The Forrest City times., 1892-05-13

| been opened.
 Capitalists are said to be arranging to pipe oil from Portland, Ind, to Chicago ! for fuel purposes. Captain Jno. A. Grant has resigned as third vice. president and general manager of the Texas and Pacific.
 Joseph Hamilton, the human vampire, l died at Benton, To-, after passing seven teen years in chains. c. F. Hart of Pana, Ill.,, gave a worth less check and escaped by stealing horses, | all of which were recovered. l The Secretary of the Navy has ordered the Concord to go to St. Louis after the Memphis Bridge celebration. An English syndicate has taken hold of the Siickney Chicago packeries and form- ed new company, with a capital of S. 50o,Ooo.
 Jas. Acebo. a wealthy citizen of Corpus | Christi, Tex, is und CT arrest for stealing cattle which he had loa ded in a car ready for shipment. ! by William Lspham, nephew of ex. | Senator Lapham and for many years a clerk in the Interior Office. Mir. Childs and party arrived at Denver. and the distinguished journalist opened the home for inf m printers at Colorado l Springs on Thursday. Dr. De Costa; a Protestant Episcopal | clergyman of New York City, has sent tG ths Judge who tried Hattie Adams an ap- | peal for mercy, and has denounced Dr. Psrkhurst's methods in prosecu ting vice
 Jay Gould is sick at Albuquerque, N. ! M., and unable to leave his car.
 Franklin County, Ill.,, has been sued I foI $150 900 on it's railroad bonds.
 Miss Minnie Albright, IS and pretty, is missing from Urbana, Ill.
 The gubernatorial campaign in Texas | is on and much eycitem ent is being aroused.
 Lee Slaughter and Tom Bailey, negro murderers, were hanged at Little Rock.
 Seven divorces in forty-two minutes is the record made by Kansas City Judge. l Nearly all the mills at Goshen, Ind, i are shut down on account of high water | in Elkhart River. 1 Owen Boyle of Dubuque fell and broke his neck while trying to escape from a falling derrick. 1 Two miners were blown to atoms at Telluride, Colo, by the explosion of giant powder.
 The Efingham lIll.) Democrat was thrown out of the mails beca use it con tained an account of a church fair.
 Another polar expedition has been pro- iected by Colonel Glider.
 Garza stragglers killed a ranger spy in Southwest Texas, and shot at another. l Dangerous crevasses have been made in the levees seven miles below N New Orleans flooding plantations and stopp ing trains on the New Orleans and Southern Road.
 J. w. Doyle of Nevada, Mo-, is short 1000 stolen by A sneak thief. Mir. Doyle did not believe in banks
 Two of the officers of the State Depart ment c. A. R. of Louisiana have been re- moved for refusing to recogn ize negro posts.
 General George F. Utassey, general manager of the Phoenix Insurance Com pany of Hartford, Conn, conn mitted sui eide.
 The order of Knights of the Golden Rule is expected to collapse. Nine castles dis banded in St. Louis. Bad management is charged.
 Passengers on the Kansas City, St. Jos- eph and Council Bluffs Road had to be removed from the train in boats at Arko, l owing to the floods.
 The Illinois Synod of the Lutheran Church has adopted resolutions pledging their support to the party which opposes the compulsory education law.
 The Cheyennes and Arephoes are resist ing the extortionate demands of lawyers emploped in the recent land sales, and l Government authorities.
 A cyclone or a series of them, swept over Northwestern Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma on Monday night, caus sing great loss of life, the serious injury of scores of persons and immense property loss.
 It is stated on what is considered good authority that President Cable of the | Rock leland Is desirous of resign ing and that Mir. Truesdsle of the Minnes polls and St. Louis will be appointed as his successor.
 President Adams of Central University has resigned.
 Jack Pugh, A Deputy Sheriff of Creede, Colo, is dead. Town Marshall Carter did 1 it.
 The Finn Belvel libel suit at Creston, To-, has been ended by Belvel pleading guilty.
 Colonel Dodge has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans at Elkhsrt, Ind.
 Patrick O'Sullivan, one of the Cronin assassins, died at Joliet IIl ! Penitenti- Ary.
 Large oil fields have been discovered at Sunbright, Tenn, near the Queen and Crescent Railway.
 The floods in Iowa continue, and only two railroads are in operation, the Bur lington and the Northwestern. J. A. Allender died at Kansas City from heart disease brought on by thoughts of being arrested on a trivial charge.
 Superintendent Wills, of the Ohio Stone l Company at Lima, O., was shot and killed by Michael Cain, who had s grudge against him.
 Four whitecappers were sentenced to two years Imprisonment by an Indiana Judge.
 The feature of the Methodist General Conference at Omaha was the report of the Bishops.
 Washouts on railroads in Illinois are II