The Forrest City times., 1898-10-21
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

vent or neutralize impending scandals
Gus disclosures. President Eauie rs
said TO be Implicated.
The American Lamp Chimney Co.,
composed of eastern and local capital
amounting to s55O.oOO, has been or
ganized in Toledo, o.. TO start "A lamp
chimney factory. l.. ID. Libbey is
president of the new organization.
Others factories will be put up as bus
mess progresses.
The steamer Aztec arrived at San
| Francisco. on the 18th. from Hong
Kong and Yokohama, via Honolulu.
The steamer landed 1913 Japanese la
| borers at Honolulu. and her purser
says that 1000 more are en- route, and
will arrive there shortly.
The total registration in Greater
New York for the first two days was
| aQ5.:69. For Manhattan and the
Bronx and brooklyn the registration
was l.033 larger than on the first two
deys Of last year.
Viola Grignon. wife of Ned Grignon.
wealthy Nukoner, died in Seattle,
| Wash. on the 10th. Mrs. Grignon was
| the first white woman in the klon-
dixie.
| The duchess of Devonshire, wife of
| the lord president of the council of
British ministers. while on board
French train bound for Calais lost
satchel containing jewelry worth $780,
000., Her grace left the train at
Amiens and returned to Paris to re-
port her loss to the police. IL is be-
lieved the satchel was stolen, but there
is no clew to the thief.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, republican
| candidate for governor of New York,
started out on his campaign in the
state on the 18th. In his party are
Gen. Stewart l.. Woodford. ex-minis-
ter to Spain. and six members of the
First United States volunteer cavalry,
of which organization the candidate
was the commander when the war
closed.
The thoroughbred stallion Meddler
was sold to w. c. Whitney, in New
York, on the 18th. for $4,000.
The statement of the condition of
| the treasury, issued on the nth,
| showed: Available cash balance,
1904. .399; gold reserve. S243.als.5 ss.
\ dispatch from Madrid says: "Ad-
miral Cervera, who is anxious to go
home to Cadiz, has been informed that
his presence here is necessary
\ collision occurred on the Great
Central railroad near Barthney. Eng
land, on the nth. Six persons were
killed and % injured
The British ship BlenweIl. Capt.
johnson. from New York, September
-, for London, was destroyed by a
sudden fire off Margate, England, on
the nth. Nine of her crew, the cap
tain and his wife and children, per-
ished.
The treasury department has made
a final award of the new war loan.
Subscribers for the sum of 81. 500 will
receive a percentage of that sum.
amounting to $1,000; subscribers for
S4,4s0 or less will he awarded the full
amount of their subscriptions.
Advices from Madrid point to effer-
vescence in military circles there. Mem
bers of the military club openly and
severely eriticise the government for
concluding what they term 'humili-
ating peace" and some of them even
suggest the establishment of mill
tary dictatorship under the present
dynasty.
During a reception at the First reg
iment armory at Chicago. on the nth,
number>of young women and one or
two not so young, tried to kiss Presi-
dent Mckinley, but although there
were several narrow escapes. none of
the ambitious ones succeeded. \ num-
Der of men and women kissed the
presidents hand, however.
Habeas corpus proceedings insti-
tuted in behalf of Mrs. Cordeia Bot.
kin with the hope of preventing her
removal TO Delaware. were argued at
length in the superior court at San
Francisco on the 18th. Decision was
reserved
Porto Rico has been taken into the
| American Union. Gen. Brooke has
| plenary powers and viii have sole
| charge of the government of the island
unta some other arrangements are
made. 1t is possible that when the
| president returns to Washington, he
may designate military governor OF
the island to act in that capacity I'M
til congress can provide for terri
| torial civil government.
reports from Japanese sources are
| in circulation to the effect that Sir
| Claude Macdonald, British minister at
| Tekin, has informed the Chinese gov
ernment that sovereignty appertains
solely to the emperor. who has been
forcibly abducted and deposed, and
| that he must be restored TO his posi-
| ton.
Havana. Cuba, was visited by a
cloudburst. on the night of the 18th,
that set afioat all the streets in the
lower portion of the city. Cathedral
square was under three feet of water
and the streets in the neighborhood
were so deep that horses and pedes-
TRANS We're frequently carried off
their feet.