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The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs Will Wood, of warrensburg.
Mo-, fell 80 feet from, bridge with a
horse and buggy. She escaped with
but a few scratches.
The directors of the Dover national
bank, of Dover, Del, have adopted a
resolution favoring the reduction of
the capital stock of the bank from
500, 900 to $4,000, as result of the
recent defalcation of Paying Teller
Boggs.
Zimri III. Lambert has been adjudged
insane at Forest, Ind. His hallucina-
ton is that his heart has been torn out,
and a brass watch put in its place, in
sisting that the heart beats is the watch
ticking. He is the last of a prominent
family.
Mrs. Johanna Barnes, a prominent
and well-to-do woman residing Cum
mings, Atchison county, Kas., has been
adjudged insane in the probate court
at Atchison. She was decided sane at
two previous trials.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18
THE BUSH BILL
To Build State Railroads and Telegraph
Lines With Convict Labor

Lines with Convict Labor.
Following is copy of the Bush bill,
providing for building state railroads
and telegraph lines:
IAN act to create a state board au-
thorized to locate, establish, survey.
build, equip and operate state railroads
and telegraphs; to provide the manner
for raising revenue for such purpose:
to provide penalty for misappropri-
ating money, and for other purposes
Be it enacted by the general assem-
bly, of the state of Arkansas:
Section l. The governor. auditor and
attorney general are hereby constitut-
ed state board, with power to locate,
survey, establish, build, equip and op-
crate state railroads and telegraph
lines. The governor shall be chairman
of said board, and the auditor shall be
secretary, and in the event that any
number Of railroad commissioners
should be appointed or elected, then
they shall be ex-officio members of the
said state board.
Section 2. For the purposes men
toned in section of this act, the said
board shall be authorized to receive
donations and gifts of lands and mon
ey, to be used in the construction Of
railroads and telegraph lines and the
equipment of the same; and Shall also
be clothed with full power to sell and
convey any lands belonging to the
state of Arkansas, any part of the
smallest legal subdivision of which
lies within twelve miles Of the track
of any railroad so built the proceeds
Of such sales to be used in building
and equipping said railroads and tele-
graphs.
Section 3. The said board is fvrther
empowered, for the purpose of con
struction as aforesaid, to have the use
of convicts of the state 1t shall have
power to direct the superintendent of
the penitentiary to employ as many
state cOnvicts in the work aforesaid
as in its judgment may be necessary
to carry out the provisions of this act,
not to exceed 300 at any one time. All
necessary stockades shall be construct
ed along the line of railroads for the
use of the cUnvicts, and the superin-
tendent of the penitentiary shall re-
main in charge of the convicts to be
worked under the direction of the en-
gineer.
Section 4. Immediately after the
passage of this act it shall be the duty
of said board to open subscription
books for the donation of lands and
money to aid in the construction OF
railroads and telegraph lines, and to
advertise the same in such manner as
shall seem TO it most practicable.
Section 3. When in the judgment of
the board a sufficient sum has been
raised TO Justify the commencement of
the work of construction, they shall
outline the road proposed to be built,
and in locating said road they shall
give preference to such line as shall be
most profitable to the state in the way
or development of the states re-
sources, and giving accommodation to
such parts of the state as are not ira
versed by railroads, as well as TO the
contributions offered, and the probable
amount of business to be done by such
road.
Section 9. The state board created
by this act, and their successors for
ever, shall constitute body corporate,
with full power to sue or be sued, and
to do and perform all acts that any
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18
CURRE NT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
FIFTY.FiFTH CONGRESS.
Especial session.)


