The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-11-05
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

including three representing Carlsruhe,
which were won by soc al democrats
The national liberals thus lose the con-
troll of the house.
The next move OF the government
toward finai settlement of the whole
bond-aided railroad question, it is said,
will be the institution of proceedings
against the Central Pacific road.
The daughter of Count Badeni, the
Austrian premier, was married in
Vienna, on the 2oth, to Count Adam
! Frasineski.
IHE Turkish government has opened
n credit of 1o0,0 900 pounds sterling in
London to defray the cost of engaging
skilled worknen as overseers for the
contemplated reconstruction of the
Turkish navy.
| The days statement of the condition
OF the treasury, issued on the 2Sth,
showed: Available cash balance, SILL
7O5,9s7; gold reserve, Sl52. s75 100.
| The comptroller of the currency, on
the 2sth, authorized the First national
bank of Shawnee, |. L.. to begin bust
ness. Capital, $4,000
| %hbLehc hiSCtihSo VI cOJlot operatives,
throughout the north of England, on
the 2Sh, instructed their delegates
| to Inform the operators that their men
would not consent to the proposed re-
duction in their wages. as so per
cent. of the employers have comb
with the object of enforcing a reduc-
ton, the situation is most critical.
About $50, 600 operatives are affected.
FRED Rico MORA and Ricardo de
Requesens, found guilty at New Or
leans of making false notes of the bank
OF Costa RIGA and the currency of the
Republic of Colombia, were, on the
Goth, sentenced to two years impris-
onment at Sing Sing, n. Y. and to
pay fine of So 900.
FAILURES throughout the United
States during the week ended the 10Th,
as reported by Il. q. Dun & Co., were
2l9, against 270 for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were rs against 40 last year.
The White Star liner Britannia, from
New York, arrived off the harbor of
Queenstown at IL p. m. of the Goth. A
tender went out, but was unable to get
alongside owing to the high seas pre-
vailing. The Britannia proceeded for
Liverpool, after half hours elay,
without landing the Irish passengers
and mail.
The New York World opened fund,
on the Goth, for the erection of memo
rial to Henry George. Jos. Pulitzer
subscribed $1,000; Mayor Strong of
New York, city $50; Mayor p. j. Glea-
son of Long Island City, $50, and
Charles S. Steckler. leader of the Man
haitian democracy. SIS.
Miss REBEcCA WIswEII, who, it is
thought was the oldest army nurse in
the country, died at her home in Ply
mouth, Mass, on the Goth, of heart
disease. Miss Wiswell was born in
Provincetown in 1906.
AN imperial order issued from Con-
stantinople, on the Goth, authorized the
Ottoman consuls in Greece to resume
their duties.
WALTER r. HoUGHToN mail clerk.
aged 25, was arrested at Cheyenne,
Wyo., on the 29th, and onfessed to
stealing the registered package con-
tanning $4,000 which had been sent.
September 23, by the Bank of the Re-
public, Chicago, to the State national
bank at Butte. Mont.
UNDER decision Of the Kansas SUI
preme court inmates of the two sol
diers homes located in that state are
practically DISTINGUISHED. The state
constitution disables inmates of any
asylum maintained at public expense
from acquiring a residence for voting
purposes.
CAPT GEN. WEYLER embarked on the
steamer Montserrat, at Havana, on the
goth, but under instructions from Mad
rid the vessel was ordered not to sail
until after the arrival of Marshal
Blanco, the new governor-general of
Cuba.
GEN JAMES LoNGsTREET, of Georgia
was appointed commissioner of rail
roads. by the president, on the Goth, to
succeed Gen. Wade Hampton, resigned.
MADRID dispatch says that the pay
of the army in Cuba is 800 900, 600 pese-
tas or about 500, 900, 600, in arrears.
MEETING of the delegates of the
Amalgamated Association of Cotton
Operatives the strongest body in the
NoANOh dhN, WAS iltitl. on Jnc OUti. at
Manchester, and confirmed the deci-
sion taken by the cotton operatives
throughout the north of England to
inform the employers that the pro
posed reduction in wages would not
be accepted.
The representative of the Hooley-
Jameson syndicate which has been
negotiating loan of $40, 600, 600 $780,
600 000) To the Chinese government on
the proposed security of Chinese Gus
toms, telegraphed, on the .30th from
Pekin that the government had finally
acceeded to the terms demanded by the
syndicate.
Ii was reported in Key West, Fla.
on the LIST, that the Cuban filibuste,
rendezvous in the Bahamas had beei
seized by the British government an
a quantity of arms captured and few
men arrested.