The Forrest City times., 1897-04-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

NINA Is W nave d new SET OI tTedUlcs
with the great nations of the world
which will in a measure emancipate
her from the onerous restrictions she
is now under and enable her to adjust
her own revenues to the nations needs.
UNITED STATES CONSUL LITTLE tele-
graphs from Tegucigalpa, the capital
of Honduras, that revolution had
broken out, and that the republic is
now under martial law.
SECRETARY BLISS of the interior de-
partment has held up an order issued
by the authority of his predecessor
comforting 4s, 600 acres of land upon the
state university of Missouri az an addi-
ton to its endowment fund.
JAMES II. GoRDY was convicted
Georgetown, Del, on the 18th. of muir
der in the first degree for the killing of
his wife, formerly Mrs. Mary Estella
Lewis, of New York, by throwing her
into the Broadkill river at Milton, Del,
March IL.
FROM reports made to the committee
in charge of the land parade at the
dedication of the Grant mausoleum in
New York, it is figured that SO 900 men
will participate, including regulars, ma
tional guards, veterans and civic So
cieties.
GEN. WEYLER, tired of trying to sub
jugate the Cuban insurgents in the
field, is now trying to strike them
through their source of material aid in
this country by seeking to encompass
the arrest of the junta and its agents
in New York and Washington.
CASHIER STICKNEY, of the Great Falls
national bank, of Somersworth, n. H.,
was brutually murdered, on the 10th,
by two unknown robbers, who after
wards escaped with an amount of
money estimated at Sc, 900.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, on the 10th. showed:
| Available cash balance, 81 24,617 $50
gold reserve, 1854, 603, 1875.
BUT one weak dixie and lettering
railroad embankment stood, on the
18th, at Omaha, Neb., between the yell
low food and millions of dollars worth
of city property in the shape of ware
houses and big manufacturing estab-
lishments on the low lands.
| A TELEGRAM was received by the
Cleveland (O.) Leader, from Asheville,
N. c., on the 10th, stating that Mrs S.
NJ. Hanna, the mother of Senator Han
ma, had died at that place from pneu-
monia, aged s4 She had been sick only
| about a week.
! ACTUAL hostilities having broken
out between Greece and Turkey with
out a formal declaration of war, the
ministers and consuls of the respective
countries were, on the 18th, given their
passports and requested to take their
departure within Is days. Thirty
hours continuous fighting without
food or rest was reported on the 18th,
along the Turco-Grecian frontier, in
which $4,000 men were engaged.
THE Lowell observatory, which was
transferred from Flagstaff, Ariz., to
Mexico, early in December last, for the
purpose of observing the opposition of
Mars and for the measurement of south
ern double stars, has been dismounted
and shipped back to its original loca-
ton after three months remarkable
| service.
THE captain and crew OF the Norwe-
gian ship Sentax, 81 men in all, from St.
John, n. b., for Newport, England,
before reported passed abandoned,
were landed at Philadelphia, on the
10th, by the British steamer Snowfi fake
from Penarth.
MINISTER De LONE has informed the
department of state that, while his
government fully recognizes the right
of the United States to be represented
at an investigation into the manner of
the death of DIR. Ruiz, it does not at all
follow that this representation should
involve the appointment of a special
commissioner.
THE London Times correspondent at
Constantinople denies that there is any
effective Turkish war party. He says
that the sultan, the seraskierat (minis-
try of war; and some of the other min
listers are strongly opposed to hostili-
ties with Greece.
REPRESENTATIVE SETH /. MuLIKEN,
OF Maine, died in Washington, on the
night of the 18th of nneumonia