The Forrest City times., 1899-08-11

iresiuent Mckinley has purchase she famous Mckinley cottage" at tn corner of North Market street am Louis avenue, Canton, o. The consid eration was $14.500. He will sucur possession in October.
 
 Mrs. Benjamin Grosscup. of Ashland O., mother of Judge F. s. Grosscup. o Chicago. died at her home on the sth She was 7s years of age, and had beel married 57 years. Her husband an; four children survive her.
 Lieut.. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, son of Lady Randolph Churchill, asks the press to deny th' reported engagement of his mother to Lieut.. C. F. NJ. Cornwallis- West brother of Princess Henry of Pless.
 There were nearly 5000 Cuban sol diers in Santiago de Cuba expecting tt be paid on the 7th. The remainder O the Cuban troops in the province ol Santiago will be paid at the towns oi San Luis, Cristo, Songo and Fl Cancy.
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 Senor Correa, minister from Nicara qua, has returned to Washington. af ter two months visit home. during which he conferred with Presiden, Zelaya concerning the BluefieIds affair and also the Nicaraguanc canal question
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 Late news from Dawson, Alaska, is not the most encouraging. Thou sands of men are idle, loafing on every street corner and in every saloon. The government has already sent many penniless persons back to their former homes.
 El Dia of Caibarien, Cuba, says: "One of the most important questions confronting Cuba is the question o1 immigration. The influx of fareign capital will call for plenty of labor, without which the country can not be developed"
 Secretary Carmichael, of Sir Thomas Lipton's company, was committed for trial at the Southwark (LondonD DO lice court, on the 7th, charged with being in possession of large quantity of fruit declared by medical inspec- tor to be unfit for food.
 Gen. Miles is anxious that the new regiments being raised for service in the Philippines shall be especially eff. dcient with small arms, and an order has been sent to the commander of each regiment directing that target practice be the chief feature of the in- struction given the soldiers.
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 Count Pierre Alexander von Mohren- lchild, who, under the name of Peter Peters, has been employed by New York insurance company, was arrest ed, on the 7th, on warrant sworn out by the Russian consul at that port. charged with having embedded 10000 toubles, with which he fled to America. Hon. John Goodnow, consul general of the United States at Shanghai, has sendered decision as referee in the consular court which makes the Chi aese government responsible for the shipment of arms from Chinese ports to the Filipinos, which is expected tu hut off Aguinaldo's supply of modern arms.
 X long report on the proceedings of the Samoan commission has been re- seived from Mir. Tripp. the United States commissioner, and president ot The commission, but coming by mail i, is of date month back, and does no, bring the history of events down to the breach between Chief Justice Chambers and the commission.
 Marshall F. Wright, son of Judy, Wright. of Kansas, arrived in Los .Nn geles, Cal, on the Sd, from Mexico Speaking of the Yaquis, MT. Wrigh said that there is no doubt that 200, to 5000 men are under arms and er. gagged in bloody conflict. The ent,r country is in state of terror, an, people are fleeing to the large settle nents.
 In view of the decision of the su Preme court granting Albert Hoff, in murderer of Mrs. F. X. Cute, a ney srial on the ground tmat the iudge' sharee to the jury was improper, tn San Francisco police are worried les Mrs. Botkin may secure n new tria Dor the murder of Mrs. John r. Dun ming, of Dover, Conn.,, on the sam ground.
 Official letters, received in Washing ton from the representatives of tn United States in Germany, bring man details concerning the recent actiol in that country looking to the exclu sion of beef slaughtered in Belgium from the German markets. and leav little room for doubt that this is don for the purpose of preventing the in direct introduction of American bcci The thirteenth annual session of tn National Fraternal congress will co, rene in Chicago, on the 22d, for fou days meeting. The congress is com posed sf representatives from all th leading fraternal beneficiary societie