The Forrest City times., 1897-07-02
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

The Hin ois naval militia will drill on the steamer Michigan August to Is.
 Eli Lackland. an old riverman, died suddenly at the Pilgrim hotel, St Louis.
 At Burlington, Ia., Lee Spitzmuller. aged seven, was completely cut In two by an electric car.
 President Mckinley will leave Wash ington Friday and will spend the Fourth in Canton.
 Theodore Rose, wanted in Missouri for murder, was captured by Pueblo (Col.) police after fight
 Charles Bertrand, alias 'Col. Hay,r notorious swindler, was sentenced to ten years penal servitude in England.
 William Whitledge and Miss Susie Hunt were prostrated by heat at Padu- cah. Ky, and are in serious condi- ton.
 Beginning with the fall term, 1898, women will be admitted to the college of medicine of the University of Hi nos.
 The population of Peoria, Ill.,, as an- nounced by the directory census, is 8s,- T2s, or an increase of 1,7s2 over last year.
 Lena Avis, aged 1s, of San Au- gustine, Tex, was fatally burned while attempting to start a fire with kerosene.
 Charges against John Goodrow, of f eral to Shanghai, China, will be in- vestigated.
 W. II. McSchooler, of Louisville, H., was dragged to death by the fast m ail on the Vandalia road. He was en- deavoring to steal ride.
 The senate has adopted a joint reso- lution for the loaning of 1, ,000 tents for the purposes of the c. A. k. encamp- ment at Leavenworth, Kas.
 Charles Phillips brakeman, aged 23, was killed in the railroad yards at Johnson City. Tenn, his body being ground to pieces under the cars.
 Katie Cochran, aged seven. and Ella Green, aged nine were drowned in the San Pedro river at Bisbee, Ariz They fell in while at play on the bank.
 The boiler of an engine attached to a threshing machine exploded near | Adairs, Ga., killing three men instant ly and fatally wounding four others.
 A farmer found the body of an un- known man quarter of mile south of Whitebreast, la. From the appear ance of the body it is case of mur- der.
 l.. W. Clark, machinist employed at Seaton's foundry, Atchison, Kas., was killed by the bursting of an emery wheel while he was engaged in polish ing a casting.
 The invalidating of $500, 900 of Ta- coma tWash.) bonds, which were fraud ulently issued, was the the cause of the failure of the Union Trust and Savings bank of that city.
 The suicide epidemic has assumed re- markable proportions in London. ow- ing probably to the heat. Bodies con- tinue to be found in the Thames in alarming numbers. James Shades, harvest hand, was drowned 20 miles southwest of Larned, kas. He went to a pond to take bath, anu sooh diter plunRinS ln was SelZed with cramps and sank.
 Garrett Baker, aged s5, years, one of the pioneers of Union county, H., lo- eating there in 1857, died at Camden. He had resided in one place for 40 years, and was very wealthy farmer.
 George $. Murphy, ex-county survey or, shot Henry Sparks, tenant on , Murphy's sisters farm near Shelby vile, Ind, because he sowed rye in . field without consulting Murphy. William James, who hauled mer- chandise to and from Bloomington. Ill.,, and adjacent towns, died from injuries received by a barrel of oil topping over while crossing railway and fall ing upon him.
 The skeleton of a man was found in Sorrels cave. six miles from Cascade, Ia 1t is thought to be the remains of . man named Thomas, a blacksmith, who worked in Cascade. It is believed he was wayla and murdered.
 A. Aguirre, Cuban patriot, we'll known in Washington, asks the press of the country to urge that in the Fourth of July exercises American sem timent in favor of granting belligereut rights to Cuba be brought out.