The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1898-06-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

WELL KNOWN Washington banking
house, on the 10th, made proposition
to the secretary of the treasury to sub
scribe for 500, 900, 900 of the new bonds
at 101. Under the law the bonds must
be sold at par and allotted to the SUBJ
scribers for the smaller amounts first,
hence the offer could not be enter
tanned.
Four THOUSAND additional troops
will leave Mobile as soon as transpor-
tation can be provided, and proceed di-
rectly to Santiago de Cuba to reinforce
the American army under Mai-Gen
Shafter.
lT took just one hour and thirty min
utes of vigorous Smelling by the Texas,
Marblehead and Suwanee, on the 18th,
to reduce to ruins the new earthworxs
and the old-fashioned brick fort at Cal
manera. Guantanamo bay. Cuba.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY will not carry
the war into Spain until Santiago,
Porto Rico and Havana have been cap
tured. This statement is made on au-
| thority from the executive mansion.
TnE international Fishery congress,
organized at Tampa, Fla, last year,
| has been invited to meet in Paris dur
ing the exposition and has accepted
| the invitation.
| The statement of the condition of
the treasury issued on the 18th showed:
Available cash balance, S1s6, BAG, 500;
gold reserve, $i63, 554, s25.
| THE bin to incorporate the interna-
4 -
ate on the 17th-96 to %.
| THE Philippine insurgents propose to
form a republic under Anglo American
tutelage.
! On the 18th the associated banks of
New York city held $50 27a. 800 in excess
of the requirements of the 25-per-cent
rule.
SPECIAL dispatches from Hong Kong,
confirming former reports frolu Ma
Mia add the rumor that Capt.-Gen.
Augustus wife and family are held as
hostages at Cavite.
| A PASSENGER train on the Pennsyl-
vania Central railroad was wrecked
three miles above Mauch Chunk, on the
10th, and the engineer, Richard Nc
Hale, of Easton, Pa, and the news
agent, Charles Elmer of South Easton,
were killed. Two others were badly
hurt.
In view of the approaching visit of
Emperor William to Palestine an aide
de-camp of the sultan is examining
and having repairs made upon all the
roads in Syria and Palestine. All the
troops have been presented with new
uniforms.
PARK CITY, Utah, was visited by a
disastrous confiagration, on the 10Th,
by which almost the entire business
portion of the town was DESTROYED, the
damages done being estimated at nearly
81, ZOO, 900.
The British steamer Zen Sang, which
arrived at Hong Kong from Manila
June IA, reported that on leaving Ma
Mia he sighted "a number of vessels, be-
lieved to be American transports
ADJr. Gen. CoRBIN made public, on
the 10th, the names of 1876 young men
who have been selected for appoint
ment as second lieutenants in the reg
ular army to till vacancies created by
the act of congress adopting the three
battalion organization for the infantry
arm of the service and the addition of
one second lieutenant to all batteries
when filled to war strength.
THERE has been shown considerable
resentment on the part of the military
authorities at Madrid over the report
that President Mckinley had sent a
message to Admiral Cervera. stating
that the Spanish admiral ard Gen.
Pando, of the Spanish army, would be
held personally responsible should
harm befall Lieut.. Hobson and his
men.
The government has taken a firm
stand with regard to securing trans
ports To carry the troops to Manila, and
from this time forward impressment
will be made the rule until enough yes
sells have been secured to carry the
army from San Francisco to the Philip
pines
FIRE at Albuquerque, n. NJ, on the
10Th, destroyed Grants opera house, and
with it the great dry goods store of
llfeld Bros, on the lower floor of the
building. Lose, 100000; insurance,
sie7. 900
The Aston light battery, numbering
lol men, including three officers, ar
rived in San Francisco on the Goth.