The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
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| fugitives, as were two negroes who murdered policeman at Keystone. THE Pleasanton stock farm at Oak land, Cal, the famous training and breeding establishment of some of the worlds greatest race horses, has been declared insolvent by Judge Hall. l SIGMUsD MORRIS, who is wanted in | Brooklyn, N. Y., for having violated the postal laws in connection with an alleged directory swindle, was arrested | in San Francisco on the 26th. He was arraigned before Commissioner Pea cock, on the 27th, and a date fixed for his examination, bail being required ] meanwhile in the sum of S2, 500.
 THE large boiler in the Adams l County Lumber Co. s mill at Decatur, Ind, exploded, on the 18th. killing Vern Reynolds, the seven-year-old son of Clarence Reynolds and fatally in- | turing William Lewis.
 THE North German Gazette an- | nounced, on the 26th, that Dr. Won Hoiieban, the Prussian minister at Stuttgart Wurtemburg, had been se- lected for the post of German ambassa- l dor to the United States. THE endorsements the Spanish gov | ernment intends to send to Cuba will start from Spain in October. It is said that they will number from 15, 900 to I 20, GOO men.
 R. G. DUN & Co. in their weekly re- view of trade, on the 2sth, say: Spec ulative markets have their turns of re- action, but business has none this sea- | son, gaining at a steadiness which is most gratifying. The starting of works, increase of hands employed, advance in wages and in prices of pro- ducts and the heavy movement of crops are facts before which all specu- lative influences have to bow"
 THE French cabinet has decided that there is no ground at present for modi- flying the duties on cereals.
 SHIPMENTS of grain from the port of Chicago this season are the heaviest in the history of the lake trade.
 JERE BAXTER, president of the Ten nessee Central railway, and W. J. Tot ten, representative of the Carnegie Steel Company, Pittsburgh, Pa, closed a contract, on the 2Tth, for S400, 900 worth of steel rails and fittings to be used in the construction of the road l The delivery of the material will begin in about six weeks.
 THE London Financial News, of the 27th, said The French cabinet is considering the floating of loan of EGO, 900, 900 in 21S per cent bonds, part ly for the redemption of the floating debt and partly for the reconstruction of the French navy"
 IN Russia a workman with horse is paid rouble and 50 copecks per day. The rouble is valued at 5l.4 cents and the copeck is the one-hupdredth part of a rouble. A great deal of the ma chinery still in use in Russia is very crude.
 THE king of Siam, who arrived in Potsdam, on the 26th, and was received with every mark of honor by Emperor William, placed wreath of flowers upon the tomb of the late Emperor Frederick of Germany.
 ANNIE BRoCKFIELD, deaf.mute, whose home is in Fulton, Mo-, was made the victim of a confidence opera tor at Oakland, Cal, and arrived in
 
 friends. An old man named A. J. Hintley obtained her purse, containing S95, saying he would buy her railroad ticket That was the last she saw of him.
 THE British steamer Windward, which left England on June 10 last for Franz Josef Land, to bring back from the Arctic regions the members of the Jackson-Farnsworth expedition, who had spent three winters at Cape Flora, passed Aberdeen, on the 2T l, on her return trip, and signalled that all were we'll on board.
 SENIOR J. c. SoBERAL, the Spanish naval attache at Washington, in com pauy with the Spanish consul at Fer nandina, has been making careful in- spection of the coast and harbors of Florida. He was warned off the gov- ernment reservation at Key West.
 JAIL delivery occurred at Lead vile, Col, on the night of the goth. Five desperate criminals locked the night jailer in the jail and made their escape. A posse went in pursuit Among the escaped prisoners were two ! AuTutFeTS-
 SHORTLY after midnight, on the 29th, cracksmen literally blew the vault of the Exchange bank at Elmdale, Kas., to pieces. Nitrog glycerine was used three times and the explosions were heard for miles. Citizens surrounded and fired into the bank, but the rob- bers made their escape by side door with Sl, 500 in money and S7OO worth of drafts.
 THE next official maps of the Cana dian government will show a change in the spelling of "Klondike." The new diggings and the river will be re- ferred to officially hereafter as ''Troan- dik7
 A LETTER has been received in New York from Quintin Banderas, the fa- nous negro war captain of the Cuban army, announcing his arrival in Havana province with 1000 men.