from personal mem orandum made by the president and embodied in private instructions which have been given to the American am bassadors to Great Britain, Germany | and France. The instructions have been given from the White House di- rect. They are in Snch form as to i'm press the ambassadors with the dee D earnestness of the president for bime t allism.
 Ar Winona, Minn., Ella Prigg, aged five, stood in the yard where her fa- ther was cutting wood. She had in her mouth a steel rib of an umbrella. Tais was struck by flying chip and forced into the pharynx, causing congestion of the brain and spasms, and resulting ! in death.