The Forrest City times., 1902-06-20


 kee, came to a close. on the 18th, af- ter fixing on the second Tuesday in June. 1903. at Detroit, Mich, for the next meeting.
 The statement of the treasury bal Ances in the general fund, exclusive of the Sl5000o.0o gold reserve in the division of redemption, issued on the B. showed: Available cash balance, s199,449, ,2O6; gold $1O0, 0,133,152.
 The chamber of commerce of Mani Ia has presented to Gen. Chaffee set of resolutions which express the regard with which the general and the army in the Philippines are held by the business men of Manila.
 Baron Schbusawa. of Japan, who is studying the financial system of the United States, accompanied by Mir. Kogoro Takahira, the Japanese min ister to the United States, called on the President, on the 10th, and paid his respects.
 Friendly natives in Manila say re- port is current among their country men that the five soldiers of the Fifth cavalry who were captured by the in surgents, May 20. have been boloed to death near Teresa, in Morong province, Luzon.
 NJ. Flourens. French ex-minister of foreign affairs, was fined 100 francs in Paris. on the 18th. for iibebng his opponent in the recent elections for members of the chamber of deputies. The plaintiff in the case was award ed 1000 francs damage.
 Queen Wilhelmina of Holland is convalescing at Castle Schaumburg, in the valley of the Lahn. She drives out daily with the queen mother, and is recovering her color The young queen smiIingly acknowledges the greetings of wayfarers whom she passes.
 According to a monograph on Alas ka. published by the treasury bureau of statistics. the territory of Alaska has. since its purchase by the United States, produced. so far as statistics are available. fish, furs and geld to the value of $l5000o,000. The pur chase price was $s200,0 GOO.
 Capt. IIinds, quartermaster of the Twenty-third infantry, was pnt on trial at Plattsburg. \. Y. on the E,I ,1 legged cruelty in stringing up a pri- vate of his company by the thumbs at Jolo. in the Philippines, without orders from the commanding officer.
 The nobles of the Mystic Shrine de voted the day. en the 18th, to trip around san Francisco bay, visiting various points of interest en route, including the Mason's home at Deco to, Stanford university and san Jose. At night there was grand ball at the Mechanics pavilion in San Francisco
 An employe of the Bank of France who was entruSto ,eith the care of collateral secu abstracted d number of the~, documents. and. rowsd money on them from the Bank of France itself. The papers say that the sum lost by the bank amounts to 4So,000 francs.
 The Tippecanoe Battlefield associa- tion held it's annual exercises in the Tabernacle at the battle-ground near Lafayette, Ind, on the 18th. Special trains on all roads were run. and i'm mense crowds attended. The graves of the men who fell at the battle oi Tippecanoe were beautifully deeorat- CT and appropriate addresses were delivered.
 Latest advices from the orient state that upon the arrival in Japan May 27, of John Barrett. commission CT general to arrange for St Louis Worlds fair exhibits. he was met ant accorded an impressive welcome by 6 large committee of leading .Iapanest manufacturers and merchants. repre- senting all the principal chambers oi commerce of the empire.
 Negotiations between the coal mi ners and operators of District No. 25 which includes several counties alons the Missouri-Kansas line. were bro ken off at Kansas City. Mo, on tn, 18th. Unless one side or the other recedes from its position by Angus 51, when the present wage eontrae expires. there will be a strike o about three hundred miners.