The Forrest City times., 1901-06-07
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $50. 100000 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued on the
3lst, showed: Available cash balance,
s1C3, 1865 gold, s93,o16.14o.
On the 31st r. G. Dun & Co. report
ed: Failures for the week num-
bered las in the United States, against
loo last year. and 81 in Canada,
against 20 last year"
ArbucElc Brothers, of New York.
on the 3ist, reduced the price of all
grades of refined sugar Is points. The
American Sugar Refining Co. made no
changes.
BY collision between car on the
United Traction Co.'S line and train
on the McKeesport q Belle Vernon
branch of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
railroad, at McKeesport, on the I'd.
nine people were more or less seri-
ously injured, one perhaps fatally.
Prussia's losses on account of crop
shortage are estimated by the presi-
dent of the standing committee of
the Prussian board of trade and ag-
riculture, in his report to Count Won
Buelow to be: Wheat, 1s3, 100000
marks, and rye, 1o3, Ooo, 900 marks.
Capt. Henry w. Howgate, formerly
signal officer in the United States
army, died suddenly, on the 1st, of
cerebral hemorrhage, at his home in
Washington city. He was 81 years
| old.
1t is said that the captain-general
of Spain has been warned of foreign
anarchist plot to kill the king and
queen regent.
Col. Henry jackson, commanding
the Third cavalry, has been placed on
the retired list on account of age.
He is native of England and was ap-
pointed to the army from Illinois.
Senior Gener, nationalist, was elect
ed mayor of Havana, on the I'd. re-
ceiving 11,115 votes. Estrada Mora,
republican, received, 1888, and Senior
Carlos Garcia, democrat, 3,211. In adj
dition to the mayor the nationalists
elected is councilmen. The republi-
| cans have four members of the coun-
Gil and the democrats two.
Announcement will be made in a
| few days that the United States ex-
poets TO retain only small legation
guard at the Chinese capital and it is
decided the guard will take no orders
except from its commanding officer
or the United States minister.
| j. Pierpont Morgan has presented
to the museum for the arts of deco
ration of Cooper Union, New York,
the Bahia collection, Of Barcelona:
the Rivas collection, of Madrid. and
the Baron collection, of Paris, there.
by greatly enriching the museum in
the line of textile fabrics.
Commercial relations between Spain
and the United States seem to have
been fully restored, and it is not i'm
probable that our exports to that
country in the fiscal year 1901 will be
greater, with possibly single excep-
ton, than in any preceding year.
Fire that broke out in the store of
the Tenk Hardware Co., at Quincy.
H., ON the I'd, destroyed the entire
stock of goods and caused serious
damage to several other concerns in
its vicinity. The loss is estimated at
$4,000; well covered by insurance.
John Alexander Dowie. the leader
of Zion, in Chicago, on the night of
the I'd, before an audience of 5000
people, proclaimed himself the rein
carnated Elijah, the prophet. He did
not forget to tell his hearers that
they would be accursed if they did
not pay tithes and offerings into the
storehouse of God
Fire, started by safe-crackers, in
the office of the county treasurer, j.
b. Faircloth, at Jasper, county seat
OF Jasper county, Tex, on the morn
ing of the 2d. destroyed every bust
ness structure in the town save three.
The wheat crop of Kansas is in a
critical condition. The long drought
and the ravages OF the Hessian fy
ana wheat louise have seriously dam
aged it. \ month ago a total yield OF
lo0,000,000 bushels was expected To-
day that estimate is reduced so per
cent
Gov. Gage of California has offered
a reward of $1,000 for the arrest and
~~N-'N~NtNft VI tiiC EtiSOHS
the lynching of the five men at Look
ont, Modoc county.
Chy Min Hui, the newly-arrived Cor
can minister, called at the state de-
partmenv, in Washington, on the Sd.
and paid his respects to Secretary
Hay ana the other officials, arranging
to present his credentials at the White
House on the 9Th. The minister
brought with him to America Messrs.
Ye and Min, two young Corean no.
blemen of high rank. who will sojourn
for while in the United States.
Reuben II. Donnelly was, on the Sd.
elected president of the Chicago ex-
change, and John j. Mitchell was
chosen treasurer. There was but one
ticket in the field for those offices.
The sultan of Turkey intends to
present 20 the Berlin hospital a wing.
the planS for which bova -. -.