The Van Buren press., 1903-08-08
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 runaway.
William Duncan, while adjusting a
pulley at a 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
| tentiaTy.
Mike Bouldn, an employee Of the
DeQueen and Eastern railroad, was
run over and seriously injured by a
hand car.
J. A. Green, a Saline county farm
er, was knocked from his wagon in
collusion with a Little RocA street
car and badly injured.
The breaking of a drawhead caused
a wreck on the Iron Mountain near
| Grady, IN which two box cars and a
fat car were demolished,
Bob Ried, a colored laborer on
construction work near Van Buren,
| fcll from a hand car and was killed
the wheels crushing his skull.
The St. Louis and North Arkansas
railroad, which is projected to run
through to Little Rock, has been com
pleted to Marshall, in Searcy county
Work will begin in few days on
the Warner, Cummns 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 Sommeryille 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.
zing 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
Blun,
Hubbard Heard, colored, one Of the
prisoners who broke Jail at Batesyille,
returned after two days and surren.
dered, stating that he was tired Of be.
ing pursued.
Jim Price, colored, Of Hot Springs,
wound up 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 9th in a special over the Choc.
taw for a tour Of Colorado and other
western points,
The wife OF G. Smith, Pope county
farmer, shot herself with a small cal.
ber target gun and died instantly. III
health had caused the womans mind
TO become unbalanced
The governor Of Alabama has hon.
cred the requisiton Of Gov. Davis for
the return of d. p, erry, late cashier
Of the Howard County Bank, under In.
dictment for embczzlement,
A citizen Of Conway claims to have
invented signal TO prevent collisions.
II Is claimed for this device that IL
! will warn each train Of the approach
OF another train from either direction.
The following Arkansas postoillces
have been discontinued; Philadel.
phIa, lizard county mail TO La Crosse
Wrye, Nevada county mail 20 Pres
colt. These changes are effective Au'
gust 49,
The St Francis lcyce board will in.
troduco a bin at the next session Of the
legislature 70 appropriate s2jO,O0O OF
state funds 10 be used in retaining
valuable lands to be added to the state
domain,
Stockholders Of the Bank Of Dan.
| vine, whose cashier so mysteriously
disappeared several days ago, give as.
surance that all dcpostors will be
paid In full Tho bank may resume
| business.
An unknown sneak thief stole slj
from the trousers pocket Of Joe Curl
at Pine Blum but was considorato
enough TO leave the victim 8 cents
with which to ride TO town on the fol,
lowing morning,
The Dairyman's Bank at Carlisle
has opened for business
Secretary Of State Crockett, who
spent several months at Mineral Wells,
Texas, with His wife for the benefit
Of her hcalth has returned to his Of.
fetal duties, Mrs Crockett is greatly
improved.
Dr Thomas A. Carter, n well known