The Forrest City times., 1899-06-30
OTHERWISE UNNOTICEp.

The National bank of Saltwater. Okla. has been chartered. Sedalia. Mo. has arranged for a street fair to be held in the fall.
 The official report for Kansas shows . better wheat yield than expected. Mrs. August Beckman is mysterious ly missing from her home at De kalb, Ill.
 Otto Carpenter tried to board . train near Centertown. Mo-. and was killed beneath the wheels.
 The negro miners at Pana. lll.. have no money to get out of town and the operators refuse to aid them.
 Ralph Johnstone and his wife had a narrow escape from death during q fire at their home in St. Louis.
 James l.. West was convicted of train robebry. at Sedalia, Mo-. and sen. fenced 10 the penitentiary for ten years.
 The official Illinois crop report shows a very poor wheat yield. The increased.
 Maude Stovall. F years old, of Farm ington, Ky. has been missing since June :. and friends fear that she has met with foul play.
 Hennessey and Mitchell. who es- capped from the Springfield (Mo.) jail, have been recaptured.
 \ boy at Gray,iile, iii., was sBoth- cred to death in a wheat bin beneath 15O bushels of grain. which was dump ed in on him suddenly.
 Edward Hodges shot and killed Frank Connor in Dallas, Tex. They quarreled over bill owed by Connor to Hodges, who escaped.
 Ernest Tucker was run over by train near Mill Springs. Mo- He lin- gered in agony all night and died shortly after being found.
 Nigh pleaded guilty, at Hartville, Mo-, of participation in the Macomb train robbery, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years.
 William Anderson has been arrested near Linn Creek, Mo-. on the charge of killing his father, George W. Ander- son, and his female housekeeper, some months ago.
 A substantial farmer testified that he witnessed the lynching of the three Humphreys in Texas, and corroborat- ed the testimony of the men who turn ed states evidence.
 The St. Clair county (Mo.) judges again outwitted the federal authori- ties and transacted business undetect- ed. although deputy marshals were on the lookout for them.
 Three negroes are dead and one is not expected to live. as result of a riot between the white and negro miners at the ore mines near Cardiff. in Jefferson county. Ala.
 The strike of the freight handlers along the docks, at Buffalo, N. Y.. which has been in progress for everal weeks. was declared off Tuesday night. and the men will return to work.
 Mrs. Martha Heistand. aged so years. widow of Solomon Heistand. com mitted suicide by jumping into a we'll containing 16 feet of water. at her residence, eight miles east of Salem. H.
 The steamer St. Paul. of the Dia- mond Jo line, blew out the flues of her boiler. Tuesday evening, near Jersey Landing, about twelve miles above Alton, H., scalding five of her crew, two fatally.
 The St. Louis Consolidated Elevator Co. is in financial straits. The board of directors has decided that it will be impossible to meet the interest on the bonded indebtedness of the company. which falls due July l.
 The official government report says that the weather was exceedingly favorable for Missouri crops during the week. Corn is in good condition and the wheat yield is better than ex- pected. Oats are being injured by rust.