The Forrest City times., 1897-09-10

ON the 2d Captain-General Nsy Ter received from Spain s2. GOO, 900 in silver. to be used in defraying the expenses of the war in Cuba
 THE United States consul at Odessa, Russia. reported to the state depart ment, on the Sd. that the wheat crop this year in Russia is a poor one. The yield in many places will not be more than four bushels to the acre.
 A DISPATCH from Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 5th, said: Expectations are high in coal mining circles over the prob able resumption of work in all the mines throughout the country"
 LIEUT.. c. DIBY BARKER, governor of Bermuda. arrived at New York. on the 5th. on the steamship 0rinoco. accom- panied by his aide-de-eamp, Capt. Platt. Gen. Barker and wife intend to make n tour of the United States and Canada.
 UNITED STATES SENATOR w. A. HAR- RIs, of Kansas, departed, on the 5th. for Washington to attend meeting of the subcommittee on Pacific railroads, called by Senator Foraker for the 7th. Senator Harris stated that a deter mined effort would be made to prevent the sale of the Union Pacific before congress convenes, in order that the government might not lose by the transaction.
 A DISPATCH from Havana, dated the 5th, saio. During the month of Au- gust 800 persons ,.;ed in Guinas from epidemic diseases The mortality is due to yellow fever, malaria and iysen- tery. Many deaths occur on steamers en route to Spain. The bodies of those who die en route are thrown over board. Three deaths occurred on one of these steamers recently before she left port"
 AN excursion train on the Maine Central railroad was wrecked. on the Sth, S2 miles west of Etna station, Me. One person was killed and 32 wounded. The train was carrying excursionists from Dover and Foxcraft to the Etna campmeeting. The breaking of a fange derailed and overturned a car containing 65 passengers.
 AN iron ore tram on the Pittsburgh & Western railroad was wrecked two miles east of Ravenna, O.. on the 5th. Brakeman Hawley A. Thomas, of Ra- venna, was instantly killed; Michael Seibo, a tramp, was fatally injured, and several other tramps were badly, but not fatally, injured.
 MR- H. CLAY EVANS, the commis- sioner of pensions, is ill at his hotel in Washington city. Col. Evans has been under a great strain for almost year.
 HARRY c. ALBAUGH, who was a clerk in the Second national bank of Altoo- na, Pa., when it was footed by Cashier Gardner three years ago, and who was arrested at the time for having changed figures in his books at the cashiers dictation. committed suicide on the 9th, by shooting himself. This is the second suicide as the result of the fail ure of this bank.
 GEN. SIR WILLIAM LoCKHART, com mander-in-chief of the forces in the Punjab, who was summoned to India to take charge of the operations there, sailed from Brindisi to Bombay on the 9th.
 CHARLES GEORGE PERcIvAL, seventh earl of Egmont, died in London on the 9th. The deceased was born June 15, 1s4I. and succeeded his uncle, the sixth earl. in 1874.
 Mss MABEL MORRILL,. aged 22 years, of East Cambridge, Mass, while riding bicycle, fell into an excavation a nd was killed.
 EX-CoNGREssMAN T. T. FLAGLER, of Lockport, N. Y., died, on the 9th, aged s6. He was president of the Holly Manufacturing Co.