The Monticellonian., 1899-02-03
BRIEF MENTION.

From won nRht dgalnSt saloons at Huntington.
 The Mena Ice Company has been in- corporated.
 The Second Regiment will be mus tered out at Anniston, Ala.
 J. T. smithwick, aged 92, died at his home in Jefferson county January 25th
 J. M. Schultz, planter, died at his home in Grant county January 23d, aged Fl years.
 The heaviest snow in eight years fell in Little Rock and vicinity Jan uary 24th.
 The communication list of convicts to be released during February contains 2s names.
 And it is now reported a Crawford county horticultural will experiment with monkeys as strawberry pickers.
 The amount required of the citizens of Searcy to insure the rebuilding of Galloway college has been subscribed.
 The Ladies Hospital Association of Pine Bluff won in the Hicks contested will case, bequest of s1 800 being in- volved
 The grocery store of E. D. Hearin, Pine Bluff, w4s totally destroyed by fire January 29th. Loss, q 400; insur- ance, 5000.
 The Head Camp, Woodmen of the World, meets at Little Rock February 18th. This camp includes Mississippi, 1 Louisiana and Arkansas.
 George McLendon. colored who shot and killed Bill Witt, deputy constable at Little Rock, was sentenced to II years in the penitentiary.
 Articles of incorporation of the J. A. Tappan Hardware Company, of Helena, capital stock, s25, ,OOO, have been filed with the secretary of state.
 An unknown white man was run over and killed near Austin. He was about 35 years of age, had sandy hair, and was five feet eight inches tall.
 Walter Lee Phelps, native of Law renee county, bears the distinction of being the youngest captain in the regu- lar army He is 20 years of age.
 Burglars entered the office of the Ketcham Iron Company at Fort Smith, bound and gagged the night watchman and blew the safe open. They secured only s6.
 The postoffice at Altus was burglar ized and the safe blown open. A con siderable quantity of stamps were taken but the thieves got only small amount in cash.
 The Hot Springs Business Mems League adopted resolutions fayoring national quarantine, and forwarded same to Senators Jones and Berry at Washington.
 tramp, arrested at Kingsland for abusing woman, was taken from jail by three men and given a severe whip ping, wearing out two buggy whips on his bare back.
 monument in honor of Gen. James Miller, the hero of Lundys Lane and the first governor of Arkansas, is to be erected at at Temple, New Hampshire, where he was born.
 G. A. Mansfield, prosecuting attorney of the Fifteenth judicial circuit, ten dered his resignation and Gov Jones appointed Hon. Ed H. Mathews, of Ozark, to fill the vacancy.
 Gen. Powell Clayton, ambassador to Mexico, will shortly visit Hot Springs. Little Rock and other points in this state. He will spend several weeks at Eureka Springs, his old home.
 W. Ramey, Lee county farmer, has been heavy looser by incendiary fires the past year. Last week his residence was burned, and about six months ago he lost his gin in the same manner.
 Harvey Keller, a young white man, was struck by a falling tree while cut ting wood on his fathers farm near Hot Springs and fatally injured.
 John Yancey, indicted in Fulton coun- ty nine years ago on the charge of changing the mark on an animal, was served with the warrant only last week at Mammoth Spring.
 Y. NJ. c A building for railroad men will be q at Texarkana, pro. 7 "ided citizenA. 2 oscribe sS,ooo, The h bg there agree to do- aud s, ,o00