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The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14
S,,praI Ga.inIndiana.

WABASH, IND, July 9.-Two resi- dents of Sims, a small town south of this city, on the line Of the Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railway. con ceiyed the idea of drilling gas well with homemade apparatus and with out derrick. No one in the vicinity believed that the enterprise could be successfully caTTed out After about a month exertion. drilling has ceased. The well is e55 feet deep and the Trrn- ton rock was pierced F feet when the drill refused to work. the pressure be ing so strong. The well is one of the best in Grant county and the fluid comes up through the it-inch casting with great force. Gas well contract ors have become greatly interested in the new method of drilling developed by the enterprising Sims men.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14
Bloody Mystery of the Kimishi Mountains,
 Choetaw Nation.

DESIsoS, TEX, July 6.-News has just reached this city of horrible massacre which took place on the morning of July 1 in the Kimishi noun tains, about fifty miles from here, in the most rugged part of the Choctaw Nation. From the best information Ob. tainable 1t seems that four men had pitched tent on the headwaters of a little creek which rises in the noun taius for the oStensible purpose of hunting and fishing. On the morning stated parties passing found all of the men dead, and about fifty yards from camp was another victim. The camp and occupants were literally riddled with bullets, evidently the work of the deadly Winchester Who the fifth vic tim is is unknown, and when found. hs Winchester was by his side, and the lever was thrown open to eject a cartridge. He bad teen shot by shot gun, and shot-guns were found in ths camp. The dead men had scarcely grown cold, and the blood was still running from their wounds. Who the dead men are, and what caused the attack is unknown. IL IS supposed that the campers were hunters from some of the border counties of Texas. and became involved in trouble with some of the people who live m the noun tains. the result Of which was the kill ing of five men. An officer and posse have gone from Stringtown, l. T., to the scene of the massacre.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14
BAD BOYS OF BALTIMORE.
\ BoIE Fznd of Youthful Criminals Un
 .4rthed in the Orioie City.


 BALTIMORE, Mp. July s.-The ar rest of several small boys for stealing has brought to light yeritable Fagin surrounded in his den by number O. youthful and artful dodgers who steal everything they can lay their hands on. During several months past Nathaniel Lowenthal, the proprietor of shoe store has missed sundry pairs of shoes upon the sidewalk For long time he was puzzled as to the manner in which the footgear disappeared, but after patiently watching couple of little boys were seen to steal pair Of shoes.
 In order to find out what they did with them they were not molested. Ser geant Glow heard about the case, and at once suspected that eobbler who kept dingy shop on the corner Of shroeder and Boyd streets might know something about the shoes The cob bier is tall, lean man, about 50 years old. who answers to the name Of John Anderson. A full black beard and searching black eyes. which gives to his countenance not at all pTepos- SeSSing appearance. Sergeant tiow asked this cobbler whether he had
 bought any shoes, and receiving a negative answer he warned the cob
 bier paIticularIy not to buy any from boys.
 The thieves then extended their operations to all the stores along Bal timure street i'll that section, and in the early part of last week clerk re-
 covered one pair of stolen shoes from Anderson's shop. Sergeant Ward swore out warrant for Anderson 5 arrest and this afternoon the eobbler was given a hearing before Justice Bonnet The little boys who had been | seen to steal the shoes, gave away the
 whole snap. as they term it. \ dozen boys were found who had been playing | the dodgers. They ranged in age l from to b years. They stated that | they were paid 25 cents a pair for the | shoes they brought to the den, and were then encouraged to play cards | and drink beer in the back room of An i derson's shop. Most of them played truant and Anderson kept their school hours and while they went on their l thieving expeditions. Anderson never
 asked them where they got the boots and shoe they sold him. He was com l mitted to jail for court.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14
Monday.

