The Forrest City times., 1892-07-01
GENERAL NEWS.

An epfuernlc Of SmdilpoX IS IdglHk III the City of Mexico.
 Colorado was visited by slight shocks Of earthquake last week.
 The entire lower portion of Rock Island. Ill.,. is under water.
 Senator Quay wants to bet Sl0.OOO that Harrison win be elected.
 Firebugs appear determined to de- stroy the city of Cleveland. Q.
 Another big rise is coming down the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
 X white planter at Baird. Mss, was murdered Friday by negro tenant.
 A leather trust, with S1 900. 900 capi- tai, has been formed at Arlington. N. J.
 A dispatch from St. Petersburg states the cholera is spreading rapidly in Asia.
 A lively war between officers and whiskey men is in progress at Creston. Ia.
 The trial of Alice Mitchell, the Mem- phis murderess. will begin on the 18th inst
 The jail at LebanoR, Mo. was broken by three prisoners. who escaped to the woods.
 The breaking of dyke caused the inundation Of several suburbs of Chicago Monday.
 A heavy rain fell in the San Antonio section of Texas. much to the qualification Of everyone.
 Owing to lack of funds, there will be burg. Miss.
 The weeks flour output was next the largest run on record. laet week having been the biggest.
 The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad has been placed in the hands of receivers.
 The Alabama Peoples party has tacitly indorscd Kolb, the boiling democrat. for governor.
 Eight persons were killed last week in wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad near Harrisburg, Pa.
 Ten persons were killed and many injured by . passenger train wreck at Harris- burg. Pa. Sunday.
 A mob is expected at the jail at Dan- vile. Ill.. to get three rufiians who assaulted an ls-year-old white girl.
 Twelve hundred delegates are in at tendance upon the national prohibition con- vention at Cincinnati, Ohio. The Shell Beach railroad, in Plaque mine parish. IA.. is under watcr in conse- qucnce of a break in a levee. The fisheries buildings of the world s fair at Chicago were struck by lightning on Thursday night of last week. August Grntz of Burlington. Iowa. shot his mother-in-iaw. cut his wife's throat and then tried to kill himself. From all over the country come re-
 
 Cleveland and Stevenson clubs. Gustave l}enham and his six children of Memphis were poisoned sunday by eating impure ice-cream. No fatalities. Mamie Schloss, the l6-year-old son of ex-Circuit Clerk Dan Schioss of Memphis, was drowned in Wolf river Sunday. Mrs. Bate, wife of farmer residing near Shelbyvile. Tenn, was murdered last Friday by an unknown assassin, Cleveland was awake at Gray Gables when the news of the nomination reached him. He was profoundly touched The Dalton gang of train robbers routed the officers pursuing them in the Cheyenne country. I. IT, Saturday. The rivers of Illinois have become mad torents under the influence of heavy rains and the damage is incalcHlable.
 1he local committee of arrange. | ments has made preparations for the enter tainment of the Peoples party delegates.
 Robert A. Henry, a printer of Flor. ence. Ala. lost his life last week while bravely attempting to save companion from drown ing.
 A Memphis lad named Julius Frau. | lake, six miles from Memphis, Sunday morn ing.
 Miss Madge Williams of Independ. ence. Texas. went to Norfolk Va. with dis | tinguished Texans to christen the warshii Texas
 Chairman Clarkson has informed his | friends that he is no longer willing to serve as the head of the republican national com mittec.
 Rev. Geo. w. Dennis, a prominent minister of the N. F.. Church, South, was hor ribly and fatally mangied by cars at Louis vile. Ky.
 The reception of the news of tht nomination at Chicago shows that the desnoc racy of the country is united, satisfied and en thusiastic.
 Joseph Taylor of New Albany, Ind while crazed with drink. shot his sister fatal, and wounded his mother so she will be crip | pie for life.
 Felix Satterfeld, notorious negro tough of Union City. Tenn, will probably b' lynched for attempted assauit upon an age I white woman.
 Cuba City and Hazlegreen, Ill., wer, wss ast , s Ss track of the storm.
 E. j. Ryan, who robbed the United States Express company of 1000 at Washing ton. ID; C.; on June 2l. was captured in Den
 w. B. Bate was proven to be th' was arrested and jailed. but mob ended hi career at the end of rOpe.
 The Consumers ice works in New Orleans blew up Saturday. killing ono person lnturing nine others and cntaiiinG great dam age upon adjoining properU.
 Three negroes were shot to death a Spurge's. Texas, on Friday evening. The her daughter the night before. The warmth of Bismarck's reception throughout Germany shows that he has the headstrong young emperor.
 Two brothers named Wilson. promi nent citizens of Cherokee county, Ala. wer caught robbing neighbor's store and one 0 them killed and the other captured.
 On Monday last man named Clerge was shot and instantly killed in . crOwde courtroom in New York city by James Devins whoee 15year-old sister Clerget had raped.
 Great excitement prevails in MOjav' l county. Arizona. over the discovery of ric l gold fields. The amount of ore on the surfac Is estimated in value at not less than el. .00Q 0O Colonel o. M. Johnson of Chatta nooga has paid Sl 900 to the Forest Hill Gene l tery company. 1t being the amount embezxle' | by Dan ,. Brysou. He will not prosecute him
 Gilbert Palmer and Mary Conklinj committed suicide at Port William. Ohio bt cause of parental objection to their marriage They took strychnine and died in each other arms.
 During a fearful storm that prevailed at Hammond. Ind, Thursday, lightning struc out of the building. proetrating his daughter 10 years old, and rendering her blind for life The president of the Colorado Stat. Silver league has telegraphed from Chicag to secure suitable headquarters for the leagu In Omaha, Neb., during the national eonven tion of the Peoples party. He was answere favOraby.
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