The Forrest City times., 1898-03-18

THE directors of the Minnesota Iron Co have declared dividend of l5l per cent. payable April Is.
 | THE ship New York, from Hong Kong for San Francisco, was blown
 ashore in Half Moon bay, 30 miles south of the later city,on the l3th and
 was left high and and dry on the beach.
 Although intact, the chances of getting
 her of were thought to be very poor. l A SPAN on the Chicago & Northwest eru railroad drawbridge at winona,
 Minn-, collapsed on the 14th. Six men were injured, all but one of them being from Chicago.
 A GRANT club has been organized at San Diego, Cal, for the purpose of pro- noting the candidacy of U. $. Grant as United States senator.
 SENIOR DOMINGO GANG, the Chilian minister at Washington, has been ap- pointed minister plcnipotcntiary to the court of St. James.
 Ar Johannesburg, South Africa, on the l4th. . man named Feldthren en- | tered the office of Mir. Wolfe Joel. trus- tee of the Barnato estate, and demand ed 43.500. Being refused he snatched 1 a revolver from desk and fired. The bullet entered Jocl's forehead and he fell to the ground and expired. The
 murderer attempted to commit suicide, but failed.
 By order of the quartermastcr-gen. eral, Col. Charles Williams, United States army, in charge of the Jeffer- sonville und.) depot of army supplies, has advertised for bids for the manu- fracture of 500 sets of harness and 9 ambulances, with the understanding that the contracts when let be filled without delay.
 THE Paris correspondent of the Lon- don Times says: According to informa- tion obtained from good sources, the Austrian emperor is making great ef- forts to induce the European powers to present to the United States the dan- ger to Europe of their carrying any fur ther their interference in Cuban af- fairs.
 GAIT. DAVIS H. GILE, the first Chica- go man to enlist in the W ar of the re- bellion, died on the 14th. Mir. Gile was born at Corinth, Me, July IS, 1886, and at an early age removed to Chicago. On April l3, 1861, he enlisted as pri- vate in Barker's Chicago dragons, the noted Board of Trade battery. l TIE wife of Senator Thurston, of Ne braska, died, on the 14th, on board the yacht Anita, Ut Sagua la Grande (Cuba) harbor. This information was sent by Consul Barker to Consul-General Lee at Havana.
 ON the 18th ex-Trcasurcr John E. Reidy, of the St. Louis Police Relief association, in order to protect half dozen men who had sshelped eat the pie, :" pleaded guilty to two indictments for embezzlement, and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. ". Q. LAvAKE, a prominent attor-
 ncy, was shot dead in his office in the
 business center of Dubuque, Ia., on the 18th. Four shots were fired, all taking effect. Although the streets were crowded at the time, the murderer es- caped recognition.
 THE American yacht Anita, having on board the body of Mrs. Thurston, wife of Senator Thurston, and the members of the congressional party who have been visiting Cuba, arrived at Key West, Fla, on the 18th, from
 Matanzas.
 THE senate committee on naval af-
 fairs, having under consideration the
 resolution instructing it to make an
 investigation of the Maine disaster, de-
 cided, on the 18th, by vote of six to
 five, to postpone action for the present.
 THE Victor mill, at Cohoes, N. Y.,
 the largest woolen mill in the United
 States, was burned on the 18th.