The Forrest City times., 1899-07-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| Washington, on the 7th. from one of the marine officers stationed at Ca- vite, stating that all were we'll there. As the mail had been interrupted, l this dispatch was welcome to q num- Der of those having relatives at Ca vite.
 | The statement of the condition of the treasury issued on the 7th showed: l Available cash balance, $277, ,663, ,392; i; gold reserve, $243, ,232 ,609. | Mir. Samuel Clemens Mark TwuinJ and family left London for Sweden, on the 7th, where Mr. Clemens will take the Swedish cure. | The United States cruiser Newark left Valparaiso, on tlie 7th, for the Philip pine islands. She will call at Callao, Peru.
 Polish residents of Chicago, at a meeting, on the 9th, denounced an Anglo-American alliance, and by reso- lution pledged themselves to work against any party or candidate advo- eating it.
 The Transvaal government has de- cided to prosecute, on the charge of | high treason, the three principal de- | defendants whose complicity in the re- cent attempt to promote a rebelious rising at Johannesburg has been for several weeks under judicial investiga- ton.
 On the 9th Sir Edmund John Mon- | son, British ambassador to France, en- | tertained at dinner the members of the VenHuelan arbitration tribunal. l On the sth Gov. Roosevelt of New York went to Washington for con- | ference with the president, at the lat ter's invitation.
 All but one of the seven members of tine family of Vim. Reinard, of Colum- | bus, O., were killed, on the 9th, and | the remaining one was badly injured, at crossing by Big Four passenger | train.
 l On the sth, at Allentown, Pa., Charles Knauss, aged IS, shot and se- riously wounded Mrs. Edwin Dieffen- killed himself. Mrs. Dieffenderfer was trying to break up Knauss' infatuation for her, and refused to elope with him. | On the 9th, P. D. Moxhan, a million aire and philanthropist, died at his home in Vinerand, N. J., aged 7s. He accumulated most of his wealth in the mining business in Montana. | Otto Non Ohlen, aged 24, whose fa- ther is said to be wealthy manufac- | turer of Columbus, O., was drowned in the Delaware river at Philidelphia on the 9th.
 1 The steamship Lahn, sailing from New York for Bremen, on the 10th, | took out 150,0 ounces of silver. l On the 10th five artillerymen were killed by an explosion of powder magazine in Magatoland, South Af- | rica.
 The Glacier arrived at Singapore on the 10th, carrying a large cargo of fresh refrigerated beef, intended for the fleet in the Philippines. The navy department is greatly interested in the success of this experimental ship ment, as we now make heavy pur- chases of Australian beef for the SUD- ply of the fleet in the east.
 On the 10th the steamer Rosalie ar | rived at Victoria, B. C., from Alaska, with 150 miners and $125,000 in dust. They reported the White Pass road completed to Bennett on July 6. and trains running through.
 On the 10th, at Santa Barbara, Cal Yda Addie Storke, the writer, waa sen- fenced to one year in Jail for writing anonymous letters refecting upon cer- tain prominent people. Judge Oster in pronouncing sentence, expressed himself as sorry that the law did not permit him to impose a greater pen. alty.
 | A special train of nine coaches, or the way from St. Louis to Los Ange- les, Cal, loaded with teachers, bound for the National Educational conven. tion, ran into freight train near the station at Newman, Cal, Monday morn. ing, with the result that Miss Addie Harris, of St. Louis, and Mrs. Lena Thomas, of Seneca Falls, N Y., were killed and many other passengers were injured, one seriously.
 Capt. Watkins of the stranded
 steamer Paris. admits that the acci
 dent was due to a mistake he made in calculating the position of the ship The inspectors, at New York, have sus pended Capt. Watkins license as mas
 ter of ocean steamers for two years Capt. Watkins is still in charge of the Paris and is acting in the interests ci the underwriters.
 As result of the revelations of is,
 human cruelty practiced upon Drey
 fus while he was on Devils island. Ls
 bon, the French minister who was re
 sponsible for the orders sent to NJ
 Deniel, while in charge of the penal
 settlement where Dreyfus was con
 lined, will be proceeded against