The Forrest City times., 1898-03-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. THE railroad transfer steamer $. D. Harlow, plying between Cairo, Ill.,, and Birds Point, Mo, was burned to the waters edge, on the l1th, while lying at the incline tt Birds Point; loss, 33O,O 900.
 TIE subcommittee of the house com mittcc on civil service reform, on the 10th, decided to report adversely the Evans bill, taking large number of places outside of the classified service. FURTHER reinforcements of Spanish troops sailed from Santander for Cuba, on the l1th.
 TIE damage suit of Jacob Schaefer, the billiard champion, against the North Chicago Street Railway Co. for injuries alleged to have been received in being thrown from car three years ago, was decided, on the 1lth, in favor of the street car company. FAILURES throughout the country as reported by Dun X O., for the week ended on the 1lth, were PAS, as com pared with 256 for the corresponding week last year. For Canada the fail urcs were 36. against 6l last year. THREE new battleships of the stanch- est type afloat, one to be named the Maine, were authorized by the house committee on naval affairs, on the llth. and provision for their construction was inserted in the naval appropriation bill.
 THE secretary of the navy, on the 11th, appointed a court-martial for the trial of Civil Engineer Menocal on charges growing out of the bad work done on the New York dry dock.
 PATRICK FORD, of Omaha, Neb., has made application to Gov. Holcomb for 2 pardon for his son, Patrick Ford, IT,, wounded survivor of the Maine disas- ter. Young Ford is fugitive from justice, having escaped from the coun- ty jail at Omaha following a conviction for burglary.
 STAIN is said to have prepared to dis count the report of the Maine court of inquiry by preparing report of its own commission declaring the explo- sion to have been internal, and demand ing mixed commission, hoping there by to defer the final verdict.
 AN alleged dispatch to Madrid from Berlin, on the 11th, quotes Emperor William as declaring that as long as he was emperor the Yankees would not be allowed to take possession of Cuba.
 FRANCE, it is said in Berlin, intends to occupy Lei Chau, in the Quang Tung peninsula, north of Hai Nan, as naval base.
 TnE Grand Republic, the largest steamer on the Mississippi river, was burned to the waters edge. at it's winter quarters, just below the mouth of the River Des Peres, a few miles below St. Louis, on the l3th. Captain and Mrs. Ihorwegcn and two children and Mate Stephens were on board and narrowly escaped with their lives.
 Mss LILLIAN KENNEDY, the actress, who concluded an engagement at the opera house, in Utica, N. Y., on the 18th, playing the Charity Girl,r was struck with paralysis in her dressing room before the close of the perform ance. The right side of her face, right arm and leg are affected. She was re- moved to a hotel, and later taken to a hospital. At late hour, on the l3th. she had not regained consciousness.
 ELEVEN persons are known to have pcrished, ani it is feared many others may have-done so, in the destruction. by fire, early on the morning of the 18th, of the Bowery Mission lodging house. lo5 Bowery, New York city.
 Two freight trains collided near Midway, O., on the 18th. Both engines were badly damaged and eight cars were derailcd. Engineer Van Scaid was slightly bruised and an unknown tramp was badly injured. A car loaded with sheep was derailcd and 100 of the sheep killed. The collision was caused by one engineer forgetting the other train.
 ANDREW SCHILLER, financial .brok- CT, shot his wife and killed himself in his office in San Francisco, on the 18th. Mrs Schuller was taken to the receiv- ing hospital. She win probably die. Schullers death was instantaneous.
 ON the 1sth the associated banks of New York city held Ssa, ,72l, ,3a5 in ex- cess of the requirements of the s5-per- cent rule.
 HAMPSTEAD WAsHBURNE, republican member of the Chicago civil service commission, has tendered his resigna- tion.
 HE board of auxiliary cruisers of the navy, which was appointed to ac- quire ships of the merchant marine for use in the event of the breaking out of war, met for organization in New York on the l4th.