The Forrest City times., 1898-06-10
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.



ming near College Mound, Tex.
The Burgess Steel and Iron Co. IS
works at Portsmouth, o., were burned
Tuesday; loss, S350,0oo.
The hardwood manufacturing plant
of Smith & Bell at Decatur. Ind, was
burned Tuesday, loss, $4,000.
Queen Victoria will cause the erec-
ton of monument to the late VIM. 4.
Gladstone in Westminster abbey.
Burglars entered South Broadway,
st. Louis, jewelry store in broad day
light and robbed it of 81, 500 worth of
goods.
j. w. Etting, a liveryman at Hot
Springs, Ark, being respondent over
business affairs, killed his wife and
himself.
One hundred and three policemen and
upward of hundred citizens were i'm
jured in the riots at Belfast, Ireland,
Tuesday.
The commissioner of patents states
that American cigar manufacturers
may not use the trademarks of Ha-
vana factories.
DIR. T. ii. Wilson, of Sedalia, one of
the veteran dentists of central Missou-
ri, has been adjudged insane by the
Pettis county court.
The Red river counties of Texas are
making united effort to collect speci-
mems of grain, cotton, fruits and vege-
tables for the Omaha exposition.
At Evansville, Ind, Frederick Fisch-
er died from the effects of injuries re-
ceived by falling off step at the resi-
dence of his son, George Fischer.
Harry Burnam, aged 90. one of the
oldest and most highly-respected citi-
zens of that section, died at Paint Lick,
KY, Tuesday, after brief illness.
Joseph Johnson, farmer living near
Shawnee, Okla, took the wife of L. s.
Spawles to town with him in wagon.
Spawles met them and shot johnson
fatally.
Having gained his sweethearts con-
sent, an Oklahoma farmer procured a
marriage license. On returning to the
girls home he found her raving
maniac.
At Poplar Bluff, No., negro arrest
ed for burglary broke away from the
sheriff and jumped into Black river.
The effort was too much for him and
he was drowned.
James Neville, five-year-old st.
Louis boy, was instantly killed by q
bullet from cat rifle while walking
| on the street with his mother. 1t is
| not known who fred the shot
Russell Berry, son of DR.. Berry, OF
| Brentwood, near st. Louis, was prob
| ably fatally injured by house in
which he had sought refuge from Tues.
days storm being blown down.
Private Mapes, of Company A, Elev-
enth United States infantry, has been
sentenced to two years Imprisonment
| for mutilating his own body in order
to avoid active service in the present
war.
b. +. Duncan, formerly of Moline,
ILL.,, while telephoning at the Stude-
baker works at South Bend, Ind, Tues
day, was instantly killed by a bolt OF
lightning. He was chief lumber in
| spector.
| Seventeen thousand men are ready at
jacksonville and Tampa to proceed to
Porto Rico. Nearly all the transports
have been provided and the movement
WILSON be under way. San Juan will
be the first point of attack.
w. l.. Sparks, of Alton, Ill, has re-
ceived a commission as lieutenant in
the United States navy. Mr.. Sparks
was formerly navigating and ord
nance officer of the Illinois naval re-
serve. He has orders to go to the front
| at once.
| About 100 men have been indicted by
the federal grand jury at Fort Scott,
kas., for burning two young Indians,
Sampson and McGeisy, at the stake, for
the murder of Mrs. Laird, to which
crime largo, young full-blooded Sem
mole Indian, has confessed