The Forrest City times., 1892-11-11
GENERAL NEWS.

LII. Wylie went from New York to Chicago on q bicycle and never spent cent. He won . wager Of 5000.
 The noted illicit distiIler NJ. F. Jack son alias Sanders. was killed on Saturday near Reicherville. Mics.
 Perhaps the tallest tree in the world Is X blue gum af Dandcnong, Australia. it height Is estimated at 4J0 feet.
 A mob led by the village elder and scri,,e brutslly beat to death a woman or Sen ansko. Russia. claiming that she was witen'
 c. P. Huntington has purchased the yonderfuI Iron Mountain near Durango. Mexico. The purchase involves millions or dollars.
 The twelfth annual convention of the American Federation of Labor VIII m.s. m.n in phiiadelphis at ten o'clock ou the morning of December F.
 The Arkadelpia Standard complains Of confidence man who publicly robbed the people of that town. He was ostensibly patent medicine vendor.
 The Republic of Mexico has revised her tariif placing some things now being ad- mttcd free on the dutiable list and reducing the tax on other articles.
 s. M. Johnson, the genial hearted and able general manager of the southern Building and Loan association of Knoxville, Tenn. was drowned recently.
 The twentieth congress of women will convene in Memphis on the 18th, The members form an association known as the association for the advancement of women.
 The Kemper county feud has brought forth another victim. This time old man Tolbert was taken from the guards at Fort Stephens. Mics. and hung by mob. lie Is the third victim,
 George .Janke, sacristan of the Trini- ty Catholic church at Milwaukee, was found hanging high in the sprc of that church sun day Services wore dismissed and great ex- citement prevailed.
 An old colored woman in Memphis induced Dr. R, A, Moody to pull six of her made. When the doctor had pulled the teeth the old woman ran away.
 A Nicaragua canal convention has been called to meet at New Orleans. Novem- her 70, in the interest of the movement now being made to place the enterprise under the control of the national government.
 The steamer Chilkat brought news to Tuscomn, Washington, of the horrible find of four bodies at Port Berry. kuprenon island, which had been horribly butchered by the natives. They were the bodies oi miners.
 Philip Schlenner fell from an OK wagon at Brenham Texas. and broke hts neck. His goods were sold and his children given ont to friend to raise. He did not die. and on Friday appeared in the town ready 70 begin life over again.
 A party of 300 prominent manufac. turers from New York. Chicago and St.sLouis will visit old Mexico the latter part of this month. It Is expected that this proposed visit will result in great value to the com mercial interests of both countries.
 Near Muskogee, I. T., Sunday, a freight train was wrecked by COW. Engin' eer Stanton was killed and Fireman Blythe fatally injured. The accident occurred on the approach to a bridge. The engine fell upside down and seventeen cars were piled upon 1t.
 The steamer Beluga brought news to San Francisco, Cal. of the worst disater that has happened in many years in the Artic. The whaier Helen Mar ran into an iceberg and was lost together with crew of thirty-four people. Four escaped. The ice cut the vessel in twain az knife cut cheese.
 Ned Christie. a full blooded Cherokee Indian and a notorious outlaw who has been much sought after. was killed and his body brought into Fort Smith by officers Saturday night. Ills house was besiegcd and dynamite and cannon used to dislodge him. Several of his pals were also severely wounded and cap tured.
 The Tabor unions comprising the workingmen's amalgated council of New Or leans assumed alarming proportions Sunday in the city Is affected. The electric light workers. the printers. the musicians the cot ton screwmen. the bakers, the salesmen, the waterworks hands, the gas workmen. tho street car employees and many others have Joined the strike. practically stopping the en tire business Of the city, and depriving the people of food, light and water.