The Monticellonian., 1899-11-10

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 The Forde saw-mill near Helena was destroyed by fire. Loss 5000; no in- surance.
 Robert Mckay, chief of the Little Rock fire department, has been sus- pended
 John Miner was seriously stabbed by Bill Robinets, an 1S-vear-ola boy. at Rodgers.
 Henry Ewing, a prosperous colored planter, was killed in runaway at Pine Bluff.
 The last rail of the Texarkana, Shreveport X Natehez railroad was laid last week.
 Fire destroyed 20,000 feet of lumber in the dry kilns of Crandall X Leavitts mill at Warren
 John Y. T. Blake, formerly resi- dent of Siloam Springs, holds a high commission in the Boer army.
 Mack Thomas, while hunting in Hot Spring county, was killed by the acci- dental discharge of his shotgun.
 Four deaths occurred from conges- ton within five weeks in the family of Frank Belford. of Jackson county.
 The executive board of the Baptist state convention has been called to meet at Jones boro on the l5th inst
 The Clarendon Hoop Company, cap ital stock s9, 900, filed articles of incor- poration with the secretary of state.
 Effective December 1st, railroads an- nounce an advance of lumber rates to northern points of about 10 per; cent.
 Warren Wood has been appointed treasurer of Craighead county, to sue eeed his father. F. NJ. Wood, deceased
 Aryel, the little son of ]. C. Vande- grif of St Paul, was crushed to death by the roof of porch falling on him.
 The Western Arkansas Teachers As soeiation will hold its annual meeting at Little Rock December 26th and 27th.
 All the principal book concerns of the country have agents in this state hustling for the school-book business.
 Many of the imported non union coal miners are said to be joining the ranks of the strikers at Jenny Lind and other points.
 Judge Rowe decided that coal deal CTS at Fort Smith must obey the city ordinance providing for the weighing of coal
 Gov Jones appointed sam Bowen sheriff of Mississippi county, to fill the unexpired term of J. L. Hearn. de- ceased
 At Bodessa- a small town near Tex arkana, Ed Walker shot and killed Fletcher Stuclsey. The trouble arose over politics.
 Deputy marshals were placed on guard at the Jenny Lind coal mines to prevent trouble between strikers and non unionists.
 Miss Roze E. Bennett has been elected assistant teacher in the primary department of the state university She was formerly teneher in the blind school.
 R. E. McNichols, colored, arrested at Little Rock for passing counterfeit sil- yer dollars, plead guilty in federal court and was sentenced to 10 years at Leavenworth
 If advertising doesn't pay. why is 1t so many residents of other states are daily sending letters to the commis- sioner of agriculture seeking informa- tion bout Arkansas?
 Mrs. Mary Dennis, whose home was in Virginia, committed suicide at Hot Springs by taking chloroform. She was refined lady, but had become slave to the morphine habit
 George Branch, Of near Eureka Springs. committed snlcide by swallow ing carbolic acid The rash act was the result of quarrel with his wife
 The railroad commission has luled that a road over 90 miles in length, less than 50 miles of which is in this state. is not a sshort-hne" within the meaning of the statute.
 The 4-year-c!a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N r. Bridges. of Surrounded Hill, was burned to death The child clothing caught from fire iu the yard around which she was plavin9