The Forrest City times., 1898-11-18
BRIEF MENTION.

A new Baptist church is being erected at Fort Smith.
 To date there has been g assertions from the Second Regiment.
 The Martin Mining Company, of Rus sellville, is new corporation.
 The grocery store of Mrs. Whitaker, at Pine Bluff, was destroyed by fire. Robert Baker, aged IS, living near Piggott, was kicked to death by horse
 The output of lumber products at Fordyce the past year amounted to s40o. 900.
 Three hundred delegates attended the coloied Baptist convention, held in Pine Bluff.
 W B. Haley, of Randolph county, raised 240 bushels of peanuts per acre planted this year.
 Joe Lefors, a young man, living at Mason Valley, Benton county. shielded by jumping in well. Seventeen thousand head of cattle are being fattened for the market at the oil mills in Little Rock. Bishop Derrick, of the A. M. E. church, says whisky drinking preach | CTS must seek other callings. Hon. Frank Wilson, formerly of Wash lngton county, was elected to congress from Arizona at the recent election
 John" an aged and decrepid China. man, was fatally injured by Cotton Belt train in the yards at Pine Bluff. Five prisoners escaped from jail at Van Buren by punchinga hole through the roof with an iron window-weight. John Hyde, colored brakeman on near Walnut Lake and was instantly killed.
 Little Rock has the only castor-oil factory in the entire south and one of the half-dozen in the whole United States.
 The United States fish commission is now distributing 12,Oooo young bass and trout in Arkansas and Louisiana streams.
 St Louis capitalists are erecting a large factory at Mablevale, Pulaski county, for the manufacture of bauxite products.
 A Fort Smith exchange says there has I
 been more building in that city during 1898 than in any previous year in the towns history.
 Josie Landers, an inmate of the Sebas- tian county home for the poor, was burned to death by her clothing acci- dentally catching fire. | Gov. Jones will recommend to the legislature that provision be made for the employment of a lady physician at the state insane asylum. | Chaplain BabcoclS of the Second Regiment, in letter to a Little Rock friend, says the regiment was never in better physical condition. l II. H. Wiysel, Newport contractor, | died from the effects of an overdose of chloroform. He took the drug to re- lieve pain caused by cramp collie. Revenue officers last week destroyed two illicit stills in Howard county, one of sixty gallons near Nashville and another of thirty gallonsnear Umpire. | No arrests were made. | John A. Bowers, white man, was arrested at Pine Bluff at the request of | Federal officers, who claim that up to few weeks ago he operated an illicit still in Arkansas county. w. s. IIubbs, of Walnut Ridge, while walking along the railroad track from his home to his place of business, was struck by coach step of a passing train and killed.
 The laying of the Confederate monu- ment cornerstone at Van Buren will take place on the 24th inst. A large number of ex-soldiers and their friends are expected to be present Henry Ellis and hislittle girl, of Fort Smith, were poisoned by eating horse radish which had been made mp with vinegar in tin vessel aud allowed to stand. They will recover A citizen of Franklin county in at tendance at the Grand Lodge, F. S A. M., held in Little Rock, had narrow escape from death by asphy He blew out the gas in his room. +, A. Heiner, engineer at the Pine Bluff cotton oil mill, met with pain ful accident. While oiling the machin- cry his hand was caught and mashed so that amputation was necessary.