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The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09
No Immediate Prospect of the Cessation of
Danger.

WASHINGTON, April 6.-Lieut. Col.
Dunwoody of the weather bureau. said
tonight that he could make no predic-
ton that there was any immediate
prospect of the cessation of danger
from flood along the Mississippi. The
most dangerous point according to
that official, is in the vicinity of New
Orleans, or rather along that portion
of the river running through the state
of Louisiana.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09
A VIGOROUS POLICY
To be Adopted by the r..
States Government 'sa
In Future Dealings with Turk.
OF American Citizens. Long e., ,Aias
and Treated with Contempt ,a~s
Pushed to Final settleu.'e

WASHINGTON, April The a..
OF vigorous policy to secure fro paoa
turkish government a settlam'ae
theclaims preferred by the United g. o.
on account of the destruction - ''a'es
can missionary property and o.. alner'
to American missionaries oorses
during the uprising against tha '.ed
menians in the fall Of 1895 is helm At
sidered by the new administered ooa.
probably will be put into ono.r. aaa
soon. President McKinley's nron ..aAoa
contemplates the sending To cs.A ne
tinople of Hon. John W. Foster ' =.
mer secretary of state. as .u'
cial envoy, with the rank ~
oassador, to secure from a.
sultan the payment of the o,., e
which have been filed. and tho s.1a as
trial of those American citizens aas;ns.
whom charges have been mads -
Turkish officials. The president III
send to congress message reopao,;.-
that authority be given him 10 Co..
mission special ambassador IN n.
Key for this purpose, and while NJ
name will be proposed by the mesx,aa
Mr.. Foster will be intrusted with =,
mission, in the event that con,ra-s
gives to, the president the power ,yh;al
he desires. Mr.. Foster has alrs.a.
been asked to undertake the m;ss;a.
and, although he was at first reluetan.
to accept, he finally consented to do -
The programme has been under CON.
slderation for several days, and meets
the approval of leaders in congress =.
both parties who have been conspltaa
among them Senators Hoar and I,odua
of Massachusetts, and Proctor. of Yer.
mont, who have interested themselves
actively In the matter; Senators Nor.
gan, of Alabama, and Mills. of Texas
Speaker Reed and Representative Hitt
the leader in the house in diplomatic
matters.
President Mckinley and Secretary
Sherman discussed the unsatisfac
policy of the Turkish government
touching American claims soon after
the administration came into power.
1t was suggested first that the rep1s
sentative of the United States in Con.
stantinople be raised to the rank
of ambassador and Mr.. Foster be
given the office, but this prop
osition had several drawbacks.
one of them that a mission once 'ad-
vanced to ambassadorial rank could
not well be reduced afterwari. This
government would not maintain an
ambassador at Constantinople, nor was
it known that the sultan would recip.
rocate by accrediting an ambassador
to the United States. Moreover. Mr..
Foster did not care to accept such an
office.
Under the proposed arrangement
Mr.. Foster may be sent to Turkey
when the resignation of Minister Ter
rell is accepted. to servethere as envoy
extra Urinary. with the rank of am
bassador, until his has been per-
formed, and then give place to the
minister. who will be appointed as Mr..
Terrell's successor.
Several questions are at issue be-
tween the United States and Turkey
as a result of the Armenian troubles,
the satisfactory adjustment of which
the sultan has refused or postponed
from time to time, and which the adj
ministration desires to settle.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09
An Appalling Situation.

ST. PAUL. MINI, April GA Fargo
(N. d. special to the Dispatch SAYS:
The situation is appalling. While the
Red river rose only three inches last
night the Big Coulee, west of this city,
took a second spurt and went up IA
inches flooding the entire west side of
town and driving hundreds OF people
from their homes. The water reaches
down 10 Eighth street from Six
teenth street and as far south
or the Northern Pacific tracks as the
eye can reach. 1t is populous resi-
dent district, and the effect of the
food is most forcibly felt. All that
part Of the city south Of Front street Is
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

LATER news from the cyclone-swept
town of Chandler, Okla, greatly in
creases the number of the dead, with
the added horror that many of these
met their fate in the flames that de-
stroyed the ruins of their homes or
places of business.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09
FULL IMPERIAL CONFIDENCE
Francis Joseph Declines to aee'p'
.r Ministers Resignations'

VIENNA, April emperor IADt -
Joseph has sent an autograph ie'ss ae;l
Count Badeni, president OF the co" '.ot
of ministers. declining to ao. it
the resignation of the caO'4 ne
HIS majesty says ina. "a
government ought to devote llssi IN.
the general interests OF the ssas &C.
deferred by temporary party IN
epces, and he assures the ca i41...l;eit
continuance 81 his full and imPn'
cel fidence.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

