The Forrest City times., 1896-11-06

the faces of pedestrians and breaking
hundreds of dollars worth of window
class. the gang wound no in the
Eighteenth ward, where there were
three riots before midnight.
II the football game between Prince
ton and Cornell at New York on the
31st the former beat the latter by
score of 80 to 0.
TIE greater part of the business por-
ton of the town Of Manila. Ind, was
wiped out on the lst by fire. Two
blocks Of frame business houses were
consumed. The town had no fire de-
partment The total loss will be over
$40, 900, on which there was but g.. 200
insurance.
OK railway train running from a
Beattyville, KY, republican rally Jerry
Cardwell, town marshal of Jackson,
and John G. Hargis fought with pis-
tolls. Hargis was killed and Cardwell
badly wounded. Hargis was a son of
ex-State Senator Hargis, and Cardwell
is the son of ex-senator Thomas Card
we'll
TIE Chicago Trade aud Labor as
sembly was formally disbanded on the
lst in pursuance of a resolution passed
a month % The action was due to
friction among the members. 4 meet
ing will soon be held looking to re-
organ cation under the auspices of the
Federation Of Labor.
The football game at West Point, \.
Y, be tween the cadets and Yale uni
versity resulted in the following score:
Yale, 10; West Point, 2.
The schooner samuel p Ely struck
the breakwaterat Two Harbors Mimi,
and sank on the Both. The crew, con-
sistinP of the captain, mate and seven
seamen. C ung to the rigging. but it
was thought they would be swept off
before help could reach them as there
was terr. bic gale raging on Lake SUI
perior
SUSAN CHuDREss, of Elkhorn, Ky..
recently gave birth to triplets. two
girls and a boy. The boy weighed
eight pounds and the girls four each
Mrs. Chiidress has been m FRIED five
years and has eight children, having
the children at three births.
A DISCOVERY has been made that
hundreds of Italians in New York have
been frauduleutlv naturalized The
papers are stamped with a forged seal
of The superior court by a man who
has since returned 10 Italy. taking
With him $40 from each of his victims.
THE ladies' dormitory at the Car
thage IlL) college was burned and
many of the students lost their ward
robes.
A TERRIBLE explosion of gas occurred
in No. mine of the Lehich & Wilkes
barre Coal Co. South Wilkes barre, Pa.
on the 29th. Six men were brought
up dead and three injured Twelve
more were reported missing. and it
was believed all of these had persisted
An explosion of gas also occurred in
No. 3 Baltimore mine. Anthony Ritz,i,
a Hungarian laborer, was killed, aud
James Con way, the Waterman, and two
Polanders were badly burned.
A DISASTROUS collision happened on
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
railway on the 29th near Wapakoneta,
o. The through fast freight ran into
three loaded oil car tanks, which were
left on the main track by local
freight They were set on fire BY the
engine, destroying the engine and
about II loaded freight cars. The en-
gineer, fireman and brakeman could
not be found and were supposed to be
in the ruins. The Manhattan Oil Co.'S
pumping station eau ght fire and was a
complete loss.
THE London cabmen went on a strike
-a E. ~ z
Two masked men entered Christian
Hanschild's saloon at Cleveland o..
and held up the proprietor and three
men who were drinking After rifinr
the pockets of their victims and the
cash drawer Hanschld got possession
OF his revolver AMI shot one OF the
thieves. but they both escaped.
A RECENT rainStOrm in Oklahoma
did considerable damage by washouts,
carrying off crops, etc TWENTY miles
west Of Guthrie a tornado DESTROYED
the house of William Toby and fatally
injured him. The Mitchell post Office
was demolished and the postmaster and
his wife were found dead At Krebs
five people were reporte1 killed.
AN accident occurred on the Wvo-
mug FdA4cy bFdCtAOu lIuS near W likes
barre, Pa, in which one woman was
killed and two women and boy were
seriously injured. The car jumped the
track and turned over. pinioning the
four passengers under the wreck
LADY HENRY SOMERSET, president of
the W. C. T. U. of Great Britain, has
sent a cablegram to the United States
of emigration. saying
that she would be responsible for the
from the United States of the
Armenian refu sees arriving by the
steamers OLDHAM and California should
the said refugees become pualic
charges
NEAR Water Valley, Miss, freight
train jumped the track and II cars
were split into kindiing wood No
one was hurt
THE semi-annual meeting of the
bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
church began in Pitts urgh, Pa. on
the 2sth. The business was merely
routine.
IN Lincoln county, W. Va, Ira saw
yer went coon hunting with some COM
nan ;OuS erOt Sc M 90 cd rnaIa a., g.