The Monticellonian., 1898-03-25
THE STATE IN BRIEF,

Union county is to have a new jail.
 C. ". Carter died at Pine Bluff, March Is, aged 76.
 The Stuttgart Water and Electric Co. has been incorporated
 Pine Bluff is to have electric street cars, to be running by fall.
 The Bank of Central Arkansas at Lonolle has been reorganized
 The annual state conference of Ep- Jonesboro June 14-1G.
 A $8O, GOO cotton sale q, 100 bales was made at Fort Smith the other day by the Josiah Foster Company.
 Fire destroyed the grocery store of ?. |. House at Paragould and considerably damaged adjoining buildings.
 Jack Neal. one of the oldest negroes in the south, died at Pine Bluff recently. He claimed that he war I&5 years old.
 Judge James Murphy, the well-Nnown criminal lawyer of Little Rock fell on the hard pavement and broke his arm.
 A f4=ycar-old boy from Madison county is in jail at Fort smith on the charge of selling liquor without license.
 John Hunter young white man lg years old, was killed by the explosion of saw-miil boiler near Bryant, Saline county.
 X society of the Daughters of the Confectionery was recently organized at Pine Bluff with an enrolment of 20 members.
 At the little town of Grace, | miles from Pine Bluff IL Gilbreath shot and killed Bill Childers. The trouble was about a woman.
 Telfere Hudson, alias Larry. was held for the United States grand jury at Pine Bluff, charged with robbing the postofliee at Lilly.
 Col Wm. Blair, an official of the Ar kansas Central. is authority for the statement that that road is to be eX- tended to Little Rock.
 There are thirty-one names on the regular monthly communication list of epnvicts to be released from the peni- tcntiary during April.
 The state eneampment, Confeder- ate Veterans to be held at Little Rock April 13, will be largely attended and a grand time is anticipated
 Lonzo Hurst was drowned in White river near Lone Rock, It is thought that he attempted to cross the swollen stream in sl1if and the sl1itf capsized.
 Gov Jones pardoned Wm Ryan, d 16-year-old boy. convicted in Lawrence county of burglary and larceny and sentenced 10 four years in the peniten- tiary.
 The first town site on the new rail road from Higginson to pes Are has been laid off an.. named Griffith, after one of the promoters and builders of the iIae.
 IL C Hinton. well known. through out the state. died at his home in Car enden after a lingering illness Mr. Hinton was candidate for state treas urer in ls94
 1t dispatch states that Stone county regulators strung up negro burglar until he was almost dead in order to make him diYulge where he had con cealed some stolen money.
 A prisoner named Warwick, in the custody of the sheriff of Hot Spring county. escaped by jumping through the window of a train on which he was being brought from Texas.
 Burke C. Miller, a well=known citi- zen of Little Rock. ie mYsterioasly missing. So far as known there is no reason for his disappearance. and some advance the theory of foul play.
 The depot at Rison was almost com pletely demolished by a freight train The train collided with some box-cars on switch and they were hurled almost through the building. No one was in jurcd.
 The Frcedman's Aid and Southern Educational society has set aside q ,00O for the completion of Philander-S Smith college, Little Rock. to be available as soon as S1 ,6O0 more can be raised.
 Mrs Ada J Leyman. of smithviIle, ohio, writes to Mayor Woodson. at Little Rock, seeking information as to the whereabouts of her husband whom she thinks is somewhere in Arkansas. Charles CIyburn, who was sentenced to be hanged at Philadelphia March 3l will not be executed on that day J. ". IIattey. one of CIyburns attorneys, having secured an appeal to the supreme court.