The Forrest City times., 1897-09-10
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| with worasaen, yet, strange to say, no one was seriousi5 injured. although the building was riddleo, 5eams 22 inches square being cut in two like 1 straws.
 DESTRUCTIVE fires are raging in the | timbe in the mountains along the north fork of Piney creek and near the head of Prairie Dog creek, in Wyoming. The fire is destroying large areas of valuable timber and threatening the homes of settlers.
 FRED HORTON, young flour miller of Los Angeles, Cal, has fallen heir to fortune of about s2 900. 900, amassed l by his father, Philip Horton, we'll known Californian. who died suddenly in Guayama Mexico. recently. BAR silver made a new low record in the New York market on the 1st. The quoted price was 5l4 cents an ounce, one-fourth cent below the previous low record.
 THE price of white pine lumber is to be advanced in sympathy with the enhanced prices of agricultural prod | ucts.
 LOUIS BREES, Daniel O'Brien, Will liam O'Brien, Patrick Gillian and an un- known man were injured by the fall of an elevator in the Nelson Morris pack i ing house at East St. Louis. H., on the {, 2d. Breens nose was cut off. THE commission appointed to exam | inc as to the mental condition of ex- Mayor Lockwood, of Glenwood, Wis, on the 2d. reported him insane and recommended that he be sent to an asylum.
 JOHN F. MCDONALD, an ex-sheriff of Milwaukee county, Wis. and who at va rious times has held responsible polit- | ical positions in that city, was, on the Ist sentenced to six months at the county farm for vagrancy. Overindul- | gence in liquor is said to have been the cause of his downfall. | Gov. ELLERBE, of South Carolina, has given orders withdrawing the state constabulary force from every village, town and city in the state. Only a few constables will be retained in the country districts, where there are no local officials to enforce the dis pensary law.
 l MIR. RICHARD CRoKER has consented to become the Tammany candidate for mayor of Greater New York. A SPECIAL commission will meet in St. Petersburg, shortly, to discuss the introduction of universal and compul- sory education in Russia. A DISPATCH from Havana, dated the 2d, said: The last two steamers which have sailed for Spain carried l.600 sick soldiers"
 IN the course of an interview, on the Sd, on the subject of President Faure's recent visit to St. Petersburg, Prince Bismarck said; But for all that, the French people are moved nearer to the fire and might more easily than ever boil over. This ought to deliver our rulers from any illusion they may still cherish, and should serve to warn them against altering the basis of our na- tional defense"
 THE post office department is avail ing itself of every satisfactory oppor- tunity to dispatch mails to the various points in Alaska. In accordance with this policy, Assistant Postmaster General Shallen berger, on the Sd, wired authority for forwarding mails on the steamer Farrellon. sailing that day from Seattle for Dyea and inter- mediate points.
 DURING the military maneuvers in the vicinity of Weimar, Germany, on the Sd, a pontoon bridge collapsed while the Ninety-fourth Thuringian regiment of infantry was passing over 1t. A number of soldiers and some of the trumpeters were either drowned or hit by the timbers of the bridge and killed.
 TIE United States subtreasury trans ferred Sl00, 900 in small bills to Kansas City, on the Sd, for which it received gold in exchange, and S15, 900 in silver dollars to Texas and Alabama. Bank CTS also report heavy shipments of cur rency direct to the west and southwest by registered mail and otherwise, but not much to the south.
 WILLIS AND ROBERT STEELE, cousins, living at Brushy Fork, Ind, became involved in fight, on the Sd, over an old feud, when Willis drew a revolver and shot Robert in the abdomen, which caused death in two hours. Willis gave himself up, claiming self-de- fense.
 RICHARD MAcKIsoN, an old prospec- tor. exhibited a gold nugget. the size of a walnut, at Henryville, Ind. on the Sd, which he said he had found on the Knobs. He would not reveal where he found it. proposing to search further. RIFAAr BEY, until recently councillor of the Turkish embassy in London, has been appointed Turkish minister [ at Washington to succeed Mustapha
 Tachsin Bey.
 II. RUSSELL WARD, of Santa Monica. : Cal, who became notorious a short time ago through his elopement : with Mrs. Bradbury, met his death ] near Wheatland, la, on the Sd, by ! falling or jumping from the east . bound overland limited on the North
 western railway.