The Monticellonian., 1904-07-28

lueut Ol I4lJtle HOChy uiSu ou tue G-d at the age of TO.
 There will be a reunion of the Blue and the Gray at Heber, August Il and 12.
 The Texarkana city council has granted a fifty-year franchise to a water company
 A stock company which played at Pine Bluff two weeks has disbanded on account of poor business.
 Fifteen thousand pounds of spring chickens were shipped from Berry vile in one week recently.
 There are f30 state eonviets at work at Gotter on the new White River branch of the Iron Mountain.
 Six recruits for the navy were se- cured by recruiting party at Little Rock during a weeks stay.
 Frank Glasscock of Paragould died In St. Louis the 2Oth from injuries inflicted by policeman.
 The Bank of Spadra has been or ganized with a capital stock of s25,- poo. c. H. Langford is president.
 There will be no strike of teleg- raphers of the Iron Mountain as an agreement has been reached with the company.
 Lightning struck tree in front of the residence of R. A Sharp near Prairie Grove and killed thirteen of seventeen hogs lying under il.
 Because of trouble with her hus- band, Mrs. Lottie Pascal, aged g. of Omaha, Neb., committed suicide at Hot Springs on the 23d inst.
 Hayes Bumgarner was stabbed twice by Ben Clarke at Danville on the 17th inst. It is alleged Bumgar- her objected to Clarke calling on his sister.
 An interurban electric railway from Little Rock to England is again be- ing talked of Northern capital is | interested.
 Two-year-old Burton Ramsey, of Green Forrest. swallowed an empty cartridge and died shortly afterward in great agony
 Col E. W. Rector of Hot Springs. candidate for governor in 1902, is out fin letter in which he says the para mount issue in this campaign is the negro question.
 After Virgil Morris of Greenwood had been acquitted of Sabbath break ing it was found the grand jury had ignored the charge.
 The lease of Robt s. Hamilton on the Capital Theater at Little Rock has been renewed for five years and will expire in May. 1910 Work will begin October 1 or the n-ew S250,000 hotel to be erected in Little Rock where Worthen's hank has been for many years
 Clinton, Van Buren county, now has telephone connection with the outside world via Morrilton. Clinton is 8 miles from a railroad.
 The business of Franklin Bros. doing a plantation supply business in Little Rock has been placed in the hands of Harry Lasker as trustee.
 In stepping from a St. Louis street car Mrs. Nancy Straub. an aged Hel- ena lady, lost her balance and Tell She suffered eoneussion of the brain
 For the third time in a year W. H Bell of Poeahontas on the 21st lost his household goods by fire. In the third fire only did he have insurance. The Southwest Arkansas Confeder- ate Veterans Association has been permanently organized at Camden with Col. A. S. Morgan as chairman
 Geo. H. Lower and others of Hot Springs have applied for patent on an automatic railroad signal. which they claim will reduce the danger from collision to minimum.
 James NJ. Culbert and F. J. Wild berger died in Little Rock on the 22d of consumption. MT Culbert had been i'll for some time and was one of the best known telegraph operators in the south.
 w w. Shaw has retired as assist ant post master at Texarkana He had been in the office since 1876 ex- cept during the eight years Demo cratic administration.
 Henry Jenks and wife. living near TeXarkana. recently withdrew S700. the savings of twelve years, from the bank and hid it at home A thief robbed them of the entire amour a week later
 The residence of Joe Golfer at Hot Springs was set on fire by lightning on the 21st saloon in another DOT tion of the city was also set on fire by lightning.
 Midland Valley officials have agreed to maintain the general offices in Fort Smith regardless of a bonus. in consideration of suitable buildings be- ing furnished rent free.
 A carload of uniforms for the Ar. kansas state guard has been received by the state militia officials. They will be sent out to the various com panies.
 Shortly before dying at the Sharp county poor farm. man giving his name as Geo. Adams, confessed to the keeper that his name was not Adams and that he was an escaped convict from Kentucky. He refused to give