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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-11
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The hastily virtuous people OF Newark
ara IN = terrible state of excitement over
the picture called mana" which was eN-
hibited a couple of years ago in the Wei-
don Building in this city. and which is
now being displayed in Newark. The eX-
pert opinion of Anthony Conastoek has
been invited and. as he is capable OF
seeing filth in anything, he of course saw
it in this curious product of human IN
genuity. He picturesquely declared that
he would rather see a son of his in his
grave than gazing upon such a picture
Considering that Mr.. Comstock himseif
had Just been gazing on 1t with a critical
eye wide open for any improper sugges-
tions that it might convey, this declara-
ton is truly edifying.
The fact is the Crusade" against Mana
IS the work of a bankrupt newspaper
and a second rate preacher, both trying
to advertise themselves by the outbreak
of prurient mock Indignation. Mana is
not exactly high art, though it is in it's
way beautiful. 1t is, however, a very
remarkable study in optical illusion. The
entire picture looks almost lifelike, and
the eyes are so like nature that those
who see the picture always think at
first that some person concealed behind
the canvas is looking out through holes
in 1t. This is not the case. however. the
effect is wholly due to skilful work by
the painter and cunning disposition of
lights.
far, has been to boom the show. The
exhibitors have been doing a land office
business in peeps at a dime a peep.
Strange as it may seem, no tidal Y
of vice and crime has as yet risen over
the housetops OF Newark.
Somebody should send a bottle of that
tired feeling medicine to Prosecutor
Charles H. Winfield of Hudson county:
According to the Jersey City journal.
LOO indictments have been laid aside
without any action whatever during his
term as observation-disclosures"
Prosecutor Winfield has been in Office
nfteen years. One thousand indictments
untried is an average of about sixty a
year. This embraces all causes-indiet-
ments which should never have been
found: indictments which were the coun-
tsrparts of others which were tried: in
dictments the subjects of which died; in
dietments where the witnesses died or
disappeared.
Probably there is not another Prose-
eutor's Office in the United States which
can show SO clean a record as that of
Mr.. Winfield.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-11
WORK TAINTED.

HAVE YOUR FIREPLACE HEATERS AND
Furnaces repaired and fixed and put in order
now, before the winter rush SETS ia.
We have good facilities for doing this WORK.
cheap and quick: Ne also have all kin6s of
repairs and fixtures for all classes OF heaters.
ranges and furnaces.
Drop US q postal and we Will call on. you
NGL q SON,
Nos. Ss-S5 Newark Aseare.
FOR BARGAINS IN ALL WORK RE-
lating to Painting, Kalsomining and
Papering. go to Frank A. Bergstrom, No.
PIP Warren street, north of Montgomery
street. Orders by mall or otherwise
promptly attended to.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-11

Somebody should send a bottle of THAT
fred feeling medicine to Prosecutor
Charles H. Winfield of Hudson county:
According to the Jersey City journal.
LOU indictments nave been laid aside
without any action whatever during his
term as observation-disclosures"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-11

*Includes 1880 marriages Of non-resi-
dents.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-11
IN cHANcERY OF NEW JERSEY.

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CIV Title Guarantee & II
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26
A STRONG ReMoNsTRANcE
Sent by Sir Albert Currie TO the Porte
Another Armenian Massacre.

