The Forrest City times., 1897-01-22

correspondent tclcgraphed that Sem ator Cullom will go into the Mckinley cabinet as secretary of the treasury.
 TnE boiler at the mill of !. r. Farris near Elkhart, Tex, exploded and to- | tally wrecked the building, fatally in turing one man and badly injuring another.
 A BULLETIN has just been issued from the census bureau on the working hosts of the United States, including those engaged in professional pursuits. | TIE Minnesota state savings bank at ! St. Paul filed deed of assignment on the 18th.
 l X DISTINCT earthquake shock was felt at Red Bud, ILL, at 1O:s3 ?. m. on the | 18th.
 SAM PALATKA. an ill-loolSing negro. was arrested in Putnam county, Ga.. and confessed that he was the fiend who perpetrated the recent great Ca haba bridge disaster in Alabama. whereby 35 persons lost their lives and many others were maimed and wound ed by the wreclSing of a passenger train. WHITECAPs in Owsley county. Ky, took John Gipson and a woman he was living with out of a house at night and whipped them on their bare backs until they bled. Gipson was then warned that if he did not turn the woman away from his house they would hang him. WHILE attempting to arrest two des- peradoes. named Frank Morgan and ! Whitton. at Bozeman, Mont. Deputy Jack Allen was mortally wounded and | ha l,..,. rl s,. tl, men escaped.
 ON the night of the 18th George P Bcauvais was waylaid and robbed by a negro at Whitecastle, La. Before mid night the highwayman was arrested identified by his victim and jailed and the next morning the negro's body was found dangling from tree, the coroner's verdict being death by hang ing, at the hands of some unknown parties"
 FIVE children broke through the ice at North Leominster, Mass, on the 10th and were drowned.
 A GANG of a dozen highwaymen held up an emigrant train going south from Missouri in the Creek nation in the In- dian territory on the 17th and robbed them of everything they had. Some of the emigrants identified the leader of the desperadoes as being George Tay- Tor, the escaped murderer of the Meeks family. Posses were organized at Guth- rie. Ok, to locate the gang.
 Two children and niece of John D. Reynolds were discovered dead in a tenement house at Roxbury, Mass. shortly after he arose on the morning of the 17th the three having been sui located by gas, carelessness or igno- rance in using the fixture being the cause.
 NEW YORK dispatch said that a movement had been started by the managers of Lillian Russell to have her crowned queen of comic opera, in emulation of Sarah Bernhardt, who
 was recently crowned queen of the drama in Paris.
 A REGENT special to the Chicago News stated that Perry $. Heath was to be | private secretary to President-elect
 Mckinley. Present Private Secretary
 James Boyle, it was understood, is to
 be sent abroad.
 Tor GRIMsLEY, a 14-year-old son of a
 farmer living near Guthrie, Ok, was re- | gently killed by two-ton stone falling on him.
 | ONE man was killed and two injured,
 one fatally, by tail-end collision be- l tween two sections of southbound
 freight train at Sinking creek water
 tank in Kentucky. The second section
 crashed into the first section while ii
 was taking water at the tank. CARTIER & HAvERHILL's heavy dry goods warehouses at Montreal, Can.
 were destroyed by fire. Loss, $500, O00 l insurance, S200. .00O.
 ]. l.. MCCIEARY met death in horri- ble manner at Corning. O., recently.
 He was engaged in shooting well and
 several quarts of nitroglycerin whi ch
 were in a wagon exploded and tore his
 body into Shreds The wagon was
 wrecked and the horses killed. X sud.
 den jar caused the explosion. JIM HALL and Steve O'Donnell have
 been matched to box 20 rounds before
 the Greater New York Athletic club February i.
 CAsPAR w. WHITNEY, of New York
 city, filed suit at Perry, Ok, asking that his wife's divoyce decree, which
 was granted in the territory a year ago, be set aside on the grounds that
 she was not bona tide resident of the | territory. Mrs. Anna C. Whitney. one l of New Iorll's foremost society women
 after three months stay, filed suit
 alleging 90 days bona fide residence,
 and next day after the decree was ! granted she left the territory and went
 back to New York city Since tha; time she has welded another WILLIAM FERGUSON and James Me
 Kenna were found dead in room of 8 [ New York hotel on the 14th, having 1 been asphyxiated by Illuminating gas Ar the national convention of the 1 United Mine Workers at Columbus, O., 1 on the 14th John A. Cairns, ex-pres! ] dent, was expelled from the union fo1 ! making an attack on President Penna l whose official acts were unanimously l indorsed by the convention. A propo
 sition for levying p cents per capita 1 per month for defense fund was re. l ferred to a special committee.
 TIE president of the Trades and La.