The Forrest City times., 1897-01-08

T don, on the goth, of the admiral of the fleet, Sir Alexander Milne, baronet, e. c. E. and K. C. B. (civill F. R. $. F..
 Ex-MAYoR PINGREE, of Detroit. was, on the list, formally inducted into the office of governor of Michigan. The ceremony was of the simplest charac- ter.
 ON the 3Oth Chief Hagen of the secret service issued a circular warning against a new counterfeit Sl0 national bank note on the Union national bank of Detroit, Mich.
 THE city of New York has agreed to take charge of the ceremonies att tending the dedication of the Grant monument April 2 next, which will cost the corporation in round numbers $50, 900.
 WHEN President-elect Mckinley takes the oath of office on March his personal escort will be formed of the Chicago Hussars squadron and the Cleveland Grays, Clevelands crack or ganization.
 FRANK $. BLACK. of Rensselaer, coun- ty, was inaugurated as governor of New York on the lst. The ceremony took place in the assembly chamber of the capitol and was witnessed by large numbers.
 MAJ. McKINLEY's mother, who had been ill for several days, was reported, on the lst, to be improving rapidly in health. She looks forward with inter- est to her trip to Washington to see her son inaugurated.
 FOLLOWING the example set by the American navy department the Brit ish naval authorities have decided to use nickel steel instead of harveyized steel for the protection of war ships now under construction.
 THE official returns of the elections which were held in France, on the 3d, for the choice of one-third of the men bers of the senate, show that 69 re- publicans, J radicals, socialists and i2 reactionists were elected.
 THE supreme court of the United States, on the 4th, sustained the con- stitutionality of the law of Missouri which gives property owners the right 10 recover damages of railroad cor porations for the destruction of prop erty caused by fire communicated from their locomotives.
 Ar meeting of representative news paper men of St. Louis, held in Odd Fellows building and presided over by Hon. Norman J. Colman, resolu- lions of regret at the untiineiy death of Joseph B McCuiiagh late editor of the Glooe-Democrat, and eulogistic of the man, were unanimously adopted.
 
 HE weekly statement of the New York city associated banks for the week ended on the 2d shows the fol- towing changes: Reserve, decrease, N,O22, $50; loans, increase, S3, ,702, 600; specie. decrease, S425, TOD; legal tenders, increase, S65s,7OO; deposits, increase, H,947, 7,s9O;clrcuiaJion decrease, ,Sl5 5y, 9oU.
 MRs ELLA CASTLE, wife of the San Francesca millionaire, was discharged from the Polytechnic hospital ln Phila. 1elpna, on the 30th, after three weeks treatment anu successful operation, entirely cured of the unfortunate ln- lernal malady which caused her un- pleasant experience in London re- gently.
 A SEVERE famine Is reported from western Lhlna. The inha oltants are iylng by scores from starva tion, and ,o aaa to the horror of the situation, large portlon of the city of Cnuan. lung, situated on biu1f at bend of lhe klnsna rlver, was earned under ihe flood by a landslide ana about 3, ,oUt ot the starving Chinese were drowned.
 HE total sales of foreign and do. neslIc wool in Boston in 1896 were l5s, ,2O3, 9lo pounds, against %4o. 3o3, 5ss pounds ln los5. The total receIpLs iorelgn ana domestic, were 657, ,53, bags and bales, against sI3,g1l bag, aud bales ln los5. The shortage IL age ln receipts ls 25o, 43s bags ano bales.
 MR. GLADSTONE celebrated his eigh ty-seventh birthday anniversary al Aawaraen, on the 2yth, surrounded bl hls family. There were the usua demonstrations by the villagers il honor oI the occasion, consisting o1 the ringing of the church bells ano the asslR nment oI ueputations to pro eeed to the castle anu cong ralulate tn, yenera ble state sman.
 BEFORE the end Of this month an in sernaLlonal conference ln tne interest o1 bimetaliisnl wlIl be hela ln London The representatives o1 live govern ments wall be present Inc confer ence will be informal, but those wL, Will meet are accreuItea rv vprcsenta tives of their governments, anu ou of this meeting may grow a lorna conference. Senator N olcott Is ths representative from this country.
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