CoNsTANTINoPLE. March 24.--In con-
sequence of the troubles at Tokat in
the Sivas district of Anatolia, Sir Al.
bert Currie, the British ambassador,
has sent to the porte the strongest re-
monstrance that has yet been adj
dressed to the government in an official
communication.
The official report of the affair said
that seven Armenians and three Nus
sulman's were killed, bnt the embas-
sizes have received reliable informa-
ton that fully 100 Armenians were
massacred. The people were killed
while in church. During and after the
massacre the Armenian quarter OF the
city was given over to pillage.
The Turkish newspapers in their
comments upon the blockade OF Crete.
remark upon the pacific attitude OF the
powers towards Turkey. Their atti-
tude, they say. is conformable with the
rights and. political interests OF the
porte, and furnishes fresh proof OF the
striking success that has been gained
by the sultan. 1t also testities to the
friendship of the powers for the pore
and their solicitude for the peace Oh
the world.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A straight sale of 100, 900 bushels of
No. red wheat for May delivery was
made on change in st. Louis, Tuesday.
at 80 cents. 1t was the top price of the
season so far.
Mrs. John A. Smith, wife of one of
the wealthiest and best-known farmers
of Morgan county, ILL.,, died at jack
sonville. from heart disease, after being
i'll but an hour.
Nineteen business buildings were
burned to the ground at Bloomington
Wis. The fire originated in a saloon.
The total loss is estimated at $50. 900,
with light insurance.
Mrs. Sarah l. Brown, who died at
bloomsbury, Pa, recently, gave all her
fortune of $50, 900 to Methodist chart
ties, the Church Extension society be-
ing the largest beneficiary.
Upon the recommendation of the arch
bishop of Canterbury the original log
of the Mayflower. now in the library of
Lambeth palace, will be presented to
the state of Massachusetts.
Emil Cans, veteran of the late war,
was struck by freight train of the
Chesapeake & Ohio railroad at the
south end of the Long bridge at Wash
ington and instantly killed.
Aaron Wood, pioneer citizen of Iro-
quois, Ill, has been mysteriously alb
sent from his home for two weeks. He
is 70 years old, and search for his dis
covery has proved unsuccessful.
Henry Staley, farmer, near War
rensburg, Mo-, was butted in the
stomach by a calf he was trying to
capture. He was not thought to be
seriously injured, but since the acct
dent he has lost his mind as result.
The latest news from Madrid is that
Gen. Campos will be appointed gov
ernor-general of Cuba, and Gen. Sabas
Marin, now at Porto Rico, will be COM
mander-in-ehief of the Spanish army in
the field.
At Ell Reno, Okla, John Drayton,
who was about to go on trial on a seri-
Gus charge, requested Judge Tarsney
to open court with prayer. The court
refused, but fined the prisoner 81. 900 as
a benediction.
George w. Harris, of Dubuque, la.
has filed suit in the United States court
against the Modern Woodmen of Amer
lea. claiming $4,000 damages for in
juries sustained while being initiated
into a local camp.
While NJ. Galloway and his wife were
gathering flowers in the garden at
Durham, Ala, Galloway stepped be-
hind a shrub and cut his throat from
ear TO ear with his pen-knife, dying
within a few minutes
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26
Release of r. j. Casanas, an American
Citizen, In Cuba.

HAVANA, March 24-F. ]. Casanas.
an American, who was arrested on
February IL at Sagua, on what charge
has never been divulged, was released
yesterday.
The case of Casanas formed part OF
the correspondence between Consul
General Lee and the state department
which was sent to the senate on March
l. Gen. Lee said in a dispatch in con.
neetion with this case: Proceedings
a great outrage. Similar cases here
and elsewhere on the island. Redress
cannot be obtained here.n
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26

CAUSED A SENSATION.
A Partially Demented Young Man and His
Knife at Jacksonville Fla.


CHICAGO. March 25.-A Times-Herald
special from jacksonville, Fla. saws:
young man apparently half-insane,
but who it was thought might be Viii
liam Wood, the missing cousin of
Pearl Bryan. caused a sensation
Tuesday at Williston, little town
In the western part of the
peninsula. Arriving on the train he
went to a hotel and few minutes later
he was found by the landlord with a
knife in his hand, as if about to cut
his throat. A bystander, in trying to
wrest the knife from him, had one hand
badly cut Later the stranger
grew rational and gave his hame
as j. A. Milliken. He said that
he was detective and hailed from
Chattanooga, Tenn. and had a wife
and child in Little Rock, Ark, and a
mother in Michigan. Nothing was
found upon him except some money,
two rings which he said had belonged
to Pearl Bryan. and some letters adj
dressed to him at Hague, Fla. He was
told to take the first outgoing train.
which he did
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

