The Forrest City times., 1897-12-17

UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR Cor. JOHN HAY and Mrs. Hay dined with Queen Victoria at Windsor castle on the evening. of the 10th. and spent the night at the castle.
 THE national board of trade, which numbers among it's members the prin- eipal boards of trade and kindred com. mercial bodies of the country, met in Washington, on the 18th. to organize for It's regular session, which opened on the l4th. A number of important matters were brought up for consid- eration.
 PATRICK MChENNA. an aged man, and his sou John, aged 36. of Cleveland, o., quarreled, on the 12th, while at the supper table. The father threw a knife at the son and the latter struck the old man with a chair, infiicting injuries which caused death within a lew minutes. The son was arrested.
 As A condition preliminary to the removal of the boycott against the Armour Packing Co.,, of Kansas City, Mo, the three labor unions involved. on the 18th, demanded an indemnity of $50, OOO to be paid to the union men who had been locked out. Other labor unions repudiate the demand.
 SENATOR FAIRBANKS, on the 18th, in. troduced n bill in the United States Senate to facilitate the enforcement of the immigration and con utract labor laws
 MRS. JENNIE JUNE CRoLEY was ap- pointed, on the 18th. an inspector of public schools by Mayor Strong of New York for the term of five years.
 TIE senate committee on Indian af- fairs, on the 18th, reported favorably on a bill providing tor congress of Indian tribes, to be held at Omaha dur ing the coming Trans. Mississippi ex- position.
 JACK EAsToS. a baseball player was arrested ut Martins Ferry, O., on the 18th, on the charge of murdering a man named Pitcher, at Nassau, Rens- selaer county, N. Y.. last September. A reward of s25O had been offered for his arrest.
 $. N. TUCKER, a Wells Fargo officer, assisted by d posse of deputy United States marshals under Capriano Baca, on the night of the 18th. captured the entire gang of train robbers who, on the 9th, held up the Southern Pacific at Stein's pass, Grant county, x. M., in the fight incident to which one of the robbers was killed.
 TIE steamboat Stella Wilds sank 25 miles below Natchez, Miss, on the l4th. The passengers, crew and cargo were taken off by the steamer Lulu Prince. The Wilds was valued at sl2,- coo; fully insured. She will be raised.
 THE bankruptcy bill framed on the lines of the Henderson-Cu person bill, which passed the house at the last session, involving both voluntary and involuntary bankruptcy, was reported to the full judiciary committee on the 1<th.
 THE entire Chilian cabinet resigned on the 14th. The event caused d sensa- tion.
 ON the l4th Commander of the Salva- ton army, Booth Tucker, and wife ar rived in St. Louis from Chicago and went to the West End hotel. On the 18th the commander and his wife for mally opened the Rescue home of the St. Louis Salvation Army posts.
 TIE Michigan Copper Mining G., limited, filed articles of incorporation at Marquette, Mich, on the t4th. Is capital stock is s, 800, 00O The com pany is to operate the ridge mine on Ontonagon range.
 THE senate committee on public lands, on the 14th. appointed Senators Carter, McBride and McEnery, a sub committee to draft land legislation for Alaska.