The Forrest City times., 1897-01-29
GENERAL NEWS.

THE house of William Croyle at Bed ford, Pa, was destroyed by fire and Mrs. Croyle and two children were burned to death. Another child was so badly burned that it will die.
 AIARGE boiler in the Florida South ern railway shops at Palatka exploded with terrific force. The engineers head was blown off and carpenter was fatally injured and another man badly hurt. The shops were wrecked and every building in the city shaken to its foundation.
 THE story published recently in San Francisco paper to the effect that the island of St. John, in the South sea, was inhabited solely by women who were pining for husbands. has borne fruit in the incorporation of the United Brotherhood of South Sea Islanders. Over 30 men have subscribed to the capital stock.
 TIE blaming mill and lumber of the Colorado Lumber Co. at Hartshorne, I. T., has been destroyed by fire.
 A RIOT was precipitated at Urbana, H.. on the night of the 2lst by the sophomores of the university of Hi nois attempting to break up the annual sociable of the freshmen. The sopho- mores were finally squelched by the fire department playing an icy cold stream of water upon them and then the police arrested them.
 MINGo JUNCTION, near Steubenvillc, O., was nearly wiped out by fire early on the morning of the 2ad, over a dozen stores being destroyed.
 HE jail at Jeffersonville, Ga. was and two negroes, William White and Charles Forsythe, implicated in the murder of Mrs. Rowland. were taken out and hanged to a limb and their bodies riddled with bullets.
 A SPARK from dynamo in the Toronto (ont.) Electric Light Co. s building started fire which resulted in the total destruction of the plant and business dependent on electric power must shut down until new dyna- mos can be installed. The loss was $l5o. .o0o, fully covered by insurance.
 LYMAN J. GAGE, of Chicago. was men, toned on the a1st as the latest addi- tion to the president-elect's official family. He may be secretary of the treasury.
 TELEGRAMs have been sent by the citizens committee of San Francisco to the governors of Oregon, Washing ton, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. ask ing the people of those states to unite with California in sending ship load of grain to the starving people of India.
 A SPECIAL from Teheran. the capital of Persia, on the 21st, stated that 2.500 people perished as result of the earthquake which occurred recently on Kisham island
 TIE first reunion of the men who. in Pittsburgh, Pa. in 1856 organized the republican party. was held in the old city hall at Pittsburgh, on the 20th. The meeting was called to order by James Abel, president of the National Fremont association.
 THREE masked men held up train on the Southern railway near Berry station, 70 miles west of Birmingham, Ala, on the night of the 2lst and the safe ill the express ear was footed of its contents. This was the second time that train had been held up in that neighhorhood within month.
 THE Worlds Madrid correspondent said that it was believed by the Span ish officials that Cleveland and Olney had decided to let all questions relat- ing to Cuba go over to McKinley's ad- ministration and that the present ad- ministration would do nothing beyond the perfunetory achievements of the neutrality laws