The Forrest City times., 1898-06-10

bay and was sunk by torpedo and several of her crew captured.
 THE navy department received a cablegram. on the 5th, announcing the death at Kobe, Japan, on the 4th. of Capt Chas. V. Gridley, of the cruiser Olympia. Admiral Dewey's flagship, who was recently invalided home.
 JOHN ANDERSON, the elephant keeper with Wallace Bros. circus, was killed at Racine, Wis, on the 3d. by one of the elephants that became ugly. The animal broke away and chased the whole police force and an excited crowd of citizens.
 PACKAGE was received at the New York city post office. on the 4th, ad- dressed to Mayor Van Wyck. The package happened to break and q dynamite cartridge four inches long was exposed. A fuse was attached to one end of the cartridge.
 THrRTY-SISE Spanish prisoners cap- tured on the Spanish steamship Rita, of Porto Rico, on May s, arrived in New York city, on the 3d, on the Clyde line steamship Seminole. They were turned over to the Austrian consul for shipment back to Spain.
 SENATOR HAwLEY introduced bill. on the 7th. for the punishment of per sons who may willfully injure or de- stroy any submarine mine or torpedo or harbor defense system owned by the United States. The offense is made a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment.
 TIE English newspaper correspond- ents. Messrs Whigham and Robinson, recently captured on Cuban soil, after having been landed on the coast from a yacht, were released from custody. on the 3d, owing to the representations made in their behalf by Mir. Alexander Gollan, the British consul
 A SPECIAL from St. Thomas says that the French transatlantic liner Yer sailles loaded l.2JJ tons of coal from lighters i'll St. Thomas harbor, on the night of the 7th, the purpose being to transfer the fuel to the Spanish collier Alicante, which was lying just beyond the threemile limit off the island.
 TIE statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended on the 4th showed the following changes: Surplus reserve, decrease, sl, 454 900; loans, increase, Sil,9s0. .9o0; specie, increase, Sl,6i0, ,l0J; legal ten ders, increase, Ss5s, ,3Jo; deposits, in- crease, ,Si3, 4i3, 2)J; circulation, decrease, s6,500.
 WHEN Rear-Admiral Sampson called for volunteers to go to almost certain death in the expedition to sink the col Her Merrimac in the neck of Cervera's IS bottle at Santiago, 4,ooo men re- sponded. Eight were chosen, and they did the work we'll under perfect tor. rent of shot and shell from the Span ish forts and land batteries.
 REPRESENTATIVE HARTMAN, of Mon tana, has introduced joint resolution m the house directing the secretary of the navy to have prepared and deliv- cred suitable medals of honor to Lieut.. Hobson and each member of his crew for gallant, heroic and patriotic serv- ices rendered to the United States at Santiago harbor on June 5, ls9s.
 JOSEPH CAsrELLANos and Frank Mil. Ter, who are believed to be spies, were taken to Atlanta, Ga, on the 3d, from Tampa, Fla. Castellanos is Spaniard, nd h..l t..a. l.,l al afa {, A.l, coast. Miller is said to be an English man. No papers were found on them The two men were locked up in the military prison at Fort McPherson.
 THE St. James Gazette says it learns that proposal made in influential cir. cles and backed by the liberal leaders is afoo,, with the object of comforting a title on the widow of the late Wm. E. Gladstone. It is suggested that Mrs. Gladstone be created countess of Liv erpool, and another member of the family be created Viscount Hawarden.
 AMoNe the pa assengers who arrived at San Francisco on the steamer Bel gic, on the 7th, from Hong Kong, were four men who participated in the tigh, of Manila bay on May l. They arc Paymaster C. A. Loud, of the dispatch boat McCulloch; Dr. Charles F. Kindle berger, surgeon of the Olympia; Ralpl Phelps, secretary to the captain of the McCulloch, and J. C. Evans, gunner O the Boston.
 TIE Northern Pacific liner Victoria from China and Japan, arrived at Ia coma, Wash, on the 5th, bringing news that the spirit of rebellion and riot pervades many parts of the orient Five thousand robbers are as sembles in one band in the mountains oi Loyange, kinchou district, near Can