The Forrest City times., 1897-01-29

| kreStle near Clarion, Pa, killing the engineer. fireman and mail clerk and Injuring about i5 others.
 Ar French Lick Springs. Ind. Sam acl Kirby and his wife were discovered murdered in their house. They had evidently been killed with an ax and there were signs of an awful struggle. Bloodhounds were put on two tell-tale l tracks in the snow and the dogs struck n trail with posse of men following z | them.
 GEN. GEORGE II. THOMAS died at Ok lahoma City, Ok. on the 23d of car buncle. aged so years. He served with President-elect Mckinley during the war and had large interests in the ter l ritory.
 TIE big stable of Tracy X Williams, the famous horsemens headquarters at ! Lexington. Ky, was burned on the night of the 23d. There were 100 thor | oughbred trotters and runners in the stable. but all were rescued. X PASSENGER train was wrecked on the Cincinnati Southern railway near Lemo. Tenn. \ rock had fallen on the track, which caused the engine to crash down an cmbankmeut. The mail ear was demolished and the ex- press and baggage cars badly damaged. The engineer and firemen were dan gerouslv hurt and several passengers more or less injured.
 MAYOR SWIFT. of Chicago. has signed the ordinance prohibiting women from wearing high hats in theaters. A LOCOMOTIVE on the santa Fe rail- road collided with hand car at Sealy, Tex. and two men were killed and an- other fatally injured.
 GEORGE DIXON. champion feather weight pugilist of the world defeated Australian Billy Murphy. of Cincin- nati.<in six rounds at the Broadway Athletic club at New York on the a2d TIE white intruders in the territory of the five civilized tribes must go. Sec retary Francis having officially signed an order on the a2d that all persons who are not on the citizen rolls of the five tribes will be unceremoniously busted.
 TIE deaths from the bubonic plague at Bombay for the week ended the 2tst numbered 410.
 X REAR-END collision occurred on the 22d between two freight trains at i Benchley on the Texas Central. wreck | ing ten cars, a caboose and locomo- l tive. and seriously injuring Engineer l Higgins. Fireman Stuart and Brake man ]. l.. Robinson.
 1 A FAMINE exists in Rhodesia, Africa. and the natives were reported digging mp and eating cattle which had been buried six months ago because they l had died from the rinderpest. As a consequence terrible mortality prevails l among the natives.
 THE business failures in the United States for the week ended the 22d ac- cording to Bradstreets report, were 52o. being Ss more than in the corre- I spending week last year.
 | TIE Bradshaw block at Waxahachie Tex. was destroyed by fire. The block and stocks were insured for s25. OO0 | The loss will reach S65, ,OOO GEN. WYMAN recently received tel egram from Havana stating that there were 1000 cases of smallpox among the residents of that city.
 Ross SHERMAN and two companions, all three drunk became noisy on a | Chicago cable car the other night and when requested to subside. sherman drew big knife and began slashing at the passengers indiscriminately Three women tainted and Edward Nugent, who grappled with sherman. was bad ly cut in the hand.
 RUSSIA fears that the bubonic pla que now raging in India will reach her country and the newspapers are call ing for every precaution to be taken to prevent it. One newspaper said that the world should unite to form cor don around the devastated plague dis tricts.
 THE trial of Edward !. Ivory. the al- legged dynamite conspirator, came to a sudden conclusion in London, the government withdrawing from the prosecution. Ivory was discharged.
 MOB of 200 men broke into the jail at Amite City. La. early on the morn ing of the 20th and took out three ne- gro murderers-John Johnson, Archie Joiner and Gus Williams The mob took them to the woods and hanged them and riddled the bodies with bull lcf It was at first proposed to burn 1 vented by the leaders.
 ENGINEER C. W. LAMB. of Keokuk. and Brakeman Frank Iafferty, of Eddyville, quarreled while their train was at Ottumwa. Ia.. on the goth, and Lafferty gave Lamb probably fatal blow with a coupling pin. Lafferty escaped. The two were members of d Rock Island passenger crew.
 RIcHFIELD CENTER, little village near Toledo. O., was in the midst of d genuine witchcraft scare on the 20th The community is composed principally of Germans. who were thoroughly con vinced that they were being made the victims of some witch or other agency of his satanic majesty, families be- ing afflicted wieh peculiar malady. Physicians could not diagnose the malady, but assured the patients that it was due possibly to an unsanitary condition of the village.
 JAMES G. PRIrcHARp was reelected