The Forrest City times., 1898-09-30

FORREST CITY, ARKANSAS.
Preparations are being made for an
elaborate and impressive ceremony
when the American flag is raised over
San Juan de Porto Rico.
The Filipino congress is engaged on
the question of raising funds to de-
fray expenses of the maintenance of
the army pending a decision by the
Paris conference.
The board of directors OF the San
Francisco Manufacturers and Produc-
ers' association has passed resolutions
favoring the retention of the Philip
pine islands as a part of the United
States.
The French minister of foreign af-
fairs, NJ. Delcasse. has offered the
Spanish and American peace commits
sioners the use of the foreign Office
for their meetings, which commence
on October 1.
army, has completed his plans for the
reorganization of the volunteer forces
into corps, brigades and divisions, and
submitted them to the war depart
ment for approval.
The Americans contemplate taking
possession of the entire insurgent feet
in Manila bay, because the vessels are
flying an unrecognized flag, and are
liable to seizure as pirates by the war
vessels of any nation.
On the goth the official elimination
of the remains of Columbus took place
in Havana in the presence of Gen.
Blanco, Secretary Gown, the civil gov
crnor, the bishop, the dean of the ca
thcdral and other authorities.
A congress of mothers, under the
auspices of the national organization.
will be held in Omaha, Neb., October
S, and 10, by invitation of the Trans
mississippi exposition. All interested
in the movement are invited to attend.
nC WINNING Cukdgtu,
under Lieut.. Hobsen. in the work of
saving the wrecked Spanish warships,
has succeeded in floating the cruiser
Infanta Maria Teresa. The cruiser,
after being got afioat, was taken to
Guantanamo bay, where she arrived
on the cath.
The commission to investigate the
conduct of the war department dur
ing the recent conflict with Spain,
held its initial meeting at the White
House on the cath. There were eight
members present, and il was an
nounced that the services Of a ninth
man were counted upon.
On the Goth the peace commission
of the United States arrived in Paris.
and was met at the railway station by
the United States embassy, number
of Americans and many reporters. A
considerable crowd outside the depos
witnessed the departure of the com
missioners for their hotel.
Naval Constructor Hobson saws he
can raise the Spanish cruiser Cristo-
bal Colon, sunk at the battle of Santi-
ago, with the use of air bags in a week.
If given the authority to do so. The
Colon. it appears. was not seriously
damaged by shells, but her valves
were opened, which caused her to
sink.
Mail advices which reached King
ston, Jamaica, on the 23d, brought
melancholy relief to the suspense re-
garding the full extent of the hurri-
cane disaster on the islands of st. Vim
cent, st. Lucia and Barbados, show
ing that the first accounts of awful
destruction of life and property were
not exaggerated.
The United States consul at Vienna,
in a report to the state department on
the trade of Austria Hungary for 1897.
ascribes the general decrease in ex-
ports to this country to the fact that
the same goods are now manufactured
in the United States, and can be sold
there at the same or lower prices than
the Austrian goods.
The officials of the war department
pronounce to be without foundation
in fact the alarmist stories, coming
from sources in San Francisco, to the
effect that Germany had shown any
disposition to arm the Philippine in
surgents, with view to melting them
TO harrass the American army at Ma
Mia. Such an act would be a casus
belli.
A destructive hurricane swept over
southern Spain, On the 10Th, doing
great damage in the provinces of Sc
vile and Granada. Six persons were
killed and many injured, and a num-
Der of buildings were destroyed at Sc
vile, and SIS houses were demolished
and many persons fell victims to the
storm at Gaudix in the provinca ~