The Forrest City times., 1899-03-24

tOkkEST CITY. ARKANSAS.
The California legislature adjourned
sine die. on the 10Th, without electing
. United States senator to succeed
Stephen NJ. White.
The Observation-Disclosures Steam Navi.
cation Co., with headquarters at New
York, has contracted with the Tnon
of the largest freight steamers ever
built in the United States.
The United States transport Sher'
man. from New York, on February B.
for Manila. with the Third infantry,
and four companies of the Seventeenth
infantry on board, arrived at Singa.
pore, south of the Malays, on the nth
Latest reports from Kingston, ia
maica, stated that the condition of Mr.
John Sherman, who was passenger on
board the American line steamer Paris
was not favorable. He was much weak.
er and the doctors were discouraged
DR.. NJ. +. Strictly, for "a years Sec
rotary of the American Home Mission
airy association. died in "a sanitarium al
Clinton Springs, N. Y. on the night oil
the 10th, aged SO years. He was Tor 4
long time editor of the American Mis-
sionury Magazine.
I'm tho 18th nina head of fnp Alder
ney cows, suffering from tuberculosis
were shot, at Oliver Randolph's dairy
at Bethlehem, Pa, by order of the
state veterinary board. This is the
first discovery of tuberculosis among
cattle in the Lehigh valley.
DIR. Oliver Marcy, dean of the North
western university at Chicago, anc
professor of natural history in that in
: stitution, died, on the 10Th, at hi;
home in Evanston, Ill.,, after long i'll
with Northwestern university since
1862.
Princess Kaiulani, whom ex-Queer
Liliuokalani declared heiress apparcn.
to the Hawaiian throne, died at Horo
lulu, on the 9th, of inaammatory
rheumatism. She was accorded sta,,
funeral, all classes, natives aud foi.
eigners, uniting to do honor 70 heI
memory.
News has reached Seattle, Wash.
that five Finlanders claim To have dis
covered evidences of the original Rus
sian boundary line inscribed on q
series of old mounds, which. if estab.
lished, will place the Klondike coun.
try within the limits of the United
States.
nj. Cambon, the French ambassador
called at the department of state, or
the 18th, and served formal notice OF
the signature of the peace treaty al
Madrid. Secretary Hay indicated his
preference that NJ. Cambon should aci
as agent for the Spanish governments
in the final exchange of rarlfcations.
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Capt. Erwin, acting superintendent
of Yellowstone park, has reported &c
the interior department that the un.
precedented snowfall in the park thi,
year will unquestionably lead 10 the
death of very many antelope, deer and
elk before the winter Is over. In place
in the park snow is over ~ feet in
depth.
Gov. Wells of Utah has decided. for
the present, at least, not to appoint Il
United States senator to succeed Sena-
tor Cannon, whose successor failed al
election in the joint assembly, which
closed its session in deadlock on the
10th. He will await precedent that
will guarantee the seating Of any ap.
pointee he may name.
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w. j. Fitzgerald, clerk in the dis
ffibuting department of the Pittsburgh
post office since 1895, was arrested oy
Post Office Inspector w. w Dickson
on the 10th, charged with stealing
moneyed letters. He was caught in III,
act, and, it is understood. made full
confession, though he could not say
how much he had purloincd.
Articles of incorporation of the Ma
tionai SALT Co., witha capitalof $l2, 000.-
900. were filed, on the 10th, with the
secretary of state of New Jersey. The
company is authorized to produce and
deal in salt. The stock is divided into
$5,000,o00 of preferred and $1,000, 900 oil
common. the preferred to bear seven
per cent. non-comulative dividends.
The Windsor hotel, at the corner oi
Forty-seventh street and Fifth ave.
nue.. New York city, was destroyed by
fire on the nth. Eleven persons arc
known to have persisted in the Fame.
or been killed by jumping from root
or upper windows, and between 30 and
40 others were seriously, many of ther,
probably fatally, injured. There were
many heroic rescues by intrepid fire.
men.
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