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The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
New Long Distance Talking Device.

BUFFALO, N. r., July as. e. V Rough, ton, Secretary and Manager of the BuYalc Seal and Press Works, is working on an electrical machine for conversation al long distance. Mir. Boughton is an inventor who has come Into prominence lately by his machines for making seals and his two big contracts with the Government for furnishing them. He Is not yet prepared to give out the details of his plan ss the foreign patents have not yet been obtained. He Mas been at work on the scheme for a year and has spent q, 600 on It. The medium used is electricity. It is not a system of signals, he says, nor auything of the kind, and the Presidents message or the contents of newspaper may be transmitted to a vessel ten miles distan, with ease. He says it is not like a tele- phone or telegraph. He will be ready very soon to show its operations to the world.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
Crushed to Death.

DAYTON. O July 27-A frightful calamity occurred on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway. A rear end collision wrecked an excursion train. killing seven people and wounding twenty others.
 Several of the wound ed cannot survive. The train was long one and was full of excursionists. The Dayt ton Cash Register Co, gave their agents and employees. with their friends, . picnic at Woodsdale, on the Cincinnati, Hamilton k Dayton Railway, thirty miles south of Dayton and twelve miles south of Middletown. The train was big one and was full of peep le of bo th sexes, chiefly adults.
 It remained st Wood sdale until after dark and then started home. There were thir- teen cars on the train going homeward On the way north . drAwbar or link pulled out of one of the front cars. This caused de- lay to nx it. Another delay for the same purpose was made at Middleton. This was between 9 and 10 o'clock tonight While tho train was standing there . freight going north ran into the rear of the excursion train and demolished the three rear coaches.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
THE ST. MANDE WRECK
The Accident Proves 8 Yer
 itable Horror.
A HALF HUNDRED KILLED
And Twice e Many Injured by Fire and Water-A Charge that Che Wreck Was tho Awful Work of
 Malicious Fiends,

PARIS, July 2S.-The latest official reports received from St. Mande, near Vinconnes, the scsue of the collision between two ex- cursion trains, loaded with p assengers re- turning from musical festiv al at Fonte- noy, show that fortythree were killed and that lo4 people were injured by the acci- dent.
 Le Paris this evening states that an in- vestgstion into the accident has disclosed the fact that the disaster was intentionally caused by some unknown mi screant who deliberately altered the signals so as to bring the two trains into collision. This announcement has caused the most in ten 90 indignation among the relatives and friends of the victims and has aroused pop ular feeling generally to a state of great excitement. There seems to be little doub as to the fate that awaits the cowardly wretch who caused the terrible loss of life should he fall into the hands of the mourn CTS now gathered at St Mande
 The details of the accident show that tho collision was a most terrible affair The engine of one of the excursion trains teles- coped three carriages loaded with excur- sionists aud at the same time the reservoir SA Sos ou tuo udmakeu tTaln tAp4OOeU anu set fire to the wreckage,. while scores of people were pointed down, wounded and helpless, beneath the ruins of the three carriages.
 In very short time the flames spread to such an extent that numbers of the wounded were slowly roasted 10 death before the eyes of those who were doing their utmost to rescue them. The horrible shrieks of the burning people and the cries of desperation and terror uttered by the survivors who were engaged in the work of rescue continued almost without inter ruption for half an hou after the collision.
 Many of the unfortu nate people impris oned beneath the wreck of the railroad cars were drowned while partly roasted by the hremen who were summoned to the scene. Forty minutes elapsed before the fremen were able to obtain water, bu, when they did so they poured torrent, upon the wreck and seemed to be utterly unaware of the fact that they were drowning the people they were attempting to rescue.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
Rich Gold Find tn Nevada.

CARSON, New, July 2S-Owing to dis coveries of free gold at Pine Nut New, twenty four miles from this city large number of prospectors, including many from tho Comstock mines, are going Into that district and rapidly surveying claims. A town site named Zirnville has been laid out, prospector named William Zirn having discovered the district and taken out considerable gold. Hebe Halmsn, fore man Of two large mines in the Constock lode, has returned from the scene, and says the country for ten miles square has many quartz ledges showing free gold on the surface, and contends that the discoveries are as promising as those frs, made on the Comstock
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
FORREST CITY, ARKANSAS FRIDAY 1se1
NO NEW TRIAL FOR NOLAND
Judge Burgs01Overrulss the Motion of
 tho EI-Treasurer's Attorneys.

