The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1903-08-07
BRIEF MENTION.


Four negroes met violent deaths
within four miles of Prescott in one
week
Floyd Ellis. who was shot by Bee
Bates in Pope county, died of his
wounds.
OF the twenty-seven men to be re-
leased from the penitentiary during
August. eight are white.
A Mr.. Dunn, agent for the Cudahy
Packing company at Ashdown, was
drowned while in swimming.
Both the Choctaw and Iron Noun
tain report an unusually heavy freight
traffic for this season of the year.
Mrs, F, c. Dunbeck of Kansas City,
who is visiting friends at Texarkana.
was seriously injured in a runaway.
William Duncan. while adjusting
pulley at mill in Perry county. was
caught in the betting and fatally in
jured.
Richard Eaton was convicted at
Lake Village of kidnapping and SEN
fenced to nineteen years in the peni-
tentiary.
Mike Bouldin, an employee of the
DeQueen and Eastern railroad, was
run over and seriously injured by a
hand car.
J. A. Green. Saline county farm
err was knocked from his wagon in a
collusion with Little RocA street
car and badly injured
The breaking of a drawhead caused
wreck on the Iron Mountain near
Grady, IN which two box cars and a
fiat car were demolished.
Bob Ried, a colored~~ laborer on
construction work near Van Buren,,
fell from a hand car and was killed,
the wheels crushing his skull
The ST. Louis and North Arkansas
railroad which is proJec,ed to run
through to Little Rock, has been COM
pleted to Marshall, in Searcy county.
Work will begin in a few days on
the Warner, Cummins and Eastern
railroad, to run from Linwood, JEFF
ferson county, to Watson, Desha coun-
ty.
Frank and Pin Williams, brothers,
arrested in Sewer county, were bound
over by Commissioner Sommerville at
Texarkana on the charge of moon
shining
w. w. Phillips, formerly manager of
a Fort Smith furniture house, has
been arrested. charged with embez
zling funds of the company
Isaac G. Fisher has been reelected
principal of the branch normal col
lege, the state institution for the edu.
cation OF colored people located at Pine
Bluff.
Hubbard Heard, colored, one of the
prisoners who broke Jail at Batesville
returned after two days and surren-
dered. stating that he was tired of be-
ing pursued.
Jim Price. colored, of Hot Springs
wound up a protracted spree by swal
lowing fatal dose of morphine Price
on two previous occasions attempted to
take his life.
A large number of newspaper men
from over the state left Little Rock
on the 5th in a special over the Choc-
taw for tour of Colorado and other
western points
The wife of G. Smith, a Pope county
farmer, shot herself with a small cal
iber target gun and died instantly. Ill
health had caused the woman's mind
to become unbalanced
The governor of Alabama has hon.
ored the requisition of Gov. Davis for
the return of D. p erry, late cashier
of the Howard County Bank, under in
dictment for embezzement.
citizen of Conway claims to have
invented signal to prevent collisions.
1t is claimed for this device that it
will warn each train Of the approach
OF another train from either direction.
The following Arkansas postoffices
have been discontinued: Philadel-
phia, lzard county, mail to La Crosse
Wrye, Nevada county. mail to Pres
cott These changes are effective Au.
gust Is.
The st. Francis levee board will In.
troduee bill at the next session of the
legislature to appropriate s25O,000 OF
state funds to be used in retaining
valuable lands TO be added to the state
domain
Stockholders of the Bank of Dan
vile, whose cashier so mysteriously
disappeared several days ago, give as
surance that all depositors win be
paid in full The bank may resume
business.