The Forrest City times., 1898-06-10

l ADMIRAL CEgvERA will be allowed to select from the list of Spanish prison CTS at Fort McPherson, Ga, whom he Is willing to take in exchange for Con- structor Hobson and the gallant crew that manned the Merrimac on her last run.
 LATEST advices from Admiral Dewey report 70 hours fighting around Ma nila. the insurgents driving the Span ish back with great slaughter.
 ON the 9th, according to a report from Port au-Prince, Hayti, Admiral sampson forced the passage of Santi- ago bay and engaged the Spanish fleet, sinking two of Cervera's ships. One American ship was injured TIE arsenal at Cavite. Philippine Is- lands. has been prepared for occupa- tion by the United States troops upon their arrival on transports.
 THE statement of the condition of the treasury, issued on the 9th. showed: Available cash balance, sl9i, ,l3T, ,si2; gold reserve, si7o.556.3s4.
 WHILE fishing at Bluff creek, on. the eth, Judge J. NJ. Thomas. of Caldwell. kas.. was drowned He vas pioneer and had held many important state of- fees.
 Miss KATHARINE McKESNA, sister of Associate Justice Nick enna. of the United States supreme court, died in San Francisco on the eth. She was a native of Philadelphia, and was 57 years of age.
 TIE London papers are engaged in extolling the heroism of Lieut. Hobson and the chivalry of Admiral Cervera. They seem to overlook the fact that the prisoners are confined in Fl Morro, in the direct line of fire from our ships, a fact roundly denounced by American officers.
 ON to Porto Rico will be the pro- gramme as soon as the Santiago expe- dition is landed. The troops for this latter movement will be gathering on the east coast of Florida even while those who have left Tampa will be still on the water.
 FRIENDS of Gen. Lew Wallace, who have been urgently presenting his name for ma major-generalship of volun- teers, will be sorry to learn that the president has aboIt decided that he can not make the appointment, the sole reason being Gen. Wallace's age.
 AN American force is said to have landed at Aguadores, just south of San tiago de Cuba, on the 9th, under the protection of the guns of Sampson $ fleet. Heavy firing was heard for the most of the day.
 ALL day long, on the 9th, troops were embarking on the transports at Tampa Fla. There were 20,000 men, to say nothing of horses and equippage to be loaded. It is said there would be 40 transports in the feet
 ONE of the most notable weddings in Maine this year will be the marriage of Mrs. Nellie Grant Satoris to Gen. Henry Kyd Douglass, of Maryland, the last survivor of Stonewall Jackson's s staff, at Bar Harbor.
 oN the Baltimore .& Ohio railway. six miles east of Parkersburg, O.. at 3 a. m., on the 7th, freight train was derailed, and passenger train ran into it. John Henry, engineer, was killed, and seven persons were wounded
 THE bill for the removal of all po- litical disabilities arising from the civil war became d law, on the 7th, Presi- dent Mckinley formally approving it. Representative Jenkins, of Wisconsin, is it's author.
 TIE annual convention of the Amer ican Medical association opened at Denver. Col, on the 7th, with large attendance. Gov. Adams and Mayor McMurray delivered addresses of well come.