The Van Buren press., 1899-10-21
BRIEF MENTION.
Kingsland has a new bank.

Eleven divorces were granted III Con-
way circuit court last week.
A late arrival from Texas at Alma
was stricken with smallpox
Jonesboro has a new wagon factory.
backed by capitalists from Indiana. .
Uniformity of text books zas de-
feated in Sharp county by three votes.
Coal is being taken from the mines
at Bonanza at the rate of so tons day.
The Confederate veterans of Polk
county have organized Pat Cleburns
camp
1t is reported large vein of black
copper was discovered in Newton
county.
Tufts Murphy, a negro gambler, was
shot and killed by his twin brother at
Camden.
The excavating for the foundation
of the new state capitol has been
finished
Fourteen eonvicts were received at
the penitentiary from Hemstead county
last week.
The Northwest Arkansas Medical as.
ISOLATION was organized at Springdale
last week.
Jesse Martin killed Abraham Voss at
Plumerville in difficulty over a woman.
Both colored.
Senator Jones will remain at his
home in Hampstead county until con-
gress meets.
The city electric light and water
works plant at Prescott was destroyed
by fire last week.
The long drouth in the central part
of the state was broken by general
rain on the 10th.
Hon. VIM. E. Fisher, pioneer Of
White county, living near Beebe, died
on the 18th inst.
John Baker shot and killed Howard
Nelson over game of craps on the
Eagle plantation, Lonoke county.
George Coleman was fined $1,000 in
police court at Pine Bluff oD the charge
of selling whisky without license.
The state convention of the German
Catholic Benevolent Society was held
at Paris October 10th, 18th and 18th.
Jim Moore, colored, wanted in Jack.
son county for the assassination of Til
Mallory, also colored, was captured at
Batesville.
Col. s. H. Whitthorpe. of Benton,
prominent in the councils of the demo-
cratic party Of this state the past rs
years, is dead.
Rube Thomas, who killed Ed Dick
fight at Hazen last May participated,
in by several parties, was acquitted by
jury at DeValls Bluff.
The state bureau of agriculture is
receiving many letters from residents
of the east and middle west seeking in
formation about Arkansas.
The Office of superintendent of trans
portation of the Kansas City, Pittsburg
& Gulf road has been removed from
Texarkana to Kansas City.
r. II. Bowran has been appointed
superintendent of the Arkansas and
Missouri divisions of the Cotton Belt,
with headquarters at Pine Bluff.
The residences of Dr. j. A. Blaydes,
S. w. Vaughan, Dave Butler, S. p. Coll
ings and S. II. Stitt at Hot Springs
were burglarized the same night.
Cal Morton, colored, under indict-
ment in Miller county for hog stealing,
came in and surrendered, stating that
he was tired of living in the woods.
Deputy Revenue Collector Fred John
son and posse destroyed an Illicit still
near Waco, Cleburne county, last week.
Jesse Golf, the operator, was captured.
The gap between Little Rock and
Weatherford, 1. T., on the Choctaw d
Memphis, has been closed up, the con-
Meeting rail having been laid on the
18th.
Recently Mrs. Irene Turner, widow
residing near Berryville, lost her gran.
cry by fire, and in few days her barn
containing large quantity of hay was
burned.
Wort Battorff, who killed John Klein
at Dermott about two months ago, was
last week indicted for murder in the
first degree and remanded to jail with
out bail.
The state commission has granted an
extension of time to the railroads until
November Sd to prepare their formal
objections to the ira ffic rules recently
promulgated.
Gov Jones has offered a reward OF
5000 for the arrest and delivery to the
sheriff OF Pulaski county of Frank
Bruce. colored, who shot and killed his
wife at Little Rock two weeks ago.
The state board of charities has de
cided to erect three one-story dormitor
les on the site OF the buildings recently
destroyed by fire for the use of the
deaf-mute school, the same to be paid
for out of the available funds appro
priated for maintaining the school
FAMOUS IN SPORTS.