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THE FORREST CITY TIMES
LANDVOIGT ft VADAKIN, Pablithsr*.
FORREST CITY. - ARKANSAS
At the Swiss capital the medical so
riety has inaugurated a plan for the
iuppression of press notices of suicides,
M it has been observed that an epi
lamic of suicides often occurs after the
printed account of one such act.
Late reports from Cuba tell of an
attack by Spanish troops on a gang of
laborers working in a cane field, whom
Ihey mercilessly butchered. We shall
sow hear of another Spanish victory
where the enemy left 20 dead on the
field without loss to the royal troops.
It has been often remarked that the
bicycle will prove a more potent agent
tn bringing about rational costumes
than dress reformers. In London,
where conservatism is popularly sup
posed to flourish, the bicycle suit is
Jraduallj* being adopted for rainy day
Ivear.
Reposts from Europe indicate that
the crops in Great Britain and on the
tontinent will be more bountiful this
year than for along time. The season
baa been all that the farmers could de
lire; advantage has been taken of it,
ind the yield is likely to be mvoh
tbove an average.
President Storey of the American
Bar association struck the nail on the
bead when he said that much of the
popular resentment and agitation
against corporations was incited by
the wrongful manipulation of railroad
properties through receiverships and
reorganization schemes.
The largest permanent store of
eoined money in the world ifj the im
perial war treasury of Germany. It is
fc portion saved for emergencies from
the £200,000,000 paid by France after
the FranCo-Prussian war and locked
■p in the Julius tower of the fortress
»f Spandau. There are about 530,000,
>00 there.
It's dangerous to make a gun play
(n New Mexico unless you're sure of
Four gun and your aim. A drunken
ieaperado in one of the mining camps,
the other day, pulled on an officer, and
Blight have killed him if his gun hadn’t
Blissed fire. It was a fatal miss, and
the desperado furnished material for a
funeral the next day.
Recenti.t there died, in Portland,
Me., Prof. F. Nicholas Crouch, the
writer of that most beautiful ballad,
'Kathleen Mavourneen. Burdened with
the weight of 84 years, he died in
penury, not one of all the thousands
he has helped to delight knowing or
Baring enough of his whereabouts to
lid in making his last days pleasant.
The French are enterprising. Not
sontent with shipping us back our
Maine herring and cotton-seed oil in
the guise of sardines and olive oil,
they are now buying California prunes
(n bulk, packing them in fancy boxes
and reshipping them to the United
States to be sold to the retailer as
French fruit. There’s tricks in all
trades.
Long-distance telephones have been
placed in the smallest Swiss villages,
making it possible to communicate
from one end to the other of the coun
try on instruments kept in perfect re
pair, and on which one can hear dis
tinctly. The fee varies from two cents
to eight cents a message. There’s
where the Swiss are ahead of progres
sive America.
Consul Germain, at Zurich, Switzer
land, in a communication to the state
department, enjoins on every Amer
ican going to reside in Europe for a
given period, and particularly those
desirous of attending the higher
achools, which they can not enter be
fore depositing their papers, not to
fail to procure a passport at home.
Tourists traveling are not required to
have passports; still, the consul says,
it is always handy to have one, either
for identification purposes or to estab
lish nationality in case of accident or
trouble.
The gossips are saying that there
was a gocd deal of fake about Cor
nelius Vanderbilt’s illness. Horae de
slare it was all done for effect, and
that as soon as young Corneel could
legally call Miss Wilson his wife his
father, seeing that the case was gone
dead against him, got well. Not with
out reason they maintain that the boy
could not be so unnatural as to do
that which threatened his father's
life. Not seriously grieved by the
paternal shock he married, and his
father is driving about Newport as
well as ever.
A YOUNG German has been barred
from citizenship after a practical dem
onstration that he could not read the
English language. Two Germans ap
plied to Judge Cole, of the District of
Columbia supreme court, w hose recent
ruling in the case of an Italian, that a
knowledge of the constitution is essen
tial to citizenship rights, created gen
eral interest. Both Germans said they
could read English, and were given a
newspaper as a test. One reached read
ing requirements, and was admitted to
eitizenship, but the other made so poor
a showing that naturalization papers
ware refused.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Oompiled from Variotu Sources.
PERSONAL A NO POLITICAL.
Bkn Tii.lkt, an English labor agita
tor, who went to Antwerp, on the 21st,
in connection with the new interna
tional federation of waterside laborers,
and was arrested immediately upon
arrival, has been released from custody
aDd returned to London.
“Sound-monet" democrats visiting
Indianapolis, Ind., from all parts of
the country to look over the ground
and size up the prospects for the con
vention, express 6urpri.se at the gath- i
ering strength of the movement.
Hon. Thomas B. Rked has been ap
pointed successor to the late Wm. E. :
Russell, former governor of Massa
chusetts, as referee for 28 of the prin
cipal life insurance companies of this
country, a position which carries with
it a handsome salary.
