The Forrest City times., 1899-06-23

FORREST CITY. ARKANSAS.
 w. r. Kendall, member of congress from Wyoming, is spending month in Honolulu. studying the conditions and political prospects of that new candidate for statehood.
 Commander J. J. Bunker has been ordered to take charge of the naval training station at Newport, Va, re- Iieving Commander McGowan, ordered to the Asiatic station to command the Concord.
 Johnson's island, Lake Erie, which was famous as prison forconfederatc soldiers during the civil war, has been sold at auction for S45,oo0. The island lies in Sandusky bay, few miles from the city of that name.
 Spain bought 1000 tons of wheat (about 233,000 bushels) from the Unit ed States last March, more than from any other country, according to the report to the state department of Con- sular Agent Mertens at Valencia.
 
 Maj. Marchand arrived at Thoissey, France. his birthplace, on the 18th, and was received by the mayor and en- thusiistic crowds. His passage from the railway station to the residence of his father was vertically triumphal progress.
 It is stated at the navy department that every man attached to the Olym- pia, Boston, Baltimore, Concord, Hal- eigh, Petrel and McCulloch during the battle in Manila harbor, regardless of rank or station, will receive nlccal O. honor.
 According to Chief-of-Police Ripley, Chicago's population has finally passed the two million mark, and is now g., 0SS,043. The figures are the result of an official census taken by the police force, but are not claimed to be ab- solutely accurate.
 On the 18th the International Hy- drographic and Geological congress to discuss arrangements for periodical researches in the North Atlantic and the North sea, was opened at Stock holm. Sir John Murray, Dr. Nansen and other explorers were among those present.
 The Berlin KolniscAe Zeitung an- nounces the complete failure" of the disarmament committee of the peace conference as The Hague. Several provisions, it asserts, have been adopt ed in the committee by equal vote; but all of these. it predicts. will fail in the plenary sittings.
 Mir. Bellamy Storer, the newly-ap- pointed minister to Spain, was re- ceived in formal audience by the queen regent at Madrid on the 16th. There were no formal speeches, but a few cordial phrases were exchanged, the queen inquiring cordially us to the health of the president.
 On the 16th, during fire drill, on the cruiser Columbia, at League Island navy yard, the deck caught fire from the hot coals dropping from the fire engine. Two fire boats were sent down the Delaware river from Philadelphi. but the flames were extinguished be- fore there was any serious damage done.
 The Boston Fruit Co.'S steamer Ad. niral Dewey, which arrived Il: Ecs:.n, th the 18th, brought among her vas- sengers Maj.-Gen. Leonard Wood, ln.l- tary governor at Santiago de Cnoa, and Mrs. Wood and three children. Gov. Wood reported everything quiet in his province, with returning cros- pcrity.
 The report is denied by General Secretary Edwin A. Schell of the Ep- worth league that either the date or the location of the biennial Epworth league convention is vo be changed. The convention will be held at In- 'dianapolis, Ind, July 2O-23, and it is expected that fully 5o,Ooo leaguers will be in attendance.
 u. c. Osborn, of the American Flee tric Vehicle Co, and c. F. Woods, man- ager of the Fischer Equipment Co.,. both of Chicago, had themselves ar. rested, on the 10th, for using automo- piles on the south side boulevards in defiance of the recent order of the South Park board, and the matter will be carried through the courts as tess case.
 The building at Cincinnati in which the national saengerfest is to be held, was formally dedicated on the 18th. The exercises consisted of musical programme. with chorus and orchestra, and four brief speeches. Over 5000 people paid 25 cents each to be ad- mitted to the building. and all, on the same ticket, received admission to the Geological garden.