The Forrest City times., 1897-07-02

THE Turks have been taking advan- tage of the armistice to loot Thessaly, so that if they have to evacuate the people will be left in a destitute condi- ton. Many of the villages have been burned.
 THE Russian turret ironclad Gangoot, one of the best vessels in the imperial navy, ran upon a reef near Transcend. during storm in the Baltic, on the 18th, and sank almost instantly. The crew is reported saved.
 MCBRIDE IS HARvELL's icehOuse at Williams Bay, Wis, was burned on the 18th. Incendiarism is suspected. The house cost S25, 900 and con ntained 40, 900 tons of ice.
 OVER the Canadian border from north ern New York, the temperature went down to the freezing point, on the 18th.
 THE Anchor line steamer City of Rome. which arrived at New York, on the 27th, from Glasgow and Neville, had been on fire in one compartment of her hold for hours. After a hard fight the flames were gotten under con- trol.
 DURING the week ended on the 26th four full cargoes of oriental freight, aggregating IS, 300 tons, arrived at Ia coma. W ash.
 TwENTY-sIx miners were killed by fall of rock in the Labrar mines, in the province of Atacama, Chilli, on the 27th.
 Ex-STATE TREASURER HARTLEY, of Nahraulya hag VT, of bezzlement and sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary and to pay fine of $500. 900.
 SIMo-HAMED BEN MoUsA, special en- voy of the sultan of Morocco to the Victorian jubilee festivities, has re- turned to Morocco insane.
 SENATOR PETTIGREw, of South Dako- ta, was overcome in the midst of a violent speech in the senate on the 26th. He hesitated, failed to enunciate his words, and then, without serious agitation, took his seat with hls sentence unfinished. Dr. Baine, who was summoned to attend him, said that his illness was caused by a blood clot on the brain, but that there would be no serious results if he should be kept free from excitement.
 ON July Peter $. McNally, of Bos- ton, will attempt to swim from En- gland to France across the English channel. His course will be from Do- yer to Calais, 20 nautical, or 2S land miles, in distance. The feat has been accomplished by but one man, Capt. Webb, who swan the channel in 1875.
 AN incident typical of the situation occurred in Constantinople recently. During the panic caused by the salute fired in honor of the jubilee of Queen Victoria the Mussulmans trooped into the streets, armed with bludgeons, and asked the police whether the Greeks or the Armenians were to be attacked.
 Cor. F. B. MUssEY, the well-known Washington cores pendent, died in Middlebury, Vt., on the night of the 27th, of Bfight's disease. He was 5I years of age and had been ill for some time.
 THE statement of the condition of the treasury, issued on the 2Sth, showed: Available cash balance, S235. 40 085; gold reserve, Sl4O 557, S6S
 NINE children were killed and many others injured by the collapse of a church wall at Solano, in the province of Ciudad Real, Spain, on the 2Sth.
 MRS. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL. widow of the founder of the Christian Camp bellite Baptist church, died at Beth any, w. Va, on the 2Sth. aged S5 years.
 A FRESH attempt on the part cf the sultan to secure Germany's support of the retention of Thessaly has met with refusal and the advice to conform to Europe's wishes on the subject.