The Forrest City times., 1888-05-05
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
snow fell in Dakota.

Snow fell in Dakota.
 Rain storms have been doing consid- orable damage in the Indian Nation.
 Ed Crockett, a negro desperate, was killed by a farmer near Lancaster, s. c.
 The Sunday law in regard to closing saloons was enforced in Cincinnati Monday.
 Israel Rose, Jewish peddler, com mitted suicide at his home in Leaven- worth, Kas., by taking morphine.
 The name of Judge Craig of Illinois a mentioned as a possible successor to Chief-Justice Waite.
 A conductor on Texas railroad was Killed by cowboy whom he had elected from the train.
 Handy Posey, negro who had made c criminal assault upon a 12-year-old girl, was lynched at Bessemer, Ala, Wednesday by mob of citizens.
 Nearly all the druggists of Des Hoines have publicly announced that they will not sell intoxicating liquors for any purpose.
 A large number of persons are camp ing on the edge of the Black Feet reser- vation waiting for it to be thrown open to settlement.
 Dr. Talmage denies from the pulpit the report that he dispensed four kinds of wine to members of the Thirteenth regiment entertained by him.
 Joseph Chamberlain's marriage to Miss Endicott, daughter of Secretary of War Endicott, is now announced by the London press.
 Six men at work in sewer excava- lion at Yonkers, N. Y., were buried alive, water pipe having broken and cavod in the sides of the cut.
 The cornerstone of the new female seminary at Tahlequah, l. T., which is to replace the one destroyed by fire last year, was laid Thursday.
 pr. F. G. Malay of Harrisburg, Va, was found guilty of embedding $500 from lunatic named James Kelly, for whom Malay acted as guardian.
 John Cross, ranchman of Alamosa, Colo, was killed by a neighboring ranchman named John Beck over the possession of a piece of land.
 Rev. J. F. Dickie of Detroit, Mich., aas been asked to take charge of the Presbyterian Chapel in Paris. The body of an unknown man who had been dead apparently for thirty days, was found at Rowe, N. M., by some herders. sss Judge T. B. Mackibben of Campbell County, Ky, was found dead in his bed at Newport, O., with an empty chloral bottle at his side.
 At . church festival at Bynum's Station, Ala, a quarrel arose during which about fifty shots were fired. Two men, Ed Anderson and Morris Jenkins were killed, and two men and woman fatally injured.
 Charles Marks and Mrs. Thomas Ruse of Kokomo, Ind, were fatally shot by Mrs. Ruse's husband, who found them together in the woods on the outskirts of tho town.
 Miss Mary Jamison of Philadelphia ls to marry Mr. Simpson Mann of Texas, who was at one time engaged to Miss Jamison's mother, but forbidden to marry her on account of his politics. John Moore, alias w. J. and J. T. Moore, was arrested at Baton Rouge, La., for fraud, having entered and ob- tained claims for homesteads under all three names.
 ; Mr. Wilfrid Blunt has arrived in Dublin. It is expected he will contest the Parliamentary seat for the Saint Stephen's Green Division, made vacant By the death of Mir. E. Dwyer Gray. The Calumet and Hecla mine at Calumet, Mich., was opened Wednes- day at Shaft No. l. No fire could be discovered and 1t is supposed that the fire is entirely out.
 The paymaster of the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railroad was robbed of $6O0 by some unknown per son who entered the vault where the money was kept and carried off a DOT ton of it.
 Jesse Graham of Fresno, Cal, gave himself up to the Sheriff Thursday for a crime committed in Santa Cruz thirty eight years ago, when he deliberately shot and killed Dennis Bennett and his mother.
 Two deputy sheriffs of Socorro County, N. NJ. had pitch battle with . couple of desperados they were pur- suing, named Porter and Atkins, which resulted in the death of Porter and the capture of Atkins.
 Two negroes named Henry Williams and Bill Parkman were suspected of burning a mill in Merriweather County, Ga, and tortured with fire and whips until they said they had committed the crime. rhrkman died from the injuries he had received.
 Mrs. Brenning of Lenoir County. N. C., while insane, tried to drown her self and her young baby in pond where baptisms were held. When dragged from the water the child was dead and the mother in precarious condition.
 Charles Butler of Carrollton, O., in suited young lady named Jennie Fisher by wliistling an offensive tune and calling her "Birdie.n The young lady procured horse whip and whipped Ar. Butler in the presence of a large crowd.
 James White, soldier at Fort Glib son, l. T., was killed in very peculiar manner Thursday. He had just pulled up the stake to which his horse was tied when the animal took fright and with sudden jump jerked the stake through Whites body.
 FOREIGN NEWS.