The Monticellonian., 1904-08-18
panther was killed near Fe5er


 An unknown white man was found dead in a cornfield near McGehee.
 A well has been drilled S25 feet at Little Rock by d company boring for oil
 Emancipation Day was August s. but there were few celebrations by Arkansas negroes.
 Dr. J. A. Davis, of Cross county. has announced as independent candidate for the legislature.
 Great quantities of blaekberries are rotting in Benton county because of no market for them
 t is said the Iron Mountain rail road proposes building a road from its main line to Heber
 Conyulsions after eating a green ap- pie caused the death of a child of B. B. Smith at Hot Springs.
 Lizzie Dunlap, an angry client, wrecked the office of J D. Page. a Hot Springs negro lawyer.
 son was born to MT and Mrs Alex Brown at Hartford with two upper front teeth well developed.
 The Bain township school house near Hot Springs burned, and is be- lieved to have been set afire.
 On September 16, Eugene Debs, candidate for president on the socialist ticket, will speak in Little Rock.
 Rev. A. E. Miller. of Bentonyille, has been called to the pastorate of the Argenta Presbyterian church.
 Duffy William stabbed Deputy City Marshal George Pearce of Newark in the side at a ball game. August 8.
 Mrs. Fanny Gettings, of Oklahoma City died at Hot Springs from an over dose of morphine, taken accidentally.
 Mrs. Frances Merkel died in Little Rock, August g. after 64 years resi- dence there She was born in 1924.
 Mrs. Marie A. Frese died in Little Rock August 10. at the age of 63 years. She was a native of Germany.
 The Thos. c. Skeen Lumber Compa- ny filed petition in bankruptcy at Texarkana The liabilities are S15,- GOO.
 John Collins. living on the Boswell place, in Jefferson township, Jackson county, ended his life by taking nor phine.
 The Arkansas river has cut across a neck thirty-five miles below Little Rock and shortened the channel ten miles.
 Surveyors are working on the pro posed extension of the Rock Island railroad from Searcy to Heber. thirty miles.
 The survey is being made for the Midland Valley terminals in Fort Smith An offer of free terminals was refused.
 The Arkansas internal revenue of fee has been placed in the Atlanta (Ga0 division It has been in the Kentucky division.
 Sam Mcdonald, a Little Rock ailk dealer, was fined s10 in police court on the charge of selling milk contain ing formaldehyde.
 At Eureka Springs, on August &, while temporarily insane from an op- eration of six months ago, Dr. J. w. Hays killed himself.
 The new owner of Potash Sulphur Springs. Baroness de Pollaudt, has ar rived there and will build an electric railway to Hot Springs.
 On information from Monroe. La. Carl Thompson was arrested at Little Rock on the charge of obtaining cloth ing under false pretenses.
 A COW hooked Mrs John Cathey, of Bearden, and she was seriously in jured. Her husband was recently killed on lumber read.
 John N, Crockett present secre- tary of state has been offered the po- sition of chief deputy under o. c. Ludwig. who succeeds him.
 State Senator R. J. Wilson of Fay etteville had a narrow escape from drowning in fording White river en route home from Huntsville
 The announcement was male, Au- gust 9, of the secret wedding, July 12, of Miss Mabel Cook aged IS, and Rob- ert Wayne, aged 19, of Argenta.
 A train near Huntington was stop ped few feet from man drunk and asleep on the track. After the train passed he returned to his tie-couch
 Fannie Floyd, aged II. ran away from her home in Wilson, Mississip- pi county, it is alleged with a brake man. She was found by her brother in Memphis. preparing for her we'd ding, and he took her home.
 A motion to allow shooters from other states to participate in the an nual shoot, was voted down by the state sportsman association at Lit tie Rock
 General Billy" Ryder, of Mont gomery county. is at the Worlds Fair with commission as Arkansas Worlds Fair commissioner from that county.
 Contract Surgeon Milton Vaughan has been transferred from the Philip pines to Fort Douglass, Utah He is now at Little Rock on a leave of absence.
 Nine Democratic nominees for Se- bastian county offices narrowly miss e1 failinu tO gpf thpir DamNe m the