The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1898-09-09
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| eral delivery" The intention of the
department is to have all such checks
delivered at the individual local adj
dress of the pensioners.
| The French people now believe that
| Capt. Dreyfus will be brought home,
| unless he is murdered beforehand
through the instrumentality of those
who dread his revelations. If he
| reaches France alive he may expect
| restoration to his rank in the srmy, as
may also his champion, Col. Picquart.
Mrs. Sarah Shanllenberger has been
arrested at Frankfort, Ind, charged
with murder in having Systematically
poisoned her daughter-in-law, whose
husband was in the navy, on board
the cruiser Minneapolis. He arrived
home on the LIST.
Gov. Tanner of Illinois, on the LIST.
refused to send troops to Pana, on the
request of Sheriff Coburn, on the
ground that he was opposed to the inn
portation of outside labor into the state
which must depend upon the army of
the state for protection while at work.
The auxiliary cruisers ST. Paul and
st. Louis, at Cramps ship yards, Phil
adelphia, were returned to the Inter-
national Navigation Co. by the govern
ment on the ID.
An imperial decree has been issued
summoning the Austrian reichsrath to
meet on September 26
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the I'd,
showed: Available cash balance, S29e,
5is.912; gold reserve, 219.320,372.
Gen. Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky.
has sued for divorce from his girl
wife, Dora Richardson Clay. In his
petition he asks that the defendant be
restored to her maiden name and given
all proper relief. which is supposed to
mean that he intends to provide a lib
eral alimony.
The Bertram ship yards at Toronto,
Ont, have been destroyed by fire The
steamer City of Toronto, in the final
stages of construction by the Bertram
company, was saved with great diff
Guilty. The loss is placed at about S7o.-
600.
An agitation is growing in Yolso-
hama, out of the purchase by the gov
eminent of four trunk railroads, and
reports are revived that the govern
ment intends to raise a foreign loan of
$50, 900, 900 in order to complete public
works.
| Failures for the week ended on the
Sd, as reported by Il. q. Dun Il Co. :,
were, for the United States, III. against
l9l for the corresponding week last
year; for Canada the failures were %.
against 25 for last year
The international conference at Que
bee, adjourned, on the I'd, until Sep
TENDER 20.
Private Alex. LaDuke, Co. /, Second
Wisconsin volunteers, has been placed
in the federal prison at Leavenworth,
kas., to remain for life, for the muir
der of Private Thomas Stafford, of the
Thirteenth United States infantry, in
saloon row at Ponce. Porto Rico.
Maj. Huer, of the United States en-
gineer corps, has removed So of the 90
mines or torpedoes put in San Fran
cisco bay at the outbreak of the war
with Spain. He is experiencing some
difficulty in locating the remaining
six mines, as they had dragged their
anchors.
Frank, George and Mabel Ferguson,
aged "a, 10 and IA, respectively, were
drowned at Stamford, Conn, on the
Sd, by the upsetting of row boat in a
pond, about mile off Norton islands.
On the recommendation of the Swed-
| ish Norwegian council, King Oscar has
notified the ear of his acceptance of
ha in ifat 20 Al
peace conference.
According to advices from Iloilo,
Gen. Rios, governor of the Vizcayas
is arresting and shooting suspected
persons, including prominent natives
| of Manila.
The United States transport Missis-
sippi sailed from Ponce, Porto Rico, on
the Sd, for New York, having on board
the Pennsylvania cavalry and artil-
| lery.
Canadian Pacific railway earnings
for the week ended the 3lst were S7ls,-
600; for the same period last year the
earnings We're 1854, 900; increase, S34,-
600.
The Memphis (Tenn.) board of
health, on the 4th, instituted a gem
eral quarantine against the fever-in-
fected points in Mississippi. and it
applies 10 the country generally. No
persons, not citizens temporarily alb
sent. viii be permitted TO enter the
city on any railroad. steamboat or dirt
road.
Indians arriving at Dauphin, Mani
toba, from the far north, report meet
ing an Eskimo, who told of the appear
ance among them of "A strange man
who descended from the clouds on the
shores of Hudson bay. The opinion
among the whites is that the man is
Andree, the arctic explorer.
New York has been suffering from
intense heat as well as the rest of the
country. On the 4th there were 43
deaths from heat prostration in the
district embraced in Greater New
York.
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