The Van Buren press., 1904-07-23

The Texarkana city council has
granted a fifty-year franchise to a
water company
A stock company which played at
Pine Bluff two weeks has disbanded
on account of poor business.
Mrs. Albert Singleton, living near
Waldron, was caugh, under a falling
tree while cut riding and killed,
A negro named VIII Wells was ar
rested at Pine Bluff on a charge Of
assault to kill in Brookhayen, Miss
Another rise of the Arkansas river
was feared for a few days but the
water did not near reach the June
figure.
Specimens Of Elberta peaches eleven
inches in circumference have been
added to the Arkansas worlds fair
exhibit.
The state railway assessment board
has resumed the hearing on the as
sessment of railway property in Ar
kansas.
The German-AmeriCan Bank has
been organized at Paris with capt
tai stock of $4,000. H. A. McKelvy
is president
f, B. Stewart has resigned as divi.
sion superintendent of the Rock Island
at Little Rock and was succeeded by
w. NJ Whittenton.
Half an hour after they first met
Miss Josephine White of Little Rock
and Earl r. Klein, of New York, were
married in St. Louis.
1t is stated that an Independent
county ticket will be placed in the
field in Garland county against the
democratic nominees
Mart A. Lawhorn, aged rs, Of Viola,
Fulton county, was married at Nam.
moth Springs to Mrs. Mamie Deweese,
aged so, Of Loves, Ky.
A stranger who dropped dead In
New Orleans was believed to be
James Mcdonald Of Bear, ARK.
through papers in his pockets.
A call has been extended to Rev.
Sherwood Bridgeley of Holly Springs
Miss, to the pastorate of the First
Presbyterian church at Jonesboro.
Caldwell & Drake, the state capt
tol contractors, have been awarded
the contract for the new 100000 court
house of Ashley county at Hamburg.
Four thousand persons attended the
annual picnic at Annieylle United
States Senator I.atimer Of South Car.
olina delivered an address on good
roads
Robbers cracked the safe in the Iron
Mountain freight Office in Little Rock
the night of the l4th, They were
frightened away before they secured
its contents.
Hot Springs citizens on Wilmington
avenue will ask the federal govern
ment to remedy the alleged unsani
tary condition of the government
lakes on that street,
w. W, Shaw has retired as assist
ant post master at TeSarkana He
had been in the office since 1876 ex.
cept during the eight years Demo
cratic administration
An Ex.Confederate veteran, Capt
Jerry r. Calyard, died recently in Sc.
bastian county from wound received
In cavalry charge In the civil war
In which he lost leg,
Rev w, A. Clark, who recently re.
tired from the Landmark Baptist Of
Little Rock has accepted call to the
ppstorate Of the Bethlehem Baptist
church Of Little Rock
Sunstroke Is rare in Arkansas. but
Henry Alexander, negro prisoner
from Pulaski county died In that
way on the 18TH, on the county con.
Wet farm in jefferson county
A siXteenyoarold Prescott boy,
named Burnett, is exhibiting himself
In Columbia county IN order to raise
money with which TO secure an edu.
cation. Hc weighs i2O pounds
A Choctaw bridge laborer named
Peter Broumley was drowned the
night OF the 10th, by falling from tho
bridge at Little Rock while at work
repairing the draw, lie was 10 years
of age
John NJ Oracle Jefferson county
planter. is having very bad luck with
his crops this year The second rise
OF the Arkansas River again inun.
da'cd his place and destroyed 500
acres Of COW peas which he had re.
planted
There were 66S patients In the state
Insane asylum ON June 80,
Dr. Joseph II Pratt n government
oncor has shipped samples Of the hot
water at Hot Springs TO the Yalc unh
yorsIty laboratory for analysis TO do
tcrmIne the possible presence Of ra.
dium IN its properties
ToSOrkanO observed the twenty
nrst anniversary Of the famous "pOr
Ng0n Horror the 18Th inst This was
the catastrophe In which many people
were caught beneath the falling walls
Of a thfce.stury brick building then Ia
course Of construction
The aged mother OF Jim McLemors
a resident OF Argenta, serving Ave
years for tho murder Of MIas Flor.
cnee shillcutt IN that city three years
ago, ls making Hn effort to secure his
pardon lie was convicted Of murder
In the second degree,
Dave Norwood, negro, la IN jail
Ai Fort Smith charged with killlnF