The Forrest City times., 1897-05-14

THE schooner Annie Z. Rudolph.
from Camden, n. j., for Boston, with
iron pipe. was sunk off Nauset Cape
Cod, on the 9Th, by colliding with the
tug Paoli, and Capt. Gardiner and Mate
Smell. both of New Jersey, and a sea-
man were drowned. Steward George
Brown and Seaman johnson were
saved. The tug was unlnjured.
SENATOR DEBoE's call at the White
House, on the sth, was for the purpose
of urging the president to appoint DIR.
Hunter, of Kentucky, to a leading
foreign mission, probably Chilli.
A REQUIEM mass for the repose of the
souls of the victims of the recent fire
at the charity bazar, was celebrated, on
the 9Th, in the cathedral of Notre Dame
in Paris.
III is learned through a private ca
blegram that Miss Marie de Comeau,
formerly of Staten Island, n. Y, was
among the victims of the late Paris
fire.
PRESIDENT ZELAYA of Nicaragua
has signed the law abolishing capital
punishment from and after July 1
next.
BARONESS HIRscH is said to be the
donor of the 937, 500 francs (S1s7, 500
anonymously received by the commit
tee of the charity bazar, the scene of
the recent terrible fire in Paris. This
sum, together with the proceeds of the
first days sale (before the fire., 44,500
francs 49, 500, exactly equals the re-
ceipts ofthe bazar in 1896, thus enabl-
ing the committee to distribute its
funds to charitable purposes as before.
WHILE Harry Flynn was drowning in
Lake Michigan, on the 9th, in full view
of hundreds of spectators in Lincoln
park, Chicago, Albert Mattarl, one of
the observers, suddenly pitched for
ward on his face, dead. His death was
ascribed to excitement, caused by
watching the struggles of the drown
ing boy.
THE body of Marie Flood was found
in the Ohio river at Cincinnati, on the
10th, and identified. She was a promi-
nent Sister of Charity and escaped from
Mount Adams convent over a month
ago. She was evidently demented
The United States senate, on the
10th, agreed to the resolution directing
the commerce committee to inquire
into the cause of the recent Mississippi
river floods and to report next Decem-
Der.
CAPT. JOSEPH KING, who said he was
LOG years old, died, on the 10th, at his
home in Lansing, N. Y. He claimed
to be of Indian descent.
AN avnIooinY, ecc,,r,aJ ~, H. 1o.l
the Snaefell lead mine on the Isle of
Man. Seventeen miners were killed.
THE supreme court of the United
States, on the 10th, denied the petition
for a rehearing in the Trans Missouri
association case.
THE grand jury of the criminal
branch of the United States circuit
court in New York city, on the 18th,
indicted Capt. Edward w Reed of the
ship L. f. Cakes for maliciously, and
without justifiable cause, withholding
food from the crew of his vessel on
the voyage from Hong Kong to New
York
The statement of the condition Of
the treasury, issued on the 18th,
showed Available cash balance, S22s.-
COS, 743; gold reserve, STAT, $50, S67.
HENRY Il, CHEATHAM. of North Caro-
lima, was, on the 18th, nominated by
the president to be recorder of deeds
for the District of Columbia.
JOHN SHERMAN, secretary of state,
celebrated his seventy-fourth birthday
anniversary, ia Washington, on the
night of the 18th.
JUDGE DAY, of Ohio, qualified and
assumed the duties of his office as as
sistant secretary of state on the 18th.