The Forrest City times., 1896-10-02


 group of French Canadians, the prince
 bishop of Trent presiding. The object
 of the congress was ito make known
 to all the immeasurableness of the
 moral aud material evi! the church and
 society have suffered through freeDla-
 sorry and to seek an antidote."
 HARRIS BooNE coored, shot the
 town marshal at Sparta, Ga, in fuss
 and some citizens then shot Boone to
 death.
 TIE paymaster of the Longdale Iron 1 Co. was riding on an engine on the
 Short Line railway near Charleston,
 W. Va, on the 27th with s2,sOO to pay employees, when he was held up by a
 robber and the money secured. Shots
 were exchanged and the paymaster was
 killed, the robber escaping. A posse
 went after the robber and lynching
 was expected.
 A WRECK occurred on the Penusylva-
 mia road between Baltimore, Md, and | Washington on the 27th. Five freight
 cars were derailed and piled in heap. Nobody was hurt
 JOSEPH RAY, aged 10, while hunting ducks on the Salt Fork river in Okla homa, looked into the barrel of his gLp
 while loading it and it was accidental lv discharged, blowing the top of his head off.
 HARVEY W. FoGLE, ten.year-old
 boy, was smothered to death while playing in a wheat bin in an elevator at Hagerstown, Md.
 TIE first delegation of 75 miners from Missouri to Leadville, Col, ar rived oyer the Denver & Rio Grande railroad on the 18th. The train was met at Malta, three miles out, by two companies of militia. They escorted the train to the city, where it was met | by 800 men with two Gatlng guns and | the men were taken to the Emmett mine.
 LULU KERLIN, of East Franklin. Ind, was burned to death by her clothes catching fire from grate. She lost | her presence of mind and ran into the | street.
 Two men committed a daring rob- bery at the Union Foundry Co. s office | in Chicago on the 18th. The treasu | of the company was engaged in aI | the employees envelopes with their pa when the robbers held him up. The | president, superintendent and two clerks were in the room at the time. | The robbers got Sl GOO. A FREE fight occurred during po- | litical demonstration at Elwood, Ind, on the 18th in which Joseph Martin, Samuel Salvin and Hosea Templeton b,h h1 fa tal cta | number of others were hurt. Ar Buffalo, N. Y., Peter Kamm killed his wife with a hatchet and then cut his own throat. They had been sep arated for several months. LOUIS BUTTERFIELD, aged ten. was cut in two by a freight car at Pales- tine, Tex, while in play trying to board the train.
 THE American record was broken by four men in the 24-hour bicycle race at Chicago on the 25th. The score at the finish was: Gimm. 4s6 miles l, 1l5 yards; Waller, 4S2 miles 96s yards; Schinner. 462 miles 567 yards; Miller, 459 miles 233 yards, and Myers, 427 miles ss7 yards. It was seen early in the day that the American record was certain to be wiped out, and it appeared to be equally certain that the worlds record of 533 miles 1,493 yards. made by Rivierre, would not be touched
 THE sawmill of Smalley Bros. & Woodwork at Bay City, Mich, was destroyed by fire on the 23d. AT the @4-hour bicycle race at the Coliseum at Chicago on the 24th C. w. Miller did 90 miles in the remarkable time of l:54:25 3-5, the previous record | being 2:ll:S 4-5.
 .A fire at Grapevine Tex, on the Cot ton Belt road, destroyed J. L. Moore heads steam gin; loss between g.. 00n and S6,000 One hundred and sixty. bales of cotton were entirely or partly destroyed.
 Telegrams from Mazatlan, Mex, state that the town of Altata has com pletely disappeared as result of the recent hurricane. Every house was destroyed burying the inha abitants in their ruins.
 Daniel J. Daley committed suicide at Chicago. He took carbolic acid and died a few hours later He was one Iot lhS poiictncu lnJureu when the bomb was thrown during the Hay market riots.
 Frank Cooper, young farmer near lGreensburg, Ind, committed suicide on account of disappointment in love. He had been paying attention to young lady in the neigh borhood and she tilted him.
 The Kentucky democratic campaign committee has completed poll of the state. Chairman Harry Sommers says that the reports show ma jority for Bryan of l9,000, not including the sil- yer republicans.
 Mrs. D. w. McDougal was burned to death 10 miles north of Waterloo, la. Her clothing caught fire from burning brush and entirely burned from her body except portion of one | stocking and her shoes. A. Nj. Ray, who killed Joshua Big gerstaff at McLeans boro, H., August 70, and held under S7, 900 bond for his appearance at circuit court, attempted l Snicida bu choo4incr