Judge BurgoOSOverrule lee the Motion Of
 tho Ex-Treasurer's Attorneys.
 JEFFERSON CirY, Mo. July 29 The mo- tion for a now trial in the Nolaud case was overruled by Judge Burgess this morning, and the only hope for the Treasurer now is an appeal to the Supreme Court, where a reversal may be procured, and may not The appeal will be prosecuted and the des- perate struggle kept up to the bitter end by Noland's attorneys. They felt confident of securing . now trial, and were as much stunned by the Judge's announcement this morning as they were by the verdict of guilty at the second trial. Judge Burgess spoke briefly in overriding tho motion He said that he believed he had made . proper declaration of the law in the instructions given ip the case. The establishment of criminal intent in O case of this kind was . difficult thing to be accomplished. and in the instructions he had tried to show that in such cases a felony could not be commit ted without 8 criminal intent He then took up the afidavits one by one. In re- gard 10 the statements of the affiants for the defense As to the iu:oxication of the juror, Ott, and the statements of counsel for defense in their arguments ss to the jurors maudlin condition, Judge Burgess said that he had watched the jury, and had noticed nothing wrong. It was his opinion that 1t behaved, individually and collective ly, throughout the trial with a decorum in keeping with the gravity of the case Even if Mir. Ott had been intoxicated as alleged on the evening he went ou the jury it would not have affected the case, as no testimony was talk en that evening.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
rour Days in the Mon . ssIns

READING, Pa, July 2'.-Sarah Heverling, ayouug girl who disappeared nearly | week ago from Rockville, Bcrks County, wa, found to day in tho Hue Mountains above Lynnport Lehigh County, forty miles from her home. Sh spsnt four days and five nights In the soiitude of the mountains, re- posing at night upon . bed pine boughs She subsisted all this time upon huckleber. ries, with which the mo untain abounds She was i'll and exhausted and would pro- bably have perished had she not been acci. den,aily discovered by party of berry pickers. She had success sfully eluded ssv- oral searching parties. She refuses to ex plain her strange conduct.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31

Texas people have laid claim to millions of dollars, worth of property in the busi- nesss centre of Chicago. Secretary Rusk says the railroads are
 responsible for the row raised in Tennessee over cattle quarantine regulations. $. Gerber, a citizen of Omaha, NeD., was
 arrested while on a visit to his old home in
 Russia and exiled to Siberia for five years.
 The Catholic Hierarchy of the United
 States will send letter of thanks to the
 Pope for having rejected Herr Cahensly's
 memorial.
 Mrs. Sarah Mitchell wants SJO,0Oo for papers bearing on the sharon divorce case.
 Justice Field, who heird the case. wrote some of tho letters. Judge Emory Speer at Augusta, Ga, ren-
 dered an important decision against Brit
 ish mortgage company which had been lending money to farmers at usurious rates.
 A riot between American and Hungarian miners occurred at Plymouth, Pa. Sherman Hsrter died at St Joseph, Mo, of hydrophobia, resulting from cat bite
 two years ago.
 St. Louis capitalists are about to join in
 planting in California ths largest fig orch ard in the world Lobbyist Taylor of California is suing | twenty four State Senators for 5000 tor
 services performed. The Indian militia are returning to their
 homes, but will resume the eiectment of in-
 truders August l5.
 Cleveland has been invited to Ohio to de- yor ix hoe TIa ,,,f1 Advices have reached Chicago, Ill.,, to
 the effect that war Is raging between In
 dians and whites in tn mountains of Mexi- co.
 Asa Williams accidentally shot his two
 children, wno wore accompanying hun in quest of birds wings for their hats, near Laper. Mich.
 Captain William A Gavett of Detroit has
 received letter from Joseph H. Manley saying Blaine will accept the nomination in 1899 if it is rendered him. In response to a question by Niedring- haus. Commissioner of Immigration Owen has decided thnt Welsh tin plate dippers | can be brought to America under contract Tennessee miners demand that troops be | withdrawn. They will tolerate convict laoorers for sixty days in the hope that the | obnoxious law will have been repealed | within that time. James Brennan, who killed Colonel Sam | Wood in Stevens County, Kansas, was held without bail at Hugoton. All specta- | tors in court were disarmed be fore cutter ] ing, and no trouble took place. An attempt is being made by certain Al | liance men to corner the wheat crop. It is acknowledged that the action is unofficial and President Donnelly of tho Minnesota Alliance makes covert allusons regarding ! the projectors.
 1 Charles O'Connor Heunessey, city editor | of the New York Daily News, W 8 arrestei | in New York for causing the publication of an account of the electrical executions at Sing Sing. The constjtutionality of the law prohibiting publication of details of ex ecutions will be thoroughly tested. Bardsley's abetiors, if he had any. will | be prosecuted in Pennsylvania. Baltimore canned goods dealers deny that a canned tomato trust is tc be formed
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
Jay Gould in Denver

