The Forrest City times., 1892-07-08
ERAL NEWS.

from jail at Leadville, Col.
 Prohibition was defeated at Augusta, Ga, by HOO in a poll of 40OO. The Iowa democratic state conven- ton will be held at Davenport, August IS.
 The state comptroller of Texas has just paid off S99,000 of state bonds issued in 1871.
 The democrats and alliance men of Minnesota are said to have agreed on a fusion state ticket.
 French-speaking people now embrace 29.4 per cent. of the population of the Dominion of Canada. The sultan of Morocco has refused England's request for decrease in the export duty on corals. R. G. Dun & Co. 8 trade review con- ments on the magnitude of the business of the fiscal year just closed.
 A man and his mistress have been convicted in Germany for murdering | girls for their jewelry and money. George Higham, Kansas City rail- road man, was found dying under cir cumstances indicating suicide or mur- | der.
 A heavy financial loss to the Chicago & Erie road was caused by robbers ditching train near Huntington, Ind. Twenty-Five sealing vessels have been seized by United States cruisers in Behring sea, together with 5000 skins.
 The senate passed the Stewart bill for the free coinage of silver by 3l to 2S. It will doubtless be passed i'll the house.
 The roustabouts who went out on a strike with the engineers of the Anchor line company at St. Louis have returned | to work.
 Bunceton, Cooper county, Mo-, has been so devastated by a cyclone that the citizens have appealed to the pub lie for assistance. A boiler in celluloid factory at l NIederliechten, Prussia, exploded, kill ing Herr Geister, the owner, and injur- ing five workmen. President Harrison sent message to the senate condemning the collec- tion of tolls from American vessels passing through the Welland canal.
 Carl B. Swain, the pedestrian, who is on his way from Portland, Ore, to New York city, arrived in Jackson, Mich., five days and eighteen hours ahead of time.
 Representative Rickler secured the passage through the house of resolu- tion that throws the pension bureau records open to anybody interested in them."
 The International millers' congress, in session in London, has awarded the champion gold medal for the best wheat to the Manitoban government display.
 | At West Baden, Ind, man was accused of wife murder and mob at once swung him mp, but he was cut down before he died, his wife being reported alive.
 Kansas farmers are having great trouble in securing sufficient hands to harvest the enormous crop of wheat in the state, most of which is now ready for cutting.
 Thomas w. Roberts, father of Meta Roberts. who is accused of selling the child to Chinamen for an immoral pur- pose. was arrested and locked up in jail at St. Louis. The net cash balance iu the United States treasury July l, exclusive of the Sl00, 100000 gold reserve, was S26, ,692,- BIT, decrease during the month of June of S6S6, ,490.
 M. Rouvier, minister of finance of France, states that the final accounts of the financial year of 1891 showed an excess of 34,000,000 france ill the rev. enue over the expenditures.
 An internal machine was sent to a Memphis young lady, presumably by a rejected suitor for her hand. It failed 50 execute the murderous purpose of the sender by mere chance.
 Fred Gifhorn, Prussian veteran, committed suicide at Lincoln, Ill.,, by taking parls green mixed with whisky. This makes the seventh violent death within ten days in Logan county. An officers wife at London, who is under arrest for disturbing the peace, makes serious charges against a secluded house in the west end as being an immoral resort for titled person. ages.
 Ex-State Treasurer E. T. Noland of Missouri was denied rehearing by the state Supreme court, but gets twenty days more to file application for an ap- peal to the United States Supreme court.
 W. II. Pipes, until recently state treasurer of Louisiana, dropped dead of heart disease at his home in Clinton, La. He was one of the largest planters and stock breeders in the Felicianas, if not the state.
 The total sugar bounty paid during the fiscal year ended June 30. 1892, was s7 $50 ,0i6, of which S7 7,065.285 was paid on cane sugar. Or the total bounty on cane sugar $6,S70,506 was paid to planters in Louisiana.
 William Abbott, B. A., of Downing, Cambridge university, who recently took high honors in mathematics. has been sentenced to eight months inn prisonment for stealing books from the university library.
 c. A. Beytz and G. c. Grant, London steamship merchants, are charged with forging bills of lading to defraud the Mercantile bank of India. Bail in the sum of $500,000 was refused and the prisoners were remanded.  The Worlds Columbian Exposition. Send 50 cents to Bond & Co.,, 576 Rock cry, Chicago, and you will receive post