IN the senate, on the 10th, the tariff bin was
taken up and. after short consideration of the
cereal paragraphs. the agricultural schedule was
laid aside and the sugar schedule was taken up
and occupied the attention of the senate during
the remainder of the open session. After q
short executive session the sanate adjourned.
...... In the house two comparatively unim-
portant resolutions were passed and adjourn
ment was taken until the l4th.
IN the senate. on the 11th after day spent
in speech making on the various phases of the
tariff bill, and the sugar schedule in particular,
vote was taken resulting in changing the
house rate of 100 per pound to the rate agreed
upon in caucus. The vote resulted: Yeas. 81;
nays. 80. The first paragraph of the sugar
schedule was not finally disposed OF up to time
of adjournment .....T The house was not in ses
sion.
In the senate, on the 18th. the tariff bill being
under discussion, the sugar schedule was made
the subject of persistent democratic assaults
upon the measure. Practically no progress
was made. only one amendment being voted on,
and that being defeated Mr.. McEnery dem.
La) made his maiden speech of two hours. de-
elaring him selfa protectionist, and denying that
tariff views should constitute test of democ
racy 49,. The house was not in session.
IN the senate, on the 1ith after a short time
spent in morning business, the tariff bill was
taken up. After several speeches had been
made upon the pending sugar schedule, vote
was taken on Mr.. Lindsay's amendment to
strike out the differential refined sugars,
which was rejected-yeas, %; nays, 20. -. In
the house Mr. Sulzer presented petition said
to contain 100000 names in favor of Cuban
recognition as belligerents Without doing any
business the house adjourned until Thursday.
IN the senate. on the 18th, consideration of
the sugar schedule of the tariff bill was COM
pleted, except the provision relating to Hawaii
which went over. Consideration of the agri-
cultural schedule was resumed, the butter para
graph being agreed to as reported -. The house
in
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

the event OF said forfeiture il shall be
the duty of the governor to give notice
of said fact and restore the same to the
public domain by public proclamation.
Section 4. The titles to all of said
lands so selected by said railway COM
pany that were forfeited to the state
for non-payment Of taxes, may be con-
firmed in the name of the state of Ar
kansas by complying with the requi-
sites of the statutes of the state of Ar
kansas pertaining to the confirmation
of tax titles, being chapter % of San
dels 4 Hits Digest of the Statutes of
Arkansas, but it shall not be necessary
TO prove prior payment of taxes in or
der to obtain decree of confirmation.
And on trial of such confirmation
causes the certificate of the commits
sioner of state lands shall be prima
facie proof that the lands were sold to
the state for non-payment of taxes.
Provided. the said railway company
shall conduct the proceedings for such
confirmation of titles in the name of
the state ut its own expense, and pro-
vided further. that all suits for con-
firmatiOn of such titles shall be
brought within nine 90 months from
the filing of the last of the lists of
said lands with the commissioner of
state lands But said railway compa-
NY shall begin TO bring such confirma-
ton suits within sixty 900 days from
the passage of this act. All forfeited
lands selected in any one county may
be confirmed in one suit. II, upon trial
TO the titles of said lands in said con-
firmation proceeding the title to any of
said lands under the forfeiture is held
void, then the said railway company
may select other state lands instead of
the lands to which the title proves bad
on confirmation proceedings. and any
lands so selected shall be withdrawn
from sale, donation or redemption. But
it shall be a valid defense to any suit
for the possession of any land granted
to any railroad company under this
act, for the person in possession to
show by competent evidence that the
taxes on such lands were actually paid
for the year in which the same was
returned delinquent, notwithstanding
any decree of confirmation made with
out personal notice to the owner or &C.
cupant of such land.
Section 3. The time herein fixed for
the beginning and completion of the
construction of said railway are man
datory and unless complied with, the
grant of the lands by this act shall be
void, and the said lands shall again be
subject to the sale and redemption the
same as before the passage of this act.
Section 6. If the said Springfield.
Little Rock and Gulf Railway Com
pany shall fail to begin permanent
construction of said lines of railroad
within six 90 mopti.; from the passage
Of this act, and fail to complete the
same to Fourche La Fave river. from
the city of Little Rock, and grade and
tie the same TO Dardanelle within one
year from the passage of this act then
this grant to said railway company
shall be utterly void. and all rights of
said railway company shall be forfeit
ed.
Section 7. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its
passage.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18
TOLD WITHOUT NAMeo'