HOCsE.--Mr. Adams Of Illinois offered a resolution reriting the resolution directing the Committee on Manufacturers to inl ve-iigate the subject of trusts. stating that the scene of investigation was so broad as to render it impraeticable for the committee to make its report st the present session, and directing the committee to report i'm nnedia,eiy with or without recommends tion sgi the evidence taken by it relating to the Sugar Trust, and also in separate re port the evidence taken relating to the so-called Standard oil Trust Referred to the Committee on RBles- Mir. Ford of Michigan offered a resolution reciting the allegation that the present immigration into the United States is excessive. artificial and injurious, and is encouraged to satisfy private greed. and the further allegation that the law prohibiting the importation of contract labor is being eyaded owing to the lack of sufficient machinery to enforce 1t, and directing the Speaker to appoint a special committee of five members to in yestigafe the subject matter herein re ferred to with leave to sit during the re- cess. Referred to the Committee on Military affairs.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

ridze exploded Fridzy under the front uf a locomotive nezT Cre<ton- Ic-. damaging tie engine so that fl had to fe lad ID for Tepairs--Jsmes Miller, a NeIlto-do farmer of Hardinsburz Ky. was shot and killed by County Judge A M. PuIli1En during quarrel about some YTlvste business a1fziT-- Alexander Johnson counterfelteT who has operated in nearly every large city on the continent Of Amerrcz. was captured in Canada hF the police.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14
CURRENT EVENTS.

 The Astors own 5000 buildings in the city of New York
 Exporters claim that shipments of Indlsn wheat gre increasing.
 A pound of pennies is worth &l42 A pound of hve-eent pieces is worth s4S5. 50 planter st Brooskville Fla, cleared siG GOO, of a cabbage patch of 100 scres Three steamships brought 2O07 immigrants to Castle Garden, New York. on Saturday last
 Since ls6i the Government hss paid 10 retired army officers the total sum of Sl6 s3o,Ouo
 New York city has storage capacity of looaooo barrels of -four and dock room equal to 2oo0 900 bsrrels
 During the month of May 22s45 emigr,nts went out from the United Kingdom Of this total 4443 were from Ireland
 The new hasching house at Plymouth, N. H., viil be twice IS large as the other, with capacity of 2oco ooo eggs
 In Cuba the lonEeIpeeted rains have st last become general. and will do much to- wards hastening the termination of the sugar crop
 From Montreal the total exports of cheese since Jan. l to June were 24,s75 boxes, axainss ss. IFS in 1887, B. 544 in isS6 4S0oo in isSs and $. .sfo in 1884
 Included in the total shipments from New iork city during the week ending June 2 were ZIG live cattle. 7,445 quarters of beef and ten live sheep
 The nrst shipment of vatermelons reached New York on Tuesday. There were two car ioadA fhey were quickly sold to the lead. Ing hotels at q. 5 to q IS per melon.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

Louis over the Missouri rs-i5c- She was accompanied bT her lIttie ssn and Mr. and Ms Thcmpson. her intimate friends. ars- Moore has evade1 every attempt made to interview her and would only say to your resFcIi3ent- through Mir. ThomVsun. that fhe ne ,ss of her husbands e39pement was the first infimation she had ever received that he was untrue to her Mrs Moore had almost to ie canned 10 the tIa n So overcome was she by the blow which had fallen upon her so suddenly and with such crushing fore IL is believed here that Moore induced her 10 come io this place to get her out of the way.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14
DOMESTIC.


