The Forrest City times., 1897-02-05

THK United States cruiser Brooxly lyn,
 the latest pride of the navy, calculated to withstand the iercest onslaught of ' shot and shell, lies almost helpless be- cause of having struck a narrow ledge
 of sunlsen rock in the Delaware river, above Marcus Hook. Pa. The vessel is badly damaged.
 | Miss HANNAH GeAM, 67 years old, one of the largest women i'll the coun-
 try, died suddenly at her home near
 Dalton. O., on the 3lst. She was sit- ting by the stove when she fell over dead from heart disease. Miss Ream
 weighed 510 pounds.
 TIE treasury figures for the month of January show the usual deficiency in revenues. The receipts for the month have fallen s5, 5,a22, ,779 95 below the expenditures.
 FIRE was discovered in the boys dormitory of the Genesee Wesleyan seminary at Lima, N. Y., shortly after midnight on the 1st The building
 was burned to the ground. The loss is estimated at S50,0 There were 100
 boys in the building, but all escaped 1 with their lives. One student was in- jured by jumping from a window so badly that he died soon after
 THE Kalamazoo (Mich.D high school building was destroyed by fire on the 1st. The cause of the fire was an explosion of furnace gas. The loss is estimated at $40, ,0O0; insurance, S.2,- 900. Several firemen were injured. one of them fatally, by the breaking z of ladder.
 THE debt statement, issued on the lst, showed net increase in the pub- lie debt, less cash in the treasury, during January of sl5,o7s. 735. Total cash in the treasury ss5s, ,5a3, ,elO.
 MB. J. s. WILSON, of Iowa, tele- phoned to friends on the lst: II have accepted the portfolio of agriculture ! in Mir. Mckipley's cabinet" LEE B. MCFARLAND, teller of the Second national bank of Parkersburg, w. Va., is short S4a. GOO in his accounts
 He has confessed that he lost the money In speculation. The shortage will be made good
 ON the lst the president reappointed Martin A. Knapp, of New York, to be interstate commissioner.
 FOUR men who were cut off from es . cape by fire in the Tamarack mine, at Houghton, Mich, were, ou the 2d, abandoned to their fate, orders being issued to seal up the shaft, the attempt to pump air in to the entom bed miners having only resulted in increasing the fury of the flames
 AT All Saints cathedral, Albany, N Y., Dr. James Dow Morrison, rect or of St. Johns church, Ogdensburg, was, on the 2d, consecrated bishop of the Episcopal missionary diocese of Du- luth.
 THE state house at Harrisburg, Pa, was destroyed by fire, on the Ed, en- tailng loss of Sl 1000, 900; insurance S20O, GOO:
 TIE big works of the Case Thresh- ! ing Machine Co.,, at Racine, Wis, will
 resume operations on the Sth. They have been closed for six mon ths. Sev- eral hundred men will be given em. i ployment.
 | ALMOST the entire business portion
 of Arlington, O., was destroyed by fire on the 2d. Six business firms were burned out, and one family barely es- caped with their lives.
 PRESIDENT HARPER of the University
 of Chicago announced at the chapel
 services. on the 2d, tha t Lady Aber- deen, wife of the gove rnor-general oi Canada, would be the convocation orator at the university commence. i ment exercises in the Auditorium April l. Lady Aberdeen will have the honor
 of beng the first woman chosen for
 such an occasion in this country.