The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-12-08
BRIEF MENTION.

There are now over so moonshiner.
in the Miller county Jail.
A stock company will erect $4,000
opera house at Pine Bluff.
The entire Arkansas delegation was
on hand when congress convened Mon
day.
The official name of the Choctaw
Route is to be the Choctaw, Oklahoma
& Gulf.
Herman Jessin, merchant at Tupelo,
jackson county, committed suicide by
taking chloral.
The railroad commission has can
celled Cotton Tariff No. 1, adopted Sep
tember 18th.
The Longview Lumber Company of
Prescott, capital stock, 500, 900, is .
new corporation.
A woman at Eureka Springs horse
whipped a man because he gave her
husband whisky.
The executive board of the Baptist
State convention will meet ut Little
Rock December 18th.
Judge Joseph Gault, one of the oldest
citizens of Yell county, is dead. He
was So years Of age.
Near Portia Charles Dobson was shot
and probably fatally wounded by his
brother-in-law, Chris Holt.
j. A. Niemeyer's residence at Pine
Bluff was destroyed by fire. Loss.
$1,000; partially insured.
The general Offices of the Choctaw
have been removed from South McAlis-
ter, I. T., to Little Rock.
Within the past twelve months, citi.
zens OF Little Rock have subscribed
$3.50, 900 to new railroads.
Hon. II. w. Wells was elected chair
man of the railroad commission, vice
Gen. Neill. resigned.
The Little Rock Touring mill the
other day shipped two carloads of -four
to the city OF Leith. Scotland
Robert Pearce, colored planter of
Lincoln county, was robbed at his
home by four masked men of $4,000.
Forest fires have done considerable
damage at several points between Lit
tie Rock and Pine Bluff the past month.
The Little Rock Wheelbarrow Fact
ory and several Iron Mountain freight
cars were burned. Loss Oh factory,
"a, 900.
All the members of the jackson
county board of health resigned on
account of lack Of funds to carry on
their work.
After hiding out several days. John
Green, who shot and killed Garland
Hardage at Arkadelrhia, came in and
surrendered.
A burglar giving the name Of T. B.
Dudley was captured in the act of bur-
glarizing the safe in the store of j. E.
Goodlett at Ozan.
The Wilson & Webb Book Company,
of Little Rock, was placed in the hands
Of receiver on petit , Of creditors
Liabilities, $4,000; assets, e25. 1000.
Col. H. II. Bryant, . wealthy Ten
nessean, was accidentally shot and
killed by companion while hunting
on White river. in Arkansas county.
Emanuel Bloom, Pine Bluff police
man, was suspended on account of en-
gaging in q personal difficulty with .
Lincoln county officer while on duty.
Kansas City parties have been grap.-
ed charter for an electric street car
line at Pine Bluff, with the condition
that it be completed within one year.
The state railroad commission has
given notice that on the 18th inst the
question of making changes in classifi-
cation of freights will be considered.
For the fiscal year ending June 80,
| 1899, the amount of internal revenue
collected in Arkansas was s269, 1886, the
smallest sum reported from any state.
Three robbers who burglarized the
railroad ticket Office at Stephens were
arrested on board a passenger train,
where they tried to ride on stolen
tickets.
Gov. Jones has been notified by the
war department that the remains Of
Lieut.. Julian Davis, killed in battle in
the Philippines, will be forwarded home
next March.
The city council of Newport refused
to allow bill for groceries contracted
by the city authorities for . family in
quarantine because IL contained an
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