The Forrest City times., 1898-09-02

Alsace- Lorraine prerequisite to her participation in the conference.
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 A PERENNIAL convention of weather bureau meteorologists will be held at Omaha in the middle of October. The convention will be opened by Prof Willis l.. Moore, chief of the bureau. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson may attend.
 Dr. W. D. Carmichael, in charge of the Cleveland (O.) marine hospital, has been appointed superintendent of the marine hospital service of the Hawaii an islands. He will be stationed at Honolulu. and from that point will di- rect the work.
 The navy department has ordered the cruisers St. Louis and St. Paul to the League Island navy yard, Philadel- phia, where they will be restored to their condition as liners and returned to the American line, from which they were chartered.
 All the principal officers of the Bur lington's Missouri lines have been pre- sented with gold-mounted canes and umbrellas by the members of the Mis- souri Press association, who were given an excursion to the Omaha expo sition few weeks ago.
 ACCORDING to unofficial returns the Choctaws have, by their vote, ratified the agreement made between the Choc- taw and Dawes commissioners. The negro freedmen were allowed to cast their vote and no disturbances took place, as was at first expected.
 At joint meeting of the Welsh min. CTS, on the 2Sth, it was decided to ac cept the employers terms offered a, the Cardiff conference, on the 26th, by which the miners get an increase oi five per cent. in wages. This ended the disastrous six months strike.
 TIE secretary of state has appointed Henry Turner Bailey, of Massachu. setts, and Thomas II. Wood, of New York, delegates on the part of the United States to the international con. gross of public art, which is to meet al Brussels from September 24 to 2s.
 ALL the newspapers in London arc publishing and commenting on an ap- parently authoritative article to the eff. feet that the vice royalty of Ireland is likely, next year, to be made a non-po. litical and permanent office, and to be conferred upon the queens third son, the duke of Connaupht
 
 The torpedo boat Davis, which is be ing constructed at heWolif t& Sewicliei iron works, at Portland, Ore, was given preliminary trial on the Will. liamette river on the 27th. No effort was made to force the craft up to the required speed, 2e1z knots, but it is announced that the trial was satisfac tory in every respect.
 The cabinet, on the 26th, discussed various questions concerning Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines It was decided to admit butter and butterint to Porto Rico and Cuba. when stamped as such, at two cents a pound. This is material reduction, the Spanish rate IT.. butterine was not admitted.
 
 Preparations making at Kansas City Mo-, for peace jubilee this fall promise to evolve the greatest demon. stration that city has ever seen. The movement is already under way, and a universal desire is shown to express in fitting manner the satisfaction felt over the achievements of the army and navy and the culmination of peace.
 1t was announced, on the goth, at the war department that Gen. Merritt was to go to Paris to give the peace com mission the benefit of his experience in the Philippines. The original plan was to send Admiral Dewey to Paris upon representations from the admiral that he could be of greater service at Manila than in Paris
 SIR JOHN BRANsToS, former assistant under secretary of state for the colo nies, and at one time attorney general for Queensland. and Admiral Sir James Elphinstone Erskine, commander in chief of the British squadrons on the North American and West Indians stations, have been appointed commits sioners to investigate the French treaty rights in Newfoundland
 ON the 25th the pension office grant ed a pension to An Chum, Chinese subject and widow of Pascal Martin, sailor of the United States navy, to whom she was married in Shanghai in 1895 Three children were born to the couple. The widow will receive Ss per month and the children g. a month each. Almost every other coun- try furnishes one or more pensioners for Uncle Sam, but until now China was without representative.