Thomas E. Watson has resigned the
editorship of the people’s party paper
at Atlanta, Ua., to devote his whole
time to his campaign. He will be suc
ceeded by James L. Sibley, secretary of
the state populist committee.
It is reported that Hr. Nanseu in
tends to conduct an expedition to the
Antarctic ocean in search of the south
pole before returning to the arctic re
gions.
On the 23d John 'Chamberlain, of
Washington. I). C., the noted bonifaee,
died at the Oraud Union hotel, Sara
toga, N. Y., where he had irone for his
health.
On the 24th Senator Butler said that 1
he had received requests to have Mr. I
Watson speak during the campaign in
two different cities in Nebraska, Mr. ]
Bryan's own state. He looks upon
this as a favorable sign, indicating
that the west is changing*its opinion
about the candidate for the second
place on the ticket.
On the 24th Charles Frederick Cooper
Ponsonby, second baron de Maury,
died at his seat, Langford house,
Lechlade, Gloucester, England. He
was born in 1815.
Wm. McDoki*, of Chicago, has been
appointed receiver of the entire Morion
railroad system. His bond was placed
at S100,000.
According to the Belgian Times, King
Leopold intends to visit London and '
Berlin in connection with the com
plaints which have been made con
cerning the administration of the
Congo Free state.
On the 24th it was stated in London,
upon official authority, that Dr. Gal
lagher, the Irish-American, would be
released in the course of the next ten
days, and would sail for the Fnited
States without delay.
A Havana dispatch, dated the 24th,
said that Capt.-Gen. Weyler, having
learned that a number of planters in
Cuba had made arrangements to pay
the insurgents certain sums of money
in order that they shall not be inter
ferred with in the work of gathering
the coffee crop, was about to issue a
decree ordering a suspension of the
gathering of the crop.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Fire, on the night of the 19th, de
stroyed the residence of John Felhach
in Watertown, S. D. Mr. Felhach
and two daughters, Tillie, aged 10,
and Hattie, aged IN, were burned to
death. The mother and another daugh
ter escaped.
On the 20th a head-on collision oc
curred on the Detroit, Lausiug <fc
Northern railroad, near Fowlersville,
Mich., between two passenger trains.
Both engines were ditched and one
fireman was seriously iu jured. Several
cars were derailed. The accident was
caused by the west-bound train fail
ing to make a siding to let the east
bound train pass.
At Derringer, Pa., the Tomhicken
Powder Co.’s mills exploded, on the
20th, killing E. J. Whitebroad and in
juring Peter Shell, Oliver Ross and
John Kisbach. The mills were com
pletely wrecked, and the country sur
rounding was alarmed by the shock.
A cahi.kokam received from Santa
Catherina says the American ship
Willie Rosenfeld, commanded by Capt,
Dunphy, which sailed from New York
April 23, for San Francisco, had foun
dered 400 miles off the Brazilian coast.
Two boats containing 14 persons
are missing. The Rosenfeld is owned
by Arthur B. Sewall & Co., of Bath,
Me.
A dispatch from Batavia. Java, on
the 21st. said: The American ship
(iov. Goodwin, Capt. Oakes, from New
York, April 29, for Chee-Foo, is
ashore on Princess island, in the Ma
lay archipelago, aud is a total wreck.
The crew were all saved.
A boiler iu the Pennsylvania rail
road car shops at Pavonia, N. J., ex
ploded, ou the 21st, from an unknown
cause. Frank Smith, a fireman, was
badly scalded and will probably die.
The boiler house was wrecked.
Amanda Douglass, aged 18, daugh
ter of Peter Douglass, of McMinnville,
Tenn., committed suicide, on the 21st,
by shooting herself with a revolver.
She was to have been married in a few
I days. She was buried iu her bridal
dress. Trouble about the engagement
caused the act.
At Huntington, Ind., on the night of
the 23d, the Wallace circus was struck
by a small cyclone, aud the canvas torn
to shreds. Several animals escaped
from broken cages, but were recap
tured, aud four men were slightly in
jured by falling poles. The damage
amounted to fully fio.uoa
On tho 23d •!. Weston Paggett, sn
aeronaut, me with an accident at
Astoria, Ore. His balloon had ascended
2,000 feet when the parachute was dis
connected. Some of the ropes broke
and the aeronaut cnme down with a
succession of rocket-like flights, strik
ing on a hill in the south part of town.
His collar bone was broken and one of
his legs was thought to have been
driven into the hip, and internal in
juries were feared.
On the night of the 23d fourteen
barns were struck and destroyed by
lightning in Huntington county. Ind.
Thk chute around Island 40, 12 miles
above Memphis, Tenn., has claimed
another victim. The Anchor line's
steamer City of Hickman struek a
snag, on the 23d, and is lying there in
about 12 feet of water.
