The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-04-16

Gov. PISeREE of Michigan has -
fused to recognize the requisition upon
him. issued by Gov. Black of New
York. for Sheriff Edward T. Ferguson
of Lenawee county. Mich.
The British channel squadron has
been ordered to the island of Malta,
where IL will remain as long as the
eastern crisis lasts
WHILE mass was sbeing said in a
church near Castres. in the department
of Tara. France. on the 18th. the roof
collapsed. Seven women and one man
were killed and 80 persons were seri-
ously injured.
By decree transmitted to the state
department by United States Consul
Wiesike at Managua. the Nicaraguan
government has reduced the duty on
bicycles to 2 2-1o0 cents per pound. or
about 81. 13 for a machine. as packed,
for that country. The old duty was
about ten cents per pound.
THE Consolidated Steel and Wire Co.
of Cleveland, o., obtained an injunc-
ton in the United States district court,
on the 18th, restraining their striking
employees from interfering in any way
with the employment of new workmen.
THE Illinois steel works at South Chi
cago resumed operations on the 12th.
About 100 rail finishers, whose striking
involved $500 men, were not re-em-
ployed. The finishers were not up
held by the officials of their union.
ACCORDING to advices brought by the
Oriental steamer Gaelic, which arrived
at San Francisco on the 18TH. natives
in the vicinity of Ichang, China, are
dying by thousands of starvation.
L. j. MARTIN, yice-president of the
Union Stock Yards Co of Chicago, and
confidential legal advisor to p. ID. Ar
mour, the millionaire packer. died at
his home in that city on the 18th.
Two MEN held up the cashier of the
Yonkers IN. W savings bank, on the
18th, and secured 81. 400, mostly in bills,
and made good their escape.
JOSE GONZALES CARLOS, charged with
being an insurgent incendiary, was
shot at Cabanas fortress, Cuba, ON the
eth.
A DISPATCH from Washington says:
The sweeping order of President Cleve-
land effecting a consolidation of PEN
sion agencies will be revoked bv Presi-
dent Mckinley, if present plans are
carried out.
On the advice of her physician that
it was the devil in her, and it would
have to be whipped out Mrs. Logan.
old daughter Nellie, who had been
subject to hysteria for four years. so
badly that she had TO be sent to the
hospital.
SENATOR CHANDLER, on the 18th, in
troduced his bills empowering the sec
rotary of the navy to take possession
of the armor plants of the bethlehem
and the Carnegie companies, and hold
and operate them at will. provision for
ample compensation being made.
AT Wilson, ILL.,. small town ON the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad. a
posse of twenty-five citizens fought
pitched battle, on the night of the 18th,
with three robbers who had been
caught in the act of robbing a bank.
a DEED has been placed on file in
Kansas City, Kas., conveying to Will
lam j. Isaac, of Kansas City, Mo-,
nearly one-half of the city of Argen-
tine, manufacturing suburb. Over
one million dollars worth of property
is involved.
SEVERAL thousand razor-back hogs,
imported into Iowa from Texas during
the past year, have died from what
was supposed to be hog cholera.
post-mortem examination of some of
them disclosed the fact that, instead
of cholera, a kidney worm killed the
hogs.