The Forrest City times., 1900-01-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


 Plans for the expenditure of S25,- 0OO, 900 in improving the physical con- dition of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad have been completed, and within the next three years that vast amount of money will have been expended Inn provement of roadbeds, bridges, tracks and equipment will be made on all Eres of the system.
 Joe Melivich and Joseph Maxwell, working in the Colsua- Parrott mine, at Butte, Mont, were instantly killed, on the 14th, by the explosion of blast that had hung fire. A round of holes had been fired, and the men had returned to clear up the debris when a missed hole went of.
 The health authorities of Adelaide, South Australia, report two cases of bubonic plague, one being fatal. The victim was a runaway sailor from the British bark Forma.
 J. $. Harrison, real estate man of Kansas City, Mo-, and brother of ex- President Harrison, was kicked on the head by vicious horse at Beaumont, Tex, on the 14th. He was knocked senseless, and his skull was fractured. His physicians hope for his recovery.
 Inability to secure bituminous coal in sufficient quanties is necessitating the shutting down of some of the man. ufacturing concerns in the Skuylkill valley of Pennsylvania.
 A recent downpour of rain for three days, together with prevailing chi nook rain, melted the snow and sud- denly flooded several western Wash ington valleys and great portion of Latah county, Idaho. Hundreds of farms in Puyallup, Stuck and White River valleys were inundated.
 Influenza struck down, at London, in the eighty-fourth year, the distin- guished surgeon, Dr. Robert Collum. Collum was tho only doctor who ac- companied Sir Charles Napier upon setting out for the conquest of Scinde in the cholera-stricken steamship Zen obia from Bombay in 1s42.
 A Central News Uondon) bulletin,on the 14th, from Durban, contained the brief statement that Gen. Warren left FIere Camp, on the 11rh, with strong flying column in cooperation with was reported that the great battle had begun, and that fighting was proceed ing at three points.
 The proposed convention of gov ernors of the arid states, at Chicago, which was to consider the irrigation problem, January F, has been post poned indefinitely by reason of the apathy shown by the governors of the states interested.
 A. Blanchard, aged 65 years; his wife, aged 43, and a boarder, William Money, aged 5s, were burned to death in their home in Merimac, N. H. The cause of the fire is unknown, but it is SUD- posed to have started from kerosene explosion.
 Gov. \. J. McLaurin of Mississippi is seriously i'll of pneumonia. His phy- sicians say both lungs are affected. The governor was recently elected United States senator for the long term.
 Lieut.. Samuel Howard, United States navy, the pilot and last of the officers and crew of the Monitor dur ing her memorable engagement with the confederate ironclad Merrimac, died at Washington, on the 14th, from concussicn of the brain, the result of a fall. He was 79 years of age. A New York dispatch of the 18th says: 1.-The outlook now seems to fa- vor easy monetary conditions in Wall street. A reduction of S1.500.000 in leans last week-presumably due to recent liquidation in securities-and 0 gain of S5.000, ,00O in cash indicate that locally the pinch is over.'
 Clarence E. Woolever, of Corning, N. Y., has established record. He has married his mother-in-law. The cere- mony was performed in Wellsboro, Pa, by Rev. Dr. E. c. Dodge. Woolever is New York Central trainman, and his mother-in-iaw, Mrs. Mary F, Lind say, kept house for him since his di- vorce.
 Representative Needham, of Cali fornia, on the 18th, introduced a bill for the inspection, under the direction of the secretary of agriculture, of trees, fruits. plants, buds, nursery stock, etc, imported into the United States.