The Forrest City herald., 1896-04-11

LETTERS received from the Cansdian
boundary report the death in Rainy
river of Col. A. +. Naff. United States
deputy marshal, and an ent;rs party
OF explorers, in all probably eight men.
They were on their way to investigate
reports of the timber stealing by Cana
dians along the boundary and were
ascending the river in sleighs and
broke through the ice.
GEoRaE L. GARD, chief of the South
.ern Pacific railway detective service,
has given publicity, according to .
San Francisco paper of the 9th, to .
plot 10 hold up the vanderbilt-D -Depew
special train, now on the Pacific coast,
and abduct Cornelius Vanderbilt at
some point in the San Joaquin valley.
The railroad officials had put armed
guards on the train and were going to
keep them on until tho Vanderbilt
party had passed tho Sierras
The boiler in Watson Bros hoop
and stave mills at Ridgetown, Ont, ex-
ploded on the 9th, wrecking the luild-
ing and causing the death of two men
at least and the injury of several others
@n1.EE Italian guests at n hotel at
Pittsburgh, Pa, were found dead In
their room shortly after noon on the
9Th They had been suifocatcd by gas
FIRE at the Washburn and Moen
plant at Quinsigamond, Mass, caused
loss OF Sl5O,0O0. Two hundred men
will be thrown out OF work by IT.
s. B. ARCHER of New York, secrc-
tary of the National Tariff Commis-
sion league, consulted Detroit conven-
ton promoters on the 9Th regarding
holding the national convention. The
secretary predicted that at least 1000
advocates of the removal OF the tariff
question from politics would attend
the convention. OF upwards of 200
commercial bodies in the United States
all but two had appointed delegates.
CARDINAL GIBBONS on the 5th at
baltimore, Nd, gavo out lengthy
appeal for arbitration instead OF war,
signed by himself and Cardinals
Vaughan, of Westminster, and Logue,
of Ireland. The document was there
suit OF a correspondence upon the SUBJ
ject between Cardinal Gibbons and his
colleagues whose names arc affixed to
the appeal, and was issued on Easter
Sunday because of tho appropriate
ness Of the day.
A TERRIBLE fire has occurred at
Manila, the capital of the Philippine
islands, by which 1000 houses were de-
stroyed and 10000 people loft homeless.
A DISPATCH to the New York World
on the 5th stated that England had
concluded treaty of alliance with
Spain.
FIRE at Saratoga, N. Y, on the Sd
destroyed the Putnam music hall,
Reeves paint store and Scanlans print
ing office. Loss. $4,000
REGISTERS and receivers of land Of
fees at Croolsston and Duluth, Mimi,
have been notified in circular pro-
mulgatod by the general land office
that ut nine, o'clock Friday morning.
May - ncxtAfs the hour OF opening
their Offices for entries Of Red Lake
Indian reservation landa These lands
will be subject to the disposal Of actual
settlers only under the homestead law.
Each settler is to pay sl.a5 per acre in
five annual installments.
FIVE persons were overcome by coal
gas In Capt c. Johnson's house at Parls-
willie, l.. J., recently and Margaret Con-
nors will die as the result OF inhalation
Of the fumes The others were report.
ed not out Of danger. A defective tiuo |
was supposed to have caused the acci'
dent. N...r.
II. II HOLMES, the convicted MUIR
dcrer OF Philadelphia, has made n con-
fession in which no tells how and why |
he put to death no less than 20 men,
women and children. lIc writes as
calmly and rcmorselessly Us hc mur-
dercd, ncgcetlng no detail. 1t was
well known that Holmes put II per.
sons out OF the world.
EARLY on the morning of tho 3d
boiler exploded ut one of the Forest
Oil Co.'S wells on the Thornburg farm
in Robinson, few miles from Pitts
burgb, Pa, and Engineer Thomas
was blown 100 feet and both arms and
both legs were broken. lie also ro-
ceived terrible cash In the abdomen
and was badly scalded. lIc will die.
SHERIFF W. O. GwyNSE was killed
and John +, Madden fatally wounded
Mt Concord Ga, In an attempt to cap
ture tho Delk gang OF outlaws The
desperadoes got away in tho dark, but
two posses were reported as being after
them and it was said the outlaws
would be lynched II caught.
A YOUNG negro, IS years old, was
taken from Jail ut Tupclo, 90 miles
from Memphis. Tenn, carly on the
morning OF the ad by mob and
lynched in front of the courthouse.
The mob went to the shorff's house,
overpowered him with shotguns,
marched him to tho Jail and forced
him to open 1t. The men wore masks.
The prisoner made an assault on q
white lady near Plnntersvillc q short