The Forrest City times., 1900-04-20

18th, were 193 in the United states, against 1ss for the corresponding week last year, and Al in Canada, against 22 last year.
 Representative Stevens, of Minneso- la, has introduced bill granting ad- ditional homestead rights to those serving in the war with Spain or dur ing the occupation of Cuba, Puerto Rico or the Philippines.
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 Mir. Allen, the newly-chosen gov ernor of Puerto Rico, is arranging 70 leave Washington for San Juan about the 21st. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Allen and their daughter. The trip will be made on the United States steamer Dolphin.
 The ceremonies connected with the Oliver r. Morton, Indiana's great war governor, which had recently been placed in Statuary hall, were held in the house of representatives, at Wash iEgton, on the 14th.
 Geo. H. Scripps died at Mirando, the California ranch of his brother, E. w. Scripps, at noon on the 18th, of per- nicious anamae, after an illness of sev- eral months. The remains will be ere mated at Los Angeles, and interment will be at Nashville, Ill.,, May l.
 The case involving the governorship of the state of Kentucky was present ed in the United States supreme court, on the 16th, and by request of counsel was advanced on the docket, so that arguments will be heard on April 90, each side being given four hours to present their case.
 Jorg Cruz, the Puerto Rican laborer who was held at the barge office in New York as an alien contract laborer on his arrival there on the steamship Caracas, on April 3, but was later dis charged, has brought suit for $50,000 damages against Thomas Fritchie, commissioner of immigration.
 Upon arrival at New York of the steamship Trojan Prince, on the 18th, an immigration inspector arrested four Sicilians from Mareno, Sicily, who are suspected of being counterfeiters. They are Giovanni Duzzolino, Giovan- ma Duzzolino, his wife; Antonio Spara- polo and Archangelo Perrono.
 A test was made at Indian Head, on the 11th, of plate representing 300 tons of the turret armor of the bat tieship Wisconsin. The 14-inch plate was attacked by ten-inch gun with the usual result. The shell was smashed on the face of the plate, which received no substantial injury; so the lot was accepted.
 According to the official reports from the Cameroons, in South Africa, the revolt there is dying out, and or derly conditions are being resumed. This is understood to be due largely to the good offices of American mis- sionaries, who have acted as inter- mediaries in negotiations for a peace ful settlement with the Buli chiefs.
 The first of the series of official fetes to be given in connection with the Paris exposition took place, on the night of the 16th, at the Elysee palace President Loubeu entertained 200 guests at dinner, the largest number ever seated at an Elysee banquet. Fol lowing the banquet reception was held, to which 5000 invitations were issued.
 The March statement of the internal revenues, issued on the 18th, shows that the total receipts for the month were SPA 4,326,677, an increase, as com pared with March, 1s99 of $1,5SS, ,228. Fer the nine months of the presens fiscal year the total receipts were S219,- g15,556 an increase over the corre- spending period of last year of $1s,- 4I3,412.
 The twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Illinois Association of Mexican War Veterans will be held at Taylor vile, H., May and o. Special consid- eration will be given to the bill intro dueed by Senator Cullom to increase the pensions of Mexican veterans above the age of 75 years to $25 per month. An unusually large attend Ence is anticipated.
 Consul Schumann has infor med the state department that the state peni- tentiary at Mainz, Germany, in adver- Using for bids for supplies, requests, among other articles, 2,200 pounds of lard, either German or American. Con- sul Schumann regards this as encour- aging fact, inasmuch at trade in Amer ican lard, in that city, was practically prohibited few years ago.
 Lieutcnant-Command J. c. Gill more, who has been on leave of ab- sence in Washington, recuperating from extreme hardships incident to his long captivity among the Filipinos, was, on the 18th, ordered to immediate duty at sea as executive officer of the cruiser Prairie, which will be engaged