The Forrest City times., 1892-01-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Sduduidn wire ndll manufacturer s have formed trust.
 Mrs. Louisa Grimsley, lady lawyer
 of Keokuk, Iowa, has disappeared.
 Fire at Rapidan. Minn ..id $50, 900
 damages. Insurance s2O,Ooo.
 Mrs. Sarah Bebb, relict of ex-Gov
 Bebb of Ohio. died at Rockford, III.
 The Milwaukee. Lake Shore & West
 ern has declared a dividend of 3}S per
 cent on preferred stock.
 The stock of wheat in the Northwest
 is figured at 29, l49, 799 bushels, a gain
 of 679, l63 bushels for the week. The corporation of Dublin by a vote
 of 37 to refused to pass resolutions of congratulation upon the approaching
 marriage of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale and Princess Victoria Mary of Teck.
 Snow in the north of Ireland has greatly impeded traffic. The roads in many places are practically impass- able. At Tyrone funeral procession
 became lost in the storm, and it was found necessary to abandon the hearse in drift. Storms prevailed through
 out the Kingdom 9f Great Britain, in , Spain, and in Austria. Robert Bonner refuses to let Sunol race Nancy Hanks for purse of
 Sl0,000. He says that no horse of his can ever race for money. Thomas Marshall. champion shot of Illinois, and C. w. Budd, champion of Iowa, will enter competition bout for Sl ,oe0 side, to be held at Oskaloosa, Iowa, some time in February. It is reported that the Fidelity Say ings, Loan and Investment association of Michigan. organized two years ago at Grand Rapids, is in financial diff culties, due chiefly to shortage in the
 accounts of ex-Secretary A. E. Yerex.
 The shortage has nearly all been made
 good.
 Influenza continues to spread in Paris
 and Marseilles. The death rate from
 the disease is increasing.
 As the result of Emperor William's s strictures upon immortality the police
 of Berlin are making sweeping evic-
 tions throughout the slums of the city. The Canadian Pacific Railway com
 pany has decided to reduce the price of its lands in the Northwest, to induce settlers 60 purchase.
 The iron. of saloon at Ashland, Wis, was blown to fragments by an
 explosion of gas. The wife of the pro prietor was seriously injured.
 John c. Davis, lawyer of Whining ton, N. C.. is in jail charged with giv- ing to church $50, 900 in money and real estate belonging to widows and orphans.
 Charles Heingartnera and Mrs. William
 Johnson have eloped from Dubuque.
 Johnson will say nothing if Heingart-
 ner will return new suit of clothes
 which he also appropriated. The visible supply of wheat Satur- day, as compiled by the New York Pro- duce Exchange, was 5,004, ,903 bushels, a decrease of Gs, s2l bushels; and of corn, 7,9l9, 465 bushels, an increase of s3s. e69 bushels.
 The shorter declaration of belief sug-
 gested by the Chicago presbytery is, it
 is said to be adopted by the general
 committee on revision which meets at New York.
 The Mcclellan Opera-house hotel, and three or four other frame dwellings at Georgetown, Col, were burned. The total loss will not exceed Sl0,0c0. Charles l.. Walters, son of Chicago an. was arrested at Minneapolis for va grancy He is said to have lost about sll ,0o0 during the last two months at gambling.
 The National Prohibition camp meeting will be held at Oakland Park, near Decatur, H., July IA to 24 Representative Charles Allen of Hoopestown, H., is seeking the Repab- lican nomination for State Auditor. Near Utica, Mich, the two children of Norman Rawley were burned to
 death in the absence of their parents. Judge Cott of the United States Court
 at Boston decided that common goat hair was entitled to entry free of duty. The Terre Haute & Indianapolis and the Terre Haute X Logansport rail roads declared dividends of per cent each.