The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-11


N on the Sd. caused some excitement
IN that hosiery AL OF the guess
were aroused ami badly scared. bus re-
turned to bed after it was learned that
there was no danger
TIE Minnesota state game war zen
seized aud declared con hseated To IA
state OF Minnesota 30 tons OF venisor
claimed as icing illegally shipped out
OF the state from ST. Paul The fines
for the alleged Illegal transportation
Of the game viii reach somewhere in
the neighbOrhood OF $4,000 or s50.uOl
A MISPLACED switch at Justin. Tex.
caused the wreck OF freight train and
the deaths OF a brakeman and fireman
and the probable death of the engineer.
WHITEcAPs fioVged and warned
number of ne roes 70 leave the neivh.
borhOod of Reel Foot lake in Tennessee
on account % considerable stealing 90
ing on. One negro was so badly beateu
that he will likely die
The buOouic plague which has been
prevalent among the natives at Bonn
az, with fatal effect in a majority OF
cases, has spread to the Europeans,
ease.
ARCHIE STEVENS. infant son of Mrs
Marson stevens. of Farmingdale. l.,
was burned 10 death. The little fel.
low. with two other children. was left
alone a short time and, while PLAYING
with the fire, his clothes were igni,e1.
FRED BEH1E. who murdered his wife
and cuild on Easter Sunday, was exc
cuted at McLeaus boro H. on the Sd.
LETTER of appreciation was sent
to Maj Mckinley Uv the corresponding
secretary OF the National W. C 7. g.
concerning the total abstinence princi
piles which the major is said to have
maintained for many years and a. K
the belief entertained that intoxicatiu.
liquors will De excluded from the white
house during his administration.
THE courthouse of Ran iolph county,
Ala. situated at Wedowee. was burned
to the ground, with all of its records
for the past so years
Two men were killed at fire at At
lantie City, y. J.. which DESTROYED g
church valued at So 600 and another
man was reported MISSING and wa.
thought to lie buried beneath the walls
of the church.
THE official footing of the presi
Dental vote in South Dakota had no,
been made on the 81, but the canvass
on counties was completed. The un.
official vote was as follows: Mckinley,
il.042; Bryan. Al, "a: lowering, $50
THE Potomac river near Washington
has been lined with torpedoes for the
protection of the national capital.
HIRAM JEPPEsoS, James Christian
son. ST.. and his son James were buried
in sn owsiide on the Sd in Logan can
yon, Utah. Jeppeson finally extricate
himself. but the father aud son were
both killed.
KID LAvIGSE. of Saginaw. Mien.
and Charles Mckeever. of Philadelphia.
have been matched to fight 20 rourd.
for purse of So, 500 on December 3 a
New York. The men are to weigh il
at 40 pounds.
SPECIAL. to the New York Herald
from ''uimaro Camaguey reported tina
Maj Dana Osgood, the noted Cornell
university half back football player.
who commanded a Gu ban battery dur
ing the recent siege OF the town o.
Guimaro, was killed in battle.
IT was discovered at Des Moines. Ia
that a lar2e part of the original record.
relating to the work of the state sen
ate last winter, in the direction of re
visiug the code of the state. cannot b,
found Secretary Of State Mcfarland
who made the discovery, admits tina,
the work of the senate during nearly
all of the last session has been sacri
feed.
IN fury of insanity Henry l. Bower,
of De kalb, Ill. killed his wife and at.
tempted to kiln his daughter aud
mother-in-law. He then cut his throat
with butcher knife and died 10 a few
minutes.
WILLIAM BARRY aud his brother
farmers near Harvard. Ill. in the ab
sence OF their mother, resolved 10 have
-four gravy for dinner and they fount
saucer that contained -four and used
II, not knowing that strychnine hac
been mixed with it to kill rats Tive
hired men and nephew Joined then
at dinner and all FIVE shortly after
wards were taken sick and three viii
probably die.
Two children were cremated al
North Alton. Ill They had been
locked in the house alone and PLAYED
with the fire and the house was burned
down.
ROBERT GEORGE started down the
hill at Co.um oia, Tex. to the ferry
with load of corn when the team toos
fright and plunged into the lev water
and al disappeared
Mr. JOHN w. STARKE. Of Richmond
Va. who has been commissioned
lieutenant by the CUBAN revolutionists.
was recently enlisting men for Cute
uuon the condition that congress reg.
ognized the Oelligerency of the insur.
gents.
THE three-year-old daughter Of
Henry Guthrie, residing near CeruIear
Springs, Ky, was burned to death
her clothing having caught fire from
an omen gate.
JACK hvRRHARDT, of New Orleans
knocked Billy Ernst. of BROOKLYN. ont
in the Goth round OF a 2O-ronnd fgh. Al
Albany. y. Y, on the lst after cleve,