The Monticellonian., 1899-04-07
BRIEF MENTION.

The Hot Springs Electric Street Rail way Co. voluntarily increased wages of employees 15 per cent
 The Arkansas Central has been com pleted to Paris, Logan county, and the first train ran into that city March goth.
 George Langston, Jackson county farmer, was kicked to death by mule one day last week.
 Gen. Clayton, em mbassador to Mexico, will be rendered non-partizan ban quet at Little Rock in the near future.
 Frank Williams, of Pine Bluff, took an overdose of sulphonal while under the influence of liquor, resulting in his death.
 Jos. P. Balmat was appointed post master at Conway by the president April Sd.
 Eugene Allen shot and killed A. L. Donley near Swifton, Jackson county on account of dispute over bushel of corn.
 Grandma" Guest, one of the oldest citizens of Fayetteville, was burned to death by her clothing igniting from a fireplace.
 The Texarkana & Shreveport railroad is to be completed by fall. This will give Texarkana four direct lines to Shreveport.
 During the Funniest to be given in Little Rock in May 1000 students of the public schools will be seen in mass physical exercise.
 A visitor at Hot Springs lost s200 on the shell game racket, but compelled the fakir to refund the money at the muzzle of six-shooter.
 Rufe Phillips, Ike York, Dick Mitch ell and Jim Blackwood were arrested near Langley, Pike county, charged with operating an illicit stil.
 An expert is Investigating the man. ganese deposits of Polk county in the interest of Andrew Carnegie, the mil lionaire steel manufacturer.
 A negro named Kid Sykes killed white man named Jackson near Alto, Poinsett county, by shooting him in the back with load of buck-shot.
 General" Washington, colored, who shot and killed Powhatan Vim, white, two weeks ago near Fl Dorado, was sentenced to 2I years in the peniten- tiary.
 Mrs. E. F. Rector, wife of ex-Gov. Henry M. Rector, died at her home in Little Rock April Sd, at the age of 60 years. Her death was due to conges- tion of the brain.
 Between five and six thousand people heard Hon. w. J. Bryan at Little Rock March 27th. He reaffirmed his allegi- ance to the Chicago platform and took a firm stand against expansion.
 Gov Jones granted the following psrdons: Cliff Thomas, Lafayette coun- ty, sentenced in July last to one year for grand larceny; Thos- Kennedy, Mis- sissippi county, sentenced last Decem- Der to one year for grand larceny.
 Five state convicts employed on the
 
 camp near Little Rock overpowered a guard and escaped. After chase of two days all the men were recaptured.
 The Fort Smith Commercial League adopted a set of resolutions protesting against the clause in the antitrust law, recently passed, against fire insurance companies combining to fix uniform rate.
 The county uniform text book bill, passed by the general assembly and ap- proved by the governor, is purely local option, the electors of each school dis trict voting on it's adoption at every general election.
 The miners strike seems no near set clement than when it first went into effect. Many of the mines in this state are being operated by white and col ored non-union miners, but very few of the old men have returned to work.
 A negro school teacher, A H. Hoover, Jr, was convicted in Jefferson county circuit court of forgery and sentenced to term of two years in the peniten tiary. Hoover forged three school war rants, each for $50, upen the treasurer of Jefferson county.
 Springfield, Mo, merchants are en- deavori1g to enlist capital in a scheme to build an electric railroad from that city into the mineral and fruit regions of northwest Arkansas. There is now under construction an electric line from Eureka Springs to Berryville, (which in all probability will be extended to Har- -ison, Boone county.