The Forrest City times., 1898-07-29
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| IslcO lney Will remain IN IuDd until
yellow fever has been entirely stamped
out.
ALL the old officers of the United
Confederate Veterans were re- elected
at the Atlanta (Ga.) convention as fol-
! lows: Gen. John b. Gordon. Georgia,
general commanding; Gen. Stephen ID.
Lee, Mississippi, commanding the de-
partment of Tennessee: Gen. w. L.
Cabell, of Texas. transmississippi de-
| partment; Gen. Wade Hampton, the
army of Virginia.
In the vicinity OF Casselton,N D.. on
the 2lst, $4,000 acres of wheat was
destroyed by ahail storm.
| A TORNADO struck Minot, n. d., on
the night of the 21st, demolishing II
buildings and injuring number of
| people. No one " as killed. The coun-
| ty hospital was destroyed, and sew
eral of the inmates badly injured Six
loaded box cars ON the 500 tracks were
| blown 100 feet from the rails and de-
molished.
WHILE bathing in the Minnesota
river at Morton, Mimi, on the ED.
Barbara aud Rachel Gale. Martha
! Lorenz and Alvina Reis-all under 60
| were drowned.
The United States cruiser st. Paul
arrived at New York, on the ed, after
a run of four days from the harbor of
Guantanamo. with all well on board.
THE statement of the condition of
| the treasury issued on the ed showed:
| Available cash balance, s25s, 72O, l29;
gold reserve, $3.50, ass, 533.
ARRANGEMENTS are being perfected
at the war department for the estab-
| lishment OF a military garrison at Hon.
olulu.
THE president has appointed Ferdi-
nand Peck, of Chicago, commissioner
general of the Paris exposition
THE little colony of foreign naval and
military attaches who saw the battles
| about Santiago and who have returned
| to New York talk enthusiastically about
| the bravery and magnificent discipline
| of the American troops and splendid
work of Simpsons fleet. They say our
| men would have done still better work
had they been supplied with smokeless
| powder.
SECRETARY LONG spent about two
hours with the president, on the cath,
| presumably in going over Admiral
Simpsons report on the destruction Of
the Spanish fleet at Santiago.
The most conservative figures on the
seasons surplus wheat crop in the Co.
| lumbia river basin and the William
cite valley in Oregon are 1850, 900 tons.
| These are based on last years actual
surplus of the known increased acre
age this year over last, and the first
rate condition of crops now under har-
| vest.
w. l. SAMUELs, banker and distiller,
and one of the wealthiest men of Nell
son county, KY, ended long illness,
on the ED, at Bardstown, by shooting
himself in the head with revolver
The news was great shock to the
community, in which he was highly
respected.
LIEUT.. HoBsoN arrived in New York,
on the ED, on the auxiliary cruiser St.
Paul and proceeded at once to Wash
ington with dispatches for the navy de-
partment. He was recognized on land
ing and was heartily cheered, as he was
later on his arrival in Washington.
INFORMATION reached Santiago, on
the ed, that 1000 insurgents. compris-
ing Gen. Garcia's army for the eastern
department of Cuba, have been routed
in fierce engagement with detach-
ment of Spanish troops bound for San
tiago to surrender to Shafter.
AT an early hour on the morning of
the cath the car barn of the CONSOLE
dated Traction CO., of Pittsburgh, Pa. +,
was completely Quilted by fire, entail
ing loss of about $175, 900; well COW
cred by insurance. Thirty-six of the
so cars in the building were destroyed.
REPORTS received from the eastern,
middle and western states show the
tonnage of hay this year to be greater
than any during the past ten years,
and the conditions of the harvested
crop above the average.
A DISPATCH from Madrid says the
chiefs of the Carlist organization are
leaving Spain.
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES on the
e4th. received telegram announcing
the safe arrival at Santiago of the con-
struction boat Panama. She will pro-
coed at once to Porto Rico to join the
feet there.
SENIOR SAeAsTA, the Spanish pre-
mier, says that not all the troops in
cluded in the equalization of Santiago
agreed to surrender.
On the 23d the associated banks of
the city of New York held S42, ole, 600 in
excess of the requirements of the 25-
percent. rule.
A CALL for the fifth annual meeting
of the National Hay association to be
held at Buffalo, n. Y, August 9, has
been issued.
THE London Times, in its weekly war
review, expresses the opinion that the
measures taken by Gen. Shafter for the
protection of life and property at San
tiago de Cuba will exercise definite
influence in other parts of the island,
where it will be understood that
Spanish loyalists are not to be aban-
doned, whatever happens
GEN. GOMEZ is quoted as saying: Il
have only to say that the only man that