The Forrest City times., 1898-06-03

AN American named Stickley. whe has been in Mexico City. Mex. in the land business has been arrested on the charge of having stolen slO,OO0 when agent, in Ohio. of the Adams Express Co.
 DURING a dense fog. of Fire island. on the evening of the 2sth. the United States cruiser Columbia was run into by the steamer Foscolia. grain laden, and hole stove in her hull. The Fos- colia sank almost immediately, buu the Columbia succeeded in rescuing all of her crew.
 GEN ERAsTUs NEWTON BATES. prom inently identified with the civic and military history of the states of Illinois and Minnesota died at Minneapolis. Minn-, on the 2sth. aged 70 years. He was one of the framers of the charter of Minnesota and its first senator.
 TIE car barn and I30 winter cars stored therein. of the Consolidated Rail- way Co. of Baltimore, Md. were burned on the evening of the 29th. entailing a loss of S25O, 900. The barn was located at Irvington-t
 THE number of troops assigned to Gen Merritt's command has been in- creased by 5000. This means that eo,- GOO men are to be taken to Manila as fast as the transports can be procured to carry them
 As unique feature in the Memorial day parade of the grand army posts in St Louis was the carrying of a na- tional flag by each veteran, which was placed, with the flowers, on the graves of the dead.
 UNITED STATES MINISTER BRYAN and the Brazilian minister of foreign af- fairs have signed the supplementary treaty to the extradition treaty be- tween Brazil and the United States.
 Ar the suburban Columbia cemetery near Cincinnati. on the 30th. the memo rial platform gave way. About 100 persons. mostly children, fell Many suffered slight injuries
 BARON LYON PLAYFAIR, the distin- guished English chemist. political economist. civil service reformer and parliamentarian, died in London on the 29th.
 A STEAMER is reported to have land-
 
 the Philippine insurgents.
 THE cook of the United States aux Hilary gunboat Hawk, native of Ma nila, who deserted his post recently, was arrested ashore at Key West, Fla on the 30th.
 A LONDON news agency, on the 30th, asserted that the pope had forwarded peace proposals to President Mckinley.
 THE Americans have captured the Spanish gunboat Leyte. which was at tempting to run dispatches into Iloilo.
 THE Spaniards have offered sa5. 900 for the head of Aguinaldo, the Philip pine insurgent leader.
 FREDERICK HALL, crate maker, liv- ing at Burslem, the principal town in the district called "The Potteries" in Stafordshire. England, while insane, murdered his wife and five children with billhook and then committed suicide by cutting his throat
 THE Spanish bark Maria Dolores. of Bilbao, was overhauled by one of the American cruisers, six miles off Porto Rico. She was bound from Rio Janeiro to San Juan de Porto Rico with coal.
 POTTER PALMER, of Chicago, arrived at New York, on the 31st, from Eu- rope.
 GEORGE WEST, alias Charles Rivers, has sawed out of jail at South Bend, Ind, and escaped. West was con victed of robbing the South Bend na- tional bank of Sl5. 500.
 INVITATIONS are given in Washing ton that the present military move- ment will be directed against Porte Rico as well as eastern Cuba