DENVER, Colo, July 27.-Jay Gould and party arrived In Denver in the special car Atlanta shortly after 12 clock today He is accompanied by Miss H eleu and Anna Gould and his two younger sons, Frank and Howard. Others of the party are Dr.. Mum, MT. and Mrs. Clark and son, P. J. Nichols and Assistant Gen eral Manager Dickinson. MT. Gould decli ned to talk, say ing he had nothing to gay, and was fatigued by the hot and dirty ride from Omaha. General Manager Clark said that the visit bf bis chief to Colorado was for the purpose of taking . needed rest and no greater i'm. portance should be attached to it,
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
Claim the Law Uuoonstisutl lonai.

NEW YORK, January 27.-Charles O'Con nor Hennessey was called to the bar be- foro Recorder Smyth this morning to plead to the indictment chargi ng him with misdemeanor. The alleged ofYense was his publication in the Evening News, of which he is city editor. of the details of tho execution of Slocum and Smiler, and the others recently put to death by electricity at Sing Sing His counsel handed up demurrer, in which it is claimed that the statutes under which the indictment was found is unconstitu tional, in asmuch as 1t restraints the liberty of the press guaranteed to it by the Consti- tuition
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
The King Murder Trial.

MEMPHIS, July 27,-The proceedings iu tho motion for a new trial in the case of H. Clay King. for killing D. H. Poston, took . sensational turn this morning A farmer named Rawlings testified that he asked Juror Muslin what he thought oi the evidence before the case went to the jury. Rawlings was promptly sentenced to the Work.house for ten days and fined $50 by Judge Dubose for contempt. of court The evidence and argument will occupy several days.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
EPlTOME OF THE WEEK
Brief Summary of the News
 for Busy Men.
NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD
Csndsnssd Tslsgraphio Reports og the Curpont Events of the Past Week ln America anA the Countriss
 of the old World.
FOREIGN,

Advices from China give particulars of fresh attacks on Christian missions.
 Economy" is Italy's watchword. The Vatican, as well as the Government, is reducing expenses.
 oficia! statement of the casualties at the St. Mande railroad collision. The cause is not definitely known yet.
 Berland and Dore were guillotined in the Place de la Roquettc. Paris, before thousands of curious cursing spectators. who kept the police and soldiers busy preserving order Bcrland made a scene on the scaffold.
 Bouangist meeting held Sunday in Paris broke up in free fight
 The Worlds Fair Commissioners have accomplished great good in Paris,
 At mass meeting in Paris the people protested against the levying. of duty solely for the profit of privileged interests. No clew to the identity of the French dynamiters has been discovered. Several other persons beside Mme. Constans received internal machines
 Prof Koch will become director of a new iastituts of infectious diseases in Berin.
 Soon after his return to Germany Emperor William will visit Vienna, accompanied by Chancellor von Caprivi
 An attempt to assassinate Mme. Con stans, wife of a minister of France, YVES made by an unknown person. who mailed her book hollowed out in which was placed an internal machine
 Frances population is 3S, 5 15o
 The Liberals gained Q great victory in the Wisbech elettion, which may hasten the dissolution of Parliament.
 The foreign commissioners of the Worlds Fair werc presontei to Lord Sails bury by Minister Lincoln.
 It Is announced that the Pope Is strongly in favor of the present form of governmen, in Franco and that ho opposes al schemes tending to monarchical ascendency.
 The kaiser's letter to Count von Munster is not causing concern in France.
 The House of Commons Com mittee on Supply voted $3oo,o)o for ths relic of the suffering poor in Ireland.
 Prince George of Grece, in le,ter to his father, ,c Is how he saved tn. Czarowitz from death at the hands of a Japanese po- iiceman.
 The Second Battalion ot the Cold Stream Guards Of tho British army mutinied shortly after tho departure of the German Emperor The cause was an obnoxious order for . fatsgaing drill whs tho men werc exhausted from extra duty per formed during the Kaiser's visit.
 Tristan and Is,ldo' was splendidly par. formed at tho Wagner festival in Bay routh
 Balfour's promise of local governmen, bill for Ireland is the topic of the day in English political circles.
 Tho International Congregational Council closed it's proceedings in London. A reso- luton opposing the opening of the Worlds Fair on Sunday was adopted.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
Practical rAsnks,

