The Forrest City times., 1897-03-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

JOHN CoRwfS. the United States navy paymaster, who recently left Newport k. l., accused of being an embezzler of government funds. was arrested in Chi cago on the Sd. When arrested he con- fessed to shortage of s10.00o.
 By the derailment of rapidly nov ing wrecking train at Deep Cut. on the Baltimore X Ohio railroad, three miles east of Zanesville, O., on the 4th, three men were killed and two fatally and eight slightly injured. The train, con sisting of an engine and five cars, rolled down 40-foot embankment.
 THE singing of hundreds of canaries. in gilt cages suspended here. there and everywhere, was a notable and very pleasing feature of the inaugural ball in Washington on the night of the 4th.
 E. D. HATCHER. cashier of the de- funct Northwestern national bank of Great Falls, Mont, which closed its doors on February 5. was arrested in that city. on the 4th. on complaint made by Bank Examiner James K. Lazear, which charges misapplying money. credits, and property of the the bank in the sum of 800, ,000. FAILURES throughout the United States for the week ended on the 5th. as reported by k. G. Dun & Co, were 246, against 2s5 for the corresponding week of last year. For Canada the fail ures were 50, against 6s last year. A DESPATCH from Montevideo the capital of Uruguay, says that a state of siege has been proclaimed there and orders have been issued for the mobil- ization of the troops of the republic.
 TIE report of the health officers show that since the outbreak of the bubonic plague in Bombay, up to the 4th, there had been s,3s3 cases and 5.97s deaths from the disease.
 A CAUCUS of republican representa- tives in congress will be held at eight o'clock on the evening of the 18th for the purpose of nominating candidates for office in the ensuing congress and for other business.
 EX-N CONGRESSMAN BELLAMY SToRER | of Cincinnati. has been rendered and | accepted the office of first assistant sec retary of state. now filled by Mir. Rock hill. of Maryland. | THE stockholders of the Madison Square Garden Co.,, in New York city. have decided to advertise for bids for the sale of the property as it has been an elephant on their hands ever since its erection in 1890. In 1892 and 1898 it paid expenses but it has never made a profit. If no good offers are received the building, costing Sl.600. 900, may be torn down to make room for more profitable structures.
 LARGE numbers of men are present. ing themselves at the Greek consulate in London, Liverpool and Manchester, offering themselves to the consuls for service in the Greek army in Crete. Ar Milford. O., on the 7th, John Bain, aged ls, was watching the flood in the river. when an embankment caved in end buried him in the land slide. He was dead when recovered. ON the 9th the associated banks of New York city held S55. 4s3 925 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per-cent rule.
 HAVING gracefully and deservedly won her first case in St Louis law court, it may be said more truthfully than ever that Miss Daisy Barbee is in very truth daisy.
 AUDITOR FRANK BoRsr and ex-Treas- urer E. II. sawvel pleaded guilty at Butler, Ind, on the sth, to embezzle- ment of county funds. and were sen fenced to five years each by Judge Adair. This makes three of the De- Kalb county officials who have pleaded guilty to embezzlement of a portion of the sS0, 900 which had been stolen during the past few years.
 SECRETARY OF THE INFERIOR CoRNE- i LIus N. BLISS has retained as private secretary Mir. Price Lane. who had acted in that capacity for Mir. Francis.