The Forrest City times., 1897-04-23

WILLIAM II. Brown, a wealthy farmer
of Huntington, Ind, was found guilty
of subornation of perjury by jury in
the Allen county circuit court and sem
fenced to IA years in the penitentiary.
CHIEF BRoUFAs, VIII was the soulof
the Macedonian rising last year, and
upon whose head Turkey set price of
1000 francs, and who was supposed to
be dead, has reappeared. He is now
organizing an invasion of the Chalet
dixie peninsula, with a view of divert
ing the Turkish army from Macedonia.
ADvICEs from Natchez and other
points below Vicksburg, on the 18th,
indicated that the supreme test was at
hand. The swift current, which was
rising steadily, was beating against the
levees with such force as to cause the
gravest apprehension at many places.
THREE lepers, natives of Iceland,
have arrived at the lazaretto at Ira
cadie, Gloucester county, n. Il. They
were taken from Winnipeg, Man, in a
freight car. which was directly behind
the locomotive, and was placarded to
warn the people to keep away from it.
THE weekly statement of the associ-
ated banks of New York city, issued on
the nth, showed the following changes:
Reserve, increase, S796, $50; loans, in
crease. Sl,475. 600; specie, increase, $685.
900; legal tender. increase, S776, 600;
deposits, increase, 81. 942, 800; circula-
ton, decrease, Sl34. 400.
WILLIAM +. MACK, the comedian,
died at his residence in Boston. on the
18th. aged 81 years. He had been as
sociated with Francis Wilson. Charley
Reed, May Irwin, Dan DAILY and other
well-known actors.
THE remains of the late Andrew JEFF
freys Carney, who died in Southamp-
ton, England, on the 5th, arrived at
New York. on the 18th, on the steam
ship New York. He was prominent rs
years ago, during the reign of William
NJ. Tweed in that city, and it was his
testimony that clinched the evidence
against Tweed, who was charged with
defrauding the city.
PRIMROSE day, the anniversary of the
death of Lord Beaconsfield, was OBJ
served in London, on the 10th, with the
usual display of his favorite flower.
The decoration of the Beaconsfield
statue surpassed all records.
Two UNKNOWN men were blasting on
some staging at Michigamme falls, on
the Michigamme river drive, at Men
oninee, Mich, on the 10th, when the
staging broke and the men went head
long over the falls.
AT Marshalltown, Ia, there was a
remarkable change in temperature on
the night of the 18th, the mercury
dropping from rs to % in a few hours.
Ice formed half an inch thick.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, on the 10th, showed:
Available cash balance, $225, $50, DOS;
gold reserve. S154, 659,546
On the 10Th the senate agreed to vote
on the arbitration treaty on May at 4
p. m.
SHERIFF BURR, of Los Angeles, Cal. !,
| received telegram from the sheriff of
Hennepin county, Mimi, on the Goth,
requesting him to arrest Mrs. Laura
Austin on a charge of abducting her
own child, which was awarded to the
custody of her ex-husband by the SUI
perior court at Minneapolis.
BURGLAR FRANK CoNNoRs and High
wayman Ben Johnson, desperate GRIM
inals, seriously and perhaps fatally
wounded Jailer Charles Fay at the
Wyandotte county Jail in Kansas City,
Kas., on the Goth, while attempting to
escape.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, on the Goth, showed:
Available cash balance, S224, 069, 179;
gold reserve, 1854, I'll 1854.