The Forrest City times., 1897-02-12

incorporators are Henry O. Havemeyer, John k. Searles. John k. Parsons and Theo. Havemeyer.
 JUST before the adjournment of the house, on the sth. the speaker ap- pointed Messrs. Grosvenor (rep, O. and Richardson (dem., Tenn.) tellers pn the part of the house to canvass the electoral vote.
 THE dynamite cruiser Yes uvius left the League Island navy yard, on the pth, to join the North Atlantic squad ron. She was to have departed one day earlier, but was detained by the ice in the Delaware river.
 THE extensive St. Cloud sugar plan tation, near Kissimmee, Fla, has been purchased by syndicate of Cubans. The capacity of the sugar mill will be doubled at once, and 2,000 acres of cane will be planted next fall.
 SECRETARY LAMONT has recon mend ed to congress an appropriation of k, GOO for the care and maintenance of the building in Washington city in which Abraham Lincoln died and for the appointment of custodian.
 Gov. BRADLEY of Kentucky has par doned James Singleton the nine-year- old boy convicted of house breaking ln Bond county and sentenced to the penitentiary for year. The governor said it was crime against civiliza- ton to send child of such tender years to the peniteniary.
 THE steamer Pelican, chartered by the Northern Pacific Railroad Co.,, ar rived at Victoria, E. C.. on the sth, from Yokohama. A case of leprosy was found among the crew. He will be detained in quarantine until the outward voyage of the Pelican when he will be returned to China.
 THE weekly statement of the New York city associated banks, for the week ended on the 9th shows the fol- lowing changes: Reserve, decrease, vs,06S, 200; loans, increase, Ss, 747, 900 specie, decrease, SIPS, 100; legal tenders decrease, SS,075, 500; deposits, increase, R5,630, 900; circulation, decrease, Si, 1924, poo.
 A DISPATCH from Athens, on the 5th said: Desperate fighting has occurred between the Christians and Moham nedans in the island of Crete. The Nussulmans have set fire to the city ot Canea, and the place is now burning The city is in a state of anarchy, an, } Christian is safe nowhere. Fully BOO persons have been killed.
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 UNITED STATES CoNsUL-GENERAI CHARLES DKkAY, at Berlin, the we'll known journalist, anticipating, evi dently, the speedy termina,ions of hi, official duty at his present post, ad- dressed to the state department { caustic criticism upon German com mercial methods, which the depart ment made public on the 5th.
 A DISPATCH from Havana, on the st h baid: It is an open secret in the Ameri can consulate that the consul-genera Is conducting some unsa tisfactory cor respondence with Washington. Ii, thinks tue state department Is no backing him up in his efforts to ge justice for American citizens arrested and thrown into Spanish prisons.
 BUTLER, or Weller, as he is variousl, known. who is under arrest in Sal Francisco, charged with many mur ders in Australia, was taken befor' Commissioner Hancock. on the sth for preliminary hearing on the appli cation for eXtradition. It was ex pected the hearing would consume sev erai days.
 HE immigration bill as amended b, the conference committee and passe, by the mousse of representatives, on tn pln. provides for the admission of il lilerate wives and children of male i'm migrants who themselves are eligibl to admission. The educational tes was changed so as to admit any mal, immigrant, otherwise qualified, whS can read aud write the English O some other language.
 REV. J. A. BROOKS, a well-known di vine of the Christian church and pro bibitionist candidate for the viee-pres idency in 1858, died in Memphis, Tenn. on the 4th, of heart failure, superin duced by paralysis In 1895 Mir. Brook was called 10 the London (England Christian tabernacle. He returne' from London recently, having resign ed his charge there on account ot il health.