The Monticellonian., 1904-12-01
ERIE, MENTION.

Peter Karalas. Greek. was killed by train at Paragould
 Prescott will have a street fair the second week in December.
 A state good roads convention will be held al Little Rock January IS.
 The city Of Little Rock has pur- chased $10,0oo of outstanding bonds
 Night and day forces are at work on the Washington county court house.
 Track on the White River branch has been laid twelve miles beyond Yellville
 The communication list of the state penitentiary for December contains 22 names
 The biscuit factory recently burned at Fort Smith will be rebuilt on larger scale.
 George Henderson, a negro. was arrested at Hot Springs charged with wife murder.
 Fortyfour counties in Arkansas re. ported 462,571 bales of cotton ginned to November Il
 II. B. Mizzell. manager of the Pine Bluff Compress company. died of ca tarrhaI pneumonia
 The gin house of the GatesvilIe Gin and Compress Company was burned with $10.000 loss.
 The owners of the Fort Smith cleo trtc line will spend $2S8000 in im. proving the system
 R. l.. Brady. an ex-convict, who has been delivering lectures. died at White. Ashley county.
 It is stated that E. " Hodges of Imboden will be state printing clerk under Auditor Moore
 Fannie Cadett. a negress, commit ted suicide at Little Rock because of worrying over her debts
 Judge W. F. Avera. one of the most prominent citizens of Arkansas. is dead at his home in Camden
 Ed Huey. the negro sentenced at Fl Dorado to hang December ?. has taken an appeal to the supreme court
 The hanging of Robert Causby in Batesville November D was the first legal hanging there since 1879.
 Capt. j. c. Bourland. aged S2 years, is dead at his home in Fort Smith. He had resided there since 1S44
 The Little Rock school board has decided to call the new 5000 high school the Little Rock High School"
 John V. Roberts has been cited to appear in the federal court at Little Rock December 10 show cause why he should not be disbarred
 When an Italian visitor at Hot Springs entered his room, he was con fronted by three men with pistols, who robbed him and escaped.
 The Little Rock Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian church voted in favor of union with the Presbyterian Church of America.
 The front of new building being erected at Pine Bluff fell, but it hap pened that no one was passing at the time, and there were no fatalities.
 James Sellers. a gunsmth, who lived in a houseboat on the Arkansas river in Faulkner county, was fatally injured by a windlass hitting him in abdomen
 The HoXie city marshal arrested gambler who was looking for him to kill him. The man advanced upon the marshal pushing a boy, but the marshal got the drop and disarmed the wouldbe murderer.
 The charter of the Batesvillc and Jacksonport railroad has been ex, tended three yeas by the state board.
 A burning order was made at Little Rock by Judge Lea directed against the gambling devices recently seized in Argenta
 Chas Dusenbery. 15-year-old boy. was arrested at Fort Smith on the charge of murderins Bob Pendleton, a pedler, al Page. l. T.
 c. D Mowen has resigned as chief clerk to Land Commissioner c. A. A. Deane of the iron Mountain and will engage in the real estate business at Fort Smith
 Mrs. W s Roberts of Eureka Springs was robbed of cloak and her pocket book in sleeper near St. Louis.
 Solomon Humphrey, the negro con victed of killing Will Greaves at Pine Bluff. was sentenced to 2l years in the penitentiary. He appealed.
 Mrs. 4. R. Smith, wife of the pro- prietor of the Navarro hotel at Hot Springs. died there. Her husband was formerly travelling passenger agent of the Louisville and Nashville railroad with headquarters at Little ROpk