Forney, Tex., Aug. 9 - A negro boy about 17 years old was run over and killed this morning by a local freight No. 10, going east. He ran after the train and reached up to catch on when he lost his hold and fell between the cars. Bystanders called to the train men and the train was stopped after five or six empty flats had passed over him. He was terribly mangled. His name was John Walker and it is thought his parents live at Sulphur Springs. Justice I.S. Wood, acting coroner, rendered his verdict in accordance with the above facts.

Yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock freight train No. 12 was wrecked four and a half miles west of Forney. Five cars were thrown off the track, three turning over. No one was injured. All trains were delayed sixteen or eighteen hours.

Some thief entered the store of Reagin & Co. one day this week and stole the uniforms belonging to the base ball club. The thief has not yet been discovered, but the officers are trying to ferret him out.

The laying of the track of the new switch has has begun, which will be quite an accommodation to the shippers of the section.

Messrs. Alexander Brothers have filled their large new hay barn on South Pacific avenue. It is estimated that their barn will hold 50,000 tons.

Hay is coming in at the rate of 150,000 pounds a day and all the places of storage have been obtained, and the season is not half over.

Forney seems to have caught all the tramps on this line of railroad.

The people of this precinct are very much dissatisfied over the defeat of Hon. R.S. Kimbrough in the county convention last Saturday. The Terrell, Kaufman and Kemp delegation was the cause of this defeat. Forney voted for him first, last and all the time.

The Baptists are carrying on a very successful revival in North Forney.

Prof. E.C. Lewis has been employed to teach the North Forney school for the ensuing year.

The fruit crop of this section is splendid. Prospects never better.