The Forrest City times., 1898-09-02
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| | the monitors would be used in the | large ports of Cuba and Porto Rico, | but it has now been decided to hold | them north.
 A Madrid dispatch says; Everyone is now anxious that a peace treaty be | signed at once, and there is some ap- prehension lest the government ham, | per the peace commissioners with ridic- | ulous instructions Referring to the proposal that the government de-
 mand compensation for the piers and public buildings in Cuba, Fl Nacional | says: We might as well claim the | roads, mountains and barren fields.'" THE gross earnings from operation of the Baltimore x Ohio railroad for the month of July, 1898, were g., 3o5, ,991, an increase of S6o. .499
 Ex-Secretary John Sherman is quoted | as saying: "Gen. Miles is a soldier, and, like soldiers. is straightforward truthful man. He is no more afraid of | an issue than he is of an Indian, and when he comes back to Washington and tells what he knows an investiQa- tion of the war department will be in {, evitable."
 The president is seriously thinking of asking the senior Massachusetts senator. George F. Hoar, to take the place which will soon be vacated by Ambassador Hay, and he is restrained l only by his reluctance to remove Sena- tor Hoar from the position he now | holds.
 The San Francisco Merchants ex- change received news, on the 26th, from Unalaska confirming the report of the wreck of the bark Guardian. The captain and crew landed at Un- l alaska. The Guardian was bound | from Kotzebu Sound for Seattle and ran aground during fog on Tegalda | island
 The authorities of Dover, Del, be- lieve they have wound a web around Mrs. Ada Botkin, charged with having sent the poisoned candy, from which she can not disentangle herself. They are now patiently awaiting her arrival | from San Francisco.
 Rev. Thompson Rowland, a Baptist preacher for 50 years, died at his home near Eddyville, Ky, on the 25th, of hydrophobia. He was almost chewed to death by mad dog several weeks ago. The victim died in great agony lie was g years of age | A statement prepared by direction of
 the commissioner of inscrnai revenue shows that for July tt., avera ge daiiy
 shipment of interlll revenue Star,rs | aggregated. in numbers, ...a,.s ....32-
 Counting 27 days 70 Inc month. inc
 total is show nto have been 614 ,939, 129.
 Japan wants to buy ;Iie I.l,lrone i=-
 lands from the United States or Spar,
 and is willing to pay a goo1 prlce for
 them, according to late Japanese I,l- pers received. Japan wants to extend
 her fishing" industry in that direc-
 ton.
 Mrs. Ada Botkin. under arrest in San
 Francisco on the charge of sending
 the box of poisoned candy which
 caused the death of Mrs. J. P. Cunning
 and her sister, Mrs. J. R. Deane. of
 Dover, Del, lived in Kansas City. Mo-
 l2 or l5 years ago. The family was
 prominent in social and financial cir
 cles there for number of years. The Spanish transports San Fran
 cisco, San Augustin and Colon left San-
 tiago, in the 25th, for Spain, with 4, ,56s
 Spaniards, including 15 officers and
 their families and four priests. Eight
 men died on the way to the ships | Their corpses were checked off as
 passengers.
 An order has been issued by the war
 department extending the furlough of | nr laa .f ahS f..<> on
 days to 50 days.
 The United Typothete of America
 will hold its next annual convention
 at New Haven, Conn.
 The situation between England and China has become acute. The relations
 between the two governments have
 reached breaking point, and ere long
 the whole of Europe will be engaged
 in diplomatic war, if, indeed, not one of steel and fire
 The correspondent of the London Times at Manila says: "Tweuty-three l thousand stands of arms, 10000 900
 cartridges and an immense quantity of
 large ammunition have been surren-
 dered to the Americans, with nearly l5, 900 prisoners.
 | -hicS " ldNlS. udupuCtF or JtI-
 ferson Davis, is seriously ill at the Rockingham, Narragansett Pier, R. l.,
 where she has been confined to her bed | several weeks. Mrs Davis is at the
 bedside of her daughter.
 l The Carlists and republicans, mem
 bers of the Spanish cortes, have de- cided not to attend the forthcoming | session, and they will issue manifesto
 to the country explaining the reasons for their absence.
 The peace commission as finally or | ganized is composed of William k. Day, | chairman, Senator Cushman K Davis, Senator William B. Frye, Mir. Whitelaw I Reid and Justice Edward White, of the | United States supreme court. A car load of fruit sent by fruit rais- CTS in the neighborhood of San Diego, Cal. for the soldiers at Montauk Point, | through Miss Helen Gould, arrived at