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THE FORREST CITY TIMES
LANDVOIGT A VAOAKIN, Pikllthar*.
rORREST CITY. - ARKANSAS.
The net gold exportation thus far
this year is only a fifth as great as it
was in the same time last year. It is
811.000,000 now and was 855,000,000
then.
Those German spectators at the
opening of thetfs'orth sea-Haltic canal
who cheered the Stars and Stripes rep
resent the kind of foreign element for
which there is always room in this
country.
The Spanish in Cuba hare unlimited
facilities for promptly spreading the
news of their rictories, and the silence
of the wires indicates that the army of
occupation is chiefly engaged in occu
pying a few fortified places.
A FAIR illustration of the result of
sanitary work in cities is the fact that
the annual death rate of London has
been reduced since the time of Eliza
beth from 80 per l.ooo to 17.9 per 1,000.
The improvement still continues, and
makes quite a figure in statistical re
turns.
The United States vessels that par
ticipated in the North seu-ltaltic canal
display were greatly admired, and the
rememb ince of them will hardly fail
to have a salutary influence in the
way of preserving amicable relations
between our countrj* and the European
nations.
Probably the Spanish authorities
are correct in their assertion that the
Cuban insurgents are doing some
robust lying. The fact, however, that
the rebellion sticks, and that where
there is any fighting at all the rebels
do the attacking, prove that Spain is
not having things entirely her own
way.
The deficit for the fiscal year just
ended is in the neighborhood of $.r>0,
000,000. This is a large shortage, but
It is 820,000.000 smaller than that of a
year ago. Probably it will shrink
from this time forward. Expenditures
piay remain at or around the present
^figures, but revenue shows signs of in
crease.
Spain may, and probably will, crush
the Cuban insurrection ultimately, but
the immediate outlook for her is un
promising. If half the reports of de
sertions to the rebels are true, Spain
has a harder job on her hands than she
had in that ten-year-long rebellion
which began about a quarter of a cen
tury ago.
New Zealand allows full suffrage
to women, and South Australia has
gone a step farther by permitting worn
men at distant points to transmit their
ballots by mail. The results of the re
markable suffrage experiments on the
other side of the world are awaited
with no little interest and several
grains of curiosity.
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The republics of Central America
have got together on one point, and
that is to make common cause against
any more such ultimatums as the one
recently forced on Nicaragua by the
Hritish navy. The Central Americans
may have their little revolutions, but
do not propose to be held up habitual
ly for the benefit of Europe.
An as ociation of citizens in Chicago
has organized a street scavenger service
similar to that in London. If all the
disinterested inhabitants in a town,
and all the women, take hold of this
subject it is probable that the tradi
tional idea that tuxes raised for clean
ing streets are to be spent only for
political boodling may get a shaking
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The split of the Irish home rulers
noto three factions, each of which will
jfight harder against the two others
{than against the tories, means that the
ftories will gain some seats in Ireland
ton the coming election. The inability
of the Irish in their own country to
|keep a modus vivendi among them
selves is the chief cause of that couu
'try’s ills.
An organization up to date is the
fAustria-Hungarian Farm association,
[which has had a representative in this
[country three years to study the latest
[improvements in agriculture. The
[American farmer leads the world in
Improved methods, and while he is
•willing to learu, he is now too far ad
vanced to find many valuable ideas iu
foreign countries.
England still leads the world in coal
production, having mined last year
188,000,000 tons, llut this country is
second, with 104,000.000 tons, aud the
■time is neur when the little island will
have to surrender the tirst place in coal
■mining to the United States. The
jjreat yield in the limited area of En
gland is an indication of the enormous
possibilities in America.
The account liermuy has against
tNicaraguu is said to amount to ST50,
000, and payment may be demanded
®t the cannon’s mouth, as in the case
of England. These demands would
[Dover have been made or thought of
but for the canal concession to the
{United States. I'hey are ’an illustra
tion of the crookedness and presump
tion of European diplomacy.
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NEWS IN BRIEF.j
Compiled from Various Souroea.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The French minister of foreign af
fairs has furnished to United States
Ambassador Eustis a copy of the
minutes of the court-martial which
tried and condemned John L. Waller,
ex-United States consul at Tamatave,
to twenty years' imprisonment.
Col. A. St. Clair Denver, a brother
of Gen. Denver, founder of Colorado’s
I capital city, died in Washington city
on the 26th. He was a California 49er,
and served in the state senate.
It was stated on the 28th that Lord
Salisbury would issue the manifesto
of the new government on July H.
Mr. Hashigcchi, Japanese consul
general at New York, is quoted as fol
lows in an interview: “I wish to say
emphatically that Japan is not afraid
of Russia. I will go so far as to as
sure you that there are Japanese who
are not carried away by enthusiasm
who would not be astonished to see a
Japanese army in St. Petersburg with
in the next two years.”
