The Monticellonian., 1904-08-04
BRIEF MENTION.

A system of waterworks will be in. stalled at Russellyille.
 The land agency of the Iron Noun tain at Dardanelle has been discon tinued
 Robert Mowery of Hot Springs has been issued a patent on an ice-cutting machine.
 j. b Simpson, a Black Rock timer fell from roof on July p and broke his neck.
 A J Rowell was acquitted at De Queen of murder in poisoning his son in-law, John COnly.
 C. E. Shumaker of Little Rock is preparing to establish a wheelbarrow factory at Magnolia.
 The schedule of the University Of Arkansas foot ball season for next fall has been arranged
 Mrs Will Perry. who killed her husband at Hot Springs. was released on 5000 bond July 29.
 A new Masonic temple is to be built at Magnolia at cost of $6,000. The contract has been let.
 Four new carriers have been added to the Little Rock post office force. making a total of thirty-one.
 An unknown negro dropped dead on Little Rock street and was buried without being identified.
 Fire at Newport July 2S burned the millinery store of Mrs Moore and Jaekson's paint shop. Loss, 5000.
 An eight-story office building is talked of for the southeast corner of Second and Center streets in Little Rock
 The petition of De Queen citizens for the removal of the county seat of Sc. vier county was dismissed by the cir. cult court.
 A large part of the equipment issued to the state militia prior to 1901 was condemned by a board of survey at Little Rock
 A prominent young man of Fort Smith quarreled with his sweetheart anu lOOh pOlSOl, Dul IeSlelleu lhe dCt and hurried to physician. He re- covered
 Postmaster Holt of Little Rock has been notified by the postal authorities that morphine can not be sent through the mails.
 The body of a dead baby was found in grip on the banks of a bayou near Pine Bluff It was the fourth case of the kind in three months.
 The electric car line connecting Hoxie and Walnut Ridge is now in operation and both towns have cleo tric lighta for the first time.
 Uncle Jake Spain. of Paragould, was married recently to Mrs. S. Earps. He has been blind 9 years and this is his third marriage.
 The relatives of State Auditor and Mrs. T. c. Monroe held a reunion re- gently at Magnolia Sixty-two were present and barbecue was held.
 The statement is authorized by County Judge w. NJ Kavanaugh, of Little Rock. that he will enter the democratic gubernatorial contest for governor in 1906
 The suit of Eugene Miles against R. A. Furth for s1.,600, alleged to have been lost in gambling has been com promised and Miles appeal to the SUI preme court dismissed. Abijah Adams, aged IA, was killed in coal mine near Bonanza, in an attempt to catch loaded car as it passed. His father is in the peniten. tiary and he was the support of mother and five children.
 Indictments for murder in the first | degree have been returned in Boone county against Charley Eoff and Lara Bradley. charging them with killing an Italian a few months ago. Their trial is set for August 29
 The first case made on the reserva- tion at Hot Springs since the govern ment assumed police jurisdiction was tried before United States Commis- sioner Cohn, July 26. Two men who fought in front of bath house were fined s15 each.
 A mass meeting was held at Paris. Logan county. to devise means to make a fight on saloons. It has been a dry county for 20 years except eight years ago.
 Archie Johnston. aged 19, was ac. cidently killed near Gravel Ridge, Bradley county, July 24, by a young man named Roark, who was careless | ly handling a rife.
 Dr Wm. T. Smith, of Little Rock. was arrested in Paducah, Ky, on the charge of temporary insanity He had S320 in his pockets. and claimed to have been robbed of s240.