The Forrest City times., 1897-02-12
DR Kocn. the eminent German bao.

DB. KOCH. the eminent German bao teriologist, has tslegraphed from Cape Town that he is returning to Berlin with a newly y-discovered serum which will lessen the force of rinder. pest In the meantime he says he Is unable to say whether he will be able to prevent animals from being in fected with the disease. He has demon. strated that sheep and horned cattle are the most lia ble of all animals to contract the disease. and that dogs, monkeys and rodents enjoy complete immunity from it.
 ANDREA MANRo, the Italian charged with stealing sIO,0O0 worth of dia- monds from New Orleans jeweler, was arrested in New York city, on the 5th, by Central office detectives. Man ro's picture is No. 3,s96 in the rogue's gallery.
 ON the 9th the banks of New York city held Sa4, ,467, ,o50 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per-cent rule.
 THE Alabama legislature has at last paid the debt of many decades stand ing to the University of Alabama by
 
 900, 900 to that institution and agreeing forever to pay three per cent. annual interest on this amount.
 THE extensive shops of the Louis vile, Evansville & St Louis railway in Princeton. Ind, were completely destroyed by fire on the sth; loss, S75,- 900 to sloO,0Oo.
 THE Homestead (Pa.) steel works, Edgar Thomson blast furnaces and steel works and Duquesne steel works, all Carnegie plants, resumed In full in all departments on the sth.
 LIEUT.. Col. GEORGE PORTER HoUsToN, a retired officer of the United States marine corps, died in Baltimore, Md. |, on the 7th, of pneumonia He was born in Lancaster county, Pa., in 1884
 GEN. SIR WLBRAHAM OATES LENNON K. C. B., V. C., died in London on the sth. He was 67 years of age.
 ACCORDING to dispatch from Wash ington Secretary of the Treasury Car. lisle has definitely decided to locate in New York city.
 RT. HON. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, Brit ish secretary for the colonies, is con- fined to his bed with an attack of gout.
 SIG. CALLED FERRARIs, a mem Der of the Italian senate and an electrician of note, died in Paris on the 7th.
 AN amendment to the Indian appro- priation bill, favorably reported from the senate committee on appropria- tions, on the sth, opens to public entry the unallotted lands of the Uncom- pahgre Indian reservation in Utah.
 ON the night of the sth while work ing in the Big Mountain mines, at Shaniokin, Pa., operated by the Phila- delphia and Reading Coal and Iron Co. !, Harry May was instantly killed and his co-laborer, Charles Mutchler, was fatally injured by the premature ex- plosion of dualin.
 FIRE damaged one of the wings of the house of refuge on Randall's is- land, N. Y, on the 9th, to the extent of S5,OOO. When the Are broke out over 500 children of both sexes were in the building. They were safely re- moved to another building, and no casualties occurred.
 GEORGE DAVIES, commission m.r- chant, was shot and instantly killed by his wife at their home in Cleveland. O., on the 9th. The shooting was the result of one of many family quarrels. The family are prominent.
 THE British steamer Angloman, which sailed from Boston. January 30, for Liverpool, went ashore on Sker- rie's island. in the Irish sea, on the 9th. The ship will probably be to- tai loss. All on board were landed in safety.