The Forrest City times., 1897-05-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

HE Turks occupied PharSalOS on
the 9th.
WHILE moving pile of rubbish on
George Haugburn's farm, near Cando,
N. d., on the 9Th, the dead body of
VIM. Bryan was discovered. The top
of his head was crushed, indicating
murder. Mr.. Bryan claimed to be a
second cousin of VIM. j. Bryan, and
was undoubtedly murdered for his
money.
SPECIAL dispatch from Athens as
serts that the losses of the Greeks in
los on the 5th, were certainly 1000
killed and wounded, while the Turks
lost fully 5000 killed and wounded.
CHARLES BUTTON, a capitalist, for
merly of the wholesale drug firm of
Greene & Button, Milwaukee, dropped
dead while entering his carriage on
the 7th.
CHRISTOPHER NICKELs, a laborer, liv-
ing in West Indianapolis, Ind, ON the
18th, made murderous assault on his
wife, from whom he had been separa-
ted, then fed to the banks of Eagle
creek, took dose of Rough on Rats,
and lived only long enough to tell the
police who found him there what he
had done.
G. S. JOHNSON, of Alaska, will be the
| next governor of that district. He was
| sent from Nebraska to Alaska during
| Harrison's administration to fill the
position of United States attorney for
Alaska and is very popular,
THE conference COMMITTEES of the
| senate and house reached a decision, on
the 7th, on the Indian appropriation
bill on the basis of provision for the
leasing of the gilsonite lands instead of
the purchase of them.
| ELEVEN men were drowned, on the
9Th, through an inflow of water into
the Kelloe colliery, at Durham, En-
gland.
RUFUS p. VAssAR, grandson of the
founder of Vassar college, was arreste d
in San Francisco, on the It'll, charged
| with embezzlement
| THINGS have come to such a pass in
Athens that the members of the royal
family can not leave the palace with
out being subjected to insult in the
streets. Even the queen and princesses,
when they visit the hospitals, are not
exempt
ROBERT II. MARTIN, formerly treas
urer of the Columbia university of
Washington city, has been arrested on
charges of embezzling funds Of the in
stitution.
Born houses of the Iowa legislature
have passed q resolution making the
wild rose the official flower of that
state.
Mrs. MARY E. WILCOX, who was born
in the White House during Jackson S
administration, has resigned her clerk
ship in the treasury department. She
is the widow of Representative Wilcox,
of Mississippi, and is over so years of
age.
A TREE was planted near the tomb of
Gen. Grantin Riverside Park, New York
city, on the 18th, by Yang Yu, envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary of the emperor of China, by order
of Ii Hung Chang.
Gov. BLACK of New York gave a
hearing to the anti-scalper bill on the
1th. 1t is understood he viii sign the
measure.
Ross, Ind, celebrated her golden wed
ding, on the 9TH, by fling suit for di-
vorce from her wealthy husband, Cor
nelius Cronin, whom she married in
England so years ago.
THE Mallory line steamer Leona,
which left her pier at New York on the
Sth, bound for Galveston, took fire at
sea, put back and arrived in port on
the night of the 9th, with 10 corpses
on board, of which 10 were steerage
passengers and three members of the
crew, all of whom had been burned
to death while imprisoned below
matches.
OK the sth the associated banks of
New York city held s44,095,o in ex-
cess of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent rule.