The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-10-30
A NOR OF 100 men ds.roved all the


az proach $50, 600 and is fairly covered
by insurance.
/ GUSTAV PABsT. son of the wealthy
( brewer of Milwaukee. has been grant
ed a divorce from Margaret Mather
Pabst. the actress The ground al
Legged was cruel and inhuman treat
ment.
WHILE Andrew J. Sprute with his
wife and five children were boating on
Smiths lake at Denver, Col, on the
25th, the boat was by some means
overturned and Mrs. Sprute and her
five children were drowned.
A NEGRO boy, IA years old, while at
tempting to get on a moving train at
Purcell, ]. T.. to steal ride TO Ard
more fell beneath the wheels and was
horribly mangled, death ensuing in
stantly.
THE National Spiritualist association,
at their concluding session in Washing
ton, adopted a recommendation pro-
viding that the first Sunday before No
vember 20, the anniversary of modern
spiritualism, be known as national day
to spiritualism, and that societies take
eft of the cause.
JOSEPH HETTLER walked into black
smith shop at San Antonio, Tex,
where he was employed and shot a fell
low-worltman, inficting "a mortal
wound, and then fired a bullet into his
own brain. He was believed to have
been insane.
THE annual financial statement Of
Canada for the year ended June 30,
1896, was made public on the ed. 1t
showed a deficit for the year of $685.
4l3 and an increase in the public debt
of S.. 53s. 331. The net public debt now
aggregates S25S, SOS, 3O4.
THE steamer I. p. feathers, belong
ing to the Interstate TRANSPORTATION
Co., sank two miles above Natchez,
Miss, with big load. In sinking she
settled up to her boiler deck and it
was thought she could be saved. The
boat was valued at $40, 900 and was in
sured for SOC, 900. No lives were lost,
but most of the passengers lost their
belongings.
ACCORDING to Bradstreet's there were
292 business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 23d, be-
ing 80 more than in the corresponding
week last year.
DAN CREEDoN, of Australia, and
Henry Baker, of Chicago, fought 20
round bout at .Maspeth, L. l., on the
ed. The referee decided in favor of
Creedon.
THE town of Kuroff. in Russian
al nd al,
by fire and 1900 persons made home
less.
THE Bank of England's rate of dis
count was advanced from two per cent.
to four per cent on the 22d.
ALMOST the entire business portion
of Lancaster, n. Y, was burned on the
2lst.
Tom COOPER, of Detroit, Mich,
smash ed a bicycle record at Memphis,
Tenn, on the ed. He lowered the
worlds unraced quarter mile record
one-fifth of a second, making it in
26 25 seconds.
BY gasoline explosion at Peoria,
ILL.,, Mrs. James Vaughan and her
three-year old child were fatally
burned and the house set on fire.
A NEGRO who had killed white man
was hanged by a posse near Sunny
side, Miss, recently The negroes aft
erwards challenged the whites to a
fight and a number left Sunnyside for
the scene and there was every prospect
of a riot taking place.
IT was alleged at New York that
there was gigantic deal in wheat, the
crop being cornered by western syn
dictate representing $3.50, 600, 600 of cap
ital, and that those interested had al
ready made fortunes on the rise in the
price of the cereal.
JOHN GLENN a miner, was caught be-
meath fall of rock in the mines near
South McAlester |. T.. on the ed. His
back and neck were broken, causing
death instantly.
A DROUGHT has occurred in the north
ern part of South Australia, as "A re-
suit of which the harvest is total
failure and numbers of farmers are
destitute.
The national convention of musi-
clans, in session at Indianapolis Ind,
effected a complete affiliation with the
American Federation of Labor Owen
:" uiiCis VI OF. LOUIS, WIS electeu preSl-
dent
SUPERINTENDENT RUSH, in charge Of
the publication of the naval war rec
ords at Washington, in his annual re-
port stated the second and third VOL
ume had been pu blished and the fourth
was in the hands of the printer
GEORGE FRAZIER and wife, colored,
were crossing the railroad track near
Lexington, KY. when a train struck
their vehicle. The horse was cut in
two and Frazier and his wife killed.
MRS SHELBY HENDERSON, of Decatur,
Ind, became suddenly insane and sat
! urated bed with coal oil and attempt
ed to burn her two-year-old child on it.
but her husband rescued it. She next
threw the child into the cistern. but il
was saved. The crazy woman then ran
through the streets in scantily-attired
condition.
AT fire at Brooklyn on the ED in a
factory situated on Seventh street. in
which was stored a large quantity of
paints, oils and other inflammable ma
terials, one fireman was burned to
death, several others were injured and
prOperty DESTROYED To tho valua ~