THE report of the committee on WAYS
and means on the tariff bill was made
to the house of representatives on the
10th, Ivy Chairman Dingley.
Four rescue steamers, including two
government boats, arrived at Memphis,
Tenn, on the 18th, from the overflow ed
country north of that city, landing 400
refugees and ZOO head of stock to be
cared for by the already over taxed
Bluff city.
THE gunboats Wheeling and Ma
rietta were launched successfully at
the yards of the Union iron works, San
Francisco. on the 18TH
JUDGES WALLACE and Lacomb, of
the United States circuit court of APP
peals in New York, decided, on the
10th, in favor of the railroad companies
in the suit of the United States VS.. the
Joint Traffic association, and dismissed
the application for an injunction re-
straining the companies from operating
under the joint traffic agreement.
ON the 10th Adam Adamicl. Pole,
of Chicago, celebrated his 112th birth
day anniversary. His wife is living
and is 81 years of age. Both are al
most blind from old age, though their
general health otherwise is remarka-
bly, good.
A RUSSIAN steamer conveying bat
talon of troops to Crete passed through
the Dardanelles on the 18th.
AT Durham. \. c., on the 10th, W. E.
Holman, in the presence of great
crowd, ate baked cat. He bet on
Corbett and the loser was to eat a cat.
A fine, large Thomas cat was prepared
with proper trimmings. Holman an
nouneed that he would eat the greater
part of it. He ate it all.
1T has just leaked out at Washington
that Clyde Shropshire, formerly of
Rome, Ga, who was removed from office
as ACKNOWLEDGEMENT in Paris, last
June, was guilty of many disagraceful
acts involving the dishonest acquisition
of money.
mated Charles L. Gordon to be post
master at Chicago.
THE president, on the 10th, sent in
the nomination of Willis Van Deventer.
of Wyoming, to be assistant attorney
general, vice Isaac II. Lionberger, re-
signed.
THE payment of Cherokee freedmen
that has been going on at Hayden
|. T., for some time. has been finished,
and the pay station moved to Fort Glib
son, where the payment was begun on
the 22d. There has been $500, 600 paid
out, leaving a balance of 5000, 900 still
due the Indians.
AT a final conference with the Cretan
chiefs of Acrotiri, on the 10Th, the Gre
tans absolutely refused to accept the
proposed scheme of autonomy and de-
clared that they would fight against it.
THE Cubans will yet offer Spain an
opportunity to withdraw with dignity
from the island, and to that end desire
the United States to act as intermediary
in negotiating the purchase of Cuba.
THE Japanese consul in New York
city, in a communication to the United
Associated Presses, said that he was
authorized by his government to state
that not withstanding the recent adop-
ton by Japan of a gold standard of
currency, she viii continue the use of
silver, and that all silver bullion now
in the possession of his government will
be coined into subsidiary coins.
SECRETARY ALGER acted promptly in
relieving the flood sufferers of the Mis-
sissippi valley by the use of vessels be-
longing to the war department.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26
LEvEES GIVING AWAY.

