The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

l CTS OI eAOF ITtlRnI rates on that road, and agreed to substantial reduc- tions, to take effect September ].
 0s the 18th the directors of the Chi cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad de- clared quarterly dividend of one per l cent.
 ALL that was needed, on the 18th, for any man in Chicago to make $50, 900 was to have 1000, 900 bushels of wheat. That much wheat could have been bought the day before for SsS5, 900, and the buyer only needed to hold it one day and the $50. 900 was his. GRAIN is moving out of Nebraska at the rate of 300 cars day. Three fourths of this is new wheat and the other corn. Everything that will hold grain~2 wheels IS being utilized by the railroads to get the shipments to mar lset on quick time.
 A DYNAMITE bomb was hurled through a window in the council cham Der of the sublime porte in Constan ti- nople on the 18th. The building was badly damaged and porter was killed. | TIE steamer Queen arrived from Alaska, at Victoria, B. C.. on the 18th, bringing news of the struggles and disasters of the Argonauts of '97. Up ward of 2,000 men were encamped at Skaguay when she called there, while camps of others equally unable to get through extended at intervals of three or four hours march.
 | THE two counterfeit S1 1000 bonds re- gently received at the United States treasury from Louisville, Ky. are said to be the cleve-est specimens that ever troubled the secret service people. They were the work of Broadway, the king bee of the counterfeiters.
 ON the l7th, Cell Killon, living near Wabash, Ind, found what physicians pronounce to be the charred bones of | a human being under the ashes of a hay stack which was mysteriously | fired some days before, when his barn and four valuable horses were burned.
 IT was positively announced, on the 10th, that Mrs. Margaret Ferris, widow of the builder of the great Chi cago wheel, had been married in Pitts burgh, Pa, to Francis Schlatter, the divine healer of Canton, o. The cere- mony was performed by Rev. Mir. Ward, pastor of St. Peters Episcopal | church.
 THE French cruiser Bruix, which, | with the cruiser Curcouf, was escorting the cruiser Pothuan, with President Faure and his suite on board, on the way to Cronstadt returned to Dunkirk, on the 10th, with her mach inery disa- bled. The battleship Dupuy de Lome immediately started to replace the Bruix.
 FIvE-YEAR-oLD JOHN CONWAY. whose paren ts reside in Albany, N. Y., ,and who had been at the mercy of kidnapers for three days, was returned to his home, on the 18th, through the efforts of private detectives and reporters in the employ of the Albany Argus.
 GRAIN is moving out of Nebraska at a rate of 800 cars a day. Three-fourths of this is new wheat and the balance corn. Everything on wheels that will hold grain is being utilized by the rail- roads to get the shipments to market on quick time.
 FREDERICK R. CoUDERT, the famous authority on international law, was re- ported, on the 18th, dangerously ill from nervous prostration at his cottage at Bar Harbor, Me.
 UNCoNFIRMED reports were in circula- tion at Valencia, Spain, on the 18th, to the effect that the Carlists in the dis trict of Chelva were preparing to rise.
 A DISPATCH from Nisch, Servia. says that during gunnery practice there, on the 18th, a shell belonging to one of the guns of the fortress exploded, kill ing six artillerymen and badly injuring four others.
 Boys playing in the second story of Geir's hardware store at Ortonville, Minn., on the goth, started fire that resulted in the destruction of nine buildings and money loss of S250, 900, distributed among 80 firms and individ- uals.
 THE commission of Ethan A. Hitch cock, of St. Louis, as minister to Rus sia, was made out at the White House on the goth. The appointment dates from August 10.
 BY close vote, on the 10th, the New York produce exchange decided to continue the branding and grading of flour. A proposition had recently been made to discontinue the practice
 THE president, on the 20th, appointed James Jegrays, of Camden, Tenn, and Ross Griffin, of Kansas City, commi S. sioners to allot lands in severalty to the Indians of the Uncompahgre reser- vation in Utah.
 The body of H. H. Key, a tourist from Wisner, Neb., was found near the summit of Pike's Peak. on the goth, with a bulleS hole in the back of the head at the base of the brain.
 MICHEL ANGIoLILLI, who shot and killed Senor Canovas del Castillo, the premier of Spain, at the baths of Santa Aguera, on the sth, was garroted at San Sebastian on the goth.
 TIE Peoples savings bank of Mt. Pleasant Mich, closed its doors, on the goth, and is now in the hands of the commissioner of banking. No statement was given out. According to the last statement, made ID January, the capital stock of the bank was s10O,- 900, with s9O, 900 in deposits.