The Forrest City times., 1897-02-26
 PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

TIE president, on the 18th. eommuted to five years actual imprisonment the sentence of eight years in the peniten- tiary imposed March II. 1898. on J. E. Crandan. formerly president of the First national bank of Johnson City. Tenn. for false entries in national oan< books and false reports.
 TIE bill granting women the right of suffrage in Oklahoma territory was defeated in the house. on the 18th. by a vote of II to 13 It was believed the bill for an educational qualification would carry.
 AN attempt was made, on the night of the 18th. to wreck Big Four train near Berea. O.. on bridge 75 feet high The obstructions were discovered by track walker shortly before the east bound fast freight was due, about 9:3O, and a horrible wreck was averted.
 JoHN l. BAKER, the Sage of Essex" an abolitionist, and one of the found CTS of the republican party, died at Beverly, Mass. on the 10th, at the age of s5 years. He was born in Beverly, August 16. 1s12. and always lived there.
 A DISPATCH from Key West. Fla, of the lSth said: Private information has been received in this city of the whereabouts of Gen. Gomez He has succeeded in slipping by Gen. Weyler and is now between him and Havana.
 THE break came in the senatorship deadlock at Pierre, $. D., on the 18th, when Senator Kyle was reelected, the republicans of the house voting solidly for him, having dropped Picker
 PREsIDENT-ELECT MCKINLEY has ended his search for the New York member of his cabinet. He has definitely settled upon Col. John l. McCook for attorney general.
 ThE Spanish government has agreed to release Julio Sanguilly the Ameri- can citizen who was arrested in Cuba two years ago.
 THE last day of the first session of the national convention of mothers. at Washington, was marked by SO many diversified topics to be discussed and such pronounced manifestations of gen eral interests that the congress had to divide itself into three or four separate conventions.
 All. of the officers and men of the French navy who were absent on leave from Brest station were, on the 10th, ordered to rejoin their vessels without delay.
 FIRE in the Everett schoc' a' the corner of Northampton and mont streets, Boston, on the 18th, ed a stampede among the pupils. and in the rush to leave the building ten or twelve children were crushed or bruiSed but not seriously injured. oN the l9th the president uardoned | Thomas Prindiyille. sentence co ten months imprisonment in Cali ,rnia for contempt of court.
 l THE Black Diamond breaker opei- ated by the Delaware X Hudson Coal ] Co., located at the east end of Wilkes barre, Pa, was destroyed by fire. on ] the goth. al loss of fully Ss0 0J0. Six i hundred men and boys were thrown out | of employment.
 l THE four hundredth anniversary of 1 the discovery of North America by ! John Cabot is to be celebrated at Bris- ! tol. England. in June. Americans re- siding in London are making arrange
 ments for participation in the celebra- ! tion.
 | REV. PETER WALLACE. n. D.. an early ! associate of Lincoln in the famous ! Springfield I4yceum bureau, prominent i ly known in Methodist, grand army and
 masonic circles, died at his home in
 Chicago, on the 2Ist, aged s4 years.