The Forrest City times., 1897-12-17
 PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

DC acknowledged that vice Is on the in- crease. Our people, however need not be unduly alarmed touching the effect of the weed upon the human system. Several centenarians have passed over within the past five years, and nearly all, if not all of them, were confirmed in the tobacco habit.
 TIE secretary of the treasury has re- appointed all of the members of the board of tea experts established under the act of March 2, 1897, under whose efficient supervision the grade and quality of teas offered for sale in this country has been steadily improving.
 CEN. Voy BUELow, of the artillery branch ot the German army, died in Berlin, on the 10th, of influenza.
 THE board of naval bureau chiefs, on the 10th, recomme nded that the little Pinta, which has done so much service in Alaskan waters and is now at Mare Island navy yard, be condemned and sold, as the repairs urged as necessary would cost more than the value of the craft would warrant.
 THE recognition of Cuban belliper- ency has experienced decline of in- terest since the presidents message. There is growing in place of it feel ing that a crisis of graver character is fast coming. It is felt by many mem bers of congress that either Spain will abandon the island or this country will intervene by force before the win ter is over.
 BOLD attempt to hold up Southern Pacific train at Steins Pass, N M., re- suited in battle between five outlaws and two guards and a messenger in the express car. The leader of the robbers. who was identified as sandy" or Vic. Collins, was killed, and the other ban dits fled.
 IN compliance with a peremptory or de: of the secretrry of war the repri- mand of Capt Lowering was read be- fore the assembled garrison of Fort Sheridan, Chicago on the 10th. instead of being posted, us had been intended. Capt. Lowering took care to be absent.
 URANIUM has been discovered near Black Hawk. Col. The mineral is worth Sl, 300 per ton, and the agents of French syndicate have announced that they will buy all that can be pro- duced, as it is much desired by the French government.
 JAMES WooD, the oldest inhabitapt of Portsmouth, N. H., cele brated, on the 10th, the one hundred and first au- niversary of his birth. Wood has lived there so long that the memory of the next oldest inhabitant does not extend back to the time when he was not there.
 i,nx lad l,.,. ef anarchists and have made muny house. to-house searches in Berlin, Frankfort, Mayence and Munich.
 MRs. BERNARD BREsLAU, of Brook lyn, x. r., within four days, recently, gave birth to five boys, two of which died while the other three are living and doing well, as is also the mother Mrs. Breslau is small woman, 2s years old. her husband being two years her junior.
 HoN. CHARLES FLEsChMANN died at his home in Avondale, Cincinnati suburb, on the 10th, from paralysis. The stroke. which was the second, came the day before, and he never re- gained consciousness.
 THE British bark kilmary, 12S days from new castle, England, arrived at San Francisco on the 18th. Capt. Fer guson reports having sighted an iron bark with her main topmast carried away on October ', in lat 55:44 north; long, 64:35 west. It is thought possible | that the disabled vessel may be tie long-overdue Tamount or Natuua, and seafaring men are anXiously awaiting news of her identity.
 DAVID DAVIDSON, the Randsburg | (Cal.) wife murderer, was convicted, on the llth, of murder in the first degree. with the penalty of life Imprisonment, He is said to be the son of prominent | St Louis physician. The defense was insanity, and during the trial David son appeared oblivious to his surround l ings, but experts declared that he was | shamming.
 ACCORDING to a dispatch from Shang- hai, on the l2th. the Germans are ex- 1 tending the area of occupation at kiuo- Chau and already control 400 square miles. They have arranged a German administration and are alrea>,y collect l ing duties. The tsung-li-yanen, says the dispatch, has appointed prince | to negotiate a settlement with the Ger mans.
 A SERIOUS freight wreck occurred on the New York Central railroad, five miles north of Poughkeepsie, on the 18th, caused by heavy rocks falling upoa the track. A northbound extra | freight train of 10 loaded cars, run ming 25 miles an hour, struck the ob- struction and the engine and 16 cars were derailed.
 TIE Hay ytian cabinet resigned on the llth'