The Forrest City times., 1897-12-03
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

of herrt disease. Mr. Liggett was born in St. Louis in 1926. He was noted for his charities, both public and private
 TIE statement of the condition of the treasury, on the e6th. showed: Available cash balance, S2l5, l4o, 459; gold reserve. Sl56, ,654, 5l0.
 HERR ALFRED VoN SALETT. director of the Coin museum in Berlin sue cumbed to an attack of influenza on the 26th.
 WHILE, drunk, on the 26th, Antonio Milagno of Erie, Pa, threw can of coal oil in his wifes face, which caught fire from lamp, she was carry idg, ,enveloping her in flames. Help ar rived in time to prevent her from burn ing up where she stood The woman was laid on her bed. and when the off cers arrived they found Antonio stand ing over her pluclsing the cooked flesh from her breast and arms in fiendish glee and cursing like demon.
 MRS. CAROLINE ABKE, aged 70 years, who lived alone near Leavenworth. kas.. was found dead in her home on the 26th. Marks on ner neck indicated that the woman had been choked to death. lock on an outside door had been broken. apparently by burglars. and the house was ransaclSed. Mrs. Ablke was eccentric, and was believed to possess considerable money.
 TIE armored cruiser Brooklyn was drydoclSed in the timber dock at the New York navy yard in Brooklyn on the 26th. Because of the ships inn mense displacement. the task of get ting it into the dock was looked for ward to with some anxiety. It was accomplished. however, with little trouble and slight damage.
 Col. GEORGE A. BUTE. prominent mining man of Telluride, Col, is miss ing, and his friends in Telluride be- heve that he has been murdered. as he had large sum of money when he left that camp.
 HIRAM MAxIM's new rapid-firing gun was tried at Portsmouth. England, on the 26th. with remarkable results. With %5 pounds of cordite it showed an effective range of .6,00O yards.
 PRESIDENT MCKINLEY is a firm be- liever in the doctrine that the best way to preserve peace is to be prepared for war. He desires peace with Spain; therefore, he is making preparations which are calculated to inspire the be- lief in the minds of the hot-blooded Spaniards that, if they provoke war; they will be inviting their downfall.
 TIE Madrid Official Gazette publishes the royal decrees granting autonomy to Cuba and Porto Rico, thus removing the anxiety that had begun to be ex- pressed on all sides as the result of the governments reticence and unex- plained delay.
 AN unotticia report says the Lover ing court martial at Fort Sheridan. Chicago returned a verdict of guilty as charged in the specifications, with the recommendation that Capt. Lover ing be reprimanded by the reviewing authority. This was the case of the brutal treatment of Private Hammond.
 CoNsUL-GENERAL LEE has reported to the state department that the number of American citizens in Cuba depend ent upon the appropriations made by congress is now l,607. Of the suffering Americans 750 are in Havana province, 253 in MatanZas and the others are scattered in the remaining provinces.
 THE Chinese merchants of San Fran cisco have combined to suppress the murderous highbinder socie ties. These business men have signed a compact not to submit to furthur black mail, and without their usual income the ghbinders will be forced to leave the city or go to work.
 A DISPATCH to the Frankfort Ger many) Zeitung from Rome. on the 26th, reported that sanguinary conflict had taken place between the French and British at Niklli, in the Lagos Hinter- land, in which the British were worsted.
 SECRETARY LoNG has recently placed with the American Ordnance Co. orders as follows: Ten thousand six-inch shells, i5,000 one-pounder shells for rapid-fire guns, 25,O00 armor-piercing shell tips, sn rapid-fire shell guns.
 THE naval trial board has made a re- port upon the recent two-days' trial of the big battle-ship Iowa at sea. The report thoroughly sustains Commodore Dewey's comment that the ship is as fine a type os her class as there is in the world.
 THE steamship South Portland formerly the Caroline Miller. which was cnce seized as a filibuster. has been purchased by syndicate and is to be put in condition for service be- tween Seattle and St. Michaels, Alaska.
 l.. ROSWELL HART ROCHESTER,. treas urer of the Western Union Telegraph Co.,, died suddenly at his home in Englewood. N. J., on the night of the 2Sth, aged 46 years.
 Mas. ADRIAN lsELTS, Sr.. died on the 2Sth. at her home in New York city. aged 77 years. Mrs. Iselin was Miss Eleanora 0Donnell. the daughter of Columbus ODonnell of Baltimore, and was born in that city. With her hus- band she celebrated her golden we'd ding on December II, 1895.