The Forrest City times., 1888-01-21
fEIEGRAPH1C BRE7lTIES.

, The church of the Redeemer at Min. neapolls, Minn.. was destroyed by fire Monday night; loss s70,0oo.
 A prisoner in the Jeffersonville Qnd.) ] Jsil named Macy Warner made an at tempt to commit suicide Friday.
 George Walker, late Consul General at Paris, died at Washington Monday aged 64.
 The five story brick buildings Nos. b4, b6. 5S Warren street, New York, were completely gutted by fire Monday night
 Col J. o. Macy of Jacksonville, Fla, disappeared from there on the 9th inst, and has not been heard Of since.
 Edward Massey, a well-known ca terer of Philadelphia, cut his throa { with a razor Friday.
 The schooners wm. Parsons and Peter D. Smith are given up for lost in the heavy gales on the banks a month ago.
 Arrangements are being made for a meeting of the International Range Association to be held in Denver on March 10.
 Three burglars were caught in the act of robbing q store in New York, with a complete set of tools in their possession.
 ] Rev. pr. ". B. Shaw, a prominent Baptist minister of Johnson, s. C., attempted suicide by cutting his throat with razor.
 An old man named Swenson, s7 years old, was frozen to death near De- serte, W. T.
 A search is being made in New York | for S22,000 worth of railroad bonds stolen from the First National Bank in | Albany.
 | A panic occurred in a church in the South of Tyrol Thursday, & woman fainting. Eight persons were crushed to death, and many injured.
 Tn fight between the McCoys of Pike Co.,, Ky, and the Hatfields of Logan Co, Wa, three of the McCoys were killed.
 1 / Dead bodies of victims Of the recent snow-storm are being dug out Of the, | drifts in Austria. At one place near i Fiurne, fourteen female bodies were 1 found.
 1 A duel with swords was fought by Capt. Pierre and Jean St. Hilaire, at Fort Smelling, the cause Of the fight being . young lady. Hilaire got of with wound in the side. | A train loaded with ore at the Mary Murphy mine broke lovse on the grade down the mountain. jumping the track when the town of St. Elmo, Colo, was reached, killing the engineer and | fireman.
 Ira and John Smith and Ed Rhodes, three train robbers implicated in the Denver & Rio Grande robbery, were brought into Gunnison, Colo, Thurs day.
 A meeting Of Presbyterian ministers of New York City was held at DI Van Dykes church to obtain Sl00,000 towards the Sl 100000 Ministerial Re- lief Fund.
 The blizzard prevailing throughout the North is the everest of the year, greatly delaying trains and business and causing much suffering.
 In the Senate Friday the Jackson l (Miss.) election outIages were discussed at length and then the Pacific Senators denounced the Chinese, speaking to a bill for their total exclusion introduced by Mitchell.
 A train on the Chester & LeNoir Narrow Guage road fell through a thirty foot ;restle near the town of Hickory, N. O., not a single passenger escaping unhurt and three dying from their injuries.
 A force of Pinkerton detectives. who have been at work for about week on the train robberies which have been committed in Texas, New Mexico and Arkansas, succeeded in capturing one of the gang, who split on the rest.
 John Watthen. known as "Wylackle John," was killed by Clarence White at Round Valley, Mendocino County, Cal. Clarence White had championed the cause of his brothers wife, the brother trying to Gvorce her on per- jured testimony furnished by Watthen.
 Reanes Mcdonald, County Treasurer at Cornwall, Ontario, started across the ri yer to go home. He was not seen again and was given up for lost, ex- cept by the life insurance company, which located him in a hospital in Portland. Ore. He says he was drugged and spirited away. His story is con sidered fishy.
 . Wesley Bennett and a man named Mudlakie met In the streets of Tulsa, I. T., and quarreled on account of the killing of one of Bennett's friends, when both men drew their pistols and commenced firing at each other, re- sulting in the death of Mudlakie. l.. Pistol shots Issuing from the Parker House at Anniston, Ala, attracted a l crawd nr people who discoVered NIT H. P. Evans. a prominent citizen, dead, and Mir. ". R. Williams, the proprie- tor of the hotel. in a dying condition next to him. No particulars of the en- counter are known. but 1t is supposed ] ts ha fha oufcnma of an old nnarral