A travelling evangelist in the west nas
an assistant stationed outside ms nv
ing places, and every time ne ofi NJ
down a fresh sinner he signals "
man. who sends up a skyrocket'
A California ex-convict has oeeh IA
committed for a theft when nc .s,ng
he committed for the sake OF gs '.onos
a home. The mans excuse was
convict, always a convict. IT,
A Kansas City young woman wnV 9o !,
suing a doctor for $4,000 damages I'd
malpractice in fixing a broken en- an
complains in her petition that ne a 90
tire right arm has been renueie
stiff that she can no longer P'"'
piano. the
An Irish member of parliain.en l.ate-
other day said that Mr.. Balfou - new
ment of the British government ; !, n oat
Irish policy "came like windiul .i V
of a clear sky" and an English nlu ,.stic
journal recently said that an OPP
manager had "unearthed new s''''
The Australian legislature nas sI,,et
toned the building of an az y, sru-
which will cost Sl2 100000 and 81 .s;,h
ply the Coolgardie gold mineS
5000, 900 gallons of water daily
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

PARIS, June 1.-THE Eclair says that
four bombs or Internal machines have
been discovered in Paris during the
past month. In connection with the
alleged attempt upon the life of Presi-
dent Faure last Sunday, several arrests
have been made, but only one man was
detained in custody
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

On the 18th the associated banks of
New York city held S47.6O1, AS in ex-
cess of the requirements of the 25 per
cent. rule.
LAWRENCE J. O'NEuLL, who for IA
years had been trusted letter car
rier in ST. Louis, was taken into GUS
tody, on the 18th, by government OIL
Gals and lodged In Jail to answer to
the charge of embezzling letters con-
tanning money.
A LAMP explosion in the residence of
Stephen Welsh, near Sharpsburg, Pa,
on the 14th, set fire to the house and
badly burned the four occupants, Ste
phen Welsh, Mrs. Welsh and two chill
dren. The house was destroyed; loss,
$4,000.
THE Chicago & Alton shops at
bloomington, ILL.,, have started on a
nine-hour schedule instead of seven,
the extended time being caused by nu-
merous wrecks lately with damage to
rolling stock.
THE entire force of employees of the
Apsley Rubber Co. at Hudson, Mass,
returned to work, on the 14th, and the
trouble at the factory is ended.
THE senate, on the 18th, confirmed
John f. Cowry, of Washington, to be
consul-general at Kanagawa, Japan.
ADvIcEs are that the wheat crop in
the valley of the Danube is damaged 25
per cent
SERIOUS landslide is reported near
Briega, Canton of Valais, Switzerland.
Part of the forest there and number
of buildings were buried. There was
no loss of life.
THE Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians
are wrought up over the new law
which goes into effect July relating
to polygamy. After that time each of
the 40 Cheyenne Indians who has more
than one wife, will have to choose one
of the two, three or five wives that he
has, and the cast-off wives must go
back to their relatives.
COUNTESS OLGA REGINA HAZATFELDT
is living in dire poverty in a Harlem
On. " garnet. Her fathers brother is
German ambassador to England, and
her cousin is Coils =. Huntington's
son-in-law, Count Hazatfeldt. The
young woman's father was forced out
of Germany for dueling and other rea-
sons.
MRS. ). BLACKMAN, of 405 Perry
street., Cleveland. o., who claims to be
the Legitimate daughter of Barney Bar
nato, the dead millionaire, will at once
take steps to acquire share of his
fortune. Mrs. Blackman and her hus-
band will proceed to London for the
purpose of demanding her interest in
the estate.
CONGRESSMAN GEORGE WHITE, of Hi
nois, has reappointed John w. Smith
to the naval academy by sending his
name to the secretary of the navy
Smith is colored pupil of a Chicago
high school. He was nominated last
fall by Mr.. White, but failed to pass the
examination month ago. He will be
examined again in September.
A DISPATCH from Havana, June Is.
said: Mariana, suburb of Havana
has been attacked by the Cubans I'M
der Cardenas and Arangueren. The
fight lasted several hours, and rein
forcements from the capital came to
the aid of the Spaniards. The losses
on both sides were heavy.
New YORK capitalists have closed the
purchase of the famous group of San
Pavier mines from the Boston owners
! The mines are located IS miles south
of Tuscon, Ariz.
THE British steamship Sultana,
bound for Calcutta, foundered off the
Island of Skotra, in the Indian ocean.
No details of the disaster have been re-
ceived, but it is feared that many Cd
board were lost.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18
Said to BE Preposterons.

