The Van Buren press., 1899-11-11
BRIEF MENTION.


factory.
A $4,000 hotel is to be erected at
Osceola.
The Garnett coal mines near Camden
were sold for 800, 900.
Crawford county farmers will expert
ment with sugar beets.
J. L. Hearn, sheriff of Mississippi
county, died October 3lst.
The Hot Springs city council passed
an anti-drumming ordinance.
The city council of Little Rock will
be petitioned to pass a curfew law.
Robert Mckay, chief of the Little
Rock fire department, has been sus-
pended
John Miner was seriously stabbed by
Bill Robinets, an 18-year-od boy, at
Rodgers
Henry Ewing, a prosperous colored
planter, was killed in runaway at
Pine Bluff.
II. r. Coombs, of Batesville has gone
to South Africa to enlist in the Eng
lish army.
The last rail of the Texarkana,
Shreveport e. Natchez railroad was
laid last week.
Fire destroyed 10000 feet of lumber
in the dry kilns of Crandall & Leavitt's
mill at Warren.
Dr. w. H. Barnett was found dead
in bed at Fordyce. His death was due
to natural causes.
Mrs. Harriet Morrill,, aged 90 years,
who had lived at Morrilton since 1912,
passed away last week.
Mack Thomas, while hunting in Hot
Spring county, was killed by the acci-
dental discharge of his shotgun.
A negro named Pock was shot and
killed by deputy marshal during a
general row in a saloon at Osceola.
Four deaths occurred from conges-
tion within five weeks in the family of
Frank Belford, of Jackson county.
The executive board of the Baptist
state convention has been called to
meet at Jonesboro on the 18th inst
The Clarendon Hoop Company, cap
ital stock $1,000, filed articles of incor-
poration with the secretary of state.
| Arvel, the little son of j. C. Vande-
grif OF st. Paul, was crushed to death
by the roof of a porch falling on him
Many of the imported op.union coal
miners are said to be joining the ranks
of the strikers at Jenny Lind and other
points.
Gov. Jones appointed Sam Bowen
sheriff of Mississippi county, to fill
the unexpired term OF ]. L. Hearn, de-
ceased,
Judge Rowe decided that coal deal
ers at Fort Smith must obey the city
ordinance providing for the weighing
Of coal.
At Rodessa, q small town near Tex.
arkana, Ed Walker shot and killed
Fletcher Stuckey. The trouble arose
over politics.
Deputy marshals were placed on
guard at the Jenny Lind coal mines to
prevent trouble between strikers and
non-unionists.
Attorney General Davis gives it as
his opinion that county clerks have no
authority to collect fee for the regis
tration of school warrants unuer the
new law.
The railroad commission has ruled
that road over 50 miles in length,
less than 80 miles of which is in this
state, is not n 'short-line" within the
meaning of the statute.
A brutal murder occurred near Pen.
dleton. Desha county, the other day.
Jordan Bell, n negro, chopped his wife's
head open with an AK.
Mrs. Mary Dennis, whose home was
in Virginia, committed suicide at Hot
Springs by taking chlor5form. She
D was ANAhNA AAoN bAA hhh btNOlht y
slave to the morphine habit.
The 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. w +. Bridges, of Surrounded
Hill, was burned to death. The child's
clothing caught from fire in the yard
around which She was playing.
j. Michael. OF Little Rock. after los
ing al the gambling table the sum Of
sa5 belonging TO his employer, com.
mitted suicide by taking carbolic acid.
The superintendent Of public instruc-
tion has established precedent by ap-
pointing Miss r NJ. Mcknight and Miss
Hattie J. Lyon textbook commission
ers for Crittenden county
The Union Lumber Company. %
I Monlrose. capital stock ss5. 600. and
the Meiscr Mining Company. Of Para.
gould, capital stock $4,000, have in
.ort,,,-,f,l tt,,a.,. a.. 1a.... - a.. $50.