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


 The Occidental club of San Francisco has matched Bob FitZsimmons, the prize-fghter. and Joe Acton, to wre stlf for purse Of Sl010, November 30.
 The last of the Avis Turner gang oi outlaws, Joe Henderson. WAS captured in Kansas recently. and is now in jail at Barboursvile. He is implicated ill three murders.
 l Van Loon, the second man arrested for the Columbus Grove bank robbery and murder, was indicted at Ottawa l Tuesday. and Roberts, the first man arrested, set free.
 A religious sect called tie Israelites. | led by one Michael of Detroit, are 1 holding services at Sarnia. Ont. Thsy are greatly excited, believing the end of the world is at hand.
 The trouble between the glass blowers Of France and their employers, which arose a month ago over the questions of time and wages, has finally been settled by a compromise.
 T. II. Harles, a prominent business man of Webber's Falls, 1. T., was ceiving internal injuries which re- | SuIlSl III flio l
 The credentials of t,Senor Montt as minister of Chilli 10 the United States were received at Washington Tuesday. | No definite time has. s.been arranged for ! his formal presentation to the presi- dent.
 Reports from the coal districts of | Indiana show that the miners have completely stopped all work and that tue operators have hard time to with stand the pressure of their customers for coal.
 E. A..Ray, agent for the Southern 1 Pacific company at San Bernardino, Cal. disappeared on Wednesday night l last and has not since been heard from. An examination of his sbooks shows him to be an embezZler
 Officers on Tuesday arrested in Ava rado, Tex, Nj. T. Nix, and he was | taken to Austin. He is charged with land forgery and is an accomplice with 1 Friedenhous, who was arrested on the same charge few days ago. 1 Two dynamite bombs were ex- ploded at Lynn, Ont, Tuesday, by enemies of Mir. Eyre. One of them exploded at his factory and the other
 
 done, but no one was injured.
 The United States supreme court has postponed, until Nov. 30, the argu- ment iU the three cases involving the constitutionality of the Mckinley tariff act, also the case i'll which the act pro vides for the classification of the wor- stedS is attacked.
 The highbinder war continues in l san Francisco. Another Chiuaman was found murdered Wednesday, and the police expect a general outbreak at any moment. Ihe Chinese are sehd- | ing threatening letters to white laNyers who have prosecuted them.
 The national council of administra- tion of the Grand Army of the Repub- lie was in session in Washington | Wednesday. 1he principal business which called the council together is the | fixiug of the date on which the national cncampment will meet in that city next year. | R. A. Kraming, a travelling salesman ] for Herman Neck & Co.,, 2l West Fourth street, Cincinnati, was robbed at Dayton, O., Tuesday of $20, ,009 worth of diamonds. The jewels were | in valse and were stolen while Kraming was eating lunch. The police are Investigating.
 | It IS probable that in view of the ad- verse decision of the supreme court in | tho claims Tn the Ohio, Indiana and Ill., | inois per cent cases Tuesday, a bill will be introduced in congress for the payment of the amount claimed. | Friends of the claim say the bill would start in with very strong support, and probably pass.
 It has leaked out that Dr. Miguel, the German minister of finance, spent two hours on Monday with the kaiser striving successfully to prevent that | impetuous young monarch from doing something nasty and disastrous to the l financial interests of Berlin and of Prussia. What occourred at the inter- view has not been revealed. Alfred NJ. Jones, better known as "Long" Jones, says that many repub- l licans have come to him and urged him to be candidate for the republican nomination for governor of Illinois. They seemed to think it was the best policy for the party to adopt" said Nr. the convention"
 The czar celebrated his silver we'd ding at Livadia in an extremely quiet manner, the occasion being marked by no state festivities of any kind. The event was the occasion for much hearty comment and congratulation through out the empire. In the larger cities the day was celebrated by many banquet3 and in the evening a number of balls were given.
 Capt. Montgomery of the mail de- partment of the postotfice has decided to drop the investigation of the at tempt made by the anarchists at Chi cago on Sunday to stop the passage of one of Uncle Sans mail wagons through the parade. "So far as l have investigated, 1 am convinced that the attempt was not premedi- tatdd." said MT. Montgomery, "and we will not attempt to locate them" t"
 Charles A. Smith, who worked on a | farm near Dubuque, la. left his home one day last week, telling his wife that he was going to Dububue on business. Two days after his wife went to hunt him up. She learned that he had married a girl named Sa- rah Olsen and held a reception. He was traced 10 Rockgord and has been | brought back on charge of blgamy. lie waived examination and was com mitted to jail. Before leaving his first wife he mortgaged everything he owned, leaving her and her children destitute.
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