The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-06-11

SPECIAL dispatch from Dieppe saya
that the French trawler Liberte re-
Gently engaged in the Iceland fisheries,
has been lost with IS members of her
crew.
On the 5th the associated banks of
New York city held S45. $40. s25 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the % per
cent. rule.
The Spaniards are using the sugar
warehouses in Havana as hospitals for
their yellow-fever stricken soldiers and
thus offering menace to the people of
the United States, to whom sugar from
the infected warehouses will be ship
ped.
UPON the conviction of Leslie C. Bon
ner at Toledo, o., of perjury. on the
9Th, his aged father attempted to com
init suicide with knife and the son
tried tojump from the courtroom win.
dow, so feet from the ground Both
were prevented by bystanders.
The volume of business transacted
at the port of Philadelphia during the
past six months has been phenome-
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during that time having reached a.
1913, 093 gallons in excess of the CORE
spending period of last year; the corn
exports are 100000 bushels, and
wheat shipments l,0OO,OO0 bushels
greater than during the first six months
of 1896.
BY the falling of a freight elevator
in the New York-city post office. on the
9TH. six menwere more or less serious.
ly hurt Fourwere postal employees and
the other two were engaged by the con-
tractor incharge of the alterations now
going onin the federal building.
FIRE, on the nth, totally DESTROYED
the Bell grain elevator at David City.
Neb., the largest in the state outside
of Omaha, and the city electric plant;
loss, S37, 900.
The Universal mill of the Pottstown
Iron Co., the Valley mill of the elias
gov Iron Co., and the Glendale rolling
mill, all of Pottstown, Pa. will start
operations during the present week
JOHN ANDERSON and Andrew johnson
were drowned in the lake near Gothen-
berg, Neb.. on the 9Th, while fishing.
HEAVY floods are reported from va
rious parts of Switzerland which have
caused considerable damage to crops.
BY an explosion of gas in the Black
Diamond mine of the Brown Coal Co.,
two miles south of Monongahela, Pa,
on the 18th, several men were injured,
but none fatally. The gas is said to
have been ignited by an open lamp,
and the escape of the 800 miners was
remarkable.
BARLEY was resumed before Judge
Baker, at Omaha, Neb., on the sth,
County Attorney Baldridge made the
statement that an effort had been made
to tamper with the jury. At the direc-
ton of the court an information was
filed charging one Wright with at
tempting to bride jurors.
THE board of directors of the Ore
gon Railway and Navigation Co., on
the Sth, declared a quarterly dividend
OF one per cent. on preferred stock,
payable July l. This is the first divi-
dend the company has paid in several
years
EVAN, better known as 'Eph" Nor
ris, ex-champion oarsman of the United
| States, died, on the 18th, at his home in
Allegheny, Pa, of consumption. Nor
ris was defeated by Edward Hanlan on
j une 30, 1879, and then retired.
DR.. o. v LIMERICK of Cincinnati
was, on the Sth, sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary for attempted
blackmail
THE car received John w. Foster
the American seal commissioner, at
Peterhof on the 18th.