The Forrest City times., 1902-01-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Extensive prairie fires are reported on the other side of the internation- . al boundary. extending for distance
 of ten miles and twenty miles west of | Sweet Grass hills, Mont. Practically ! all the range between Milk river and 1 Leeth bridge has been swept by the | flames. Many hundred tons of hay
 has already been destroyed. The fire
 extended to the valuable sheep ranch es in the Sweet Grass hills. and own CTS of fiocks in that vicinity are con- frented by the serious necessity of securing new winter ranges. Capt. Alexander \. Rice. one of the
 best-known attorneys in Indiana, died { suddenly at Lafayette. Ind, on the
 18th. of neuralgia of the heart. He
 served with distinction in the civil
 war.
 Alexandre Pidal Mon. Spanish
 ambassador 10 the Vatican. has re- signed.
 The masons of the Scottish Rite
 are making the most elaborate ar | engagements at Cincinnati for the eel
 ebration February 1S to 24. of the fiftieth anniversary or the golden iu
 bilee of the order, 10 be held in that
 city.
 The explosion of the boiler of a spinning mill near Manresa. Spain,
 on the 18th. destroyed half the vil- 1 lage of Puente de Nillumara. and
 caused the death of GO persons, and ! injury to 100 others.
 The motormen and conductors in
 the employ of the Terre Haute (Ind) Electric Co, numbering s6 men, re- | fused to take out their cars on the
 10th, the company having been de- | elared unfair by the Central Labor
 union. Considerable disorder result ed
 Memorial services, commemorative
 of the birthday anniversary of Gen. ! Robert F.. Lee. were held throughout the southern states on the 10th. \ report has been received at Ma
 nila that a dug-out canoe, in which
 II men of Company l of the Second
 infantry were travelling, is missing
 and is probably lost. It is believed
 the men either perished or We're cap ! tured
 Four buildings, each four stories
 high. located in the heart of the wholesale district of Detroit, Mich.
 collapsed, on the night of ;he 1gth,
 without any aparent cause, and all ! that now remains is a smouldering ! heap of ruins.
 In fight near Walkers store, six
 miles from Taylorsyille. Ky. on the
 evening of the 18th, Thomas Jewell 1 shot and killed Nathan BrGner anu
 his son, John, and slightly wounded 1 David Bruner, another son. \ general strike was ordered on ! the 10th. at a joint meeting of the
 Appleton. kaukauna and Neenah | (Wis.) lodges of tho United Brother i hood of Papermakers. which will IT, ] suit, in less than three weeks, in
 closing the 25 mills in the state of | Wisconsin.
 Leonard Roeder. of Quincy, II. ! | ond birthday on the 2Ist He is one
 of the few left who witnessed tl.e l famous battle of Waterloo. carrying a message from Gen. Butcher to the duke of Wellington.
 Murphysboro, H.. now has a brass band composed of 20 women. There ! is not a man in the organization. ] 1 three other brass bands composed l wholly of women. one in Boston. one i in Chicago and the other in san Jose. | Cal.
 Sergt. Kichline. with eight men.
 has surprised and captured famous woman leader of Filipino insurgents. l who has the rank of general. and
 who, for two years. has been fighting | the Americans as she formerly
 fought the Spaniards. She boasts
 that she commanded 800 me, with
 rifles in Laguna de Bay. Official announcement was made
 in London. on the goth, of the anal
 gamation of the firm of Yickers Sons , < Maxim, the gun manufacturers. with William Beardmore 2 O.. man.
 ufacturers of armor plate and ship building materials. of Glasgow. The joint capital is Ge. .502,O ,O00. The Beard
 more company owns 6 big ship yard. and recently acquired ground for an other, on which the amalgamated i companies intend to install the finest plant in the world.