The Forrest City times., 1897-12-24
 PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


 the 17th, in spite of the objections of M. Turrel, the minister of public works, adopted a proposal fixing upon ten hours as days work for railroad employees. This is to be followed by ten hours of rest.
 VARIOUS writers are endeavoring to help the public to more perfect un- derstanding of the emotions represent ed by actors on the stage. but no one has yet undertaken to explain why there are no light-haired villains.
 FIRE. said to be the work of incen- diaries, on the 18th, destroyed the courthouse at Ardmore, l. T., consum- ing the written testimony in Indian citizenship cases affecting 1,500 per- sons, besides many valuable court rec ords. The fire also destroyed the inn plement house of the K. A. Kemble Co.,, causing m additional loss of $40, 900, with S15, 1000 insurance. The loss on the courthouse cannot be estimated.
 TIE State bank of Perry. Kas.. was entered, early on the morning of the 18th, by burgla who blew open the safe with dynamite and secured l,500. The burglars escaped. They are be- lieved to be J. Collins and Charles Cunningham, wanted in Omaha, Neb., for safe cracking.
 TRAIN No. ? of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, which left St. Louis on the 18th, met with an accident at Iuka, Ill. The engine, postal car, baggage car and two coaches were derailrd by a broken truck. The engineer and fire man were slightly scalded. Beyond this there was no injury whatever.
 TIE statement of the condition of the treasury, issued on the 10th, showed available cash balance, S22s, 1Sl, ,51l; gold reserve, Sl59, ,S,692
 GEORGE SIBERIAN, peddler, aged 27, shot his wife in a cheap lodging house in Cincinnati, on the 18th, and then shot himself. The woman may die. Sheehau will probably recover. Jealousy is given as the cause.
 Two OF the new guns for the for.ifi- cations at San Diego, Cal, have ar rived, and the third is on the way The weight of these guns is P, 100 pounds each; weight of carriage 200, 900 pounds; length of gun 361a feet; weight of pro- jectile, 575 pounds.
 THE Diario de la Marina, Havana, publishes letter accusing Gen. Wey- Ter of having embedded SI6 OJO from fund which was started in Havana for the relief of the families of a number of soldiers who perished as tl,e result of railroad accident.
 A. C. Il HARMswoRTH. England's patron of arctic exploration, has presented his arctic ship Wind~ard to Lieut.. Peary, and will have her overhauled and sent to America for use in his coming expe- dition.
 THE president, on the 10th, sent the nomination of Joseph McKenna. of California, to be associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, to the senate for confirmation.
 TIE president, on the 16th, sent to the senate for confirmation the nomi- nation of Charles c. Dawes, of Illinois, to be comptroller of the currency, vice Eckels, resigned.
 JoHN MORGAN, the triple murderer, was hanged at Ripley, w. Va. on the 10th. The execution was without any unusual incident.
 MRS. LARS ANDERSON and husband have returned from their honeymoon trip to the orient. and will stop in San Francisco a short time before going to their Boston home. Mrs. Anderson, who is not yet 2i years old, is heiress to fortune of Sao.0 % O. 900.
 THE famous French model Lucie Hagerland had her beauty destroyed, on the 17th, by vitriol thrown at her by another model named Juiduicelli in a fit of jealousy.
 TIE electric light plant at Port Hu- ron, Mich, was burned on the I7th; loss, $50, 1000.
 THE National Civil Service Reform league. in session in Cincinnati, on the 17th, reelected Carl Schurz president | by exclamation.
 J. II. MARrISDALE,of of Scranton. Kas aged Sa, and recently married. was found frozen to death in a pasture a few miles south of Carbondale, Kas., on the l5th.