The Forrest City times., 1897-03-19

IT is learned that Senor Dupuy de Lome. the Spanish minister, had . stormy interview with Secretary Sher- man before he agreed to the release of Sylvester Scovel, the newspaper man imprisoned in Cuba.
 SUMNER F. DUDLEY. formerly general secretary of the Y. M. C. A.. in Orange, N. l.. and we'll known all over the country in association circles, died of Bright's disease. at the residence of his father. Francis D. Dudley, on the 14th, after an illness of four years and con- fnement to the house for three months.
 FURTHER details of the landing of the Laurada expedition in Cuba were received on the 18th. Gen. Carlos Rolof conducted the expedition. Two improved guns, mounted on carriages for the purpose of siege work, were among the weapons landed. and two more guns of the same kind were sup posed to have been landed by the steamer Three Friends.
 IT was asserted in St. Petersburg. on the 18th, that the admirals command ing the foreign squadrons in Cretan waters, with the exception of the Ital- ian and French commanders, had al- ready received orders from their re- spective governments to blockade the Piraeus. the town of Syra, on the Greek island of that name, and the port of Volo in Thessaly.
 ON the morning of the 18th tramps drove spikes in the Louisville & Nash vile switch at Springfield. Tenn. A freight train was wrecked, several cars being telescoped, with heavy loss. The deed Is supposed to have been done for revenge by tramps recently ejected from a train. who doubtless intended to wreck the Chicago limited
 ON the 18th the Paris Eclair pub lished report of an interview with Nj. Delyannis, prime minister of Greece, in which he declared that Greece would not assent to the establishment of an autonomous administration in Crete.
 A BUGGY. in which were seated San ford Gardiner and Mrs. Chas. Fenton, was struck by a train on the Erie rail- road, on the 18th. while crossing the tracks of that road in Bath, N. Y. Mrs. Fenton was killed, but Mir. Gardiner escaped unhurt.
 EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH will pay a visit to St. Petersburg in April and re- main there two weeks.
 THE sugar refinery on South Second street, Williamsburg, N. Y., belonging to the American Sugar Refining Co.,, after a shutdown of over five months, opened, on the 18th, with force of nearly 400 men. The introduction of the tariff bill with it's increased duty on sugar is believed to be responsible for the resumption.
 THE unruly elephant Tip, belong ing to the Barnum < Bailey show, was strangled to death at the winter quar- ters of the circus in Bridgeport, Conn.,, on the 16th. Efforts to poison the ele- phant by concealing capsules contain ing large quantities of cyanide of potas- sium had proven futile.
 CHARCOAL, the Indian murderer of Sergeant White, was hanged at Mac Leod, Man, on the 10th. He was car ried to the scaffold.
 HENRY WHITE, of Rhode Island, is to be secretary of the embassy of the United States in Great Britain.
 GEN. HORACE PORTER, of New York, was, on the 10th, nominated ambassa- dor to France.
 Col. HAY, of the District of Colum- bia, was, on the 16th, nominated by the president ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiarv to the court of St. James.
 THERE is no doubt that Frank w. Palmer, of Chicago, will be appointed and promptly confirmed public printer.