The Forrest City times., 1892-07-22
GENERAL NEWS.

North Dakota's board of worlds fair commissioners resigned last week.
 The first bale of this years cotton reached Houston, Texas, last week.
 Smallpox has made it's appearance in the tenement districts of New York.
 Mrs. Michael Clemens was rayished and murdered at Pleasureville, N. Y., Friday.
 Memphis is to have new railroad, with Aurora, Mo-, as the northwestern terminus.
 The headquarters of the Memphis and Charleston railroad will be trans- ferred to Memphis.
 All crops along the Pearl river in Mississippi have been destroyed by the prevailing high waters.
 The much-vaunted Temescal tin mine of San Bernardino county, Cal, has proved to be gigantic fraud.
 A resolution has been introduced in congress to call the sugar trust to &C., count under the antitrust law.
 The Uniform Rank Knights of Py thias will go into encampment at Kansas City, Mo-, on August 22.
 Frank Burkitt, elector-at-la on the democratic ticket in Mississippi, has resigned to go into the Third party.
 Iowa farmers are experiencing se- rious trouble in securing binding twine for an unusually large crop of grain.
 At Frenchtown, near Paducah, Ky, masked men severely thrashed Peter Ross, a negro, for having a white wife.
 Gladstone received majority in the English elections last, and home rule for Ireland may be considered assured.
 Sara Barnhardt caused sensation in a London theater Friday night by falling on the stage in fainting fit.
 Lester Gate and w. E. Turner, the defaulting Nashville (renn.) bank of ficials, have been captured in Mexico.
 The reported death of William Wal dorf Astor was a forgery, the perpetra- tors of which are now being sought for.
 Miss Rose Woodruff of Jackson, Nigh, received a letter purporting to be from white caps and was frightened to death.
 Mrs. Breckinridge, wife of Repre- sentative w. C. r. Breckinridge of Kentucky, died in Washington on the 18th inst.
 There will likely be Presbyterian elected president. Cleveland, Steven son, Harrison and Ried are all Pres byterianS.
 During the twelve months ended June 30, there arrived in the United States from European countries 619 ,320 immigrants.
 Four girl babies at one time are the results of an effort at maternity on the part of Mrs. John Hawkins uf Phila- delphia, Pa. last week.
 William Watts. a leading produce dealer of Buffalo, N. Y., was arrested Saturday fer smuggling opium, which he concealed Ill eggslells.
 w. Billings of Chicago has tele- graphed Senator Quay to put up the SI0,000 he offered to bet on Harrison. Quay has not been heard from.
 Frank Calhoun of Pittsburg, Pa., was stabbed with a bayonet and killed Monday morning by one of the drunk en soldier on duty at Homestead.
 Emanuel Munday (colored) was taken from jail at Grenada, Miss, Friday night and hanged by c0lored mob. He had raped S-year-old negro girl.
 l.. NJ. Hunter, the Kansas City ex-
  Saturday at Beatrice, Neb., for obtain ing money (S25) under false pretenses.
 The rioteus union strikers are being arrested or expelled from the Occur d'Alene mines, in Idaho, by United States troops. Everything is quiet.
 Typhus fever was brought to New York quarantine station Saturday by Russian immigrants. All Russian pas sengers were detained on board the vessel.
 Another train robbery occurred on Thursday night of last week on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad in the Indian territory, which is charged to the Dalton gang.
 There are iiity-three telephone con- panies in the United States, all be- longing virtually to the Bell monopoly. They have 24l exchanges, 476, 1856 teie- phones and s465 employees.
 Judge DuBose of Memphis has de- cided that it is not violation of the seperate coach law if the two races mingle in the same coach of their own accord and without objection.
 A mass of earth 800 feet wide is sliding down the side of Table mount ain at Golden, Colo, taking with it an eight-room house, orchard and garden and the tracks of the Colorado Central railroad.
 Carnegie is importing pauper labor from Europe to take the places of the striking ironw0rkers at Homestead, Pa, and elsewhere. An effort will be made to prevent them from landing through the contract labor law.
 George H. Williams, the messenger who was in charge of the Pacific Ex- press cOmpany's car that was robbed at Adair, 1. T., last week by the Dal- ton gang, has been suspended pending an examination by the company.
 Maj. William Tillman, ex-cashier of the Falls City bank of Louisville, Ky, has returned and made good his steal age-about $55,000. He will not be prosecuted, and will take his family somewhere and begin life anew.
 The wife and children of Col. H. Clay King are raising d petition asking for executive clemency in his behalf The brother of David Poston, his victim, is also raising d petition praying that the law be permitted to take it's course.
 The promised papal encyclical on the Columbian exposition was issued Sat- urday. In it the pope enjoins the bishops in Italy, Spain and America to celebrate the anniversary of the dis coyery of America by special services.
 The sea serpent was seen in lake Erie last week by Capt. Patrick Woods, of the schooner Madeline Bowling