The Forrest City times., 1897-07-09

TBE president has approved the bill providing for the admission of foreign labor to be employed upon the Omaha exposition, to be held next year.
 ARTHUR CLAYTON Hook. for 90 years connected with the Union Nut and Bolt Co. of Chicago, as manager and general agent, committed suicide, op the 2d, by shooting. He had been ill two months and was Respondent.
 THE Bell Telephone Co. of Missouri, with offices at St. Louis, filed with the secretary of state at Jefferson City. on the Ed, certificate of increase of cap ital stock from s4oo, 900 to S., 900, 900.
 THE advance guard of the Christian Endeavor movement reached Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 2d, over the Rio Grande Western, filling "A coaches.
 THE monument of the First Mime sota regiment was dedicated, on the 2d, on the Gettysburg Pa-) battlefield, in the presence of a number of distin- guished Minnesotans. The monument is one of the finest on the field, and was erected at cost of S20, ,000.
 As result of the investigation of the recent collision on the Vandalia road at Vandalia, H., all the crew of the special Christian Endeavor California train have been dismissed from the service of the company.
 A GENERAL strike of miners of the United Mine Workers of America was ordered for July by the national ex- ecutive board, whose headquarters are in Columbus. O., and also by the dis trict presidents.
 BRADFORD LEONARD, of Taunton, Mass, 70 years old, took paris green, with suicidal intent, on the 2d, and died. He was out of work and de- spondent. He was the tallest man in Massachusetts, being seven feet in height.
 REV. DR. HENRY HARMAN, professor emeritus of Dickinson college, and one of the foremost educators in the Methodist Episcopal church. died, on the 2d, at his home in Baltimore, Md, at the age of 75 years.
 HENRY E. STONE, of Chicago, former ly vice epresident of the Chicago Bur ington & Quincy railroad, was killed at Monquit, Mass, on the 9th, by the explosion of a bomb, which he had lighted at the request of his little daughter. and which, failing to ex- plode, he proceeded to investigate just as it went off, large fragment of the bomb striking him in the forehead.
 THE illumination and fireworks dis play on the river at Springfield, Mass, on the night of the 5th, was marred by the drowning of the two men W ho were handling the fireworks, w. Ma cone, of Brooklyn, and John T. Nolan, of New York. Malone fell into the river, and when Nolan attempted to rescue him the drowning man seized him and both sank.
 BERTRAM HILL, the six-year-oid son of Chauncey Hill, San Francisco archi- on the 5th, clinging to a guy rope of a balloon from which an eronaut was to descend by parachute. When 1000 feet high the little fellows hold gave way and his body, falling to the earth was crushed out of shape.
 THOMAS MORGAN and his wife met a horrible death at Youngstown, O., on the 9th. They were driving near a cliff when the horse backed the buggy over the bank, and Mir. and Mrs. Nor gan fell 50 feet and both were killed.
 FIVE persons were killed and about 40 received injuries more or less severe during the celebration of national in- dependence day in Chicago on the 5th
 THE senate, on the 5th, confirmed tue nomination of R. Weldeman, of California to be consul at Hong Kong China.