The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-05-28

HOMER LoRISa. of Newton, Mass,
has been appointed receiver of the
Union and Consolidated street railways
of Saginaw. Mich. He is very young
for the position-21 years old. The
bond as receiver is fixed at S75. 600.
EDHEM PASTA, the Turkish COM
mander, has disbanded and sent to
their homes most of the Albanians in
his army.
Mr. RICHARD NJ. ScRUGGs. the
wealthy St Louis merchant, who was
arrested in New York city on his ar
rival on the st. Paul charged with
smuggling. and on whose person and
that of MIR. K. ). Langhorne was found
about s., 900 worth of dutiable goods.
was, on the Gath, held by the United
States commissioner for the grand
jury. He gave bond. His trial will
come off about the 10th of June.
On the cath the president sent ca
BILE message to Queen Victoria congrat-
ulating her on the attainment of her
seventy-eighth birthday anniversary.
GREECE will decline to negotiate a
peace directly with Edhem Pasha, hav-
ing previously confided all her interests
to the keeping of the powers.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury. issued on the gath,
showed: Available cash balance, 1921, :
1884, 09; gold reserve, Sl44, 704, s42.
TOTAL gold shipments from New
York, on the 25th. were 81. 400, 900.
AN Athens dispatch says: The in
tentions of the sultan are greatly dis
trusted here, and it is believed that he
is avoiding negotiations for peace
through the powers because he wants
Edhem Pasha to march to Athens.
BY the caving of trench at Fort
Wayne, Ind, on the cath, three work
men were instantly killed and fourth
was fatally injured. The dead are A.
Dennis. A. Brown, James Christie. Fa-
tally injured, Michael Shelby
AN explosion, evidently caused by
chemicals used in the preparation of
pepsin. shattered the upper part of
Armour & Co.'S pepsin factory, at Chi
cago, on the cath, and the blaze which
followed practically consumed the
building; loss, SIS. 600.
THE Odessky Listock, of Odessa, an
nounces the coming arrival there of
one of the Wander bits. who. according
to that newspaper, is about to start
big naphtha works at Buku, Russian
Transcaucasia.
BANK EXAMINER CALDWELL has dis
covered further shortage of $50, 600 in
the accounts of the wrecked State ma
tional bank of Logansport. Ind.
On the 2ath w. f. NJ ittman, a dane
ing teacher, shot himself in the CORR
dor of the thirteenth story of the Chi
cago chamber of commerce building
and then threw himself to the court
below. narrowly missing pedestrians
in the crowded lobby. 1t is thought he
was dead before he struck the pave
ment.
THE examination of Herr Won Tausch,
the former chief OF the secret political
police, who is charged with four-fold
perjury and treason, was continued in
Berlin on the 25th. Won Tausch wept
during the course of the proceedings.
K. S. MALoNEY. of Tennessee, son-in-
law of Senator Mills, of Texas, and for
20 years a clerk in the post office de-
partment in Washington. expired from
heart disease, on the 25th, while driv-
ing to the office.
THE secretary of war has awarded
the contract for building six locks and
dams in the Monongahela river to
James McCarron, of Philadelphia, at an
aggregate cost of 1922, ISL.
DURING a display of fireworks at
Nantes, France, on the evening of the
oath, four persons were killed and a
score of others were injured by the ex-
plosion of a bomb.