The Van Buren press., 1900-01-27
BRIEF MENTION.

The Bank of Bonneville has been re-
organized.
A $50, 900 stone Catholic church is be-
ing erected at Pocahontas.
Amorel is the name ola new post
office in Mississippi county.
Berry growers say the prospects for
a good crop are very bright.
Only one prisoner has been in the
Bradley county Jail in year.
A number Of prize fights have been
pulled off at Hot Springs recently.
A broom corn growers association
has been organized in Logan county.
Officers made sixteen arrests at Jones.
boro last week for illegal sale OF liquor.
During 1899 there were 1907 do
licenses issued by the city of Little
Rock.
A plant to manufacture buttons from
mussel shells is being put in at Black
Rock
The train dispatcher's Office OF the
Pee Gee has been removed from Shreve.
port to TexarlSana.
Last week within few miles Of Hot
Springs u hunter killed wildcat eight
feet long and two feet high.
Gus Johnson, colored, who lived at
Helena, was run over and killed by
passenger train at Bald Knob.
A report that Lieut.. Sol Jeffrie
whose home is at Mulberry, was kille,
in the Philippines, proved to be false.
The Arkansas Horticultural Society
will hold its twentieth annual session in
Little Rock February 7th, sth and 9th
John Plaster, an old citizen OF Frank
lin county, committed suicide by hang
ing himself to tree. He was 30 years
OF age.
Bud Garrett, prominent Miller
county farmer, was fatally stabbed by
another farmer named Shefiin at Tex.
arkana,
1t was an Arkansap--Capt. Tillman
Campbell captured Aguinaldo's
wife and the elusive Philippines private
secretary.
Geo Dunn, the oldest man in point
OF service in the employ OF the Iron
Mountain railroad at Texarkana, died
| last week
The Louisiana e. Arkansas Railroad
Company has completed its system Of
telegraph wires from jamestown, La.
to Texarkana.
A young man giving his name as
Vance Foster OF Nashville, Tenn, was
held up and robbed bya gang Of tramps
near Jonesboro.
The Baxter Manufacturing Company,
Of Cypress, Ashley county, has been in.
corporated. The company will manu-
facture lumber, shingles, etc.
The stores OF W. p. Brewster, grocer,
G. r. Maddox, feed and groceries, and
the Home Sewing Machine Company at
Van Buren,, were destroyed by fire.
The birthday OF Gen, Robert Il, Lee
was celebrated with appropriate ser.
vices by the local chapter, Daughters
OF the Confederacy, at Hot Springs.
The Tar.Kiln zinc mining property
in Boone county was sold TO Joseph
Gilbert, OF Rhode Island, last week. the
consideration being $50, 900 spot cash,
Near Madison, on the 81. Francis
river, Henry Griffin shot and killed
Henry Young Griffin claims that the
dead man was too intimate with Mrs
Griffin.
Hon Il, L. Lawrence, acting Cover
nor, handled the affairs OF state dur
ing Gov, Jones' absence on the Little
Rock business mems excursion over the
shoctav
Cotton receipts throughout the state
ince the first Of January have been
very light showing that the bulk Of
the crop was marketed before that date
Sydney Duflie, colored, who shot ant
killed colored girl named Foster neal
Magnolia about three weeks ago, wal
bound over without bail, Medium,
claims the killing was accidental.
Joe league and Charles Copper wer,
arrested In Perry county on the charg,
Of counterfeiting. When arrested th,
former had In his possession 1870 spur
ious silver dollars OF the mintage oi
,ona
The state executive committee OF th,
Cumberland Presbyterian church hal
selected Rev. W. r. Hudson, OF Mis-
sourl, as state superintendent OF mis-
sions.
The mayor OF Pine Bluff has ISSUED
an order that every citizen be compelled
to produce u certificate OF vaccination
The penalty for failure to comply will
the order Is fine OF t2b,
Two darkies living at Knoxville, II
johnson county, engaged In d ''butting
match, resulting In the breaking of on,
Of the negroes neck, The other dark!
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