The Monticellonian., 1904-08-18
BRIEF MENTION.

At Batesyille, Thomas Williams has established cat farm.
 A stone jail for Randolph county was recommended by the grand jury.
 At Heber an ex-Confederate re union last week was attended by 5000
 A trolley line from Little Rock to Hot Springs is the latest scheme to be promoted.
 Rev Sam Jones has been asked to make temperance speeches in Craig head county.
 L. E Knott. of Philadelphia, won the high prize at the state shoot at Little Rock.
 Pat Montgomery who died at Fort Smith. August 12 is believed to have been loo years old.
 August Keeling, white man, fell under a valley route train in Little Rock and lost foot
 Parker Ball. Sloan Springs boy. aged 13 years. ran away to St. Louis. He was arrested and sent home.
 Near Brinkley Will Wood was shot and killed by B. B. Forbes. August 12. Forbes surrendered Mrs. Hood was also injured.
 The trustee in the Lake bankruptcy cas has decided to take the deposi- tion of E. H. Smith. as allowed by Judge Trieber
 A St Louis paper says Gov Davis forgot he was a member of the Parker notification committee and went to St Louis instead.
 Mrs. Mary A. Kyle has sued H. Eel heimer at Hot Springs for S10,000 damages for injuries received in the collapse of a 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 a train at Newport He saved his life by clinging to the num- Der plate on the engine.
 Michigan capitalists are buying timber lands in Yell county along the route Of the proposed railroad from Danville to Hot Springs.
 James Smith, claimed to be from Little Rock, has arrived at the world 5 fair. having led donkey from Little Rock He was two months en route
 The wedding of Miss Stella Nolmer and Sam Yout at Little Rock was in terrupted by decorations on gas fix lures catching fire. The damage was slight
 A negro named Simon Harrison, is iii jail at Fort Smith on the charge of assaulting the daughter of Si Cravens. a negro. He was captured by ne groes.
 The Cotton Belt Frisco and Kansas City Southern railroads secured an in- junction in the railway assessment cases, similar to that secured by the Rock Island
 Whey Adams was taken for a tur- key by William Perkins, who was hunting with him near Paragould, with the result that twenty shots pen etratad his body.
 The new fire department and water works system of Mena proved effec- tive in fire at the ice and cold stor- age plant The fire was under con tro in five minutes, though it had a good start
 Ex-Mayor Wm Mara, of Argenta was arrested by the Little Rock police for operating a wagon without a transfer license. It developed that the wagon for which he had the li- cense was out of use that day
 Robert Mara fell from a roof in Ar genta and was fatally injured He fell on his head
 Rey. W. Fredberg was re-employed as general secretary of the Arkansas Sunday-school association for another year, and a financial secretary author iZed. w Fred Long and Rev. Sidney Bahcock were appointed committee on sustaining membership.
 Natural gas was struck at a depth of 900 feet in test well sunk b. H. E. Kelley, seven and half eiles from Fort Smith The yield is 1000,- 000 every 24 hours
 At Antoine, Cob Cash and Ruth Blakely and Tom Hammons and Esther Gore-Lamb were married while sitting in buggies in front of the minister's residence.
 J. E. Lincoln, former assistant tick ct agent in the Iron Mountain office at Texarkana, is charged with uttering worthless checks, cashing them and then leaving for parts unknown.