The Forrest City times., 1899-06-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

 state of New Jersey increasing its cap ital stock from S1O,000,000 to Sil0,00o, 900. Of the latter amount $10.000,0o, is to be preferred stock, paying 1h per cent. quarterly dividends.
 On the 10th the steamer City o Seattle passed Port Townsend, Wash, bound for Tacoma, with 200 Klondils CTS and S5oo,000 in gold dust and $500, 900 in drafts as the first installmen of the spring clean-up.
 United States Consul Johnson, a Annoy, Fukien province, China, re ports that the bubonic plague hal broken out there,
 On the 10th representative of tn, Carnegie and Bethlehem iron concern' were at the navy department to mak, final arrangements for the delivery O. the 2,271 tons of side armor for tn, battleships Alabama, Illinois and Wis consin, recently ordered by Secretary Long.
 A workman named Montag, living 1T Mannheim, Germany, has succeeded 1T manufacturing artificial coal iron earth and mineral substances.
 On the arrival at Brest, France, o- the Sfax, which is carrying Capt. Drey fus home from French Guiana for z new trial by court-martial, torpedo boat destroyer will meet the cruiser and transfer Dreyfus to the shore.
 Ex-Senator Ben. C. Harding. of Ore gon, died at Cottage Grove, Ore, or the 18th. He was elected to fl out the unexpired term of Senator Baker, deceased. Mir. Harding wal born in Pennsylvania in 1892.
 In collision off Friedrichshaven between the German steamer Artushoi and the British steamer Mauritius, or the 18th, the Artushof was sunk, ten oi her crew being drowned.
 A dispatch from Rosaria, Argentina says: ''The British steamers Castiliar Prince, Capt. Coull, from London, and Amphitrite. Capt. Maloney, from Sun derland, for Buenos Ayres, have beer in collision. The Castilian Prince ar rived here in badly damaged condi tion. The damage to the Amphitrits is unknawn.''
 Lawrence Townsend, the new United States minister to Belgium. was re. ceived, on the 18th, by King Leopold.
 Norman Williams, prominent law, yer of Chicago, died at Hampton, V H., on the 18th. Mrs. Merritt, wife c, Gen. Wesley Merritt, is his daughter and she, with the general, was at the bedside.
 By the explosion of lamp in th. house of Michael Jaska. in Allegheny City. Pa., on the 18th, six members oi the family were badly burned. An is. months-old babe will probably die.
 Capt. Joseph B. Coghlan, of the United States cruiser Raleigh, arrived iD Terre Haute, Ind, on the 18th, ac- companied by his wife, whose homo was formerly in that city.
 The entry of Dr. w. s. Mcdowell the Chicago oarsman, for the diamond souls, at the Henley (England) rega1. ta this year, was received too late lc be accepted.
 The farmers of Kansas have begun cutting wheat. The quality is uni. fo.mly good and the yield exceeds ex. pectation.
 There were seven prostrat:oas from he at in Chicago on the 18th.
 The building occupied by Allen l., Neb., was damaged S15.000 by fire on the 18th. The blaze started on the fifth floor and burned downward, de. stroying the fourth and fifth floors and their contents. The damage to the stock is estimated at S1O0.0OO. and is covered by $l70.000 insurance Eleven firemen were injured by the explosion of powder magazine in the building.
 The transport Sherman arrived at Manila, on the 18th, with 2,O0O troops under command of Generals Grant and Bates. Seventeen hundred additional troops are expected to arrive in about a week.
 It is reported that the British gov ernment has ordered steamships en- gagged in the South African trade to rescind their contracts and hold them. selves in readiness to convey troops to the Transvaal.
 Canada, it is said, has served notice on England that she must choose be tween the United States and her North dominion in the settlemen, of the Alaskan boundary question. Canada insists on port, and will bc with nothing less.
 Miss Catherine Graham, society belle of Evansville, Ind, and a niece of Gov. Bradley of Kentucky, was given a judgment in the supreme court at Evansville against David Gil. bert, u merchant, for $5.000. She sued for S25,00o, alleging breach of promise
 The war department will inaugurate a system of coast surveillance in Gu ban waters to discourage smuggling A number of vessels of revenue cutter equipment, and number of 40-foor steam launches, will be fitted out fol the service.
 Mrs. Cornelia Street, of Shawnee Okla.. has written n letter to Sherif