The Forrest City times., 1891-11-27
GENERAL DOMESTIC.

0ensral Alvin P. Hovey, Governor oi Indiana, died In Indianapolis.
 Four deaths were caused by . Ire in the old Homsstead Hotel, Jamestown, N. Y.
 u. 0. Walters of Tacoma is accused of slaborats swindling schemes in Galveston, Tsx.
 A large crowd was present at the funer- q of William J. Florence, the actor in New York.
 Tho National Protection Society of Bloomington, ,Ill., has been debarred from doing further business.
 A Chicago woman was detected by the police while on her way to drown herself and little boy in the lake. A Oneoi Foraker's friends says that he has not enough votes yet to beat Sherman for the Ohio Senatorship.
 Several persons were killed and many injured by a cyclone in Washington. Part of the White House roof was de- molished.
 Colonel Amos c. Babcock's allegations In the Texas State House litigation were answered by the Farwells and others in Chicago.
 Attorneys for Dr. Graves, accused in Denver of the murder of wealthy Mrs. Harnaby of Providence, R. l., are plead ing for continuance.
 OAlcial returns in Ohio show that Mo- Xinley's plurality over Campbell was u,6ll. This is 5.660 lower than the lowest plurality on the Republican ticket.
 The Chicago Presbytery adopted resolu- tions opposing the attempt to revise the Westminster Confession and favoring the adoption of an entirely new creed.
 There ia coal famine at St. Anthony's Falls, Minn-
 Asiatic black tongue is said to have ap- poured in parts of Indiana.
 An unknown man jumped on the Brooklyn Bridge and was drowned.
 Wheat prospects in Kansas are poorer than last year. owing to drought in the eastern belt.
 It h rumored that eighteen men were drowned during gale near Glen Haven, Mich.
 A Kansas merchant set . spring gun and fatally shot thief who refused to givs his name before he died.
 A blizzard has swept over Kansas and railway travel and telegraphic communi- cations are greatly impeded.
 nsv. Ezra Boring, aged 30. hanged him. seli in m attic at Evanston, III. He had been superannuated for years.
 Two crooks drove out all the men from the Burlington Railroad yards in St. Jo- seph, Mo. They were arrested.
 Four lives were lost in caving trench In Brooklyn, L.I.
 Two doctors and livery stable man were caught blowing a safe in Gardner, Ill.
 ". H. Friszell was hanged at Abilene, Tex, for wife murder.
 An oficer of the United State steam ship San Francisco says we have nothing to fear from the Chilian Navy.
 At Memphis, Tenn, W. W. French at tempted suicide because of the death of his wife.
 Mu- Cora Duncan of Dubuque, To-, has disappeared. Millionaire John D. Bush is alec missing.
 The Executive Committee of the Dem- ocyatic National Committee will meet in Washington December s.
 The 101 Illinois Democratic legislators srs going to Washington December 1 to work for William M- Springer for Speak CT.
 Ex-President Cleveland authorizes the statement that he is not taking sides in tho 6peakership contest.
 The Australian bank robbers who es- eapsd from Honolulu are cruising in the Racifci in strongly armed yacht which can only be taken by war vessel.
 President Hickman of the Southern 0anufacturers' Association said that ir addition to reciprocity the South needed Doro steamship lines to the West Indiel en1 South America and banking facil. tekoe In the latter country.
 Cherokss Strip stock men are mucl alarmed by tho disoovery of law under which they oan be fned for feeding stoci on Indian lands.
 Tuo rscent murders near the Msxica, ow1w ofo alleged to have been commit - by oenenl Qarcis's ordsrs.