The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1898-10-14
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

The 1. o. G. T. is holding its forty
fifth annual session at Danville, Ill.
The United States club has been
formed in Havana to advance Ameri-
can trade.
A jury to try DIR. Rice at Salem, ILL.,,
for the murder of his wife. has been
secured, and the trial is in progress.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Charles, of Fort
Scott, Kas., celebrated their fifty
eight anniversary of their wedding
Tuesday.
Il. T. Riggs and wife celebrated the
fiftieth anniversary of their marriages
Tuesday. at their country home near
Sturgeon, Mo.
Cora Smith. who was serving life
sentence at Anamosa. Ia. for the muir
der of her father, committed suicide
by swallowing spiders.
BY order of the board of education
in Little Rock, Ark, the American
flag will hereafter fly from the public
school buildings of that city.
The commercial bodies of st. Louis
will adopt vigorous measures to pre-
vent Chicago from dumping her sew
age into the Mississippi river.
Charles w. Seymour, a farmer. who
lived near Payson, ILL.,. was thrown
from his horse and Instantly killed.
The animal had stepped in a hole in a
bridge.
In pumping out the Infanta Maria
Teresa the aft engines are being
worked by hand. There is good
prospect that she will sail north next
week.
Charles Hoover and Charles Edwards
were arrested at Hannibal, Mo-, in the
act of negotiating a check with the
signature of r. II. Stillwell, said to
have been forged.
The cotton gin house of w. c. Bur-
rus, one mile northeast of Mckinney
Tex, was struck by lightning and to-
tally destroyed. About forty bales OF
cotton were burned.
George Walker. a wealthy farmer
who lived six miles east of Astoria
ILL.,, committed suicide by shooting al
most his entire head away with a
shotgun.
On Gunther's mountain. near Noun
tainsboro, Ala, Tom Reynolds killed
lanes Sutton with a knife. Reynolds
had been knocked down by Sutton,
who was on his PROSTATE form when
killed.
What is supposed to be pink eye
aas made its appearance in several diff.
ferent herds of cattle northwest OF
Mount Vernon, H., and is causing
much uneasiness amongst the farmers
IF the county.
Virden (Ill.) miners refuse to accept
the writs of injunction mailed to them.
as the law requires a writ of injunc.
ton to be read from the original tc
the party or parties enjoined. This
was not done.
The American commissioners al
Paris have declared that the United
States would have absolutely nothing
to do with the Cuban debt, and re-
fused to hold out any hope of com
promise on the point.
The Paris papers charge that the sud
den stoppage of work on the Castel-
lane new red marble palace was
caused by the fact that the count was
drawing a commission of 40 per cent
from the builder on all the bills.
A safe owned by II. Y. Swain, at the
village of Waldron, ILL.,, was cracked
by expert dynamiters, and $50 in
cash and 1000 worth of notes and
other valuable papers, including $4,000
of township school district notes, were
stolen.
Wichita (Kas.) society people have
organized what is known as a mon.
treating club" The constitution OF
the association says that it shall be
unlawful for any member to invite an.
other to have one on him." There
are about 40 members.
Wall street admirers of the rival
New York gubernatorial candidates
were in betting mood Tuesday. anC
several wagers were recorded Two
bets of $1,000 to $500 were made by
the Roosevelt men. Smaller bets a
odds of ten TO nine were made in thu
hotels.