The Forrest City times., 1892-07-29
CEN ERAL NEWS.

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 The Berlin correspondent of the Lon don Post saws Prof. Koch has gone tC the cholera infected districts.
 NJ. NJ. Mason. cashier of bank al N iagara, lost his footing, fell into the falls and was drowned Saturday.
 The carpenters of St. Louis are pre- pairing to strike il every demand of or. ganized labor is not complied with.
 The eruption of Mt. Etna, which for week past has excited the gravest alarm, is now decreasing in violence.
 The bill granting amnesty to all DO litical exiles from Brazil has passed its third reading in the chamber of depu- ties.
 All the business and most of the resi- dence district of Iron River, Wis, was destroyed by fire Saturday. Loss S200 900.
 The excessive heat of the latter days of last week caused large number of slnstrokes throughout the East and North. The hottest weather for years prevailed.
 The steamship Miranda, with food and clothing for the sufferers at St. Johns, N. F., who were left destitute by the recent fire, sailed from Brooklyn Saturday morning.
 A f year old son of k. E. TInkle at Rutherford, Tenn. fell from a two story building, a distance of 20 feet, the other day and was not injured enough to make him cry. Tough kid. The prosecution of the rustlers in Johnson county, Wyoming, has been abandoned because of an empty treas- ury. It would have cost SlS0,0O0 tC try the men, and the county is bank rupt.
 The strike of the section men on the Wabash railroad is ended.a letter hay. ing been received by the foremen of all sections to notify the men to go to work and their demands would be ac- ceded to.
 The $500 900 yacht of w. K. Wander bilt WAS run down and sank by { freight steamer off Nantucket Shoals, Mass, Saturday morning. The ex- cursion party and crew escaped in theil night clothes.
 A soldier at Homestead who cheered upon hearing of the shooting of Prick was tied up by the thumbs for half ar hour, stripped of his uniform and drummed out of camp by order of the commanding officer.
 II. c. Prick, general manager oi Carnegie's steel works at Homestead Pa, was shot three times and stabbed twice on Friday by q crazy anarchist named Bergman-an Austrian Jew Prick will recover and his assailant is in jail.
 Five of the largest breweries of Gin. cinnati have entered into a combina- tion to sell the beer at S7 per barrel The price heretofore has been SS pei barrel. The eighteen other breweries not included in the combine regard it as menace, consequently d beer war is imminent.
 Maj. J. H. Wynne of Burns, Tenn. chopped off his wife's head and at tempted to kill his step-daughter Sat urday night and then tried to commit suicide. He failed, however, and was taken by enraged citizens from wag. on in which he was being conveyed to jail and hanged. His son witnessed his execution.
 A dispatch from Kingston, Ont, says: George Parks and his wife, NNiit tll " Oilt lSiduu, tIl- countered serpent thirty feet in length MT. Parks drove it from his skiff by beating it over the head with his oar. It disappeared with a hiss like that made by buzz-saw. MT. Parks was badly frightened.
 An Ottawa, Ont, special says: It is reported on good authority that the dominion government, in the event of President Harrison's enforcing the act imposing an equal tax on Canadian vessels passing through the Soo canal, will issue an order imposing an equal tax on American vessels passing through the Welland canal.
 The New York Herald has an- nounced novel scheme to entertain readers during the presidential cam paign. The person predicting to the nearest popular plurality of either Cleveland or Harrison it will give a free excursion around the world. The person making second best prediction d free trip to London and to Paris, and to the third trip to London.
 An unknown boy, aged about years, was found dead Sunday evening at State Line island, near Florhnce, Ala He was dressed in white waist, short, dark pants with red stripes. The waist had large lace collar on it. He was evidently drowned somewhere above the island and drifted to the spot where he was found. NJ. B. Hubbard of Short, Miss, made the discovery His identity cannot be established. John $. German, a farmer living a few miles south of Chaldron ill Dawes county, Neb., suspected a neighbor- ing farmer, an old man named Me Dougall, of intimacy with Mrs. Cor man, and waylaid and assaulted him. John King and other farmers started in pursuit of German and overlook him. When he made a motion as though to draw a sixshooter, King fired, killing German instantly. King gave himself up.
 The Cologne Gazette's St. Peterburg correspondent says: Numbers of Baku merchants have telegraphed to the minister of finance asking that they be granted terms of grace in the meeting of their obligations, owing to the injury business has suffered through the cholera epidemic. There have been several failures at Astrak- han and Tsartizin and other failures are expected during the holding of the Ninji-Noygorod fair.
 One of the biggest ranch deals ever made in Wyoming is about to be con- summated. A contract has been en- tered into between the Douglass Wal tham company and an English syndi- cate by which the extensive ranch properties of the former. about twenty