The Van Buren press., 1899-07-22
BRIEF MENTION.
The kissing bug" has arrived.

An average of 9S per cent of the as
sessed taxes in the state has been col
lected.
Arkansas lumbermen report a good
business, with orders ahead of their
capacity.
The Whittville coal mine in Sebastian
county has opened up with force of
union men.
A reunion of veterans of the blue and
the gray is to be held at Heber Au-
gust I'd and Sd.
The city of Newport is to try mum
cipal ownership of water-works and
electric light plant.
The general offices OF the Pitts burg
& Gulf are to be removed from Tex
arkana to Kansas City.
A lumber firm of Buffalo, n. Y,
recently purchased 10000 acres of tim
Der land in this state.
A young man named Brazzle, from
Scott county, was drowned in the Qua
chita river near Bervyn, |. 7.
Grant A. White, captain of Company
E, First Arkansas, has been appointed
a first lieutenant of volunteers.
The Washington Post says Senator
Jones will not resign as chairman of
the national democratic committee.
Jack Houston, an old man living near
Greenwood, committed suicide Trouble
with his 1s-year-old wife was the cause.
j. l.. Moyse, a smooth individual, was
fined s1O and costs in Little Rock
justice court for failure to pay board
bill.
Master Mechanic Cain and Road
headquarters at Texarkana, have re-
signed.
On March 18th all the county collee-
tors had settled with the state except
six, and they were expected to settle
within two weeks
Hugh Neill, son of Railroad Commits
sioner Neill, has been appointed Sec
ond lieutenant in the army. He is now
in the Philippines.
Oliver Jones; aged 60, who lived the
life of a hermit, died July 18th at Pine
Bluff. He owned property in Louis
lana valued at S35, 900.
c. L. Minor, a Jackson county farmer,
sowed 20 bushels each of oats and wheat
and harvested 500 bushels OF wheat
and 800 bushels of oats.
Near Texarkana Archie Green, a
young white boy, was killed by the ac-
cidental discharge Of pistol in the
hands of playmate.
James A. Long, of Springdale, cap
tain in Company T. First Arkansas Vol
unteers, has been appointed first lieu
tenant in the regular army.
More money has been invested in
mineral lands in northwest Arkansas
within the past three months than dur
ing three years previous.
The receiver has given notice that
the affairs of the First National Bank,
of Little Rock, will be wound up within
the next three months.
A preliminary survey OF the st. Louis,
Sloan Springs & Southern railroad has
been completed from Pomona, Mo-, to
Harrison, Boone county.
Lafayette Leath, who removed from
Alabama to jefferson county in 1888,
where he has resided ever since, died
last week at the age OF II.
The acts of the last legislature have
been printed and are now being dis
tributed. The volume contains 4l6
pages, the largest in 30 years.
The preliminary survey OF the Little
Rock & Hot Springs Uott) railroad has
been completed, and construction work
will commence within 60 days.
City Marshal McKown, of Hunting
ton, charged with contempt in the
Federal injunction coal strike trouble,
was discharged by Judge Rodgers.
w. L. Gunthrop, a colored school
teacher Of Faulkner county, was SEN
fenced to one year in the penitentia
for violating the age OF consent law.
A carload of supplies contributed by
citizens of Texarkana for the Texas
food sufferers was transported to its
destination free of charge by the Texas
Pacific.
At the meeting of the State Sheriffs'
Association, held in Little Rock, reso-
luton urging the necessity of enlarg-
ing the insane asylum was unanimously
adopted.
The 1s-months-old infant of Mrs.
Cushing was drowned in well at Lit
tie Rock. The child was playing around
the well and stepped on loose plank.
Tom Black has brought suit for IS, 900
damage against Sheriff Harrell, of Sc
bastian county, for OBTAINING him in jail
and refusing to accept a bond signed
by his attorney.
t. l.. Finney, convicted in Fulton
county last April of carrying a pistol,
has been granted a pardon. Finney
was indicled in 1855, and the case was
on the docket IA years