The Forrest City times., 1897-01-01
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

 was stolen from his house in Indian apolis by burglars.
 HELEN COLE, 17-year-old daughter If wealthy parents, at Geneva, la., was sentenced, on the 22d, to six months imprisonment at Anamosa for bur glary. She stated that she was trying to get money enough to get bicycle.
 THE Empire Glycerine Co.'S maga- zine, near Montpelier, Ind, in which was stored several hundred quarts of nitroglycerine, exploded, on the 23d, at 7:l6 a. m. The shock was felt in every town within 50 miles of the place Harry Adams and George Hiclsok were at the magazine at the time of the ex- plosion, and both were blown to atoms.
 THE residence of Eagl Russell. at Maidenhead, on the Thames, was burned to the ground on the 23d. The fire was undoubtedly of iDcendiary origin, as Earl Russell had recently re- ceived several menacing letters, some of them threatening him with per sonal injury and others threatening the burning of his property.
 TIE gunboat Annapolis was sue. cessfully launched at the Crescent shipyard at Eliza bethport, N J., on the 22d. Miss Georgiana Porter, granddaughter of the late Admiral Porter christened the new addition to the navy.
 FRANK ASHLEY was found guilty at Detroit, Mich, on the 22d. of the mur- der of James Magee, a well-known local amateur athlete, on July last. The jury was out about eighteen hours. S ST. STEPHENS church, the most fash ionable Episcopal church in Wilkes barre, Pa, was destroyed by fire early on the morning of the 25th, the fire having caught from the heating ap- paratus in the basement The great pipe organ and dozen memorial win dows and ablets were also destroyed.
 FIRE, on the morning of the 25th, destroyed nearly one million dollars worth of property on East Thirty third street, New York city, and rem dered 100 persons homeless. Four buildings, including Sohmer's piano warehouse and the New York Poly clinic hospital, were burned.
 CHESTER R. FAULKNER, for some years a prominent politician of Indi- ana, and of recent years private sec retary of Senator Voorhees,, died at Providence hospital. in Washington, on the 25th, of injuries received by being run over by street car the previous night.
 FAILURES throughout the United States for the five days ended on the al h nrn P, Ea were 297, as against 322 for the same week last year. For Canada the fail ures were A, against 40 last year.
 ADMIRAL BERANGER, Spanish minis ter of marine, denies that his govern ment is purchasing war ships.
 HAVANA advices of the 25th stated that Gomez's advance guard had cap tured the town of Las Pessega, in Santa Clara province, taking the entire garrison and all it's stores.
 THE Colorado supreme court has denied the application for rehearing in the case of Sheriff Newman of Lake county, sentenced to six months inn prisonment and retirement from office on a charge of malfeasance.
 JOHN BRADLEY, the I7-year-old son of J. c. Bradley. fatally shot himself while out hunting near Emporia, Kas., Christmas day. He and Frank Payne had placed their guns against tree while eating lunch. One of them slipped down and was discharged, the load of bird shot striking Bradley in the top of the forehead.
 Mss GERTRUDE FISHER, alias Foster, alias Mrs. Erwin Shaw, who is but l5 years old, pretty and utterly indiffer- ent as to her punishment, is a self-con- fessed horse thief, and is in iail at Wilmington, O., awaiting the pleasure of the sheriff to convey her to the pen itentiary.
 GEN. Rino Rivera, who is in oom- mand of the Cuban army in Pinar del Rio, has sent a formal warning to Gen. Weyler. Gen. Rivera notified the Spanish ptain-general that if he persists in his threats to kill pacifi- cos found in the country the Cubans will make reprisals on all Spauiards whom they may capture.
 MRS. ANNA HANSON DORSEY, the pio- neer of Catholic literature in this country, died at Washing ton, Christ mas day, aged ss years. She was a daughter of the late Rev. William Me kenney, a chaplain in the United States navy. She was honored with personal letters from Plus K and also from Pope Leo
 JANE GAINES and Lizzie Williams. colored domestics, have been committed to jail at Gaithersburg, Md, for the attempted poisoning of the family of Charles Young, a farmer, at Unity, Md. Jane Gaines confessed to putting paris green in tea for revenge
 ROE PADGETT, of Farmers, Ky, was 1 burned to death in the town lookup there on the night of the 24th He had been arrested for drunkenness. and declared he would burn the lock- up if not released. He kept his word. ] TIE Allan line steamer Scandinavian 1 from Glasgow arrived at Boston, on 1 the 25th, six days late, owing to bad weather poor coal and green fremen. l She eollided off Cape Cod, on the 24th, with the iumber-laden schooner Car i rie Walter and sunk the smaller yes sel The crew esceped in A vaNvl and