The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02
BRIEF MENTION.

| Hot Springs.
 Maumee is the name of . new post. office in Searcy county.
 Walter French was hanged at Osceola for the murder of his wife.
 Hot Springs authorities are making war on skin" gambling dens.
 The terms of 22 state convicts expire during the month of February.
 The Little Rock board of trade is after sewing machine factory.
 The public schools at Jouesboro have been closed on account of smallpox.
 Two thousand, five hundred and four teen telephones are in use ir Little Rock #s The steamer Rock City struck a snag near Helena and sunk in 22 feet of water.
 J. Il. Harris has been appointed gen. eral superintendent cs the Choctaw railroad.
 Horace Chrisp, White county farmer, while cutting trees, was killed by falling limb.
 w. D. McInturf, who was shot by Will Westmoreland January 2sd at Magazine, died January 25th.
 A colony of citizens arrived in Arkan. sss county last week and settled upon lands which they purchased.
 Gen. Wilson, chief of engineers, re- ports s151, 1000 available for improve ments on the upper White river. J. w. Cole, aged TO years, and Miss Perlina Whitaker, aged 25, were mar. ried in Baxter county last week.
 It is reported the Pittsburg & Gulf railroad will pass out of the hands of the receivers about the first of April.
 Little Rock, Fort Smith and Fayette- vile have asked Andrew Carnegie for assistance in erecting library buildings | pany has sent agents to dispossess squatters on it's lands in Western Ar kansas.
 The secretary of war has approved the $55, 900 appropriation for improving the army and navy hospital at Hot Springs.
 Through mail service will be estab- lished on the Choctaw road from Little Rock to Mister, commencing Febru. ary 18th.
 State Champion Chas. DeLong de. feated J. T. Lloyd at Hot Springs in a shoot at 50 targets each by score of 4l to 30.
 Chas. English and Howard Plunkett quarreled over game of cards at Lily, Jefferson county, when Plunkett was shot and killed.
 The constitutionalty of the act of t.s legislature creating the Plum Bayou leeve district in Jefferson county is to be tested in the courts
 Gov. Jones has fixed Friday, March sOth, as the day of execution of M. B. Lane, who killed his wife in North Little Rock November 25, 1898.
 The high school building at Warren was totally destroyed by fire. The building was only recently purchased and furnished by the school board.
 A negro hotel keeper at Texarkana, named Jeff Miller was shot and killed by another negro named George Jones. The fight started over poker game.
 A mutual concern known as the Ar kansas State Farmers Insurance Com pany, with headquarters at Texarkana has incorporated under the laws of the state.
 Bishop Fitzgerald, of the Catholic diocese of Arkansas. who was stricker with paralysis at ParagoulG about two weeks ago, is reported in critical con dition.
 Timber Inspector Schiie-holz seized ,5O0, 1000 feet of pine legs and 25o, ,oOt slaves, said to have been cut from gov ernment lands in Calhoun, Bradley and Union counties.
 An order has been issued by the Lit tie Rock school board that no pupil will be admitted to the public school. of that city who has not been success fully vaccinated.
 A convention of Cleveland county postmasters was held at Rison on ths lst inst, the object being to petition congress for increased salaries at office, of the fourth class.
 A big farming implement manufac ing company of Chicago recently pur chased all the cottonwood timber on g large tract of land in Po;nsett county the consideration being s70.000