The Forrest City times., 1897-12-10

celyed from Washington by a we'll known politician says: President Me kinley has offered the attorney gem eralship to Gov. John W. Griggs.
 DURING the week ended December 8 failures throughout the United States, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co, were 3O6, against 379 for the corresponding week last year. For Canada the fail ures were 2s, against 55 last year.
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 SENATOR HARRIS, on the 2d, ex- pressed the opinion that the Kansas Pacific railroad would sell for suffi- cient amount, when put up for auction, on the 18th to fully compensate the government, after paying the first mortgage inde btedness.
 A POLICY of using, wherever possible, American-made goods in the supplies of the postal service, is announced in a letter addressed, on the 2d, by First Assistant Postmaster-General Heath to Mir. NJ. w. Louis, superintendent of the division of post office supplies.
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 BY direction of the secretary os the navy special board of officers at h. dian Head, Pa, made a final test and inspection, on the Sd, of the new six pounder automatic gun. This weapon has been fired at the rate of 4l rounds per minute and in use dispenses with the services of a man at each gun.
 TIE prospects for the new Austrian ministers are ominous. The assign ments of portfolios has been received on all sides with frigid reserve, and although the dismissal of Count Ba deni alluyed the spirit of rebellion in Vienna and the German towns, an- archy has broken out in the SIav and Czech towns and provinces.
 MRS. NANCY ALLISON MCKINLEY, the venerable mother of the president, was stricken with paralysis at her home in Canton, O., on the 2d. Although the shock was not severe the physicians gave very little hope of her recovery, owing to her great age-s9 years--and the members of her family were notified and hastened to her bedside.
 IT was officially announced at the White House, on the 9th, that Gov. John Griggs of New Jersey had been rendered and had accepted the office of attorney general of the United States, which will be vacated by the nomination of Attorney-General Me Kenua to be associate justice of the United States supreme court.
 
 BoHEMIANs resident in Chicago held a mass meeting, on the 5th, and passed resolutions of sympathy with their brethren in Prague on their fight for the preservation of their language and their national existence. Polish and Slovenian representatives joined the Bohemians with words of encourage ment for the Bohe nian cause.
 TBE Prince line steamer Trojan Prince, which arrived at New York, on the 5th, from Leghorn, Genoa and Ma ples, brought from the latter port l, 00S steerage passengers, the greater DOT lion of them being women and chil- dren. This is the greatest number of Italian immigrants bsought by any steamer to that port in many months. TIE special joint congressional com mittee, which had been engaged at in tervals for the past two years in in- vestigating the use of alcohol in the arts, has concluded the taking of testi- mony, and the members are now en- gagged in preparing their report, which the law requires shall be submitted during the first ten days of the ap- preaching session of congress.
 ON the 3d State Insurance Comm is- sioner Campbell of NJ ichigan issued a circular containing the names of 35 insurance companies which, he says, are not authorized to do business in that state, and many of which, he charges, have no legal existence any where. These are in addition to a list of over 20 alleged fraudulent com panies recently published by the com missioner
 PERU is the first of the South Ameri- can countries to open negotiations with the United States for reciproci- ty treaty under the Dingley law. The negotiations were begun through the Peruvian minister Ut Washington, Senor ESuiguren, the Peruvian gov ernment at the same time taking ac- tion giving authority to the president to conclude a treaty without submit ting it to the congress of that coun- try.
 TIE regular, or long session of con gress, as it is called because there is no constitutional limitation upon the period of its duration, opened at noon on the 9th. The leaders and a large majority of the members of both houses were present to participate in the opening ceremonies. President Mckinley made the journey to Wash ington rom the bedside of his dying mother in Canton, O., that his absence might rot delay the opening.