The Forrest City times., 1896-12-18
EpwAnp HALE, of county Antrim, |

EDwARD HALE, of county Antrim,
Ireland, won the six days bicycle
championship of the world in the race
at New York. He made l.9l0 miles and
laps. winning purse If 81, 500. Rec
was second, with ] So miles and
laps, nurse $500, and Beading third,
with i SIS miles and 3 laps, purse s5a0.
Twenty eight men started in the race
and 5 rode at the finish.
A WHOLESALE raid of downtown pool
rooms at Chicago was made on the l2th
and Upward of 1000 prisoners were
taken 1" the central station.
GEORGE ISAAC, a scientist at Berlin,
WAS exprr'menting with acetvline Gas
and he and three assistants were blown
to atoms.
THE boundary line between Missouri
and Iowa was 10 be settled bv the fed.
eral supreme court, il was reported, by
formal decree sustaining the conten-
ton of Missouri and Mercer county,
Mo, will acquire "a slice of territory
heretofore claimed by Decatur county,
la.
A SPECIAL from Fort Smith, Ark,
stated that the Choctaw delegates had
agreed with the Dawes commission for
the allotment of lands and abolition of
tribal government in eight years.
Townsites will be set apart and sold
and the balance OF the land equally di-
videi among citizens.
THE Cleveland, o., delegates to the
annual convention of the American
Federation of Labor w IL use their in
fin a,1 Jof. a..
election of the president, Samuel Com
pers The cause given is that Mr..
Gompers is too conservative, whereas
occasions often arise calling for az
gressive actions
MARSHALL j. MILLER was hanged at
the state prison at San Quentin, Cal,
on the 18th for the murder of Joseph
Pierre.
AN old-time feud between TAYLOR
Miller and George Jacks. farmers liv-
ing in McMinn county, Tenn. had a
tragic sequel by the pair meeting and
quarreling, when Miller drew a pistol,
but before he could use it Jacks had
cut him almost to pieces with pocket
knife.
THE failures for the week ended the
18th (Dun's report were $50 in the
United States, against 333 last year,
and 43 in Canada. against 81 last year.
CoTLIERY was flooded at Abernant,
in the south of Wales, and 800 men who
were in the mines had race for the
lives. Six of them were drowned.
j. X. EMMETT, the actor, has been
granted a divorce at New York from
his wife, whom he married in 1894
THE plant of the Brown Bros To-
bacco Co. at Winston, N. c.. was de-
stroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $780,
900, with $50, 600 insurance.
REV. I. DEWITT TALMAeE has de-
MED the report of his engagement to
marry Miss Susie Mangan, of Sing
Sing, n Y.
NEW comet was discovered on the
sth by c. d. Perrine, of the Lick OBJ
servatory in California. 1t is in the
constellation of Pisces.
THE bubonic plague was reported as
spreading rapidly in Bonn bay and on
the Sth there were So new cases and So
deaths
DR.. ZERTCcHA, the personal physi-
clan of Antonio Maceo, surrendered TO
the Spanish commander at San Felipe.
Cuba. The doctor confirmed the report
of Maceo's death and described the
wounds received by the insurgent chief.
TIE Madrid newspapers were greatly
excited over the references to Cuba in
the presidents letter and declared that
the Intervention of the United States
would be un earably humiliating.
WHISKY jointist i'm Pom totic county,
Chickasaw nation, was about to leave
the country, when he was attacked by
two men for the purpose of rob berry.
The jointists killed them both and
made his escape.
MONMOUTH, Ill.,, has passed curfew
ordinance prohibiting children under
Is years old from being on the streets
after eight o'clock in the winter and
nine in the summer
DISPATCH from Boise. Ida, of the
18th stated hat the supreme court had
handed down an opinion, in which it
was held that the equal suffrage
amendment voted on a the recent cleo
tion in Idaho had been adopted and
hereafter women will vote in that state.
BRAKEMAN SCHoGLE put a tramp off
train of the Chicago & Erie at Gallon.
o., and was shot dead Officers were
trying to trail the murderer by blood
hounds
Col. KowALsKI, the legal repre- Sc Ia
tive of Bob Fitzsimmons, the puriiist.
has brought suit against Tom Sharkev
at ) n Francisco to recover the $40. 900
purse for the recent fight Col. Ko-
wal>ki said there was a consp racv to
rob FiizSmmons of the $4,000 aud the
evidence in his possession 10 prove it
was overwhelming.
TERRIBLE disaster occurred at
Here's, Spain, through a building coll
lapsing and burying IS persons. E even
dead bodies were taken out of the
wreckage, besides So lersons seriously
injured. The work TO recover the 9TH
ers buried was going on as rapidly as
possible.
AS result of rejected lovers in
sane attempt at Schuyler, Neb., to
murder his sweetheart and extermi-
nate her family, Deidriclx Closing is
dead, his mother and father, brother
and sister are dangerously wounded
br a c1fr hhiuor