The Forrest City times., 1888-01-07

between Chinese Commissioners and representatives of an American syndi- cate granting concessions from China for telephone, telegraph and banking privileges.
 I2 Constable whelan killed at En- his, Ireland, in fight with moon sbiners.
 14. Nineteen monuments to Ohio soldiers erected on the Getty sburg bat tle-field. The Illinois Supreme Court confirms the death sentence of the sew en anarchists to be hanged at Chicago on November II.
 Is. The centennial of the adoption and signing of the Constitution of tue United States begun at Philadelphia.
 17. The "Ameriean" party holds its first national Convention at Phila- delphia.
 20. A Texas and Pacific Railroad train robbed of sI5,0O0 near Fort Worth.
 2l. Gilmore's Band open at the St. Louis Exposition.
 g. The steamship Alesia, from Naples and Marseilles, with 600 pas sengers die from cholera on the voyage. Earthquake shocks felt in Cuba and Jamacia Twenty fifth anniversary of Bismarck's appointment as Prusslan Prime Minister.
 %. Abolition of discriminating du- ties in trade with Spain proclaimed by President Cleveland.
 27. The twenty-first annual Grand Encampment of the Grand Army ofthe Republic opens in St. Louis. The St. Louis Merchants Exchange gives a reception to distin guished visitors at the Encampment
 2S. Parade of the c. A. R. at St. Louis.
 go. Grand illumination and trades display at St. Louis; R. B. Angell, of Ann Arbor, Mich, and W. l.. Putnam, of Portland, Me-, appointed as United States Commissioners to consider the fishery dispute.
 30. Close of the G. A. K. Encamp- ment at St. Louis and election of Judge J. F. Rea, of Minneapolis, as Con- mander-in-chief of the order. Presi- dent and Mrs. Cleveland leave Wash ington on their trip through the West and South. The Volunteer defeats the Thistle for the second time in the race for the Queens cup at New York har- bor, which decides the contest in favor of the Americans. -.s..,..-s,....,
 OCTOBER.
 1. Arrival of the President and party at St. Louis.
 3. Sessions of the General Assembly of Knights of Labor open in Minneap- oils.
 I. Grand entrance of the Yelled Prophets into St. Louis, which is wit messed by the President and party, who attend the Yelled Prophets ball and afterward leave for Chicago. The pro- peller California and tine schooner Havana wrecked on Lake Michigan and thirteen lives lost.
 ,. Arrival ofthe President and party in Chicago. The ship Charmer, which started for San Francisco from New ! ork in race with the ship Seminole, arrives at the former port.
 G. Announcement of the transfer of the franchise and property of the Bal timore and Ohio Telegraph Company to the Western Union.
 :. Yellow fever epidemic announced at Tampa, Fla; the great military and social scandal relating to the sale oi decorations made public in Paris; the German Government pays to the family of the French game-keeper killed by
  Boston gives big reception to the owner and the designer of the yacht Volunteer.
 II. Nine persons killed or burned to death in wreck caused on the Chica- go and Atlantic Railroad, near Foutz, Ind, by collision; the President and party leave Minneapolis
 12. Robert Garrett resigns the presi- dency of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road; eight insane women suifocated during a fire in an asylum at Cleve- land, o.
 I3. The presidential party visit St Joseph and Kansas City.
 II. Judge Elicit, of the Chancery Court, drops dead upon the platform while welcoming the President al Memphis. An unsuccessful attempt made to rob an express train on the Galveston, Harrisburg and San An tonia Railroad near El Paso, both rob- bers being killed by the express mes senger. The Scotch cutter Thistle starts from New York for Glasgow Fifteen hundred French pilgrims re ceiged at Rome by the Pope.
 15. The President and Mrs. Cleye' land, while in Nashville, call on tht widow of President James K. Polk. r. Arrival of the presidential party at Atlanta, the last point visited or their tour. A Shakespeare memoria fountain presented by G ". Childs, o Philadelphia, to the town of Stratford on-Avon, dedicated with appropriate ceremonies. A four-story Catholic school building in course of erection 1T New York collapses, Father Kirner, | priest, and five workmen being killed and ten others injured. IS. Gen. Judson hilpatrick's re mains buried with military honors a West Point.
 10. The General Assembly O Knights of Labor concludes it's work a l Minneapolis and adjourns. A natura gas explosion in Pittsburg kills fifteeI persons.
 20. Wreck on the Baltimore anC | Ohio road near St. Albans, W. Va. fourteen persons being injured. 2l. The appeal of the Chicago anar ! chists argued before the U nited State Supreme Court.
 P. Close of the St. Louis Exposi- ! tion: Kitab, in Boucharia, Central Asia | destroyed by fiD and 1000 persons per | ish.
 i 26. Sturgeon, the famous London | preacher, announces his withdrawa 1 from the Baptist Union. 27. Wilfred Blunt, an English mem ! Der of Parliament. sentenced in Dublin to two moRth's imprisonment for speak ing at a proclaimed meeting in Ireland ] 29. The propeller Vernon lost ol | Lake Michigan, with fifty persons ol ! board.
 3i. O'Brien, editor of United Ire land, committed to Cork Jail for mak ing seditious speech. | NOVEMBER. l. Gasoline explosion in a grocer ] store ill St. Louis, nine persons beini killed and several injured.
 ?. The United States Supreme Cour refuses a writ oferror to the condemne, 1 Chicago anarchists. ] 6. Four bombs found in the cell O ! Lingg. the anarchist, in Chicago. '. The Fifth National Bank in St ! Louis suspends on account of iTregulari l ties on the part of some of it's official;
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