The Forrest City times., 1897-04-09

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

JACOB n. SAMPSON, the assistant pros
ecuting attorney of Lenawee county,
Mich, who was indicted for conniving
at the escape of Anton n. Christensen,
arrested in New York city on a charge
of enlightenment. was arraigned be-
fore Justice Mcmahon, in general ses-
sions, on the 1st, and released on $500
bail.
NOAH RABY, on the LIST, celebrated
his one hundred and twenty-fifth birth
day anniversary in the Piscataway
On. j. poorhouse.
MALTBY breaker an immense struc-
ture operated by the Lehigh Valley
Coal Co. at Maltby, five miles from
Will-esbarre, Pa, was DESTROYED by
fire on the I'd. 1t was one of the best
equipped coal breakers in the Wyoming
region, containing all the modern ma
chinery. 1t employed nearly 500 men,
and had a capacity of l, 900 tons per day.
On the I'd Fourth Assistant Postmas-
ter-General Bristow made his first APP
pointments of fourth-class postmasters-
His predecessor, Mr.. Maxwell, did not
which left Mr.. Bristow about $500
places to fill caused by deaths, resig-
nations and removals.
Ii is said that Hetty Green is about
to begin foreclosures of mortgages
upon about 81, 600, 900 worth of Chicago
property.
CORNELIUS O'DoNNELL and John Baird,
two oil men of Pennsylvania, were
blown TO atoms near Celina, o., on the
I'd, by an accidental explosion of nitro
glycerine. ~ sa
The steamer Griggs of the Queen
line. plying between Columbus, Ca,
| and Appalachicola, Fla. on the Chatta-
hooche river, was sunk II miles north
of Columbia, Ala, at one o'clock on the
morning of the I'd. Five persons are
known to have been drowned and. four
others are missing.
II is stated on undoubted authority
that the efficient manner in which the
| Turkish forces were modified on the
Greek frontier is due to German officers
and it is added that all the plans of
| campaign intrusted to them to carry
out have been prepared by able strate-
gists in Berlin.
THE bishop of Canea has sent mes
sage of fervent appeal to the Christian
| people of Europe, imploring them to
compel their governments to stop bonn
harding, and to cease opposing. the
| unanimous desire of Cretans to escape
tyranny by union with Crete.
| JOSEPH FIELD, the oldest person in
Monmouth county, n. j., died ON the
night of the 1st, aged 1O4 years. "Uncle
Joe" was born September 20. 1892, on
the homestead farm in Middleton town
| ship, aud lived there all his life. He
remained single till he was IS years old.
JOSEPH Ii. MCMAHAN, owner of Me-
Mahan's circus was shot and fatally
wounded at Wichita, Kas., on the I'd
! by j. p, Cunningham, deputy sheriff of
! Taylor county, Tex. The shooting
arose over the. arrest of one of the
circus performers named Purdy, on
the charge of burning the Windsor
| hotel in Abilene, Tex.
COMPTROLLER EcKEIs has refused 10
permit the proposed reorganization of
| the defunct Missouri national bank of
Kansas City. The bank failed last fall.
owing 81 500, 00O Those favoting reor-
ganization had secured the signatures
of i,947 creditors, representing 1901, $50
! of the banks liabilities, while 63s cred
itors, representing SS47, 400, had refused
I TO give their consent.
4 The last report of the retiring super
/ intendent of the Quincy Qll.) soldiers
I home. VIM. II al[irkwood shows that
there is due The home the san ofsT5,
oo0 from the state i,easurer. and that
] the home sadly needs the funds.