The Forrest City times., 1900-12-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The American Friends board of for eign missions, which has undertaken to establish missions in the West h. dies and recently sent missionaries to Cuba, has received the most favorable reports from the work.
 At Charlottesville, Ind, warrants have been issued against 43 men, charging them with having sold their votes in the late election.
 The now famous Cascade tunnel of the Great Northern railway was opened for traffic on the 11th.
 Prince Ching denies the statement that the Chinese court will return to Pekin.
 Oswald Ottendorfer, editor of the New York Staatz Zeitung. died on the 18th.
 Since the mstrial and discharge of the jury in the Jessie Morrison case at Eldorado, kas., public opinion has divided to the extent of feud, the female factions being exceptionally prominent and bitter
 Maj. Pearce, representative from the Twelfth Missouri district, who re- tires on March I, will spend the holi- 1 day recess in Porto Rico and at the close of the session will make a trip to the Philippines, and also revisit Japan, China and Russia.
 Fred Weitzenberg, of San Jose, Cal, who was with the American forces when they entered Pekin, has in his l possession q large block of jade. fully four inches square. It is heavy, and most beautifully and ingeniously en- 1 graved. Surmounting it as sort of handle is large dragon Weitzenberg asserts that it is the genuine great seal of China.
 The building occupied by the con- 1 struction department at the Norfolk | (Na.) navy yard was destroyed by fire on the night of the 16th The building contained all the important papers, models and plans of the con- struction department. The loss is es- timated at $200,000.
 The president is said to have am nounced his determination to give l preference to volunteer officers who l have been tested in actual service in the reorganization of the army under l the new law.
 1 Easing the estimate for the year upon the eleven months actual ftr- ures already received by the treasury bureau of stati,ties fl seems probable 1 that the exports of the calendar wear l 1900 will reach about $1.47O. .oOO. .0aO and the imports Ss25. .000,OO0. ma king the excess of exports over imports. or favorable balance of trade. S645.Oco.- 900.
 There was severe earthquake at Santiago, Cuba, at six o'clocl, on the morning of the 1cth. Many of the residents, fearing a repetition. left their houses and walked the streets until daylight. Two houses that were lightly constructed collapsed
 The steamship Olympia brings news that the Sanshi, or Silk bank. at Yoko- hama, has failed for over 900.000 ven. following the publication of defaIea- ton of the cashier of it's Tokio branch. This man lost 10000 yen speculating m stocks, and then ab- seconded, taking another large sum.
 A great gold strike has been made at Virginia City. Mont. by (. A. Damours, a young chemist and min | eralogist, from Canada, who has had lease and bond on an old quartz mine known as the Kearsarge. which k located at the head of the gulch. It is said he has discovered the mother lode.
 The recent Boer successes within comparatively short distance of Pre- toria, has caused a feeling of gloom to settle over the Britons at home. and is making the returned generals feel i'll at case. as they are compelled to acknowledge that the war is not vet over.
 The United States supreme court will take recess from the 24th. until Monday, January :.
 It is apprchended at the state de- partment that the reported intention of Great Britain to press, at this mo- ment, for a settlement of the claims of her citizens against Turkey will have a disastrous effect upon eur own negotiations in the interests of the American missions.