The Monticellonian., 1899-09-29
BRIEF MENTION.

There will be no extra session Of the legislature
 Cotton has sold as high as cents in Pine Bluff this season.
 Forest fires did much damage in the southern part of Cleveland county.
 Mayor Watson, of Newport, rendered his resignation to the city council.
 Walter Simmons, Faulkner county farmer, was thrown by mule and killed.
 President Mckinley has appointed Mrs. Mamie H. Savage postmistress at Monticello.
 Almost every town in the state was represented at the real estate conven- tion in Little Rock
 Many vets of both the Blue and the Grey were present It the reunion at Mount Ida last week.
 Guards have been withdraw wn from the coal mines at Jenny Lind, Hunt. ington and other points
 The unveiling of the Confederate sol diers monument in Vai Buren will take place November 10th.
 ]. N. Doster's blaming mill at Kings land, together with 6o.ooo feet of lum- Der was destroyed by fire.
 The members of theatrical company were fined at Hot Springs for giving performance Sunday night
 A physician was fined s10 at Helena for jumping board bill and committed to jail in default of payment.
 Walter Green, young white man, in alighting from moving train at Cabot, was thrown under the cars and killed
 w. T. Rayburn accidentally got his arm cut at a saw-mill near Judsonia, blood poison set in and he died within "A hours.
 At Greenbrier, Faulkner county, l. c. Skillern and Jim King had difficulty over some hogs and King shot and killed Ssillern.
 The Dardanelle X Russellville short line has passed into the hands of east ern capitalists, and it is rumored the road will be extended
 Pine Bluff cotton men have filed 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 s5OO,- oG0, filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state last week
 Rain on the 17th was general through ont the state. It came too late to bene- fit corn and cotton to any appreeiab ble extent. but was good for turnips
 Jim Dilworth, assault to kill; Alonzo 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. k BaXley, Saline county farmer, while squirrel hunting, ran across a panther winch he killed. The animal measured seven feet and weighed 115 pounds
 At Jenny Lind lot of drunken miners fired over a hundred shots into the Methodist church. Had any oHe been in the building they would surely have been killed.
 (. W Jackson was arrested at Para gould by Secret Service Officer Diei1ev. charged with making counterfeit s20 silver certificates It is said Jackson will plead guilty when placed on trial.
 The large building at Texarkana, formerly occupied by the Arkansas oil Company, together with number of box cars, went up iu smoke on the goth.
 ". J. Windham, of N-.eelen, Clark county, accidentally shot himself in the foot. The wound necessitated the amputation of his leg from the effects of which the victim died.
 The state convention of real estate men adopted resolutions favoring a liberal appropriation by the next gen. eral assembly for state exhibit at the St. Louis exposition, to be held in 1903.