The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1900-01-05
BRIEF MENTION.

general all over the state.
Merchants all over the state report
heavy holiday business.
The residence of Ed. Blair, at Nal.
vern, burned December 3lst.
Col. I. J. Allison of Austin, pioneer
| citizen, died December 3lst, aged So
years.
A young man named Rowland was
cut to death by Tom Wilson at dance
near Mount Ida.
viii Gimmett, a bad" niger, was
shot and killed by officers at Waldo
while resisting arrest.
A shooting tournament will be held
| at Hot Springs in February, which will
be open to the world.
New construction work in Little Rock
the past year. including improvements,
will approximate 81, O00, 900.
John II. Harris has been appointed
general superintendent OF the Choctaw
from Memphis to Weatherford.
The residence of E. L. Cook, at Hot
Springs, together with contents, was
destroyed by fire. Loss. s., 900.
Fifteen couples were granted mar
riage license by the county clerk of
Pulaski county within - hours.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
general store of Bradford & Etchison
| at Weiner, securing $500 in cash.
Henry Bridges, aged IA. was killed by
train at Jones boro, the little fellow s
head being severed from his body
The Fort Smith Lumber Company
last week purchased 81, 600 acres of tim
Der land in Yell and Logan counties.
The residence Of State Auditor Sloan
at Powhatan, together with all con-
tents, was destroyed by fire last week.
Prof. Earnest Walker. OF South Caro-
lima has been elected member of the
faculty of the University of Arkansas.
| An Iron Mountain conductor was ar
rested at Helena for bringing a man
infected with smallpox into that city.
Capt Reed Butler and Hugh Neill, of
Batesville, have resigned from the army
pines.
| Col. V. u Cook has been appointed
department commander for Arkansas
of the Rational Association of the
SPANISH American war veterans.
Gresham's opera house and c. R.
Parks store at Arkadelphia were badly
damaged by the explosion of dynamite,
! touched off near the buildings by Christ
mas jewellers.
| In commemoration of the birthday of
Gen. Robert j.. Lee. the various Arkan-
sas Chapters, United Daughters of the
Confederacy, will hold their annual
meetings on the 10th.
| S. ii. Nowlin. president of the State
Horticultural Society, has issued call
for the twentieth annual meeting OF
the society at Little Rock February
9TH to 9th inclusive.
The railroad Y. NJ. C. A. building at
| Texarkaua was formally opened on the
Sd inst. A number of prominent Off.
Gals of the Iron Mountain and Cotton
Belt roads were present.
| Fire at Greenbrier. Faulkner county
DESTROYED four large store houses The
heaviest loser was &. w. Clark, general
merchant, whose stock was valued ct
Sc, 600, with no insurance.
| Maud, the 2-year- old daughter of Mrs.
Dixon, near Luzenburg, lizard county,
wandered away and was found drowned
in nearby branch.
J. j. Frey, general manager of the
Santa Fe railway, and General Manager
Yoakum. OF the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco railroad. recently purchase over
| 10, GOO acres OF zinc lands near Gellville.
O X. Dent, aged .s'years, the Oldest
white man in the penitentiary, has
been parloncd. lie vas sent up for
one year FOR conceaiiDg poeket-bool,
containing $50 ~ hich he found, and had
served three months of his sentence.