The Forrest City times., 1897-03-19
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED

The Central America exposition was opened at Guatemala city Tuesday.
 The Missouri senate killed the house bill doubling the state liquor license tax.
 The Spanish army in Cuba is said to be, for the most part, on the verge of starvation.
 w. J. Savage, aged 7s. died at his home in Nevada, Mo, of apoplexy Tuesday afternoon.
 Henry Osgood, a farmer, of near Ingraham, Okla, was gored to death by an infuriated bull.
 A movement has been started to make household economies a study in the St. Louis public schools.
 Patrick Quinn, who killed his room mate, Michael Mccoy, in St. Louis, was given 40-years' sentence.
 Tip, the famous elephant became so vicious that he had to be strangled to death at Bridgeport, Conn.
 Reports received at Burlington, la , are to the effect that great flood is imminent from the Missouri river
 In Texas S,7oo positions are to be filled by federal appointment, and LOGO applications already have been filed.
 Mrs. NJ. A. Rush, one of Jackson's (Tenn.) oldest citizens, suddenly fell dead while dressing. She was T6 years old.
 The Typographical union has pro- tested against the appointment of liar rison Gray Otis as assistant secretary of war.
 Forest Reynar, of New York, succeeds Price Lane, of St. Louis, as private secretary to Secretary of the Interior Bliss.
 The appropriation bills that failed at the last session of congress will be rushed through the house under special rules.
 The Turkish commander on the Greek frontier says; The spirit of Islam is in our army, and you know what that means"
 Miss NJ. Strassinger, of Webster Groves, Mo, committed suicide in a Chicago boarding house, after sending her effects home.
 
 sissippi valley is ou .ly growing worse on the Arkansas i'd for 50 miles above and below Memphis.
 The Missouri university endowment bill has been killed and buried beyond the hope of resurrection by the present session of the legislature.
 Charcoala- the Indian murderer exc. fxa1 at ..J kt three war whoops on the scafYold jus, before he dropped to death.
 Special cablegrams from Havana. tell of the blowing up of Spanish troop train near Candelaria in Pinar del Rio province, with loss of 800 lives.
 The Russian consul at Canea, Crete, has received formal instructions to pro claim autonomy for Crete, but the oth. CT consuls still remain without them.
 Several hundred thousand bushels of corn are thought to be in danger ot serious damage from leakage in the Galveston (Tex.) Wharf Co. s elevator.
 Col. Vassos, commanding the Greek force in Crete, has transferred his head quarters to Sphagia, the most noun tainous and inaccessible position in the island.
 Importers are becoming alarmed over the pending tariff bill and the ware house departments of the customhouses throughout the country are being over worked to get goods out of bond.
 The king of Greece has decided to ap- point the crown prince commander-in. chief of all the forces on the frontier when they are completely concentrat- ed, probably at the end of this week.
 In bill filed in the superior court at Chicago for receiver for the Pacific Loan and Homestead association. 1t is charged that De Witt c. Butts, who un- til last summer was secretary of the as sociation, is defaulter, and has appro priated s2s2, 900 of the funds of the ss sociation.