The Forrest City times., 1897-01-15

chasing the indebtedness of the com . pany to the government in the event of the failure of the funding bill.
 MR NANCE, director of the works of the Panama Canal Co, has sailed from Colon for Jamaica for the pur- pose of engaging 5000 laborers to carry out the plans of the company for an extension of the work on the canal
 ON the 1ith at 12 o'clock, James A. Mount and Thomas Haggard were in- augurated governor and lieutenant governor respectively of Indiana, upon platform erected in the main corri- dor of the capitol building at Indian apolis.
 Ar the request of Lord George Ham, ilton, secretary of state for India, Rt. lion. George F. Faudel-Phillips, lord mayor of London, has started fund for the sufferers from the famine in India, and large sums are being sub scribed.
 THE one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the state capital in Albany, N. Y, was fittingly cele- brated in that city on the 9th. Elab- crate literary exercises occurred in the afternoon at Harmanus Bleecker hall, Gov. Black presiding
 VIM. DOWNING and Charles Williams, both colored murderers, paid the pen atty of their crime on the same scaf- fold at Norfolk, Va, on the 5th. Both men displayed considerable nerve, and the execution passed off without any extraordinary incident
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 THE Times of India, of Bom bay, in sn article on the bu bonic plague which is raging in that city, says that since the outbreak of the plague the popu- one-half, and the weekly mortality has averaged 200 per l,oo0.
 RT. HoS. AND Mosr REV. FREDERICK TEMPLE, D. D., the recently-appointed arch bishop of Canterbury and primate of all England, was enthroned in the cathedral at Canterbury, on the sth, in the presence of I2 bishops, 300 cler- gymen and a large gathering of the laity.
 THE Johannesburg Standard an noances that the government has com pleted its bill against the British gov ernment demanding indemnity for the Jamieson raid, and is about to for ward 1t to London. The amount of the Boer claim, the paper says, is under 42,00o, GOO.
 PROF. RUDOLPH FALB, the meteorolo- gist, of Vienna, is lying bedridden in that city. He has wife and five chil. dren, and the entire family are in a state of extreme destitution. A mum. Der of Berlin scientists and savants have started subscription fund foi their relief.
 THE north German Gazette, an in spired organ, asserts that the German government has no intention of inter fering in the case of Cuba whatever the final issue of the insurrection ir that island or of the differences grow. ing out of it between the United States and Spain may be.
 HE Spanish newspapers in Havans savagely attack the American repre- sentative, Mir. Money, for violating the laws of war proclaimed by tht Spanish authorities, which forbid al investigations in the military camp, not expressly sanctioned by the com mander-in-chief of the army.
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 THE state department recently re vised the diplomatic regulations. ane Secretary 0lney took occasion 10 writ, provision and insert it in the regula tions prohibiting speeches upon politi cal matters by diplomatic representa- tives of the United States. This i, understood to be rebuke to Minister Bayard.
 LAWRENCE WILSON, aged II years one of the eight Baltimore lMd.) boy, wno were bitten by mad dog on De cember l, and who was the first of tn, eight to go to the Pasteur institute il New York city for treatment, died il eonyulsions on the 5th. lie was tn, fourth boy to die from the effect of tn, dogs bite.
 MRS. EMMA SPRECkI Es-N WATSON, tn, only daug hter of Claus Spreekels, tn, mIilionaire sugar king, whose recen secret marriage to Mr. I homas Wat son, San Francisco grain broker, of fend ed her father and called forth ; re buke, with d single stroke of peI relinquished about s2, ,ooo, GOO which he father had previously given her.
 THE Pacific railroad bill, which wa, defeated in the house. on the llth provided for the settlement of SIP, 000, GOO of inde btednsss of the Uuior Pacific and Central Pacific on tn, basis of an extension of over so year at two per cent, with an annual ex tinguishment payment on the princi pal at the rate of S365, 900 for the frs ten years; S5so. oO0 for the second ter years, and s750, 900 for the remaining years.