The Forrest City times., 1897-07-02

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 FORREST CITY. ARKANSAS
 ALICE LIsGARp. the actress, died in London on the 18th.
 ON the 26th the associated banks of New York city held s49. 23o. l50 in excess of the requirements of the e5 per cent rule
 THE Western Reserve university at Cleveland. O.. on ths 23d, conferred the degree of L. L. D. upon President Me Kinley.
 PROF. HARPoRATH. of the Cordoba observatory in Lima, Peru. asserts that the moon is not satellite of the earth. but planet.
 THE proudest. strongest swiftest foreign war vessel ill the great naval review off Spithead on the 26th, was the American cruiser Brooklyn, flying the flag of Rear Admiral Miller
 
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 SIX and thirty-four hundredths inches of rain fell at Fort Scott, Kas., on the 24th, making the greatest pre- cipitation recorded tbere by the weather observer in many years.
 TROUBLE broke out at Fort Gibson, l. T., on the 25th, where the Cherokee freedmen payments had just been re- sumed. and the Washington authori- ties were appealed to for assistance in averting further disorders.
 ABOUT 80, GOO pounds of tea, arrived at San Francisco since the 1st of May, has not been allowed to be imported because it did not come up to the standard of quality established by the secretary of the treasury in April.
 DoN FRANCISCO SILvELA, the leader of the dissident conservatives in Mad rid, has published a manifesto demand ing the adoption by the Spanish gov ernment of an energetic attitude to- ward the United States in regard to Cuba.
 THE training brig Sea Lark, con corning whose safety anxiety had been expressed, reached Spithead, on the 24th. to take part in the Jubilee naval review. The brig had been disabled in gale and had been detained by head winds.
 NJ. DRAMA, traffic manager of the Japanese government railway, has been sent to America by his govern ment to study the involved problem of freight and passenger traffic in all its branches, and he will spend some months in acquiring information on the subject.
 A DISPATCH from Athens on the 27th, said: The Turkish army in Epi- rus has occupied several positions over looking Agrapha, thus threatening the Greek retreat in the event of resump- tion of hostilities. The Greek govern ment has decided to occupy Karpenisi with strong force.
 TWENTY THOUSAND soldiers have been taken to Spanish hospitals in Cuba, suffering from yellow fever Jr dysen- tery The medical staff, onwhich there are 50 vacancies. is almost hors du com bat. It is thought likely that the mum Der of sick this summer will be double that of last summer. Nsf s,
 TIE weekly statement of the New. York city associated banks, issued on the 26th, showed the following changes Reserve, increase, S64s, 200; loans, increase, s, l30, 500; specie, in- crease, SS5o 900; legal tender, increase, Si,639, 800; deposits increase, S4, 565, 400; circulation, decrease, SI2l, 500.
 ScHRApER, the divine healer, arrived in Lincoln, Neb, on the 2sth, and an nounced that that city would be his home for an indefinite period. He de- clared that Lincoln was destined to become remarkable, and that he would heal the ailments of lO,0O0 people be- fore he left, if he ever did leave.
 Cor. EDWARD D. BAKER, United States consul at Buenos Ayres, Argen- tine Republic, since 1874, was terribly injured there, on the 22d, in railroad wreck. The colonel lost his right arm and was otherwise badly injured He is brother of Judge David II. Baker, of Cairo. and the late Judge Henry $. aBker, of Alton, Ill.
 FORTUNE DE CoNrE, an artist, highly educated, once patronized by New York's aristocracy, erstwhile dean of the art department of the University of Southern California, and for the past six months an earnest worker in San Francisco, died on the 25th Pa ralysis is given as the cause of death, but it is believed he was victim of starvation.
 THE Morning Star, with its captain and crew of Christians, is ready to make another tour among the Canniba islands in the South sea. The vessel will be manned by men who will preach the t,nGnAI tn inc natiyaS TNun xvnuua,