The Forrest City times., 1897-02-19

THE price of steel rails advanced a little at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 12th, ranging between s17 and SIS
 THE Grecian government has formu- lated a notification to the powers set ting forth that Greece cannot remain | a mere spectator of the events which are taking place in Crete, and that the ties of race and religion compel her | to intervene in behalf of the oppressed and outraged Christians in that is- land.
 TIE building occupied by the Pitts | burgh (Pa.) Post was burned, on the I4th, causing loss of S9O, O,O00. The | printing presses, one valued at S25, QUO and the other at slo,O00, were badly damaged. Ten type-setting machines,
 valued at s30.000, were ruined. The
 Posts loss will probably reach s7O, 900;
 covered by insurance. THE strike of the glass workers at
 the McBeth factory at Elwood, Ind, ended by the men agreeing to return
 to work, on the 18th, and allow the court of appeals, composed of two
 manufacturers and two workers, to set
 tie the differences.
 TURKISH CONSUL GENERAL Jos EPH A IAsIGI is a prisoner in New York. He is millionaire, and was arrested at the request of the Boston police on a charge of having embedded the funds of an estate of which he was the GUS todian.
 WORK of rescue in the Freeman mine. at Gouverneur, N. Y. which caved in. on the l3th, resulted in the recovery of the bodies ot six of the eight men who were in the mine, horribly mutilated. The other two escaped without in jury. TIE New York Herald's cable from Havana, of the 18th, announces that Gen. Weylers forward movement con- tinues, but every day it becomes more apparent that there will be no engage ment with Gomez, except at a time and in place of his choosing. ACCORDING to late Japanese newspa. pers the mikado's government will in- troduce measures at this session of the i imperial diet for the establishment of the gold standard at the ratio of l to g.
 HoN. JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER died at his home in Lexington, Va, on the 18th. Mir. Tucker had been ill for several weeks and his death was ex- pected.
 | JOHN H. HOPPER, former cashier of the First national bank of Lebanon, Pa., who was charged with embez- zling Sl09, 900 of the banks funds, was arraigned in the United States district court in Philadelphia, on the 18th, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ten years imprison ment in the East- ern peniten tiary and ordered to pay a
 fine of S1 .000.
 THE commanders of the British and other foreign war ships stationed at Canea, on the 18th. informed Prince George, commanding the Greek tor
 pedo fiotilla, that they had received orders to prevent the occupation of the island of Crete by Greece, and, if necessary, to use force to carry out | their instructions.
 UNITED STATES SENATOR WoLcoTT,
 of Colorado, who is making a tour of 1 Europe in the interest of bi.
 metallism, arrived in Berlin on the 1 18th
 Gov. BRADLEY of Kentucky has | fixed Saturday, March 20, as the day | for the execution of Jackson and Wal. ling, the murderers of Pearl Bryan.
 PETER, better known as Cotton
 Schmidt. 16-year-old boy, and Sam l Foster, colored, two of the murderers
 of Bertram A. Atwater, a young Chi.
 cago artist, at Webster Groves, Mo-,
 on January 23, 1896, were hanged at
 Clay ton, St. Louis county, Mo, on the 1 1eth,