The Monticellonian., 1899-09-01
BRIEF MENTION.

i Arkansas fruit is to be exhibited at the Paris exposition.
 The curfew law is being strictly en- forced at Eureka Springs.
 Many new lumber mills are being erected throughout the state.
 Mrs. Lou Holmes, a pioneer resident of Camden, died August goth.
 Track layers on the west end of the Choctaw have reached Perrp county.
 There will be a Confederate reunion at Bentonville September 2sth and 29th.
 Fire destroyed the Harrisburg Slave Works August 22d. Loss, 7,OOC, no in- surance.
 The six-weeks-old infant of Mr. and Mrs Collins, of Jefferson county has two teeth.
 Wort Bottorff, who killed John Kline at Dermott July 29th, was released on g, 900 bond
 NJ. c. Long, farmer near Newport, lost $500 worth of hay from fire of in cendiary origin.
 Chas. |. Mccormick, of Texarkana, fireman, was killed in wreck on the Cotton Belt.
 Tom Jones, who killed Sam White at Hudson, near Texarltana, was captured at Leesvlle, La.
 An unknown white man committed suicide at Hot Springs by cutting open an artery in his wrist.
 NJ. B. Sylvester and A. A. Abilene and wife were seriously injured in runaway at Pine Bluff.
 Since the erection of water works, the insurance rates for Batesville have been reduced from 15 to 20 per cent.
 The barns and contents belonging to Abner Gaines, of Garland county, were destroyed by fire. Less, s2,500.
 Jim Dillworth, who stabbed to death Louis Boone at Texarkana in 1898, was arrested at Camden the other day.
 lube Duff, the young man who killed his uncle in a row at Rector, surren- dered after hiding out for two weeks.
 A. j. Hughes fell from passenger train running 30 miles an hour near Camden and escaped without scratch destructive wind storm swept over Pine Bluff and vicinity Sunday, doing considerable damage to houses and crops
 The grading contract for the Little Rock X Hot Springs railroad has been awarded to Mccarthy X Reichardt, of Little Rock.
 w E. Graham met death beneath a passenger train at Traskwood, Pu laski county. In attempting to board the train he lost his hold.
 Gov. Jones has accepted an invitation to attend a national reunion of the Blue and Gray, to be held at Evansville, Ind, October 10th to 18th.
 Little Rock officers are endeavorine to rid that city of criminals and worth
 
 in on the charge of yagraney.
 James Threatt, colored said to be 1l9 three-quarters of century, died the other day at his home near Clarendon.
 Gov Jones has offered reward of slO0 for the arrest of Henry Anderson, colored who assaulted a little white girl in Little River county August 10th.
 The village of Pleasant Plains in In- dependence county, was struck by storm on the evening of August 18th, and literally wiped out, not house be- ing left standing.
 Andrew Mcclure, negro boy years old, stabbed to death another colored boy 10 years old at Greyson, Critten- den county. The division of a water melon caused the tragedy.
 Asa Scott, negro gambler, was con victed by jury in Little Rock jus tice court of vagrancv and sentenced to 30 days in jail on bread and water
 Bill Liggon, colored, leader of gang of Miller county cattle thieves who sue eeded in evading the officers for six years, was run down and captured in Red river bottom last week
 A carload of miners from West Vir- ginia refused to work in the mines at Jenny Lind and demanded transporta- tion home, claiming the situation had been misrepresented to them.
 Col. Rudolph Fink, general manager of the Choctaw X Memphis railroad has resigned, and will be succeeded by Col Henry Wood, general manager ot the Choctaw, Oklahoma X Gulf
 ". S Murphy. formerly of Fort Smith, who served with Roosevelt's rough riders in the war with Spain died in New York City as the result oi wounds received in a street fight.
 Gideon Townsend, aged 16, of Corn ing, Clay county, took unto himself hi. sixth wife last week. The bride wa, Mrs NJ. J. Heath, aged 54, and MT Townsend is her fourth husband