The Forrest City times., 1897-01-15

THE export of German raw sugar to ' the United States has assumed enor. nous proportions in the past year From January to November last the ! totals were 2,397, l9l double tor meter) hundred weight, as against 472, 154 in 1 1895, and 675, ,O57In 1894 The raw sugar exports to England during those periods have largely fallen off. MRs. VIM. WALTER PHELPS, widow of the late United States minister to Ger 1 many, is visiting her daughter, the Countess Won Rotten burg, whose hus- band is curator of the university at Bonn. Germany.
 A DISPATCH from St. Petersburg says that the czar is suffering from the effects of overwork, and is about to start for Livadia for a two months sojourn.
 ON the 9th the associated banks of New York city held s43, g9l ,45O in ex- cess of the requirements of the 25-per- cent. rule.
 Ar last the fatal chunk which divid- ed the Missouri river and the famous fishing resort, Lake Quinue baugh, in Nebraska, has dropped into the river. and what was once body of inland water next summer will be nothing but barren piece of land. THE conference of gold standard democrats, held at the auditorium in Chicago, on the 9th, declared for con tinued opposition to the tenets of the free silver wing of the party and for continuance of the party organiza- tion.
 BOARD of naval officers has com menced inves tigations looking to the reha bilitatIon of the Notifications on the Dry Tortugas, the key to the gulf of Mexico, and the establishment of a naval supply station there.
 WILL $. EAMs, of St. Louis, has been appointed architect to draw plans for the new military prison at Fort Leav- enworth, kas. The new prison is to cost S200. GOO.
 THF Colorado Potato trust has gone to pieces, and Texas consumers, who take almost 1,000,0 900 bushels year of mountain tubers, can gloat over the prospect of a potato war.
 WHILE returning from church at West Branch, Ia., ou the 10th, Mary J. Hawley,s an aged woman, and a pio- neer of that community, suddenly dropped dead on the sidewalk from heart failure.
 WITH more ceremony than ever be-
 ore known on such an occasion in Jefferson City, and in the presence of the largest and most brilliant assem- blaze ever gathered there, Lon V. Stephens was, on the 11th, inaugurated governor of Missouri
 THE United States supreme court, in an opinion by Justice Gray, on the llth, held that an application for an injunction against an executive officer of the government was vacated by his death or resignation.
 JOHN R. TANNER was inaugurated governor of Illinois on the 1lth Eff ty thousand strangers are said to have visited Springfield to witness the in- auguration ceremonies. LATE dispatches say that copious rains have fallen in most of the fam ine-stricken districts of India, but a great deal more rain is needed The bubonic plague is increasing at Kara chi.
 THE Anglo-American general arbi- tration treaty was signed in the diplo- matic parlor of the state department, in Washington, on the 11th, at 1920 D. m, by Secretary Olney and Sir Julian Pauncefote.
 THE tariff hearings before the ways and means committee were concluded on the 1lth, the schedule containing "Sundries" and the Free List" being considered.