The Forrest City times., 1897-08-13

LEADERS in Chinese mission work in San Francisco are circulating petition to be sent to President Mckinley ask ing him to request congress to appoint a commission to investigate the horrors of human slavery that are perpetrated by those who hold Chinese girls in bondage.
 IS the death of Canovas Weyler loses his best friend. The relations between the late prime minister and the cap tain-general of Cuba were peculiar. They were more than official. They embraced certain business considera- tions that bound them indissolubly.
 SENIOR CANovAs DEL CASTILLO, prime minister of Spain, was assassinated at Santa Ageda, on the sth, by an anarch- ist. The murderer fired three shots, one of which struck the premier in the forehead and another in the chest.
 THE missing secretary of the Hiber- man Savings, Building and Loan asso- citation, Thomas O'Ilare, of Columbus, O., is found to have appropriated Sl0,- 900 out of $50, 900 that passed through his hands
 LATE Cuban advices describe the Gu bans, under Juan Delgado. as making things very warm for the Spaniards in the suburbs of Havana. and all efforts to drive them off appear to be futile.
 SECOND LIEUT. DANIEL DUNCAN one of the most popular young officers of the Fourth infantry. U. $. A., was l aI ka hi 1a hot i'm the beach at Fort Sheridan, Chicago.
 THE secretary of the treasury, through the state department, has in- structed all consular officers of the United States that, according to the provisions of the new tariff act, all watch cases and watch movements for export to this country must be in- voiced separately. The combination of the two parts as a completed article is not known in the act.
 THE forty-sixth annual meeting of the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science, began in De- troit, Mich, on the 9th. The attend ance of members was about 200 at the opening, and the galleries were filled with spectators. About 20 members of the British association occupied seats on the platform.
 Ar meeting of number of promi- nent Jewish citizens of San Francisco, on the 9th, the general sentiment was expressed by the speakers that the col onists now in that city ought to be helped, but that others who contem- plate coming should be discouraged.
 THE steamer City of Para, from Pan anna, was immediately sent into quar- antine upon her arrival at San Fran cisco on the 9th, A. Frerere, French cabin passenger, having died at sea, on the 9th, of yellow fever.
 THE second annual Iowa Epworth league assembly and their training school opened at Colfax on the 11th A fine new auditorium had been com pleted and many distinguished leaguers and divines were in attendance
 THE Soo road having made round trip rate of Sl5 from Minneapolis, Minn. ,to'Buffalo, N. Y. for the G. A. k. encampment, the Chicago roads, on the Sth decided to meet
 it.
 A GRAVEL train on the Chica go & Northwestern railway struck street car which was passing over the main track of the road in Jauesville, Wis, on tue 9th, injuring seven persons.
 THE statement of the condition of the treasury, issued on the 9th, showed: {: Available cash balance, S22S, 9Sl, 762; gold reserve. Sl40, 5ss, 457.
 WM ItAMR pICKNEII of RoStan tba celebrated artist, died in Marblehead, Mass, on the night of the 9th. He waa %5 years of age.