The Van Buren press., 1904-12-31

trlc light pole at Pine Bluff and was
| shocked TO death
Tom kesterson was shot near Per
/ rysmith by a man alleged to have
/ been jeff Howard
The Fort Smith Electric street rail-
awy will spend $1SO,OOO in improve
, ments during 1905.
w. w. Ware, chief dispatcher for
| the Cotton Belt at Pine Bluff for tnr.
/ teen years is dead
| Inquiries are being made for John
l.. Allen, who worked in sawmills in
Yell county in 1902.
Pink Wilson, who killed r. l.. Shell
ton at Little Rock a year ago. was re-
leased on $1,000 bond.
Rev. ], f. Rorex of MAYNARD has
accepted the pastorate Of the Poca-
hontas Baptist church.
A COW with hydraphobia ran Wild
in the streets of Harrisburg and
caused much eXciteme ent.
A cold wave struck Arkansas the
| night of December 26 and sent the
| temperature below freezing.
Specimens from the Panther Creek
Zinc mines in Newton county took the
grand prize at the worlds fair.
A raid was made at Little Rock on a
room over Bob Furths and four men
captured and fined for gaming.
Bridges 4 Woodbridge of Pine BufT
succeed John NJ Taylor as Arkansas
attorneys for the Cotton Belt.
S. $. Wassell one of the most prom.
inent members of the Little Rock bar
died Of dropsy after brief illness.
Emancipation Day will be celebrat.
ed January 2 by Little Rock, Hot
Springs and Pine Bluff negroes.
Ex.alderman w. A. Sparks of Little
Rock, presented 100 pairs of trousers
to the poor boys of the city Christ.
mas.
Former Chief Justice II. G. Bum
Of the supreme court, has opened a
law Office at 106 Center street, Lit.
tie Rock
The Little Rock city council refused
to lower the saloon license from SIS
per month, to which it was advanced
from $50
The new anneXes at the state in.
sane asylum are now ready for pa
tients, greatly increasing the accom-.
mOdations.
j. A. Trawick, general manager of
the Little Rock Railway and Electric
Company, has been seriously III with
appendicitis,
Jacob j. Buckley was endorsed for
another term as postmaster at Tex.
arkana by the county republican cen.
tral committee.
Jim Hobbs a Hampstead county far.
mer, was called to his gate and shot
by two negroes, who claimed that he
owed them money
Thco Berkau has filed suit at Lit.
tie Rock against Constable E S..
Jones for $4,000 damages for alleged
false imprisonment
W, Il, Padgett, OF Yell county,
walked from Rock Island train while
1t stopped on trestlc. He thought
the depot had been reached
Luke Paxton, Miller county me-
gro justice Of the peace, was fined
500 for false Imprisonment in send.
Ing a man to Jail improperly
Martin Nash, the negro convicted
IN Desha county Of the murder OF
James c, Cross, Jr, was granted a
new trial by the supreme court.
Mrs. Halle Cotton shot herself
twice at Eureka Springs In an at.
tempt to commit suicide, She had
just sold her home and was despond.
ent over leaving it
Gilbert D. RaIue has purchased tho
Memphis Afternoon ScmItar and con.
solidatcd II with the Morning News
as an afternoon and Sunday morning
paper under the name Of Memphis
News 'Scimitar.
The Iron Mountain ia said TO be
surveying u line from Malvern TO Cam.
den paralleling the Rock Island sur.
yey,
Stella PcttawaS n negross, was XIII
ed at ToNarkana and Walter Parker,
negro boy was arrested, He admit.
ted the shooting but claimed II was
accidental
j c, Showers Of Benton was held
mp on the Argcnta end Of the free
bridge at Little Rock, but raised his
umbrella and the hlghwaymou, think
Ing II was gun, lowered his reyol.
YER and ran,
Mrs. Jack Mcdonald and a boy were
injured In a runaway at Helena,
Dr. Frank Connorly Of Lake WI.
lagc, was accidentally killed while
hunting
Woodrun county temperance peo.
pie viii hlo q biz petition against
the licensing Of saloons In that coun.
~
A drunken counlryman told Hot
Springs officers lurld ainry of a
loureorncrcd hght IN which two par
tleIpanls were killed The officers
went to the scene Of the supposed
crime, but could mud no dead mon.