The Forrest City times., 1892-10-21
GENERAL NEWS.

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 Homestead is now free of troops, the last regiment having marched out l Thursday.
 Burglars raided St. Johns church at Omaha, Neb., and destroyed Sl0,000 worth of sacred vessels.
 C At San Antonio Thursday Sam Lee. a l Chinese laundryinan. WAS murderously assaulted by highbinders.
 Charles r. Peffer. son of Senator peffer of Kansas. was killed in a train wreck at Gypsum City, Kansas
 Arrangements are being made for the establishment of a colony of 1000 Japanese iu the state of Sinaloa, Mex ico
 The National Lithographers' associ- ation opened it's fifth annual convention Boston Thursday. About 30 members are present.
 At Cleveland, O., 200 employees of the Findlay, O., Window Glass com pany have quit work because of d d,5a- gfeement over wages.
 The Hawaiian legislature has passed a law requiring that in purchasing ar iicles for the government preferences be given to home manufacturers.
 The steamer Momtserratt has deliv- cred 500 natives of the Gilbert islands to Central American planters. The natives are practically sold into slavery.
 Judge Theodosus BDtkin, the leader of one of the factions which terrorized the Thirty. second Kansas judicial dis trict. of which he was the judge, has resigned.
 E. W. Howe, late traffic manager of the Louisville. New Orleans and Texas railroad. has accepted the position as chairman of the Mexican Freight as- sociati0n..
 The directors of the United States Express company have declared a div idend of 7 per cent payable November 15. The last dividend was paid in May, 1891.
 At Shamoi.,in, Pa, a carriage con- taiuing A. D. Maxwell. two Misses Taylor and Kate Houghawent was wrecked by Reading engine and the occupants killed.
 At Mohawk lake, N. Y.. the tenth annual Indlan conference is in session. Among those present are ex-President Hayes, Bishop Whipple aud Indian commissioner Morgan.
 David Wade of Enterprise, Ky, has been married to Mrs. Elizabeth Gar win, at Wellston, 0. Their ages ag- gregate l82 years. The bridegroom has passed the century mark.
 At Baltimore John \. Briee has been arrested. He had $5000 worth of tickets over the Richmond and Danville and Chesapeake and Ohio railroads, which were stolen Sanday night.
 It Is reported that the famous astronomer Prof Barnard, now at tho Lick observatory, will accept a posi- ton with the Chicago university. Prof. Barnard is q native of Tennessee.
 At Chicago Fritz Schmltt, il barten- der. was shot and instantly killed Thursday by Grace Smith, woman with whom be had been living up t0 three weeks ago. The woman was jealous.
 All the employees of the Chicago Ed ison company. Western company. Ome company, Harter company and the ComstoclS company, about Poo men, have struck. The men demand an s. hour day.
 Ollie Ogee of Wichita. Kas.. WAS not with the Daltons at Coffeyyille, Kas. He has been working steadily at Wich- ita for nine months. He does not know the fugitive bandit who bears his name.
 The total amount of money paId to the pensioners of the United States will at the end of 1892. be over $i ,40G,- 090. 900. q sum very nearly equal to tho entire amount of money in circulation i'll the United States.
 Weevils in countless numbers nave invaded the wheat bins of farmers in various portions of Illinois, and as result thousands of bushels of wheat have been thrown upon the market by them at reduced price.
 The labor organizations of Chicago have declined to participate in the pa rade attending the dedicatofy exer- cises of the worlds fair They will on the day before probably give mon ster parade of their own. At Quebec, Octoberl3, Blacksmith, Allard, who has discovered the se- cret of tempering copper, has tempered a piece of aluminium. It took the Ca- nadian inventor only 30 minutes to temper the peice, which was originally as soft as lead.
 Commodore Melville, of the ill., starred Jeannette arctic expedition, has been presented one of the medals awarded by vote of Congress to the survivors of the expedition. But one officer besides Commodore Melville is alive, k. 5. Newcomb, the natural ist of the expedition.
 Archbishop Satoli and Mgr. Dennis J. O'Connell, the papal delegates, will visit Washington and have an inter- view with Secretary of State Foster regarding their mission to this coun- try. They are sent here by the pope to examine the condition of the Catho- lie church in the United States.
 The remains of girl supposed to be mysteriously murdered. which were shipped to Lockport., N. Y., from Chicago, as the corpse of Bulah Phil lips, of that place, only to be returned on the discovery that the Phillips girl is alive, have been identified. The body is that of Alice Jennings, of Chicago.
 The young Jesuit astronomer, Prof. George A. Fargis, $. J., of Georgetown university, who some time ago in- vented the photo-chronograph for measuring star transits. has made c novel, and 1t is claimed, very valuable application of bis discovery. By it he has also been able to determine lati- tude and longitude.
 The University of Notre Dame, Ind. Thursday celebrated its establishment