 Gen BonlaugeT, in a speech at q banquet at Reims. violently attacked the Chamber of Deputies. resi- dents of Sims, Ind, with a drill Of their own construction. struck gas at a depth Of a55 feet.-An incendiary who has been plague to Mobile, Ala. named Ellis Long, was arrested and convicted on his own statcment;-J. J. Cooper. engineer at the station of Basin, Mont.-A squadron of four cruisers aud fourteen torpedo boats has been detailed to attend the Em- pefor Of Germany on his Russian trip.
 -Ed Sparks, shot and fatally wound ed young man named Charles Mey- CTS in quarTel.-A frightened horse attached to a wagon loaded with won- en and children backed into the water at Laconia. N H.. drowning two little ] girls.-John Gielow. employed in the Malleable Iron works at Buffalo. N. r.. while cleaning out a furnace became ! senseless from the heat and fell into it and was burned to death.-Jacob Meelsker, IT,, and his cousin, Jacob ! Rapp, living at Bengal Ind, renewed an old unsettled dispute, and wound [ up by fighting. HeelskeT was stabbed ! 10 the heart by his cousin. dying in- FA T It LUKE anu HEN ] Duchess of Marlborough arrived in l Queenstown Sunday. They will re- ! main in England short time and then return to America to allow the Duke ! to take his contemplated shoo- ! ing trip through the West
 David J. Emden of New York was found with his throat cut in a hotel at ndianapoiis.--A leak in a gasoline tank at Oil City, Pa, set creek and a train of cars on fire, and seriously burned two boys-A number of factories were destroyed by fire start cd by a boiler at Pittsburg, Pa. The loss is estimated at sJO,OO.-A cyclone visited section about a hun dTed miles in length along the Chicago, Milwaukee X St. Paul road in Iowa, Friday, doing considerable damage. ! A young man named Harry Tuck CT, from Amsterdam, N. Y., was ! drowned with his father and sister, while out rowing on Lake Johanna, near St. Paul, Minn.-Roeeo Rosa bel a lost his temper in wrestling match with man named Harry shope, at Altoona, Ia, and drew knife across the latter's abdomen cutting him fatally. Miss Helen T. Kelly of St Paul. Minn., committed suicide at ntl lattlt1 1 AtotAtiAAE ht fsaAEAAtE Aft
 self to beam in the wo0dshed. She had become Respondent from eontinuel i'll health.-
 A passenger train on the Northern Pacific was detached near Gold Creek Station, Mont, injuring a number of assengeTs---Louis Hobel. German cabinet maker, 65 years of age, was found hanging to an cd p:ece of pipe ! in tannery at Evansville. Ind.
 BI0unt County, Alabama, was yis- tied by two slight earthquakes Friday. neither of which did any serious dam age-A portion Of Fo:epaagh's cir GUS train was wrecked Friday at Fall River, Mass, iniufing thee men and killing some animals. J kilgore
 a Franklin Pa real estate dealer. was stopped by four armed and masked higl waymen on his way home and robbed of s2,0i0.-A dynamite cart
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14
Saturday.

HorsK--The Speaker laid before the House various Presidential yetoes of pri- gste peasioa bills. which were appropri- ateiy referred The House then proceeded in the consideration morning hour t0 the consideration of measures reported by the Committee on Military Affairs The Senate hlll was passed providing for the sale of the site al Fort Omaha Neb-, spprppriasing ssN aOo for the purchase of new site and the construction of suitable buildings there on On motion of Sir. Randall of Pennsyl- vanis the bill was ameuded by the inser- ton of a proTiso that not more than one third of the appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of the site.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14
pi.d on III. Engine.

BOULDER, MoNT., July s.-J. J. Cooper, an engineer on the Montana Central, dropped dead at his post yesterday near Basin. He went to work as usual at o'clock, and pulled the construction train to q point near Basin, where they stopped to load ties. He complainei of pain in his side about s o'clock. but soon said he was as well as ever. At s.30 he suddenly sprang from his seat and called his fire man by name and fell dead on the se.k of the engine. Cooper was about .., years of age and had been in Montana but short time, coming here from on City, Pa.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14
Gra..aopper. Almost E1,-rmina,ed.

ST. PAUL, MISN., July 6.-otto Lueger, the State entomologist, has returned from the scene of the grass hopper invasion in the northern part of the State, and says the efforts at destroying the insects have been so successful that at least half a yield may be expected. The fact has been revealed that each insect is attacked hy so many parasites that their future invasion is quite improbable.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14
R0U E.

Close connection at Memphis. Tenn, with the l.. & N. C., o. X x. W. NJ. 6 c. NJ. & T. K. C. NJ. X B. and L. N. Q. X T. for Louis vile, Cincinnati. Philadelphia New York, Nashville, Chattanooga Atlanta, Charlotte, Augusta. Bir. mingham, Mobile.
 All rail route to New Orleans, Jackson, Vicks burg, Meridian, etc. @-Thc Passenger Equipment of this FavOrite Route is Unsurpassed. For full information with Maps. Schedules, Rates. etc. apply to
 S. W. TUckER,
 Gcnl Pass. and Ticket Agent.
 Little Rock, Ark.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14
nnr.szy.

