The Forrest City times., 1891-11-13
GENERAL DOMESTIC.

Rain has put an end to the drought throughout the West and Northwest.
 Two firemen were killed and several injured by falling ladder in Cincinnati.
 Negro cotton planters have asked for . reduction of their rents because of the low price of cotton.
 Work is still rapidly progressing at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, getting war vessels ready for service.
 Four men and thirty-four horses lost their lives in fire which destroyed the Mansion livery stable in Denver.
 Dr.. Craigen of Cumberland, Md, is accused of cutting the stitches he had sewed in a wounded mans leg because the man was unable to pay him S2.
 Mrs. Lefevrs proposes trying to start svsgstarian . society at New York
 Five men tried to kill two cowboys on Wind River, Wyoming, but were driven of after fierce battle. Six men were killed and several others badly injured by an explosion of gas in . coal mine at Nanticoke, Pa.
 Lightning set fire to the Board of Trade Building in Louisville and burned ou. the Western Union Telegraph Company. Cooper, Hewitt & Co. of New York have sold thcir great iron works to an English and American syndicate for $5 900 900.
 Harris Pitt, . New York tailor, tried to Ire his house to get the insurance. It would have endangered 100 lives. He was caught in the act.
 The first Sabbath days work since the war was done at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, getting the vessels Miantonomoh and Atlantic ready for service.
 At Hot Springs, Ark, Tom Davis was found guilty of the murder of J. H. Wright last January and given twenty one years in the Penitentiary.
 At Lincoln, Neb., Jud Morris was mar rled Wednesday. Saturday his first wife and four children from Ohio came in and he was arrested for bigamy.
 Two thousand people assembled in Wsldheim Cemetery, Chicago, at the graves of Spies, Parsons, Engel, Fischer and Lingg, Anarchists, and commence rated the hanging of the first four.
 A Chinaman shot a policeman and two other men in San Francisco.
 Several persons were hurt by the col lapse of business block in Akron, o.
 Rates for ocean charters in San Fran cisco have gone down, and many spec ulators have been caught.
 President Blanchard of the Maine Bank ing Company of Kansas City is missing and is accused of forgery.
 Judge Dubose of Memphis was denounced at meeting of the bar of that city for an indignity offered Colonel Can't.
 Hutton Lake, Wyoming, will be drained in an effort to secure the remains of NJ. B. Dawson, supposed to have been drowned there.
 E. J. Sutton lighted cigar and then shot himself in Kansas City, the burning cigar still remaining in his mouth when he was found dead.
 Owing to the apparent impossibility oi getting satisfactory jury, James Bren- nan will never be tried for the murder of Colonel Sam Wood at Hugoton, kas.
 Director French of the Maverick National Bank of Boston was released on $50, 900 bonds.
 The National Association of Posta Clerks has had drafted bill to be pre- sented to Congress in regard to the pa, and promotion of all employees of tn, Postal Department.
 The recently reported earthquake" il Texas County, Missouri, is now said |, have been the report from the explosion of 2 large meteor seen in that section on that afternoon.
 A successful test of the Wallis Lispenar; cotton-picking machine was made a Atlanta, Ga.
 Owing to the drought along the Lowe Rio Grande cattle are reported dyin, by the hundreds.
 Chief Palmer of tn Grand Army of the Republic has issue an order asking comrades not to par ticipate in any demonstration where tn Confederate flag is displayed.
 H. B. Lauve of Kansas City was con victed of horribly beating his daughter.
 Zach Ward of Chaplin, Ky, charges hi wife with poisoning him with strychnin,
 Mrs. Pony Saunders of Memphis mur dered her husband by pouring boilin water over him while he was asleep.
 A. B. 6preckels says that the remov. of the tarin on sugar and the bount to United States sugar-growers lea, mUeiian sugar-raisers in sorry pligh