The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-03-24
BRIEF MENTION.

Stuttgart is to have q Touring mill.
Hon. w. J. Bryan will speak at Little
Rock March 27th.
A Little Rock negro ate 80 bananas
in ten minutes on wager.
Benjamin Palmer died at his home in
Eureka Springs March Goth, aged 92.
A Sharp county girls 16 years Of age
weighs 800 pounds and is still growing.
The Brinkley car works, after lying
idle five months, have resumed opera
tions.
Bob Walker. an old Iron Mountain
railroad man, was killed by the cars
near Beebe.
Prof d. F. Withers, principal of the
Brinlsley high school, died last week
after short illness.
The annual meeting of the Arkansas
Eclectic Medical association will be held
in Little Rock April 1921
The annual meeting Of the State
Bankers association will be held in Lit
tie Rock April goth and 2lst.
A corpse shipped to Pine Bluff re-
mained uncalled for. and after two days
the railroad company buried it.
The contract for the Choctaw 4 Mem
phis bridge across the Arkansas river
at Little Rock has been awarded.
]. A. Stockton, wealthy planter.
was assassinated at his home near
Rocky Comfort by negro tenant.
Thieves entered the Office of the
county treasurer of Saline county at
Benton, but secured none Of the county
funds.
The 1O-months-old child of Calvin
Scott at Texarkana crawled of the
porch into q tub of water and WAS
drowned.
Ed Eastman (colored), who killed
| another darky named Henderson in Lit
tie Rock last October, was captured at
Naples, Texas.
A Texarkana negro boot-black was
given verdict of $4,000 against the
Texas Pacific for the loss of both legs
under the wheels of q train
The store-house of s. L. Leslie. at
Dewitt, was demolished by the explos-
ion of keg of gunpowder, and two Of
his children seriously injured.
Bill Kiddy, Gill Betten. Fred Noblin.
Jim Middleton and Frank Ruark es-
capped from the Berryville jail by means
of saw made from q caseknife.
Seven houses on the Walker place, in
Jefferson county. were destroyed dur
ing a wind-storm, and = gin-house
was blown into the Arkansas river.
Chas. Overton, 19-year-old boy carry
ing the mail between Russellville and
Caglesville, is under arrest, charged
with taking packages from the mails.
Gov. Jones appointed Prof. John c.
Mitchell, Of Fayetteville, and Hon. c.
c. Handy, of Prescott, members of the
board of trustees of the state univer-
sity.
| Near Clinton, AL Nicholson was cut
to death by Pete Barnes, who in turn
was shot and fatally wounded by A. r.
Merryman. The trouble was about .
woman.
The Arkansas railroad commission
met in Little Rock and organized by
| electing Hon. Robert Neill chairman,
Charles s. Collins secretary, and ]. n
Collins stenographer.
] In personal letter to Little Rock
Rock friend, James X. Jones, Jr., states
that his father may be able to leave
Washington for some quiet sea shore
resort in few weeks.
J. b. McWhirter and O., b. Caperton
were convicted in United States court
at Helena of counterfeiting and sem
fenced to five years in the penitent;ary.
| They were arrested at Texarkana last
August.
A cyclone swept across a portion OF
Jefferson county March 18th, doing
considerable damage. At Rob Roy six
houses and an abandoned train of cars
were blown away, and q negro man
was killed. Three houses were also de-
molished at Dumas. and much damage
| done at Walnut Lake.