The Forrest City times., 1898-04-29

1T was announced. on the 25th. that
the queen regent of Spain still hoped
Tor peaceful foreign intervention.
RECRUITING OFFICER DAY. located al
Cleveland. o., received orders from
Washington. on the s5th. to enlist all
the men between 81 and 35 he possibly
could for the hospital corps. experienced
men being preferred.
TIE war departm ent refuses to con-
firm the contract made By the quarter
master at st. Louis with Sparks Bros,
of Kansas City. for 800 pack mules at
slOS. IS per head. 1t was also broadly
lntimated from Washington that no
more mules would be bought in Kansas
City, as the government will not allow
itself TO be robbed.
GOVERNMENT officials at Jacksonville
Fla. are making arrangements looking
to the immediate invasion of Cuba.
Twenty of the leading Cuban physicians
have been engaged to go with the army
from that city, and 20 young men who
speak English will accompany them as
interpreters.
REAR-ADNIRAL SAMPSON has asked
permission to shell Havana's forts. and
the navy department has the request
under consideration. 1t is CALLING to
the pride of the navy to be constantly
hired at and not be allowed to respond
in kind
Gov. TANNER of Iilinc has declined
TO turn down Maj. Young. a West
Pointer, who is at the head of the cav
airy arm of the Illinois national guard.
to make room for John A. Logan as
colonel OF the cavalry regiment or
dered into service.
UNDER the provisions OF the army re-
organization bill. which was finally
passed, on the 25th, the regular army
may be increased. in time of actual war.
from 2T,O00 to 6),O0O. This will be inn
mediately acted upon.
CONGRESS, on the 25th. passed a bill.
in response to a request from the presi-
dent, declaring a state of war to exist
between the United States and Spain.
The president promptly signed the bill
NAVAL officers high in the service
make no secret o. the fact that they
expect to fight across the water. They
point out that this country is making
quite too extensive preparations for a
war to be fought on this side only.
THE United States government, it is
reported, has offered Greece A., 900. 600
francs for her entire fleet OF warships.
Grecian sympathy is with the United
States, and the proposition may be con-
sldercd.
UPON the recommendation of Capt.
Demly, judge advocate general, Secre-
tary Long, on the Goth, directed the
release from Boston naval prison of
IS sailors. The men had been in pris-
on for various infractions of military
law, and the department thought that
conditions warranted their restoration
to active service
THE United States gunboat Newport.
Capt b. F. TilIey, on the 26th, towed
to Key West, Fla. the Spanish sloop
Pacquett and the Spanish schooner Pr
reneo, coasting vessels, which she had
captured off vana.
COMMANDO IoRAcE ELMER, until
recently commander of the Mos
quito feet, and who was retired be-
cause of ill-health, relieved by Admi ral
Erben, died at the Mansion house in
Brooklyn on the 26th.
THE Italian Red Cross society has of
fered its services with the use of its
paraphernalia to the Red Cross socie-
ties of the United States and Spain.
THE powder mills at Santa Cruz, CAL,
blew up, on the Goth, wounding sew
eral employees, and killing seven out
right. The buildings afterward caught
fire and the damage done was very
great.