The Van Buren press., 1900-01-06
BRIEF MENTION.

The snowfall December 3Oth was
general all over the state.
Merchants all over the state report q
heavy holiday business.
The residence OF Ed. Blair, at Nal
vern, burned December Sist.
Col. 4. j. Allison Of Austin, pioneer
citizen, died December Slst, aged 6S
years.
A young man named Rowland was
cut to death by Tom Wilson at dance
near Mount Ida.
Will Gimmett, 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 sl,oO0,ooO.
John II. Harris has been appointed
general superintendent Of the Choctaw
from Memphis to Weatherford.
The residence of Il. T. Cook, at Hot
Springs, together with contents, was
destroyed by fire. Loss, $1,000.
Fifteen couples were granted mar
riage license by the county clerk Of
Pulaski county within "a 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
u train at Jonesboro, the little fellows
head being severed from his body,
The Fort Smith Lumber Company
last week purchased 81, 900 acres Of tim
Der land in Yell and Logan counties.
The residence OF State AuditofSloan
at Powhatan, together with all con.
tents, was destroyed by fire last week
Prof. Earnest Walker, Of South Caro-
lima, has been elected a member OF the
faculty OF the University of Arkansas
An Iron Mountain conductor was ar.
rested at Helena for bringing man
infected with smallpox into that city.
Capt. Reed Butler and Hugh Neill, OF
Batesville, have resigned from the army
and are en- route home from the Philip.
pines.
Col. V. Y Cook has been appointed
department commander for Arkansas
OF the National Association Of the
Sranish. American war veterans,
Gresham's opera house aud c. r,
Parks store at ArlSadelphia were badly
dumagcd by the explosion Of dynamite,
touched of near the buildings by Christ.
mas reveleIs
In commemoration OF the birthday Of
Gen. Robert u. Lee, the various Arkan.
sas Chapters, United Daughters OF the
Con nfederacy, will hold their annual
meetings on the 10TH
s. II. Nowlin, president Of the State
horticultural Society, has issued n call
for the twentieth annual meeting OF
the society at Little Rock February
7th to 9th inclusive.
The railroad Y. NJ, c. A., building at
Texarlxana was formally opened on the
sd inst A number Of prominent OIL.
cials OF the . on Mountain and Cotton
Belt roads were present.
Fire at Greenbrier, Faulkner county
destroyed four large store houses. The
heaviest loser was q, W, Clark, general
merchant, whose stock was valued at
o., 900, with no insurance.
Maud, the a.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 q San Fran
cisco railroad, recently purchasee over
$4,000 acres OF zinc lands near Yellville,
O. X, Dent, aged ~ years, the oldes.
white man In the penitentiary, has
been pardoned. lie was sent up for
one year for concealing pocket.bool,
containing $50 which he found, and had
served three months Of his sentence.
John Holden was instantly killed and
q man named Wolford fatally injured
by IN explosion resulting from faulty
shot IN mine II ut Jenny Lind
The Lee county board OF health deny
the report that smallpox Is, or has been,
epidemic In that county. The board
reports that few mild cnses have mp.
poared, but not single death resulted.
Six new government dlstlllerics have
taken out license for 1900 located at the
following places; Benton, Hardy, Cave
Creek, Cyndu. Grnvett md Darcy
Only one, that ut Dewitt, has sus,
pended.