The Forrest City times., 1902-12-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
 A head-on collision. due 10 a brake mans failure 10 throw a switch. caused the death of one man and seri- ous injury To three others on a Balti- more d Ohio train, st Carbon. Pa. on November %.
 Fire at Huntsville. the county seat of Madison county. Ark. on Novem- Der %. destroyed almost the entire business portion of the place. the loss being about S50.o00.
 Herman Oesterreicher miser. died at Vienna. Austria. and left a fortune Of slo9.0eo to heirs who are living somewhere in the United States.
 Fire al Henderson. Ny. on Novena- Der %. destroyed Lambert G Sons grocery and Pearson's drg goods store. causing a loss of s5O.000.
 Nicholas Kinder, = years old. was killed while hunting. near ArcoIa. Ind-,by the accidental discharge of his gun.
 Snow fell steadily for several hours al Fl Paso. Tex on November %.
 Norsille N Wright. brakeman. was killed at Cresiline. C.. on Novem- Der %. oy falling under train.
 Twenty thousand persons visited the Chicago International Live Stock exposition. November 50
 The British government has been making inquiries at all The German ports concerning Boer gold bars worth S65000o which. it k supposed. have lately been received in that coun- try from south Africa.
 J. Ogden Armour, as a thank offer ing for the restoration of his daugh. ter. will erect and endow hospital. in Chicago. If which Dr. Friedrich Mueller. Prof Lorenz' principal as sistant. will be the head, for the free treatment of children affected with congenital hip dislocation.
 Mrs. Hugh Buchanan. bride of six months, and memberAof prominent and wealthy family of Mount Vernon, Ind. is locked up in the county Jail al Springfield. H., on a charge of raising d postal money order from $ to SEQ
 sheriff Thomas Manion returned 10 Mount Vernon. H.. on the aOth. from Dunlap. Tenn, having in custody Will jam H. Murray. who shot and killed his brother-in-law. Joel Noodrome. in Williamsburg, ou November :. 1875. The public work of United States Senator Joseph k Hawley. af Counee- ticut. k over. His closest friends ad- .k sF. most eminent medical authorities that he will never fiji his place ia the sem ate again.
 Oklahoma is enjoying remaflla ble conditions. The fall vegetation is al most as mNuriant as that of spring. and the new potatoes. turnips. beet.,. radishes. lettuce and onions are to be 1 found in gardens everywhere. Water melons are still ou the market. Following a trivial quarrel. Charles Ethridge, aged ls years. shot ani killed his employer. John kesner. pro prietor of the Western hotel al Ppca- ] hontas. H., on the 30th. There were l threats of lynching, but wiser coun- 1 sel prevailed.
 John File, farmer near DongOla, H., pulled up a turniP which meas ! ured two feet and three inches in cir ' conference, and weighed II pounds It k probably the largest turnip ever grown.
 The statement of the condition of ! the national treasury on the last business day of November shows A satisfactory working balance, al- though it has gone down since Sen i tember from S95,000000 to S12 ,000O01
 The Morgen Zeiung (Vieunal says l that more than 2.0O0 of the 2.5oO in- 1 hahitants of Furni island. Grecian archipelago, have died during an epj- ] demic of smallpox There are ne doctors to attend the sick. and tho dead remain unburied
 Richard NJ parmley. president If the American Exchange National bank of Cleveland. O.. and prominent ly identified with electric railway in. terests, was found dead in his room at the LennoN hotel in that city on the lst.
 John Barrett. commissioner gcn- eral to Asia and Australia for the st. Louis Worlds fair. writes that he is meeting with remarkable success in | his efforts to interest the Asiatic countries in the exposition. 1 For the five months of the present fiscal year the receipts of the govern. ment were S32. .sTs. .930 in excess of the expenditures.