The Forrest City times., 1897-01-01

FORREST CITY. ARKANSAS.
 
 ON the 2sd the president approved the general pension and urgent defi- ciency appropriation bills.
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 THE president, on the 2sth. pardoned James Burdell. alias Charles Sher- wood, convicted in July last, in Michi- gan, of bringing counterfeit coin into the United States.
 Ex-QUEEN LILIUoKALANI, of Hawaii, arrived in Boston, on the 25th, and was at once driven to the Parker house, which will be her headquarters during her stay in that city.
 A DISPATCH from Paris says; Tt is stated that a Russian fleet of l2 ves- sells has been stationed at Vladivostocll to watch Japan, which is suspected of meditating another blow at China"
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 THE Lehigh mill in South Easton, Pa, manufacturers of cotton goods, shut down, on the 2Sth, for four months. The plant was started nearly 100 years ago. and this is the first shut down it has experienced.
 TIE first of the l2 public hearings to be given on the revision of the tariff was begun in the committee of ways and means of the house of represen ta- tives on the 2sth. Chairman Dingley presided, and there was pretty full attendance.
 THE St. James Gazette says Queen Victoria will personally dictate and revise a biography of her majesty, which will appear in 1897. The work will tell the story of the longest reign in the history of Englan as the queen herself regards it.
 SENAToR-ELECT MONEY, of Missis- sippi, whose term in the house does not expire until March 4, and who is one of the democratic members of the house foreign affairs committee, has determined to visit Cuba and find out for himself the true situation of affairs in the island.
 
 STATEMENTS are made by those in oinciai position at Washi ngton that there is prospect of peaceful solu- iion of the Cuban question through spain agreeing to grant autonomy to Cuba, with the United States prom lsing to guarantee the observance of the terms of the agreement.
 
 THE president, on the 2sth, denied pardon to W. W. Lusk, sentenced in 1892 to six years for sending obscene letters through the mails, the presi- dent holding that this convict's crime ttances related to it are so detesta ble ss to deserve severe sentence"
 THIRTEEN Kentucky couples were marrled in Jeffersonville, Ind, on Christmas, all of them being united by Justice Hause, with the exception of one. over whom Justice keigwin ofii- ciated. One couple from Winchester were secretly married by Justice Hause, and all pedged to secrecy.
 TYNDALE PALMER, agent, who re- gently brought suit In ttts burgh, Pa !, Tor damages against aUout 100 leading newspa pers Tn the United States. charging libel in having published an article alleging dishonest transactions on his part, received verdict, on the s2d, of 614 cents against the Leader Publishing Co. His suit was for S50, )oo
 THE ambassadors accredited to the porte have received instructions from their respective governments to act in concert in submitting fresh proposals Tor reforms in the Ottoman empire, and all of the diplomats, including M. Nelidotf, the Russian am bassador, nave agreed to resort to coercive measures f the sultan should be dilatory in en- forcing the re forms.
 TIE London Times, on the 26th, published dispatch from Paris say ng that the United States had been conhdentially informed in the most friendly terms that the European pow. srs could not remain passive in the event of the United States abandoning the attitude of President Clevelanu and his cabinet in reference to the in- surrection in Cuba.
 A DISPATCH from Madrid says that Senor Janovas del Castillo, the prime minister, denles that negotia tions nave been or will be opened with the United States looking to the pac Ii ca lion of Cuba. The prime minister nolds that the Cuban question IS one ,f internal politics, winch in no way concerns the United States or any other foreign power.
 A DISPATCH from Madrid, on the l5Ih, sad: Senor Canovas del Cas- lilo, the prime minister, has again affirmed in tae presence o1 his ca ablnet, that he is determined to introduce re. forms in Cuba, dating their application from the conclusion of the negotia. tions carried on with other powers which are already tending in d dlree.