The Forrest City times., 1897-09-17

THE British steamer PolyphemuA from Yokohama for London, was dam aged in collision near Jebeltar, an island of the Red sea, according to dispatch received from the island of Perrin. Twenty-seven of the crew were drowned.
 0S the Ilth the associated banks of New York city held S26. 66s, s25 in ex- cess of the requirements of the 25-per- cent rule.
 CHIEF OF POLICE LLOYD of Oakland, Cal, received telegram, on the 18th, announcing the death, at Juneau, of J. C. Boatman, formerly private secretary to Congressman Hilborn, of California, and recently appointed fish commis- sioner of Alaska He was native of Ohio and 46 years of age.
 TIE New Orleans board of health, on the 18th, officially declared six of the suspicious cases on St Claude street to be yellow fever. A couple of hours afterward the board announced anoth- CT pronounced case of yellow fever at Miro and Esplanade streets, also in the lower part of the city, but a mile or more from the infected square.
 TIE Cuban junta of New York has had coined 1000, 900 haDdsomely-de- signed silver souvenir dollars, for which the demand is SO great from all sec tions of the country the junta IS unable to supply it. Cornelius Vanderbilt and John Jacob Astor. of New York, took 800, 900 of these dollars at face value.
 THE important town of Consolidation del Sur, in Pinar del Rio province, was attacked recently by Cuban insurgents, and the whole garrison, composed of 200 volunteers from Havana, slain by the revolutionists.
 THE London Chronicle of the 18th says: We are enabled to state that there is no ground for the suggestion that the Bank of England con templates holding one-fifth of it's reserve in sil- yer"
 LETTER from Juneau. Alaska, un- der date of September 6, tells of the lynching of William c. Martin, of Mis- souri, for stealing food at Lake Ben nett. The tragedy occurred on Sep tember a
 AN attempt to rob the Wells-Fargo express train on the Chicago < Erie road was frustrated near Foraker, O., on the 18th. Twelve tramps were dis covered on the train. The train was stopped and the men were ordered of, but instead of going they made rush for one of the express cara The mes sengers opened fire and drove them off
 THE steamer Humbolt arrived, on the uf Sa aels bringing 14 passengers and about Sl5,00 in gold. The Humbolt also brought the news that the side wheel steamer Eliza Anderson, from Seattle, which was reported lost, was safe at Dutch Harbor.
 SPLENETIC fever has broken out among the cattle in the vicinity of Me- Kinney, Tex. and upward of 150 head have died from it. A peculiarity of the lings. Cattle men are much worried over the malady.
 JOSEPH KoPPEL, of St. Louis, looked down the elevator shaft in the Ver- steeg-Grant Shoe Co. .'s store when the elevator descended, scalping him and fracturing his skull, inficting proba- ply fatal injuries
 DR. R. H. JESSE, president of the Missouri state university at Columbia has been appointed a member of the executive committee of the National Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. YELLOW FEVER has appeared at Leon, in western Nicaragua. Several natives have died of the disease recently, and it is spreading.