The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27

A LETTER from the head of Lake Ben- nett states that Frank Slavin. the big pugilist, is lost in the wilds of the Northwest territory. having started back alone from the lake toward the summit of Chillxoot pass to find a num- Der of articles lost from his pack.
 SENATOR NJ. A. HANNA returned to Cleveland, O., on the 21st, from his three weeks cruise on the yacht Co- manche. He looked the perfect picture of health, and said that he never felt better in his life. He went at once to his summer home, Windemere.
 A MEETING of over 5000 people held in Athens, OF the 22d, adopted an ad- dress to King George, urging him and the government to reject the proposed peace treaty between Greece and Fur key and to resume hostilities inter rupted by the truce.
 Ar Clarxsburg. w. Va. on the 2lst, Judge Golf found the miners arrested near Fairmont guilty of violation of Judge Jackson's injunction and sem fenced all of the "A to jail for three days, but later ordered them released on the 2Sd.
 ON the 21st the associated banks of New York city held SS9. 753 $50 in ex- cess of the requirements of the 25-per cent. rule.
 MEXICAN dollars were quoted in New York, on the 2lst, at 10 cents. FIVE children were drowned in the harbor at Toronto, Ont, on the 22d, by the capsizing of a float on which, in company with ten others, they were attempting to cross from the mainland to the break water, where they intended to go bathing. The other children were rescued by boatmen. Three of the bodies of the drowned were re- covered.
 A SPECIAL dispatch from Madrid, on the 23d, said: "There is no doubt the l Spanish government will be willing to extend the commercial treaty with the United States"
 WORK was resumed in all depart ments of the Britton tin-plate mill at | Cleveland, O., on the 23d, the strikers | accepting the terms of the company and going back to work. Work was also resumed in all departments of the | Union Falls mill at Cleveland. A. R. SMITH, a young lawyer of some standing in Omaha, Neb., confessed, on the 23d, that he was bicycle thief and | forger. Since January 1 last he has shipped 227 stolen bicycles to auction dealers in Chicago, St. Louis aid Kan sas City.
 A HAVANA dispatch, on the esd, said:
 'Spanish troops recently captured a | Cuban hospital in Matanzas province with 23 inmates. The troops fired the l buildings, first placing all the dis abled men in their cots and burning them alive. The others, II in mum Der, were tied to trees and shot tc death, their bodies being left there. FRANK WEBER, of Buffalo, and War ren Bush and Charles Glasuld, of Chi cago, lost control of the boat in which they were sailing on the Niagara river, on the 22d, and were carried down and over the Horseshoe fall in sight of thousands of mortified people | A HUGE derrick spoon, weighing 1000 pounds and containing half ton of salt, fell to the deck of the steamer Fitzgerald, which was loading at an | Illinois Central pier in Chicago on the 23d. Andrew Kruper, a laborer, was instantly killed. w. R. OHEARN. cashier of the Jack son County bank, of Black River, Wis, who was arrested on the charge of re- ceiving money after he knew the bank was insolvent, was bound over, on the 2Sd, to the fall term of the circuit court. The Jackson County bank, which was l closed in September last was reorgan- ized and re-opened on the 23d.