The Forrest City times., 1897-09-24

A SEVERE earthquake shock occurred
 at Tashkaent. on the night of the 18th. ! and the disturbance was felt through out the whole of Turkestan. Several monuments of antiquity were dam aged.
 A COMPANY of Spanish infantry has ! been sent to Morella, province of Gas | talon de la Plana, as it is feared in Madrid tha' Carlist uprising is to ' take place tisere.
 TIE duchess of Marlborough, for. merly Miss Consuela Vanderbilt, of New York, gave birth, on the 18th. to son at the Spencer House. the ducal London residence.
 | TIE wife of Hon. Norman J. Colman died in St. Louis on the 18th. Mir. Col man, it will be remembered. was the | first secretary of agriculture, and Mrs. | Colman was a woman of many virtues. SEVEN New York millionaires, among whom was John Jacob Astor. dropped into St. Louis in bunch on the goth. | The stock of the Illinois Central re- gently took a boom, and the presence | of the solid seven in St. Louis was i tbt bdst ipF TuluOTS lndt lUlpoFtdub uc- velopments would soon see daylight APACHE KID, murderer, sheep thief, cattle and horse-thief. and probably the worst Indian that ever lived in the southwest, has been gathered to his red-slsinned fathers. This event oc- cured in southern California last July. GEORGE WALDRoS, who claimed to be survivor of the charge at Balaklava, died at Montreal from blow delivered by his wife, who used cane.
 TIE town of Baire, Santiago de Cuba | province, has been bom mbarded with two dynamite cannon and utterly de- stroyed by Gen. Calixto Garcia. IT is estimated that the business re- vival has added at least Sla, 00O, ,000 to the value of the Gould securities. TIE Mississippi state board of health has ordered tropical fruit excluded , from the state. Also newspapers un- less fumigated.
 1 CAPT. HURLEY of the Ward Line steamer City of Washington. which ar ! rived at New York from Tampico and
 Havana, on the goth, reported that when about to sail from Tampico. Jose i Ventre, the Spanish anarchist, was brought to the dock by a guard of 1 Mexican officers to be put on board the steamer for passage to New York. Capt Burley, however, refused to take the man as passenger, and the vessel 1 sailed without him.
 TIE steam sealing bark Hope, with | Lieut.. k. E. Peary and party on board, returned to Sydney, c. B.. on the 20th, from north Greenland. All on board were well. The Hope brought a party of Eskimos with their dogs. sledges and canoes, and was freighted with the great Cape York meteorite, the largest in the world.
 THE University of Illinois in Chicago l filed petition in the Globe savings
 bank receivership case, on the 20th, asking that it's claim tS299. 50O) against
 President Charles w. Spalding. re- gently convicted of embezzlement, be made a preferred lien on all the assets 1 of the bank.
 THE rumor that John Cudahy, the
 well-known packer and board of trade man of Chicago, was about to embark 1 in the beet sugar industry at Los An 1 geles, Cal, is denied by Mir. Cudahy.
 ON the 2eth silver scored further sharp recovery in London of 24d, to i 27l4d. The price in New York rose
 11sc over the quotations of the 18th. to | 59Jsc.
 ON the goth the president appointe
 Archibald J. Simpson, of Arizona, min-
 ister to Ecuador.
 STRONG earthquake shocks occurred
 at Lima, Peru, on the goth.