A report is current that Chauncey
M. Depew is going to marry a member
of one of the first families in New York,
and an orphan with 88,000,000 in her
own right. The modest Chauncey de
nies the soft impeachment.
A CHALLENGE issued by Edward Han
lan for a 3-mile race on Toronto bay in
September has been accepted by Jake
Gaudaur. This will be Gaudaur's last
race, he having decided to retire.
Plays written by Oscar Wilde are
about to make their reappearance in
the English theaters in London. The
Grand theater announces the produc
tion of “The Ideal Husband,” and
prints the author’s name in large let
ters on its bills.
On the 30th Robert Strong, familiar
ly known as “Col. Rob Strong,” who
executed Guiteau, the assassin of Pres
ident Garfield, and seventeen other
convicts, died in Washington of in
firmities incident to old age, being
close upon his eightieth year. He had
been an officer of the district jail thir
ty years.
On July 10 Arthur Haight, a boot
black and porter, will start to walk
from Joliet, 111., to New York city in
thirty-four days. This will be an aver
age of 30 miles a day. He is to only j
have two dollars in money when he
starts, and is not allowed to beg or
work while on the trip.
On the 20th Judge Ross, of San Fran
cisco, rendered his decision on the de
murer in the 815,000,000 suit of the
government against the estate of the
late Senator Leland Stauford, as a
shareholder in the Southern Pacific.
The verdict was adverse to the govern
ment.
At 1 o’clock on the morning of the
20th ex-Congres.sinan William F. Par
rett fell down stairs at his residence ia
Evansville, lnd., and died of Lis in
juries at 6 a. in. lie was 70 years of
age. He leaves two daughters. De
ceased was a leader of the bar of
; EvansviPe.
CRIMES AXl) CASUALTIES.
R. W. Patterson, register of the
Cnited States land ofliee at South Enid,
Okla., and City Marshal Williams were
killed, while J. L. Isenberg, editor of
the Daily Wave, was badly wounded,
the result of a sensational street tight
that occurred there on the evening of
the 26th. Isenberg will recover.
Aaron Altmeykb, "3 years old, a
wealthy Hebrew, was found dead of
asphyxiation in the parlorof his home,
in New York city, on the 26th. The
dead man was at one time a merchant,
and is reputed to have owned 81,000,000
worth of real estate.
Maggie Turpi e, aged 28. forewoman
in the office of the Riverside Printing
Co., St. Louis, fell through the ele
vator shaft from the third floor to the
basemeut, on the evening of the 26th,
and received injuries from which she
died en route to the city hospital.
Two moke alleged members of the
firebug gang, whose operations have
involved the loss of hundreds of thou
sands of dollars and put in peril many
lives, were arrested in New York city
on the 26th. They are Max Uluekman,
| the chief mechanic of the gaug, and
■ Adolph llirehkopf.
On the night of the 27th, during a
| in a five-story building in Minne
apolis. Minn., a number of firemen
were caught and crushed under a fall
ing wall. S.x were taken out dead
and two severely injured, while sev- !
eral were missing, anti supposed to be
i under the debris of the collapsed wall.
On the evening of the 27th San Fran- J
; cisco was visited by a great conflagra- j
I tion, which destroyed property to the '
amount of 81.7SO.OOO and rendered hun
dreds of families homeless. Oakland
and Alameda each sent fire steamers,
which materially aided in checking and
flnaiiy aubdumg the flumes.
Turf McMirtrie. aged 15. employed
la the state department at Washington
to distribute the mail, has been de
tected in robbing letters addressed to
the passport bureau of the inclosed
fees, and to cover up his tracks de
stroying the applications and in many
cases the naturalization papers con
tained therein. He is supposed to
have secured between $400 and $500.
The loss by the recent fire in Min
neapolis. Minn., will reach $250,000.
Miss Minnie Lynch, aged 19 years,
committed suicide in Chicago, on the
28th, by taking carbolic acid. She was
a pupil of the Lake high school, and
expected to graduate this week, but
failed to pass the recent examination.
Gronemkyer, Thies, Nestler and
Drechow, who were arrested in Ham
burg in June, 1894, for counterfeiting
and forging American and other notes,
were sentenced, at the conclusion of
their trial on the 28th, as follows:
Gronemeyer and Thies to eight years’
imprisonment, Nestler to four years
and Drechow to three years
John E. Mlndy was arrested in St.
Louis, on the 28th, charged with the
murder of his wife in Toledo, O., over
two years ago. The crime was brought
to light by the unearthing of the re
mains of the murdered woman, under
the house where they had lived, by a
dog, on the 24th.
“Bad Tom Smith-’ was hanged at
Jackson, Ky., on the 28th, in the pres
ence of several thousand spectators.
Smith made a confession on the scaf
fold. He had eight human lives to an
swer for.
