The Forrest City times., 1898-12-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

The French embassy has submit
ted to the state department a request
from the Spanish branch of the Red
Cross society for illustrations and ex-
plantations of the surgical, medical
and humane devices used by the United
States to alleviate the horrors of war;
Mrs. VIM. Mantell, who killed her
husband and attempted suicide in
Alameda, Cal, on the night of the I'd,
will recover. She claims to have been
secretly married to Mantell a month
ago. She declares that they quar-
relied, and that he had knocked her
down before she shot him.
The sixteenth victim of the Union
found in ,he ruins, on the I'd, the
body being that of six-year-old Harold
Parks, son of Supt. Parks, who almost
met his death in the flames. Four
members of the family lost their lives
in the fire.
Official election returns from all
counties in Michigan but two show
Gov. Pingree's plurality to be 1881.
Seventy-eight amateur racing men
of American Wheelmen by competing
IN unsanctioned races in Madison
| Square Garden.
| Arbuckle Brothers have reduced the
| price of refined sugars lilo cent. 1t is
! generally understood that the other
refneries will follow with a similar
| reduction.
DIR. Won Hollenben, the German am
bassador to the United States, who is
now in Berlin, lunched, on the I'd, with
Emperor William, and at his maiesty's
request eNpounded at length his views
regarding the present and prospective
situation of Spain and the United
States.
At the cabinet meeting, on the I'd,
the president suggested that $4,000
of the war emergency fund be set
aside for cleaning the city of Havana
and putting it in a sanitary condition
| This proposition met with the unan-
imous approval of the cabinet.
As soon as the peace treaty is signed
the good intentions of the United
States government towards the Filipi-
nos will be made as emphatic as possi-
bic. The policy will be to win over
the leaders and the rank and file with
kindly treatment, if such a course will
| do it. In the meantime the American
| forces on land and water will be ready
to enforce American sovereignty.
The Spanish war Office has put most
of the artillery regiments on a war
footing, and has ordered that the con-
scripts of 1898 be taught to use the
Mauser rifle. The precautions against
the Carlists and the keeping of 14O, 900
men under arms have already cost an
extra 20,000,00 pesetas.
Mrs. George Green, victim of an as
sassin's bullet, fired at her on the
night of November 21, while standing
at her gate, died, on the I'd, at her
home in Cementville, Ind. Her ante
norton statement, made to Prosecu-
tor Montgomery, charges her husband
with doing the shooting.
The peace commissions have agreed
not to mention the Cuban or Philip
pine debts in the treaty, because it
might lead to Misrepresentation The
American commissioners have indi-
Gated to the Spaniards thatth debts
can not possibly in law, right or
equity. be saddled upon Cuba or the
Philippines, since the money was not
employed for the benefit of the col
cnies.
The safe taken from Cevera's flag
ship, the Maria Teresa, has been
opened at the Norfolk (Va.) navy
yard, for the first time since its re-
covery from the sunken ship. In it,
incased in canvas bags, was found a
large sum OF money, believed to be,
after careful estimate, $4,000 or
more.
Gen. Miles, commanding the army,
has prepared the draft of q bill pro
viding for a regular standing army of
100000 men. The bill, it is said, will
provide for an organization of 10 COM
panies to the regiment, with am ar
rangement for third lieutenant for
each company in case of need
David Stuart Ervaine, thirteenth
earl of Buchan. died in London, on the
4th, in his eighty-fourth year.
The British steamer Anglers arrived
at New York; on the 4th, in distress.
having encountered terrific gales on
the Atlantic. She also brought eight
shipwrecked mariners which were
taken from the dismasted and water
logged American schooner Harry b.
Ritter in mfa-eeean.
i The death was annoS2ced in Paris,
on the 4th, of Sidi-Mohpmed Taieh
bey' brother and heir pre- sumpuve OF
Sidi Ali, Bey of Tunis. Hel was in his
seventy-eighth year. y
Arthur Stirling. the wau,. awn &C.
'or' died in London. on the 24th.