The Forrest City times., 1899-07-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

operated in conjunction with the S. P. Lees collegiate institute at Jackson, Ky.
 Among the passengers on the steam CT Athenian, which arrived at Victoria, B. C.. from the orient, on the 14th, were Bishop Horne, who has been in. specting American missions in Japan, and Mir. Wolcott. of New York. who has been hunting in the Land of the Rising Sun.
 The White Oak breaker at Archi- bald, Pa, was entirely destroyed by fire on the 14th. It was owned by the Delaware X Hudson Co.,. and it's destruction entailed loss of at least s50,000. The fire was started by To- comotive spark.
 Bla2o Petroeics, relative cf Prince Nicholas of Montenegro, was arrested in Belgrade. Servia, on the 14th, on charge of complicity in the recent at tempt to assassinate former King Mi- Ian of Servia.
 The $so.000.000 bicycle trust. which was all but completed, went to pieces LII tit HUI. ilt tdSttIn floating the concern withdrew because of a hitch in the final consolidation.
 Patrick Carney, Clarke county (S. D.) farmer, reports that strange in- sect is doing damage to wheat in his locality. He had no acres entirely de- stroyed, while few other farmers also suffered losses. The inset seems to sap the life from the plant, causing it to fall over and wilt.
 On June IA great quantity of gunpowder exploded in a go-down of the military division at Shinkei-Yei, Japan, and over 300 houses surround ing the place were destroyed and 50 lives were lost.
 Col. Charles H. Brown, assistant chief of division of loans and currency of the treasury department, died at Pittsfield, Mass, on the 16th.
 A heavy wind storm passed over Min neapclis, Minn., on the 10th, accom- panied by lightning and rain. The front of the Minneapolis X St. Louis ticket office. was blown in and many trees were broken short off or torn up, and awnings and signs scattered in all directions.
 Twenty-seven business houses, the pumping station of the waterworl<s, the fire engine house and the city j:iil at Bainbridge, Ga, were destroyed ny fire on the 10th. Loss, S60,000; insur- ance, $25,000.
 On the 17th the city council of Co., lumbus, O., by a vote of l5 to 3, inn peached and removed from office Jo- seph W. Dusenbury, director of public safety.
 Lord Curzon, viceroy of India, will start on tour of central India, on Oc- tober 20, accompanied by Lady Curzon.
 On the 17th the contributions to the Dewey home fund, amounted to $149, making $14,4sO in all.
 On the 17th James MacGuire, cash fer of the National State bank of Eliza beth, N. J.. was appointed receiver for the Middlesex County Bank of Perth Amboy. N. J., recently wrecked by it's cashier, George W. Valentine.
 The war department has chartered the steamer Siam to carry 300 cavalry horses to Manila.
 On the l7th ex-Secretary Foster left Washington for his summer home on Lake Ontario.
 On the 17th the first and third bat talions of the Ninteenth infantry left Camp Meade, for the Philippines, via Snu EranciSco ovar tho Da,,e,,I,-o,,;, railroad. There were five trains.
 The British steamer Hoibein, Cant. Sherlock. which arrived at Liverpool on the 10th, picked up Capt. William A. Andrews, known as the Lone Navi- gator" who left Atlantic City, N. J., on June Is. in little craft named "rhe Dores," barely 12 feet in length, to att tempt to cross the Atlantic. Capt. An drews was found in an exhausted con- dition.
 A tempest has been started by Round Robin" signed by quite num- Der of press correspondents in the Philippines criticising Gen. Otis cen sorship methods, which, it declares. by eNcision of their reports. makes them a party to misrepresentations ofevents and conditions there.
 While all the world has been watch ing the Transvaal complications. and British forces are being rushed to South Africa, England has collected at St. Johns, N. F., the largest fleet that has ever assembled under the British flag on this side of the Atlantic since the war of 1S12.
 G. J. Simonds. aged 30 years. who recently started weekly newspaper. which was suspended after three is- sues. in Camp Point, Ill.,. was arrested at Quincy for passing three forged checks, purporting to have been signed by well-known residents oS Quincy.
 During n violent thunder storm that passed over Christian county, Ky, on the evening of the 16th, lightning struck herd of thoroughbred short horn cattle belonging to ex-Congress- man John D. Clardy. killing the regis tered bull Bobby Byington." the tin- est animal of it's kind in southern Ken