The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25

GENERAL NEWS
SOME ''speak-easy' whisky did some
awful work in the Benwood oil field in
Monroe county, o., on the l9th. 30 far
as can be ascertained l6 men imbibed
of it and three have died. another was
diving. three more had gone crazy and
nine others were dangerously sick.
ONE of the powder houses of the
Winchester Repeating Arms Co. at
New Haven. Conn. was blown to
pieces by an explosion. Fortunately
no one was injured.
Ell HARALDo, a Spanish newspaper at
Madrid, asserted that the minister of
war was preparing numerous pam
phlets on the geography, topography
and military condition of the United
States to distribute to the chief officers
of the Spanish army.
SEVERAL bombs. secretly msnufac-
tured by druggist at Rome, exploded
on the night of the 10Th SCATTERING
two stories of his house and killing five
persons and injuring six others.
THE football game between the Car
Isle Indians and the university of Wis
consin at Chicago on the 10th by cleo
trio light drew a crowd of over io.o00
people. The Indians won by a score
of Is TO g.
Ex-CoSGREssNAN ROSWELL g. HoRR
died at Plainfield. n. j.. on the 18th of
bronchitis and Bright's disease. aged &C.
FIVE miners were instantly killed in
the Virginius shaft at ouray. Col. on
the 18th. They were repairing tim
bers, when the cage fell, carrying them
with il To the l. 400 feet level
FIVE persons were recently drowned
in the nsig hborhood of ST. Johns, Que,
through going on weak ice.
THE NewYork Evening World on the
18th said that GOO men would be dis
charged from the Brooklyn navy yard
within few days. This was because
the next appropriation bin would not
be available until June, 1897. and the
recent appropriation of g. 600. 900 had
dwindled down to $1,000
FAILURES for the week ended the
18th (Dun's report) were 367 in the
United States. against 81 last year,
and AZ in Canada, against 81 last year
GEORGE E. LEMON died at Coronado
Beach, Cal He was publ sher of the
National Tribune at Washington. pa
per devoted 10 the interests OF pension.
ers.
THE Illinois labor orga nizations have
been called on to send delegates to a
conference at CHICAGO on Decem Der 20
to consider the question of convict
la Dor.
THE national convention of the
United Mine Workers has been called
to meet at Columbus, O., on January
u. 1897.
THE Galveston (Texl county court
house was recently partly destroyed by
fire, but it was believed that the rec
erds were saved.
The big prize in the Panama lottery.
at Paris, amounting TO Sl00 600, has
been won by Marseilles market
woman, the widow Boissiere
THE recent annual charity ball by
the Young Mems Hebrew association
in Chicago yielded over s25, 600
TWENTY EIGHT of the anarchists i'm
plicated in the throwing OF a bomb in
the religious procession at Barcelona
on June :, whereby six persons were
killed and so others injured, have been
sentenced to death and 50 others TO
penal servitude.
THERE was much excitement around
Langston and Perkins, Ok. on the nth
over the murder of Freeman Morrow
and his daughter. white men wanting
10 lynch the alleged negro murderer
q d negroes declaring that there should
be no lynching.
ALEXANDER Hermann. the famous
magician. died on the 18th in his pri-
vate car near Salamanca. n Y. while
on his way TO Bradford Death was
caused by heart disease
The supreme court of Nebraska has
declared that the payment hy STATE
Auditor Moore of SAC 600 in warrants
for sugar hounties TO the Oxnard COM
pany WAS illegal
HENRY ku.LRNs, under death SEN
tence in the Jail at AlexauGr a. La,
set he place on fire ami out for its
timely discovery he and A. o1her pris-
oners would have been burned
The deep water convention assem-
bled at Fort Smith, Ark. on the 18th
and memorials will be presented TO the
government asking for the dredging of
channel from Sabine pass to the
Neches river and to improve the Ar
kansas river from Wichita, Kan. to its
mouth.
MAIRED HATFIELD, relative of the
notorious Hatfields of Kentucky and
West Virginia. was hanged at Sneed-
vile. Tenn, on the 10TH for numbering
Jonas Trail, = dealer in Illicit whisky
DISPATCH from Canton, o.. on the
10th said that Senator Sherman would
not be member of the cabinet but
would remaic in the senate.