The Forrest City times., 1899-05-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

fuTIneT conferences are Dtlng Helu in New York city for the purpose oi completing details of the proposed consolidation of bicycle makers. Al options have been obtained.
 Severe sesimic disturbances visited the southern and eastern districts ot Peloponnesus on the night of the 4th The town of Liguditza was seriously damaged, many houses being thrown down.
 Further conferences are being held in New York city for the purpose of completing details of the proposed consolidation of bicycle makers. All options have been obtained.
 Buried treasure in the shape of II $1,oO0 bonds, bearing unclipped cou- pons, which adds several thousand dollars to their value, was found by Thomas Lawson, negro laborer, while digging in the cellar of Cincin- natl department store.
 Three hundred and fifty miners, ac- cused of participating in the late riot, arc confined at Warcncr, Idaho, under guard of United States troops. Over 600 troops are in the Occur d'Alene district, and all fear of further out breaks is past.
 The statement of the condition of the treasury issued on the 5th showed: Available cash balance, $260,510,27S; gold reserve, $245, OCT.
 Gen. Ramon Guerra, formerly Vene- Zuelan minister of war and marine, whc started the revolution in Vene- zuela last February, has been finally severely defeated by the government u oops, and has escaped into Colombia.
 Gen. Otis, on the 5th, reported the capture of over 150,000 bushels of rice and 250 tons of sugar at Balinag; also $l,500,000 worth of stores at Malolos and much rice and corn belonging to the enemy at other points.
 Makers of steel fence wire who are outside of the trust met in Chicago, on the 5th, for the purpose of forming & combination and erecting plant at some point within the Indiana gas belt.
 The duke d'Arcos, the newly-ap- pointed Spanish minister to the United States, started from Madrid, on the 5tL. for his new post at Washington, ty way of Paris.
 The New York state board of abitra- tion has decided to hold public inves- tigation of the dock troubles at Buffa- To.
 By the capsizing of boat off Belvi- Gere point, Cal. on the 7th, Frank J. Grimm and Herbert G. Edwards were drowned. Dr. Allen and H. o. Hay deficit, who were also in the boat at the time of the accident, were saved.
 Ezra F. Merrill, aged "A, proprietor of the chutes and tOboggan slides at Coney Island and a reputed million aire. died, on the 7th, from the effects of an accident he met with a few days before, on one of the slides.
 The United States transport McClel- Ian. Capt. Nerickly, arrived at New York, on the 7th, from San Juan, Ponce and Santiago, with 17 cabin pas sengers and l02 discharged soldiers on board.
 Vice-President Hobart spent com fcrtable day, on the sth, and was re- ported to be improving slowly.
 \ dispatch from Belfast, on the 7th. said: A steamer, apparently an Allan liner, has been sighted Tn a disabled condition eight miles east of Glenarm, about 25 miles north of Belfast.
 Mrs. Wm. C. Whitney, wife of the former secretary of the navy, died shortly after p. m. on the 9th.
 The Topeka (Kas.) Capital has start cd a popular subscription to purchase sword for Gen. Funston. Every county, town and city in the state is asked to contribute.
 Capt. Sir Herbert Scarisbrick Nay lor-Leyland, Bart, who had repre- scented the Southport division of south west Lancashire in the house of com mons in the labor interest since last August, died at London of laryngitis, after long illness.
 Members of the cabinet and their wives called at the White House, on the 7th, to make their farewells to the president, previous to his departure for Hot Springs, Va. Gen. Fred Grant ana his wife were also among the callers.
 Gov. Thomas of Colorado has an- nounced that within a few days, if President Mckinley or the secretary of war continues to ignore his com Tunicatoins on the return of the Colorado regiment from the Philip zines, he will take steps, legal if nec- essary, with view to securing the immediate recall of the troops.
 Dr. William Lambert Russell died al Barre, Mass, on the 9th, of mumps aged go. He was the oldest Harvard graduate.
 The volume relating to appropria- tions, new offices, etc., required by law to be prepared and published at the end of each session of congress under direction of the committee of appro- priations of the senate and house has been completed by the chief clerks oi those committees, for the third session of the Ffty-ffth congress. A summary of the appropriations shows the grand