The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1898-02-04

Rev. MARTIN GEssSER, pastor of st.
PatriclS's church at Elizabeth, II. j.,
is said to have run away and hid in a
convent to avoid receiving a purse con-
tanning s., 500 in gold in honor of his
twenty-hfth anniversary as priest.
On board the steamer Alexandra,
which arrived at New Yorl, from Lon.
don, on the 3lst, was Lieut.. Henry
Thomas Walsh, L. ). A.. who has been
sent home in the care of Capt. Marshall
on account of alcoholic mania.
AT Butler, Ind, on the 3Ist, Andrew
Casebeer, % years old, was granted a
divorce from his wife, Mary Jane Case
beer, but few years younger than
himself, who now lives with IA daugh-
ter in Chicago.
The village of Randogne, in the
Swiss canton of Valais, was burned to
the ground on the 3lst A woman and
two children persisted in the flames.
The disaster caused great distress.
THE German ship Kaiser, which had
sailed from Liverpool for Savannah,
returned to port, on the 3lst, with
headgear damaged from collision with
a tug.
TIE steamer La Bretagne, which ar
rived at New York, on the 3lst, from
France, brought SlOO 900 in gold in
transit to Cuba.
a RICH strike of gold has just been
made on the Boyle lease on the Lucky
Gus property ut Bull Hill, Col. The
ore was encoun tered in the 1S0-foot
level and assays 81, coo to the ton. The
vein is Il six-inch streak of fourine-
stained quartz and showed free gold in
profuse quantities.
a. b. SToRMER, on the 31st, confessed
to the murder of Mrs. Rathburn and
her daughter at Burlington, "a. All
the revolving details of the most
atrocious crime that city ever knew
were taken down by the county attor-
ney, and subscribed to by the prisoner.
SUPT. j. A. SWEET of Haskell insti-
tute, the Indian industrial school at
Lawrence, kas., has sent his resigna-
ton to the head of the department at
Washington. Mr.. Sweet resigns his
position to enter into business.
ADvICEs from Australia tie II of appall-
ing climatic conditions in many sec
tions of the country. The restrictions
from heat are SO numerous that the
situation in large cities is simply alarm
ing.
The International Paper Co., of Cor
NTH, Saratoga county, n. Y, combi-
nation of all the big firms in the coun-
try, filed articles of incorporation, on
the 3lst, with capital of S45, 900, 900.
A CAR load of trained dogs from New
foundland on the way to Alaska
reached Vancouver i. c., on the 31st.
The dogs will be taken to Slsaguay and
used in hauling miners outfits in the
Yukon valley.
The month of January closed with
nearly $1,000. 900 on the right side of
the government ledger. To be exact,
the receipts for the month exceed the
expenditures by 1881 ,G3S,39
RoACH's shipyard at Chester Pa,
concluded Il contract, Oh the list, to
build for the Standard Oil Co. the larg
est tank ship ever constructed in this
country. The ship will be 3G4 feet in
length, IS feet beam and % feet deep,
and will be built to carry oil in bulk.
THOMAS l.. TnoMPsoN, ex-UniteCl
States minister to Brazil, committed
suicide at Santa Rosa. Cal, on the lst,
by cutting his throat. Dependency
is supposed to have been the cause.
The steamship Germania, sailing
from New York for Europe, on the ID,
took out 900, 600 ounces of silver
GERMANY, according to d special dis
patch from Shanghai, has demanded
that Port Arthur and Ta-L.ien Wan abe
made free ports.