The Van Buren press., 1899-09-02
BRIEF MENTION.

Arkansas fruit is to be exhibited at
the Paris exposition.
The eurfew law is being strictly en-
forced at Eureka Springs.
Many new lumber mills are being
erected throughout the state.
Track layers on the west end of the
Choetaw have reached Perrp county.
From the artesian well at Monticello
flows 6,000 gallons of water per hour.
There will be Confederate reunion
at Bentonville September2sth and Goth.
Walter Simmons a Faulkner county
farmer, was thrown by mule and
killed.
Fire destroyed the Harrisburg Stave
Works August 22d. Loss, $1,000; no in
surance.
Chas. L. Mccormick, of Texarkana, a
fireman, was killed in wreck on the
Cotton Belt.
An unknown white man committed
suicide at Hot Springs by cutting open
an artery in his wrist.
NJ. b. Sylvester and A. A. Abilene
and wife were seriously injured in a
runaway at Pine Bluff.
Thirty-six convicts will be released
from the penitentiary during Septem-
ber, their terms expiring.
OThe tax assessor of Garland county
has doubled the assessment of a num-
Der of large property holders.
The George NJ. Waters, small stern
wheel steamer, sunk in six feet of water
10 miles below Arkansas City.
While attempting to escape from Off
GERS, G. L. Jones, colored, was drowned
in Poteau river near Fort Smith.
James Hennesey, a railroad man, was
found dead on the river bank at Fort
Smith. No evidence of violence.
A destructive wind storm swept over
Pine Bluff and vicinity Sunday, doing
considerable damage to houses and
crops
L. D. Morse, a white convict, was
shot and killed bya guard in Jefferson
county while making an effort to
escape.
The grading contract for the Little
Rock & Hot Springs railroad has been
awarded to Mccarthy & keichardt, of
Little Rock.
Gov Jones has accepted an invitation
to attend a national reunion of the
Blue and Gray, to be held at Evansville,
Ind, October 10th to 18th
Ben Muldrew and John Dooley, both
charged with murder, escaped from jail
at New Lewisville by burning a hole
through the roof of their cell
At the meeting of the American Bar
Association, held in Buffalo, Judge U.
NJ. Rose, of Little Rock, was elected a
member of the executive committee.
Asa Scott, negro gambler, was con-
victed by jury in Little Rock JUS
tice court of vagrancy and sentenced
to 80 days in jail on bread and water.
A Little Rock lady the other dav dis
| covered man hid under her bed. She
ran from the room screaming and the
intruder escaped through an open win
dow
The village of Pleasant Plains, in In
| dependence county, was struck nv a
storm on the evening of August 25th.
and literally wiped out, not a house be-
ing left standing.
Andrew Mcclure, negro boy wears
old, stabbed to death another eolored
boy 10 years old, at Greyson, Critten.
den county. The division OF a water.
melon caused the tragedy.
A carload of miners from West Vir.
ginia refused to work in the mines AZ
Jenny Lind and demanded transporta-
tlon home, claiming the situation had
been misrepresented to them.
Col. Rudolph Fink, general manager
oil the Choetaw & Memphis railroad.
has resigned, and will be succeeded bv
Col Henry Wood, general manager Of
the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf
W. ;. Murphy, formerly of Fort
smith, who served with Roosevelt's
rough riders In the war with Spain
died in New York City as the resplt q,