The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1898-01-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

some OF the Spaniards desire a war
with the United States hoping that it
will em broil us in some way with other
European powers. 1t is we'll to be
prepared for any desperate freak on
the part of bankrupt country that
has really nothing TO lose.
NJ. ERNEST Balm. the inventor of
the roller steamer. died 10 Paris on the
2lst.
GOLD was quoted at Buenos Ayres
on the goth, at 1850.
In the case of Chris. Merry, the Chi
cago peddler, charged with wife muir
der. the jury returned a verdict. on the
2ist, finding him guilty. Smith, his
alleged accomplish. was found not
guilty, but was Immediately rearrest-
ed on bench warrant charging him
with being an accessory after the fact.
The jury was out all night.
MAYOR MCKIssoN of Cleveland, O., is
taking steps to contest the seat OF Sem
ator Hanna in the United States SEN
ate. Mayor Mckissou will rely large
ly on the testimony adduced at the in
vestigation OF the bribery charges.
Miss MARY DoUTHAT. well-known
society girl of Richmond, Va. who en-
tered the class for trained nurses at the
Johns Hopkins university in Baltimore,
Md, is months ago. has abandoned her
studies rather than attend leper, as
directed by the university authorities.
Mrs. WILLIAM McGLLIvRAY, of To-
ronto, Ont, who is over 90 years old,
has given birth to baby girl. Her
husband, TO whom she was married
seven years ago. is IS. Mrs. McGil-
livray has been married twice, and this
a her twenty-second child.
AT Spanish headquarters in Havana
persistent rumors were in circulation,
on the 2ist, to the effect that Gen.
Calixto Garcia, the famous insurgent
leader, was killed in recent engage
nent with the Spanish troops.
THERE is glut in the labor market
at Juneau, Dyea and S<aguay. with
the result that wages are falling and
many men are now eating up their
supplies and earning nothing.
WILLIAM WALLACE, 81 years of age,
and Mrs. George Seaman, who is past
90, and snowy haired, have eloped from
Bellaire, o., and have gone west to
grow up with the country.
SENIOR AMILARE CAPRIANI the Italian
socialist labor leader whose election
TO the chamber of deputies for Forli,
in July last, was annulled by the
Italian government has been re-
elected deputy for Forli.
III was reported from Algiers. on the
cath, that serious rioting and pillag-
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suburb of the city, on the Esd. Ten
Jewish shops were looted and a mum
Der of policemen injured. Troops
were summoned, but order was not re-
stored until two o'clock in the morn
ing. Forty arrests were made.
AT Bombay, on the Esd, the eclipse
of the sun was accompanied by rapid
fall of temperature. An earthly smell
pervaded the air, and the scene re-
sembled landscape under a wintry
English sun. The duration of totality
was two minutes, with marvellous
corona of pale silver and blue.
The Luetgert jury in Chicago cele-
brated the beginning of tue ninth
week of the second trial, on the 23d. by
taking "a sleigh ride. The trip lasted
from one to i've o'clock
REV. L. DEWITT 1ALMAGE. pastor of
the Sixth Presbyterian church in WASH
ington. ID. c., was married at Pitts
burgh, Pa. on the 22I, to Mrs. Eleanor
Collier. widow of Charles Collier. a
prominent lawyer and son of Judge Z.
III. Collier, of the Allegheny county
pa bench.
GEN. BooTH. head of the Salvation
army, has had a remarkable reception
in Halifax, \. ). Large meetings well
coined him. 1t has been decided by the
general to form a military aud navG.
league and poor mans metropole in
that city.