The Forrest City times., 1892-09-16
GENERAL NEWS.

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 Degouchy, the Coal Creek (Tenn.) anarchist, has been jailed at Knoxville.
 A vessel loaded with arms for the Venezuelan insurgents Is held at New York.
 Nineteen men of fishing schOoner's crew were drowned in a storm of Nova Scotia.
 The charge that Sullivan sold out in his fight with Corbets is generally dis credited,
 The sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows will meet at Portland, Ore., l September 16.
 An attempt to assassinate Marshal Latham of Tyler, Texas, failed by bad marksmanship. The emr oror of Germany has an nounced it as probable he may vi sit the Chicago fair.
 D. N. Epperson was expelled from Missouri conference, Methodist Episco- pal church, South.
 Rev. W. Gresham of Nevada, Mo-, ate fifty castor beans for a stomach trouble. He will die. 1 Mrs. Elizabeth c. Van Horne, aged 1 has HOO near relatives.
 Turfman Brown. who was kille1 at Chicago last week, was buried Satur- day at Fort Worth, Tex.
 The Santa Fe authorities have set- tied the differences with the trainmen and no strike will occur. At Cincinnati Sunday night, by a collision of electric cars, one man was killed and several injured. The lumber yards of 0. w. Gates burned at Waco, Tex. Loss, $25, 900; insurance about the same.
 A wreck on the Fitchburg road at WaUertown Junction. Mas2., Saturday n;git caused enormous loss of life. A dissatisfied wife in Memphis stocked up her wardrobe at her hus- and's expense just after leaving him.
 Sidney Creek, formerly one of Quan- trell's men, was shot Read by his son. in law, Joe Morrison, at Liberty, Mo.
 At New York gold to the amount of 5000 OOO has been ordered at the sub treasury for shipment to Europe Tues day.
 The Brotherhood of Locomotive | lTtiIltH IS LII StSSiOil Three hundred delegates are in attend ance.
 Gen. Euger has been authorized by llie war department to reduce the force of regular troops in the Idaho mining region.
 Canada displays almost criminal lax lty in her quarantine regulations, i'm migrants coming and going as they please.
 l Three boys, Frank and Ralph Cur | tis and George Sparks, were drowned in tue Tennessee river at Chattanooga Saturday.
 l A tornado wrecked part of the town of Marion, Ind, Satcrday, aud two men were killed and several badly wounded.
 Mrs. Lonnie Taylor, who killed J. l.. | Wilson. a prisoner in the Sher wood, Tex, jail for slandering her, was ac- quilted as insane.
 The democratic convention at Atch- ison, Kas., was very exciting, and a kissed and made up. | Nearly half a mile of snowsheds and tracks of the Northern Pacific, near the California-Nevada line, were de- stroyed by an incendiary. Thousands of miners in the Pitts bug (Pa.) region are preparing to strike on accsant of reduction of half a cent per bushel in their pay.
 The Six Companies, a powerful and wealthy Chinese concern at St. Fran cisco, is taking steps to test the vdlidi- ty of the Chinese exclusion act. | A great strike is imminent among the employees of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad because of the com pany's determined opposition to labor organizations.
 | A sensation has been caused at New ton, Kas. by decision of the court that all marriage licenses issued by the county clerk are illegal, as that privi- lege belongs to the probate judge. An insurrection is on in the state of Sonora, Mexico, the cause being the disappearance of a female saint. The insurgents were victorious last week in an encounter with the government troops.
 It is calculated that it would take a person over 300 years to read all the standard works that are published, and yet we seldom come across a man who will acknowledge that he has not read every one.
 At Portsmouth, O., Thomas F. Rus sell, a wealthy and prominent citizen and member of Richardson & Titus proprietnrs of shoe manufactory, fel through tbe elevator shaft and broke bis neck Monday.
 Henry c. Hope. superintendent ol pany, is heir to an estate in the North of Ireland worth several millions ol dollars, and he expects no diffjcultity iI establishing his claims.
 At Chicago at meeting Sunday night of the express employees of tDat city. an organization was perfected There were about 300 present. Speeches were made by Frank Lawler. Congress. man McGann and James O'Connell There are about 400 express employes in the city and an effort will be made to thoroughly organize them.
 At St. Louis the third annual con- vention of tbe Coopers' International union has begun it's session with a large attendance. There is no special | ly important question before the con- vention, and it's sessions will be de- voted chiefly to revision of the consti- tuition, receiving new unions and cleo ting officers.
 | At Chicago James A. West was set free Monday by Judge Tuthili and the | criminal prnspcution aoaingt him for