The Forrest City times., 1898-09-16
CURRENT TOPICS,
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Spanish officials at San Juan, Porte
Rico. are reported to be destroying the
small arms stored in the arsenal there
The rifles are hammered into ineffect
yeness and then thrown into the sea
Joseph Chamberlain admitted, on the
9Th, that the treaty with Germany had
been signed, thus making it known to
The world for the first time that such
an alliance had actually been made.
So hot was the pursuit of the Kha
lifa Abdullah by Gen. Kitchener's
camel corps, after the recent battle
that some of the khalifa's wives were
abandoned by the roadside. The derv-
Ssh losses foot up 1920 killed, 10000
wounded and nearly 1000 prisoners.
The president received message
from Maj.-Gen. Otis, in command al
Manila, on the 18th, stating that Aguin
aldo had been given "a hours in which
to retire from the suburbs of Manila
Should he fail to do so Gen. Otis will
drive him out.
1t is stated at the war department,
that the troops to be used to garrison
Cuba pending the establishment OF
some permanent form of government
will be principally regulars. The regi
ments, however, have not yet been Sc
ected
Six cases of yellow fever have devel
,ped in Col. Sargent's Fifth immune
regiment at Santiago de Cuba.
A cable dispatch from Hong Kong,
lated the 9th, announced that com.
nittee of three Filipinos, appointed
by Aguinaldo, had left Hong Kong in
order to confer with President Nc
Kinley upon the future of the Philip
pines.
A dispatch from Washington, on the
sth, said: 1.-The administration officials
nave had no recent cause to feel that a
critical condition of affairs was near
1T hand with the insurgent forces in
The Philippines.
Col. James A. Sexton, of Chicago,
was elected commander-in-chie of the
J. A. r. at Cincinnati, on the sth, re-
sewing 424 votes against PAL for A. d.
Shaw, of New York. No other names
were presented.
H. b. Hawley, present congressman
from the Tenth district, the only re-
publican from Texas, was renominated
by the convention held at Columbus
3n the sth.
A dispatch was received in London
IN the sth, from the British minister
1T Pekin, Sir Claude Macdonald, con-
irming the report that Lii Hung Chang
nad been dismissed at his 1.-THE min
,ster's) request
Col. Lopez, Of the Fifty-first Iowa
regiment, at San Francisco, received q
dispatch from Gov. Shaw of Iowa, on
the sth, telling him not to allow his
men to suffer for anything, and add
ing that the state will foot the bills
The colonel replied that his regiment
was all right.
Aurora borealis brought all tele.
graphing at Chicago to a standstill for
time on the 9th. The area of dis
turbance extended 500 miles or more in
all directions from Chicago.
Gen. Shafter reached Washington,
On the 9th, and went Immediately to
the Ebbitt house.
Horrible stories are told by the ref
ugees from Gambia. They say the
Bashi Bazouks cut open the bodies oil
their Christian victims, and threw the
antrails INTO the flames of the burning
houses. They hurled the British vice
consul bodily into the flames.
Failures for the week ended on the
9TH, as reported by r. g. Dun & Co.
were, for the United States, 1o4, against
Pts for the corresponding week last
year; for Canada the failures were IS
against 3a for last year
The American army chaplains in
Manila have instituted Protestant
services in private buildings. Such
services have never previously been
held IN the history of the Philippine
islands.
The statement of the condition OF
the treasury, issued on the 9th, showed
Available cash balance, 1907, 1851 ,o15
gold reserve. S332, 1914, 394.
Louis Sass, sporting editor of tn,
Chicago Record, and Carl Smith, edi
torial writer on the same paper. wer,
diONhSu. OA tit 5tu. w the CdpSlZlHt
OF their canoe near the city of Quebec
Canada.
The war department has ordered tn,
discharge of number of officers con
nected with the volunteer service
whose service will no. longer be re
quired. Among those discharged wa
Capt. James G. Blaine. now en- rout,
to Manila. 1t is said the captain is al
together too gay.
The monthly report of the low;
weather and crop service estimates
lowa's crop for this year as follows
Corn yield, 2so,000.000 bushels, al
increase of 40,0O0,O0O over last year
average, "a bushels per acre. Wheat
24,t37.si4 bushels; increase. o.524, 560,
average per acre, winter wheat, Is
spring. Is. Oats-Total yield. l4I,S55,
coo bushels; increase, 9,304.000; aver
age. 80 per acre.
The Masonic temple at Washington
Courthouse, o., was destroyed by fir,
on the 18th. The Springfield. o.. fir,
department rendered timely assis
tance. The loss ON the building is
about $4,000.