The Forrest City times., 1896-12-04


sisting Of five persons. were burned to
death. The building was entirely con-
snmed. All the todies were recovered
in a horribly charred condition.
The courthouse at Eastland. Tex.
and all the furniture was burned. The
records and contents of the vaults
were thought to be safe. The law
library and other property of many
attorneys, who had offices in the court
house. were DESTROYED.
Louis MAVERICK. an Austrian at
Kings camp. on the drainage canal. a
mile south of Summit. III. was stoned
to death and robbed of over $40 on the
towpath between the camp and sum
init on the evening of the 2sth. Two ne
grOes were arrested for the crime.
FErE organized at Baroda. India,
in. honor of the visit Of the vi-erov of
IN a. has had terrible outcome in
the killing of % persons and the injur-
ing of many others by a panic which
occurred in the course of the fete
THE Philadelphia Press said on the
2s;h that the leading lockmakers of
the country had just perfected a com
pination to regulate the prices of locks
in general
THE Indians of Red River and Eagle
counties. Choctaw nation. ]. T. who
were playing a game of baseball.
quarreled and used the butt end of
their bats on one another, 20 or 80 be-
ing injured. Two have died and sew
eral more were in serious condition.
=. j. KELLEY. a jeweler at san Jose,
Cal, and his wife were fatally wound
ed. and one of his children got bullet
in her arm. caused by Kellev's attempt
to murder his family through jealousy.
A STATEMENT has been issued which
shows that Iowa has $3.50, 600 outstand-
ing in warrants for which there is no
cash in the treasury. The situation is
due TO the slowness of tax payments
and too low levy to meet expendi-
lures
AT tall of the First regiment at
Newark, y. j., Spanish fiay was torn
down and the Cuban banner raised in
its place. The incident has been re-
ported to the Spanish EN- bassy.
GEN. WEYLER, replying to memo
rial addressed to him by committee of
Cuban farmers, informed the memo
rialists that he could not authorize
the farmers to grow crops in any part
of the island.
A NUMBER of drunken Polanders at
Duryea, Pa. who were ce ebrating
Thanksgiving, got into fight and be-
gan shooting at one another. Three
men were fatally wounded.
THE rush of corn shipments to Mex
leo at San Antonio. Tex, during the
past three weeks has been the heaviest
ever known, the greatest part of the
corn coming from Kansas, Iowa and
Nebraska The corn is sold in Mexico
as high as 81 per bushel in Mexican
currency.
FRANK JOHNSON, colored, was hanged
at Coutn bia. Tenn. on the 27th for the
murder of Austin Rye, whom he killed
on August 1 aud afterward robbed
of S..
In the tenmile road race of local
bicyclists at New Orleans TO decide the
city cham pionship Ro bert w Kennedy,
spectator, was ruu into by one of the
wheelmen with such force that his
neck was broken.
AT Athens, Greece, terrible storms
and floods have occurred and many
persons have been drowned
FIRE at Atlanta, Tex, DESTROYED FIVE
of the best business houses and a bout
is smaller concerns.
THE joint congressional library COM
mittee has decided not 10 investigate
the accounts of Librarian Spofford.
The discrepancy in his accounts was
$50, O00 but it was thought to be an
error of bookkeeping only.
NEARLY the entire business portion
of the town of Leavenworth, Wash,
the headquarters of the Cascade divi- 4
sion of the Great Northern railroad.
was burned on the Goth. The fire orig
mated in the Office of the forks hotel
amt the dodgers had a narrow escape
from cremation.
BILLY GALLAGHER put Harry Slater
to sleep seven rounds at Los An relies,
Cal The men We're matched for Is
rounds, hut Gallagher outpointed his
opponent at every STAGE
HE Empey & Woodland grain ele-
vator at St Paul, Mimi, was burned.
There were about 40, 900 bushels of
grain lost.
SHORTLY after nine o'clock on the
26th fire was discovered on the third
floor of the Peo-ia house. the oldest
hotel in Peoria. III The fremen. after
a fight of nearly three hours. were
forcei to turn in general alarm
when the fire comm enced Spreading.
No fatalities occurred, though there
were a mum Der of narrow escapes.
Many of the guests lost their bagga re.
TORNADO passed Mart post office.
near Marlin, Tex, recently and several
houses were blown down and child of
\. H. Douglas was He'd
DISPATCH from Breslau said that 30
persons were killed in co liery explo-
sion at Zengorze, Russian Poland.
COMMITTEE of business men, ap-
pointed by the governor of Louis ana.
was at st. Louis on the 25th to see
about getting special freight rates on /
corn as there was great scarcity of
the cereal in Louisiana amounting al (
most to famine They estimated /
that Louisiana would have 10 purchase /
5U0.0O0 or 900, 600 bushels of corn in /
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