LONDON. June IL. Secretary Honey
of Barney Barnato's companies saws
that the claim of Mrs. Blackman,
Cleveland, o., to be daughter of the
late South African speculator, is pre-
posterous, as Barnato was only once
married.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

LOUISVILLE, KY, June IA brother
of Justice Harlan, of the United States
supreme court, was killed Tuesday
night by a fast train. He was Judge
James Harlan, an inmate of the local
almshouse. He was once a circuit
judge famous in Kentucky, but drink
led to his ruin.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18
Indians Want to Erect a Monumept.

RAPID CITY, 5. ID, June17.-The remain
ing braves of the Sioux tribes have pc
htioned the government for permission
to erect a monument over the graves
of the dead warriors slain at the battle
of Wounded Knee, seven wears.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

NEW YORK, June 1.-THE police com
missioners. at their meeting to-day,
unanimously decided that the so-called
boxing contests in the city should be
stopped.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

ADvIcEs from Winnipeg indicate that
decision has been reached by Mgr.
Merry del Val, regarding the future
attitude of the Cathoiic church toward
the Manitoba school law, and that all
hostility to the law on the part of the
Catholics will soon cease.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

On the 14th Insurance Commissioner
Dearth of Minnesota notified the Iowa
insurance companies that their IL
censes stood cancelled from that date,
and that any business written in that
state thereafter would be held to be in
violation of the law.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

A CONVENTION is on foot looking to
the annexation of the Republic of
Hawaii to the United States as terri
tory, and the details of the plan are SO
nearly complete, it is said, as to war
rant the belief that they will soon be
submitted to congress.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

THE trial of John ). Shriver, cor
respondent of the New York Mail and
Express, the fourth of the recalcitrant
witnesses before the senate sugar in
vestigating committee of 1894, was be-
gun before Judge Bradley, inWashing-
ton on the 18th.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

HERR MAUsER, the inventor of the
well-known rifle bearing his name, has
submitted to the German war office
mechanism that is applicable to pis-
tolls and carbines, which makes it pos
sible to fire 90 shots minute.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

FAILURES throughout the United
States, for the week ended on the
18th, as reported by r. &. Dun & Co,
were 262. against BAG for the CORE
spending week last year. For Canada
the failures were 80, against % last
year..
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

RUMoBs in circulation in Pekin and
Shanghai indicate that the Chinese
government is anxious to get rid OF
the Japanese garrison at Wei-Hai-Wei,
and has decided to negotiate another
loan to raise sufficient money to pay off
the war indemnity at once.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

JUDGE PENRosE, of Philadelphia, on
the 18th, filed an adjudication in an
estate dispute in which he took occa-
sion to decide that the inheritance tax
law is unconstitutional Judge Hanna
rendered similar decision the pre-
vious week. The law was recently en-
acted by the state legislature.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

AN attempt was made to assassinate
Felix Faure, president of the French
republic, while he was en- route to
long champs, on the 18th, to witness
the grand prix. A clumsily constructed
bomb was exploded in thicxet as the
president passed by, but injured nc
one. Several arrests were made, but
it is believed the real culprit escaped
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

PROF. FREsENIUs. the well-known
chemist, died in Wiesbaden of an apo
plectic stroke on the 18th. He was born
in 1918 at Frankfort-on-the Main. He
was made professor of chemistry at the
institute there in 1S45, and founded a
laboratory which has resulted in great
deyelopmeuts
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

THE fourth biennial sale of the prince
of Wales, hackneys and harness horses
was held, on the 10th, at Princess Stud
farm, at Wolferton, near Sandringham,
Norfolk, England. Nearly all of the
horses sold were bred by the prince of
Wales at the Wolferton farm, under the
supervision OF Sir Dighton Probyn.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

A DISPATCH from Madrid says: The
reports of an intended annexation of
Hawaii by the United States causes
anxiety. as foreshadowing President
McKinley's Cuban policy"
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

THE case of the government again st
Henry Gardes, Cashier f. Girault and
Stakeholder Thomas I'll. Underwood
charged with having wrecked the Ma
tional bank of New Orleans, resulted,
on the 14th, in Gardes and Girault be-
ing found guilty as charged, while
Underwood was acquitted.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

