The Forrest City times., 1900-10-12

Insure the immediate payment of half the losses sustained by priyate per sons through the war.
 The special commissioners appoint cd by the governments of Nicaragua and Honduras to fix the boundary be- tween the two states, a matter long in dispute, have concluded their work amicahly. the result being satisfac- tory to both governments.
 The receipts of Klondike gold at the San Francisco mint and Seattle assay office from July to September 30 aggregated Si6,oos,5 ,55s. and of Cape Nome gold. S2,3li,s0i. The total of all deposits at both offices during the three months was S33,e34.s1o.
 Andrew C. Armstrong. one of the founders of 'Scribner's Monthly" and one of the oldest publishers in New York city, died at his country home at Stamford, Conn.,, on the night of the sth, after long illness from com plication of disorders. He was Fl years old.
 A meteorological examination in the case of Seaman Garnett, who arrived at Newcastle, September 13, on a vessel from the Rio de la Plata, and went to Llandaff, Wales, where he died, on the sth, supposedly of fever, showed unmistakably that the disease was the bubonic plague.
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 The Berlin Vossische Zeitung pub fishes a letter from Brisbane, assert ing that the German meat inspection law, especially the prohibition as to canned meats, has already proved a heavy blow to the Australian packing industry in which German citizens are heavily interested financially.
 The dowager empress has deputed the highest official of the empire to make all necessary arrangements for most imposing funeral in honor of Baron Von Ketteler, the late German minister to China. She has also or eered the erection of suitable tenn pie at the capital to his memory.
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 Secretary of State Rose, on the 4th, sent about eight thousand notices to corporations in Illinois requesting them to make affidavit that they are in no manner connected with trusts and return the afiidavits to his office within 30 days, under penalty of the law, which prescribes fine of not less than $500 nor more than g ,0o0 for the first offense.
 The special grand jury Investigating the late riot at Akron, O., reported, on the 5th, returning 66 true bills and indicting 45 men and boys. One of these is Councilman George Brodt, and another is A. A. Halter, a promi- nent person. The city officials we're censured for allowing the mob to as- semble, and for not dispensing it early in the evening.
 President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers issued call, on the Sth, for n convention of the striking miners of the anthracite regions, to meet in Scranton, Pa, on the 18th. The call gave greas satisfaction to miners and operators, all of whom ex- pect the action of the convention on the offer of ten-per-cent. increase in wages to end the strike.
 In accordance with instructions re- ceived from the war department, Gen. MacArthur, commanding the troops in the Philippines, has made arrange ments for the prompt transportation from Taku to Manila of the United States forces at Tien Tsin and Pekin, not included in the legation guard" to be maintained at Pekin under the personal command of Gen. Chaffee.
 Five thousand pilgrims assembled at the St. Nikander monastry, in the Porkhoff district of Russia, for re- ligious festival. During the night one of the upper floors collapsed, and many of those sleeping there fell upon those below. A panic was caused by false alarm of fire, and four men and 36 women were crushed to death, many others being seriously injured,
 The cash contributions by the citi- xens of Philadelphia to the relief fund of the Texas flood sufferers, on the sth, exceeded S1o0,ooo, and consider able further increase was looked for within the next few days. This was exclusive of numerous trainloads of provisions, clothing, drugs and other articles. and in addition to the con- tributions raised by the Red Cross so- ciety in that city.
 The official preliminary estimates of the crop yield of Iowa for the current year show: Corn. area, s,61S, ,660 acres; average, fl bushels per acre: total product, s5s,365.060 bushels. which is greater by 1s.o00. .00o than ever before harvested in the state. The total of all cereals will be sl.s4e .02o, which is 1o.o00.000 in excess of any previous year. and fsl 100000 above the aver age yearly output the past ten years
 According to the report of the su- perintendent of the Hot Springs res