The Monticellonian., 1904-09-29
BRIEF MENTION.

The Jackson county board of equal- i2ation raised the assessment of but five persons.
 Walter C Stein, charged with being a deserter from the regular army, WIS arrested al Paragould
 John Rowe, the negro who cut the throat of his brothesinlaw at Fort Smith. has surrendered.
 David B Bright. of Hartford. has mysteriously disappeared from home, and it is feared that he is dead
 Jack Gilbert centerheder of the Little Rock ball club. has been sold 10 Pittsburg. of the National league.
 The Pulaski county board of equal. i2ation made raises amounting to s400 GOO in the returns made by the assessor.
 A committee of Little Rock busi- ness men made an inspection of the reported new oil fields in Dallas county.
 Dardanelle had a s4.009 fire, which
  store catching fire in some unknown manner
 John R. Bloom. of Pine Bluff is the new assistant professor in the engi- neering department of the University of Arkansas
 J. J. Lewis. who was assistant sec retary of the last state senate was married at Little Rock to Miss Ida Francis Long.
 The board of equalization reduced the assessment of the Little Rock Railway X Electric Co. from $500 900 to s4000 000
 The stakes for the meeting of the Essex Jockey club. 10 be held the com ing winter near Hot Springs have been announced.
 The total cleariags of the Little Rock banks during the first six months the local clearing house was in operation were l9.323.l2l36.
 H F. Yunken. of Randolph, Miss. died on the Choetaw train near Brink ley, while enroute home from Hot Springs His wife and son were with him
 Miss Emma Hogins. daughter of the superintendent of the state pen- tentiary, and James P Faucette of Argenta, were married September 2S in Little Rock
  Ashdown. was indicted on the charge of killing an Iron Mountain negro DOT ter at Texarkana and committed to jail without bond
 Little Rock city officials have asked the aid of the banks of that city to assist in locating outstanding bonds. which il is desired to redeem. though they are not yet due.
 James Lee. charged with stealing nine head of cattle in Little River county, wah convicted at Mena on change of venue and sentenced to one years imprisonment
 Neil Carouthers. of Fayetteville has gone to London to enter Oxford university. He was awarded the Ce- cil Rhodes scholarship in that insti- tuition for Arkansas
 ExCongressman W. L. Terry an- nounces that he has formed a law partnership in Litle Rock with his son. David D. Terry. who has been in the legal department of the Choc- taw
 Henry Miller. negro, was convict ed at Fort Smith of manslaughter in killing his uncle by striking him in the head with shoe last and was sentenced to five years in the peni- tentiary,
 Miss Fife Daniels, of Prairie Grove, Ark. says she went to St Louis to do three things-get married see the fair and help celebrate Arkansas week. She did all. The groom was Sandford Rankin. of Perryville, Mo.
 Cards have been issued announcing the marriage to take place September 2S, at Quincy, ILL. of Hon Judge Ed. win Kerwin. of Pine Bluff, and Miss Margaret Ruth Kirby. of Quincy They will reside in Pine Bluff
 Louis Goerit2 a Pulaski county far mer. died from gunshot wound i1- flicted by Henry Boerner. a neighbJr Boerner, who had been been released bond, was rearrested on the charge of murder in the second degree
 John D Ferguson. an Arkansas man laid a $20 bill on bar in St. Louis to pay for drinks for himself and friends The barkeeper covered it. and palmed a 8 bill which he con tended was the one Ferguson had laid down.
 pr ] w Brown, one of the most prominent physicians of the state, died September 2l. at his home in Camden after an illness of a few hours
 While trying to pass between a chair and the stove the fve-year-old son of Green Butler. of Heber, overturned the tea kettle and was seriously scalded
 The railroad bridge over the Black river at Pocahontas has been con demned. and no trains are allowed tG cross it. Passengers are transferred across 1t in hacks
 The Pine Bluff board of trade has appointed a committee to work to re