The Forrest City times., 1888-01-07

animals. burned, the loss aggTegaiini
 Si 1T. V. Lesley and J. A. l.. WI son nlead guilty at Philadelphia to 'e frauding the Delaware and ehesspe1,No rsnsI company out of $600,OOJ, lesley, getting eight years imprisonment anu
 s5 Collision on the Baltimore ara ohto Railroad near COchCap's Aliisi Pa. three persons being killed ana h'e
 97 NJ, Grevy formally announces thai he will resign his position as Presi- dent Of France. .., women and a man injured by the eA- plosjon of the water pipes behind tns titchen range in the Kirby House. NH
 @ s9 Most the anarchist, found guilty of making an innammatory speech. The New York Court of Appeals grants a new trial to Jacob Sharp.
 DECEMBER -.-
 1, Jacob sharp released on Sio,OoO hail. A bronze statue for James A 
 Garfield unveiled in Cincinnati. ..
 a. Kansas farmers take possession oi A coal train because the railroad com panies refuse to servo them with eoai, remove au of that article which me! need. and pay the conductor.
 One man Killed and two seriodsly injured on a Missouri Pacific train which is derailed b. COW. fetef Bennett. wealthy farmer at East Newport, Me, robbed Of S2s,OO0.
 5. The Fifiieth Congress opens. The United states Supreme Court de- clares the Kansas prohibitory law valid. ,, Congress.
 '. James c. Blaine, in an interview telegraphed from Paris, strongly con demns the free-trade utterances ih President Cleveland's message. Secre- tarv Fairchild's annual report read. '. The Republican National Com mittee decide to hold the Presidential Nominating Convention ot the party at Chicago, on June 10. lSSO. Anarchist Most sentenced in New ork to ayeaf . imprisonment. 10. At Pittsburg 3500 glass-workers strike. Train robbers secure SiO,0)O ou the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad, near Texarkana. A SlOO,OOo fire in a Philadelphia barrel factory. A witless fellow named Aubertin attempts to kill Jules Ferry in Paris. Il. A Cincinnati theatre stage man aper killed by a shock from an electric wire.
 12. Harper, who wrecked the Fidel- ] n years imprisonment. Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars damages caused by fire in the shoe establishment of Phelps, Dodge & Palmer, Chicago, B. A joint committee of the North ern and Southern branches of the Pres- byterian Church meet at Louisville to consider the question of union of the denomination.
 IA. keely, at a meeting or the Keely motor stockholders, announces that he has given up the "etherlt force'' theory for the newer one oi ''vibratory sympathy"
 15. The Convention of Republican Clubs opens in New York. A Sl70,00e fire in New York and one of S2O0,000 in St. Augustine. A Philadelphia banb clerk, in whom the highest confidence nau been pldCCu, tdluS Vut " " '" NS faulter in S90,000.
 l6. Most of the business portion Of Maplewood, Dak,, destroyed by fire.
 l7. The S0th aneiyersary or the birth of John c. Whittier celebrated by the schools in manyplaces throu gh out the country.
 Is, Many brewers announce their ih' tention to boycott Iowa and Kansai ! n Indian Territory, and large amount of property destroyed by tornado. A | big timber raft from Nova Scotli 1 breaks loo SC from the steamer Miranda which had it in tow, and is no recovered.
 l9. The prohibltionists issue Q call for the National Convention of thei ] party, to be held in Indianapolis or 1 January 6, 1888. $. s. Crandall, al Ballston Spa, N. Y.. shoots his wife his mother-in-law, step-daughter ant ] himself, on account of q quarrel oVel money matters.
 20, A severe blizzard sweeps owe ! Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas ant l other states, many persons being irozeI l to death. Jake kilrain and Jem Smitl | fight to draw in France.
 Pie Explosion of naphtha gas in ; sewer in Rochester, \. r., killing sev eral persons. wrecking four mills sn' 1 tearing up streets.
 P. Two persons fatally injured ant two slightly hurt in collision on tn Ohio and Northwestern Railroad. / S20O,O GOO fire in Pittsburg. Congres adiourns over the holidays.
 g. Earthquake shock felt in Rhod' Island and Southeastern Massachasett | Frank McNealy, the Saco (Me.) bani defaulter, arrested in Halifax. Tn American Catholics hierarchy congrat ulate Pope Leo upon the attainmen of the fiftieth anniversary of his ordina tion to the priesthood. Thirty-iiy persons injured in wreck on the Min nesota and Northwestern Railroad nea German Valley, III.
 24. John J. Littleton, editor of tn National Review, a weekly Republiea newspaper, published in Nashville fatally shot by !. R. Banks, a real es tate agent. Paddy Ryan knocked on in San Francisco by Joe MeAulih Train robbers foiled on the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad, nea Atoka. I. T.. by the express messenge and other train employees, who barr eaded the cars against them. Rio near Covington, Ky, in which four me are badly wounded.
 9. Jack Donovan kills his brothe Owen in St. Louis in drunken quarrel
 
 To Dig Up Babylon.