The Forrest City times., 1901-07-05
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| At Christies' auction rooms in Lon don, on the 2sth. pair of small Louis XIV. cabinets, with brass mounts, and executed by Caffieri. which were formerly the property of the duke of Leeds, were sold at auction for z 15,- GOO.
 Miss Minnie A. Stoner, dean of the woman's department and professor of domestic science in the Kansas State Agricultural college, has been elected professor of domestic science in the Ohio state university.
 On the 2sth k. G. Dun & Co. report ed: Failures for the week num- bered 2o4 in the United States, against POT for the corresponding week last year, and 23 in Canada, against 2l last year."
 The secretary of the treasury, on the 2sth, bought s151, 1000 short-term five-per-cent. bonds at .709; S97, ,340 threes at 109.9601, and 1,500 fours at 1 113.91s7.
 Duriqg storm, on the 2sth, light ming killed four men, all of whom leave large families, who were at work harvesting in a wheat field on the J. C. Halbert farm, near Lodi, Ind. The president, on the 2Sth, disposed of 23 pardon cases Several applica- tions were denied and others granted to restore civil rights. In a number of cases pardons for minor offenses were granted, and the sentences in others were commuted to shorter terms. The statement of the treasury bal ances in the general fund, exclusive of the s150.000,000 gold reserve in the division of redemption, issued on the 2sth, showed: Available cash balance, S173, 733, ,135; gold sos .092, ,125.
 The navy department, on the 2sth, gave out statement to the effect that it is ready to give every encourage ment to the naval militia. This was called forth by reports that the de- partment had decided to abandon the militia.
 | A fire at Tsaritsin, fortified town in the government of Saratov, Russia, i on the 2sth, consumed several saw mills, A timber-laden barges and the timber depots and quays on the Volga. The damage is placed at 5000, ,O00 roubles, and it is reported that several lives were lost in the fire. Lansing, la., bids fair to become fa- nous for the many fine pearls found there. One recently sold for Sl, 800. It was found by an old Swede named Benson on a ciam bed which produced the famous Queen Marie about q month ago, and although weighing less, is much finer and more valu- able gem.
 l During a severe rain and electric storm at Winona, Minn, on the 3O.h. lightning struck the young ladies' seminary, damaging the roof; the Lake street bridge was set on fire. but was saved; some cows were killed. and the boy herdsman stunned. He will recover.
 | According to the Vienna corre- spondent of the London Daily Tele- graph, a conflict has occurred between Mussulmen and Christians at Gus. singe, on the Albanian -Montenegrin frontier, ten Christians being killed and many others wounded. Rev. Dr. Pyron Sunderland, of Washington, D. C., died at Catskill, N. Y., on the 30th, from blood clot on the brain. His demise occurred at the home of his son-in-law, Orrin Day, president of the Tanners national bank.
 1t is asserted in St. Petersburg that M. De Witte, the Russian finance min- ister, will leave that capital for Man. churia during July.
 Gen. Maxine Gomez, the last of the trio, Gomez, Garcia and Maceo, who fought hard and long for Cuban in- dependence, spent the greater part of the 30th in conference with Senor To- mas Estrada Palma, at the Waldorf Astoria, New York city.
 July l was Dominion day at the Pan-American exposition. The Forti- eth Highlanders, kilted regiment, from Toronto, was among the par ticipants, being met on arrival, and escorted by the United States artil- lery under Maj. Wiser.
 H. G. Gam, one of the publishers of the Warren Ul.) Sentinel-Leader, was drowned, or the 30th, at Milville, near Warren, while swimming. He was taken with eramp and perished before his companions could reach him.
 The report attributed to Lieut. Gen. Miles, that the military force in Cuba is shortly to be reduced to 2,0OO men is denied at the war department. There are now about 5000 soldiers on the island, and the present indications are, it is said. that they will remain there until the Cuban government is in working order.
 The war department has decided to establish transport service be tween New York and Manila by way of the Medite rranean sea and the Suez canal. The Buford and Fitzpatrick, now at San Francisco, and the In