The Forrest City times., 1897-05-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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Santa Fe, N. NJ, received word, on the
goth, that Black Jack had been killed in
Arizona, Is miles west of Clifton, by a
posse of deputy marshals. 1t was at
first thought the man killed was Sid
Moore, but the body was later identi-
fed as that of Black Jack. Big re-
wards offered for the arrest of Black
Jack will be paid to the posse.
w. j. DUNN, prominent contractor
of Pittsburgh, Pa, who was charged
with forging assignments of city esti-
mates on contracts, entered plea of
non contende on one indictment, on
the Goth, and was remanded to Jail for
sentence. There were II other indict-
ments, involving about $50, 900, still
pending against him.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 29th, showed:
Available cash balance, 1920, s95, 61s;
gold reserve, S154 ,64O.273.
A SPECIAL dispatch to the Berlin
Nord Deutsch Zeitung from Athens, on
the Goth. said that King George had
signed decree withdrawing the ex-
equateurs of all Turkish consuls in
Greece.
The United States consul at Guade-
loupe, West Indies, telegraphed to the
state department at Washington, I'M
der date of April 30, from Point Apitre,
as follows: Severe earthquake; loss
heavy; many injured"
SENATOR ALLEN, of Nebraska, intro
duced in the senate, on the 10Th, pro
/ nnSaA DIM 70 IN. -
the abrogation of the Hawaiian reci-
procity treaty on July /, 1898.
| MAYOR BERKEY of Guthrie, Okla.
and President Horner of the Guthrie
club, after comforting with the citi,
zens' relief committee, on the 30th, is
sued formal notice to the neigh boring
cities and towns, in which they stated
that outside aid would not be required
in the proper caring for food sufferers
Permanent relief committees had been
formed, they stated, and the needy and
cared for.
THE president has decided not to
interfere in the case of Joseph r. Dun
lop, proprietor of the Chicago Dis
patch, who was sentenced to two years
imprisonment for sending obscene mat
ter through the mails.
ABOUT June Oshkosh, Wis, will have
! in operation the first grass Irvine fac
tory in the world. 1t will employ 300
hands, and will make Irvine from marsh
grass, something never attempted before
DISPATCHES received from Volo, by
| way of Athens, on the 30th, said that q
terrible panic prevailed there, and tina
if the place should fall into the hands Of
the Turks the situation of the Greek
army would be desperate.
AN address has been issued to the
officers and members of the Delta
Kappa Epsilon, suggesting that a
movement be inaugurated among the
college fraternities commonly known
as the Greek letter societies, in all OF
the colleges in the country, to raise a
fund TO assist the modern native Greeks
in America to return home to engage
in war in behalf of their native land
DISPATCHES from towns in the in
terror of Ohio, on the I'd, said: The
rain of last night turned into snow and
in many places wintry conditions pre-
vailed this morning. AT Bucyrus three
inches of snow fell, and at Martins
Ferry, in the southeastern part of the
state, the ground was covered with it.
AT Cincinnati the boys engaged in the
unusual pastime of snowballing in May
THE monthly report of the director
of the mint shows that during the
month of April the total coinage at the
United States minis was $40, 412. 0S0.
OF this amount IS, 800, 400 was in gold,
Sl,5S5, 600 in silver and S74 $50 in minor
coins. of the silver coinage 81, 400, 00C
was in standard dollars.
THE town of Pulaski, Va, was sew.
erely shaken by an earthquake soon
after noon on the Sd. No damage re.
suited, but the people were terribly
frightened.