The Monticellonian., 1904-10-06
BRIEF MENTION.

Smith postmaster
 Rad Ray was struck on the head in T ball game at Alexander and proba- bly, fatally injured.
 The department of agriculture has wired that the bugs in Pope county are not boll weeyils
 Fifty-four foundinss from the New York Founding Hospital have reached Clifton Lee co4nty
 Mrs Chas Shinu, of Russehyille. was arrested on the charge of selling liquor without license
 The pool room which was recently -tarted in Areenta has been bought lE Little Rock parties
 State Senator N. II Collins an Dounces that he is opposed 10 the seg- regafion of school taxes.
 Lee Parker the convict shot while trying To escape from the new peni- tentiarY died two days later
 The annual reunion of the Confed. crate veterans of Arkansas will be held in Little Rock October Is.
 Roscoe Jones. aged 12. accidentally shot himself at his home in Paris. He was the son of County Clerk Jones,
 Prof Ernest Walker. entomologist of the state university. is making a tour of Arkansas inspecting nurseries.
 James NJ Watson the Hamburg merchant. who disappeared in St Louis. turned up at his home all right
 Work has begun on the new federal building at Harrison The stone will come from the Braddock quarry at Little Rock.
 E NJ. Oxford sent Hp from Little River county for one year for obtain ing money under false pretenses. has been pardoned
 The six-year-old son of Gus Kirby. of Taylor. Columbia county. was smothered to death by falling in a hole he had dug.
 John H. Toney. fined 500 for vio. lating the cattle quarantine laws. in Washington county. has been par doned by Gov Davis
 George Botsford of Little Rock and Rouge. La, were married in the lat. ter place September 2s
 Work has been stopped on the new r. NJ. C. A. building in Little Rock fAt aI tl. will be started October b.
 A delegation of about twenty-five from Arkansas attended the conven. tion of the national league of republi. can clubs as Indianapolis
 Fred and Kline Kennedy fined s5 and costs at Little Rock for assaulting negro boy were pardoned several hours later by the governor
 Arthur Busch. a negro, was shot in the abdomen by Charles Sweeton at Little Rock. while the latter was de lending himself from an attack.
 w R. Sneed. wealthy citizen of Carroll county. is dead at Green For est. He was associated in business with Senator Berry years ago.
 James Oats of Cincinnati, Washing. ton county. is one of the two survi- vors of the ill fated Walker tlibuster- ing expedition to Central America in 1855.
 The Arkansas building at the St Louis fair may be taken down after Pair a1A Springs and re-established there as a permanent repository of Arkansas pro. ducts.
 General Manager Herman Dierks of the DeQueen and Eastern railroad has announced that il is the intention to build that road from its present ter minus at Prove to New Hope. in Pike county
 Walter K Gregory, who was impli- cated with pr Lightle and John V. Roberts in the alleged insurance fraud at Searcy, will remove to Little Rock and work in d carriage and harness factory in that city.
 The construction of a line from Franklin. to Melbourne by way of Phil adelphia Tll shortly be begun by the Sharp County Telephone company The extension will give the company about sixty five miles of line
 George NJ. Bailey has been asked by II. T. Bradford. commissioner of mines. manufactures and agriculture. to prepare report upon the petrol cum developments in Arkansas for the next official report of the bureau
 Ed Thurman, a Little Rock barber. fell through an elevator shaft in Memphis and was seriously injured
 The temperature at Little Rock Sep tember 26 reached 92 degrees. within two degrees of the maximum for the year
 The new high school at Little Rock will be located in the center of the block on Fourteenth and Scott streets
 The city council of Little Rock voted to extend the street lighting system into territory which has recently been built up
 C. C King. of Pittston. Pa, who disappeared from an Iron Mountain train at Little Rock. was found a week later in the Argenta jail in demented condition