The Forrest City times., 1897-02-19


 ON the 18th the banks of New York city held s5l, $50, 225 in excess of the requirements of the 35-per cent. rule.
 THE porte has informed the powers that Turkey will attack Greece in Thessaly in the event of the powers failing to restrain hostile action on the part of Greece in Crete.
 VAsDALs have again been at work on the Marquette statue in Washing ton. The latest crank has broken of several feathers from the caps of the bronx ze Indians which decorate the base.
 LEE HARRISON, who claimed to be a first cousin to ex-President Harrison, died in Denison, Tex, on the 18th, from a dose of morphine. The de- ceased was Tn straitened circum- stances.
 INFORMATION was received in Lon. don, on the 10th, that the British Niger expedition had captured the town of Bida, the capital of the Foulah tribe. One officer was killed ln the dSsdutt upOE iHt toW H.
 MURRAY NJ. DAVIS, head bookkeeper and confidential man for the Pitts burgh tPa.) Coal Go. at Cincinnati, was arrested, on the 12th, on the charge of embezzelment. Murray confessed to a shortage of S5,000, which he had lost playing lottery.
 CAPT. PHLo N. McGIFFIN, a former officer in the Chinese navy, who was in command of the battleship Chen Yuen at the battle of the Yalu river, committed suicide, on the llth, in the Post Graduate hospital in New York city, by shooting himself through the head. He was 34 years old
 A BILL was introd uced in the house of representatives. on the 18th, to au- thorize the secretary of the navy to make u 20-year contract with the Hi nois Steel Co. to supply armor plate for ships at S20o per ton, which is S26a per ton less than the present price.
 THE weekly statement of the New York city associated banks for the week ended on the 18th showed the following changes: Reserve. decrease, e, ,9Ol, s25; loans, increase, S2,S45, 100; specie, increase, So3e, 900; legal tend- CTS, decrease, S3,756, 800; deposits, de- crease, $ss6, TOO; circulation, decrease, S64, GOO.
 THE state department learned, on the llth, that Correspondent Scovel must be tried at Sancti Spiritus, where he was arrested. The trial will be before a civil tribunal, and in case an appeal is taken it will proba- ply be heard at Havana This infor- nation is understood to be satisfac- tory to the officials.
 THE act of 1887, forfeiting the land grant of the Atlantic x Pacific Rail way Co, was sustained in all points by the supreme court of the United States, on the 18th, the opinion being read by Justice Brown. It was ex- haustive, reviewing all the defenses set up by the company and finding against it at every point.
 GEN. BoR, who is in command of the gendarmerie at Canea, on the l6th formally notified Col. Vassos, com manding the Greek troops at Akrotiri of the joint occupation of Crete by the powers. To this notification the Greek colonel replied: 'I am ordered to occupy the island and must carry out my orders until receive other in structlons."
 AN expert examination of the books of DeKalb county, Ind, shows county and ex-county officials short about S30,o ,ooo. Of this sum ex-Treasurel Fair is charged with nearly l2,0o0 ex-Auditor Golf berry S, t00 and ex Clerk Moody S2, TOO. Others, whose names have not yet been made pu olic are short in their accounts ranging from S40O to S3, GOO.
 THE treasury deficiency for sever and a half months of the current dsca year, to the 10th, was s47, ,7l3, 300. Tn, avaiiab bic money in the treasury fol current use was stated at s2id 000, 900 of which Sl46, 600, 000, including tn, Sl00, ,u00,Uo0 gold reserve, was gold gu, ,UU0 silver certificates; ll,0O0, QUO United States notes, and S29, 900, QUO of miscellaneous funds.
 IN an article on the situation il Crete, the Paris Gaulois says that tn, king of Greece, when in Paris in No vemper last, gave the government |, understand that his further resistanc, to the aspirations of the people O Greece was impossible, aud he was therefore. compelled to seek closer re lations with Austria and Great Brit ain, the disposition of Russia being unfriendly
 IN the British house of commons, or the l2th, Mir. George \. Curzon, par hamentary secretary to the foreign of flee, announced that the latest new received by the government showin, the situation in Crete was that tn, Christians were the aggressors an, were attacking the MosleIns in man, localities. A large number of Mos lems, Mir. Curzon said, had been killed