The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20

SEVERAL illicit distilleries have been located almost in the heart of the city of Chicago. One of these was raided, on the 14th, and Samuel Marlow, a Russian Jew, and his son were taken in as proprietors of the place. The plant had capacity of 52 gallons of ''moonshine" per day.
 TELEGRAM received at Bombay from Cherat said that sharp firing was heard, on the i4th, in the direction of Fort Shabakadar. There was great excitement in Peshawar. The women and children who had been in the can comments at Cherat had gone into the Munro hills northwest of Eawalpindi. TELEPHONE reports from Homer. Neb., tell of trouble with Indians on the Winnebagoreservati near there. An attack on the agency buildings was threatened, and likely to occur unless help was promptly forwarded. ON the 14th the associated banks of New York city held s37. .ss2. 7.5 in ex- cess of the requirements of the 25-per- cent. rule.
 THE employees of George c. Holtzell X Co.,, manufacturers of worsted goods at Chester, Pa, were notified, on the 10th, that the wages paid in 1892 would be restored on September next. The notice was a surprise as the res toration was granted by the firm with. out solicitation on the part of the hands.
 FREDERICK WILDE, a striking coal miner from Mount Olive, Ill.,, who went to St. Louis five weeks ago, was ground to pieces beneath a Missouri Pacific train at Howard station on the 16th It was to all appearances case of pre- meditated suicide.
 IT was reported in Tacoma. Wash, on the 10th, that the Mazamas had burned for tire-wood the big flag pole on Mount Tacoma, which Oscar Brown, of Cle-Elum, risked his life to carry to the top of the mountain five years ago. IF Stephen J. Field, associate justice of the United States supreme court, were to retire now he would leave be- hind him record of service longer l than that of any other man who ever sat on the supreme bench. HENRY GABLE, an old and experi- | enced miner, who was one of the first to join the rush to the Klondike, has returned to San Francisco, and tells | story calculated to deter others from going north in search of gold. HENRY C. HANsBRoUGH, United States senator from North Dakota, and
 Miss Mary Berri Chapman, a poetess of Washington, D C., were married at the Hotel Burlington, in New York city, on the 18th.
 A SPECIAL from Rome, on the 18th, said 1t is reported that the pope will excommuuicate Prince Henry of Or | leans and the count of Turin, as duel ling is forbidden by the Roman Cath ollie church."
 IN a quarrel between deputies at Camp Isolation, near Pittsburgh, Pa., on the I6th, Deputy Sheriff Carr was fatally shot by Capt. Anderson. THE presidents secretary, J. Addi- son Porter, on the 10th, made the fol- lowing announcement: Ethan Allen Hitchcock, of St. Louis, has accepted the ministership to Russia, and will be appointed immediately. NAVAL officers are considering the question of constructing dry docks sui ticiently large to accommodate our largest war vessels. The matter will be submitted to congress at the next session.
 CHARLES COMPTON, the actor, died in London on the 10th.
 THE big wagon works of the Mitch ell Lewis company, at Racine. Wis, began working 12 hours per day on the 16th.