The Forrest City times., 1904-12-16
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Wiley Jones. wealthy Pine Blun negro, Is dead
 Batesville will install an electric fire alarm system.
 The municipal light plant at Nash vile is now in operation.
 There will be two new saloons In Pine Bluff after January l.
 Ex-Governor James P. Eagle is i'll at his home in Little Rock
 Eugene Bono, accidentally shot at Center Point, died at Morrlton.
 Fort Smith Elks have bought lot for $6,000, and will build home.
 Scarcity of water has caused the oil mill at Magnolia to close down.
 city primary election has been called for Little Rock for January 3.
 Frank Meek has resigned as fore. man of the Barring Cross roundhouse.
 There are now about 400 horses at Clinton park race track at Little Rock
 The town of England will install and operate a municipal electric light plant.
 The two-ycar-old daughter of George Smith of Lake City was burned to death.
 There were sixty.three cases of smallpox in Pulaski county Decem- Der B.
 While putting up stove. II. F Kirk. patrick of Pocahontas, fell and broke four ribs.
 A large boulder fell on ]. A. Bur. gin. a coal miner at Greenwood, and killed him
 Oranges have been successfully grown by Mrs. r NJ. Rowley, living near Lonoke
 Luke Buchanan was stabbed in the abdomen by A. A. Arm at Sidney. Sharp county. The Missouri Pacific immigration bureau will meet in Pine Bluff Jan uary g. 1905.
 Federal court convened at Bates. vile December 12. with Judge Jacob Trieber presiding
 The next session of the Little Rock conference of the NJ F. Church will be held at Camden.
 Mrs. Matilda Allen of Pennington. Washington county. aged s6 years. fell and broke her hip
 J. r. Wallace has been licensed county examiner of Desha county vice J. BernharA. resigned
 A bill will be introduced in the next legislature to compel owners of hogs to keep them penned up.
 Jim Hinson was seriously stabbed near Dardanelle by Obe Field, whose brother he was assaulting.
 Second Vice President John F. Stev. ems of the Rock Island spent several days in Arkansas recently
 The Rock Island will establish din. ing car service between Memphis and Hot Springs on December 20.
 State Treasurer Tipton has about completed his bond of $500 900, which will have nearly 200 signatures.
 
 at Little Rock by the Retail Mer- chants and Grocers' Association. C. H. Winkler. fined $50 and costs in Arkansas county for carrying pistol, was pardoned by the governor. The campaign has begun for the raising of $50 900 for the Ouachita- Central college system, to liquidate their indebtedness.
 A few miles below Little Rock the water in the channel of the Arkansas river was but fourteen inches on De- cember 12.
 The Furth-Gordy Carriage company of Little Rock has been sola to the Tilson Carriage company of Texarkana for s35 900.
 Rev. John Van Lear of Tuscaloosa. Ala. has been called to the pastorate of the Second Presbyterian church at Little Rock.
 Edward Hines, negro constable of McAlmont. was shot in the neck while trying to arrest George Robin son at Little Rock Rev. Harvey Beauchamp of Little Rock has been reelected for the fourth term as secretary of the Bap. tist state Sunday school board.
 A two-story frame building was col lapsed by wind at Hot Springs with a | 5000 loss. IL was being built to re- place building burned a month ago.
 Argenta officials are endeayorlng to have the Rock Island back its passen- ger trains down to the central part Of the city to receive and discharge pas. sengers.
 Bryan Snyder. of the Frisco sys. tenn. was thrown from an automobile at Fort Smith and received a severe wound in the head. wheel came on the machine while it was running at q high speed
 Christmas day the Rock Island will probably extend the service of the Brinkley and Newport train to Little Rock leaving i iffla RaeL at Q. aa