BERLIN, July 25.-Hon. William Walter Phelps, United States Minister, today handed into the possession of the Foreign Ofice officials the gold watch and chain sent by the Prssident of the U nited States to Capt Scholtz, of the Ger man ship Gorg, for rescuing the crew of the American ship Gypsy Queen in April, lsS9 MT. Phelps was also the bearer of gold medal for Mate Schelling, of the ssme vessel, for the share he took In the rescue referred to. The medal and the watch and chain will be presented to the German sailors by tho Foreign Onice ofacials.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
puau.s.. ssrlk. p.e,area os

PlrrsBuRo. Pa, July 25.-T hs strike of the Allegheny Bessemer Stsel Works at Duquesne V as officially declared on today by the local lodgs of the Amalgamated As-
 sociation, as ths members had given up all hopes of ever winning the strike against tho stubborn corporation. All the men were advissd to sndsav or to secure thsix former positions at onoe and general scramble is h progress. Many of tho striksrs, howsver, will not bs taksu back. About twenty Deputy g hesiAb aro sti1l eat e dut1, bnt ne | rsuhls ' auDseheo1ea
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
GENERAL DOMESTIC.

Adam billion deserted his wife at Colum. bus, Ind, and is now in jail
 Free gold mas been found in Nevada and prospoctors are fiocking there.
 Tho arguments for new trial In the Noland case were made at Jefferson City.
 Tho house where Jesse James died win be exhibited at tde Worlds Fair ct Chicago
 Proceedings on the motion for anew trial in the King murder case continues in Mem. phis.
 Italians and Poles had fyoe ight on the railroad station platform at Mount Morris, NY.
 Another force of convicts has been sent to Coal Creek, Tenn. and moro trouble may result.
 Survivors of the wrecked steamer Circe have arrived In Quebec with particulars of the disaster.
 Twenty local forecas ters are to be sp- pointed for ss many cities by the Govern ment Weather Bureau
 There is movement on foot to reduce tho capital stock of the Lead Trust from es7 7,0oO, GOO to $so, 900 900.
 Procesdings to test the constitutionality of the secrecy clause of tho New York electrocutlon law were begun.
 ExPresident Cleveland was given . re. caption and banquet by the Cape Cod nsighbors at Sandwich. Mass Speeches wcre delivered by Mir. Cleveland. Governor Russell of Massachusetts and others.
 An exploded boiler at vicksburg, Miss, rose to great height in the air. falling through the roof of house and alighting on a reakfAst table
 Ex-Bank Examiner Drew is said to have sent statementi in defence of his course regarding tho Keystone Dank to the Secretary of the Treasury
 Secretary Blaine says he will resume his duties this fall
 Thsre was aaother fatal railroad wreck near Mission Ridge. Tenn.
 At Evansville, Ind, and vicinity there was sharp earthquake shook.
 While insane J. k Hull of Pettis County, Missouri, tried to kill his wife and family who fled.
 Thsrs is war between tho barbers at St Jcesph, Mo, on the subject of Sunday clos ing.
 Prof" Campbell was to fly at Fort Wayne, Ind. Instead, he vanished, taking t.50 In cash.
 Tho little town of Lawson. Colo. was al most wiped out by . cloud burst
 Rlncky Bcssie Mead of New York ran down and captured thief who stole hsr pocket book.
 Tho forthcoming Alliance fair. to open at virginia, Ill.,, August 8 is to be . big de- monstration.
 For the seventh time Rain m aker Mel. bourne of Canton O aucnaAdsd in ,rs,s3uc ing the desirsd shower.
 A corion of American and English gun 0oats are guarding Bohrine's Sea and e&ectually stopping all seal 6shins
 The Analeamatsd Association of Iron werksrs will opposs the importation of tin-paats wosksss by Mr. Nisdringhaps.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
INDIANA SHAKEN UP
An Earthquake Arouses Evansvills and
 Adjacent Towns

