The Van Buren press., 1900-02-24
BRIEF MENTION.

at POcahOntaS has been competed.
Pulaski county democrats will hold
primaries for county and state oflicer
April nth,
The 15-year-old son of z. Arbaugh, az
Coal Hill. was run over and killed by a
freight train.
The dormitory of the Speers-Lang'
ford institute at Searcy was badly dam
aged by fire.
The next meeting of the Arkansas
Bar Association will be held at Fort
Smith in May
DIR. &. w. Smith, Of Fort Smith, has
fallen heir to $4,000 by the death of
cousin in Tennessee.
The new Catholic church at Fort
Smith has been condemned as unsafe,
The structure cost $40, 800.
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 FORE t, Carroll county
assayed ~ per cent. pure zinc.
Frank Ward, Sebastian county
farmer, died from blow over the head
administered by one of his tenants.
The postoilice at Broughton was en-
tered by burglars, who blow open the
safe and got away with 500 in money.
Mrs. S. 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
~ years.
The residences OF DR.. 'Dorr and John
Crow at Batesville, were destroyed by
fire. Total loss q, 800, with $500 in.
surance.
The penitentiary has paid into the
state treasury t53,7471s, being the pro.
ceeds from the sale of cotton raised by
convcts,
The regular annual meeting Of the
Arkansas State Teachers Association
will be held at Pipe Bluff June s7th'
2sth and Goth.
Articles Of incorporation of the Oar.
danelle Cotton Oil Company capital
stock, 50,0OO have been filed with the
secretary Of state
Mrs. Edmonia Mayer, n prominent
society leader of Philadelphia, who was
visiting her sister at Hot Springs, was
found dead in her bed.
There has been 81 death IN one neigh
borhood in Randolph county from q
disease resembling spinal meningitis
since the first Of January.
Fire at Camden destroyed the stock
OF dry goods Of b. f. Sawyer. An adj
joining building was badly damaged
by an explosion Of accumulated gas
w. N. Erod, Of Scott county, com.
mittcd suicide by sh oting himself
through the head with a revolver. Fam.
lily troubles were the cause Of the rash
net.
The safe in the store OF Rudolph
Abraham at Holly Grove, Phillips coun-
ty, was completely wrecked by bur
glars. The safe contained only o. in
silver
At n lcvee camp near Avenue, Phil.
lips county, VIM, Wilson, colorcd, MUIR
dered another negro by shooting him
through the heart as he lay asleep in
hh tent
New postoflces have been established
and pcstmastcrs appointed, as follows
Hight, Franklin county, B. +. Ilar.
grove; Truth, Madison county, Il, b,
Garrison
Judge VIM, NJ, Harrison, cx-associate
justice Of the state supreme court, died
ut Pine Bluff last week. Judge lInr-
rison had been Il citizen of Arkansas
since 1870.
Lee Best, OF White county, and j. j.
Birdsong and Tom Eason, of Cleburne
county, were arrested last week on tho
charge Of Illicit distilling, and taken to
Little Rock.
The b.yearold son Of Mrs. Huldon, OF
Russellville, was fatally burned The
little fellow was playing around an
open fireplace when his clothing acc'
dentally cnught fire.
Oscnr Adams, u German who oper'
atcd shooting gallery nv Little Rock,
wns found dead in rear room nt his
place OF business. His death wns due
TO exposure.
The Ozark Real Estate and Mining
Company OF Salem Aled articles Of In
corporation with the secretary Of state
Inst week The capital stock is $4,000,
oil subscribed
Uncle Nick jackson, said TO be near
100 years Of age, and Mrs. j. A. Ander'
son were married in Howard county
last week. This is Mr. IIownrds first
matrimonial venture. q
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