The Forrest City times., 1888-04-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES

; The erapsoyes or the Belt Line rail road in Chicago are expeess1 to strike. The st. Louis. Arkanszs and Texas railroad reached Fers Worth.
 Ezssis. r. smith Of North CsrolIus vas nonlnated for minister to IIberz Col !. L. Haynes, one of the most prominent Texas Rebrbiiezns, is dead.
 Three families Of pauper immigrants arrived Monday al New York from Europe
 The commercial travellers VII moi run Joe Mulhatton for president this y~ar.
 A call has been issued for farmers trust convention, to be held at Topeka, May l.
 Waite occurred Thursdzy at Toledo, C.
 - The town of North Bend. Neb.. on the xisscsri river, is entirely sur rounded by water.
 Gather Reese Of Spring Creek, V. C., was shot and killed while trying to escape from a Deputy sheriff and his posse.
 Deputy Revenue Collector Taylor o. Raleigh. \. C.. reports rhe capture oi an Illicit stiIi in Chatham County. North Carolina
 Frederick A. Markey. Of Coshocton. O.. committed suicide 90 that hls five children could get possession Of his property.
 Mrs. Jonn Gariiek Of Cincinnati, O., was instantly killed by an elevator Friday while trying 10 step of before fl had ssoppsd.
 Montgomery. Ala, IS still partially under water, tho food having covered the water and gas-works and number ofmanufaetories.
 bring one Of the New York ex-bood- Jake Sharp.
 / Dofniniek Necafery Is back from England, and gives his verison Of the faIiiyan- Mitchell fight. l.. C. Holske has also returned, and states his views. The bill granting the St- Louis & San Franelsco Railroad the right Of way through the Indian Territory passed the senate Friday.
 John F. Deezmp. yice-President the 6efaret Mstr0pollf&n Bank was re- zr-eztsd ia Cincinnati. O., having been s1rrsotered by hsE boadsnsn. : i nsw county in Kansas. to be known zs kezrsey, WAS organized Thursday. The county seat will be al LAkin-
 James Derssset was arrested at Spring City. Tenn. on the charge O. numbering Ras smith al Dayton, Tenn, On Thursday last
 "Biil Indian" full. bIooden Cherokee Indian living at Madison. Ca., has claim on some property there which, If he can get proofs, will net him 5 ,O0Q. . Josph Lee killed Geo. Sexton at Sparta, \. C.. because tue latter had gone b fore the Grand-jury and testi- fled against the murdered Lee. Vim. Rovie, young coiored man, was killed near Raleigh, N. C., by young white man named Alvin Nor gan. in a quarrel over a small debt.
 William D. Poole was indicted by the Grsnd-jury at Boston for embezzle- menf- Poole was at one time Chief Deputy United States M arshal.
 James King, coal miner at Leayen- worth, Kan. shot and killed a man named Harrison Young and wounded two other rDen. The trouble arose from political discussion.
 Roderick NJ. Murdock, head book keeper for the Armour Packing Con- pany at Jacksonville, Fla, V as arrested 1bgrsdav. charged with embedding SS0O Of the conpsny's money. : Steve Iuman. jsilor at the Pulaski County JaIi, near Little Rock Ark, is being tried for having brufally beaten aa ifnbecile negro prisoner under his charge.
 Rev Clayton Mumma and Rev. John Conrad were killed by train at Read Ing. Pa, while they were gtrolling down the track seeing the sights along the road.
 Miss Jennie Brooks, bright and charming young lady, 20 years Of age, hsing near Parsons, Kan, committed suicide bY shooting herself through the heart with revolver.
 An'attempt was made Thursday to wreck the Baltimore & Ohio train due at Parkersburg. ". Va, in the morn Ing. A pie or rallroaa tles was dis- covered on the track by passerby, who removed them just before the train arrived.
 Owing to the ill-feeling growing out of the arrest of United states Marshal Mead Of Tuscon while pursuing train robbers, the Mexican government has ordered strict non-intercourse on tho border.
 John nacky, prisoner in the City Jail at Leavenworth, Kan, tried to commit suicide by putting his head against tbe iron cross-bsrs of his cell door. He was stopped before any seri- ous damage was done,