The Forrest City times., 1896-10-16


 years. Eight children, A grandchil- dren and over 200 great grandchildren survive her.
 EIGHr persons were injured by the derailing of an electric car on the Madison street line at Chicago recently. Some of them may not survive their wounds.
 FRANKLIN II. WHITNEY died on the iith at Atlantic. la. He had lived in Cass county 70 years and founded the city of Atlantic.
 SOME one recently poisoned 40 jack rabbits at the state fair grounds at Dallas. Tex. They were located there to run races as fair attraction
 AeENr WISDOM. of the five civilized tribes in the Indian territory, began the payment to the Shawnees and Del awares on the I2th of the Cherokee strip money. each member of the tribe receiving se65.
 A CALL has been issued for a meeting of the National Educational associa- tion to be held at Milwaukee during the first week in July, 1897.
 BUFoRD OvERToN was hanged at Har- Ian. Ky, on the 12th for the murder on June q. 1895, of Gustave and Julia Loeb. Jewish peddlers A great crowd from all the surrounding country gath cred to see the hanging.
 \ BosToN dispatch on the 12th stated that Helen kellar. the blind and deaf girl, had passed the Harvard examina- ton with credit and will enter the Har- yard annex at younger age than most freshmen.
 \ HURRICANE swept along the At lantic coast on the I2th and did much damage. At Conev Island, N Y, the beach was swept clean and bathing houses and board walks were carried out to sea.
 Ar the final day of the Christian AL lance con nvention in Carnegie hall. New York on the 11th the subscrip- tons secured for missionary work amounted to s11O,O00.
 DOUBLE execution took place on the lIth at Wewoka, capital of the seminole nation. Charles Hadworth and Henry Welsh, half breed Indians, being shot to death by four Indian po- lice, standing 20 feet distant. Both murderers fell back into their coffins dead. Two days before full-blood Indian was legally shot for a murder committed six months ago.
 REPORTS stated that 100 women are engaged in selling whisky to the 0sage, Otoe. Ponca and Creek Indians on the border of Oklahoma and that it was dangerous for deputy marshal to Rp- pear in that country alone. A party of deputies brought to Guthrie, Ok, on the 10th dozen whisky sellers, mostly Indians
 FORTY special train loads of people visited Maj. Mckinley at Canton, O., on the 10th. They came from Iowa, New York, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana. Illinois, Missouri, West Virginia, Maryland and Ohio.
 C. T. COLE. cashier of the National bank of Corning, Ia., has been ar rested by the United States marshal on charge of embeZzlement. The deficit is about S16, 6,O00
 MosT REV. EDWARD WHITE BENSON, D. D., archbishop of Canter bury and primate of all England, was stricken with apoplexv while attending church on the 1lih and died almost immedi- ately.
 ]. D. SAIR, one of the men who robbed the bank of Sherburne. Minu.. and shot the cashier and a bystander. was surrounded in farmhouse by a posse, when he jumped through win- dow and fatally shot Marshal Gallon af,1 af sf,ta E-I T that there was no chance of escape the roboer shot his own brains out AL most the entire amount of money stolen was found on the dead man.
 THE Jasper county jail bdrned at Paulding, Miss, during the night of the 9th, and two prisoners, E. A. Strickland, charged with forgery, and Mollie Daniels, crazy negress, were cremated Strickland had stated that unless opium was brought to him he would burn the jail.
 JOSEPH PESTACosT, of Guthrie. Ok. was reported as lying very low from the effects of a bite from a spider. Within short time four people have been bitten in that city and a dozen at other points in that territory. all sui ferlng greatly and one dying. Those who are bitten suffer bad effects for months after the first sickness is gone.
 A NOTICE was posted on the doors of the Cape Ann Savings bank on the sth at Gloucester, Mass, stating the insti- tuition had been closed. Soon after came the news that George J. Marsh, for more than a quarter of a cent tury the trusted treasurer of the bank, had shot himself at his summer home at Annisquam. He was short in his ac- counts.
 A LARGE boiler in the Reading iron works at Danville, Pa, exploded on the sth. killing two persons instantly and lnJurlng score or more of others The house of John Burns, close by. was demolished. The cause of the explo- sion was unknown.
 CHAIRMAN BABCoCK, of the repub- llcan congressional committee, has is- sued statement based on detailed re- ports, claiming the next house of rep- resentatives as republican by at least B majority.
 DISPATCH from San Antonio. N. NJ stated that the United States mail