The Van Buren press., 1899-12-09
BRIEF MENTION.

There are now over so moonshiners
in the Miller county jail.
A stock company will erect a sl00 900
opera house at Pine Bluff.
The entire Arkansas delegation was
on hand when congress convened Mon
day.
The official name of the Choctaw
Route is to be the Ghoctaw, Oklahoma
& Gulf.
Herman Jessin, merchant at Tupelo,
Jackson county, committed suicide by
taking chloral.
The railroad commission has can.
celled Cotton Tariff No. 1, adopted Sep.
temb 18th.
The Longview Lumber Company OF
Prescott, capital stock, slO0, 900, is
new corporation.
A woman at Eureka Springs horse
whipped man because he gave her
husband whisky.
The executive board of the Baptist
State convention will meet at Little
Rock December 18th.
Judge Joseph Gault, one of the oldest
citizens of Yell county, is dead. He
was So years of age.
Near Portia Charles Dobson was shot
and probably fatally wounded by his
brother-in-law, Chris Holt.
J. A. Niemeyer's residence at Pine
Bluff was destroyed by fire. Loss,
81, 200; partially insured.
The general Offices of the Choctaw
have been removed from South McAlis-
ter, l. T., to Little Rock.
Within the past twelve months, citi-
zens of Little Rock have subscribed
$3.50, 900 to new railroads.
Hon. II. W. Wells was elected chair.
man Of the railroad commission, vice
Gen. Neill, resigned.
The Little Rock Touring mill the
other day shipped two carloads of -four
to the city of Leith, Scotland.
Robert Pearce, colored planter of
Lincoln county, was robbed at his
home by four masked men of 10000.
Forest fires have done considerable
damage at several points between Lit
tie Rock and Pine Bluff the past month.
The Little Rock Wheelbarrow Fact.
DRY and several Iron Mountain freight
cars were burned. Loss on factory,
81, 1000
All the members of the Jackson
county board of health resigned on
account of lack of funds to carry ON
their work.
After hiding out several days, John
Green, who shot and killed Garland
Hardage at Arladelphia, came in and
surrendered.
A burglar giving the name of T. r.
Dudley was captured in the act OF bur-
glarizing the safe in the store of ]. e.
Goodlett at Ozan.
The Wilson & Webb Book Company,
of Little Rock, was placed in the handf
of receiver on petit of creditors.
Liabilities, s45 900; assets, s25, 900.
Col. II. II, Bryant, wealthy Ten.
nessean, was accidentally shot and
killed by a companion while hunting
on White river, in Arkansas county.
Emanuel Bloom, Pine Bluff police
man, was suspended on account OF en-
gaging in personal difficulty with
Lincoln county officer while on duty.
Kansas City parties have been grant
ed charter for an electric street car
line at Pine Bluff, with the condition
that it be completed within one year.
The state railroad commission has
given notice that on the 18th inst the
question of making changes in classif-
cation of freights will be considered.
For the fiscal year ending June 80,
1899, the amount of internal revenue
collected in Arkansas was t2G9, ,0S5, the
smallest sum reported from any state.
Three robbers who burglarized the
railroad ticket office at Stephens were
arrested on board a passenger train,
where they tried to ride on stolen
tickets.
Gov. Jones has been notified by the
war department that the remains of
Lieut.. Julian Davis, killed in battle in
the Philippines, will be forwarded home
next March.
The city council Of Newport refused
to allow bill for groceries contracted
by the city authorities for family in
quarantine because it contained an
item for snuff.
The Mountain Valley hotel at Noun
tain Valley Springs, Garland county, a
5O-room frame structure, was burned
on the 9th. The guests lost all of their
personal effects.
The state board OF incorporation APP
proved the charter of the North Arlxan-
sas & Western railroad. This road is
now being built west from Fayetteville
to Tahlequah, l I.
The Iron Mountain Railway has in
creased the pay of locomotive firemen
ON the heavy passenger runs on the
main line between Texarl1ana and Pop
lar Bluff 20 cents per each 100 miles.