The Forrest City times., 1901-07-12
BRIEF MENTION.

"NiN NANhOut ulOD Ol ram.
 There are 76 ex-Confederates in the soldiers home near Little Rock.
 Willard Fender was drowned in Black river. near Pocahontas. while hunting pearls.
 Confederate reunion will be held at St. Paul. Madison county. August 15, Is and r.
 Gus Weigand. aged 13, son of wid. ow. was drowned while bathing al Fort Smith.
 The annual meeting of the eolored State Bar Association was held Little Rock last week
 Tom Tyler. pearl fisherman. was drowned while attempting to swim across Black river near Swifton.
 The steamer Orlando, plying the White river. went down about twenty. five miles from Des Arc on the 9th.
 In an altercation at Eureka Springs Fred Christie fractured the skull of Vim. Morgan by blow with his fist.
 The Bank of Paragould, capital stock $50.000, has filed articles of in- corporation with the secretary of state.
 James Garland, prominent citi- ztn of Malvern, cut his throat with a razor. Domestic troubles the cause
 Chas. Anderson, colored. will be hanged at Little Rock July 26. An derson was convicted of assaulting a white woman.
 Philadelphia is certainly a law-abid- ing community During the month of June there was but one case in the police court.
 At celebration in Faulkner county, James Mathews attacked Charles Mathews with hatchet, cutting fla tai gash in his head.
 Martin Rafter. of Coal Hill. has been appointed by the governor as state mine inspector, to succeed w. H. Hite, of Sebastian county.
 There were He failures. with $611,- 609 liabilities, for the fiscal year end ing June 30. in Arkansas, against 97 failures and $327,S14 liabilities in 1900
 During the progress of ball game at DeValls Bluff. Willie Kent, who was watching the game, was struck by foul ball and died from the eff fleets of the injury.
 The report of the tax collector of D,,1a ntxr oh for the year 1900 to have been s45S,- 375.73 exclusive of liquor license. fines. forfeitures and sixteenth section funds.
 The report of Prof. Branner. of the Leland Stanford University, on the coals. clays and kaolin of Arlxan- sas, is to be printed by the United States geological survey and is now in press.
 A colored planter of Desha county, in treating a horse for charbon, ac- cidentally got some foam from the animals mouth in cut on his hand He became sick in few hours and lived but one day.
 WO JOHH anu Wili MC- Cabe. colored. living at Ellison, lief ferson county, engaged in a difficulty when the former struck the latter on the head with a club, the blow caus- ing his death.
 President Whitaker. of the Worlds Fair board for Arkansas. has issued a call for a conference of honorary commissioners, to be held at Little Rock August l. The object is to ap- point committees in each county to raise funds and gather material for Arkansas exhibit.
 While celebrating the Fourth at Texarkana. Will Ayers. 9 years old, was badly injured. He was shooting a cannon cracker and it failed to ex- plode. Thinking the fuse had gone out. the boy picked up the big cracker when it exploded, tearing off all the fingers of tie right hand.
 At the request of Superintendent Doyne. Attorney General Murphy has given out an important opinion rela- tive to the county uniformity text book law. General Murphy holds that in order to establish county uniform ity in any county it must receive a a majority of all the votes cast at the annual school election in that county.
 Pursuant to an act of the general titled An act to provide for the can cellation of certain state bonds. and fix the rate of sinking fund tax" ap- proved May 3. 1901. all holders of valid per cent funding bonds of the state. now outstanding. have been no tified to present the same to the treas urer of the state for payment by De- cember 1. in default of which they will be null and void.
 The revolutionary effect of the new oil wells in California and Texas is a in . afril-snrv xrcx, Axx