EVANSVILLE, Ind, July 27.-Evansville to-night for about . half hour was in Q state of wild ex citement. At S;39 there came rumbling succession of jerks which shook every building in the oty to its foundations. In . twinkling the streets were full of people each inquiring of tho other the nature of the alarm. Congre- gations of all the churches rushed pellmell into the streets without waiting for the benediction. Serious panics occurred at several churches. At the First Baptist a number of children fell down the steep steps and were hurt, none dangerously. No fatalities have been reported.
 It was undoubtedly an earthquake, and the worst ono ever experienced in this vicinity. The motion was from southwest to northeast and lasted about five seconds. It was 6 succession of shocks 90 close together as to make it resemble a co llapse of heavy buildings.
 Reports are coming const antly to the newspaper otioes of prevalent fear throughout the city and it is safe to say there will not be much sleeping done to- night. The quako was also felt at Mount Vernon and Henderson.
 Photographic inquiry proved that the | movement was directly fir om the south and that it followed the line of the Ohio Valley Railway, being felt with much force at Henderson, Morganfield, De Koven and also It Kuttawa The shock was felt | slightly at Mt. Vernon, Ind, and New burgh, and with much force at Hawesville, on the L., St. L. X T. k. k. Owensboro did not feel the quake.
 The jar at Tenders on was felt as plainly as here. Mir. Gebhardt, who was sitting in chair in the oflce of the brewery, was knocked oyer on the floor and stunned. Several other persons in the city were treated in a similar manner. Articles of furnitu re, lamps, crockery, etc, were shaken up quite lively and general fright was given the people. A number of ladies tainted.
 A Burlington the shock was also very strong, an the experience there was very much the same as at Henderson. De Koven reports the same.
 | In the hurches in this city there was nearly panic. In the Baptist Church the minister was just ending his sermon, when | the sh ock came everybody look ed at every body else and then instn ctively rushed for | the door. At the time Dr. Seifert was 1 driving by with Misses Mamie and Annie Eisenhauer with him in . surrey. The crowd of worshippers rushed out into the street and frightened his horse so that it dashed ava y on an angle and threw both of the young ladies out of the vehicle. Miss Mamie's face, was badly bruised, as were also her hands and arms, while Miss Annie received several bruises on her body and | limbs.
 l In the upper portion of the city several | chimneys we re thrown down.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31

APOLLO CoMMANDERY Mo- 11-Meets on the fourth Thursday in each month. P. D. Mo Culloch, K. O.; Euis Hurley, Sec. FORREST CTrY CHAPTER No. 0O-Meets on tho first Monday in each month. R. J. VII. hams. H. F.; E. Hurley ;lSec. FORREST CITY LODGE A. F. q A. M. No. les-- Meets on the first and third Thursdays in each month. Geo. P. Taylor, W. N.: T. P. Dooley, Sec.
 GEN. FORREST LODGE K. of P. No. a3-Meeen every Wednesday. Geo. P. Taylor, 0. o.3 H, B. Gwyn, M. E.
 KNIGHTS OF HONoR-Meets on tho first and third Friday in each month, R. Y. No, Crary. Die; J. T. Fondren, Reporter. KNIGHTS AND LADIES or HoNOR-Neots on tho first and third Monday in each month. Q. B. Rollwage, Protector; J. T. Eondren. Reporter.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
Canaon of Co,umbus. Time.

WAsHISsroN, D. C., July 27.-His Excellency, Gen. Ayacardi. Governor oi Panama, has given permission to the Latin American department of the Worlds Columbian Exposition to remove from the old fortress at Puerto Bello. on ths Isthmus of Panama, some old Spanish cannon which date back very nearly te the time of Columbus. Gov. Ayacarde has also agreed to loan for exhibition at Chicago . marble slab bearing . mos, beautiful representation of the landing oi Columbus. This piece of marble wa preseoted to tho City of PAnama by the Enprsss Josephine nearly 100 ysaxs aeo.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
Two M,ll,on rir. ,p D.l,.,. Ter.

DALLAS, Tex, July 25. What proved to be . q, 0o0 00o fire broke out in J. R. Cow an k Co. 's largo liquor house, on Com merce streat, shortly after midnight and spread rapidly to tbe adjoining buildings of tho Benbrook School Furniture Company. Ben Wolfe k Co., and the Brcwers' Stor- age Company's warehouse. Sanger Bros. ose 800 bales of cotton stored with Wolfe The Opera Honsc, in course of reconstruc tion. narrowly escaped. The approximate loss at late hour is O, oO0. 900.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
Tn. Ssr,ks ss s,s.ison, Ia.

HARRIsBrRa, Pa, July 27.--Over aooO Steelton strikers turned out this afternoon to parade and listen to speeches from lead. CTS, who conseled quietness and patience, and propaesied victory for the men. No !: blast furnace started last night, and this morning No, ? open. hearth furnace went into operation. It is eviden, that the mum. Der of workmen increases e,ch day. IL is conceded that the test will como to- morrow when the billet mill No. { hammer will be started. Tho manag ement and the men are are equally confident of victory.