The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1898-10-21
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

A curfew ordinance has been passed
by the ST. Louis house of delegates.
Burglars robbed the Clover Leaf
railroad depot at Ramsey, ILL.,, of $50.
j. L. Johnston, of Moberly, Mo-, was
burned to death in a fire at Sherman,
Tex.
Amos Foster, a pioneer of 10 Da-
viess county, died at Galena, ILL.,, aged
30 years.
II. Gilman, prominent business
man of Princeton, H., died suddenly
in Chicago.
j. ID. Slade & Bros. planning mill at
Conway. Ark, was burned; loss,
about $1,000.
Brighten. Hale, now at Manila. says
that the United States should hold the
Philippines.
Prominent Methodists are preparing
to make religious invasion of Cuba
and Porto Rico.
Maj.-Gen. Merritt and Miss Laura
Williams. of Chicago. will be married
in London next week.
The international Association of
Fire Engineers is holding its annual
convention at st. Louis.
City Marshal George Guinnip. of Ar
cola, H.. has been indicted for the
killing of Douglas Butcher.
Daniel Koehler, one of the pioneers
of 10 Daviess county. died at his home
in Galena, Ill.,, aged so yeras.
+. w. Gray, of Freeman. O.. shot
himself through the head at Dallas.
Tex. He had been drinking.
A mountain lion, the skin of which
measured nearly ten feet in length,
was killed near Emporia, Kas.
Admiral Dewey has applied for
leave of absence, and is expected to
arrive in San Francisco about Decem.
Der 6.
To save his insane wife from suffer.
ing, William +. Murray killed her and
then fatally shot himself at OaL
Grove, Mich.
Paul Herring, a prominent citizen o;
Wabash county, and superintendent o.
the Wabash paper mill, died suddenly
at Wabash, Ind.
The Ussery cotton gin, three miller
west of Luling, Tex, was entirely de
stroyed by fire. About 40 bales of cot
ton were burned.
II. X. Thurber, the millionaire gro
Ger of New York city. has presented
Roswell, n. NJ, with 100 acres OF lane
for public park.
Express companies are said to be
We ia1 Of Mt 20, no, 10
revive the parcels post bill at the mex
session of congress.
The chasm between the Cuban evac
uation commissioners at Havana il
widening. There seems little proba
bility of an early agreement.
Robert Il. Russell died at the home
of his daughter in Jerseyville. ILL.,,
aged 81 years. He was veteran in the
Mexican war, and the oldest person in
Jersey county.
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott, in discuss
ing the work gefore the war investi-
ing commission, says he thinks the
truth can be ascertained if the investi-
gators go far enough.
Mr. and Mrs. John DUNCAN celebrat-
ed the golden anniversary of their
marriage at Muncie, Ind, Tuesday
evening with big dinner party given
to 100 pioneer residents of Muncie.
The independent tobacco factories
in Louisville, KY, who were notified
that they were not wanted by the com
bine, now declare that they will unite
with other concerns to fight the trust
DR.. George ii. Rice, of Sandoval, H.,
on trial for the murder of his wife at
Salem, was acquitted under instruc-
tons of the court. There was no evil
dence to show that he was in any way
concerned In her death.
Fitzgerald Woods, an ex-convict
was arrested in the woods three miles
west of Bunker Hill. Ind, charged
with the murder of Quincy Bebee. the
14-year-old boy who was found in ar
old barn a week ago with his neck
broken.