The Forrest City times., 1897-12-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

GEN. BLANco, it is said, will welcome material help from the United States in relieving the distress. which he finds to be beyond his expectation when he began to undo the work of Weyler in l Cuba. The state department at Wash ingeon will cooperate in every way possible to make whatever may be un- | dertaken effective.
 PRESIDENT MCKINLEY left Washing ton. on the 2d, over the Pennsylvania railroad, to hasten to the bedside of his sick mother at Canton, O., where he arrived on the Sd.
 A DIVIDEND of S10 was declared, on l the 2d, by the Calumet and IIecla Min ing Co.,, payable January to stock of | record December 1. This makes $50 1 for the current fiscal year, which be- gins May 1, and $50 for the current | calendar year of operation. FoR the first time in six years the Mitchell x Tranter rolling mills, in Covington, Ky, are running double force of over 400 men. the Licking rolling mills triple time with 100 men. The Overman & Schrader cordage works have put on double force of 300 men.
 JOHN E. FRosT, land commissioner of the Santa Ee. announces that the land for the first Booth-Tucker com pany has been contracted for, and that the first colony will be established in the spring, in the vicinity of HoIleys, Col.
 SEVEN HUNDRED blast furnace em- ployes at sharon and Sharpsville, Pa., have been given an advance in wages of 10 and 20 per cent. The advance was made without any solicitation on the part of the men.
 AN official statement of the accounts of the horse show, recently held in Chicago, shows deficit of S3l, 000 The amount Is much larger than was gen erally supposed.
 AFTER torturing their victim into in- sensibility, masked robbers searched the body of John Hartong, farmer near Akron, O., aged go, on the Sd, and found belt con ntaining $500, to pre- serve which the old man, who is wealthy, had endured great suffering.
 ANOTHER regiment of infantry and a squadron of dragons arrived at Prague, the old Bohimiau capital, on the Sd, to reinforce the garrison there. in view of the recent disturbances.
 TEN thousand bags of dessicated vegetables are being prepared in De- troit, Mich, for shipment to the Rlon- dike.
 MARTIN THORN, convicted of the mu-- der of Wm. .Guldensuppe at Long Island City N. \. was sentenced, on the Sd, to be electrocuted in the week beginning January TO- 1898 He received the sent ence with a calm. .imperturbable expres- sion of countenance.
 EARLY on the morning of the Sd an unsuccessful attempt was made to rob the western office of the Lindell Rail- road Co. in St. Louis. An effort to drill into the safe had not been completed when the burglars were frightened away.
 THE village of Black Earth about 20 miles west of Madison, Wis, was shaken by a distinct shock of earth quake, on the Sd. shortly after mid | night. Windows rattled and build ing shook but no serious damange re- suited. The shock lasted about min- ute.
 A DUEL was fought in Paris, on the 5th, between NJ. Millerand the we'll known socialist deputy and editor of the Petite Republique Franchise, and NJ. Joseph Reinach, conservative dep uty and well-known journalist and author, editor of the Republique Fran caise. Both men fired twice. Neither was hit but their seconds declared that honor was satisfied. THE Madrid El Liberal, the official organ of Spain, contends that there is no ground to fear that the United States will recognize the insurgents as belligerents, or otherwise interfere in | the settlement of the Cuban difficulty, 'inasmuch as Spain has accorded Ter colonies in the Antilles the maximum of liberty that other powers accord to their colonies"
 THE steamer George w. Morley, of Cleveland, O., was burned to the wa ter's edge on the beach at Evanston, H., on the night of the 5th. Her crew of 13 men got ashore without diff culty. The Morley was valued at S35, | GOO.
 ToRU HosHI, envoy extraordinavr and minister plenipotentiary from Ja- pan to the United States. has just re- turned to this country, and says there may be serious trouble if his countrv's interests are not regarded by the Unit ed States.
 SEVEN THOUSAND persons gathered in the Auditorium at Chicago, on the 5th, to do honor to the memory of Henry George. No admission fee was charged, but many offered high prices for seats aud were unable to obtaln them.