The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The hnecDtel to. plant at dan- over, Ont, the largest furniture fac tory in the Dominion of Canada, was destroyed by fire on the goth. The fire spread to adjoining buildings, causing a total loss of between S250,- 900 and S300,000.
 Recorder Golf, of New York, on the 21st, sentenced Henry Zeimer, one of the heads of a fraudulent divorce bu- reau, to ten years in the state's pris- on, and James Holden, alias Frank Wilson, professional correspondent, to three years in states prison.
 Senator Hanna, chairman of the Re- publican National committee, on the 21st, announced the appointment of Gen. Francis Ninton Greene, of New York, to be chief marshal of the in- augural parade, March next. The London Daily Mail has advices l that virtually all the districts of Cape Colony in the vicinity of the Orange river are in more or less open revolt, and that there is likely to be sharp fighting on a rather large scale be- fore the Boer invasion is crushed. An 11-year-old son of Valentine Lehr, residing near Hecker, H., be- came suddenly i'll while in school on the 21st, and a few hours later showed every symptom of hydrophobia. He was bitten, nine months ago, by a | dog.
 Former Gov. Roger Wolcott, of Massachusetts, died in Boston, on the 21st, aged 5 years. He was a de- scendant of the Roger Wolcott who was second in command in the expe- dition of Sir William Pepperell, against Cape Breton, in 1745. 1 Mrs. William r. Frye, wife of the president pro tenn, of the senate, died suddenly at the Hamilton hotel, Wash ington, on the 21st. Mrs. Frye, lew days before her death, suffered an acute attack of indigestion which cul- minated in angina pectoris.
 Smallpox is epidemic in the eastern half of the United States. In Greater New York there are not less than 1000 cases, while between the Missis- sippi river and the Atlantic coast there are at least 25,000 cases. 1
 It has just come to light that Jessie | I. Beckwith, daughter of Robert T. l Lincoln, of Chicago, is no longer ;he wife of Warren Beckwith, the former baseball player of Mount Pleasant, Ia. The sensational courtship, elopemert and marriage ended in divorce by lea- son of non-support.
 Brig.-Gen. George W. Davis, who commanded the department of Porto Rico up to the time of it's discontin- uance few weeks ago, has been as signed to duty as inspector general of the division of the Philippines, on the staff of Gen. MacArthur.
 At Thorndale, on the 10th, Gen. French routed 2,5OO Boers, with four guns and a pompon. Thorndale is l6 miles northwest of Krugersdorp The British had ii wounded and the Boers fled in disorder, with about fifty killed.
 carriage containing two boys and two girls, brothers and sisters was struck by Wabash train at coun- try road crossing north of Gibson, Ill.,, on the morning of the 2lst, and two of the occupants, a girl of 2l and boy of Is, were instantly killed.
 There is a boom in the anthracite coal trade in Pennsylvania, and the companies are unable to fill their or ders as promptly as desired. The stock on hand is very light. and some of the companies are not able to lay up any eoalfor thereason that. as fast as it is mined, it is sent to points for delivery.
 W. F. Jones, who has been treas. urer and assistant secretary of the Baltimore X Ohio Southwestern Rail. way Co. and its predecessors for over thirty years, died in Cincinnati. on the 23d, aged B years.
 Emperor Nicholas and the Russian ministers of finance, war and foreign affairs do not expect to leave iivadia. where the czar is convaiescins, before the middle of January.