The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-04-30
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

Cincinnati murderers, were electro
cuted at the Ohio penitentiary annex,
the first under the Ohio law, on the
| morning of the 21st. Both electrocu-
tions were completely successful, not a
hitch occurring.
NANCY ALLISON MCKINLEY, mother
of the nations president, celebrated her
eighty-eighth birthday anniversary, on
the ed, at her home in Canton, o.
She was in excellent health, barring
slight attacks of rheumatism.
THE Pennsylvania board of pardons,
on the Goth, recommended commuta-
ton of the death sentence imposed up
on James b. Gentry for the murder of
Actress Madge York to imprisonment
for life. Gov. Hastings approved the
recommendation.
ROBERT w. HAMER, a well-known re-
tired broker living at 1857 Deming
court, Chicago, committed suicide, on
the ed, by shooting himself through
the heart Dependency over ill-health
is supposed to have been the cause.
THE post Office department has issued
| fraud order against the Financial and
Commercial Co. of Chicago.
FIVE masked men broke into the res
| dence of John Quinlan, at Niles, O., on
the ed, and, after gagging and bind
ing him, ransacked the house and Sc
cured 81 200 in currency besides lots of
valuable jewelry.
REPRESENTATIVE HOLMAN, of Indiana,
died at his home in Washington city,
| on the 22d, at 2:05 p. M, after an i'll
ness of some weeks Spinal meningitis
| was the cause.
AT Williamsport, Mich, on the 2ad,
Mrs. Albert Hovey, aged SO years, muir
dered her mother-in-law, aged so, with
an AK, severing the head entirely
from the body. and then poured oil on
the lifeless body and set it on fire.
| In response to an inquiry from Wash
ington, the Commercial club of Oma-
ha, Neb., on the 23d, wired an offer to
furnish warehouses for the Indian sup
ply depot free of cost to the govern
ment for five years.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY decided, on
the 23d, to nominate VIM. X. Day, of
Canton, o., to be first assistant secre-
tary of state, and ex-Representati We
Bellamy Storer, of Cincinnati, to be
minister to Belgium.
THE general conference of the super
intendents of the Baptist missions of
the west, met in the Young Mems
Christian association building in
Omaha, Neb., on the odd. Many prom
inent missionary workers from west
ern states and territories were present.
IRA STANsBURY, of st. Louis, aged II,
got angry at Motorman James +.
Tharp, on the esd, because the latter
insisted that Stansbury get his buggy
off the car track, and, stopping the
vehicle right in front of the car, let
down his buggy top and deliberately
shot Tharp, fortunately, however, in
fiicting only a flesh wound. STAINS.
bury was arrested
JOHN III. RAAP, Chicago wholesale
liquor dealer, was shot and killed, on
the Odd, by his former secretary and
confidential clerk, who afterward put
the revolver to his own temple and
killed himself.
ACCOMPANIED by so or 60 Cinnamon
of high and low degree, WI Ting
Fung, envoy extraordinary and minis
ter plenipotentiary from China to the
United States, Spain and Peru, reached
Chicago, on the esd, ON his way to
Washington, and after drive through
the principal streets of the city, left
over the Panhandle for Washington.
A CORRESPONDENT of the London
Chronicle in Cuba writes: The report
that the insurgent party is dead and a
thing of the past is an erroneous rumor.
1t would be hard, indeed, to find a more
lively corpse. The insurgents were
never in a better condition to fight than
now, the season being in their favor,
and they lack neither food, clothing
nor ammunition"
A LONDON dispatch of the esd said
the situation at Constantinople was
deemed to be extremely critical, and
unless 0sman could gain a conspicuous
triumph the cataclysm of Constan-
tinople, which the powers have dis
gracefully compromised themselves in
trying to prevent, might come at any
moment