The Forrest City times., 1891-10-09
GENERAL DOMESTIC.

TOUT ptTScHS WtIc puIiIcu VI aSAeu III ~ New York tenement house.
 Hon. E. Barksdale is not candidate for President of the Farmers Alliance.
 Jay Gould was at his desk, having re- covered from his illness sufficiently to re- sume work.
 Mrs. J. $. Willitt has been awarded first prize for making the best jelly cake produced in Illinois.
 Preparations for thoroughly organizing the Irish National League and it's branch es are going forward.
 Rice mills of the South are to be pooled and prices lowered by the introduction of Dutch milling machinery.
 Farmers in Indiana have torn up good deal of natural gas pipe because they were not paid by the gas company
 Ex-Teller Ritter of the First National Bank of Evansville, Ind, has been sen fenced to six years imprisonment.
 British Commissioners were surprised on their visit to Behring's Sea to find plenty of seals left, contrary to reports from the United States. Lieutenant Governor Jones of New York issues public statement in which he gives his dread of Tammany Hall methods as his reason for opposing Flower.
 A libel suit between two implement houses at St. Joseph, Mo, is attracting much attention.
 Seven persons were killed and several wounded by boiler explosion on the tug c. w. Parker at Chicago. Lucy McCullen, West Virginia anna zon, who has been wanted for two years for moonshining, was captured by Deputy Marshals.
 Four tramps were drowned at West Memphis. While stealing ride on freight cars the latter went off the trans fer boat into the river. General Ruiz Sandoval. who is in New Orleans, says that while he is opposed to President Diaz, he took no part in the re- cent uprising in Mexico. The work of allotting Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian lands west of Guthrie, Ok, is to be resumed, and the nd will be thrown open to settlement before long. Fire destroyed the Insane Asylum at Okmulgee, l. T.
 U An attempt was made to wreck Big Four passenger train near Shelbyville, | III.
 | Advices from Western Kansas are to | the effect that large numbers of the popu- lation in that part of the country believe | that Prof" Melbourne can produce rain. 1 A daughter was born to Mir. and Mrs. | Grover Cleveland at 1906 a. m. Saturday morning. sMother and child are doing we'll" says the ex ex-president. Joseph Barondess, who managed the strike of the New York cloakmakers, was arrested in Montreal aboard ship about to sail for England. He is accused of ex- | tortion.
 | The Christman (lll.) Bank was complete | ly wrecked by the Standifords, only S70 being leit to satisfy claims of soo0, 900 l Fifteen indictments were found against | the Standifords.
 l The Ulster County Savings Bank oi
 Kingston, N. Y., has suspended, and l Treasurer Ostrander and his assistant Mathew Trumpdorf, are in jail, accused of stealing nearly a half million. | Secretary Sutton of the Irish National League says he will resign, as he is tired of Irish politics.
 | The Shiloh Cave in Indiana is said to rival the Mammoth Cave ef Kentucky. | Terry Campbell was acquitted at Neo- sho, Mo, on the charge of murdering his daughter. A decision declaring option gambling contracts void was rendered by the Min nesota Supreme Court. The report that Jay Gould had had q | collapse of nervous nature at the recent Missouri Pacific meeting is confirmed though he is said not to be in any imme-
 diate danger
 Twenty-Five million bushels of wheat have been damaged in the Northwest by the recent heavy rains
 The Faruars' Voice of Chicago will soon issue an article advising farmers te hold their corn for higher prices.
 The whipping post is again in vogue in Kentucky. Two negroes were lashed on their bare backs in Crittenden County fol stealing turkeys.
 The convention of the Irish Nationa League in session in Chicago elected as president NJ, V. Cannon of Omaha to sue
 ceed John Fitzgerald. Neither Parnel
 nor Mccarthy was indorsed, but the plat form dlscountenances ''hero- worship"