The Forrest City times., 1896-10-09

COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY ECKEIs mas issued statement giving the results of an investigation made by him of the amount of all kinds of money held by the banking institu- tions of the country on July 1. The number of banking houses and trust companies inquired of were !2.962. and 77 clearing houses covering all of such institutions in every state and territory and the District of Columbia.
 A PARTY of freighters attempted to ford the South Canadian river south east of Earlboro, Ok. and getting in the quicksand all of the wagons with their loads were lost and several horses also disappeared in the treacherous sands. The men escaped with their lives by hard struggle and several of the horses were cut loose and man. aged to get out
 THE Spencer academy, located ten miles west of Antlers, I. T., burned to ashes, and four Choctaw boys lost their lives in the flames. Several other stu out of windows. The origin of the fire was supposed to be incendiary.
 A LARGE powder magazine exploded at Buluwayo, Africa. Five w hite men were killed and many others injured and scores of Katfirs camping iu the vicinity, were crushed to death by fly ing fragments of rock. Many houses were also wrecked.
 Two negro brothers named John. stone, near the Sac and Fox agency in Oklahoma, quarreled over an Indian girl whom both desired to court and one stabbed the other repeatedly in the abdomen with a large pocket knife. The wounded man was able to walk 100 yards and get his gun, with which he fatally wounded the other and then fell to the ground dead.
 CLYDE DAVIS. aged IA years, of St. Mary's. w. Va, was run over by the Bryan special train. His mangled rs. mains were found on the track
 NEAR Rush, Ok, Johnnie Clark, aged ten, shot and killed Samuel Clark, aged 15. The boys were playing with guns, and Johnnie pointed his gun at the older brother, not knowing it wa, loaded.
 THE monthly statement of the di rector of the mint shows the total coin. age at the United States hints during the month of September, 1896, to have been S5.915, 363. 50, divided as follows Gold, s3,l40, ,992.5O; silver, s9,754. l65i minor coins, SEQ, a26 Ofthe silver coined S2. 700, 100 was in standard dollars.
 DURING the parade at Iowa's semi. centennial cele Gration at Burlington on the ist the reviewing stand, con. taining Vice President Stevenson, Gov. Drake and many other prominent people collapsed and about 30 people were more or less injured.
 A SHEEP herder on the Cascade noun. tains. in Washington, was urging 3,OOo sheep toward the snow line to get grass when they stampeded and knocked him down and HOO of the sheep were smothered and trampled to death and their bodies piled on top of the herders corpse.
 TIE Minneapolis Baseball club de- feaied the Indianapolis on the 1st and won the Detroit Free Press cup, after having captured the pennant The score was l3 to H.
 NEAR Holgate, O., Nathan Spellman, a drunken boarder in the home of Mrs. Kicker, a widow, attacked Anna Kicker, girl F years old. and crushed her skull. Spellman afterwards com. mitted suicide by severing his jugular vein with a razor
 THE people of Washington county, Ky, have risen in rebellion and torn down about all the toll gates in the county.
 THE large barre Sumatra foundered of Milwaukee on the 3Oth and four men were drowned. She had load of railroad iron and the sea ran high.
 THE public debt statement, issued at Washingto ton on the lst showed a net increase in the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during September of si, sO6.03 Total cash in the treasury, ss4g. .642, 772.
 A MALIGNANT fever, similar to that which appeared in 1893, has ravaged TurkeStan for the past two months. Ten thousand persons have died from the fever, most of the victims being children
 Mas JoHS FILLER, wife of a farmer near state Center, la, was found by the roadside burned to a crisp. It was supposed her clothing was ignited from pipe she had been smoking.
 HEAVY damage has been done to the farmers on the low lands along the Juniata river in Blair county, Pa, by the severe rains, many farms being submerged by lakes of water and out. buildings swept down the stream. Several bridges on the Martinsburg branch of the Pennsylvania railroad were also demolished
 THE war department has turned over to the interior department for disposi- ton, under the abandoned reservation act, all of the Fort Robinson (Neb.) military reservation lying east of the line marked as the eastern boundary Of the reservation in the survey of the adjacent pu blic land
 PART of Benson. Ariz., was washed away and six persons drowned in a Hood from a cloudburst in the Wbet. stone mountains. IL was expected that great loss of life and destruction of property will be reported from all