NJ. ALBERT AUGUsTE GABRIEL HANo-
TAUx, French minister of foreign af-
fairs, and Count Albert de Muir, the
celebrated French politician and phi
losopher and member of the chamber of
deputies for the reimbursement of
Morlaix, in the department of Fines
tere, were elected members of the
French academy ON the Ist .-a
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

THE debt statement. issued on the
LIST, showed net decrease in the pub
lie debt, less cash in the treasury, for
for the month of March, of s,e3s, 253.
Total cash in the treasury. ss75, 239, $50.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

THE United States weather bureau,
on the nth, gave out the startling in
formation that 500 square miles of the
state of Arkansas was under water and
that the Mississippi river would con-
tinue to rise.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

A DISPATCH from Havana says: Act
ing Capt-Gen. Ahumada has received
orders from Minister of War Azca
rgara. at Madrid, not to try Gen. Ruiz
Rivera Immediately by court-rnartiaI
The minister thinks that summary
court.martial, followed by the shooting
of Rivera and Bacallao, would have a
bad effect in Europe.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

On the I'd the Metropolitan Iron and
Land Co. announced an increase in the
wage scale in their mines in Ironwood.
Mich, of ten per cent This increase
will affect every miner working in the
Norrie and East Norrie mines, about a
thousand men'in all, and means an in
crease of from Is to-2o cents per day.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

AMONG the nominations sent to the
senate by the president, on the 5th,
was that of Alfred +. Buck. of Georgia.
to be envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States to
Japan.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

I. A. RHODES, an old soldier, for
merly employed as a compositor in the
government printing office, has entered
suit against E. E. Benedict, ex-public
printer, claiming $500 damages for
violation of civil service rules. 1t is
understood that a number of similar
suits will be entered.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

The United States supreme court, on
the 5th, refused to grant the motion of
Joseph Hzigi, late consul general of
Turkey at Boston. for a writ of habeas
corpus releasing him from arrest on
the charge of embezzlement.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

NATIONAL bank notes outstanding on
March 81, 1897, amounted to S233, 70S,
1914, decrease during the month of
SAL, GAG. but an increase since March
81, 1896, of Sl2, sSl, 0s9. The gold coin
age during the month amounted to
S1s, 10000, while 1,400,250 silver dol
lars were struck off.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

THE Italian government has ar
ranged to send the steel cruiser Ligu-
ria to New York upon the occasion of
the dedication of the Grant mausoleum,
on April 81, in response to the invita-
ton of President Mckinley.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

THE Dingley tariff bill passed the
house on the 31st-205 yeas, l21 nays;
present and not voting. 81. Five demo
crats-Broussard, Dewey and Meyer, of
Louisiana. and Kleberg and Slayden,
of Texas, voted for the bill amid APP
plause.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

SPAIN has accepted the invitation of
President Mckinley, and will send the
war ship Maria Theresa to participate
in the exercises at the dedication of the
Grant mausoleum on April 81.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

SPECIAL dispatch from Washington
says: Senator Foraker is determined
to push his railway pooling bill to a
vote in the senate before the close of
the extra session, if possible.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

The supreme court of the United
States, on the 5th, granted the motion
to advance the case of the Joint Traffic
association. but set it for the second
Monday of the October term, thus re-
fusino hearing for the present term.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

THE marine display at the Grant
monument dedicatory ceremonies at
New York will closely rival the demon
stration on land. The men in charge
of it are bestirring themselves and ar
rangements are progressing satisfac-
torily.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

The mind of ex-Gov. Porter, of In
diana. is said to be almost gone. He is
s5years old and victim of paresis. He
was at one time minister to Italy.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

THE statement of the condition of
the treasury. issued on the sth. showed:
Available cash balance. s225, SS9. $50.
Gold reserve. $751;. 1s2. 0s5.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

THE foreign embassies and legations
in Washington are watching the pro-
gress of the tariff bill with great care,
as it materially affects all commercial
nations. Reports are being forwarded
TO the various foreign offices, and there
in turn are being made public abroad
for the information of concerns sh ip
ping goods TO the United States.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09
THE WAR IN CUBA.
The Campaign to be Pushed tnth '"'
T g. belIion If Crushed.

