The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

- sl0O and costs in the police court in that city on the 11th.
 GEORGE J. GOULD has brought suit against Hiram Graham and his broth CT, Aaron Graham, for trespassing on his fronting preserves in the wilds of the Catskills.
 DAVID DELRICH and his wife were found murdered in their home, three miles south of Bellefontaine, O., on the ] lth. The house had been ran sacked throughout
 THE rumor is revived in London that George l.. Watson is designing a new yacht to replace the prince of Wales cutter Britannia.
 JACOB $. CoxEY was, on the 11th, nominated by exclamation for governor of Ohio on the populist state ticket. A DISPATCH from Hong Kong says: Owing to the fall in silver there is a general depression in the import | trade"
 THE remains of the late premier of | Spain, Senor Canovas del Castillo, ar rived at Madrid, on the 11th. from Santa Agueda. They were met at the railroad station by the ministers, mem- bers of the diplomatic corps, and the civil and military authorities of Madrid and it's vicinity.
 | A CROWD of people assembled, at midnight of the 10th, in front of the residence of the Spanish minister at The Hague, Senor A. De Pague, and shouted: Long live anarchyw The | 1 Al. -. | THE battleship Indiana was safely | placed in dry dock at Halifax, N. S., on the 12.
 CHAs. M. CLIFFORD, Chicago baker, murdered his wife, on the 11th, by cut | ting her throat with razor, and then committed suicide by shooting. It is | supposed that jealousy caused the | tragedy, policeman being the object | of Clifford's suspicious. CHARLES W. CLIFFORD. who killed his wife and himself at their home in Chicago, on the 18th, was a mem Der | of the famous Greeley Arctic expedi- ton during all that long and terri ble trip to the frozen regions of the north.
 
 falling of porch 12 feet high during funeral services in a private residence in San Francisco on the 18th. THE Swiss people have just adopted two constitutional amendments by popular vote. As reported to the state department by United States Consul Germain at Zurich, they confer control over the forests upon the government, and subject the manufacture, sale and importation of food products to federal control.
 Five dark and enormous waterspouts were seen by residents of Cleveland, O., on the 18th, far out in the lake, moving in an easterly direction. Some of them remained in view for Is min- utes; others going ashore and develop ing into destructive whirlwinds. UNION workmen to the number of 2,5o0 inaugurated strike on the pub lie school buildings of Chicago, on the 18th, and work on 35 buildings came to standstill, because the board of education refused to place a clause in l all contracts for school building work binding the contractor to employ none | but union labor.
 SIxTY-FIvE negroes. many of them women, were arrested, fined Sl0 each and sent to jail in default, at Baltimore, | Md, on the l2th for trying to beat the | West Maryland railroad out of a ride by refusing to pay their fares. SIX prisoners escaped from the county jail at Green Bay, Wis, on the 18th, by saving the bars. Their names are: John Murray, John Dono- van, Martin Cook and Thomas Dupree, highway robbers; Alfred King and Henry Elmer, serving eight months sentences for larceny.
 | Gov. BLACK of New York, on the 18th, granted a requisition of the gov ernor of Louisiana for the custody of Juan Antonio Magan, alias Juan Mar tinez, arrested in New York for work ing the gold brick" game in New | Orleans.
 FAILURES throughout the United States for the week ended on the 18th, as reported by R. G. Dun X Co.,, were 239, against 23S for the corresponding week of last year For Canada the fail ures were 30, against S6 last year.
 THE first days races in the silver jubilee regatta of the National Asso- citation of Amateur Oarsmen were rowed, on the 18th, over the national course on the Schuylkill river in Fair mount park, Philadelphia.
 THE steamer Mayfower, towing a barge loaded with supplies left Astoria, Ore, on the 18th, for Dyea. She will take the inner passage, and her captain anticipates no trouble in reaching his destination.
 THE Madrid Epoca denies that the minister for the interior, Senor Cos Cayon, contempletes resigning. | BATS took possession of the house of Alonzo Ferrill, near Bushby, Ia., on the night of the 18th, and, after hard | fight, Ferrill and his sons killed 63 of them. The mems faces were badly scratched and they were nearly blind ed. They report that no less than 100 of the creatures escaped through the