The Forrest City times., 1902-02-28

BRIEF MENTION.
A $17000 Lutheran church is to be built at Fort Smith

A s17,000 Lutheran church is to be built at Fort Smith
 Geo. Stokes, of Springdale, disd from the effects of drinking wood alco- hol.
 The president has nominated Fred c. Furth to be postmaste. at Pine Blun
 Ara Arnold. Randolpa county farmer. shot and killed his son-in-law, Levi Kettles.
 Mrs. Lucinda Clement. resident of Pulaski county for fifty years. died recently. aged 90 years
 A heavy fall of snow is reported in Carroll and Benton counties to the depth of eight inches on the 20th.
 Miss Cora Foster. young lady of Fayetteville. was burned to death. her clothing catching fire from a hot stove
 Workmen found the skeleton of an unknown man under a trestle on the Kansas City Southern road near Fort Smith.
 Grant Bros. of Harrisburg. have gone into bankruptcy with s36, 900 lia- bilities. and assets amounting all told to 33,00O.
 Officials of the Kansas and Texas Coal Company deny a 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 a requisition to Kansas for John Dunn and George Durham, under arrest for the robbery Of the bank of Clarksvlle
 Work on several brick buildings at Texarkana has been suspended. on account of demand of brieklayers for higher wages and shorter hours.
 The Choetaw has been sued for s1O,- 900 damages by Amanda Harvey for the death of her husband in a wreck at Little Maumelle 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 un der the application of the standard dis tance freight tariff, as a branch of the Iron Mountain
 The old Sulphur Springs hotel build ing at Searcy. occupied by the Speers- Langford institute, was burned Febru- ary 25. Loss covered by insurance. The Speers-L -Langford school has se- cured other quarters
 The St. l.. and & F. 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-five days.
 Gov. Davis has pardoned Larkin Meeks, convicted in Randolph county of bigamy. The petition for pradon stated that Meeks was under the i'm pression his first wife was dead when he married the second time
 William Ward, a negro of Sherrill, has been lodged in jail at Pine Bluff. charged with a brutal murder. Dur ing the night Ward and his wife quar- reled. 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 s25,000, all of which has been sub. scribed. Officers. J. E. Bernard, pres ident; J. M. 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. IL seems they had been to New Boston, across the river from Little River county. and got into a dispute, which terminated as above related.