MADRID, April lit is seni-e'ne .ar;
denied here that the Spanish su'nV -.
ties have entered into Negotiations -
the submission of the Cuban liis"'
gents. or-
The government has ordered WY.
Gus cdmpaign to be pushed until the 10
bellion is crushed.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

A RUMoR was in circulation in Paris,
on the 9Th. that the king of Denmark,
at the instance of the czar, had been
asked to arbitrate the Cretan question.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

A SPECIAL from Havana, ON the 5th,
said: The prevailing belief is that Gen.
Rivera win not be shot. An order is
said to have come from Madrid to spare
his life. This is not prompted by
motives Of humanity, but to make
good impression upon the United
States and other nations Gen Wey-
Ter is furious. the report adds. and may
cause the order TO be withdrawn. in
which case Gen. Rivera would be put
10 death.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09
The Crisis Passed.

MINNEAPoLIs, Mimi, April 6.-The
river has fallen three inches to-day,
and it is believed the crisis has been
passed. The upper Mississippi is not
sending down an abnormal amount of
water, and the government dams and
reservoirs are holding the surplus
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

inundated. Six blocks of Eighth street
have gone out this morning, and the
food from the west side of town is SO
high that paving on West front street
is going out rapidly. Sidewalks are all
afioat. and are being used as RATS, upon
which families are moving to dry land.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09
Backwater slowly Rising In the Town.

GREENvLLE, Miss, April 6.-Ths
backwater is rising slowly in the town.
The water in the Bogue Phalia and
Deer creek sections is higher than in
1892. A slight caving of the river
banks above Greenville is reported.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09
Seven Hundred Towns Under Water and
the Floods Increasing

GREESvnLE, Miss, April 6.-The sit
uation in the Yazoo- Mississippi Delta
valley is growing daily more desperate.
We are confronted with calamity the
like of which has not yet been written
in the history of floods.
Fully 700 towns are to-day under
water, and many more surrounded and
cut off. There is no cessation of the
constant in-pour of food water into
this valley from the five rivers hourly
deluging the country.
The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, April 6.-The Mis-
souri, river is rising rapidly again, hav-
ing risen IL inches here in the last "a
hours. The river is now ten feet above
low-water mark and indications are
that it will continue to rise. Supt.
Hohl, of the Kansas City. st. Joe &
Council Bluffs road. with large gang
of men is stationed at points along the
river where the Burlington's tracks
are in danger. Officers of all railroads
with tracks along the river banks are
watchful and hope to prevent repeti.
ton of the flood of several years ago
when hundreds of yards of track went
into the river.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-23
CERAMIC ARTS EXHIBIT.

The New-York Society OF Ceramic Arts opened
It's sixth annual exhibition yesterday afternoon In
the ballroom OF the Waldorf The doors were
onored Mt q, o'clock and almost Immediately after
ward the room was fun
There are forty-nine exhibits consisting OF about
sIx hundred pieces OF glass china and underslaze
each exhibit having a table to ITSELF. An Illus
rated catalogue has been prepared and is one OF
the features Of the exhibit.
Another feature is the tearoom. where the bever-
ooe ia served to those who want It. at 81 cup
For this sum one not only gets the tea but the
Gun which may be worth So or ~ -
The Exhibition Committee consists or Mm Wo
mar George Leykauf, Mrs. Mary Alley Neal. Mrs
COLES j. Pond and Miss NJ Helen Montfort
Mrs Fanny Rowell Prestman Is chairman OF the
Decoration Committee. Mrs. Mary Alley Neal Of
,he Exhibits Receiving Committee, Mrs Hinsdale
~ oHe ,be Reneption Committee Miss NJ. II: T.. Mont
fort OF the Souvenir Tea Cups Committee. Mrs
COLES T Pond OF the Printing committee ana
Mrs. Fanny Rowei Priestman OF the Catalogue
The exhibition will be open to-day and tomorrow
from 10 o'clock a. m. to 10 p M
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-23
RaRNARD NEEDS ENDOWMENT.

