The Monticellonian., 1904-08-04

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 All foreign miners left Spadra on July 27 and the threatened trouble was averted.
 Work is being rushed on the White River Branch extension of the Iron Mountain.
 The retail grocers of Little Rock decided to admit retail merchants to their organization.
 The walls of the new S50000 Y. NJ c. A. building at Little Rock have been completed.
 Ike Davis, a negro was stabbed to death by Minnie Wilson. negress. in Little Rock. July p.
 F. F. Fletcher fell from a steeple at Independence. Baxter county, 45 feet and was seriously injured
 WhNe temporarily insane, Cal Smith attempted to cut his throat with dull knife at Bonanza
 The Cotton Belt railroad will assist in the building of the Plum Bayou levee on the Arkansas river.
 The John Harbin has succeeded the Lucille Rowland in the river traffic be- tween Little Rock and Memphis.
 Little Rock will not suffer from the packing strike as the butchers have plenty of native grown meat.
 Ike Brizzell. negro was killed by Clabe Cook. another negro. near Foreman. July 26. Cook surrendered.
 Craighead county temperance peo- pie are preparing to make hard fight on whisky at the state election.
 An ordinance has been introduced in the Little Rock city council provid. ing for the inspection of milk and meat.
 Cases of alleged white capping in Ouachita and Nevada counties are be- ing investigated by government of ficers.
 Mrs. Daugherty, of Bonneville, re ceived telegram that her son, Ben jamin, was killed by train at Indian. apolis. Ind.
 The corner stone of the new State Line Methodist church at Texarkana was laid July 26 The edifice will cost $40, 900.
 Clarence Hafer Little Rock city fireman. was thrown from a freight car at Mayfower July 27 and serious ly injured
 Hampstead county reports boil weevils. Lights are being placed in the field in the attempt to extermi- nate them
 Lizzie Garner, white woman, shot a negro at Junction City because he insulted her She was locked up and escaped from jail.
 The Little Rock city council passed an order ruling peddlers of ice cream off the streets. on recommendation of the board of health.
 A St Louis man bought 500.000 AT. kansas cotton bolls at 10c a hundred and is row selling them al the Worlds Fair at 10 cents each.
 rIdHh oulieii, dSeu It. IeueIdl prisoner in the Fort Smith jail charg ed with robbing the Spieler post of flee, escaped on July 24.
 Examinations for professional teachers license will be held in Little Rock on August 23-26, by State Sup erintendent J H Hinemon.
 Dr. Emanuel Trisch. of Cincinnati has been called to succeed Joseph Saul Kornfeld as rabbi of congrega- tion Anshe Emeth at Pine Bluff
 The female annex to the state in sane asylum will be ready October and the male mex December 1. pro- viding room for 300 more patients
 Miss Beulah Stone. of Marmaduke, Greene county, was killed in a runa- way. She jumped from the wagon and broke her neck.
 The Pine Bluff board of trade al- leges that the Cotton Belt has violated its lease of depot grounds by leasing a part of the building to a brewing company.
 The appointment of A s. Finn as principal assistant engineer of the Rock Island for the Choctaw district with headquarters at Oklahoma City is announced.
 Jason Bell. a negro was killed in a craps game at McNab, Hampstead county He was winning from Lewis Steel and Tom Jefferson, when a dis pute arose This is the seventh kill ing at MeNab in year
 An alleged swindler went along the line of the St. Louis and North Ar kansas railroad recently buying eggs and chickens. which he shipped away then skipped out. He caught a Mar shall merchant for s325.
 An effort will be made to secure the 1907 meeting of weather bureau officials for Little Rock.