The Forrest City times., 1895-05-31

Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

NOTHING official has been promul.
gated. but it is believed Mai. Gen.
Thomas II. Ruger will relieve Maj
Gen. Nelson A. Miles as commander of
the department of the east when
Lieut.. -Gen. Schofeld is retired on Sep
TENDER 90.
Dr. EDWARD EGGLEsToN, the we'll
known author and lecturer, and Mrs.
Eggleston, had a narrow escape. on the
Goth, from drowning in Lake George
n. Y. They were out sailing in the
doctors yacht, near their summer
home at Joshua's Rock, when their
craft was capsized by squall.
CHIEF THOMAS BYRNEs of the New
York police department., it is said, has
decided to resign. He realized the ex-
istence of antagonism to him ever since
the mayor appointed the commission
ers, and he does not care to fight the
new board, so he will take off his shield
and retire.
AN English bookkeeper by the name
of Gallon has brought down upon his
head the malediction of all the Grand
Army posts of Topeka, Kas. Gallon is
employed in the general offices of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad,
and is charged with having referred to
the ex. Union soldiers as pension rob-
bers" and to the flag as dirty rag
The supreme court of the United
States has affirmed the constitution
atty of the supplemental Chinese ex-
clusion act of 1894
j. p. MORGAN & Co., of New York.
closed the subscription lists to the
Terminal Railroad association of st.
Louis bonds, after the books had been
open thirty minutes, as the issue had
been largely over-subscribed. There
are S4,5O0,000 of the bonds, and they
bear per cent. interest, payable in
gold.
On the eth the supreme court of the
United States, in an opinion read by
Justice Brewer, denied the motion for
writ of habeas corpus filed by Eu-
gene Debs and his associates of the
American Railway union, and they
will have to serve the sentences i'm
posed upon them by the court
CHIEF OF POLICE THOMAS BYNEs. on
the eth, presented his resignation as
superintendent of the New York city
police force, and retires on an annual
pension of So, 900.
On the 27th Harry B. Smith, wife of
the auditor-elect of Marion county,
Ind. Qndianapolis) slipped and fell as
she was entering her yard. Both legs
were broken, one above and one be-
low the knee, and one kneecap was
splintered. She is stout, and was re-
turning after playing lawn tennis
Her tennis shoes were slippery and
caused the fall.
AT lis o'clock on the morning of the
2sth Walter Quinton Gresham, secre-
tary of state in President Cleveland's
cabinet, died, after a somewhat pro-
tracted illness, at his rooms in the Ar
lington hotel in Washington. Although
he had suffered much during his illness,
his last hours were passed painlessly in
the presence of his wife and daughter
and the latter's husband.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the cad Recorder Owsley and
ninety-fve others were indicted in
Kansas City, Mo-, for election frauds.
In fight for possession of a skiff at
Anterior, Ind. on the esd, two fisher
men, named William Pollinger and
William Shocks, were stabbed in the
back by an unknown assailant, who
made his escape. Pollinger was fatal
ly cut.
A. l.. BRAINAR confidential book
keeper of the live stock firm of Gar