A, tho recen, meeting OF the trustees or Barnard
College the report rendered by the treasurer was
interesting and important. lie said: fOr 'he hIS'
,i,,. in bor history. Barnard College has a fitting
br,o ror the purposes designed the plan OF
pripckerhofr Hall and Milbank Hall could hardly
be eaualed and the recent gift OF Flske nan COM
pletcs tho group OF buildings. F'ske Hall provides
Tor additional lecture-rooms and much-heeue"
dormItory with accommodations for seventy-hVe
studsnts Altos,the seven hundred students may
he entered at this college. The question OF now
Barnard should provide cassrooms ana Assembly
halls for her students has been answered. IhahKs
TO our generous friends, the donors OF the lana
and Mrs. Brinckerhof, Mrs. Anderson and Mrs.
Fiske the material equipment OF the college Is all
that could ask.
But A beautiful site, handsome buildings and
fine apparatus, however. do not constitute uni
yersity or "A college. IL Is the faculty when makes
me college. Barnard has to-day owlnS to IT'S CO.
operation with Columbia University. facuty com
unscd of men OF the soundest learning ana the
broadcast culture Instructors OF tnl5 BIdue cdnnot
loo supported without liberal endowment Inc nut
ure OF Barnard college depends upon an ehdow-
ment. IT,. ,,,o,,o, I, Ia IN proyid. for
rho girls OF New York educational advantages
enuai to those offered their brothers 1t behooves
A. Least len professorshps the expense of which
is now met by annual contributions. should be en-
15Weu hropIo people OF New-York and suggest to
each the gift OF $4,000 TO endow a chair IN Bar
nard college Let US rem M b them d how much nG they
en- Of past generations who endowed for the bene-
ut OF pOssry nosPi,als churches Libraries ana ana
dents at barnard College who are graduates Of
smith. Radcliffe. vassar. Bryn Mawr. Wellesley
G Sh OF our GH! eoy the
aard n College nbe 9
yond those OF most institutions But in order to
FULLY avail ourselves of these ADVANTAGES. we must
bestir ourselves and prove true TO the great obga
tons resting upon us
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-23
MEETING or THE WOuANS Club.

The Brooklyn Woman's Club held its regular
meeting yesterday afternoon In the lecture-room
OF the Young Women's Christian Association Build
ing The meeting was in charge Of the Committee
on Music and Drama, and Mrs. Amelia b. Hollen-
back the chairman, arranged the programme. Mrs.
Theodore Sutro the chief speaker OF the after
noon. and her subject was. "A Talk on Women in
Music" Several vocal and instrumental numbers
we're given in illustration Of Mrs. Sutros remarks
and n discussion followed.
report was read by Mrs Franklin ". Hooper
chairman OF the Committee on Current Topics, and
Mrs Truman j. Backus. president OF the club. ap-
pointed the following committee TO work for the
Continuance of women OH the Board or Education
under the Greater New-York: Mrs Noah II. Chap
man Mrs LYMAN Abbott. Mrs James Scrmgeour
Mrs Franklin W. Hooper Mrs, Tunis G. Bergen,
Mrs J. Coleman Adams. Mrs. Margaret H. WEIGH
Mrs Cornelius Zabrskie and Miss Louise l. Shan
non The club took a leading part In urging the
adn,issIon OF women to The Board OF Educa ton
under Mayor Schieren. and three OF the five women
MANNERS OF the Board members of the club.
Tbev are Mrs Andrew Jacobs. Mrs. Emma F. Pet
tanciIl and Miss Isabel NJ. Chapman
The club was the first to begin the decoration OF
rho publc schools with art objects, and the MEM
bers have shown general interest In visiting the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-23
NEW DTSPENSARY AUXILIARY.

The Harlem Dlspensary. which vas organizer pH
a number Of charitable persons many years ago,
NOW occupies what was once the parish house oil
Z, Andrews Protestant Episcopal church on
ono ndred- "A nd invent y-eighth-st near fourth-
ave II f. the nrst institution OF this kind
above observation-disclosures and Is sup
norted by voluntary contributions and by the
annual dues OF us members. Any worthy
nerson will be treated without charge by ski
ful physicians and those able to pay are taken
10 cents for prescription and medicine 2The mouse
ia scrupulously neat and the rooms arr large and
sunny on the ground floor Of the building are
tho drug store directors room TalnnS-Toom iOr
natients and private rooms for treatment. The
upper floor is reserved for special diseases A., l.,
a yomens auxiliary Is about 10 be orbaulzeu III
connection with the dspeusdry and many prom
inent women are Interested on Friday last a
nreIiminary meeting was held at the dispenSary'
with the Rev DR. W. Z. Biting pastor o. the
Baptist Church on Fifth-aye., near one -huhuteu,
and-twenty-sixth-st.. as chairman. He gave a
short history OF the work that has been accom-
piished Last month nearly one thousand patiens.
nrincinaily women, were treated. aud about HV'
hundred prescriptions given. Or. Biting appoint"
Two committees. one on the bylaws TOT, inc
Women's Auxiliary, and one TO nominate olic,lA
Tor "a. samc The dispensary Will receive any one,
regardless Of religious belief. and whlle the o'I
irici Includes from EiEhth-nye and One-hundred,
nd toitrihst to the Harlem River no one Is turned
away - ,,.-.,o,,. ,,r,ti,r,,
Among those present at The Womens Nq IS TI
ward = steers Mrs Mooney Mrs Hans ). Beatue'
Mrs / \ Jones Mrs. Charles Is. Looker' Mts'
Shipman. Mrs J. +. Cowles and Mrs Crane.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-23
CLIO on EDUCATION.
CHILDRENS CLAIM TO BECOME STUDENTS
NOT CONSIDERED TILL THE SIX-
TENTH CENTURY.

