The Forrest City times., 1897-09-03

THK Paris Memorial Diplomatique as serts that the ameer of Afghanistan has ordered the faithful to hold them selves in readiness for holy war, and that meeting of mullahs has been convened at Cabul to discuss the situa- ton.
 GEN. WooDFoRD. minister to Madrid, expected to start from Paris to San Sebastian, on the 3Oth, to present to the queen regent the proposition of the state department for ending the war in Cuba. The result of his mission is awaited with much interest
 IT is estimated that in Oklahoma ter ritory, during the year 1897, the stock, grain, fruit. and all other products wili amount to S100, GOO, 900. Of this the peo- pie at home will consume 60 per cent, leaving $40, 000,000 of products for ex- port
 SECRETARY GAGE and Attorney-Gen- eral McKenna issued a joint circular. on the 30th, to collectors and customs officers and United States attorneys and marshals relative to the enforce ment of the Chinese exclusion laws. It is proposed to let the suspects pass on to their destination, and arrest and try them where they are supposed to be known and can be identified if their claims are genuine.
 HERMAN W. VAN ZANDES, private secretary to Secretary Carlisle in the last administration, and Dennis J.. Canty, formerly a clerk in the inter- state commerce commission, were ar rested in Washington. on the Soth, on warrants charging them with em- bezzlement of $4, ss7 from Milking X Co.,. brokerage firm. They were charged also with mai taining a gam bling table.
 A SPECIAL from Anaconda, Mont, on the 3Oth, said: "A fierce forest fire is raging a few miles west of here and spreading with alarming rapidity to- ward this city. The fire has already burned over O,0O0 acres of timber. A messenger from the burned district says that Georgetown and Silver Lake are both in the track of the fire'.
 OPERATIONS were resumed at the Att idhtlC HILLS at bdNEChSc, -naoS', on the 30th, after shutdown of four weeks. This gives employment to about 1900 hands. Work was also re- sumed in the weaving department of the Methuen company's mills at Methuen, Mass, where nearly all of the 450 operatives employed in those mills are now at work.
 
 THE Catholic board of school com missioners of Montreal Can, having refused to comply with the order of the provincial board of health to re- fuse entrance to their schools to chil- dren without vaccination certificates, the city will station officers 3t all the Catholic schools to vaccinate the chil- dren.
 THE board of naval officers appoint ted by the secretary of the navy to exam inc facilities for the manufacture of armor plate investigated the plant of the Illinois Steel and Iron Co.,, at South Chicago, on the 30th. Three days will probably be spent in looking over the various branches of the works.
 Ar the session of the Zionist con gress, held in Basic, Switzerland, on the S0th, the delegates present unani- mously adopted, with great enthusiasm, the programme for re-establishing the Hebrews in Palestine with publicly recognized rights
 THE Great Falls cotton manufacture ing mills at Somersworth, N. H., re- sumed operations on full time, on the 30th, after having run 10 hours week since May.
 THE czar will visit Paris at the end of autumn.