The Forrest City times., 1900-03-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Inc united states canal commits sion, after having conferred for several days with President Zelaya of Nica- ragua. left San Juan for Panama. vis Corinto.
 The statement of the condition of the treasury issued on the 23d showed: Available cash balance. S296. 59S, ,95s: gold reserve. S255, 5,5s3,7s7.
 Six lives were lost and number of vessels wrecked by fierce southwest erly gale that swept the New En- gland coast on the night of the 24th The storm was most severe in Narra- gansett and Boston bays and Port land and Bangor harbors.
 An official call has been issued for the tenth annual session of the Trans mississippi Commercial congre ss. to be held at Houston, Tex, April F to 21, inclusive. The territory to be repre- scented embraces all of the states and territories lying west of the Missssip- pi river.
 Dispatches from Lord Roberts up to the 2ith said that he still had Gen. Cronic surrounded and was continu- ing the homhardment of the Boer camp. He was gradually tightening the line around Cronje, meanwhile fighting off achievements from Cape Colony and Natal.
 As result of ire. on the 18th. at St. Quen. a suburb of Paris, in a col lection of alcohol and oil stoIes a se~ ries of explosions occurred, spreading the flames until block of six inn mense warehouses was involved in a huge coniaeration. One hundred and fifty persons were injured by flying debris.
 Plans are said to be already under consideration at the treasury depart ment fer carrying out the gold stand | ard law as soon as the conference re- port agreed upon is ratified by the two houses and approved by President Me Kinley.
 Dr. A. J. Darling. who recently ar rived at Corpus Christi, Tex, from Manila. states that the Filipinos have killed over thirty members of the Red Cross society, and that their sharp shooters seldom respect the badge of tnat noele DfueT.
 Richard Hovey, the poet died sud- denly, on the 2t4h, of apoplexy, in the post graduate hospital, in New York, where he had been patient for three weeks suffering from cancer of the in- | testines.
 Fire, on the night of the 25th, in the plant of the Detroit (Mich.) Steel and Spring Co.'S works destroyed both the company's rolling mills. and caused the loss of fireman's life, besides iii- directly resulting in injuries to phy- sioiaI. and ambulance driver. The property loss is about S10O,000, fully covt red by insurance.
 Charles Davis, known throughout the country in his character of Alvin Joslin," and noted for his lavish dis 1 play of big diamonds, was reported | dying of pneumonia at his home, Tn Avalon, near Pittsburgh, Pa, on the | 18th.
 According to sul-General Pattes- son, at Calcutta, the season has been disastrous for the cotton crop. and the reports are discouraging from all l quarters. In many places in the south there is no cotton to pick. and not d fifth of an average crop wil he obtained. The total yield for the sea son is estimated at 641.327 bales, against 1,365,s64 bales last year.
 In tine criminal court of Kansas | City, Mo-, on the 26th, Albert Has, kins pleaded guilty to holding up" a | street car conductor one night last | September, and was sentenced to a1 years in the penitentiary. He is a widower and has two children. Two weeks before jury in the same court assessed a 40-year sentence against a negro higlrwayman.
 Senator Clarke, of Wyoming, on tht 26th, introduced bill for the admts sion of Arizona as state.