The Forrest City times., 1900-02-23
BRIEF MENTION.

The l5-year-old son of z. Arbaugh. at Coal Hill, was run over and killed by freight train.
 The dormitory of the Speers-Lang. ford institute at Searcy was badly dam Faged by fire.
 The next meeting of the Arkansas Bar Association will be held at Fort Smith in May.
 Dr. G. w.. Smith, of Fort Smith, has fallen heir to $50, 900 by the death of cousin in Tennessee.
 The new Catholic church at Fort smith has been condemned as unsafe. The structure cost S40,50O
 The peach crop in the northwestern part of the state was considerably dam- aged by last weeks cold snap. Ore taken from the Holloway mine, near Green Forre t, Carroll county assayed 72 per cent. pure zinc.
 Frank Ward, Sebastian county farmer, died from blow over the head administered by one of his tenants.
 The postoffice at Broughton was en. tered by burglars, who blow open the safe and got away with s6O in money.
 Mrs. $. J. Tucker, of Pine Bluff, was terribly scalded about the face by the explosion of a kettle of boiling water.
 The chief event of the Hot Springs shoot was won by T. S. Morton, of Fort smith, who made straight score of 25 birds.
 A. P. Pulls, section foreman from Texas, was murdered and robbed in the yards of the Valley Route at Little Rock.
 Rev. Benjamin McGehee, pioneer citizen o Desha county, died on the 11th inst. of heart failure at the age of 72 years.
 The residences of Dr. Dorr and John Crow, at Batesville. were destroyed by fire Total loss, ss, 300, with $500 in- surance.
 The penitentiary has paid into the state treasury s53,747.1s, being the pro- ceeds from the sale of cotton raised by convicts.
 The regular annual meeting of the Arkansas State Teachers Association will be held at Pine Bluff June 27th, 2Sth and 29th
 Articles of incorporation of the Oar. danelle Cotton Oil Company, capital stock, s50,0 ,0OO, have been filed with the secretary of state.
 Mrs. Edmonia Mayer, prominent society leader of Philadelphia, who was visiting her sister at Hot Springs, was found dead in her bed.
 There has been P death in one neigh borhood in Randolph county from a disease resembling spinal meningitis since the first of January.
 Fire at Camden destroyed the stock of dry goods of B. F. Sawyer An ad- joining building was badly damaged by an explosion of accumulated gas
 w. N. Elrod, of Scott county, com mitted suicide by sh oting himself through the head with a revolver Fam fly troubles were the cause of the rash act.
 The safe in the store of Rudolph Abraham at Holly Grove, Phillips coun- ty, was completely wrecked by bur silver.
 | At levee camp near Avenue, Phil lips county, Wm. Wilson, colored, mur- dered another negro by shooting him through the heart as he lay asleep in his tent.
 New postoffices have been abolished and postmasters appointed, as follows: flight, Franklin county, B. F. Har- grove; Truth, Madison county, F. B. l Garrison.
 Judge Wm. NJ. Harrison, ex-associate 1 justice of the state supreme court, died at Pine Bluff last week. Judge liar rison had been citizen of Arkansas since 1S4G.
 Lee Best, of White county, and J. J. Birdsong and Tom Eason, of Cleburne county, were arrested last week on the charge of illicit distilling, and taken to Little Rock.
 The Swear. old son of Mrs. Huldon, of Russellville, was fatally burned. The little fellow was playing around an open fireplace when his clothing acci- dentally caught fire.
 Oscar Adams, a German who oper- ated a shooting gallery at Little Rock, was found dead in a rear room at his place of business. His death was due to exposure.