The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-10-22

MARSHAL BLANco left Spain for Cuba,
on the night of the nth, to replace Gen.
Weyler. 1t is understood that he has
been given unusual power, and that his
main hope is to secure pacification by
buying up the patriot leaders.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON, the famous actor,
addressed the convicts in the Massa-
chusetts state prison, on the nth, taxi
ing the story of Rip Van Wrinkle as his
theme, from which he drew a lesson on
temperance that held his hearers spell
bound to its conclusion.
ALDERMAN j. A. ABERcoRN was shot
and perhaps fatally wounded by Geo.
Jensen in saloon quarrel at Chicago
on the nth. Jensen, who is under ar
rest, says that the alderman attempted
to bite off his nose.
On the 10th the associated banks Of
New York city held sl4,614.a00 in
excess of the requirements of the 25-
percent rule.
THE Corean legation in Washington
received a cablegram. on the 18th,
stating that the date on which the
king of Corea proclaimed himself en-
peror was October 10 instead of the
18th. as previously reported.
Col. THOMAS 5. BARR, assistant judge
advocate general, has been transferred
from the department of the east to the
department of the Missouri, exchanging
places with Lieut.. Col. John w. Clous.
BY the forest fires near Austin, Pa,
300, 000, 600 feet of hemlock timber aud
25, 200 cords of tan bark were con-
sumed, resulting in loss to c. w. &
f.. II. Goodyear of $500, 900.
COUNT LYoF ToLsToI, the Russian
author and social reformer, is suffering
from an illness which will necessitate
the performance of a serious operation.
THE statement of the condition of
treasury, issued on the 18th, showed:
Available cash balance, $2l0, 42S. 27s;
gold reserve. $50, 706, 67s.
The case of the State of Illinois
against Adolph l.. Luetgert, charged
with numbering his wife and reducing
her remains in vat used in his sau-
sage factory in Chicago, was given to
the jury, on the 18th, but up to 1:30 a.
IN. of the 10th, the latter had failed to
agree and hung jury was anticipated
by the waiting attorneys and populace.
CONSUL MONAGHAN, at Chemnitz.
Germany, in report to the state de-
partment urges Americans to make
every effort possible to secure good
exhibit at the Paris exposition in
1900. He says that Americans who
have been to Leipsic and Brussels have
returned disappointed at the poor
showing made by the United States.
The Terre HauteQ nd.) Electric Street
Car Co. went into the hands of re-
ceiver, on the 18th, as a result of levy
made by the city treasurer for delin-
quent taxes, amounting to 80, 900. The
company also owes $40, 900 for street
improvements, and has a heavy bonded
indebtedness. Russell b. Harrison is
president of the company.
A DISPATCH from Colon, via Calves
ton, Tex, on the 18th, said: The Co
David's bay, near Panama, 1000 rifles
and 500, 900 cartridges on board the
schooner Colombia, bound for Nicara-
qua The rifles and cartridges APP
peared on the manifest of the schooner
as diving machinery"
The state department, on the 18th.
refused the request of the Mexican gov
eminent for the surrender, under the |
extradition treaty, of Jesus Guerra,
who was in the cele brated Garcia raid |
into Mexico in December, 1892.
On the 18th Savannah. Ca. removed
all quarantine restrictions on cotton
from yellow fever-infected territory.
The quarantine was continued against
passenger travel from infected sections.