The Monticellonian., 1904-12-15


 Batesvile will install an electric fire alarm system.
 There will be two new saloons in Pine Bluff after January l.
 Eugene Bono, accidentally shot at Center Point. died at Morriton
 Ed Campbell a railroad man. had a leg cut off by train at Batesville.
 Scarcity of water has caused the oil mill at Magnolia to close down.
 Gus Roberts was dragged by mule at RussellVille and fatally injured
 A city primary election has been called for Little Rock for January 8 Frank Meek has resigned as fore man of the Barring Cross roundhouse. The infant child of MT. and Mrs. j. s. Ellis of Hope was found dead ia bed.
 There are now about 400 horses at Clinton park race track at Little Rock.
 The Forrest City electric light plant has been acquired by Memphis capi- talists
 An Angora goat farm will be estab- lished near Sloan Springs by L. E. Lebrick
 Bergman has been reached by the track laying gang on the White River railroad
 While putting up stove. H. F Kirk. patrick of Pocahontas, fell and broke four ribs.
 A large boulder fell on J. A Bur gin, a coal miner at Greenwood. and killed him.
 Louis Houck, an Arkansas railroad builder. won a s175.000 suit against him at St. Louis.
 Federal court convened at Bates, vile December 12. with Judge Jacob Trfeber presiding.
 The next session of the Little Rock conference of the NJ. E Church will be held at Camden.
 Mrs. S NJ Morris committee suicide at Murfreesboro by cutting her throat with a butcher knife
 Mrs Matilda Allen of Pennington, Washington county. aged S6 years, fell and broke her hip.
 J. F. Wallace has been licensed county examiner of Desha county vice J Bernhardt. resigned
 Rev. Percy T. Fenn has withdrawn his resignation as pastor of the Tex. arkana Episcopal church.
 A bill will be introduced in the next legislature to compel owners of hogs to keep them penned up.
 Jim Hinson was seriously stabbed near Dardanelle by 0be Field whose brother he was assaulting.
 Circuit Judge Moose gave a strong charge against the pistol toter9 in opening court at Clarksville.
 State Treasurer Tipton has about completed his bond of $60O,O00. which will have nearly 200 signatures.
 An electric light plant may be built at Little Rock by the Retail Mer- chants and Grocers' Association.
 C. H. Wtnkler. fined S5o and costs in Arkansas county for carrying a pistol, was pardoned by the governor.
 The campaign has begun for the raising of $150000 for the Ouachita- Central college system, to liquidate their indebtedness.
 A few miles below Little Rock the water in the channel of the Arkansas river was but fourteen inches on De cember F.
 The clock for the Fayetteville court house has arrived It weighs 1000 pounds and the strokes can be heard two miles.
 Edward Hines, negro constable of McAlmont. was shot in the neck while trying to arrest George Robin son at Little Rock
 Pink Wilson was placed on trial at Little Rock December 12 for the second time for the murder of R. L. shelton, a motorman.
 The bursting of an underground hot water pipe caused a geyser to shoot in the air at Little Rock and caused much excitement.
 A receiver was asked for the Wynne Furniture Manufacturing Con- pany and W NJ Black and J. E. Har- ris appointed by Chancellor Robert son.
 MT. and Mrs o. D. Slaughter of Springdale recently celebrated the ffty-sixth anniversary of their mar riage. Sixteen grandchildren were present.
 w. FL Parker. arrested at Hot Springs. had 400 S1 bills in a roll be tween two tens.
 Jesse Coleman pleaded guilty at Little Rock to grand larceny and as- sauit to kill and was sentenced to two years
 IL is believed that the Kansas City Southern railroad will extend the Arkansas Western, recently purchased by it. to Hot Springs from Waldron.
 Rev Ross Moore pastor of the Pine Bluff Baptist church, has been granted a four months leave of ab sence an- will tour the Holy Land and the Orient.
 The eurfew law is being enforced in Teyarkana after lying dormant for several years.