The Forrest City times., 1902-05-16
FORREST CITY. .; ARKANSAS.

FORREST CITY, :-: ARKANSAS.
 Dispatches from northern Mime sota report a heavy snowstoTm on the gth. Garden stuff was injured 10 some extent.
 The statement of the treasury bal ance in the general fund. exclusive of the s150.0O0.000 gold reserve in the division of redemption. issued on the 9th. showed: Available cash bal ance. sls6, ,es4 900; gold, S96,o44,3o6.
 The South Omaha (Neb.) Live Stock exchange. on the sth. adopted reso- lution relative to the agitation over the so-called Beef trust. and asking the public to withhold judgment pend- ing the investigation now in progress.
 The remains of Bret 1Iarte, who died in London. on the 9th. we'e buried at Brimley. Surrey, on the 7tlt. in the presence of his widow. son, daughter and few friends. Many beautiful wreaths were placed on the coffin.
 The American schooner Anna F.. ]. Morse. Capt. Parker. arrived at St. Pierre. Martinique, April 24, from Philadelphia, with q cargo of coal. and fears are expressed in shipping circles for her safety, as she k sup posed to have been there at the time of the destruction of the city.
 United States Ambassador Non Meyer. at Rome. cabled the state de- partment. on the 1lth, to the effect that Consul Pearson had informed him of the arrest of Clara Taylor the woman charged with the abduction of her niece. Margaret Taylor. and of her lodgment in jail at San Reno.
 David Thompson, alias David Tullis. the British contractor arrested in Seattle. Wash. March ?. on a charge Of having absconded with Si0,O00 started east from Tacoma. on the 18th, in charge of two deputy United States marShals. who will deliver him to the British authorities at Boston.
 Walter L. Myles, son of Miles Myles, of Edwarddale. near Wilkes barre, Pa, junior pupil of the nor nal school at West Chester, Pa, died, on the llth, from injuries received in being struck by a pitched ball. The ball hit Myles behind his left ear and felled him to the ground. He was k years old.
 Nj. R. Clark. F.. H. Gum and IT. D. Player, three of the most prominent men in the British tobacco trade, ar rived at New York, on the 12th, on the steamship SaXonia. None of them will commit himself to any statement on the object of their visit. but ad- mitted that they would leave al once for the south.
 President Roosevelt. on the 12th sent communication to congress recommending the appropriation of half million dollars for the imme- diate relief of the volcano sufferers in the French West Indies. The house and senate promptly responded by passing an appropriation for that purpose of $200,00o.
 The body of Most Rev. Michael Augustine Corrigan, D. D., arch bishop of New York, was inferred. on the 9th, in the crypt of St. Patrick s cathedral in that city. The funeral was conducted with all the impree E. i've solemnity and ceremony of his church, and attended by remarka- ble gathering of clergy.
 The first spike of the Kansas City. Mexico X Orient railway in the Unit ed States was driven at Anthony. kas, on the Sth. The first rails of the track that is to reach from Kan sas City to the west coast of Mexico. were spiked down hard and fast. and the work of construction thus begun will go steadily forward.
 Shortly prior to his death, Arch bishop Corrigan sent the pope a check for $50,o00 as a personal gift in connection with the pontifical jubilee. Ii is calculated that the dio- cease of New York supplies the vati- can with most of the Peters pence. which has now been reduced to about n third of the amount formerly re- ceived.
 There has been so great a demand for copies of the response of Sc, re- tary Root to the Culber>on resolution with reference to the conduct cf the American army in the Philippine that it has been found impossible to com ply with all requests for copies. At the instance of Senator Allison the senate has passed an order for the printing of 1000 additional copies of the secretary's communication.
 The state department received a cablegram, on the llth. from United States CanSOl AVIpa .t GuadaI,,,,,.,