The Forrest City times., 1897-07-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

bama, introduced a bill to regulate the annexation of Hawaii to the United States. It is intended, should the pending annexation treaty fail of rati tication by two-thirds majority in the senate, to accomplish the same thing by majority votes in both houses, as ordinary legislation.
 THE Japanese cruiser Hiyie now used as a training ship, arrived at San Francisco, on the 23d, and will remain in that port several weeks before sail ing for Honolulu. The vessel was re- ceiyed with the customary salutes.
 THE nineteenth annual convention of the Music Teachers National assoeia- ton opened in the auditorium of the Grand Central palace in New York on the 24th.
 THE special train schedule of the Denver x Rio Grande road for the Christian Endeavor movement from the east was completed on the 24th. The result was gratifying surprise to the officers of the road, and gave in- timation of a rush of travel wholly un- expected earlier in the season.
 HERR JoHS MEYER, director of the Hamburg American steamship line, died in Hamburg on the 24th. He was about 63 years of age. He had been connected with the Hamburg American line for about 30 years, first as secre- tary for the president and then as a kAirector
 Y ROBERT BAUeH, was fatally. and Joseph Speer and Western Young, seriously injured, on the 24th. by the giving way of rotten timbers near the roof of the condemned courthouse in Jackson, Mich, which they were help ing to tear down.
 TIE Pan American tourists devoted the day, on the 18th, to industrial sightseeing in districts adjacent to Pittsburgh, Pa, and were entertained at night by a banquet. given by the Rcommercial men of Pittsburgh at the DuqueSne club.
 E. J. RADCLIFFE, the actor, was ar rested in Chicago, on the 2Sd, on a telegram from New York charging him with wife-beating. The woman was said to be in a critical condition as the result of her husbands abuse.
 THE American Homeopathic, Opthal- mological. Ontoleogical and Larvn- gological society, in session in Buffalo, N. Y., on the 24th, elected the follow ing officers: President, Wm. R. King, Washington, D. C.; vice-president, Thomas l. Shoever, Baltimore; secre- tary and treasurer, Charles H. Hell frich, New York.
 A PARTY consisting of about seventy five newspaper correspondents left Washington, on the 18th, for Cape May, N. J. Stops were made at Baltimore and Philadelphia, where local news paper men joined the party for a four days outing.
 THE London Echo publishes an in- terview with Dr. Chauncey Nj. Depew, in which he is quoted as expressing the belief that the arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain win be law before the end of the present Mckinley administration.
 ONE hundred striking Italians at Morrisville, N. d., were arrested and placed in the local lookup on the z5th.
 THE crew and the Cubans who were on board the Dauntless, when captured 
 by the Mclean. were discharged by United States Commissioner Julius Ot- to, at Key West, Fla. on the 25th, on the ground that there was no evidence to show that they were military or ganization or intending to commit acts hostile to Spain.
 JOHN CARNEY. who attained fame as the "Astor tramp died in the Mattea- wan tN. I.) state asylum for criminal insane, on the 25th. He was S4 years old. He was the man who took a nap in Mrs. William Astor's mansion.
 lN the intercollegiate boat race at Poughkeepsie, N. r., on the 25th, the Cornell crew defeated Harvard and Yale. The victory was remarkable. as the Cornells had not been considered
 in it" by the other two contestants.
 MRS. JOIN A. LOGAN is laid up with an injured knee, the result of fall on the steps of her home at Washington. The injured limb is in splints, in order that it may have complete rsst and in- action.