The Forrest City times., 1904-08-19


 race track near Hot Springs.
 An unknown white man was found dead in a cornf1eld near McGehee.
 A well has been drilled s25 feet at Little Rock by company boring for oil
 Great quantities of blackberries are rotting in Benton county because ot no market for them
 It is said the Iron Mountain rail. road proposes building a road from It's main line to Heber.
 Convulsions after eating a green ap- pie caused the death of a child of B. B. Smith at Hot Springs.
 The Bain township school house near Hot Springs burned. and Is be- lieved to have been set afre
 Parker Ball Siloam Springs boy. aged l3 years, ran away to St. Louis. He was arrested and sent home.
 Rev A. E. Miller, of Bentonville. has been called to the pastorate of the Argenta Presbyterian church.
 Alexandria Shofter leaped from train at Mammoth Spring and fell un. der the wheels, his leg being cut otf.
 The Thos. c. Skeen Lumber Compa. ny filed a petition in bankruptcy at ] Texarkana. The liabilities are $l5,. GOO.
 John Collins living on the Boswell place in Jefferson township, Jackson county, ended his life by taking nor. phine.
 Every sheriff and collector has set. tied with the state for 1903 taxes the last paying over his funds on Aug ust 15
 A St. Louis paper says Gov. Davis l forgot he was a member of the Parker notification committee and went to St. Louis instead.
 The trustee in the Lake bankruptcy eas has decided to take the deposi. tion of k. H. Smith, as allowed by Judge Trieber
 w D. Eagle, Cotton Belt fireman, was struck near Pine Bluff by 3 rock thrown into his cab He Is brother of Ex-Goy. Eagle
 A son born to MT and Mrs. R. T Hocott at Searcy was named John Parker Hocott, after tho democratic presidential nominee.
 John Barkley jumped from a train in Fort Smith to get his hat which had blown off and in attempting to ge, back on lost a leg
 Mrs. Mary A. Kyle has sued II. Eel. heimer at Hot Springs for $10,0O0 damages for injuries received in the collapse of building.
 An effort is being made to reelect Gen. Thos. J Churchill as state com mander of the Arkansas division of Confederate Veterans
 Ike Haddy. of Jackson. Tenn. was injured by train at Newport Hs saved his life by clingng to the mum. Der plate on the engine
 State Senator K. I. Wilson of Fay. etteville had a narrow escape from drowning in fording White river en route home from Huntsville.
 Rev. W. D Buckner of Trinity Epis. copal church. Pine Bluff. has received a call to the rectorate of the Episco- pal church at Winston-Salem. N. c.
 A train near Huntington was stop. ped few feet from a man drunk and asleep on the track. After the train passed he returned to his tie-couch.
 The fourteenth annual tournament of the Arkansas State Sportsmen' 2 Association was held in Little Rock August II, with a good attendance . James Smith. claimed to be from 1 Little Rock. has arrived at the world B . fair having led a donkey from Little , Rock. He was two months en route ] A negro named Simon Harrison. is in jail at Fort Smith on the charge O. assaulting the daughter of Si Cravens negro. He was captured by nc groes.
 The wedding of Miss Stella Volmer and sam Yout at Little Rock was in terrupted by decorations on gas fix lures catching fire. The damage was slight
 Contract Surgeon Milton Vaughan has been transferred from the Philip pines to Fort Douglass. Utah. He is now at Little Rock on d leave oi absence
 Nine Democratic nominees for Se bastian county offices narrowly miss ed failing to get their names on the state ticket by forgetting to file their : certificates
 l Henry Ridley, employed in foun- f dry at Newport. has been fifty years 9 at the trade and the first accident he E has had was in getting a finger , mashed recently. The Kansas City Southern rail road has offered a prize of a round trip ticket to Kansas City to the Polk county farmer making the best dis play Of products
 The Woodruff circuit court granted to C W. Clark of Little Rock, who 1 built the new court house. a man . damus requiring the county to levy ? 5-mill tax instead of 3 mills. that h. ! receive biG