The Forrest City times., 1899-11-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

of sheep were cremated. Four fire men were seriously injured by fali- ing walls and one of them may die. Loss estimated at 30,000.
 It is reported from both Hamburg and Metz that British recruiting off cers are busy engaging German under officers for service in South Africa, of fering $20 per month.
 Among the passengers who arrived at New York, on the 29th, on tine steamer Amsterdam was Senator Knutc Nelson, of Minnesota.
 The 29th was busy day at the barge office in New York, more than 5000 immigrants passing before the inspectors.
 The physician attending Della Fox, the actress, said, on the goth. that his patient was in no immediate danger of death. No great change was expected soon.
 The business portion of Wakarusa, a thriving town nine miles west of Gosh en, Ind, on the Wabash, was burned, on the 2oth. 10 stores being destroyed.
 The Twentieth Kansas volunteers, who were mustered out of service, at San Francisco, On the 25th, left for home, on the goth in special train made up of three sections and provided by the people of the Sunhower state. Brig. g.-Gen. Funston and II. J. Allen, private secretary of Gov. Stanley, ac- companied the regiment
 Many of the French Canadian news papers in the province of Quebec arc protesting vigorously against Canada Transvaal, and declare that Canadians should have nothing to do with the wars of the British empire. The seces. sion of Quebec from the Dominion is advocated
 After five days of continuous rain- storms, terrific hurricane from the southeast swept over Santiago, Cuba, on the goth, causing much destruction. Twelve houses were wrecked and oth- CTS badly damaged.
 There was very busy day at the barge office in New York, on the goth. more than 5000 immigrants passing before the inspectors. On the Augustu Victoria were 373 steerage passengers. The 621 in the steerage of the Cam pania were landed, and the GAP on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse passed through. The California brought BIT, La Touraine 577 and the Rotterdam 794.
 The triangular block bounded by Canal and Second streets and German town avenue, Philadelphia, was almost entirely destroyed by fire, on the 29th entailing a loss of more than $150,GO0, on which there is partial insurance. The fire is supposed to have originated in the warehouse of Wunderlich Bros.
 The Columbia, the victorious Ameri-- can cup defender, the fastest yacht ever built, will be taken to Europe in a short time. She is going on great eup-hunting expedition. She will rake European waters from end to end Of all the cups and prizes for which sh< is eligible to race.
 Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, who arrived in Washington from New York. in an in. teryiew, said that the people of Cuba are steadily improving under United States supervision, and are slowly but surely rebuilding their war-wasted homes and repairing their crippled fortunes.
 In the Chickasaw nation the prac- ticing physicians are greatly worked up over law passed by the Indians. which is now being enforced. A board of examiners has been created which examines all physicians. Those who do not pass the examination are put out of the nation.
 Bids were opened at the treasury de- partment, on the 30th, for the con struction of the government building at Dubuque, Ia. Of the six bids made that of Charles W. Gindele X Co.,, of Chicago, at 800, was the lowest.
 Gen. Greedy received cablegram from. Havana, on the 30th, saying that the hurricane there had done great damage to property, and that the lines of communication between Havana and Santiago had been all cut. Signal service men were repairing the lines. No mention was made of any loss of life
 By bare majority of one the su. preme court of Minnesota decided, or the 30th, that it is legal for Indians tu hunt upon their reservation in that state, without regard to the game laws, so long as they do not stole their game to be sold. contrary to law, to traders.
 Sixty men of the Gloucester (Mass.) fishing fleet were lost during the year just ended, a less number than usual. They left 15 widows and 26 children. Fifteen vessels, valued at S79,750, were lost.
 1t was semi-ofiicially asserted in Be-- lin, on the 31st, that the increase in the German naval expenditure will be defrayed hy the increase in grain du- ties in 1903, which is expected to pro- duce surplus of 9o,0o0,o0o marks.