The Monticellonian., 1904-07-21

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 A negro named Will Wells was ar rested at Pine Bluff on 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
 H. w. Lett, a former Little Rock jeweler, was arrested at Elgin, H., on the charge of embezzlement at Little Rock
 The German-Ameriean Bank has been organized at Paris with a capt tai stock of $50000. H A MeKelvy IS president.
 F. B. Stewart has resigned as divi- sion superintendent of the Rock Island at Little Rock and was succeeded by W. M. Whittenton
 Half an hour after they first met
 
 and Earl R. Klein. of New York, were married in St Louis.
 It is stated that an independent county ticket will be placed in the field in Garland county against the democratic nominees.
 Mart A. Lawhorn. aged IS. of Viola. Fulton county, was married at Nam moth Springs to Mrs. Mamie Deweese. aged 50, of Loves, Ky.
 Arkansas will not be affected by the packing house strike unless 1t is prolonged beyond two weeks A meat famine was feared at first.
 The Sharp county grand jury has adjourned after returning thirty in. dictments. two of which were for murder and criminal assault.
 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 capi. tol contractors, have been awarded the contract for the new $30.000 court house of Ashley county at Hamburg
 w. M. Craver, living near Spring. dale, shot and killed himself with a revolver. Cravens had been i'll for
 
 Four thousand persons attended the annual picnic at Anneville United States Senator L4atimer 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 14th They were frightened away before they secured its contents.
 An EXConfederate veteran, Capt Jerry R. Cavard died recently in Sc bastian county from a wound received in a cavalry charge in the civil war in which he lost a leg
 The Hot Springs school board will make an effort to secure the proceeds of the sale of government lots on the reservation, soon to be authorized, for school improvements.
 Rev. w. A. Clark. who recently re- tired from the Landmark Baptist of Little Rock. has accepted call to the pastorate of the Bethlehem Baptist church of Little Rock
 Sunstroke is rare in Arkansas, but Henry Alexander, a negro prisoner from Pulaski county. died in that way on the 12th, on the county con vict farm in Jefferson county
 A sixteen-year-old Prescott boy. named Burnett. is exhibiting himself in Columbia county in order to raise money with which to secure an edu. cation He weighs 420 pounds
 A Choctaw bridge laborer named Peter Broumley was drowned the night of the 16th. by falling from the bridge at Little Rock while at work repairing the draw He was 19 years of age.
 John NJ. Oracle Jefferson county 
 his crops this year The second rise of the Arkansas River again inun- dated his place and destroyed 800 acres of COW peas which he had re planted.
 There were 66S patients in the state insane asylum on June 30.
 Dr. Joseph H. Pratt, government officer, has shipped samples of the hot water at Hot Springs to the Yale Uni yersity laboratory for analysis to de termine the possible presence of ra dium in it's properties.
 Texarkana observed the twenty first anniversary of the famous Par agon Horror" the '12th inst This was the catastrophe in which many people were caught beneath the falling walls [ of three-story brick building then in course of construction