The Forrest City times., 1897-06-18

respondent of the New York Mail and
Express, the fourth of the recalcitrant
witnesses before the senate sugar in
vestigating committee of 1894, was be-
gun before Judge Bradley, in Washing
ton, on the 18th.
On the 14th Insurance Commissioners
Dearth of Minnesota notified the Iowa
insurance companies that their Ii
censes stood cancelled from that date,
and that any business written in that
state thereafter would be held to be in
violation of the law.
A CONVENTION is on foot looking to
the annexation of the Republic of
Hawaii to the United States as terri
tory, and the details of the plan are SO
nearly complete, it is said, as to war
rant the belief that they will soon be
submitted to congress.
ADvICEs from Winnipeg indicate that
q decision has been reached by Mgr.
Merry del Val, regarding the future
attitude of the Cathoiic church toward
the Manitoba school law, and that all
hostility to the law on the part of the
Catholics will soon cease.
RUMoBs in circulation in Pekin and
Shanghai indicate that the Chinese
government is anxious to get rid OF
the Japanese garrison at Wei-Hai-Wei,
and has decided to negotiate another
loan to raise sufficient money to pay off
the war indemnity at once.
PROF. FREsENIUs. the well-known
chemist, died in Wiesbaden of an apo
plectic stroke on the 18th. He was born
in 1918 at Frankfort-on-theM Main. He
was made professor of chemistry at the
institute there in 1S45, and founded a
laboratory which has resulted in great
developments.
THE case of the government again st
Henry Gardes, Cashier f. Girault and
Stakeholder Thomas I'll. Underwood,
charged with having wrecked the Ma
tional bank of New Orleans, resulted,
on the 14th, in Gardes and Girault be-
ing found guilty as charged, while
Underwood was acquitted.
JUDGE PENRosE, of Philadelphia, on
the 18th, filed an adjudication in an
estate dispute in which he took occa
sion to decide that the inheritance tax
law is unconstitutional. Judge Hanna
rendered similar decision the pre-.
vious week. The law was recently en-
acted by the state legislature.
e
THE fourth biennial sale of the prince
of Wales, hackneys and harness horse.
was held, on the 10th, at Princess STUD
farm, at Wolferton. near Sandringham
Norfolk, England. Nearly all of the
horses sold were bred by the prince o,
Wales at the Wolferton farm, under tn,
supervision OF Sir Dighton Probyn.
A SEVERE earthquake shock, lasting
some seconds, was felt in Calcutta or
the afternoon of the 18th. The shocl
extended to Howrak, across the Hoogly
river, where serious damage was done
Several buildings collapsed, some live,
were lost and number of person:
were more or less seriously injured.
The weekly statement of the New
York city associated banks for tn,
week ended on the 18th, showed tn,
following changes: Reserve, increase
81, $50, $50. loans, increase, 81, $40, 900
specie, decrease, $685. 100; legal tender
increase, So, 2S7, 600; deposits, increase
SIS, S55, 400; circulation, decrease, $40, 900
A TELEGRAM received at the state de
partment from the United States
charge d'affaires at Constantinople, OF
the 18th, stated that the sultan had is
sued an trade announcing the accept
ance of DIR. Angel as minister from
the United States, and that Mr.. Ter
rell had accordingly started for home
HARRY WHALEN, the human os
trich," who was operated upon at tn,
German hospital in Kansas City, Mo.
and from whose stomach the surgeons
took two pocket-knives, three knife
blades, three ounces of fine glass an,
tacks, nails, screws and staples to th'
number of 20, died, on the 14th, as a re
suit of the operation.
DR.. FRANCIS LANDLEY PATTON, presi
dent of Princeton university, at Prince
ton, n. j., preached the baccalaureat
sermon to the members of the gradu
ating class on the 14th. He regretted
the attitude of England toward Greece
but said: Americans are not in
position to criticise when such
measure as the arbitration treaty ha
been rejected"
AN attempt was made to assassinat
Felix Faure, president of the French
republic, while he was en- route t,
long champs, on the 18th, to witnes
the grand prix. A clumsily constructe,
bomb was exploded in thicket as tn
president passed by, but injured n
one. Several arrests were made, blu
it is believed the real culprit escaped