The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-06-11

lIcan party, winch met In executive
session at the Leland hotel in Chicago
on the sth.
A DISPATCH from Madrid, on the sth,
said: Great excitement prevails. The
peril of the situation. so far from being
ended by the conservatives? continu-
ance in office, is considered to be only
just beginning.
A DISPATCH from Buenos Ayres says:
1.-THE American expedition which has
been exploring in Terra del Fuego has
been successful in finding gold in guam
titles which will yield large profit
for the working.
M. THOMSON and NJ. Mirman, mem
bers of the French chamber of depu-
ties, fought duel, on the 9th, grow
ing out of an article written by the
latter attacking NJ. Thomson. NJ. Mir
man was slightly wounded in the fore
arm.
AT the morning session of the Amer
lean Medical association in Philadel-
phia, on the 4th., Denver, Col, was Sc
lected as the next place of meeting,
and DIR. George M. Steinberg, of Wash
ington. was chosen president of the as
ISOLATION.
w. j. CALHOUN, the special commits
sioner sent to Cuba by Mr.. Mckinley,
arrived in Washingto ton, on the sth from
New York city, and, visiting the White
House in company with Assistant Sec
rotary of State Day, made his report to
the president.
THE weekly statement of the New
York city associated banks, issued on
the 5th, showed the following changes:
Reserve, decrease, ST., $50, 275; loans, in
crease, 81, 400, 900; specie, increase, Sa3l,
700; legal tender, decrease, S2l3, 200; de
posits, increase, $3.50, 100; circulation,
decrease, Sc, 700.
THE Madrid Epoch, an official organ,
says it does not deny the possibility of
changes in the Spanish cabinet, but
adds that it is impossible for the duke
of Tetuan, the minister for foreign af-
fairs, to resign in view of the position
of the negotiations between Spain and
the United States.
THERE have been so desertions from
the ranks of the marines and seamen
of the battleship Oregon since it ar
rived on Puget sound about two
months ago. AS rule the deserters
were new men, such as chafed under
the restraint and discipline exacted
aboard man-of-war.
Mr.. G.. CREIGHTON WEBB, brother OF
DIR. Seward Webb, of New York, and
Mr.. Erskine Hewitt, son of ex-Mayor
Abram 5. Hewitt, of New York, have
been appointed additional secretaries
TO the special embassy appointed to
represent the United States at Queen
Victoria's jubilee ceremonies.
.
A SPECIAL from Havana, on the Sd,
said: The food war has begun in Ha-
vana. In Anton Recio street, on May
81, four small shop1eepers were muir
dered most brutally, one being decap-
itated, and the skulls of the others
crushed with a hammer. The money
was left in the tills. The crimes were
committed for food
Col SANDERS d. BRUCE, of New
York, who some days ago was stricken
with vocal and facial paralysis, at Lex
ington, Ky, was, on the eth, reported
somewhat improved. He was entirely
conscious but suffered much and could
not speak. Physicians say he may re.
cover the use of his organs and is in no
immediate danger.
GEN. o. 0. HOWARD presided at the
second session of the Congregational
Home Missionary society's seventy
first anniversary in Saratoga, n. y, on
the Sd. There was an extended gen
eral discussion relative 10 the fnan-
cial condition of the society, which had
been considerably affected by the bust.
ness depression during the year.
NOTWITHSTANDING their first bloody
repulse by the militia, the mob at Ur-
bana, o., rallied, on the 4th, beat down
the doors of the Jail and took the as
sailant Of Mrs. Gaumer from his cell
and hanged him to a tree in the jail
yard. Owing to the angry feeling of
the populace, the sheriff and the cap
tain of the militia company which did
the shooting fled the town for safety.
A cLoUD-BuRsr in the hill country of
the province of Iser, in southeastern
France, on the 9th, caused the overflow
of the River Norge and the destruction
of number of paper mills and silk fac
tories as well as houses along the
banks. At the towns of Voiron and
Moirons the river rose suddenly 30 feet.
One person was drowned. and the loss
TO property is estimated at $1,000, OOo
francs. Four thousand factory opera
tives were thrown out of employment.