The Forrest City times., 1897-10-01
CURR ENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

and genial visitor, but the sights of Europe puzzle him occasionally. When taken to the grave of Hamlet by the crown prince of Denmark, he removed his hat and inquired in a sympathetic tone: "A relation of your royal high ness, presume. Has he been long dead?"
 | AUTHENTIC information has been re- ceived at Albuquerque, N. M., that there is great discovery of free-mill- ing gold ore in the Chocolate noun tains of Yuma county. Ariz. The rush there is started. Teams, stamp mills and people are arriving at Yuma from
 up the river.
 | A REPORT reaches Jacksonville, Fla, that a filibustering expedition was cap tured in Cuba and 19 of it's members slain.
 BArSBRrDGE, O., was visited by a dis. nstrous conhagration, on the 23d, which destroyed almost an entire square, containing most of the promi- nent business houses of the town, several handsome residences, and the Methodist church. Two prominent business men perished in the flames. THE officials of the Union iron works at San Francisco expect to launch the hull of the Japanese cruiser Chi tose early in January. Work on the vessel is being rushed along as rapidly | as possible.
 TIE pope has instructed the officials of the Catholic church in Spain to SUD- port the present dynasty. , DIEGO SARRIoN, mule buyer for the | Spanish army in Cuba, has purchased 1000 mules in the United States within the past ten months.
 THERE are indications in Washingt ton that the Hawaiian annexation treaty will be fought in the senate during the coming winter. Sugar interests, it Is asserted, are opposed to annexation. THE stockholders and creditors of the Rotch spinning corporation, at | New Bedford, Mass, have subscribed $525, 900. necessary to place this mill on sound financial footing. The energy of parties interested has saved the Hol- land and Rotch mills from wreck and effected a reduction of over S1, ROO, GOO in their debts.
 Miss EVA BEEM, who had been on trial for week in the federal court at | Wichita, Kas., charged with robbing the Hutchinson (kas.) post office, was found not guilty by the jury, on the | ,3d. The verdict was received with | wild excitement.
 THE city of Santiago de Cuba, Span ish stronghold, heretofore considered to be as impregnable as Havana itself, was raided and practically captured | early in September by the insurgents They remained there nearly all day, | and retired only after securing large | amount of valuable plunder. Gen. | Weyler succeeded in suppressing the news until the 23d.
 | GEN. ELLIS, who commands one of the wings of the punitive expeditions | against the revolted tribesmen in In- dia, has captured the camp of the Had da Mullah, the priest who was one of the chief instigators of the troubles The camp, which was located in the Bedmanai pass, was only taken after 8 stiff fight.
 | THE town of Flat Rock. O., was | thrown into a furore, on the 24th, by the report that Wesley Nading, welt known and wealthy citizen in a fit of | jealousy, had shot and killed his wife and then fired bullet into his own brain, inflicting fatal wound. A LANDSLIDE occurred near Sheep Camp, on the Chilcoot pass in Alaska, on the 18th, in which Is men are said to have lost their lives. Only one body was reported recovered, that of a man named Choynski, a cousin of Joe | Choynski, the prize fighter. EVERY business house in the town of Alton, Is miles west of Muskogee, l. T. was destroyed by fire on the 24th. The
 Frisco railroad depot was among the wheat were also destroyed; loss over | S50. .000
 OWING to the floods having washed away a bridge of the Baagalore- My sore railroad, near Maddur East In- dia, an engine and five ears filled with passengers were precipitated into the river, on the 24th, causing great loss of | life.
 CoNsUL-GENERAL PRATT, at Singa- pore, China, reports to the state de- pertinent that 8 loan has been author ized there to the amount of 5, 00o, 900 to begin the construction of a railway system of about S70 miles in length in the Malay peninsula.
 MORE than half the village of Raven stone, near Newport-Pagnell Buck inghamshire, England, was destroyed
 by fire on the 24th. The flames con- sumed 40 thatched cottages with barns, etc, leaving t5o people homeless.
 GEORGE Fox. formerly of Rockford, H., died at Michigan City, Miss. on tn @ gath, of yellow fever. His wife and seven children are there, and friends have been unable to get help to them because trains do not stop at that place, it being in the section afflicted with the scourge.
 POLICE MAGISTRATE DoNoHuE, of Troy, N. Y., apparently possessed of more religious zeal than judicial abi-- ity, sentenced John Burns, a Catholic, on the 24th, to jail because he attempted to eat meat on Friday.
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