SExaTE--A message from the President Ezs received Ne.oing a bil granting pen ssss fe Mz-y Azn Doeerty The Prezzderf sharz sse bad ehzfar.er q fhe gTo.nza. ard that the husband oa Seeouut of whoSe death the pension was desired. is alive ard Is himself drawing pension The Prc>i- dent says he would yield to DO man in a desire to see those who defended the Gov eFlment literally treated, but the pe1sioz list should be z roll of honor and 70; a zzfter Of indiscriuinsfe giving. The Con ferrnee GcMna5stee on the Agricultural zp- prepFSzsior bill rrporferd that they were 1n- z5le 70 agree with the Ho1ss c0nfreers Ou fhe so-gAz=z is1zs- 4 fzrtAez cGlfsrsnee was ordered
 HgrsE--Biils were repo-ted as follows: By Mfr Herbert of Alabama. from the Com Hit1ee on SzTzl affairss To authorize the appointment of an Assistant Secretzry of the Navy BT Mr- Jackson of Pennsylvania fr0Ez the Coznittee On Public Lands. To authorize the establishment of a land o1rsoe st Folsom. ' I. By Mir. Crisp of Georgia, from the Committee on Commerce, the Sea ate bill 70 perfect the quarantine service of the United States. and to authorize the con struetion of bridge over the Arxzrsas River, near Cummings Landing. Ara The House then went into Committee of the whole on the bill for the settlement of the claims for the State of Florida. on account of Expenditures occurred in s1Vpres-ilz lE- dian h0ss3hties. and for other purposes.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

vEcorxr KArYEDA- . Japanese sez sxor waiting this counsry. plays re- maxkab,e clever game Of biIliarda
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

THKxE is rumor having its rice h Conpsc<icuf that Mark Twain recently psrpefrased n entirely new jokA
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14
Friday.

HoCsE--T-he Speaker pro tenn Laid be- fore the house a message from the President returning without his approval the bill granting a pension 10 Julia Welsh Ar Hzaten of Missouri presented the report of the oonferees e. the agricultural bill, tO the effect that they had reached an agreement upon all points of difference except the Senate amendment sppropriat8ng slBp, 60 for sorghum sugar experiments. The re Es9rz was adopted and the coufcrees were directed b insist upon their disagreement to thls amendment Mir. Kilgore of Te14s presented the conference report on the bill to ratify the act creating the County of San Juan, V. NJ Agreed to- The regular order was then demanded being a yea and nay vote on the passage of the land grant for feIture bill, and the vote yras taken. result ing in IT yeas, nays. 30 the Dll was passed The house then went into Com mittee of the whole on the tariff bill, the peuding paragraph being that relating 10 iron or steel railway fish plates or splice bars Mir. BuchSnzn's motion 10 strike out the paragraph was rejected Tue read ing Of the bill then progressed rapidly, mo ti0t4s made On the Republican side to strike out many of the paragraphs belng rejected, generally without division and with little lebz.a.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14
Judge Boyd Resigns

SPRINGFIELD. ILL, July 6.-The resignation of Thomas H. Boyd, county judge of Fulton county, has reached the Governor. It is to take effect i'm mediately.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

! JosErH HopsEa . couPosftor on the Savannah fsd<pssd<s1 has been sixfy-tvo yexxs sf tke case
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

IxvExroR Edison is quoted as say tag skas hs vozi1 give al ks fame so be rid of h.s deafnesa
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

Mas Gzrxpr writes that fl is . real pleasure to hear of m American girl marrying titled foreigner who owns something besides . goat and an um- hrrIsa
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

BELvA Axx LOCKWOOD is only 54 yeaxs old Tns makes her much younger than Queen Victoria and only the most o6ensiv pxrtissns would call her RrandmA
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

Ex-Gov. BEKxr of New Ham pshire vho is nov in hss ninstysecond year. organized the frss tempersnos society h that ssase ai Hebron. sixty -svo yesrs
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

THE oficers of the Bordeaux EAT. risoa lately gave Mme. Carnos hand some fan. and the President has semi to them in return three splendid bronze groups which cost el. GO.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

A matter of fact writes Henry C7sws. the Saturday Half-holiday law kas proved to be. as was seen from the arss intention. loes to the dsJ Workera
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

THAr most un-Engiish of English. men. Mr. wIlfrd Bluni says that 'zhers h very lissle political inieiligenos in Enriand-
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

DR- GrPPr concludes that the aver age rainfall on the higher slopes of Guadalcanar. on the Solomon Islands. l. between 400 and 5o0 incheA That of England is thirsy-two inches
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

n seems almost incredible that the Parisians pet centenarian has seen Danton. Robespierra and that Wash ington dId not die at Mount Vernon until thirteen years after M Chevreul Was horn
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

