The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-03-01
BRIEF MENTION.

A $4,000 Lutheran church Is TO De
built at Fort Smith.
Geo. Stokes, of Springdale, dled
| from the effects of drinking wood alco-
hol.
The president has nominated Fred
| C.. Furth to be postmaster at zine
Bluff.
Ara Arnold, a Randolph county
farmer. shot and killed his son-in-law,
Levi Nettles.
Mrs. Lucinda Clement, resident OF
Pulaski county for fifty years, died
recently, aged 80 years.
A heavy fall of snow is reported IN
Carroll and Benton counties to the
depth Of eight inches on the goth.
Miss Cora Foster, young lady OF
Fayetteville, was burned to death, her
clothing catching fire from hot stove.
Workmen found the skeleton of an
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Kansas City Southern road near Fort
Smith.
Grant Bros, OF Harrisburg, have
gone into bankruptcy with $4,000 la
bilities. and assets amounting all told
to $4,000.
Officials of the Kansas and Texas
Coal Company deny report that they
have disposed Of their vast coal mines
in this state.
Mrs. Caroline Schernick, aged 63, OF
Fayetteville, was taken suddenly Ill at
the breakfast table and died before
she could be removed.
Gov. Davis has sent requisition TO
Kansas for John Dunn and George
Durham under arrest for the robbery
of the bank of Clarksville.
Work on several brick buildings
at Texarkana has been suspended, on
account of demand of bricklayers
for higher wages and shorter hours.
The Choctaw has been sued for $1O,.
900 damages by Amanda Harvey for
the death of her husband in wreck
at Little Maumelle a few days ago.
Luther Ludlow, Of Jacksonville, fell
beneath a moving train in North Lit
tie Rock and was fatally injured. He
attempted to board the train, but lost
his balance and was hurled beneath
the wheels.
The railroad commission has rescind'
ed the order recently made placing
the Arkansas & Louisiana railway UNI
der the application of the standard dis.
lance freight tariff, as branch OF
the Iron Mountain.
The old Sulphur Springs hotel build.
ing at Searcy, occupied by the Speers'
Langford institute, was burned Febru'
airy 25. Loss covered by insurance.
The Speers.L angford school has Sc.
cured other quarters.
The st. l.. and S. e. have finished
their road from Pocahontas to Current
river, and have now commenced work.
ing from Poplar Bluff toward Pocahon.
tas, and hope to have the road com
pleted in thirty.fve days.
Gov. Davis has pardoned Larkin
Meeks, convicted In Randolph county
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stated that Meeks was under the i'm
preston his first wife was dead when
he married the second time.
William Ward, negro Of Sheriff.,
has been lodged in Jail at Pine Bluff,
charged with a brutal murder. Dur,
ing the night Ward and his wife quar-.
relied, when the man choked her to
death and so vice.like was his grip
that he broke her neck.
Articles OF incorporation have been
filed by the Arkansas Savings Bank Of
Harrison, Boone county, capital stock
$4,000, all of which has been sub
scribed. Officers, j. e. Bernard pres.
ident; J. NJ. Ryer, secretary; DeRoos
Bailey and b. j, Templeton.
Ebert Hudson was shot and killed
near Richmond by John Hobson. Both
were young men highly connected. II
seems they had been to New Boston,
across the river from Little River
county, and got into dispute, which
Terminated "a above related.