The Monticellonian., 1899-10-13
BRIEF MENTION

A AbliNt VI 2Is 'VO was ldlcCu Df public subscription to stamp out smallpox in Jefferson county.
 The public school building at Warren was destroyed by fire, thought to have been of incendiary origin.
 Three negro prisoners escaped from the Miller county jail by tun- neling under the foundation of the wall.
 The steam gin plant of the City Oil Works at Helena was burned on the 4th. Loss, $G,000; partially in- sured.
 The residences of John Buron, A. A. Perry, John Stewart and Victor Buron, at Texarkana, were destroyed by fire.
 J. H. Imboden, the Pocahontas merchant whose arm was mangled in cotton gin, died from the effects of the injury.
 J. W. Robinson shot and killed his step-son, Tom Spies, near Nor rilton. The men had a dispute over some rent corn.
 k. c. Van Hook died at his home near Fl Dorado last week at the age of 82. He WAS a member of the constitutional convention of 1868.
 A negro named Hardeman was run over and killed by a freight train at Dexter. He was attempt ing to steal a ride on the trucks of car.
 A colored laborer named Ellis Walls, employed at tho Southern Oil Mills, Little Rock, accidentally fell against pulley and was instantly killed.
 Over s60,0o0 of the sl00. 900 bonus asked of the citizens of Little Rock to secure the building of the Arkansas Mortimer has been sub- scribed.
 The little daughter of Henry Stone, of Mountain Home, Logan county, fell from the limb of tree, a distance of 10 feet, and was fatally injured.
 In Drew circuit court H. Swan son was fined $500 for intimidating a grand jury witness. Swanson threatened to kill the witness if he testified against him.
 The city council of Philadelphia appointed a committee to estimate the cost and devise plans for erect ing municipal water-works and electric light plant.
 It IS said agents representing an insurance company not authorized to do business in this state, have been operating among the colored people in several places.
 From replies received from bank CTS in the various counties, a New York commission firm estimates the cotton crop of this state will be at least 40 per cent short.
 A crop of 26 bales of cotton from a Jefferson county plantation was sold in Pine Bluff for 10 cents per pound. The same grade last year brought only 6 3-6 cents.
 The amount collected at the Lit tie Rock internal revenue office dur ing the month of September was s1S,61S.37, a slight increase over the collections for the same month in 1898.
 At Huntington fire destroyed the following business houses: Ed Davis, livery and feed stable; Oldham's saloon, Dawson's general store, and Fene's confectionery. Aggregate loss, sS, ,000.
 A difficulty occurred at Mineral Springs, near Nashville, between Dr. T. J. Draper and a young man named John Edwards, in which the former shot and probably fatally wounded the latter.
 Gov. Jones has issued a proclama- ton directing that the smallpox epidemic existing in Jefferson coun- ty be abated under direction of the state board of health, cooperating with the local board.
 The Baptist state convention will meet in Jonesboro November 17th.
 It is reliably reported the Pitts burg Reduction Works will establish a s10o, 900 plant on the line of the Little Rock & Hot Springs railroad, in the heart of the bauxite region of Pulaski and Saline counties.
 l.. R. Rankin was killed at Bren- ham Tor bv tho ov,1o,,o- sf .