The Forrest City times., 1900-11-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| Monitor No. s, formerly known as the Connecticut, building at Bath, Me-, has been renamed the Nevada by Sec retary Long. Connecticut having de- clined the honor.
 The population of the state of West Virginia is 95s,o00, as against 762,794 in 1890, This is an increase of 196,oO6, or 25.6 per cent.
 The annual meeting of the National City Evangelization union opened in Allegheny City, Pa, on the 22d. with delegates present from all the leading cities of the country.
 Lawrence Townsend, United States minister to Belgium; Walter II. Cham bcrlain, assistant commissioner of patents, and Francis Forbes, of New York, have been appointed by the sec retary of state as delegates to the coming conference of the internation- al convention for the protection of industrial property, to be held at Brussels. December II next.
 The statement of the treasury bal anees in the general fund, exclusive of the s15o,0oO, ,0OO gold reserve in the division of redemption, issued on the 23d, showed: Available cash balance, S1s5, ,339; gold, S92 ,701, ,209
 F. Schultz, a Berlin cabinetmaker, was, on the 23d, sentenced to three months Imprisonment for criticising Emperor Williams No Pardon" speech. Schultz was the sixth victim within a week.
 The Austrian government has lodged a strong protest at Berlin against the new meat exclusion law. which hits Austrian sausage in the Prussian frontier district.
 Failures for the week ended on the 23d, as reported by R. c. Dun & oo., were 23s in the United States, against 1o1 last year, and 29 in Canada against 22 last year.
 Senator Vim. E. Mason, of Illinois, who is suffering in Washington from infiammatory rheumatism, was re- ported worse on the 23d. He is un- ble to walk.
 The Turkish government, it is said. is anxious to get rid of the American claims, but is bent upon doing it with out committing itself to the general principle of responsibility for the outrages which occurred in Armenia and elsewhere.
 At meeting of stockholders of the German national bank of Newpol Ky, on the 23d, it was reported tha. the directors had subscribed enough to require only S45.000 from the Col ether stockholders to bring the amount up to the requirement for leopening the bank.
 Miss Clara Barton, president of the National Red Cross society. has pur- chased of a strawberry plant grower l near Makanda, ITl., 100000 plants | for the Texas flood sufferers. These | plants have already been shipped. The federal grand jury at Indianap- oils has indicted Jesse Weik, of Green castle, Ind, on three counts for im- | personating a United States officer. and on a fourth for forging the name of the postmaster general to ,eus credentials.
 1 Lord Wolscley is going to raise a tremendous storm in British army | sponsible for the blunde,s of the Afri. can campaign. His friends say all the blame had been ehoved off on him. and he won't stand it any longer | Assurances of a particularly gIati- l flying and i7lpor-anI character were on the 23d, Slvel. the United States by the powers ct 4heir purpose to net conjointly and in harmony to eff feet pro nipt settlement of the Chi nese question.
 President Mckinley w.ll have the preliminary report of the Isthmian Canal commission in his hands within a few days. 1t is now complete and it's various parts are being assembled. 1t is in favor of a canal across Nicara- qua as against all other routes pro- posed.
 A detail of Company c. Iowa na- tional guard, was called to Albia, la, on the 23d, to assist in preventing the | lynching of Ava Booker, negro, charged with assaulting Mrs. Sarah Hovel. The crime took place the night of October 30. and since that day Booker has been confined in the penitentiary in Fort Madison.
 "A diagnosis of the czar's malady," says dispatch, of the 73d, from St. Petersburg, to the Paris Steele, shows that he has typhudic enteritis. His brain is affected and his intel- lectual powers are endangered"
 Official figures, made public, on the 23d, show Chicago's total indebted ness to be S26,332 ,o0O. This is the first complete statement of the mu- nicipal debt that has eyer appeared, and was issued by Corporation Coun- sel Walker.
 | A difficulty has arisen between Ger many and Turkey. The Ottoman gov ernment objects to Germany using Far San island, in the Red sea, as a coaling station, and wishes to estab- fish there Turkish depot, accessible to all the powers. Germany, however, insists that she will not abandon the