The Forrest City times., 1897-12-24

GRAND FORKS, N. D., suffered from c destructive fire. with losses aggregat- ing nearly s1. 000 0O0 on the 17th. Three lives are supposed to have been lost. THE Cuban autonomy programme is
 the will, not of the Spanish people, but of Senor Sagasta, which has not had
 the approval of the oortes, and which
 Sagasta is afraid will not ue indorsed,
 but rejected by that body when it comes
 up for legislation.
 POLICEMAN WILLIAM RUSSELL, of Chi
 cago, shot and killed a robber on the
 night of the l7th, and half an hour
 later he was called up by telephone
 and promoted by Chief Ripley to ser
 geantcy.
 JOHN J. IlANRAHAN and Patrick Fer
 ris, election judges in the Seventeenth ward of Chicago. were convicted, on
 the l7th, of falsifying election returns
 at the last aldermanic election.
 SAMUEL $. DUSHAM, special agent of
 the department of labor in Alaska, who
 started for the Klondilxe region several
 months ago, IS missing, and the fear is
 entertained that he has been lost in the
 northern wilds.
 lN an explosion aboard the British
 steamer Southern Cross, from Buenos
 Ayres for Liverpool, which arrived at
 Madeira, on the 19th. several persons | were killed or wounded. 0N the 18th the associated banks of
 New York held sl5, 72j,05o in excess
 of the requirement. of the 25-per-cent
 rule.
 EXPERIENCED men dragged the Sus- quehanna river at Harrisburg, Pa, all day, on the 18th, for the body of Rev.
 $. 5. Spearriel, who, it was thought, either committed suicide or was mur-
 dered and thrown into the river
 They found nothing whatever, owing
 to the murky condition of the high
 water.
 TIE great jewelry establishment of | Mermod & Jaccard, of St. Louis, was
 completely destroyed by fire, on the 18th, causing loss variously estimated | at from S250 00J to S500, ,00J, and said to | have been fully covered by insurance. SIR FRANK LOCKWOOD, liberal mem-
 Der of the British parliament for York city since 1885, died in London on the l 18th.
 As result of an explosion of crude | oil vapor in one of the boilers at the
 works of the Kansas City (Mo) Gas | Co.,, on the goth, Frank Connor was so | badly burned that he will probably | die. James Murphy, fireman. and James Miller, steam filter. were also | seriously burned. Both will recover. THE reported robbery of some S3, 900 | in Mexican money from the steamer
 City of Washington during her last
 trip from Vera Cruz to New York was
 confirmed on the 2Jth. The City of
 Washington belongs to the New York X Cuba Mail Steamship Co. PETER H. MCMAHON, of Albany, N. Y., crazed by cigarette smoking, con-
 mitted suicide at Syracuse on the 20th.
 McMahon stood in front of mirror
 and fired bullet through his heart lie was about 20 years old. ONE person was probably fatally hurt and six others were more or less injured in the outskirts of Philadel- phia, on the 20th in a collision on the Peterborough, Wissahickon S Mana yunk electric road.
 TIE joint conven ton of miners and operators met in Pittsburgh, Pa. on the 21st, to fix mining rate for the year 1898. There was large attend ance.
 TIE three windowgass factories at Alexandria, Ind, will resume. opera tions January 1, giving employment to 1,20o men.
 THE funeral of Washington Hesing. of Chicago, took place on the 22d.