The Van Buren press., 1899-04-15
BRIEF MENTION.
has a curfew law.

Conway has a curfew law.
The water-works plant al Paragould
has been completed and Is now in opera
tion.
The public school at Berryville closed
last week On account of an epidemic Of
measles
The hank of Fayetteville has in.
creased It's paidsup capital stock to
sIe.oee.
There vere eI deaths from spinal
meningitis in Little Rock during the
month of March.
On April lst there were $50 eonviets
in the state penitentiary. compared
with 1,oos July 1. is9s.
General passenger agents of the lead
ing southern lines held q meeting at
Hot Springs April l2th.
Green Hogan died at Conway on the
10th as result of injuries received in
falling from hay loft.
Track-laying was commenced on the
Choetaw i Memphis eastward from
Howe. / T.. April sth.
Under the allotment made for the
1900 census. there will be six supervis-
ors' districts Ia Arkansas
Miss Lima Mitchell, Of Dardanelle.
died from the effects of an overdose of
morphine, taken by mistake.
During the month of March the sec
retary Of state turned into the state
treasury the sum of $3.50 in fees.
Attorney-General Davis has decided
that insurance companies have a right
to cancel insurance carried in this state.
Gov. Jones appointed Il. l. Turner
circuit clerk of Bradley county, to fill
the unexpired term of B. F. Langston,
deceased.
w. l. Elder shot and killed his father
in-law, ]. w. Outlet, in Faulkner coun-
ty. Both men were drinking, and fell
out about Outlets stepson.
The second trial of DR.. r. L. Ramey,
charged with attempted assault. at Fort
Smith, resulted as did the first trial
in hung jury.
Miss Maggie Hughes, postmistress at
the little town of Hugo, in Carroll
county, committed suicide by hanging
on account of disappointment in love
affair.
Gov. Jones has offered a reward OF
500 for the arrest and conviction OF
any or all Of the unknown persons who
took part in the Little River county
lynchings.
Revenue officers last week destroyed
three Illicit stills in Montgomery eoun.
ty and placed under arrest VIM. Cog,
burn and George, James, Bryant and
Lige Dunstor.
Floyd lsom, 20 years old, 6 feet four
inches tall. and Miss Martha Million, "A
years old and only 8 feet inches tall
were married at Powhatan, Lawrence
county, last week
Internal revenue receipts at the Little
Rock Office for the month of March
amounted to si9,34452, and for the
same month Of ls9s, s6, ass. 43, an in.
crease Of 81. 10000.
Mr.. L. b. Leigh, an insurance agent
at Little Rock, addressed a meeting oi
insurance magnates in New York City
during which be explained the provis
ions Of the antitrust law
J. d. Conant, who killed Joe Town
send at Little Rock about two months
ago, was acquitted. Conant plead self
defense The men were partners in a
gambling establishment and quarreled
over a division Of their winnings
Articles Of consolidation of the Ar
kansas Railroad Company and the Alex
andria, Junction City & Shreveport
railroad, forming the Arkansas South
ern Railroad Company, were last week
fled with the secretary Of state.
Gov. Jones last week named the fol
lowing gentlemen to compose the board
Of trustees Of the Confederate home
for the next two years: Col John g.
Fletcher. 7. J. Oliphint, B. w. Green
Geo. w. Murphy and J. T. Richie.
Miss Mary s, daughter of Senatol
and Mrs James X, Jones, was married
to Mr.. Frank Waghorne, of St Paul
MINI, at Washington, D. c., April ilth
The officiating clergyman was the ven
erable Arkansas divine, Rev. Andrew
Hunter, Of Little Rock, who performed
the marriage ceremony for the bridei
parents and oficiated also at the sec
ond marriage Of the senator's father
Henry 3. johnson, Of near Helmet
Faulkner county. committed suicide OF
the 10th inst. This was his third triA
AZ self-destructi0n- Last March he lef
home and took with him a stick O
dynamite, fuse, caps, etc, and aftel
reaching his field buried the explosiv,
In the ground, lighted the fuse and laiJ
down TO await the explosion. When &
came the hair and skin were blow
from his head, but on account Of no
being directly over the explosive b.
escaped death. He was evidently IN
balanced mentally.