A runaway electric car on the Fred
erick & Middletown (Md.) electric rail
road dashed down a steep incline and
overturned at a sharp curve, on the
23d, and 41 persons were injured, some
of them quite seriously.
Two BICYCLISTS killed and three se
riously injured was the Chicago Sun
day record of accidents to wheelmou
on the 23d.
Frank Harakkr, 25 years old, of
Pleasant Plain, la., was killed by the
accidental discharge of a revolver.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the 23d a dispatch from Hulnwayo
confirmed the report that the principal
Matabele chiefs had surrendered to the
British forces, and that the war was
practically ended.
The French government is rapidly
perfecting the details for the interna
tional exposition to lie held in Paris in
liKK), commemorating the birth of the
century.
The Spanish government has ap
pointed a special commission to in
quire ’nto the matter of the con
spiracy aiming at the separation of
the Philippine islands from the king
dom of Spain, which was recently dis
covered at Manila.
A train on the Western railway, be
tween Artemisa and Candelario, Cuba,
was destroyed by the rebels, who ex
ploded dynamite underneath the cars.
Twelve military engineers on the train
were badly injured.
J. McCulla failed in his second at
tempt, undertaker within three weeks, I
to lower the bicycle record between
Chicago and New York. He got as far
as Buffalo, N. Y., on the 24th, where a
fall injured him so severely that he
could not proceed.
On the 24th it was reported in Ha
vana that (Jen. Weyler intended to pro
hibit the grinding of the sugar crop
this year.
M. Emii.e Zola's novel “Rome,” the
inaccuracies of which have caused
much comment in Rome, has been put
on the index expurgetorius.
On the 24th the first batch of rein
forcements for the Spanish forces in
Cuba to be sent from Barcelona sailed
for the island.
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
Capt. and Mrs. J. K. Fisher cele *
bratcd their golden wedding at Atchi
•on, Kas. They are among the oldest
and most highly*esteemed residents o
Atchison.
Alderman Cronin, of St. Louis, triec
to show his fellow members of th«
house of delegates a specimen of Firs'
Ward rowdyism Tuesday night, anc
succeeded.
Henry Dust and wife, Catharine, cel
ebrated their golden wedding at then
home, three miles northwest of Fifing
ham, 111. They received many valua
ble presents.
The corner-stone of the new court
house of Johnson county, Mo., at War
reusburg, was laid Tuesday with in>
pressive Masonic ceremonies, in tht
presence of 1,000 spectators.
Capt. Burnside and 22 crew of th«
British tramp steamer Moldavia wer«
picked up by the Archer line steamei
Circassia. The Moldavia struck ai
iceburg last Wednesday, and sank.
danqerous~men
▲re Republican*, According to Ron
i'liauncej F. Black.
Fuiit, I’a., Aug. 27.—Hon. Chaunee^
F. Black called the eighth general as
aembly of Democratic Societies or
Pennsylvania to order in a speech it
which, among other things, lie eharao
teriaed the republican party as desir
ing to establish an oligarchy of wealth
upon the ruiiiR of the republic, as revo
lutionists and dangerous men, wh<
would trample down alike the comiaoi
law and the statutes.
DROWNED IN A BUCKET.
Sad Kate of a Thirteen-M»nth*'-Old Child
at Wr.tvlew, 1'a.
Pittsburgh, I'a., Aug. 27.—Tuesday
svening a ls-months'-old babe of John
Moeller, of Westview, a suburb of Alle
gheny, was drowned in a bucket dur- j
Ing the brief absence of the child'* 1
mother from the kitchen. The backet,
half tilled with water, was on the floor.
When Mrs. Moeller returned the baby
was standing on its head in the water.
Every effort to restore life proved un
•vailing.
Koreat Fire*.
Ashuand, Wis., Aug. 27.—Forest fire*
•re surrounding Chequamegon bay,and
the air is tilled with smoke. So far the |
Bre has not reached nea- enough to I
place the city iu danger. The tire has
• wept over a wide area of territory
west of town, and several homestead'
•rs have heuu burned out.
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JNO. T. BRHDY,
V7atchmaker and Jeweler,
And Dealer In All Kinds of
Wateles, Clash, Jewelry, Silverware an! Diaisi
Engraving on all Goods purchased of me
Free of Charge.
Special attention will be
given all kinds of Repairing
in my line, and satisfaction
guaranteed. Repairing ofliue
watches a specialty.
£5^*1 solicit your trade and
invite you to call and exam
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the place—Sol Lewis' Dry
Goods Emporium.
In Sol. Lewis’ Dry Goods Emporium,
FORREST CITY, ARK.
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Is now prepared to do
WOODWORK and BLACKSMITHINO
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Plow Sharpening and General Repairing*
Carriage, Furniture, and Qeueral Painting and Varnlahlnf.
funeral Undertaker: Coffins of all kinds always in stott
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