The Forrest City times., 1900-03-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

St. Patrick's day was celebrated with extr aordinary enthusiasm throughout South Africa
 The Music Hall building in Quincy, Mass, was burned on the 18th; loss, S5s, ,000.
 It is reported in London that the government contemplates the repeal of the coercion act, which is still op-l eratiye in Ireland. The move originates in the general good feeling toward Ire- land, on account of the gallant work done by the Irish troops in Africa.
 In official and diplomatic circles at Washington a denial is authorized Of published reports that there have been conferences with view to the dispatch of additional warships and United States soldiers to China, and that news of the gravest character had been received from the United States minister to China.
 Rev. J. B. Francolon, who comes of distinguished ancestry in Brittany, France, left Manitou, Col, at mid night of the 18th, under threats. ot lynching for abuse of small boys. He came to this country as secretary of Archbishop Chappelle, and is very wealthy.
 The influx of immigrants into Okla homa this spring is something tre- mendous. Every train bears settlers and investors to the towns and coun- ties on the railways, and hundreds of white-topped wagons, each carrying a fnr Ina seen daily on the way to the back counties.
 Miss Sylvia Green, daughter of Mrs.. Hettie Green, who is known as ''the richest woman in the world" will soon, it is reported, become the duchess de h Torre, of Spain. An in- innate friend of the duke de Ia Torre, in New York, gave it out, on the 18th. that the duke was engaged to Miss Green.
 The oldest woman in Dubuque, Ia., Mrs. Christian Lange, celebrated her one hundredth birthday anniversary, on the 17th. She takes a walk daily, is quite vigorous and reads without glasses. She was born in Bavaria, and has lived in Dubuque 70 years. Kansas will have big Exposition in 1904, in celebration of the fiftieth an- niversary of the organization of tho territory of Kansas. Steps in that di- rection have already beer taken. The plan proposed is to hold the exposi- tion in Topeka. An attempt was made, on the night
 
 fast mail, westbound, at olmstcd Falls, about twenty miles west of Cleveland, 0. A rail had been laid across the track. The engineer saw the obstruction in time to apply the air brakes and save his train.
 Two thousand women are said to have Daen formed into an Amazon corps at Pretoria. TEey are dressed in khaki kits, armed with rifles and thoroughly drilled in voiley firing. They practice behind intrenchments. The burghers say these women are all widows of Boers slain or captured aud that they have provided themselves with rifles taken from British prison- CTS.
 The total amount of old bonds 1 turned into the treasury, on the 18th, | in exchange for the new two-per- cents, was S27 100000, making the total to that date SIT 100000. Of the entire amount all but S2,s63, 500 was on be- half of national banks which already had bonds on deposit to secure cir culation or public deposits or both.
 The military governor of Cuba, after consultation with the secretary of war. has decided to have Cuba repre- sented at the Pan-American exposi- ton in 190l.-