The Forrest City times., 1904-12-30
NO. l5.


 lures in northeast Arkansas.
 Fire at Lacey. Drew county des- troyed two stores and contents.
 The holiday trade in all parts of Arkansas broke all previous records. tiddlers' convention will be feat ure of trade day at Danville January II.
 Mail service will be inaugurated or the Midland Valley railroad Jan nary 9.
 The public school and Masonic hall at Griffithville. White county was burned
 w w. Whieldon of Chicago will establish a wood working plant in Little Rock.
 The four year old child of John fingers at Charleston. was killed by a mules kick
 Capt and Mrs. c. c. Dandridge. of Paris, celebrated their silver wedding anniversary
 Vim. ]. Bryan will lecture in Little Rock January '. on the The Value of An Ideal'
 Will Lemon, serving three years for killing W. J. Rexroad at Little Rock. was pardoned.
 G. r. Keefe leaned against an cleo. tric light pole at Pine Bluff and was shocked to death.
 Tom kesterson was shot near Per rysmith by man alleged to have been Jeff Howard
 The Fort Smith Electric street rail- awy will spend $1S0,000 in improve. ments during 1905.
 W. w. Ware, chief dispatcher for the Cotton Belt at Pine Bluff for thir teen years is dead
 Inquiries are being made for John l.. Allen. who worked in sawmills in Yell county in 1902
 Pink Wilson. who killed R. L. Shel. ton at Little Rock year ago. was re- leased on s2,500 bond.
 Rev. J. F. Rorex of Maynard has accepted the pastorate of the Poca- hontas Baptist church
 A COW with hydraphobia ran wild In the streets of Harrisburg and caused mach excitement.
 A cold wave struck Arkansas the night of December 26 and sent the temperature below freezing
 Specimens from the Panther Creek Zine mines in Newton county took the grand prize at the worlds fair.
 A raid was made at Little Rock on n room over Bob Furth's and four men captured and fined for gaming.
 Bridges & Woodbridge of Pine Bluff succeed John NJ. Taylor as Arksnsas attorneys for the Cotton Belt
 $. $. Wassell one of the most prom. inent members of the Little Rock bar died of dropsy after brief illness.
 Emancipation Day will be celebrat. ed January by Little Rock. Hot Springs and Pine Bluff negroes.
 Ex-alderman w. A. Sparks of Little Rock. presented 100 pairs of trousers to the poor boys of the city Christ. mas.
 n. Of the supreme court, has opened n law office at 106 Center street. if. tie Rock
 The Little Rock city council refused to lower the saloon license from s75 per month to which it was advanced from $30
 The new anneXes at the state in. sane asylum are now ready for m. tients. greatly increasing the accom-. modations
 J. A. Trawick. general manager of the Little Rock Railway and Electric Company has been seriously i'll with appendicitis.
 Jacob J. Bickley was endorsed for another term as postmaster at Tex arkana by the county republican cen. tral committee.
 Jim Hobbs, Hampstead county far. mer, was called to his gate and shot by two negroes. who claimed that he owed them money
 Theo Berkau has filed suit at Lit, tie Rock against Constable E. s. Jones Tor So,0o0 damages for alleged false imprisonment.
 W. E. Padgett Of Yell county. walked from a Rock Island train while it stopped on a trestle. He thought the depot had been reached
 Luke Paxton, Miller county ne gro justice of the peace, was fined sl00 for false imprisonment in send ing man to jail improperly.
 Martin Nash. the negro convicted in Desha county Of the murder of James C. Cross. Jr. was granted a new trial by the supreme court.
 Mrs. Hallie Cotton shot herself twice at Eureka Springs in an at tempt to commit suicide. She had just sold her home and was despond- ent over leaving it.
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