MRa SAwrER. wife of the Wiscon. sin senator. was afflicted with prog res. sIve paralysis, which manifested itself eight years ago. Only the daily appli- cation of electricity kept her alive for the six last months.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

luE late Nrs Shersdsn Kno~lss vas ths second wife of the grea; dram ma<ist
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

JUDGE CowISG. of New York, on Friday decided in the case of Thomas Moore. . grsy-haired old man with piercing black eye. suspected of bur gIarious designs. thas it WAS no crime to carry saws though 1t was to carry jimmies. nippcrs or picklocks.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

REAR-ApxIRAL CHARLES H. BALD- WIN. who sailed for Europe in January last is now in Paris with health great ly improved He will spend most of the summer at Hamburg and other German watering places and will re- turn to America in the early Fall
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

JUsr before selling the furniture oi an old lady as Ryde England. the ex- eeufor examined an ancient bureau and discovered . secret drawer. in which were 1000 sovereigns. closely packed
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

Mas J. H. RIDDELI- the novelist. lives in quaint cottage on the Thames. near London. and spends much time in Der garden and poultry yard She is tall and portly. with clear compiler ion. blue eyes. brown hair and g win ming smile She goes into society sel-
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

IT has been calculated by Prof Rogers of Washington. that the dyma- mic power of single pound of good seam coal is equivalent to a mans work for one day. three ton. for twenty years. and one square mile of . seam of coal only four feet thick will represent the labor of a million m en for twenty yearA
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

MANIToU, Colo, July Slate last night Mrs. Henry W. Moore, wife of the tTuant St. Louis editor, left for st.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

THE missionaries of the Pacific have lost one of their most devoted friends in the death of Pomare the Queen of Tahiti aud MoneA in the Society Is- IandA For over fifty years this woman led . simple Christian life. When she was born. seventy years ago. the mis. sionaries had not made a convert in the South Sea Islands
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

MKz HARkrET BEEcHER STOWE wishes ii distinctly understood that nc one but her son Is ID possession of let. ters and papers to serve as basis for m authorized version of her life. She has DO interest in the biography now being written by Florine Thayer Me Cray. of Hartford. Conn
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

PAUL DEssRAxCEs. of Philadelphia. has collected .0oQ ooo cancelled post agestampx He has put them up in packages weighing over five pounds apiece IL has taken him six years to make this useless collection But . man mast do something even in Phila. delphia
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

KIT CARsos's old partner. Dick Wootton, who. among other notable deeds. once drove fourteen thousand sheep sixteen hundred miles overland to CslaforniA and made s40. 900 by the
 operation. and who Is now seventy two years old. has just had his sigh | restored by an operation by Chicago surgeon. after eight years of blindness
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

MR RICHARD BRIxsLEr SHERIDAN. of Frampton Court Dorset. whose death occurred few weeks ago in London was the grandson as well as ehs namesake of the dramatist. orator. <Gtatesmaa and wit- He was the brother of ssTbe Three GTaees. who kept up ehe rsputatiou sf the family for beauty and wit The eldest of tAese married Lord Dufferin and bscame mother of she prssent Lo i. who hes recently re- elgnsd the Vic ,roy aisy q India
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14
INJUEED INNOCENCE.

We have made no attempt to run from the officers. I, of course, register ed under an assumed name as man and wife so that there would be no sus- picion about myself and the woman, but we made no attempt to h de our selves. Most of the stories published in the St. Louis papers were pack of lies. We have leen greatly misrepTe- sented and was just going to get some paper and write truthful statement for the Post Dispatch, but if We are going to be arrested I guess I will wait awhile must say this is rather bad predicament to be in. but it will come out all right. for we have done nothing for which we can be prosecuted. The stories that we took so, 900 away are all bosh. We took less than 5000, and that was all Mrs. Norton $. Yes saw the Republics account of the affair, and it was the most unfair account given in any of the papers, Now, I don't care to talk about our escapade any further"
 A half hour later he was arrested as told al owe.
The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

OLIVER GOLDSMITH. who said in the Vicar of Wakefield: '.I was ever of opinion that the honest man who mar ried and brought up large family. did more service than he who continued singIs." would. no doubt if he were alive pay . visit of congratulation to Robert Nilligan. of Bridgeport West Va. whose wife tbe other day present d him with the tyenty-fifth child