The Forrest City times., 1892-11-18
NUMBER 6.
GENERAL NEWS .

TChief Justice Merriman.of North Car.
 olina died Monday. Governor-elect Peter Turney of Ten.
 nessee is very ill.
 Col. win & Hays. the poet, was in Memphis Monday.
 The National Farmers Alliance con-
 vened in Memphis Tuesday. I Milwaukee had another blaze Mon- day. Loss on stock of dry goods S15O,- 900.
 The Association for the Advance ment of Women meet in Memphis Tuesday.
 Astronomers predict that the Biela Periodic comet will hit the earth N0- vember 18th.
 The navy department has decided to place six new vessels of the navy in commission.
 There are 850.0O0 persons disabled that are now receiving pensions from the government.
 The democrats of Buffalo celebrated the great Democratic landslide by a five days jolliiicatioD.
 Fears are entertained at New Haven, Conn, that small FOX will become epi- l A fire at Hoylestown IN. F.. Sunday destroyed bakery and tobacco factory worth $175.000 and threw out of en- ployment 150 hands. Another row at Homestead, Pa., be- tween unionist and non-unionists oc- cured Sunday. The town is kept at fever heat by the strikers. l Angelo PetriIIo was legally choked to death at New Haven. Conn.,. Monday. for the murder of his brother-in- law. A game of cards was the cause. l The great labor strike which con- menced in New Orleans October 22d, ended in the defeat of the AmAlgama- ted Council of strikers and unionism. Gov. Fifer of Illinois, is said to have pardoned Oscar Nebe, one of the an archists convicted of c0mplicity in the Haymarket riot, and sentenced for | life,
 l At Connor's Crossing, a short dis tance north of Schuyikill Haven, Pa, the boiler of a mogul engine exploded. killing five men and probably fatally injuring another
 Delos A. Bloodgett;of Grand Rapids, Mich, divided all of his possessions | himself and giving one third each to his son and son-in-law. The entire estate amounted to $7, ,200, 900.
 Key. William A. Brinkley (colored) and sixty-three members of his church left Memphis Friday night on the Iron Mountain railroad, destined for Stock ton, California. where . colony has been l formed.
 Advices from China states that Yel- low river broke loose inundating the districts of Chang Chin, Chi Tug. Ching Cheng, Chang Chang, Chou Paig. Pea Sning aud possibly others. It is said that half the population were destroyed.
 During the great jollification In Mem- phis Saturday night, a crowd of tonghs invaded the grounds of the Iligbeo school, frightening the inmates of the school very much. Miss Higbee tele- phoned the police, but before they xr- rived the noisy buns evacuated tho premises,
 A cave has been discovered ab0nt six miles east of Harrisonburg. Va, near the village of Keezleton. It has not been fully explored yet, but 1t is said to rival the Luray cayerns in size and grottos and in beauty. Twenty four rooms have been found without the aid of pick or shovel.
 The expert accountants who havo been examining the books of the LoIn- bard investment Company. Kansas City. in the endeavor to ascertain ths exact amount of the stealings of w. II. Russell. the embedding local treasurer of the company, have about completed A L~t. ksxfx rt. got away with upwards of $lO0,000. I Gov. Brown, of Maryland. has signed the death warrants of the eight cOnvio ted murderers of Dr. J. H. Hill, of Kent county. The men will be hanged Fri day, December 30, at Chestertown. The convicted parties are Joshua Bsin- ard, Louis Benson, Henry Hurtt, Moses Brown, Frisby Comesys, Fletcher Will
 Hams, Charles 5. Emory and Charles
 Bront, all colored.
 Last Monday, a man named Louis
 Marbet was arrested as he was landing
 from the steamer La BOurgogne, Ut
 New York. On examination 1t was
 found that he wore about his body
 something that was a cross between . woman's corset and life preserver. In it were pockets containing sixty-eight | Ndiudulc SOlu WdV>uCbs WulIu u0 V - endeavoring to smuggle through. II A special from London says: In . an action for libel brought by the pro-
 prietor of a saloon against the Chr0ni- : cle, and tried before Lord Coleridge ! last Saturday, a verdict for E40O was given against the paper. It appeared : that the authorities had refused to . grant license for the saloon, and, I commenting upon the fact. the ChrOni. 3 cle called the place brothel. A cotton fire occurred on the ship Ashley Monday morning at Galveston under very peculiar circumstances. The iron ties on bale lowered struck the metallic frame of the ship and a spark flew among the cotton, igniting it. The flames spread and damaged
 1000 bales. This is the eighth cotton fire that has happened there within
 four weeks, and news arrived this , morning announcing furthermore, that :. two vessels from Galveston, loaded with cotton, have arrived at Liver , pool with fire amidships.