The Forrest City times., 1898-04-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

SECRETARY GAGE has issued circular
in which he states that in case any Off
Ger, clerk or employee under the treas
ury department desires to leave the
service temporarily to engage in the
military service in the event of war, he
may be reinstated at any time within
one year.
THE Spanish cabinet has decided to
protest to the powers against the
charges made Ivy the United States
senate in reference to the Maine dis
aster. The charges have aroused the
Spanish people to the highest pitch of
excitement.
THE Spanish cruisers Vizcaya and
Almirante Oquendo it now trgnspires
sailed from Porto Rico, on the 9th.
with secret Instructions
ANDREW AIKEN, a prominent pioneer
of Kansas, and once register of the
land Office at Topeka, died at Omaha,
Neb., on the 18th, aged So. Mr.. Aiken
was very prominent in the early po-
litical history of Kansas, being one of
the anti-slavery leaders.
As INDICATED in the Madrid Heraldo
Spain is figuring on yellow fever being
an important factor of the Cuban sit
uation. 1t says: I'VE have 200. 900
troops on the island, perfectly acclima-
tizcd, and any Americans who are
landed there will die like flies"
GEN. MILES says in the event of the
passage of the resolution reported by
the senate foreign relations commit
tee, the president would have authori-
ty to call into the service of the gov
eminent militia to the number of about
IL, 900, 900 men.
The rules of practice of the patent
Office have been changed SO that when
an appeal is taken the primary exam
iner shall furnish the board of exam
liners with the grounds for his decision
within five days, instead of Is days, as
heretofore.
On the 18th Congressman Charles
Curtis was renominated from the first
Kansas district on the 730th ballot.
THE British colonial authorities at
Kingston, Jamaica, received instruc-
tions, on the 18th, from their home
government to declare coal contraband
in the event of war.
WIN. j. BARRY, the comedian, died at
his home in Brooklyn, on the 18th,
aged as years He had been i'll of a
complication of stomach and liver trou-
BILE for some time.
Mr.. GLADSTONE was reported, on the
18th, as holding his ground and suffer
ing less.
MILIloN-DoLLAR fire, prefaced by
an explosion that shook the whole city,
occurred in Charlestown Mass, early
on the morning of the 18th. 1t was
the most spectacular and terrific con-
migration of the year. A high eleva-
tor was completely destroyed, together
with 60o,o0o bushels of grain awaiting
shipment to Europe, mostly owned by
Mr.. Joseph Letter, of Chicago.
THIRTYTwo boats started down the
Ohio river, from Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
18th, with 1857 900 bushels of coal.
About one-half of the shipment was in
| tended for Louisville and the balance
for Cincinnati.
CAPT. p. Ii. RAY, Eighth United
| States infantry, who spent the winter
in Alaska, arrived in Portland. Ore,
on the 18th, from the north, and went
Immediately to Vancouver barracks.
Capt Ray will recommend to the war
department the sending of troops into
the interior of Alaska and the estab-
lishment of a military form of govern
ment in the Yukon.
GEN. SKATER has received orders
| from the secretary of war to send 500
tents from the quartermaster's stores
/ in San Francisco To 81 I,ouiS
On the 10th the associated banks of
New York city held So, 373. 075 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the s5-per-
cent. rule.