The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1900-01-05

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organized in New Jersey; aggregate cap
ltal stock, Sill, 100000.
! Apr. l-lncrease in wages in cotton mills
OF New England goes into effect, the resto.
90 ration benehting 10000 operatives.
| y-lrouble between union and nonunion
miners at Wardner, Idaho, eliminated in
blowing up Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine
and mill, causing loss of $3.50 900 and one
man killed. IL. G. Prick Coke Co., in
Pittsburgh, Pa, employing 5000 men.
raises wages from 6 to l2l per cent
May Troops occupy Wardner, Idaho, and
martial law prevails on account OF noting
| Ii-Brotherhood OF Railway Tranmen in
session at New Orleans, reflects Grand
Master Morrissey and adopts resolutions
opposing Sunday trains.
Jun. United States court of apueals. in
session at Milwaukee, says alien labor law
apphes solely to common laborers, ex-
empting clerks and all kinds OF skilled ar.
tlsans
lO-Wages of $1,000 employees in iron and
steel manufacturing industries raised 25
per cent. Big Consolidated Co.'S IA
street railway lines in Cleveland, o., tied
up by strike for increased wages
2l-As result of settlement of coal miners
strike, 22,O00 of the 10000 strikers return
to work in Missouri Kansas. Indian Ter.
rltory and Arkansas
| A-Street railway strike in Cleveland ended
practically victory for railway concerns,
though at money loss OF nearly 5000, 600
Jul. ll-Dlstllery Go. OF Amer, incorpo-
6 rated at Trenton, n. j.; cap. $l25,000,0 900.
Sep. I2-Irust conference (35 states repre-
sented) opened in Chicago.
Io-l l.. Lockwood (Pa.) elected pres anti
trust organization formed as result of con-
ference in Chicago
2o.Antl,trust conference begun in ST. Louis,
Gov. Sayers (Tex) presiding.
Oct. l0-Pana (Ill.) coal miners strike set.
tied after lockout OF over Is mos, during
winch many lives were sacrificed
Dec. lO.-Wages of 300, 900 New England tex.
tile mill employees advanced, increase be-
ing Sl0,000,000 year
2l-At Springfield, H., street car blown nm
by dynamite for Sd time since strike began.
LYNCHINGs.
Jan. Eagle City, Alaska. Jack Jolly So.
loonkeeper and gambler. :. Near Banks,
Ala, Marshall McGregor (colored1:
charged with barn burning
Feb. ll-Near Leesburg, Ca, Bill Holt. Geo.
Fort and Geo. Bvens; assault.
Mar l5-Palmetto, Ga, negroes shot.
charged with arson.
23-ln Little River county, Ark, negroes
lynched to date, result of what is practic-
ally race war.
Apr. ll-Deertield, o., VIM. Kinneman
tarred and feathered; assault
| 23-Near Newman, Ga, Sam Hose (negro)
burned at stake; murdered Alfred Gran.
ford and assaulted Mrs. Crawford
Jun. l0-Near Sardis, Miss, Simon Brooks
lcolored), lynched by negro mob; mur-
| dered negro woman.
Jul. S-Almo, Kan, Dick Williams (negro):
charged with murder. :.
2O-freelandsville, Ind, Lon French, des-
perado.
2l-Tallulah, La, 5 Sicilians for long list of
alleged crimes.
24-Satfold, Ga, 2 negroes; assault
Wiimot, Ark, Chick Davis lnegro); mur-
der. .Hattiesburg, Miss, Henry Novels;
assault.
25-Saffold, Ga, Chas Mack; rape and rob-
berry. tugua Prairie, Tex, John Ham.
ilton (coloredl burned church.
Aug Near Forest, Ca, Solomon Jones
| (negro); assault.
Oct. l5-Wilson, La, j. L. Smith (white);
charged with cattle stealing
| 2O-St. Anne, Miss. Joe Lefore (negro);
persons perished
2l-St. Anne, Miss, John Gray (colored);
implicated in murder of Gambrel family
Nov. 2-Near Courtland, Ala, Albert Sloss
| lnegro); assault.
Dec. 6-Maaysville, Ky, Dick Coleman
| (negro); burned at stake; murder
l3-Iones, La, negro; assault.
Zi-Redgeand, 5. C., negroes and white
man killed in race riot.
METEOROLOGICAL.
Jan. lo-Saranac n. Y, temperature 80 deg.
below o.
Mar. 5-Kanawha valley in w. Va, by worst
flood in local history; Charleston almost
entirely under water. -. Cyclone in East
lem destroys property valued at s., ,000,.
lO-Sharp flashes of lightning and roaring
thunder during snowstorm at Chippewa
Falls, Wis.
Apr. l4-Flood at Sheridan, Wyo., causes
great property losses.
| 24-Snow blockade, which prevented trains
entering Breckenridge, Col, for 70 days,
| broken.
May l-Cassopolis, Och, and vicinity, cy.
clone cuts path quarter of mile wide
lo-Montpelier, O., cyclone strikes school
house; 25 children and teacher injured.
| Jun. Peru, Ind, cloudburst
22-Carrlzo, Tex, washed away by flood; so
| lives and S4,O0O,OO0 in property lost
Jul. 3-Dewey, Tex, washed away BY flood.
| SIN Texas, flood in Brazos river valley has
destroyed in 10 das. $4,000, 900 in property
Aug: 3-Near Morrison, Col, cloudburst.
lo-Hurricane in Porto Rico and other West
Indies; city of Ponce entirely DESTROYED;
| 5000 persons killed. . In Philadelphia,
electrical storm damaged Sl,OOO,OOO in
property
Nov. 29-Great Falls, Mont, train blown
from track by windstorm
Dec. Stuck river valley, Wash, flooded.
25-Jan Jaeinto and Hemet, Cal, wiped out
by earthquake.
NEUROLOGY.
Jan, l3-Cong; Nelson Dngley (exgov.
Malnel, at Washington, aged 81.
| 26-Ex-Attorney Gen, ex-S Sen. and ex-Goy.
(Ark.l A. III. Garland, at Washington;
aged 81.
Feb. 5-Col. Jas. A. Sexton, of Chicago, G.
| A. X. commanderin- chief, at Washing
ton; aged 55.
| Mar. l-Baron Farrer Herschell, former
| lord high chancellor of CT. Britain, dies
suddenly at Washington while represent.
ing England on Anglo American joint high
commission; aged e.
| Apr. Rear Admiral G.. c. Carpenter ire
tired) commits suicide in Boston sanitar-
ium.
9-Justice Stephen j. Field, of U. S. su.
preme court (retired). in Washington;
aged 49,
24-Ex-Gov. and ex-U. S. Sen Richard j.
Oglesby, in Elkhart, H.; aged "a
May l2-Ex-Gov. Roswell P. Flower IN.
Y), at Eastport, L. l.; aged "a.
Jun: l-Ex-Gov. Elisha Baxter, at Bates
vile, Ark; aged u.
2-Goy; VIM. II. Ellerbe. at Sellers. S. c.;
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