The Brinkley argus. (Brinkley, Ark.) 1883-current, 1898-01-20

THE largest fleet Of war ships ever
assembled under the American flag
will be within six shours' easy steam
ing of Cuba by February l.or very soon
thereafter.
A FOUR hundred thousand dollar
contract for mining machinery was
awarded to Fraser, Chalmers & Co..
OF Chicago, on the 18th, by Capt.
Thomas Main, Of the Alaska Tread
well group of mines, calling for $40
stamps, compressors, engines, etc.
When these $50 stamps are in opera
ton the Alaska Treadwell Co. will
have $50 stamps, the largest number on
single ledge in the world.
The forthcoming annual report OF
the New York chamber o. commerce
for the fiscal year ended June 30. 1897,
will show the total value of foreign
exports in 1861, was $3.50, 27S, 4t9, OF
which $685. 94s, Oil was entered at the
port of New York. The total value OF
domestic exports was ST., 1877, TOBIAS, OF
which amount New York is credited
with S4G7, 624, $50.
AN official dispatch from Batavia,
Java, announces that the capital OF
Amboyna, one of the Moiuccas islands,
had been completely demolished by
an earth quake. Fiftyi persons were
killed and 300 injured
TIE chairman of the organizing
committee of the ban-American
league made public, on the 18th, let
ter from Hannis Taylor, former United
States minister to Spain, in which he
urges the formation, in every city OF
the United States,of Cuban-American
leagues, whose primary purpose
should be to arouse public opinion to
demand the instant passage of the sem
ate's belligerency resolution now pend
ing in the house OF Representatives.
The supervisors OF Queens county,
New York went at the hotel bill OF
the Thorn jurors on the the 18th, with
an ak. The items of 1856. Is for wine;
S23S. 40 for cigars and $50. SO for bill
lizards were stricken out, and the net
sum of the bill was reduced from 81
049 to 1904.
UP to the 14th 40 bodies had been
taken from the ruins of buildings
wrecked by the tornado in Fort Smith,
Ark, and almost 100 persons were suf-
ering from injuries. A conservative
estimate placed the property loss at
$500, 900.
Mrs. MARY CowDEN CLARKE. author
of 1.-The Complete Concordance to
Shakespeare" died at Genoa, on the
18th.
CIVIL ENGINEER MENocAL, who is
with the canal commission in Mica
ragua has been ordered home to ex-
plain, if he can. the shortcomings of
his work on the New York dry dock,
under pain of court-martial.
A CONCURRENT resolution was intro
duced in the New York assembly, on
the 14th, proposing woman suffrage
amendment to the state constitution.
REV. C. III. DoDsoN, whose nom de
plume is Lewis Carroll, the author of
"Alice in Wonderland" died in Lon
don on the 14th.
ONE of the new coun terfeit 500 sill.
yer certificates was handed in at tho
New York sub-treasury, on the 14th,
from a New York bank which had re-
ceived it from a savings bank in Brook
lyn. The note was handled by three
tellers before its spuriousness was de-
tected.
Mrs. HARRIET SKATER, wife OF Brig
Gen. VIM. 4. Shafter, commanding the
department of California, died at her
home at Fort Mason, Cal, on the 14th,
after short Illness She was stricken
by paralysis, and never recovered con-
seriousness.
THE steamer Umbria. sailing from
New York for Europe, on the 18th, took
out 600, 900 ounces of silver.
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