The Forrest City times., 1897-12-10

A DISPATCH from Rome, on the 5th, says: "Torrential storms have pre- vailed for three days over large parts of Italy. In the Bay of Naples 25 mer- chantmen have been wrecked, though there has been no loss of life, and sev- eral houses on the sea front have col- lapsed. Considerable damage has been done here and in the district around the city"
 A WASHINGTON dispatch says that quiet investigations have been in progress which point strongly to the fact that thousan ds of dead pensioners are carried on the rolls. Annually sev- eral millions of dollars are paid out by the government on behalf of pension CTS long since in their graves. Fraud Is rampant in certain divisions of the bureau, in spite of the precautions adopted.
 JOHN F. MORGAN, the escaped triple murderer, is in jail at Ripley, w. Va, awaiting execution on December Is. He entered store at Walton, after dark on the night Of the 4th, to buy tobacco Constable John Camp hap pened to be in the store. He recognized Morgan and covered him with revolv- CT. Morgan surrendered.
 SECRETARY ALGER, on the eth, made public the reprimand administered to Capt Lowering by sentence of court martial, in which he was almost as se- we're upon the court which rendered the inadequate verdict, as upon the of ttfssst h -t si and brutal assault upon helpless sub- ordinate.
 ON the 9th United States Treasurer Roberts received a telegram stating that the reorganization committee had deposited SS 5OO 900 in New York to the credit of the United States on ac- count of the purchase of the Union Pa cific railroad.
 CHARLES DENNELER, a gardener liv- ing on the outskirts of Kansas City, Mo-, shot his wife, on the 9th, as she sat at the breakfast table surrounded by her children and then shot himself. Both were fatally wounded. Denneler was drunk. He had threatened to kill his wife on several occasions.
 BY an explosion of fire damp in the Clear Spring coal mine at Pittston, Pa. on the 9th, ten men were entombed. put seven of these, after hours of ef- fort, were extricated from their peril ous position. The remaining three were reported as doomed, if not al- ready dead.
 THE comptroller of the currency, on the 9th, declared dividends in favor of of banks as follows: Five per cent: The Grand Forks national bank, of Grand Forks, N. D., and 20 per cent: The Citizens national bank of San Angelo. Tex.
 THE American ambassador to Ger many, Andrew D. White, opened the American church bazar in Berlin, on the 9th. The German empress for warded some valuable gifts, and the ex-empress sent a lady in waiting to make purchases.
 lP~is deemed significant in Berlin that 12O volunteers, including num- Der of members of the aristocracy, like Count Non Kessler and the prince of Thurn and Taxis, are to accompany the expedition to Kiao-Chau bay, with Prince Henry of Prussia as it's com mander.
 THE minister of finance, Dr. Lulxacs, in the lower house of the Hungarian diet on the 9th, submitted the budget, showing surplus of D, 72l fiorins over the expenditures, which amounted to 4S9, 240, 510 fiorins.
 KING HUMBERT, on the 9th, intrusted to the Marquis di Rudini tLe task of constructing new cabinet, and the marquis asked for time to reflect.