The Forrest City times., 1899-09-01

Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

not regarded as serious, but II is feared
the disease will spread to Tien-Tsin
and other places in north China.
1t was stated, on the 25th, that the
Missouri Pacific and the Wabash
would meet the cut in paclling-house
products to the southeast announced
by the Burlington TO take effect on
September 1. The Burlington threat
ems to wipe out the differential alto
gether if the terminal lines make any
cut. A lively war seems unavoidable.
All of the standing rigging on the
Americas cup defender Columbia was
set up, on the 25th, at Bristol, X. l.,
and the boat was worked out of the
slip to her moorings in the stream.
Since the beginning of the Spanish
war there have been enlisted in the
regular army 90,671 men. This includes
those who were discharged after the
close of the war and the increase of
the regular army for service in the
Philippines. No less than 310,065 APP
piled and were rejected.
Although, according to the latest re-
ports, the plague at Astrakhan, Rus
STA, is not bubonic, but milder and
pneumonia, the Roumanian govern
ment has issued an order closing the
Russo-Roumanian frontier.
The South African republic volks-
raad. on the 25th, by vote of IS to 9,
adopted the report of the majority OF
the dynamite commission, continuing
the monopoly.
Ex-Gov. Samuel Merrill, of Iowa,
who has resided in Los Angeles. CAL,
for some time, suffered a stroke of
paralysis, on the 25th and was thought
to be dying.
Mulai-Abd-El-A the sultan of Mo-
rocco, had narrow escape during a
recent thunderstorm. when an electric
bolt killed several persons, including
two court ushers who were standing
within few feet of his majesty. The
occasion was the birthday of the
prophet and the sultan was receiving
tribal gifts in the quadrangle of the
palace in the city of Morocco.
The thirteenth annual report of the
Denver d Rio Grande railroad shows
a SQoSt inCiCdSC vi buSluCSS uuI-
ing the year ended June 80, as follows:
Income, S9,3s0,574; increase over pre-
vious year, $975,345.
A case of bubonic plague has de-
veloped in the Oporto prison.
1t is reported that the Fremont, Elk
horn & Missouri Valley Railway Co.
will soon have a standard-guage road
from Deadwood to Lead, S. d.
Gen. Roca, president of the Argen-
tine republic, will pay visit to the
United States on the occasion of the
Pan-American exposition.
A report was current at Nyack, N.
y, on the morning of the 2sth, that
the ST. Anne's convent, at Sparkhill,
n. Y, had been burned, and that of
the $50 inmates, largely children, sew
eral hundred were missing.
The scarcity of men to harvest the
broomcorn in the vicinity of Arcola,
H., necessitated the harvesting of the
crop in number of fields on Sunday.
In several places gangs of men were
cutting corn all day. ON the 9th, and
in other fields the engines were busily
engaged threshing.
Two clipper ships, the Tillie f. Star
buck, built of iron, and the ST. Fran
els, wooden vessel, both owned in
New York, lett Philadelphia, on the
9th, to race to San Francisco for
stakes aggregating $4,000, put up by
prominent Philadelphia men.
The Lima (Peru) College de Advo-
Gates, at session held on the night
of the Goth, made MATHIS Labor and
Demange-Dreyfus advocates at
Rennes- honorary members of the col
lege.
The historic old Clay mansion. in
Bourbon county, Ky, was DESTROYED
by fire. All the contents, including
numerous pieces of valuable bric-a-
brac, were destroyed. Miss Letitia
Clay and the other members of the
family residing in the house barely
escaped with their lives.
One of the most destructive fires
that has ever occurred at the Standard
Oil retineries broke out at Whiting.
near Chicago, on the night of the 27th.
uofFt otf tb 'lbel All p5StlCO SeM Z I
OF one of the stills. The loss was over
$10o, 200.
An immense copper belt extends
from White Horse rapids on the Yukon
river to point on the Dalton trail, 40
miles from Lynn canal. 1t is over
fifty miles in extent and lies in British
territory. The first outcroppings were
discovered, two years ago, by Henry
Bratnober, a mining expert.
Col. William j. Bryan and family
left Denver, Col, on the 2sth, for Cali.
fornia, where they will spend month
in the Yosemite valley.
Exports from the United States to
Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the
Philippines, according to statement
just prepared by the treasury bureau
OF statistics, We're larger in the fiscal
year just ended than in any preceding
year in the history OF s-'ar commerce.
with those islands,even in the reciprcc-
ity years.
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