The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-11
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The frat bill passed by the house
provides for the use of private postal
cards.
Mark Hanna says hat he has moth
ing to do with making Mr.. McKinley's
ca binet.
Senator Cullom has given notice that
he will speak upon Cuban affairs
Thursday.
George +. Nelson has not yet been
admitted as delegate of congress from
Indian territory.
Minister Hatch of Hawaii denies the
report that treaty of annexation is
under consideration by Secretary Oh
ney.
News from Havana says that patrols
are In possession of the streets, and
people are not allowed to assemble
anywhere.
zen. Curtis, congressman from the
Iwenty-second New York district. was
robbed of his purse by a Washington
pickpocket.
The bondsmen of Postmaster Nc
Gown have taken charge of the Office
at Emporia, Kas. A shortage of about
$3.50 was found.
The mem beers of the Missouri delega.
tion IN congress are red hot" over the
proposition TO abandon jefferson bar
racks as a military post.
The Ohio state board of pardons re-
fused to make accommodation for
clemency in the case of Tierney, the
Erie county murderer. He must hang
December IL
Unofficial dispatches received at
Madrid from Manila announce a ter.
rible massacre of 60 insurgent prison
ers on the island of Luzon, one of the
Philippine group.
A dispatch from Blackwell, Okla,
says that the body of Bill Radeler.
alias Dynamite Dick" the outlaw
who was killed near that place last
Friday was thoroughly identified.
Judge Buchwalter, of the Ohio court
OF common pleas, gave default judg.
ment to Irwin, Green & CO., brokers OF
Chicago, against E. l.. Harper, OF
Fidelity bank fame, for S67l, 500 60.
Dr. John Summerfield Conrad. a
noted specialist on insanity, died al
the home of his brother at Occoauan.
Va. He was a native of Virginia, ano
a graduate of Columbia university.
The Spaniards both in Havana and
Madrid are highly elated over a report
that Antonio Maceo, the insurgent
leader, and son of Gomez, have been
killed in a skirmish just outside Ha.
vana.
Joseph Cornell, former treasurer OF
the Journeymen Stone Cutters asso.
citation of New York, has obtained a
verdict of $500 against the associa tior
under the statute making boycotting
illegal.
There is a keen feeling of disap-
pointment in the City of Mexico that
President Cleveland could not see his
way to recognize the bclligerency of
the Cubans, for Mexican sympathy is
undoub tedly with them.
j. Pierpont Morgan has bought Iona
island, on the west side of the hudson
river near Peekskill. and it is said that
he intends to erect there casino for
the use of poor families of New York
city during the summer.
Miss Maggie Hamilton, who for two
years has been an inmate to dance
halls at Spokane, Wash, has been no.
titled that through the death of an
uncle at San Francisco, she would in
herit fortune of S47, 900
The most aged married couple in
Ohio, and probably the oldest in the
United States, is Philip Hines, agec
LOG years, and his wife, Rebekah
Hines, aged 90, of Delaware county.
They have been married rs years.
1t was believed that no loss of life
resulted from the recent storm In
South Dakota, but belated reports
from remote sections show that six.
and possibly eight, persons persisted in
that state during or as the result OF
the terrible storm.
David Pence dropped dead of heart
disease at Sims, Ind. Mr.. Pence was
born in New York in 1906, and was
among the oldest iuha bitants of north
ern Indiana. He cleared the farm on
which ne settled in 1929, and on which
he ever since resided.
n inONclucut mas recently Deen In
augurated among prominent ex-con-
federates looking to the erection at
Richmo nj, Va, of a handsome monu.
ment in honor of jefferson Davis,
whose last resting place has never
been properly marked.
The course of the president in send
ing Secretary Olney's analysis of the
Cuban situation to congress with the
message is interpreted as meaning that
Mr.. Cleveland wishes the country tc
see there is justification for more
speedy action than his own word;
might indicate.
Gov. Altgeld of Illinois has commut
ed the life sentence of Henry Schwartz
who, together with Newton Watt, was
convicted in 1856 of numbering Expires,
Messenger Kellogg Nichols on the
Chicago, Rock Island Il Pacific rail.
road, and pundering his ear. Schwartz
will be released next spring