The Forrest City times., 1890-12-06
GENERAL nnMEsIIC

Lead smelters will meet in Chicago and may form another trust
 Five men were drowned near Evansville, Ind, by the capsiainR of skin
 The Methoiists of Benton, ll. voted in favor of women delegates to the general conference.
 Fire in Philadelphia caused n loss Of s:}oo 900. One fireman was killed md three iui red
 The official count Of the vote Of Caiifora n shows plurality of s,600 for Markham. Republican candidate for Governor.
 Ex Treasurer Hemingway of Mississippi has been taken to prison. the Supreme Court having affirmed his conviction
 In n train robbery between Winona and Big Sandy Tex, one man was robbed and in fight with the robber another man was fatally shot
 Negotiations are nearly completed which will result in the removal of all Of Chlcago's stockyards. packing and slaughtorlng in. terest to Hammond, Ind
 Col. w. F. Cody rode 9i miles in 23 hours in North Dakota. While on his way he Was overiaken by a courier bearing a mes sage from the President ordering him not to arrest sitting Bull.
 The Indian scare on tho frontier does not abatc much.
 Uneasiness Is felt h Alabama over the outcome of the mincrs' strike.
 Gen. Morgan says there is no dagger of an outbreak in tue Indian Territory.
 Five lumbermen were drowned in Devils Lake, Wis, while in boat coming to sup per.
 News from the mines shows active inter. est in that industry from all over the coun try.
 F.. 0, Lindemau, late cashier for Taleoit X Co, at Dallas is said to be short in his accounts,
 The annual meeting Of the National Farmers Alliance convened at Ooaia, Fla.
 II. D Heisley took morphine at Memphis and died. He had only cents left in his pockets
 Spanish .ehooner's crew threw an American sanitary officer overheard in Punta Gordo harhor, Florida
 At Philadelphia the Parnell branch of the Irish National League has called on Mn. Parnell to resign the leadership,
 At Jackson, Miss. in an altereaton over remarks about a woman, Dr. w E Todd uhAketousiy sHut l. A. Her.
 masked man entered Georgia Pacific express car near Indianola. Miss, held up three men, got all the money in the express sato, s>5, and safely escaped
 An unknown man committed suicide hy leaping isa feet from the Palisades above New York to tue sharp rock below.
 Wm. J Bell, a Chicago drummer, com mtted suicide in Minneapolis saloon on learning that his wife had Roue to the bsd
 The president of the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association says there is neither cattle nor sign Of human habitation in the Strip
 Joseph Novak. in Joliet under sentence of death, became crazy on reeelp, of the news that supersedeas had been granted him.
 A tribe of cave -dwellers arc said to have been discovered by citizens of Crawford County, Indiana, if a yarn from that section Is to bo believed
 A handsome woman tried to pass forged check at a Denver bank
 The people of Texas are becoming alarmed over the spread Of glanders
 United States Senator Pugh was re elected by the Alabama Legislature.
 Sig. Succi is stitl hravely holding out in hls 45 days fast
 Tho Wesleyan Orphan Asylum was dedicated at Warrenton, Mo
 Thanksgiving day was generally cele. brated throughout the country
 X large number of young couples de. ,idcd to get married on Thanksgiving Day. Tho stcrnwheel steamboat Adonis was burned near Fort Adams. Miss, snd six ives were lost
 Mrs Grover Cleveland helped give Thanksgiving dinncr to the children of the New York Kindergarten Association.
 Convicts in Illinois psisons were regalcd with turkey and punpkin pie for Thanks .iving.