The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-10-15

GUSTAV MILLER gave himself up to
the police of Rotterdam, Holland, con-
Tossing that he had murdered IA wives
in different parts of the world. and also
his parents and his child. He produced
a handful of human ears rs corrobora-
ton of his story.
CONSUL LATHRoP, at Briston, En-
gland, reports that the United States
supplies Great Britain with more than
one-half of her foodstuffs. He says
that the reason American bacon sells
so cheaply is that our packers do not
take sufficient pains in its curing.
In the recent cable correspondence
between Capt.-Gen. Weyler and Pre-
mier Sagasta of Spain Weyler declared
that he could not resign because he
was face to face with the enemy.
WILLIAM CLARK. of Dubuque, Ia, is
growing his third set of teeth. lie is
81 years of age. The dentists say this
is phenomenon of which the book
records show but few instances.
THE bank clearings for st. Louis, as
reported to Bradstreets' for five days
ended the sth, were SIS. 80. 300, as
compared with SIS. 701, 5s5 for the cor
responding period of last year.
On the 9th the associated banks of
New York city held sl3, ass 500 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the 2h-per-
cent rule.
THE sale of the eastern division of
the Kansas Pacific under foreclosure
will take place at Topeka, Kas., No
vember 3. The entire property with
lands, equipments, telegraph lines.
ETC., is to be sold in one parcel. The
upset price is placed at 81, 500, 900. A
deposit of $500, 900 will be required five
days before the sale. On the follow
ing day the middle division of the road
will be sold at Salina, kas.. under like
conditions, the upset price being S.
600. 900.
The trial of the lighthouse tender
Manila, which had been undergoing
registration at the Astoria (Ore.) iron
works for the past five weeks, was
fairly successful, and the vessel was
accepted by the board of United States
officials. Without forced draught she
attained speed slightly in excess of
IL knots, about one knot more than she
was capable of making before the re-
pairs were made.
ALLEN w. VAN DUsEN art editor of
of Outing" of New York city, died
at Gowanda n. Y, on the 9th.
DURING an ascent of Mount Ararat
Armenia, by members of the recent
geological congress, DIR. Stoeber, pro-
fessor of medicine. was frozen to death.
The inhabitants of Palma, Spain, the
birthplace of Gen. Weyler are prepar-
ing to give him an ovation on his re-
turn from Cuba.
FIFTEEN miners arrived at Victoria,
b. c., on the 18th, from Klondike. They
brought with them 81, 900, 900 in gold.
ONE HUNDRED carpenters employed at
tbeTransmissssippi exposition grounds
at Omaha, Neb., struck work on the
18th. The men demand that the car
penters' union be recognized, and that
skilled labor alone be employed in the
carpenters work.
A GREAT gold strike is reported near
the Revenue tunnel on Mount Sneffels
IN Ouray county, Col. Tests show as
high as $500. 900 to the ton and 81 900
has been taken out of cubic foot of
rock.
The two hundredth anniversary Of
the old Dutch church of Sleepy Hol-
low, made famous by Washington Irv-
ing, and near which he is buried, was
celebrated in the famous old building
at Tarrytown, N. Y. on the 10th.
WILLIS A. TRAsK, the fugitive teller
of the First national bank of Walling-
ford, Conn, was arrested at Halifax,
n. s.. on the 18th. Trask's embezzle-
ments are said to amount to $50, 900.