The Forrest City times., 1897-01-01

RELIABLE adviees from Constantino- pie say that the agreement of the pow CTS for the enforcement of reforms in Turkey is complete with the exception of the matter of the methods to be pur- sued and the time of putting the meas ures of coercion agreed upon into operation.
 SECRETARY OLSEY and Sir Julian Pauncefote have finally agreed upon the draft of a treaty providing for a general system of arbitration of dis putes between the United States and Great Britain, winch will doubtless be approved by the president and sub mitted to the senate.
 TIE imports, exclusive of specie. at the port of New York for the week ended the 26Lh were S6,9ss, ,354, of which S, 122, 164 was general merchant disc and Si, s65, 79O dry goods For the corresponding week last year the im- ports were SS, ,67i, 626.
 ON the 26th the associated banks of New York city held S34, s09, 900 in ex- cess of the requirements of the 25-per- cent. rule.
 T of New York, has denied the applica- ton of the Agudath Hakehiloth, a He- brew organization, for a certificate of incorporation, because it fixes the time of holding business meetings on Sunday, and the judge says: "The law which scrupulously protects them in the observance of their creed, gives them no license to affront the religious susceptibilities of others"
 TRAIN wreckers removed a rail from the approach to high bridge near Birmingham, Ala, causing a passen- ger train, on the 27th, to plunge 110 feet into the river below, and result ing in instant death to 20 persons. The wreckage, igniting from the fire in the stoves, was burned to the wa ter's edge, cremating many of the vic tims
 WHITE GHOST, the Indian chief who visited Washington with a delegation of his fellow tribesmen, asking for S200, 900 interest on alleged deferred payments for land, saw the Great Father on the 2sth Indian Commis- sioner Browning introduced the chief
 
 stay long enough to make a speech, but was exceedingly pleased to shake hands with Mr. Cleveland. PREsIDENr-ELE MCKINLEY has promised to go to New York for the dedication of the Grant monument on April 27. He will make an address. Many representatives of foreign gov ernments at Washington will be pres ent to witness the ceremonies. Lii Hung Chang will see that the Flowery kingdom is represe nted.
 PROF. EMANUEL SCHAID died in Co., lumbus, O., on the 2sth, from para lytic stroke. He had been professor of Latin and Greek in the Lutheran Capital university in Columbus sin ce 1859, and was for the same period one of the editors of the Kirchen Zeitung. Prof. Schmid was born In Ann Arbor, Mich. in 1895.
 A LANDSLIDE occurred near Rath- more, County Kerry, Ireland, on the 2sth, doing great damage to property and causing the loss of at least nine lives. The ground pushing into the River Flesk, almost completely damned that stream and made disas- trous inundation probable.
 THE ferry boat New Brunswick, be- longing to the Pennsylvania railroad, was totally burned at Jersey City N. J., on the 2Sth. The New Brunswick was worth about Sl00, GOO.
 Ar Delaware, O., on the 2sth, Lulu Stultz, aged l9, in fit of anger after reproof from her parents, cut her throat from ear to ear with razor, dying instantly.