Summary of the Lower Mississippi Flood
situation-It shows no Improvement AS
Yet-Fugitives From the Inundated Dis
tricts still Being Carried to and Cared
For at Memphis-The Danger Increases.
ST. LOUIS. March 24.-The flood Sit
uation in the Lower Mississippi valley
is growing worse at the most vital
points. where the levees have been at
tackled.
The area submerged by the rising
waters is hourly increasing. and fresh
dangers are confronting the people,
who have thus far manfully battled
against the terrible volume of water
rushing down upon them.
Only one narrow strip of raised earth
stands between Helena. Ark, and the
swollen Mississippi. The outer levees
have been abandoned, the waters have
swept over them. and are pouring over
the last barrier in many places. 4
thousand men worked on this, their
last hope, all day Monday, and con.
tinued the fight with the waters all
night. A tornado swept over the city
Sunday. and late Monday night an
If the levee breaks, not only Helena,
but all the bottom lands below will be
submerged. Several steamboats, that
refused to obey orders to keep away
from the levees have been fired upon.
The account which comes from Mem
phis. the chief point from which the
horrors of the food may be viewed, is
such as to portend that the worst is
yet to come.
At New Madrid. Mo-. the water has
spread far up into the town, and the
people can only communicate with each
other in skiffs.
The gap below Charlottesville, Mo-. Is
widening fast. and rumors are rife that
people from the Tennessee shore will
cut the levee in order to shut the dan
ger from themselves. 1t is also report
ed from that locality that large land
owners on the Tennessee side are offer
ing fat rewards to anyone who will
cut the levee on the Missouri side.
At Birds Point the town has been de-
populated. the inhabitants fleeing to a
safer harbor.
At Paducah, KY, large portion of
the town is under water, and the peo-
pie are moving about in skiffs.
Brooklyn and Elizabethtown, H.,
are both under water, and the losses to
property will be severe.
The Belmont branch railroad. near
Charleston, Mo-, has another gap of
IL, 900 feet in its tracks. All the people
have fled precipitately as they could
from Belmont, and. like Birds Point,
the village has been practically aban-
doned.
People in the flooded counties of Ar
kansas bitterly denounce Gov. Jones
for his passiveness in the face of so
much suffering by the people.
From Greeuville and points below on
the Mississippi side reports show that
levees are intact. and the assault upon
them by the flood is being met as ably
as possible. The same conditions exist
in the Vicksburg district.
From Omaha, Burlington and points
in the northwest reports are to the eff
feet that the dangers of food are in
creasing.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26
STORM IN INDIANA.
In Some Portions 1t Partook OF the Nature
of Tornado.

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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 24.-The
storm Monday played havoc in some
parts of Indiana. The gas belt was
visited by heavy rain, with electrical
accomplishments. In the southwestern
counties the storm partook of the nature
of tornado. Gibson county was Wis
tied with particular severity.
AT Princeton a new hotel in course
of construction was blown over and
several sheds were unroofed
Just beyond Princeton the tornado
struck the ground and cut wide swath,
leveling trees and fences.
Near Fremont, Otto Spurn. a 13-year-
old boy. was struck by lightning and
instantly killed.
At Lima two men, VIM. r. Jones and
w. l.. Mott, were struck by lightning
and fatally injured.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26

THE historic flag, the standard of the
Cross, which was raised by Prince AL
exander when the war of independence
began in 1921, which resulted in free
ing Greece from the Turkish yoke, will
be formally handed to the regiment
commanded by Crown Prince Constan-
tine upon the occasion of their depart
ure from Athens for Thes;Saly. The
flag has been kept in the monastery of
Labria since the close of the war of in
&ependenca-
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26
NO PROPOSALS FROM GREECE
Looking to n Compromise with the Power
Received.

LONDON, March 24.-ln the house oi
commons yesterday Mr.. &. \. Curzon'
under foreign secretary in reply 70 .
question by Sir Charles Dixie, SAID inc
government had not received any pio
posals from Greece looking to q com.
promise with the Powers beyond "ha'
was contained in Greece's supplement-
AIRY note, which had already been nau'
known to the house. 1t seemed NJ"
ever, that the Greek minister at o..
had made verbal communications
NJ. Hanotaux, the French minister :.
foreign affairs, but none such haa Dee.
made to the government OF "io''
Britain.
In reply to a question by MI jon o-
G. $. McNeal, anti-Parnellite, MI ou
ION said that Turkey was not laA.ns
any part in the blockade OF 80
ports and that Turkish merchah. ~
sells in entering the ports Oh 80 80
would be subject to the same re' 'l !,
tions as were imposed upon vesse's "
other nations.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26
A BUSY SCENE.
Thousands of Men and Convicts Working
to Save the Levees.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 23.-The
greatest scene of activity in the coun-
try, perhaps, is along the levees north
of this city where the people, rein
forced by convicts. are strengthening
the embank ments against enormous
pressure from food. There are thou
sands of men thus engaged under the
supervision of United States engineers
and levee board officials.
Up to II p. m. there has been heard
no report of collapsing levee to-
day, though there are numerous weak
spots in the system. The river here is
stationary, but is expected to take
another rise, as there is sufficient water
coming down for that purpose. The
5000 or more flood refugees here are be
ing adequately provided for.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26
A Nictim of the Flood.

