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

the inquiry into the death, In the jail
at that place, of DIR. Ricardo Ruiz, a
naturalized American citizen.
IT is unofficially announced that the
wheat area of France is 500, 90S hec-
tares below the area of 1896, and that
the wheat crop will probably be 22,
$50, 900 hectoliters less than in 1896. A
hectare is 2.47 acres; q hectoliter is
AIS bushels.
JUDGE MUNGER, of the United States
district court at Omaha, Neb.. made
an order, on the cath, that the divorce
decreed by Judge Brewer between the
Western Union and Union Pacific tele-
graph companies must be completed by
September l.
A SEVERE electric and rain storm
struck Kokomo, Ind, on the night of
the Goth. The electric plant was badly
damaged, leaving the stores and the
city in darkness. The city buildings
were also damaged by lightning, and
the streets were flooded.
THE sixth annual exhibition of the
Philadelphia Horse Show association
opened, on the 25th, at Wissahickon
Heights, to continue five days. The
list of entries was the largest in the
history of the association and the
prizes aggregated $4,000.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Vienna
says that the Austrian cruiser Kron.
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from Salonica to Phalerum, near the
Pireaus (the port of Athens), to remain
there at the disposal of the royal fara-
lily of Greece if required to convey
them from that country.
The Cretan insurgents received in
structions from Athens, on the 21st. to
accept an autonomous form of govern
ment on condition that the Turkish
troops shall be previously withdrawn
from the island. The insurgents ap-
peared to approve of this plan for the
settlement of their grievances.
In the United States supreme court,
the case of Blythe VS.. Hinckley, in
volving the estate of the late Million
aire Blythe, of California, was dis
missed, on the gath, for want of juris-
diction. The effect is to leave the prop
erty in the possession of Mrs. Hinck-
ley. daughter of the millionaire.
On the Goth, to the accompaniment of
q bowling northwest wind and the
squeaking of many pulleys, the great
objective lenses of the Yerkes observa-
tory, at Williams Bay, Wis, were lifted
into position. An hour later the eye
piece was adjusted, and the worlds
greatest telescope became reality.
c. WILLIAM MoELLER, James ]. Mo-
ran, c. Ii. Chokmiller, Thomas F. Carey
and Thomas 4. Dunn, judges and clerk
of election at the recent school board
election in st. Louis, were arrested, on
the 21st, on the most convincing evil
dence of fraud, and stand an excellent
chance of landing in the penitentiary.
A WILL, declared to be a forgery,
and discovered in the urn containing
the ashes of the testator's dead wife, is
one of the sensational features that
the estate of the late Jacob z. Davis
the San Francisco millionaire, philan-
thropist and patron of arts and science.
FREDERICK F. SToLL, formerly gen
eral superintendent of city delivery il
the Chicago post office, has been asked
through a representative of Ii Hung
Chang, to take charge of the free de
livery postal system which it is pro
posed to establish at Hong Kong. The
offer carries salary of $4,000 year
for five years.
ALTHOUGH it was not definitely de
cided, on the Goth, it was thought the
peace negotiations would be conducted
between Turkey and Greece direct
and that afterward, following the
precedent of the treaty of Stephano
the terms will be submitted to a Euro
pean conference, which will probably
meet in Paris.
HENRY BAUER and Carl Mold, the an
archist accomplices of Alexander Berg.
man in the attempted assassination o.
H. C. Fricke, during the Homestead
pa strike in 1892, were released from
the penitentiary, on the a5th, after
serving their terms Of five years. They
were given . royal reception by the
anarchists of Allegheny.
PHILIP MCELHoNE, recently convicted
in Washington of taking valuable doc
uments from the congressional library
appeared in the criminal court, on the
Path. and withdrew his motion for q
new trial and received his sentence
Judge Bradley imposed a fine of 500