The Forrest City times., 1897-01-22

bloodshed at the wedding of Agnes Iiafri at New York on the 14th. While 1 the feast was at it's height some one ! jolSed John Ornis about his i'll luck in not winning the bride. when the dis ] appointed lover drew d clasp knife and rushed at the groom and two other men and a woman whom he stabbed. ! Ornis was arrested.
 INTERNAL revenue officers discovered an immense cave on Crooked creek in [ Rockcastle county. Ky, and found two ' good-siZed moonShine distilleries. which ] they destroyed
 ! PATRICK STEPHENS. a bachelor. was ' burned to death at Shenandoah. Pa, by his house burning down. ! THE First national bank of Newport, Ky, and the German national bank at ! Louisville, Ky. suspended on the 18th. THE loss of life at the fire at the Buckner orphans home at Dallas. Tex, was greater than at first reported. | When the ruins had cooled enough search was made and instead of five l bodies being discovered. lG were found.
 J. A. R. ELLIOTT, of Kansas City, Mo-, defeated ]. D. Gay, the crack pigeon shot of the south in 100-bird match at | Pine Grove. Ky, on the i6th. Elliott killed os and Gay 96 out of loo. l Two men in a wagon crossed the Jersey Central track near Hopewe0. ! V. r., on the 18th and were killed by d ! local train running into the wagon. | The train was delayed d short time. ] when the fast B. x O. express dashed into the local train. splitting the local | last ear in two and setting two others I on fire. The baggage master on the local was probably fatally hurt and about score of passengers were in- l jured.
 ] LATE on tke night of the f6th tramps i took possession of Newkirlx, Ok. and saloons were robbed of money, whisky and beer and private residences entered and many things taken. Five of the l tramps were arrested.
 1 SENATOR SHERMAN visited Mai. Me- ] kinley at Canton, O.. on the 18th and l after the conference told an Associated ] press representative that he had ac- cepted the secretaryship of state in the 1 Mckinley cabinet.
 l EUGENE BERoNsoN and wife entered police headquarters at Detroit, Mich, i on the 14th and confessed that Beron- son had in 1894 embedded 8, 900 from l the Akron & Canton Stone Co.,. whose 1 Chicago manager he then was The woman tainted during her husbands recital
 A PARTY of masked men went to the home of merchant near Macon, Ga, l and demanded his money. He attempt ed to defend himself and the would-be robbers fired at him and killed his wife. THERE was great rejoicing at Perry, Ok. and vicinity over the news of the passage of the free homes bill. the peo- i pie celebrating by shooting off their guns and blowing whistles.
 JAMES F. GIBBS, of the Norwallk (O.) ] Reflector, is being boomed for public 1 printer under Mckinley.
 l THOMAS c. PLArT was named as the republican candidate for United States senator at Albany. N. Y., on the 14th by vote of 147 to ' for Joseph II. l Choate.
 INTERNAL revenue officers captured a complete underground distilling plant on the 14th at 8 Jewish settlement in Cumberland county, N. J. Two moon- sinners were arrested and the whisky i cOutiScated.
 FIRE at Narbert, Pa., has destroyed the famous old stone barn opposite the Gen. Wayne hotel. which has been a landmark for more than century. Gen. Washington's troops were quar- tered there once during the revolution.
 AT Fountain Park, near Colum bus. O., train on the 18th killed Fred
 Donley and Mime Reed, badly injured
 Lizzie Reed and killed their horse and smashed the buggy.
 THE New York Press claimed to have received news through private chan nels that Gen. Gomez had stormed and captured the important city of Santa Clara on January 9, and was moving on Havana with 1S,000 men.
 FIVE persons were seriously injured and about 30 others were more or less cut and bruised on the 11th by street car in Pittsburgh, Pa, running away down steep grade and flashing into a telegraph pole.
 PAUL VANDERvooRT. of Omaha, Neb.,
 president of the Popuiist Reform Press association, has called the next annual
 meeting at Memphis. Tenn, on Febru- ary %, and A. Rozelle, of Missouri,
 secretary of the same association, has
 called a meeting at Kansas City on the
 same date. the object of which will be
 the organization of new association.
 GEN. CARLOS RoLoFF, secretary of
 war of the Cuban republic, was ar
 rested at New York on a warrant sworn
 out by the spanish consul. in which
 the general was charged with viola
 tion of the neutrality laws in connec-
 tion with an alleged flibustering ex-
 petition to Cuba.
 A CHICAGO dispatch of the 18th stated
 that express and railroad managers
 had sent letters to train guards in- structing them to shoot and kill in every case where robbery was the in.
 tent of any one in ierfering with the
 running of train and a reward of $500
 was held out for every robber shot but
 not killed and S1,000 for every robber killed.
 OWING to the pollution of Lake Mich
 igan, Chicago'S water supply, the board
 of education has directed that the SUD- ply of drinking water in the 252 public