The Monticellonian., 1904-10-13
BRIEF MENTION.

 Morrilton.
 A s40.0Oo court house will be built al Magnolia.
 Grant county has seventeen local farmers unions
 The enrolment at the University of Arkansas has reached 700
 5000 church building will be erected by Harrisburg Baptists.
 The Conway county circuit court convened at Morrilton October 3
 The Arkansas river rose seven feet at Little Rock in nine hours recently. At Melville last week three cases of typhoid fever were under treat ment
 Seven naval recruits were secured a Texarkana by the naval recruiting party
 Judge Trieber convened the eastern division of federal court at Helena October 10.
 There had been 252 commercial failures in Arkansas during 1901 up to October l.
 A three-story hotel and opera house will be built at Clarksville by the business men.
 The health of Gen. Thos ! Church. i'll is improving and he is now able to leave his house.
 Miss Deem King. who was struck by lightning near Rogers. died as the re suit of her injuries
 It is stated that the division offices of the Cotton Belt may be moved from Little Rock to Argenta
 The cost of the construction of the White River branch from Batesyille to Aurora. Mo, will reach s22000.0 900
 Bids for the erection of a school building to cost s30.000 have been ad- yertised for by the Waldron school board
 John Dunigan. negro. was arrested Tn Mississippi and returned to Helena to answer to the charge of assault on another negro
 Larry Bradley and Charley Eoff, charged with murdering an Italian la borer at Harrison. have been released on 5000 bond
 Five Jefferson county conyicts have been received at the penitentiary All entered pleas of guilty and were giY- en short sentences
 Sid B Bedding of Little Rock re- sponded to the address of welcome at the meeting of the National Republi- can League in Indianapolis
 The city council will assume charge of the city park in Little Rock It's affairs have heretofore been in charge of a board of commissioners.
 Two penitentiary sentences were passed by Judge E. c Mitchell in the Boone circuit court, one for seduc- ton and the other for grand larceny
 Thirteen-year-old Willie Watson was sentenced to five years imprisonment at Texarkana for killing his father while the latter was whipping his daughter.
 In chasing a COW. John Gregory of Oakland struck her over the head with the butt of a gun. which was discharged the bullet entering his right lung
 Geo w. Smith of St. Paul. Madison county. says he is the real inventor of the ticket in use in the Australian ballot system and that it was first used by him in 1882
 At meeting of the stockholders of the Little Rock Baseball association it was decided to increase the stock of the association from S2,400 to 5000
 John W Blackwood. a prominent lawyer, who moved from Little Rock 10 Los Angeles. California announces his intention to return to the former city.
 The Parker and Davis club Of Lit tie Rock will hold a rally on the Tues day night preceding the election. at which all the congressman of the state and Senator James p Clarke will be invited to deliver addresses.
 Robert Wilson. one of the oldest cit izens of Benton county. died at his home at Bloomfield
 T J Hayes of Nashville. Tenn. has bought 3.500 acres of timber lands in Poinsett county from Harris, Cowan X Badinelli The consideration was s14,000
 Commissioner H T Bradford will read a paper on The Apple Industry in the South at the annual meeting of the Association of Commissioners of Agriculture of the Southern States. which will be held at Baton Rouge, La, October 13. II and 15.