The Forrest City times., 1897-10-29
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

disarmed and arrested.
RICHARD NJ. SCRUGGs, the st. Louis
merchant who was charged with at
tempting to snuggle certain articles of
jewelry into the United States on his
return from a trip to Europe, has been
exonerated by the federal authorities.
SENATOR MORGAN, of Alabama, VIII o
has just returned from his trip to fla
waii, declares that while he has fa-
vored annexation from the beginning
of the movement he was surprised,
upon investigation, to find that the
arguments in its favor had been under
estimated.
THE stockholders of the Denver Con-
solidated Gas Co, on the Goth, ratified
the action of the board of directors ac-
cepting the city's proposition to lease
the plant at SIX per cent on an APP
praised valuation for eight years.
AN official dispatch received from
Gen. Galleni, the French commander
in-chief in Madagascar, says that a
band of Sakalavas had attacked .
French post which was recently estab-
lished in western Madagascar, killing
many of the garrison, including three
officers.
New YORK bankers are considera bly,
exercised over the mass of fraudulent
drafts received from various parts of
the west, drawn on New York banking
and business houses. A regular band
OF swindlers appears to be operating
through the western states.
| GEORGE ID. MEIKELJoHN, assistant
secretary of war. and his party arrived
in st. Paul, on the goth, from Omaha,
and spent the day at Fort Smelling.
They left for the Yellowstone, thence
to Fort Vancouver.
IN connection with the increased
strength of the British army the de-
lenses of the colonies of Great Britain
are receiving unusual attention.
| PERMANENT state organization of the
| Union Veterans union was effected at
Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the Goth. with the
election of "a full set of officers.
| The statement of the condition of the
treasury, issued on the Goth, showed:
| Available cash balance, $40, 59S, $50,
gold reserve, $151, 5S4,2l2.
OWING to the prevalence Of yellow
fever in Montgomery, and the fact that
all of the towns and cities of Alabama
have quarantined against that city, the
state government has temporarily been
removed to Birmingham.
| The will of the late George NJ. Pull
man, after making suitable provision
| for his wife, divides his immense for
| tune equally between his twin sons
and two daughters. The sons portions,
| however, are to be held in trust, for
reasons that were best known to their
| father.
FIRE, on the Goth, destroyed the bust
ness portion of Osceola, Ark. a river
town about fifty miles north of Mem
| phis. 1t is believed the loss will reach
500, 900.
A MANILA dispatch says that a cyclone
and tidal wave devastated portion of
the island of Leyte one of the Philip
pine group. Several towns and villages
were destroyed and fully 400 natives
persisted.
THERE were 60 new cases of yellow
fever reported in New Orleans on the
! 20th-a record breaher-and six deaths.
Among the latter was Ira L. Britton,
manager of the General Electric Co.
LEO. ID. We'll, of Chicago, well
known for his improvements in photog-
raphy and for his work in illustrated
magazine articles has become insane.
Brooding over Christian science is said
to have unhinged his mind.
THE new stockholders of the Evans
Vile Il Richmond railroad, on the 2lst
elected John r. Walsh president and
Lynn A. Walter, secretary. Many inn
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By request of Surgeou-General Wy
man, the University of Pennsylvania
has allowed DIR. Guiteras to return to
Alabama to determine yellow fever
cases in that state.
SHERIFF ). b. LARD, of Riley count V,
Kas., was shot aud instantly killed at
! Leonardville by Ike Warren, jointist,
or bootlegger," upon whom he was
endeavoring to serve "A warrant War
rem was arrested and narrowly es-
capped lynching.
THE Indiana Bankers association, in
session at Indianapolis, on the 21st,
adopted resolution approving the
monetary commission. The resolution
/ regards the appoin tment as wise and
expresses the opinion that it will be
\ productive of plan of currency and
banking in support of which the peo-
Pile can heartily unite.
| LoCHIEL GRAHAM, SO years old, and
said to an ex-captain of the United
/ States artillery, and to have been
formerly an aide-de-camp of Maxi
milan, was sentenced, at the West Sns-
sex ENG sessions, on the 2lst, to ~
months imprisonment for defrauding
tradesmen at Horsham, Sussex.
The Turkish government has granted
permission to the Thessalian refugees
who fled from Thessaly after the inva-
sion of the conquering Turkish troops
under Edhem Pasha to return to their
homes through PhourlSa pass, Monseka
pass and two other passes, near Trik-
hala and Alymra.
DIR. NEWTON BArEMAN, for II years
president of Knox college at Gales
burg. H., and an educator of ma
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