MI.SCELLAVEOU8.
Ox the 29th articles were filed with
the secretary of state of Illinois for
the incorporation of the Transconti
nental Railway Co. with a capital
stock of $300,000,000. The company
proposes to construct and operate an
electric railwaj’ from Chicago to Jer
sey City, N. J.
The associated hanks of New York
city, in their statement for the week
ended the 29th, showed the following
changes: Reserve, decrease, $2,313,325;
loans, increase, $516,100; specie, de
crease, $643,900; legal tenders, decrease,
$2,630,100; deposits, decrease. $4,022,700;
circulation, decrease, $35,500.
The associated banks of New York
city held $34,225,925 in excess of the re
quirements of the 25-per ceDt. rule, on
the 29th.
Yai.e won the thirteenth victory
over Harvard ‘‘hands down" in the an
nual college rowing contest—eights—
at New London, Conn., on the 23th.
Fob the fiscal year ended June 30
the government receipts were, in round
numbers, $312,500,000, against $279,
722,019 for 1893-4, and $385,819,628 in
1892-3. The expenditures for the year
were $550,000,000, the deficit being
$43,500,000, against $09,803,260 last
year.
The Illinois Steel Co., on July 1,
raised the pay of all the men employed
in their Joliet works, except tiie ton
nage men, 10 per cent.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
The international prison congress is
in session in l’uris.
Too much rain is reported in Texas
for the cotton crop to prosper,
i Harvey George dropped dead while
pitching a game of ball at Decatur,
Ind.
Sunday was the “dryest” first day of
the week ever known in New York
city.
The United States warships New
York, Columbia and Marblehead have
left Kiel.
In Towsou county, Tex., Sallie Har
kins shot and killed a man who had
burned her house.
Chinch bugs have been doing dam
age near Percy, 111., but Sunday’s rain
drowned them out.
Vice-President Stevenson will make
an address at the Chicago labor demon
stration on J uly 4.
Increase in the price of suitable tim
ber is makitig the tie problem a serious
one for the railways.
Harry Horracks, charged with high
way robbery, made a daring escape
from the St. Louis jail.
Ira Jargensen killed Walker Steven
son at Kansas City, Kas. He says that
Stevenson tried to hold him up.
Edw. Patton was sentenced to two
years’ imprisonment for killing God
frey Peterson at Maryville, Mo.
Col. ,T. II. Gilpatriclc, of Leaven
worth. Ivas., has started to Europe to
investigate ex-Consul Waller's case.
The body of Officer William Shea
han, who was drowned at St. Louis
Friday night, was recovered Sunday.
White men tried to prevent negroes
at Antlers, I. T., holding services, but
were driven off after a battle with
guns.
i ne second international conference
of the Epworth league at Chattanoo
ga. Tenn., came to an end Sunday
night.
It is announced on behalf of Mr. Mc
Kinley that he will make an open fight
for the presidency and will muke no
trades.
Three prisoners broke jail at Okla
homa City, Okla. An officer and one
of the criminals were killed in the fight
that followed.
The saloons In Kansas City, Mo.,
were closed Sunday, and people had to
go to the prohibition state of Kansas
to get a drink.
A fire in the rng shop of the Ilubeley
Manufacturing Co. iu Worcester,Mass.,
caused the deutli of two firemen and
the Injury of eight other
What is
Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Intents
and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute
for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor OIL
It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years* use by
Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays
feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd,
cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves
teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency.
Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas
toria is the Children's Panacea—the Mother's Friend.
Castoria.
“Castoria Is an excellent medicine for chil
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told ate of iU
good effect upo» their children."
Da. G. C. Osgood,
___ Lowell, Mass.
“Castoria is the best remedy for children of
Which 1 am acquainted I hope the day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the
teal interest of their children, and use Castoria
instead of the various quack nostrums whick
are destroying their loved ones, by forcing
opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other
hurtful agents down their throats, thereby
•ending them to premature graves."
Da. J. F. Kikciiblob,
Conway, Ark.
Castoria.
" Castoria Is so well adapted to ehlldraa that
I recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me."
R. A. Alcan, M. D,
III So. Oxford S\, Brooklyn, N. T.
M Our physicians in the children's depart*
mrnt have spoken highly of their expert*
ence in their outside practice with Castoria,
and although we only have among our
medical supplies what is known as regular
products, yet we are free to confess that the
merits of Castoria has won us to look with
favor upon it."
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Dry (Joods, Qotfyii?$, Boots, Sf?o^s,
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Groceries and Plantation Supplies,
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Forrest City, Arkansas.
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Is now prepared to do
WOODWORK and BLACKSMITHING
Plow Sharpening and General Repairing.
Carriage, Furniture, and General Painting and Varnishing.
Funeral Undertaker. Coffins of all kinds always in stock
All kinds of Shop Work done n short notice.