The Forrest City times., 1898-11-18
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED
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Twelve men successfully broke jail at Benton, Tenn. Two of the congressional district elections in Texas are to be contested. V. l.. Penland, of West Plains. Mo-, shot his iather-in-law and killed the latter's son.
 The Missouri supreme court has ruled that executors cannot lawfully incorporate estates.
 Fire destroyed an old hotel at Can ton. III. One man was perhaps fatally injured by fire engine.
 Congressman Joseph W. Bailey, of Texas, has entered the race to succeed United States Senator Chiffon.
 The widow of Dr. Thomas Seton Robertson, of New York. will contest his will. She was disinherited
 Col. Colby, of the Fourth Missouri volunteers, was thrown from his horse at Camp Meade, Pa., and badly in- jured.
 Edward V. Satterfield at one time one of the most prominent attorneys of Jefferson county, Ill.,, died at Mount Vernon.
 Calvin Soule, one of the oldest em- ployes of the Alton shops in Bloom ington, Ill., died, Tuesday. very sud denly, aged S1.
 James $. Richardson. the largest cot ton planter in the world, died sudden ly of heart disease near his residence at Benoit, Miss.
 Harvey $. Van Iisse. of Newark. N. J., sold his wife, whom he married last April, to William A. Dewey, returned volunteer, for $5.
 President Mckinley is going to Sa- vannah, Ga, to review Mai.-Gen. Fitz- hugh Lees Seventh army corps before 1t departs for Cuba.
 Johann Schultz, aged 72 years, and Mrs. Caroline Mes. aged 73, were mar rIed at Bloomington, Ill.,, this being the third marriage for each.
 Two masked men overpowered the agent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas at Savanna, l. T., and took $l00 and a gold watch from the safe. They made their escape.
 The extensive factory of the Carr Lowry Glass Works Co.,, at Baltimore Md, was completely destroyed by fire Tuesday. The loss will reach Sl25. 900: insurance, Ss5,000.
 Mayor Ziegenhein of St. Louis has vetoed the curfew bill, declaring it a violation of personal liberty and, there fore, unconstitutional. The house of delegates sustained the veto.
 Baron Waldeck de Villamil, an Aus trian nobleman, and a captain of the Seventh volunteer infantry (immunes( i, is in disgrace, and has left Lexington. Ky, for parts unknown. Semi-otticial notes issued at Madrid indicate that the Spanish commission CTS will refuse to yield to the terms proposed 5y the Americans contem- plating the surrender of the Philip pines.
 President Mckinley prefers that the recent possessions of Spain should be left under military control until there has been ample time to determine what form of government is most de- sirable.
 Joseph Chamberlain, in a speech, Tuesday, in England, declared that there should be a settlement of all the questions n dispute between England and France, including the Newfound- land issue.
 A dispatch from Talequah, I. T., says that four women attempted to hold up a stage coach near there. but were repulsed by shots from the pas sengers. Several persons were injured in the fight.
 The French admiral at Canea. Crete was compelled to assume a threaten. ing attitude before Chakir Pasha. the last remaining Turkish commander consented to embark with his troops for Constantinople. Mollie Breedlove, who killed her bus band in Argenta, Ark, last August was convicted of murder in the second | degree in the Pulaski circuit court an6 sentenced to four years and sixmonth, in the penitentiary.
 Another placer deposit has beer found in Alaska, richer than the wild est dreams of the humble prospectol Who staked Discovery. It is on Por cupine creek, about 35 miles up th, Chilkat trail from Haines' Mission. anC as been passed by thousands of golt seekers Journeying to the Klondike. | ----------------