THE final ratification of the boundary
treaty between Great Britain and Ven
ezuela was exchanged at the state de-
partment in Washington on the 18th.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

HENRY L. BUEHLER, the oldest odd
fellow in the world, died in Baltimore,
Md, on the 18th. aged 50.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

DR.. FRANCIS LANDLEY PATTON, presi-
dent of Princeton university, at Prince.
ton, n. j., preached the baccalaureate
sermon to the members of the gradu.
ating class ON the 14th. He regretted
the attitude of England toward Greece,
but said: americans are not in q
position to criticise when such 8
measure as the arbitration treaty has
been rejected
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

A SEVERE earthquake shock, lasting
some seconds, was felt in Calcutta on
the afternoon of the 18th. The shock
extended to Howrak, across the Hoogly
river, where serious damage was done.
Several buildings collapsed, some lives
were lost and a number of persons
were more or less seriously injured.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

The weekly statement of the New
York city associated banks for the
week ended on the 18th, showed the
following changes: Reserve, increase,
81, $50, $50 loans, increase, S1,e10. 900.
specie, decrease, S33, 100; legal tender,
increase, So, 2S7, 600; deposits, increase,
SIS, s55, 400; circulation, decrease, $40, 900.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

HARRY WHALEN, the human os-
trich," who was operated upon at the
German hospital in Kansas City, Mo-,
and from whose stomach the surgeons
took two pocket-knives, three knife
blades, three ounces of fine glass and
tacks, nails, screws and staples to the
number of 20, died, on the 14th, as re-
suit of the operation.
The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

A TELEGRAM received at the state de-
partment from the United States
charge d'affaires at Constantinople, on
the 18th, stated that the sultan had is
sued an trade announcing the accept
ance of DR.. Angel as minister from
the United States, and that Mr.. Ter
rell had accordingly started for home.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-19

ever. it creeps up to the
point indicating five pound
pressure. simultaneously you note that
there is a gentle disturbance in the
tank. Something has taken hold OF
your hand and is stroking it tenderly
and gratefully. 1t is not one side OF
your hand and arm. 1t is on every side
and al the same time 1t is as If
thousand cats were purring contentedly
and licking your arm with their velvety
tongues.
The feeling of contentment increases.
You see by the dial that the pressure
has risen to ten pounds. No woman %
high degree ever applied the rabbits
foot to her delicate cheek with more
deft gentleness than these little water
fairies are exhibiting in their noiseless
massage. The warm water in the tank
is receding constantly and there is
never any overflow. On it's backward
journey il passes the arm and tubs
gently against the flesh, creating q cur
rent which strikes directly across the
path of the jets and slightly defects
them Then you feel as If the softest
handed maidens in all the world were
passing their smooth fingers back and
forth over your arm and carressing you
with a care that was dream producing.
The needle on the indicator points to
fifteen and then to twenty, and you
may send it up as high as you wish
within the limit Of fifty pounds There
is no danger that the powerful jets will
become unmanageable. They are I'M
der perfect control The warm standing
water through the volume of which
they arc compelled to force their way
before they reach your arm Is the pro-
tecting influence which prevents the
jets from doing you any injury.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-19

Water massage Is the very latest in
vention for relieving pain Experts
say it is away ahead of massage by
hands. because it is possible TO get re-
suits from a single tank of water that
could not be obtained were half
dozen strong men to labor with all
their skill. Hospitals are using the
system, and gymnasiums and Turkish
baths are soon to take it up, says the
New York Herald.
The tank isn't much to look at-from
the outside 1t looks not unlike the
thousands of sections of pipe you see
scattered over Fifth avenue as far as
the eye can reach. The Fifth avenue
pipes are larger and more unsigthly,
but, if their size were reduced and they
were placed on end, they would show
a resemblance to the hydraulic tank.
A force pump is operated by steam
engine in the cellar 1t is this steam
power which stands in the way of the
Introduction of the system at present
into private homes. On the wall are
the appliances for filing and emptying
the tank. This work, by the way. can
be done at minutes notice. There Is
enc lever which turns on the hot water