The Forrest City times., 1902-11-28
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THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

slightly hurt.
 Fire at Lake Contrary, near St. Jo- seph. Mo. on the 2lst, destroyed great deal of the property at the race track. The loss will re- ch $20,00O.
 Wayne Brumfield was instantly killed by Henry Tiller in a pistol duel at Guyan Falls, w. Va. on the 21st. by Wayne's father 20 years ago
 Fire broke out in a coal mine near Trinidad, Col. on the 21st, the gas and smoke from which over came many of the workmen, but all were rescued ex- cept two, who lost their lives.
 Fred J. Peifer. well-known busi- ness man. was found dead in n Turk ish bath room. in Kansas City, Mo-, on the 21st, holding in his hand a bottle which had contained morphine.
 The Typographical union of Ha- vana, Cuba, on the 21st. called its members on strike in sympathy with the striking cigarmakers.
 Mrs. LeBreton, the mother of Mrs. Langtry, the actress, died at her resi- dence on ihe island of Jersey, on the 21st.
 One million feet of lumber and much valuable machinery was destroyed by fire at Norfolk, Va, on the 21st. The loss is estimated at S50,000.
 Miscreants placed dynamite in a sa- loon at Mahanoy City, Pa., on the 23d, and exploded it, the coneussion blow ing out the front part of the building and wrecking buildings adjoining it.
 An explosion of boiling asphalt at Denver. Col, on the 23d. resulted in the destruction of the plant of the Colorado Paving Co.,, entailing a loss of $50,O0O.
 By the explosion of a locomotive boiler at Thompson, Pa. on the 23d, John Markoyisch, a trainman, was killed and seven others seriously in jured.
 hemorrhage caused the death of Lloyd Q. Richardson, for 30 years prominent lumberman of Michigan. at hotel in Saginaw, Mich, on the 23d.
 Mrs. Ellen $. Gore, who met a tragic death in Paris, France, on the 18th, spent her childhood on a farm near Ravenna, O.
 fire in the umbrella manufactory of Cans Bros.. in Baltimore, Md. on the 23d, did damage to the extent of $200,000.
 Rt. Rev. John N. Stariha was in- stalled as Catholic bishop for the Black Hills district, at Lead, $. D., on the 23d.
 The new Pacific cable to Australia will be opened for business on Decem- Der s.
 The socialist vote in the United States at the recent election was 400,- GOO, of which Massachusetts cast 36,- 435.
 Maj. Walter Reed, an officer of the surgeon generals department of the army, died in Washington, on the 23d.
 As the time for the assembling of senators and members of congress shortens. the impression becomes more general and fixed that there will be but little legislation at the short session outside the routine big ap- propriation bills.
 Henry Clay Prick will present to the city of Pittsburg, Pa, university which will outrival the Polytechnic school that Andrew Carnegie has set aside $5, 100000 for.
 The Panama Star and Herald compli- ments the work of RearAdmiral Ca - iot tnt- nd maker, whose conduct, it remarks, re- fleets great credit on nation whose motives for doing good are too ire quently disparaged.
 A conference of physicians held subsequent to the death of Herr krupp, at Essen, Germany, on the 22d, called on account of stories that he had committed suicide, ascribed his death to a stroke of apopleXy, induced by mental excitement.
 Maj Ross. the principal of the Liverpool school of tropical medicine, will receive the Nobel malaria re- search prize of 5,000 Maj. Ross conducted several expeditions into the breeding districts of West Africa.
 With the approval of the minister of the interior the Austrian league, to combat the white slave traffic, will establish branches in all the impor- tant towns and frontier stations of Austria and take active means to sup press the traffic.
 For the reason that the monument is not yet ready. the unveiling of the monument of Frederick the Great. in Washington, will not take place until after April next, according to state- ment made by Ambassador Non Holle- ben.
 Dispatches from western Kansas say coal famine prevails. and that there is not ton of coal in Seward and dozen other counties, as the railroads contScate all coal con signed to the dealers. X blizzard would cause intense suffering
 On plantation in Crittenden coun- ty, Ark, on the 23d. drunken negro was beating his wife, when Fred Ger