The Forrest City times., 1898-02-04
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

The brick manufacturers of the coun.
try are in convention at St Louis.
Wabash passenger train No. Is killed
an unknown tramp at Thompson, Mo.
Lester 4. Beardslee. rear admiral. q.
S. y, was retired Tuesday on account
of age.
Coinage in January was IS. 1s9. olO. of
which 81, $50. 600 was in standard silver
dollars.
George Bowers. of West Virginia.
has been appointed commissioner Of
fish and fisheries.
The senate subcommittee on rivers
and harbors and Congressman Catch
ings are in ST. Louis.
c. II. Barney's livery and feed stable
at Eureka, H.. was destroyed by fire.
and IL horses were eremated.
Col Samuel I. Cushing has been pro-
noted TO be brigadier-general and
eommissary general of subsistence.
Alderman George A. Durham. of Min
neapolis, Mimi. convicted of receiving
a bride, has been refused new trial.
The treasury deficit for January was
nearly IS 600. 900. For the fiscal year
to February it is more than S51, OOO.-
600.
Archbishop Kahn will be one of the
vice-presidents at the reception TO Gen.
Booth, of the Salvation army, in ST.
Louis.
Sir Tatton Sykes has secured an in
junction, in London. to prevent the
sale of family he;rlooms which his wife
pawned.
James c. Boykin has been designated
chief special agent of the interior de-
partment for the Transmississippi ex-
position.
The cruiser Brooklyn aud other ships
of the North Atlantic squadron will
tour the West Indies. Tney may stop
at several Cuban ports.
A protracted meeting. which has
been in session for four weeks at the
Baptist church in Ridgeway, Ill,
closed with 6s conversions.
The Pekin correspondent OF the Lon
don Times says that Great Britain has
definitely withdrawn her demand for
the opening of Ta-Lien- Wan.
Capt Ray reports from Alaska that
the government should restrain from
emigration to that territory all who
are not well supplied with food.
The treasury statement shows an
available cash balance of S223, STl 7s6.
The gold reserve, si64 2a6 1872, is larger
than al any time since August, 1890.
Hawaiian annexationists have be-
come convinced that 60 senators will
vote for the treaty, and will press it to
a final vote at the earliest day pos
sible.
dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Nagasaki says: THE far eastern
situation is very serious, and it is be.
lieved that japan is actively preparing
for war;
Capt--Gen. Blanco will return to Ha-
vana in the course of the next few
days. His return is the principal topic
of conversation and provol1es a great
variety of comment.
A dispatch to the London Standard
from Kobe, Japan. says the emperor oil
Corea refuses to reside at the Russian
legation, and the pro-English foreign
minister has resigned.
A vote was taken in Hamilton county,
H., to see whether the county railroad
bonds be paid in Que year or in &c
years. The 20-year proposition carried
by majority of about 500.
AT Hot Springs Ark. four single
story cottages aud Il warehouse. to.
gether with the furniture and con tents.
belonging TO Robert Murray and ID. j.
Smith, were destroyed by fire.
Sparks from an engine set fire to the
large hot air dry kiln of the Ramsay
Lum Der Co. at Steele, Ala. Several thou
sand feet of lumber and the buildings
were destroyed. Very little insurance.
Mrs. Armour. the mother of A. V
Armour, of New York. cruising in
southern waters on his yacht, died
Tuesday at Charleston, 5. c. She had
been i'll for some time, and went south
to recuperate.