SIoUA CITY, Ia, March 24.-While en-
deavoring to escape through the water
which surrounded her house, Mrs.
Belle Maxsey, residing on farm on
the Big Sioux, between here and West
field, fell from boat and was drowned.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26

SECRETARY BLISS. on the 18th, sent a
letter to Commissioner Lamoreux of
the general land Office, whose action in
the Chicago lake front case was an
nulled and severely censured, offering
to Mr.. Lamoreux an opportunity to de-
fend himself
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26
CAMEL COAL FIELDS.
Those of johnson County. KY, VIII Begin
Operations April 1.

CATLETTsBURG, KY, March 25.-The
coal operators of johnson county an
nounce that on April l fully 1000 min
ers will be put to work in the new coal
fields ON Greasy creek, and that
inside of so days this number will
be increased. The branch lines from
the Ohio and Big Sandy railroad to
these fields are now completed.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26

DURING. the first week of The extra
session of the fifty-ifth congress the
tariff bill was reported, and an order
regulating its discussion adopted. Four
appropriation bills also, which failed
TO become laws in the fifty-fourth
congress, necessary for the prosecution
of important parts of the public service,
and carrying a total of over seventy
two million dollars, were passed by the
house
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26

1T is said, on what is regarded as good
authority, that President Kruger of the
Transvaal and President Steyn of the
Orange Free State have agreed upon a
federal union of the two republics as a
result of the formers visit to Steyn.
Such union is regarded in Cape Town
with much concern, as it would seri-
ously complicate the situation.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26
StIu Rising at Paducah.

PADUcAH, KY, March 24.-The river
is still rising, the gauge showing so. 4
feet. Half an inch of rain fell last
night and SO business houses on the
river front were flooded by the rising
waters. The indications are for more
rain.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26

A DISPATCH from Lloyds agent at
Brest, on the 18th, said it was greatly
feared that the Dutch mail steamer
Utrecht, which sailed from Rotterdam,
February IS, for Batavia, Java, had
foundered in the vicinity of Ushant,
and that the 100 persons she had on
board had been lost.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26
Signed by the President.

WASHINGTON. March 25.-The presi-
dent has signed the joint resolution,
which passed congress Tuesday, au-
thorizing the secretary of war to fur
nish tents to the sufferers of the Mis-
siSsippi river floods.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26

THE weekly statement of the New
York city associated banks for the
week ended on the Goth showed the
following changes: Reserve, decrease.
S., 1894, 575; loans, increase, SAT-. 500,
specie, increase, $500 100; legal ten
der, decrease, 5000, 600; deposits, in
crease, 81, S65, 800; circulation, decrease,
S253. 400.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26

A HUNDRED sailors from the United
States steamship San Francisco arrived
in Rome, on the 21st and attended the
pope's mass. The rector of the Ameri-
can college accompanied them When
mass was over the pope addressed the
sailors, assuring them that he sincerely
appreciated their homage. lie con-
cluded by bestowing upon them the
papal blessing.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-03-26

THE United States will take no ac-
ton at present regarding the blockade
of Crete, Secretary Sherman simply ac-
knowledging the receipt of the notes
from the representatives in Washing
ton of the powers which were delivered
to him on the 21st.