The Forrest City times., 1889-10-19


 electic wires Is to restrict the tension. .. Brookiyn's base ball club won the Ameri- can Association pennant St. Louis second. Mrs. Thomas, author of "The Golden Rod" has received many messages of con- graduation. Fifteen prominent citizens or Princeton, W. Va, will be tried for lynching an innocent negro. !. .Dr. Tal- mages Brooklyn Tabernacle has been completely destroyed by fire for tho sec ond time in its history A little girl was born on railway train in Oregon .. For est and prairie fires are doing much dam. age In Minnesota A Western Union lineman met a horrible death In New York by getting etitanglcd in electric light wires. The steamet City of New York went Fast aground in New York harbor "a. Tho capture of Rube Burrows, the outlaw, is reported from Birmingham, Ala. The statement that Kansas is out of funds is denied. St. Paul has decided to build . e50, 900 ice palace this winter An Amer. ican schooner has been seized by tho Mex ican authorities. The remains of Lord Howe have been unearthed at Ticonderoga A row of fec houses was destroyed by fire at La Porte, Ind. Loss, s10,O00.
 
 been burned. Loss, sl2000 Tho Ma tional Laundrymens Association is in an nual session at Buffalo, N. Y. Abraham D. Davis of Buffalo, N r.. millinery and dry goods, has failed. Forest fires arc doing much damage along the river opposite Portland, Mich. . The Master Brewers Association began its meeting at Cincin- nati, O., Monday Delegates to the loco motive engineers convention are arriving at Denver :. Tho National Boiler Manu- facturers' association met at Pittsburg Pa. ....Fire at Montgomery, Ala, Monday damaged q 900 bales of cotton: fully in sured. A bursting boiler at Bucyrus, O.. Monday, killed Frank Raisor and Edward Heinin. Ex-Gov. W. T. Miner of Con- necticut died at Stamford, Conn, Sunday, aged 74 years. Jacob Littrcdgc of tho Academy of Music and St Chares Theatre, New Creams, died Monday . The Titus Cracker Co.'S bakers at Newark, N J., have struck against nonunion~ men. It's spread is feared . G. W. Thornton, mail agent. died of heart disease while at his work at the Cincinnati (O) depot Alder man Jacob Stumm of Eau Clare, Wis. is sasting to reduce his weight. He has taken Of 70 pounds A casc of small pcx on Pelec Island Lake Erie, has frightened all on the island, nearl 100 persons having en exposed. HSA Hagen of Brainord. Wis, missing fof Sshree weeks. has been found murdered and robbed near Brcckin- ridge, Minn Fire at Cooks plantation, Greenville, Miss, burned 25 bales of cotton Monday. Dennis Walker was burned to death, New York French Canadians met In State convention at Troy to secure united action toward ob, taining political rights . Tho Democrats of the Thirty-se sond New York Senatorial District have nominated C. F.. Gallagher of Salamanca for State Senator Tho schooner Adela, lumber laden. Of Plymouth. Mass, was picked up abandoned on New London, Conn, and lowed into port. . Diphtheria is raging fieroely at GalHtzin. Pa, among children, averaging four deaths per day. Sanitary measures arc being taken to prevent it's srrcad Low water has compelled the closing Of the Eighteen Mile Creek canal at Lockport, N. Y. shut ting oa the water power from many estab- lishmcnts Capt. Rishwor,h Jordan, prominent during tho war of tsl2, dicd as Biddcford Me, Sunday, aged a5 years. He was a seaman and Mason of 6s years standing George and Richard Hawkins were dangerously s'ot at Cayuga Lake, New York, Monday, q duck hunter firing al tame decoy they were chasing and hitting them. A k Peck, tho ale ged de- faultng cashier in the Chicago agency of the Lorilards' tobacco house has entered . confession of judgment in favor of tho firm for t52lo A Johnstown. corres- pondcnt reports great dissatisfaction ia tho Conemaugh Valley over the .'silure to dis tribute fully the relief fuup Of S3,No 600 intended for tho flood sufrs ..s's Ther' ITO many cases of great destilN ion, anc ,he corr. spondent gives detai ssof some very pitiful instances. Gross mismanagem nt of the funds is charged. ltis pointed out that clt rlxs and expert accountants are drawing extravagant salaries from the fund. Win ter is near aud the neci of a fuir distribution Of tue money grows moro and more urgent, q. The United States steamer Fishhawk, United States Fish Commission, is carry ing on her work of great inter st to oyster growers. IL is that of obtaining ths most complete information as to the habit and manner of feeding the star fish with a view of externinating the greatest of enemies to oyster Lieut.. Robert Platt is in command of the ship, detached from the navy for special duty. As fast as the grounds arc examined charts arc ca refully prepared, which wi be submitted to the Fish Com mission for inspection. Around Bridge port Lieut. Platt has found fewer star. fish than he expected, and of these the greater number were on the natural beds
 Julia Ward Howe has been elected presi- dent of the wome1's congress The sur vivors of tn, Navassa riots have arrived at Philadelphia. .. The test of the Vesuvi- us dynamite guns has been moro than sat- isfactory. Tue lii of a Mexican at Fl Paso threatens to become an interna- tional affair The Dolphin has been re- ported remarkably fine vessel by tue board of inquiry A i6-year-old convict has been sent to the Indiana prison for at tempted murder William Turner, Re. corder of Laclede County, Mo, was held up and robbed at Springfield. Mo. .Ex President Cleveland and j. Proctor Knott paid eloquent tributes 10 the memory of Hon. $ & Cox The annual session of the general council of the Evangelical Lu. theran Church, is in session at Pittsburg. A company has been founded at Jackson, Mis-; to buy large tract of valuab land owned in Arkansas by Jefers on navis
 C, C. Brewster has been appointed col. lector of the port Of Corpus Christi, Tex.
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