The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-11-13


BEE DUSS was shot and killed at
Pawnee. Ok. by United States Deputy
Marshal r. NJ Canton. An old fend
bad existed between them. Dunn was
the man who gave away Outlaw Bill
Doolin's location
Two negroes and a boy who were
stealing a ride on a car loaded with
iron piping were instantly killed near
Wellsville, y. Y, By the jarring of the
car by a switch engine and the shifting
of the pipes A eoroner's inquest was
held and the Erie company held blame
less.
NEAR Ralston, l. T., while the Indian
mother was absent from the tepee,
hogs entered the tent and tore to
pieces and ate her six-months-old child.
The mother became insane and was
guarded TO prevent her taking her own
life
The schooner Waukesha broke up
near Muskegon, Mich, while trying to
ride out gale on Lake Michigan on
the night of the eth and six Of her
crew were washed ashore, five being
dead and one unconscious.
ALL the coal miners at Jackson, O.,
went out on a strike on the 7th. They
resisted the Accent rate, saying they
could hardly live in that region at the
6l-cent rate. Il was feared the contro-
versy would cause a general strike Of
many thousands Of miners in Ohio.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND issued
procla nation on the 4th appointing
served as Thanksgiving dav.
A DINNER was given by Mark Hanna
at New York on the night of the It'll to
the newspaper men who had covered"
national headquarters either in Chica-
90 or New York during the campaign.
A gold medal was presented to each
guest, bearing his name on one side
and on the other Mckinley and Ho-
bart, Sound Money ani Protection
IT was the talk around repu blican
headquarters at Chicago on the 5th
that Perry S. Heath. of Ohio, who has
been attending to the campaign liter
airy work at Chicago, would be the
private secretary of Maj Mckinley
after his inauguration.
CHAIRMAN HANNA. Of the repu blican
national comm ttec, gave out state
ment at New York on the 5th that suffi-
cient returns had been received by him
to satisfy him that Mckinley had 265
votes in the electoral college, even if
the votes in the doubtful states went
against the repu blicans. and that Nc
Kinley's election had been secured by
a plurality of over ZOO. 000 of t he pop
ular vote. the largest ever given.
j. I. DAVIS was driving 1000 cattle
from Preside county to northern Tex
as, when the herd was stampeded.
When gathered together it was found
and no trace of the animals could be
found.
Mrs. WALTER NJ. CASTLE. of San
Francisco, on the 9Th was found guilty
of shoplifting in London and sentenced
TO three months Imprisonment with
out hard la Dor. Her husband was ac-
quilted on all charges.
Louis A. Brown and Hartman Shep-
ers were fatally injured in the Mokane
mine, in Pony gulch, Col, by the ex-
plosion of a missed shot. Brown be-
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son City, Mo.
Miss LIZZIE HENDRIX, while pas
senger on a train on the Southern rail-
way, between Admission and Rome,
Ala, was overpowered and kissed by
the conductor, so she charged, and
she sued for so, 900 damages The jury
gave her a verdict for S245
AN afPray occurred at Hanna, Ind,
between Thomas Boyd and John Mills
in which the latter was stabbed and
the former had his skull fractured
with a brick. The tragedy was the re-
suit of bitter feeling of long standing
OFFICERS at Winchester, KY. went
to arrest negro for some cause when
they were fred at by the man wanted
and several other negroes and two fell
wounded. The officers returned the
fire and three negroes were wounded.
The news soon spread and 9. 900 negroes
and half as many whites were soon on
the scene, but officers managed to dis
perse the crowd, although for a time il
looked as if there would be race war.
PRIVATE SECRETARY THURBER stated
on the 4th that President Cleveland
had commenced the preparation of his
annual message and would be obliged
10 deny himself to the public until it
was completed, the month of Novem-
Der usually being devoted to the task
A HEAVY storm ragged on Lake Erie
on the 5th and dispatch from San
duska, o., said il was feared that many
small fish boats had gone to the bot
tom of the lake with the men in them.
PETER FABER farmer fell into the
Evans coal shaft at Pontiac, H., and
was instantly killed. The depth of the
shaft is 447 feet, and the body was
crushed into a shapeless mass.
JAMES SHARRErT stabbed James
Shaffet in the neck the other night at
Oak Hill, Va The men had engaged
in a political dispute and fight fol.
lowed with the above result
Mrs. JOHN MALoNEY, an aged resi-
dent of Bloomington, Ill, was struck
and instantly killed by a Lake Erie
train in that city the other evening.
A SPECIAL from Williamson, w. Va,
stated that Capt Hatfield, the Dotori-
Gus outlaw of the Hatfield Mccoy feud,
killed three men at Metawan in a row
at that place on the 3D.. The excite.
ment was intense and reward OF