The Forrest City times., 1897-11-12

THOMAS NULLY, aged 81 years. broth
er and confessed murderer of the vic
Tins of the RawdOn lQue.) tragedy
three sisters and brother-was taken
TO toilette jail on the 9TH.
No. . PASSENGER train on the Santa
Fe Pacific railroad was held up at
Grants station. y. NJ ..onthe night OF the
9Th, by gang supposed to be cowboys
familiar with the location. The ex-
press ear was broken open with dyna-
mite, as was one of the safes, and sew
eral packages were taken. After the
robbers had left, the frightened fireman
backed the express car and locomotive
until they collided with the other
cars of the train. which were wrecked
and burned.
The long expected floating dry dock,
built in England and spacious enough
TO accommodate large irou-clads. ar
rived at Havana on the nth. 1t
crossed the Allan tic without damage.
FIFTY years ago, on the 7th, Henry
Ward Beecher was installed as pastor
of Plymouth church, Brook lyn. Ami
verysary services in memory of the dis
tinguished preacher were held DIR.
Charles Berry, of Queen City chapel,
Woiverhampton, England, occupied the
pulpit.
CAPT. GEN. BLASCo has been disap-
pointed keenly in having discovered
that there are few genuine autonomists
in Cuba, the great majority of the MEM
bers Of the aGtoBonist party having
joined the ranks OF the insurgents.
CHARLES PINKERToS, under sentence
of life Imprisonment for the murder of
his nephew and son-in-law. Charles
Pinkerton, Jr., of Fulton, Mich. cut
his throat in the county Jail at La
Porte, Ind, on the eth. Death was al
most instantaneous.
SENIOR DoMISGUEZ. the lawyer who
is defending the Competitor prisoners
at Havana, is sanguine of securing at
least Ona Melton's release, and believes
that the Liberation of all the American
prisoners probably will follow soon.
TIE physicians in attendance upon
Gen. benjamin Butterworth, commits
sioner of patents, who is i'll with pneu-
monia at the Hollenden hotel, Cleve-
land, O., on the sth, gave but. little en-
for his recovery.
w. d. CORNISH, master in chancery,
at the courthouse in Denver.
Col, on the oth, at 10 a. m, the hour
originally set for the sale of the DEN +
yer Pacific railroad, and publicly an
nounced the postponement Of the sale
until December 30.
JUDGE SANBoRN, in the United States +
court at st. Paul, Mimi, on the sth, +
confirmed the sale of first mortgage
bonds of the Union Pacific railroad,
which were sold on the 1st, at Omaha.
Neb. The proceedings were confined
to the brief reading of the papers n
the case and the signing of the judges
name. The document was Immediate
y dispatched to Omaha.
ON the Sth the United States suprem
court affirmed the decision o. the cir
,uit court of the California circuit, re-
using a writ of habeas corpus to Will
lam Henry Theodore Durrant under
,entenee Of death for the murder OF
Miss Blanche Lamont in San Francis
%, N April, s96.
HARRY tiEhsSoNt dsef7 %, an OiIer, 1
vas crushed TO death in the engine
Dom Of Swifts packing house at East
IT. Louis, III, on the 8fh, being caught
n the crank shalt, when he was oiling.
md whirled around until he was a
ifeless mass.
BENZ. NUM- and Roy Num-, father
nd son, were each sentenced, at Glad
vim, Mich, on the sth. TO life impris-
in the state peniten tiary at
ackson. Their crime was numbering
urtice Wright.