The Forrest City times., 1898-03-18


 work as yet unfinished on the 100 ten and twelve-inch guns and carriages, and the force of skilled mechanics in sll departments is working night and dxy.
 0N the fith, Gen. Brooke, command tng the department of the Missouri, or. aored court-martial in the case of Capt. Charles T. Witherell, stationed II Fort Wayne, Detroit, Mich, charged with duplicating part of his company | " rolls-
 IN official of the United States cin- nosay in London said, on the 13th: Ut = absolutely untrue that we have been informed that Spain has raised e00, ,O0O,- ooo for the purchase of war ships, etc. i, nnd has deposited that amount in . Gondon bank.
 TwENTr miles of railroad tracks in Chicago will bc elevated this summer. The coat of the work will be in the nciehborhood of o8,0O0,O 900, and the 0ork will give employment to 5000 1en. By the elevation of these tracks uone of the most dangerous grade Mosaings in tho city will be done away nth.
 T Iknow part of the time of the cab het meeting. on the 18th, was con- 1unned h tho general discussion of the uooeures being taken to place the navy - . proper footing for defense in case = trouble. Tho question of the pur- dhase Of war ahips, where they could be nd, and 1t what price, was also talked sgcr.
 \ wRKKB negotiation closed, on the tAth, by the triumphant purchase by tho United States navy department in london Of the two fine cruisers built md building It Elswick, England, for fhe Brazilian government. These yea eels are among the latest and best 7rpducts of the famous Armstrong parda
 THE constitutionality and validity of he state laws of Kansas prohibiting tho transportation into that state of ,nttlc afflicted with TcxRs fever, and providing for . civil action for dam- nGes in case of the infraction of the nv, was, on the l4th, affirmed by decision of the United States supreme apurt.
 TuE weekly statement of the New Fork associated banks for the week ended on the 18th showed the following shanges: Surplus reserve, increase, n ,67o, ,9s5; loans, decrease, SlO, ,392, 400; specie, increase, e2,03S, 700; legal ten ders, decrease. &4,675, 400, deposits, de- sreasc. Sl0, ,53S, 300; circulation, decrease, D2o.Oo0.
 Ox the l1th the president signed the bill appropriating ssas,0o0 to be paid to Inc book agents of the Methodist Epis- 5opal Church, South, as full compensa- ton for the property of that corpora ton, used. taken away, injured, con snmed or destroyed by the United States or its army It Nashville, Tenn, during the war.
 B. R BARNETT, alias Mead, formerly of Indianapolis, who was arrested in Chicago on charge of swindling the First national bank by means of raised drafts, was released, on the 18th, the bank officials having requested that the case against him be dismissed. The matter, 1t is understood, was set tied out of court.
 GEN. REuB WILLIAMS, editor of the Northern Indianian, at Warsaw, Ind, gave . banquet, on the night of the 18th. to the prcss of the county. The eccssso< .~Rss the sassfttiiet;a a assfttiiet;a anniyersary of his connection with the printing business in Warsaw He has been ed tor of the Indianian for B years and is s2ill actively Ut it's head.
 
 PROBABLY the best known white per son in the Chinese empire, Dr. Young ,. Allen, arrived in San Francisco, on the 18th, en route to Baltimore, Md, where he goes to attend the semi-cen- tennial celebration of the organization of the Society for the Diffusion of Christian and General Knowledge among the Chinese, to be held in May.
 DENVER, Col. is flooded with coun- --sI 1-II