The Forrest City times., 1902-08-29
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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 One man was killed, three were fatally injured and one seriously in jured at midnight on the 23d, by the explosion of the big mogul engine drawing the first section of the Chi ca-go d Alton train II miles east of Mexico. Mo, while going U miles an 1 hour.
 Henry Detwil.r. formerly secretary of the Union League club If Philadel- phia. whose funds he is charged with embedding. was arrested at San | Francisco on the 22d.
 \ disastrous wreck occurred at Georgetown. Ind. on the Southern | railway. eight miles west of New Al- bany. early on the morning of the 24th. in which at least three lives were lost.
 Mrs. Minnie Masterson. wife of James Masterson, was murdered at New Albany. Ind, on the night of the 24th. and her husband is in jail l charged with the crime. Miss Wolfing, aged f5. and NJ. Wy man, aged r. son of Judge Wyman, of Viroqua. Wis, were drowned. on the 24th. at Battle island, Lansing, Ia., while bathing.
 Three persons were killed and many badly injured in head-on col lision between electric cars near Nor folk. Va, on the 24th.
 The four-year-old daughter of W. H. Skelton was burned to death at Taylorville. H.. on the 24th, while playing with matches. Mrs. Chaffee, wife of the general. who has been seriously i'll for some time, is now improving and is out of all danger.
 Four children and servant girl were suffocated in a fire at Portland, Me. on the 24th.
 Gen. Franz Sigel was buried in Woodlawn cemetery, New York, on the 24th.
 A Boston dispatch. of the 24th, says that Lieut.-Gen. Nelson A. Miles will sail for the Philippines within few weeks. He is reticent as to the object of his trip, other than to say he is not going for his health. With the opening of the sixteenth week of the anthracite miners strike in Pennsylvania comes disappoint- ment to the strikers in the refusal of the miners in the soft coal region to give up assessments for the relief fund
 The naval game off the New En- gland, coast ended. on the morning of the 24th, by the technical destruction of Commander Pillsbury's white squadron in an attempt to enter the harbor of Salem. Mass. It is reported at Newport. R. l., that James J. Van Alen is planning to dispose of all his real estate hold ings in this country and retire to En- gland, which. he has said, is "the ! only place for gentleman to live in." "Taps" were sounded for Gen Franz Siegel in Woodlawn cemetery, New York. on the 24th. Conspicuous among the mourners was Gen Carl Schurz, his cOmrade-in-arms in the | German revolution of 1s4s and later in the civil war.
 Battle Abbey, that historic English pile that marks the spot where liar old, surrounded by his faithful Sax ons. fell before the ax of William the | Conqueror at the battle of Hastings. has been leased for term of years to Michael r. Grace. of New York. 1 President Roosevelt. on the 24th, at tended the christening of Theodore and Mrs. Winthrop Chanler, al New port, R. l.. the president standing ] godfather 10 the child
 The funeral of Judge R. S. Mills, who was 90 years of age. took place at Edgewood. H., on the 24th. under Masonic auspices He was one of the pioneer settlers of that section. He was born in Hamilton county, o. but settled in Coles county in 1s40. and l founded the town of Etna. From mines near Waurika. Okla. in the Wichita mountains, copper ore was shipped during the past few days to Fl Paso. Tex, which yielded SIlO to the ton. The mines are owned bv of ticials of the Rock Island Railroad O..
 Bryant Sehick. of Chicago. awoke. on the morning of the 24th and found the house filled with escaping gas and his wife and two children. one a girl of two years and the other an infant dead. II k supposed that Mrs. Schick ! turned on the gas while temporarily insane. She left note but it was so poorly written that nobody could ! read il.
 One person was killed and seven injured in Memphis, Tenn, on the 25th, as result of the breaking of a trolley wire over an electric ear. The wire flew around the car like a whip, creating panic. and in the rush for the platform the injuries were re- | ceiyed.
 The Michigan supreme court has granted writ of habeas corpus in the ease of Frank (. Andrews. recent, ly convicted of misappropriating funds of the wrecked City Savings