The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-05-28

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


The statement of the condition of
the treasury. issued on the Goth,
showed: Available cash balance, 1929,
1852, 013; gold reserve, Si45, 729, $40.
The statue of Stephen Girard, the
great philanthropist, and founder of
the famous Girard college, was I'M
yelled in Philadelphia, with imposing
ceremonies, on the Goth. The statue
stands on the west plaza of the city
hall, and was erected by contributions
of the college alumni.
FREDERICK SCHAEFER, of the brew
cry firm of +. & M. .Schaefer, died. on
the Goth, at his residence in New York
city. He was born at Wetzler, Ger
many, so years ago. He came to Amer
lea in 1888, and was practically the
pioneer of the lager beer industry in
the United States.
The first of the trials arising out of
the tramway disaster at Point Ellice
bridge, Victoria, b. c., last May, was
concluded, on the 10TH when the Jury
decided that the city was liable for the
disaster, and the plaintiff, Mrs. Gordon,
whose husband was killed, was
awarded $40, 900 damages.
AN armistice between the Turkish
and Greek troops in Thessaly, to ex-
tend over period of II days, was for
mally concluded on the goth.
The Morgan resolution granting bel
ligerent rights to the Cubans was
passed by the senate, on the Goth, by
vote of Al to a.
CAMBRIDGE England university, by
a vote of 1,713 to 642 on the 2lst, re-
jected the proposal to confer degrees
upon women.
The secretary of the interior has au-
thorized a contract for an additional
school building at the Mount Pleasant
Indian school, in Michigan, to cost $4O,-
600.
Wash, on the 10th, Mary Seattle, said
to be d niece of the old Indian chief
Seattle, appeared to testify in divorce
suit she had brought against John
Seattle, her spouse, who is over 80
years of age.
On the 2lst Wesley Zelebol1, of Grant,
Okla, in fit of jealousy, killed Joe
Hajek while he was visiting the girl
for whose hand they were rival suitors.
Zelebok was arrested, but died on his
way to Jail from the effects of a dose
of strychnine taken with suicidal in
tent.
MONS. LEE, an aeronaut employed
with the Silver Plate show, which ex-
hibited at McKeesport, Pa, on the
Goth, fell from his balloon while maxi
ing an ascension, and was fatally in
jured.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury. issued on the 21st, showed:
Available cash balance, 1920, $50, 653;
gold reserve, $l45, 500, 772.
MATTHEWS LAFLIN, one of the oldest
residents of Chicago, and one of the
founders of what is now the Lafiin-
Rand Powder Co., died, on the 21st,
aged "a years.
MICHAEL MCGARRETTY, and a laborer
named Andrew CARTE, were scalded to
death by the bursting of still in Nc
Garretty's distillery at Hazelton, Pa,
on the 21st. Mrs, Nc Garrety was
badly burned while trying to save her
husband.
A SCHEME is on foot, according to the
Kansas City MOI Times, to run Kansas
City's plants manufactures, street
railways, etc. by electricity to be gen.
Grated at Leavenworth, Kas., where
fuel can be obtained cheaply at the
promoters mines. In addition, it is
proposed to ultimately construct an
electric railroad between the two cities.
| IT was semi-officially reported in Ath-
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commander of the Turkish army in
Thessaly, had informed the Greek Off
GERS who, in conjunction with the
Turkish officers, were arranging the
neutral zone, that he was empowered
to negotiate the terms of peace with
| Greece direct.
The newspapers of Madrid consider
the adoption by the United States SEN
ate of Senator Morgan's belligerency
resolution to be . very grave step.
They say it will tend to strengthen the
checking the proposed liberal attack on
the ministry.
ALBERT M. KING, the Boston bank
messenger who disappeared recently
| with $50, 200 of the banks money, was
arrested at Pennington, Me-, on the
22d. When searched at the Jail all the
money taken from the bank was found
in packages in Kings pockets.
ANDREW BRYAN, a well-to-do farm err,
aged So, the father of 33 children, rs
of whom are boys, and who married
his seventh wife last February, is
missing from Fowler, Ind. He left
home with several hundred dollars in
his pocket to purchase stock.
THE loss of the Greeks in the battle
of Phourka Pass was 500 killed and
wounded. All the irregulars have been
disbanded.
Col. STAIKos, with the last detach-
ment of the Greek expeditionary force
in Crete, embarked for Greece on the
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