The Forrest City times., 1902-08-29

X new schedule of wages will go into effect on the Big Four railroad on September l which will increase the pay rolls of the company about Sl00,000 year.
 The comptroller of the currency, at Washington, has declared dividend of ten per cent. in favor of the cred itors of the insolvent Lemars nation al bank, of Lemars, Ia.
 William J. Bryan has announced that he will make few speeches this fall outside of Nebraska, but will devote the month of October to a campaign of that state.
 Henry Owens, on trial at Versailles, Mo, for the murder of J. NJ. Law renee, last January, was found guilty, on the goth, and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary.
 Archduchess Marguerite Sophia, of Austria, wife of Albert, duke of Wurtemburg, died, on the 24th, at Gmunden, Austria, as the result of an operation for appendicitis.
 The annual reunion of the survivors of Quantrell's guerilas was held at Independence, Mo-, on the 22d. Most of those present took part in the raid on Lawrence, Kas., 39 years ago.
 H. St. John Dix, who was convicted of wreeking the Ameri- can bank, of Whatcom, Wash, was sentenced, on the 25th, to ten years Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
 Senator Hanna said at Buffalo, N f., on the 24th, that he had done all in his power to end the coal strike and could do no more. He predicts that the strike will be prolonged one.
 Official cholera statistics in the Philippines show a total, up to Au- gust 24, of 25,664 cases and Is,040 deaths. The actual number of cases and deaths is greatly in excess of the ofhc1ai reports.
 One of the buildings of the Butte reduction works, at Butte, Mont, owned by Senator Clarke, was totally destroyed by fire, on the 22d, and about thousan1 men will be tenn porarily thrown out of work.
 The coroner's jury at Chicago, on the 21st, brought in a verdict recom- mending that William Bartholin be arrested and held for the murder of his mother, and that Thompson and Counselman be held as accessories to the crime.
 A man named A. G. Mitchell, re- ported 10 be a millionaire from Mich igan, committed suicide. August 12, by jumping overheard from the steamer Goptic, on the way to Homo. lulu, when three days out from San Francisco.
 The Central Federation union, of New York, representing 250.0o0 work ing men, held meeting, on the 24th at which it was decided to ask Presi- dent Roosevelt to call special ses- sion of congress to take action to end the coal strike.
 President Roosevelt was given an enthusiastic reception at Hartford Conn, on the 22d. A feature of the day was the presentation of a large floral piece by the working men of the city. The president addressed a large audience at night.
 The body of -tugh Marshall. the man who was accused of murdering Miss Zada Wick, near Russellvine. Ky. was found. on the 22d. hanging in a barn about a mile from the scene of the crime, but it is not known wheth- CT he hanged himself or was hanged by a mob.
 A cable car, crowded with passen- gers, got away from the gripman at the top of the Ninth street incline at the Union station in Kansas City. on the 22d, and dashed to the bottom at a terrific speed, crashing into train that was stalled there. The gripman was killed and at least 20 persons in jured, some of them seriously.