The Forrest City times., 1888-05-19
TELEGRAPHIC BREYInES


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 Alex N- White. rortzzrre of the cAt Great Western rziiroad- has asked for an zecSunfinz of the F-8reTty-
 WEiism T. Ez5zsr x4s Monday ar -r<sed z- M z-cgazah. kas- f1r S1orrzzk fs Esfe4 >sztez milan aec0gHts thirty years ago
 Jon C. CrzwfgssI- wlso killed Var Busen Burke izs- fall. was s<nfencee 0 life irzyTlso1zlsnt al San FFSnctscG Fr5dxy-
 Tom Roney- a enl0red man. wzs fynehed tg mob Frsdsy near Wood bEEn- Ky. for p0EsOning a number of hss eEaps0ser-s h9nses-
 CoI. Jxrlss McCarty of waltor CozEty. Ga. aged - yezrs. was fOung dad Iyinz aeruss the grave of his wife who had died the week hefore-
 The National Association of Retail LnEater Dealers held its eleventh an nllai convention zt Davenport. To- Thursday.
 AiexandeT Dackw0Tfh- a Iriso1er a koa-r F8- Co11-. tried t0 run fhToEsn the prsson lnes and vzS shot while at tempting t.
 WIfIe the keeper was zttendinx q Degn0cT4tse cOnB enfi0n as Nashville. Tenn nine eOnsicts under his charge st the Inu1zu mines made their escar<
 Two hzsSss Hesozging to the Missis sipTl Fzlley Transportation Co.,. we-s sunk sn a viAdss0rTn at New Orleans La, Tuesday.
 William Jenkins. a constable al Deweese. Sef,.. wbile trying to stOF soue men sbOofing within the city limits was fatally shot by one of the men named Davis
 Yin. usSzsza. . eczTziescent in the hospital at PzdBcah. Ky, swallowed a thew of tobacco and was taken with an attack of hiccO1gfzs, which resulted in hss death.
 A young man named McNeil living Et Cartilage. N. C. seriously shot Mis- Ida Pee, young lady he vas in love with, because she allowed another young man to visit her
 J. (. RenfTsw. a younz hardware merchant of Fredonia. Ky, killed him self wsth morphine, having told his roommate fefore gong to bed that he preferred death to Ill health
 K J. Jarrett. while out hunting with a boy named Caldwell, near Pine Bluff. Ark Friday was killed by Caldwell who accidentally discharged his gun n tripping over stump
 Charles R. Bschmzn. the Steward of the ship Brussels, who was convicted of trying to set the ship on fire, was sentenced at San Francisco Thursday to serve twenty-five years al San Quentin
 4 soldier named Brown. while being taken tothe guzrd-h house at Fort Shaw. Mont, broke away from his guard and jumped down a bank twenty-five feet into the river and has not been heard of since.
 Four men were badly sealded and cut by the explosion of hot water toiler in the pork packing house of Hart < Bro, at Wilmington, Del. Friday.
 George Cook. a hired man working for farmer near Laporte. Ind, killed his employers lI-months-old batg by breaking its neek while shaking 1t to make It stop crying
 Wm- Showers, a murderer, sentenced to hang some time in July, escaped from the Lebanon jail few days ago and was recaptuFed by three young men, who found him in a deserted scho0I-house.
 James Kits and Joel Anglin. living near Mount Vernon. Ky, fought with clubs to settle dispute over some cattle. AngIin skull was crushed and one arm and two ribs broken. Kitts notified neighbOr that he had killed Anglin and then escaped.
 John Peters, farmer living neai Newport. Neb., was arrested for steal ing the roof of a nefghhor's house fe use on his own. the houses in that sec. tion being built of sod with shingle roofs.
 Dr. William Young. who was ar. rested for bigzny at Baltimore, was gwen the lightest sentence the law al lows, of eighteen months in the peni- tentiary, because both the women he was married to pleaded with the judge t0 be lenient-
 Two Deputy Sheriffs from Decatur Ala, tried 10 arrest negro named Tom Garth. and commenced firing at him without warning. The negro in defending himself killed them both and then went to town and gave himself up.
 Dick Emery, living near Nashville Tenn, fatally shot man named Punch smith for alleged intimacy with his daughter Smith received eleven s.uckshot in his lungs.
 The flood at Dubuque, To-, is within eighteen inches of the highest water ever known there. Hundreds of fam lilies in the low lying districts have been driven from their homes and about one thousand men are out of employment on account of some of the factories being under water.
 Between fifty and sixty square miles of the timberland on the Blue Ridge Mountains in Caldwell County, \. C.. are on fire and being totally de stroyed. Strenuous efforts are being made to prevent the spreading of the flames. It is feared that much dam age will be done.