The Forrest City times., 1888-02-11
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Interesting Bits of Information Put fnte Convenient shape for the Hurried H~ader.

Interesting Bits of Information Put fnte
 Convenient shape for the Hurried
 Reader.
 Francis Miller. prominent lawyer of Warrington, D. C., is dead.
 Mrs. Mary Hewitt, the poetess and novelist, died in Rome Saturday. pr. Mackenzie says that tracheatomy on the Crown Princes throat nay yet be necessary.
 The Newfoundland Government is fitting a fleet to protect its fisheries 1 from the French. The President and wife gave State dinner to the Justices of the Supreme 1 Court last night.
 Miss Flora Robb was killed and her sister badly injured by runaway team at Pueblo, Colo. Saturday.
 An attempt was made Saturday by i gang of desperados to rob the Mexican | Custom house at Nogales, Ariz.
 Mir. Pugh talked awhile on the Blair educational bill in the Senate | Thursday.
 Robert B. Barrett, a well-to-do plumber of Pittsburg, Pa, was arrested for being bunco man.
 Sixteen boys who built bonfires in honor of O'Brien's release were sen- fenced to imprison ment for one week.
 The Loyal Legion of Massachusetts and Rhode Island gave banquet to Gen. Sheridan In Boston Thursday.
 Ultra Radicals of the British Parlia- ment are making overtures to the Par nelltes to unite to obstruct legislation.
 A call has been issued to the mem- bers of the International Range Asso- citation to convene at Denver on March 2s.
 Active preparations are being made by the Artesian Waker Company at Memphis, Tenn, to improve the water supply.
 Vim. Galloway was arrested at Owensboro. Ky, while he was being married to Miss Sallie Hubbard of the same place.
 Ten prisoners in the County jail at Uniontown, Pa., escaped by cutting a hole in the floor of an-unused cell. Mrs. Ida Denham, living at Topeka, Kan. was driven to insanity by the dcsertion of her husband, commercial traveller.
 The Protestant preachers in session at the City of Mexico saturday decided to make a war on bull fights and gambling.
 Ulysses Cleveland, an ex-policeman and politician at Mobile, Ala. was arrested Saturday for the murder of Arthur Glennan.
 A meeting of coke operators will be held at Pittsburg, Pa, Sunday to tran sact the final business of organizing the new syndicate.
 Several hundred merchants and sev- eral Senators attended the banquet oi the Merchants and Manufacturers As sociation at Baltimore Saturday.
 Every precautlon is being taken ir Brooklyn, N. r., to prevent the spread ing of small pox there, but as yet only a few cases have been reported.
 It has been proved by investigation | that the fire which occurred in tho New York hospital for crippled chil' dren was started by one of the little girl inmates.
 There was a reunion of survivors O the Thirty-fourth Congress Saturday 1T | Washington. Twelve persons were | present, including Gen. Banks ant Senators sherman and Morrill,.
 George Haywood Carpenter, the New | York defaulter and forger, escaped | from the Jacksonville, Fla, jail, leaving note saying he was going to New | York.
 Robert c. Howell, General Superin tenGent of the Delivery Department ir the Philadelphia Post-oifice, was ar rested Saturday for stealing a neckti' from the mail. The same day last week that Amer cas greatest botanist, Asa Gray, died | England's most distinguished botanist \ Dr Thomas Irvine Boswell, passed } away.