The Van Buren press., 1899-09-30
BRIEF MENTION.

legislature.
Cotton has sold as high as cents in
Pine Bluff this season.
Venison steak is retailing at 20 cents
per pound in Little Rock.
A heavy frost fell in Jackson county
on the night of September 25th.
Gov. Jones and staff took part in the
Dewey celebration at Hot Springs.
Galloway college, Searcy, and Hen
dirk college, Conway, opened Septem-
ber 2sth.
President Mckinley has appointed
Mrs Mamie II. Savage postmistress at
Monticello.
Aim ost every town in the state was
represented at the real estate conven-
tion, in Little Rock.
The unveiling of the Confederate SOL
diers' monument in Van Buren, will
take place November 10th.
J. w. Doster's planning mill at Kings
land, together with 10000 feet of lum-
ber, was DESTROYED by fire.
The members of theatrical company
were fined at Hot Springs for giving a
performance Sunday night.
A physician was fined $40 at Helena
for jumping board bill and committed
to Jail in default of payment.
The North Arkansas Teachers Asso-
citation will hold its annual meeting at
Jonesboro November Sd and 4th.
Three stores at Holly Springs were
robbed in one night, the thieves get
ting away with considerable booty.
Shulz Kline brow, engineer on the
Gates Lumber Company's slog train, was
killed near Wilmar by falling log.
1t is rumored the bridge and building
department of the Cotton Belt is to he
removed from Pine Bluff to Texarkana
Walter Green, young white man,
in alighting from moving train at
Cal bot, was thrown under the cars and
killed.
Revenue officers made raid in How
ard county last week, capturing Gale
Ward and Henry Chambers, moon
sinners.
At Greenbrier, Faulkner county, |. C.
/, Skillern and Jim King had difficulty
over some hogs and King shot and killed
Skillern.
B. f. Walker, of Polk county, was
arrested on the charge of violating the
postal laws by dunniRg debtor on p
postal card.
The 5-year. old son of w. L. Jackson,
Union county planter, fell from a
wagon, the whell passing over his body,
killing him instantly.
Pine Bluff cotton men have filed a
protest against the rates on cotton and
cotton seed products promulgated by
the railroad commission.
The Bonanza Copper Lode Mining
Company, of Mena, capital stock $780,.
900, filed articles of incorporation with
the secretary of state last week.
Jim Dillworth, assault to kill; Alon zo
Bradley, burglary, and Tony Stafford,
murder, escaped from the Miller county
! Jail by digging hole under the wall.
Louise, the 12-year-old daughter Of
Joe Lipari, while gathering nuts in the
woods near Texarkana, fell from tree
and received injuries from which she
died.
NJ r. Baxley, Saline county farmer
while squirrel hunting, ran across q
panther winch he killed. The anima'
measured seven feet and weighed lis
pounds.
As result of neighborhood quar-
rel Ii. j. Woodbridge shot and killed
Ivory Jackson near Yorktown, Lincolr
county, Both were prominent planters
Woodbridge surrendered.
Til Mallory, eolored, was assassinateC
at his home near Newport, presumably
by another negro named Jim Moore
The men had been at outs for year
At Jenny Lind a lot of drunker
miners fired over hundred shots int
the Methodist church. Had any on,
been in the building they would surely
have been killed.
1t is announced funds for the exten
sion of the Eureka Springs road to Har
rison, Boone county, have been sub
seribed by st. Louis parties, and con
tracts for the extension have been let
Col. Fordyce says the Little Rock
Hot Springs & Western, now unde
construction. will erect the finest pas
senger depot in the state at Hot Springs
A prominent cotton man of Littl
Rock who has been handling the fieec,
staple in Arkansas the past 20 years
gives it as his opinion that this year
crop will not reach 100000 bales.
The state convention Of real estat
men adopted resolutions favoring
liberal appropriation by the next ger
eral assembly for a state exhibit at tn
St. Louis exposition, to be held in 1906