clio listened yesterday TO reports Of charmen Of
different departments according TO the new order
Ct things. Miss Gibbs spoke on education. going
back to the Renaissance, and illustrating the
awakened interest in classic literature in the six
teenth century. She said:
The three periods of culture termed SchoI
ars led by Erasmus; verbal realists, Of whiC
Rabeais was the leader: and the 'stysts whose
greatest exponent was Strum. These latter cared
only for form. believing the world was 10 be made
anew by books and rejoiccd at the revival Of learn
ing The chief defect of this class of teachers was
that they made no plans for the training OF chill
drcn.
in the sixteenth century Mucas;er had ideas far
ahead Of his time. for he advocated the training
Of hers, which was afterward adopted by Pesta-
lozzi and Froebel"
Mrs. J. J. Hopper read her first paper poll
cal study. considering the subject OF " Primaries.
which is the basis upon which our representative
form Of government rests" She said that theoret-
cally they all right. but in later years they
had become perverted. and instead of being a
method to express the wishes OF the voters they
have become a means of multiplying those wishes.
Mrs. W. +. Galloway read an interesting paper on
Chopin; but owing TO the illness Of Mrs. J. II.
instrumental illustrations OF the great composers
work had to be omitted ~ :.
dred and twenty-s st. has been made chairman
troductory talk by her contained many valuable
suggestions. and positive why women
should pay attention 10 their physical we'll: being
She spoke of the Delsarte movements full OF
beauty and grace. but declared the Swedish sys
tenn TO be the only scientific and harmonious one
Posture and breathing were briefly considered
Mrs. W. V. Smaller urged the claims OF the House
hold Economic Association. saying that how We
live or die depends our home environment To
study sanitation must study the history of the
world for hygiene old Moses, and the
food question began in the Garden OF Eden
The object OF the association was set forth, and
the speaker congratulated Clio on becoming
auxiliary.
The innovation OF serving tea at these general
meetings will be continued during the season.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-23
LITTLE DOG GOES SIGHTSEEING.

Mrs J. n. Taney OF London. with her little dog
or,ived IN New-York last week. having come over
on tho Majestic to visit her sister, Mrs bcrharu
peters of Brooklyn. II Is many years since MIS-
rorev was In America. and great changes nave
hoer made notably in the streetcars' Uoieys nav
ING taking the place Of horses ana cao'es m
g.. MANY thoroughfarcs formerly reserNeu io'
,roy carts cmnbuses etc. The broohiyh uO'y
ha,,o afforded Mrs fancy tho greatest amount "
,,,,sor,ont even ranking second In interest," u 'ie
r,a, 1enortment stores. so different IN "Speo' ~
eoto, sbons Not less Interested UhNeie' -
Tho small pet dog that Mrs fancy brought win
hnr She gives an amusing account OF the way j"
.htch each new sight has been viewed ana pio
o,rccd upon BY this canine companion uis o o.
- lions began on the Majestic, wheh W. W. CO"
Ill Of vessel and every strange, un iahu,.no
Ioti anca Gas gree ed by him WIN cNPlS,,Ha',
orxs of wonder and appreciation NE api H ,yroo
- u,tarance 10 all he felt was wei 1t,
rStnc ON these shores. After some uafs W 49,
a., Greetings OF everything. from oSS' ,nohf,,
~ noor little dog barked more ana nor r t,nrnny
wv S he accompanied his mistress IN hen Jou,ie
ana az ne ,oan Yesterday his strength was taxed
,n ,be utmost to keep up the POM. H 81 ,ro,.ot,
90 I'll With which he had set OUT on ms tinNcis
I became at last literally speethius an Will s
-, ,rhereyer placed looking WIN "o1uci ms -
Ell rndlinp his head at everything NV, as iue
nnu 90 ~ do appreciate all this peyohd wpias,
80 IL onr i,,le throat and sides were hVie anu tlcu
~, Win the effort he had made ana inc gaoiic
~ the great Republic were Tor hi'H' o'e' Po"e''''b
and beyond praise.