The Forrest City times., 1898-06-03
 PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

INCLUDING the arrivals on the 26tb there were 5000 man encamped at Chicaamauga park. The Ninth New York, Col. C. James Greene, command ing, arrived on the 26th. There are 1.0l0 men in the command This regi- ment was organized in 1890, and has preserved its organization intact
 HAVANA news has been received at Tampa, Fla, stating that the city is in a state of wild excitement over stories of the American army that is coming to besiege the city. The archbishop ordered a special day of fasting and prayer, that .the calamity may be averted
 Oy the 2sth the associated banks of New York city held s53, 7o4 500 in ex cess of tue requirements of the 25-per- cent. rule.
 IRE mountain battery offered to the United States government by John Jacob Astor, when hostilities broke out, has been accepted. Lieut.. c. March, of the Fifth United States ar- tillery, has been detailed to com mand the battery.
 THE state department was notified, on the 27th, by British Consul Gollen, at Havana, that the exchange of pris- oners had been effected, and the Maple, with Charles Thrall and Hayden Jones. theAmerican correspondents, on board had sailed for Key West.
 NEWS from Calcutta says that the plague is causing great alarm there At Hong Kong, however, it is stated that there has been a great decrease in the number of fresh plague cases.
 w. F. BowES, of Butte, Mont, while attempting to bid his brother good-by on the departure of the troops for San Francisco, on the 27th, fell beneath the military train and was killed.
 THE rainy season is beginning in Cuba, and the fleet of war ships an d newspaper dispatch boats have already experienced bad weather, with fre- quent violent rain storms.
 WORK at the Mare Island navy yard is being pushed. Money for the repair of the coal sheds is now available, and the supply now coming in will be ra D. idly stored.
 TIE steamer China arrived at San
 
 Kong, via Yokohama and Honolulu. The China left Hong Kong on April 30, and therefore did not bring mail ad- vices of the battle of Manila
 WHILE miners were working in the Red Ash vein of the Kaska William colliery, about ten miles east of Potts vile, Pa, on the 26th, a large body of water was struck and six men were drowned.
 FAILURES during the week ended May 27 were, for the United States, 245, against 2l4 for the corresponding week last year. For Canada the fail- nres were 2l, against 22 last year. THE Bethlehem (Pa.) iron company has made and shipped to Watervliet arsenal, New York, the largest cannon forging ever turned out in America It is the first one of the l6-inch group ordered for Sandy Hook
 AT Bracebridge. Ont, the trial of Wm- J. Hammond, young druggist, for the murder of his wife, Kate Ham, mond, on March 6, 1896, ended in a yer fenced to be hanged on September Is. THE senate. on the 2sth, voted to lay on the table the finance committee amendment to the war revenue bill, placing tax on corporations-il to P. THE United States marshal has un- der arrest and in the federal jail at Guthrie, Okla, Kinder II. Hargo, a young Seminole Indian, who has con- fessed to murdering Mrs. Laird. for whose death young Sampson and Geisy were burned to death by white mob last January.