The Forrest City times., 1897-03-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

oS the 11th the state department re- ceived copy of President Crespo's mes sage to the Venezuelan congress of Feb ruary 20. sent by the American minis ter at Caracas, in which he discusses the arbitration treaty at considerable length and urges the congress to post pone all other business until decision is reached upon it
 PHYSICIANS at St. Luke's hospital, Chicago, said, on the 11th, that they had hopes of the ultimate recovery of Mrs. Caroline E. Bragg. who was mys- teriously shot at her home, 221 East Thirty-first street. If she recovers. the physicians say, she will be totally blind, the bullet having penetrated the right eyeball. Mrs. Bragg has made a new will disenheriting her adopted daughter Josephine.
 THE LaGrange county safe in the courthouse at LaGrange, Ind, was blown open, early on the morning of the 11th, and S400 was carried away. Two thousand pennies just received from the mint was a portion of the plunder.
 PRESIDENT MCKINLEY, on the 11th, signed the new patent convention with Japan, which thus became opera tive.
 BY the falling of section of the old wall in the ancient town of Fez, Mo rocco, on the 11th, 1s0 workmen were killed.
 AFTER a weeks stay at the White House, Mother" Mckinley and Miss Helen Mckinley, the presidents sister, left Washington, on the 11th, for their home in Canton, o. They were accom- panied by Capt Heisland, the presi- dents military aid.
 THE members of President McKin- ley's cabinet are meeting some disagree able surprises at the manner in which they find themselves blocked in the dis pensation of patronage by the applica- tion of civil service rules made opera tive by President Cleveland. As A RESULT of the several confer ences which have been held, not only by republicans, but by the democratic l senators, it may be definitely said that the men who have been appointed sen | ators by the governors in states where legislatures have had an opportunity to elect will not be seated. | INVESTIGATION has revealed the fact that hundreds of important signatures have been abstracted from the congress sional library. In the files of the house documents not a signature of Webster, | Clay or Lincoln remain. | A REPORT was made to the police, on | ha hot known resident of Springfield, O., and cousin of President Mckinley, had mysteriously disappeared from his home.
 Gov. BRADLEY of Kentucky, on the 18th, refused to grant Scott Jackson's s appeal for clemency. Jackson will hang on the goth.
 | JOHN K. SULLIVAN, the murderer of Mrs. Butcher and her young son liar ris, was hanged in the jail yard at | Dorchester. N. B.. on the 18th. Sulli- van walked to the gallows in an un- concerned way, and was apparently oblivious of his doom.
 | ON the 18th Secretary Long issued an advertisement for 5000 tons of nickel steel Harveyized armor for the battle ships Alabama, Illinois and Wisconsin. together with the necessary bolts and various hollow forgings, ammunition hoists. etc.
 l ARTHUR MAYHEM, negro, was elec- trocuted in the prison at Sing Sing N. | Y., on the 12th.
 THE superb sarcophagus in which will rest the body of Gen. Ulysses s. Grant has been shipped from Chicago to New York. After its arrival it will be transferred to the monument, and the coffin containing Gen. Grants body will be placed within and the final dedi- catory services will be held on April P. WHILE Mrs. Hall, of Fort Wayne, Ind, was gone to St. Paul, Minn., to be married, her daughter Mae and her fiancee, Wm. E. Colerick, one of the most eloquent and brilliant lawyers of the state, committed suicide at the home of the former by taking carbolic acid.
 A CARRIAGE containing Mrs. O. w.
 Wells, aged 50 and her niece, Miss Laura Andrews, aged IS, was struck by a Toledo X Ohio Central railway pas senger train at a crossing near Marys- vile, O., on the 13thand both were instantly killed.
 THE weekly statement of the New York city associated banks, for the week ended on the 18th, showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, S2, ,693, S7e; loans, increase, S3, $50, TOO; specie, increase, s212. 400; legal tender, decrease, g. 59s 600; deposits, increase, s71, ,222, 700; circulation, decrease, s194.- 000
 ON the 18th the associated banks of New York city held s52, 79O, $50 in ex- cess of the requirements of the 25-per cent rule.