The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25
A nEErrNe in memcrr nf Gen An.

the 10Th under the auspices OF The IL
Cuban societies OF that CITY. The great
est eNciSefGent prevailed and when the
/ collection boxes were passed women.
who composed half the audience. took
of their rings and other jewelry and
threw them in.
IN railroad collision on the Texas
& Pacific road near Sodus. La. three
men were killed and seven badly in
jured.
a WAGON was struck while crossing
the track of the Chicago & Northwest
ern road al Denison, Ia. and Mr..
hTual. farmer. was fatally hnrt and
his W fe was killed.
4 The gold fever was said to be run.
ming high at Guthrie. Ok. and there
was talk of an organized rush to cap
ture the rich gold discoveries in the
Wichita mountains
/. Two Proctors, Dink and Arch. father
and son, were taken from the Jail at
Russeilville, KY, on the night of the
18th and lyncbed and Arch's brother,
I Bill, was shot to death in his cell
They were all charged with the muir
der of Doc and Aaron Grafton The
MOB came from Adairville and was
composed of about rs men.
FIRE at Brooklyn on the 18th dam
aged the car house of the Nassau Elec-
trio railroad and partially burned Is
/ electric cars
lHE Missouri congressman have re-
ceived notices from the secretary of
agriculture that their allotmenls of
seed for this year are ready for their
/ disposal
JAMES SMITH. mulstto. was hanged
at Upper Marlborough. Md, on the
18th for the murder of Margaret Brown.
white girl, with whom he claimed to
be in love. He cut the girls throat be-
cause she repulsed Kim.
A BURLINGTON. Ia dispatch said that
the anti-cigarette law passed by the
/ legislature was virtually a dead letter
in that city. owing to the recent deci-
sion of the supreme court regarding
original packages.
A LOUISVILLE dispatch stated that
/ the republicans would contest the
election of Keutucky's single BRYAN
elector.
The most violent earthquake ever ex.
perienced in England shook that coun-
try from Durham 10 Surrey and from
London 10 the Welsh coast about $50
O'Clock on the morning of the nth.
lasting from four to thirty seconds.
At many points two distinct shocks
were experienced. No great damage
was done.
1T was officially announced at Bonn
bay on the 18th that there had been
i,5ll cases of plague in that city and
/ 1904 deaths from the disease up 10
date. The exodus from Bomb av con-
| tinues. 1t was stated that 200. 900 per-
sons had fed from the city.
WHITE men were reported as intimi-
dating colored mill hands in LAFAYETTE
county, Ark, in order to drive them
ont of the county.
An explosion occurred in a match
factory at Aschafen burg. Bavaria,
which demolished the building. killing
Is women and girls and injuring seven
Others.
AN ammonia cylinder in the Casino
skating rink and summer theater in
Schenly park, at Pittsburgh, Pa, ex-
| ploded a 2:l5 a. m. on the 18th and the
whole handsome structure was soon in
flames. The losses were placed at
100000 with SIS. 900 insurance
| PURSUANT to a call issued by the
publisher of the Tim herman and the
publisher of the Lum herman, 80 dele
gates represe nting ~ states assem- bled
at Cincinnati on the 18th to take ac-
ton for the letter protection of lum-
Der interests The purpose of the
| meeting was to work to secure from
| the next congress a satisfactory tariff
on lum Der.
An accident by which six men were
believed to have lost their lives oc-
Cured on the 10th in the tunnel of the
Holy Cross mine near ID Cliff, Col. A
blast caused great fall of earth aud
1t was believed the men were buried
undrr it.
WHAT is supposed to have been a plo.
to blow up the new opera house al Bcl-
ton, Tex, was discovered on the l5tn
! -Four large sticks of dynamite were
found in a window. The fuse attached
had burned part Of the way down, but
went out There was enough of the
stuff to have wreck the opera house.
the courthouse and other adjacent
build .ngs had it exploded
IN a match shoot at re birds at Nil
medal and 5000 a side between DR.. j. L.
! Williamson and George l.. Deiler, VIII
hanson shot 1871 out of possible zoo,
beating the worlds record, which was
| lee. Deiier's score was ISIS.
DAVID BOYD and his daugh er Min
ME, who had been travelling in COW
cred wagon. were found living in a pool
of blood on the roadside in Linco,
county, Ok They had been hacked to
death with an ak. A mob of 100 white
men dragged negro named Clemens
to the woods with the intention of
| lynching him and Sheriff Painter had
4 gone with posse to the scene
AGNES and Mary Novock, children,
died on the 18th at Solvay. ~ Y, pre-
snmably of arsenic poisoning, and Jo-
sepn Novock, the father, and the
mother and three other children were
reported dangerously i'll. Suspicion
attached TO a woman living in the
ne gh borhood
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