The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-11-20
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The wages of employees at the Phil
man shops are said to have been re-
duced Is per cent.
whites drove negro statecutters out
OF Altoona, KY, shooting nine of them
William Magnus was shot dead by
William Gee on Magnus farm near Ma.
con, Mo.
j. II. Manley, of Maine, announces
that he would accept no office under
Mckinley.
MIR. Wayman c. McCreery has been
appointed collector of internal revenue
at st. Louis
The worlds supply of raw sugar for
1895 exceeds that for 1895, despite Gu
ba's shortage.
The st. Louis city Jail may have to
be quarantined on account of a threat
ened epidemic of diphtheria.
James r. Sovereign was reelected
general master workman of the
Knights of Labor
The French chamber has adopted a
measure for universal suffrage in the
election of senators.
The county attorney of Salt Lake,
Utah. has decided the Utah election
invalid under the constitution.
E. ). Burl, timber-cutter. shot and
killed panther in the swamps east of
Hamburg, Ark
RtJohn G. Fisher, ex-mayor of Pa
ducah, KY, died Tuesday, aged 81
years. Deceased was once one of the
largest brewers in the south.
Mrs Caroline Spiegel, of St Louis.
was instantly killed in a runaway ac-
cident at the Mount Sinai Jewish Gem
etery, about eight miles from the city.
Mrs Spiegel was nearly 20 years old.
Daniel Downey,a resident of Charles
ton, ILL.,, who was reputed to be loo
years old, died Tuesday. He came from
Ireland many years ago, settling first
at Terre Haute, Ind.
The records of the treasury depart
ment show that from February /, $780,
to November 1 there were coined at
the minis of the United States 16, 262. j..
922 standard silver dollars.
Ex-Mayor George NJ. Smith died at
Bloomington, H., from a complica-
ton of diseases that has puzzled his
medical attendants, and which ended
In paralysis.
Louis Schneider, a well-to-do Ger.
man farmer residing near Lawndale,
Ill.,, was killed by the night mail train
on the Alton road. He was returning
from dance.
master-General Wannama-
ker has signified his willingness to be
candidate for United States senator
from Pennsylvania to succeed j. Dom
aid Cameron, whose term expires
March }, 1897.
William |. Bronson, a Wagner pal
ace car conductor from ST. Louis, was
run down by an engine in the Central
train shed at Buffalo, n. y. Both fee.
and his ri Int hand were crushed and
had to be amputated.
Miss Ada Rell, of Lacon, H., took a
dose of strychnine by mistake and
died from the effects of the poison.
Placards have been posted in Canea,
Crete, melting the Mussulmans to en-.
gage in holy war against the Chris.
tians.
At Tahlequah. l. T., the secretary OF
the school board shot the city marshal
and was himself killed by a deputy
United States marshal.
William Dornman, a farmer, resid,
ing about Is miles north of St. Louis,
on the Missouri river, at what is known
as Missouri Point, was fatally kicked
by mule.
Geo. Clampit, of St. Louis, was ar,
rested at Palmyra, Mo, by Sheriff
Pratt, on the charge of passing coun'
terfeit money
David 5. Jordan, government com,
missioner, reports that but one-fifth as
many seals are on the Alaska islands
as there were ten years ago.
Hon. VIM. j. Bryan urges the forma.
ton of clubs to continue the fight for
free silver during the next four years.
James O'Counor, of Oneida county.
\. Y, believed to be the oldest person
in the county, is dead. On Christmas
day he would have been los years old.
1t has been definitely arranged that
William j. Bryan is to take the lecture
platform, and his first address will be
delivered at Atlanta, Ca, early in De
Gem Der