The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-04-30
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The government of Roumania has
prohibited the entry of Jews into that
country.
Prof. G.. W. Lee. one of the best
known educators of Coles county, H.,
died at Charleston.
Maher and Sharkey have been
matched to fight in New York the lat
ter part of May for purse of $4,000.
lsasc \. Housed. Trenton IN. j.
merchant, was found dead at his sons
grave in an attitude of supplication.
Buffalo gnats are invading McCracken
county, KY, and other localities, and
are killing horses and cattle in large
numbers.
Great care is being observed in per-
hitting visitors on board the Spanish
warship Maria Teresa in New York
harbor.
A carefully-planned expedition left
for Cuba from near Sea Isle City, n.
j., with big supply of arms and am
munition.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
post office at Lewisburg. W. Va, and
secured between 5000 and $500 in stamps
and money.
The Texas Legislature has appropri-
| ated $4,000 for the purpose of making
additions to the San Antonio asylum
for the insane.
Members of congress. cabinet officers
and supreme court justices are among
streets on bicycles.
An explosion in the London under
ground railway at Aldersgate station
demolished the station and coach, and
manned ten persons
Gov. Jones convened the Arkansas
Legislature in extraordinary session.
His message urges the prompt creation
of a railroad commission.
William Lutz, ~ years of age, and
one of the early settlers of Clay county,
Ind, was ground to death under the
wheels of a train west of Brazil.
An extensive counterfeiting plant
was unearthed near Benton Harbor,
Mich, which resulted in find of
bushel-basket of dies, molds and acids.
lsidor Weber shot his four-year-old
daughter, Josie, in New York city, kill
same weapon, falling dead beside his
child.
The Ohio medical law has been de-
clared constitutional in the lower
courts. 1t requires physicians to regis
ter and certificates based upon practice
or examination.
James III. Sheldon, a banker and
large cattle-raiser of Lodi, H., is be-
lieved to have committed suicide at
LOSSES by floods.
A London dispatch says that no hui
initiation is to be spared the unhappy
Greeks. The only mercy they will re-
ceive will be such as the infatuated
Turks may grant.
The body of William II. Lang, of Fort
Wayne, who lost his life in the Halle
ton Qnd.) disaster March 10, was found
Monday, buried in the sand near the
scene of the wreck.
A queer complication in burglaries
has developed at Washington, Police
man James E. Pierce, of the metropoli-
tan force, having been arrested for rob-
bling two houses on his beat
James Kennedy, 81 years old, COM
mitted suicide at his home in st. Louis
by hanging. When found by Mrs.
Kennedy the body was dangling at the
end of clothesline from transom.
Charles Clyburn, alias Carl Thomas,
the murderer of S. w. Rawlins, depu-
ty sheriff of Clark county, Ark, was
captured on Catfish island, sevea miles
up the Missouri river from st. Charles.
Mo.
James G. Richardson, who was a can
didate for mayor of Alton, ILL.,, at the
recent city election, died at his home
very suddenly, Monday, with pneu-
monia. He had been i'll but three
days.
A rich gold discovery has just been
made in the Santa Catarina range of
noun tains, Mexico. The find has
created great stir among mining men.
This is rich silver section, and the
discovery of gold is surprise.
William Smith, of Mount Carmel, Ill,
married, took ten grains of morphine
with suicidal intent. He will die. He
belongs to one of the leading families,
but in the past few years has squan-
dered several thousand dollars in dis
sipation.
Peter Schlichter. an old and we'll
known citizen of Mascoutah, ILL.,, and a
veteran of the civil war, shot himself
with shotgun near his home. 1t APP
pears that he pulled the trigger with
crooked stick, and the full charge
| landed just below the heart.
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