The Forrest City times., 1892-03-04

| "A having sold ss0o worth of stam ps for 700
 in order to increase the yearly salary of his office.
 Jay Gould is reported getting better,
 but his house at New York is guarded to
 keep out cranks, who are focking to sell him remedies of all sorts. | Protestants preachers of Minnesota are | making determined fight to drive the parochial school in Saltwater out of the
 public school system. Rosa Slaughter, aged 12, was assaulted
 in Terre Haute, Ind, by two ru ffians while sick in bed last Friday. She died and threats of lynching are made. The American Express Com pany has
 been sued at Monroe, Mich., by James Kirchner, who says the compa ny found .
 lottery ticket lost by him on which they
 collected q, 500 prize. | The enumeration of the population of New York is expected to show about l., s0o,00O inhabitants, or about 300,0oo more than was shown by the Federal census of | last summer. Justice of the Peace Broeter of Nsuces County, Texas, has made affidavit { charg- l ing Captain Bourke, U. s. A., and his troops with invading homes of peaceable citizens in order to obtain evidence against Garza or his men. The trouble at Coal Creek, Tenn, is still on.
 Moline. H.. had $50 900 fire caused by
 a dynamo explosion. A proposition to deepen Trinity River is under discussion at Dallas. Seven tram ps have been arrested at Burgestown, Pa., on the charge of safe- blowing. The trial of McKibben and Co rden, the | Sandoval conspirators, has fairly opened
 at Salem, III. The Transmississippi Comme rcial Con- gress adopted resolutions in favo of the free coinage of silver. Near Newport, Ark, Mrs. Sw earingsn, . bride, was shot by q member of . cha
 rivari party. George s. Moore,a Louisville merchant,
 has fled to Canada. He is accused of du- plicating pig-iron receipts. Dick Cullen was lynched at the Court House door at Marsh field, Mo-, for the murder of 4-year-oId babe . few days ago.
 The New York Tribune intimatss that Secretary Foster has gone to Flu rope to arrange for an international money con- ference.
 Charles Schmidt, a 14-year- boy of Newark, N. J.. has been commi tting forgery with the industry of CIV "Jim the Penman." Secretary Sutton of tho Irish National League of America has resigned because he is unable to acquiesce in President Gannon's appeal for funds. Ex-Senator Ingalls told the Kansas G. A. R. that after the war the Southern States should have been reduced to Terri tories and given to Union soldiers. Internal dissensions have arisen in the Cordage Trust. A jury has been selected in the McKib- ben case at Salem, III. Two acres of business property in San Antonio was destroyed by fire. Worlds Fair officials are pleased at the tone of P resident Harrison's message to Congress. Boxer Broatch of West Point was knocked out by Cadet Saxton in fight over a woman. New York bankers say the excitement about the ex port of gold from this coun : try is foolish. No street-cars are running In Indianap- oils. The authorities continue to refuse aid to the company. Secretary Blaine has requested Lord Salisbury to make Canada conform to the copyright agreement. Oliver Curtis Perry, the New York ex- hon ka A,xnt ed his operations on the night of the roh~ bery. According to the report of three ex-
 perts the coal mine explosion at Krebs, l. T., was caused by shot, firers disobey- ing orders.
 | Search for the miscreant guilty of the | assault on Mrs. Taylor of Sedalis, Mo-, | is being prosecuted all through that sec | ton of the State. Delameter, the banker, escaped through
 hung jury in Meadville, Pa, the vote l standing nine for conviction and three for acquittal. John D. Rockefeller of the Standard ] Oil Company has given the University of | Chicago S1, ,000, 900 "as . special thanks | offering for returning health." The Transmississippi Commercial Con- | gress met in New Orleans. M. E. Curtis, formerly an actor, has es- | capped the gallows in San Francisco, two ! of tle jurors holding out for acquittal. | He was accused of the murder of Police man Grant. General Ram llli Lee Gibson s poke be- | fore the Transmississippi Co mmercial | Congress in New Orleans on the import ance of the improvement of the Missis- sippi River. Thieves stole two miles of trolley wire at St. Joseph while the current was on. Dynamite has been used In connection | with a college row at New Wilmington, | Pa.
 | Three persons were run over by train | near Pittsburg while returning from . | dance.
 Michael Lynch was fatally burned in | McKeesport, Pa, in futile attempt to save his two children from death in ths | flames.
 | An appeal for funds has been issued by
 the National Irish League of America for expenses in the coming general elections | in Great Britain. Nose Harris, a negro, was taken from | Jail at Warner, Ark, and shot to death by | a mob. He killed EFT. Parker, sewing | machine agent. Seven thousand people shook hands with Mir. Cleveland at a public reception | in Detroit last evening. During the day | t.st t.1 ksa let f.T Al.