The Forrest City times., 1900-02-16

The statement of the condition ofthe treasury issued on the 9th showed: Available cash balance, S296, 7,5t1, gold reserve, S21s, ,36s,912.
 Herr Sternberg, Berlin banker, was arrested, on the 9th, on the charge of fraudulent practices. He furnished bail to the amount of a million marks.
 As reported by R. c. Dun & Co.,, fail ures for the week ended on the 9th were, 245 in the United States, against 217 last year, and B in Canada, against 35 last year.
 Eli Leabelt, aged 21 years, was in. stantly killed. and Abraham Vehl seri. ously injured in slate quarry at Stat inpton, Pa. on the 18th, by the break. ing of a chain during the hoisting ot a heavy stone.
 The California assembly refused, on the 9th, to adopt a joint resolution protesting against the proposed treaty with England relative to the Nica-d- guam canal now pending before the United states senate.
 The government of British Columbia h.s introduced a measure, which is promised general support by the leg1s- lature, repeating the act of the last ses- sioE. by which aliens are excluded from provincial placer mines.
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 Senator Penrose introduced a bill on the 7th, authorizing the publica- ton of the proceedings of the G. A. F. encampments as a government docu- ment and providing for their distribu- ton among various G. A. k. posts.
 The North Dakota State Woolgrow- CTS association, on the 9th, protested against the ratification of the reciproci- ty treaty with Argentina. and sent a message to Senators Hansbrough and MoCumber urging them to oppose it.
 Official telegrams have been received by several of the Central American representatives in Washington stating that the Hay-Pauncefote treaty con- corning the Nicaragua canal meets with general approval throughout Cen. tral America.
 The president had for his guest, on the 11th, his venerable friend, Bishop Wsldron. of Cincinnati, it being the latter's birthday. The bishop sat with the president in his pew at the Metro politan church, and after the sermon dined with the president and his fam fly.
 A commission has been gazetted in Havana, consisting of Mayor Laeoste, president; Senor Estrada Mora, vice president; Senor Cancio and Fathers PGraga, Noardez and Canova, and Messrs. Ernest Lee Conant and Osgood Smith, with power to draw up a new charter for that city.
 The board of directors of the Kan sas state penitentiary have decided to hereafter sell the entire output of binding twine of the prison direct to the farmers. The plan will become effective after March 20. There is now nor than 75,000 pounds of twine in stock at the prison warehouse.
 
 Gov. Roosevelt of New York has giv- en out a statement relative to the vice presidency, in which he declares that he will not accept the honor under any circumstances. He feels that his duty to the party that elected him governor and to the state requires that he should fill out his term of office. 
 Isncoln's birthday was generally celebrated throughout the country, on its ninety-frst anniversary, on the 18th, by club banquets and patriotic spec ceches. Among other things that marked the increasing interest in this event was the fraternizing at many points of ex-confederates and union- ists.
 The total value of imports into the Island of Puerto Rico from the date of American occupation to December 31, 1899, was S12, ,191 .S29, and the total value of exports from the island dur ing the same period was l1,690, ,s07. The United States furnished Sf,6s7, ,s26 of the imports and took S3,502, ,766 of the exports.
 Martin Jordan, an engineer, his wife, Mary, and their five-months-old boy were asphyxiated by gas, on the night of the 10th, in their home at Forty-third street and Stewart avenue, Chicago. A leak in the gas pipe in the basement deluged the house with gas, and when found all the members of the family had been dead for several hours.
 Representative w. s. Knox, of Massa- chusetts, chairman of the house com mittee on territories, completed his re- port on the bill for the creation for d territorial form of government in Ha- waii, and, on the 18th, submitted it to the house. The report is very yolGminous document, going exhaust lively into all the questions involved