The Forrest City times., 1897-07-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Ex-CoRoNER JAMES McHALE, for years prominent figure in Chicago and Illinois state politics, died in Chica- go, on the 14th, of dropsy. He was 57 years old.
 THE senate committee on foreign affairs reported a resolution, on the l4th, empowering the president to take such sufficient action as will secure the immediate release of American citizens now held as prisoners in Cuba, and for the restoration of the American schooner Competitor to her owner.
 JAMES E. BERRY, formerly of Glov- ersville, NY, who posed as million aire and scattered his money lavishly in the west, gaining a wide reputation as spendthrift, has returned to Glov- ersville apparently strapped.
 THE Athens correspondent of the London Telegraph claims to know that the powers are considering a scheme by which Russia Austria and Great Britain will cooperate to coerce Tur- key.
 MARQUETTE, Mich, Father Mar quette's namesake city, held a great
 
 the unveiling of a bronze monument to the explorer and priest.
 TRAFFIC on the Boston & Maine rail- road was temporarily suspended, on the 14th, by the washing away of bridges, cave-ins and slides, due to the series of cloudbursts which swept over New Hampshire.
 Ar the session of the Republican Ma tional League clubs in Detroit, Mich. on the l4th, Leonard J. Crawford, of Kentucky, was elected president. Omaha was selected as the place of meeting in 1898.
 TIE arbitrators of the coal miners strike were in high glee on the night of the 14th, and said they were on the road to a settlement of the troubles in the Pittsburgh district, and conse- quently the settlement of the strike.
 Two dynamite bombs were exploded, on the 18th, at Guadalajara, capital of the province of that name in New Castile, Spain. Several persons were killed and others seriously injured.
 The ninth annual session of the Transmississippi congress convened at Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 18th The delegates were warmly welcomed by Gov. Wells of Utah and Mayor Glen denning of Salt Lake City.
 JOHN SCoTT OLIVER, the California deputy sheriff who was indicted in New York recently for abduction, at tempted suicide in the Tombs prison, on the 18th, by thrusting lead pencil down his throat He was not seriously hurt This was his second attempt at suicide since his arrest.
 COMPTROLLER FITCH of New York made advertisement, on the 18th, for the sale of gold bonds for the city of New York amounting to SIC. 053, ,017.27 The bonds will bear three per cent interest.
 A FREIGHT train in the I. < c. N. yards at Austin, Tex, ran over four white boys who were sitting on the side of the track asleep, killing three of them instantly and badly wounding the fourth. An hour later the same engine ran over and killed anegro who was trying to steal ride.
 THE case of ex-Banker Charles ". Spaldipg, who has been on trial in Chicago, for the embezzlement of funds belonging to the University of Illinois intrusted to his care as treasurer of the board of trustees, was given to the jury on the 18th. A verdict of not guilty was rendered. There are still Is indie ments hanging over Spalding.
 TIE American Baptist Missionary union and the American Baptist Home Mission society have succeeded in wip- ing out their joint debt of s4s6, 900. Including John D. Rockefeller's gift of S2do,0 which was contingent upon the raising of S2so. 900 more. the socie- ties have collected S50S, ,0Sl 45. The subscribers tS the fund number 5.ooo.