The Forrest City times., 1897-08-06
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

bus, O., arrived at New York from Naples on the 2sth.
 THE great race between the steam yachts Pathfinder and Enquireron Lake Michigan ended, ,on the z9th, in a victory for the Buffalo boat. The Pathfinder gave up the contest when off Wauke- gan, H., and turned back for Chicago.
 THE loss of the whaler Cape Horn Pigeon in the Japan sea during a fu- rious storm was announced on the 29th. Capt. Scullam and the crew of Is were saved, but 900 barrels of sperm oil went down with the vessel.
 TIE statement of the condition of the treasury, on the sOth, showed: Available cash balance, S23S, l72, 596; gold reserve, S14S, SIS, 369.
 MINISTER SANTo- TRIso, of Portugal, has received no information concern ing the alleged revolutionary troubles in his country. He believes he would have been notified of any serious out break.
 THE Belgian chamber of deputies passed a bill, on the 29th, compelling all foreigners who have had years residence in that country to enroll themselves in the civic guard.
 JOHN F. RYAN and John Graves, who lured Lawyer Burt s. Clark, of Brook lyn, to flat in New York city, on July 10, and then robbed him and tried to force acid down his throat, were sem fenced, on the 30th, to IS years i'm prisonment at hard labor.
 FAILURES throughout the United States for the week ended on the 3Oth, as reported by R. G. Dun S Co.,, were 236, against 2Sl for the corresponding week of last year. For Canada the fail ures were 2s, against 40 last year.
 THE commercial treaty between Great Britain and the German zoll- verein, which has been in force since May 30, 1864, was renounced, on the S0th, by Great Britain and ceases to be operative a year hence.
 WORKING behind closed doors, J. K. Hardy, of Chicago, claims to have pro- duced, at a cost of ten cents pound, a metal which experts pronounce gold. Several bricks of the metal have been purchased by jewellers, who declare it good enough gold for them.
 JOHN ANDERSON and Hagens Nelson were fatally injured by the tipping of derrick on a new building at Market and Van Buren streets, Chicago, on the 30th. The men fell from the sixth story to the street.
 BY the premature explosion of a dynamite blast on Beechwood bouks- yard, in Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 30th, three men were dangerously hurt, one of them probably fatally.
 THE crops in strip five miles wide and 80 miles long in Rock county, Minn., were entirely destroyed by hail on the night of the 29th.
 THE Japanese government has ac- cepted the offer made by Hawaii to ar bitrate ma tiers in dispute between the two countries.
 A DISPATCH from Lisbon says the situation at Oporto is alarming. ..Iin- isters fear an attempt at revolution. The governor of the town has been dismissed and replaced by Augusta de Castilho, a naval officer.
 NEWS from Simla is to the effect that the revolt in the Chit ral is rapidly spreading. British and native Indian achievements are being pushed for ward. Several slSirmishes have been fought in which large numbers of the enemy were slain.
 THE trustees appointed to locate the Old Folks Home for Illinois Odd Fellows, after viewing the sites offered and considering the proposition of Monmouth, Alton, Vandalia, Olney, St. Elmo and Carthage, have decided to locate the home at Mattoon.
 MR. LEON GoDCHAU, the owner of seven sugar plantations in Louisiana, and the largest sugar producer in the United States, has advanced the wages of all field labor l611 per cent, com mencing on the lst.
 MAYOR STRONG of New York has ap- pointed Col. George Moore Smith. of the Sixty-ninth regiment, to succeed Col. F. D. Grant as police commissioner. The new commissioner was sworn in on the Ed.
 ON the 31st the associated banks of New York city held S45, 720. 150 in excess of the requirements of the 95 per cent rule.
 AASA AANhho AAOAh pOAhOo sota and South Dakota allege immense damage to wheat from hailstorms.
 THE French government has been appraised of the arrest, in New York city, of William A. Bellwood. other wise the notorious Guillaume Balensi the banker who ruined young Max Le- baudy. He will be held for extradi- ton.
 Ar Pacadillo, on the seacoast of Santa Clara, Cuba, an expedition landed re- gently from the Florida coast. Little secrecy was observed. The Cubans had a force of 400 men there to protect it. and as the Spaniards were onlS 200 strong there they did not attempt to attack it.
 THERE is blg blockade of wheat at Stockton, Cal, caused by rlse of the price to Sl. Farmers are rushing in grain so fast that it can not be handled. The levee is piled high with sacks of wheat aud more is constantly arriy- ing.