The Forrest City times., 1904-08-26


 A. D. Friend. an aged printer, died August 20 at his home in Little Rock aged 50 years.
 A Mississippi man was in Jones' boro recently looking for a site for a furniture factory.
 Jesse Hall died at Magazine from a blow on the thigh by baseball bat re ceived a year ago.
 Willis Waycaster. country boy. Is under arrest at Hot Springs. on a charge of forgery.
 F. B. Stover, of Crowley. La, has been elected principal of the Fort Smith high school
 Hon C. C. Reid addressed the Little Rock Parker and Davis club on the night of August 9.
 Sam Newman, Hot Springs tailor has filed petition in voluntary bank ruptcy. Liabilities. sl .235.
 Rev Edward Rushing of Chidester, Methodist minister, died in a Little Rock hospital August Is.
 A gar seven feet. two inches long. and weighing 14S pounds was caught in Bayou Meto. Pulaski county
 A. H. McGill has been elected president of fruit fair to be held in Bentonville October 19, 20 and 21
 Five recruits were secured during the first three weeks of August at the Little Rock army recruiting office
 M. ]. Finn. manager of the Little Rock ball club. it is said will manage either Minneapolis or St. Paul next season
 Bob Fitzgerald. a distant relative of Bishop Fitzgerald of the Catholic church. died at Little Rock on Au. gust 19.
 The school house at Avilla. Saline county was destroyed by fire recent ly for the third time in eighteen months.
 Mrs. s. P Van Patton, of Poplar Bluff Mo. was robbed on a train en route to Hot Springs of all her money and ticket
 Secretary of State Crockett has compiled book of 165 pages con taining all the corporation laws of Arkansas.
 Bids have been asked by the Little Rock school board for the new high school building to be erected at a cost of a s100,000
 The Little Rock city council has amended the Sunday saloon ordinance so that it is believed saloons may be kept closed on that day
 The mining of rock asphalt to be used in paving West Third street at Little Rock was begun in the Pike county mines on August 22
 The Franklin county bank. incor. porated a month ago. has been con. solidated with the Peoples Bank. or ganized al the same time and has surrendered its charter
 School children from points along the Cotton Belt railroad left Texark. ana August 21 in charge of Prof Jun l jus Jordan of Pine Bluff to visit the worlds fair.
 Dana D. Boyd. Little Rock printer and Miss Mary Frazier met in St. Louis. where the young lady stopped off on her way home from Colorado i and were married.
 Left fielder Householder and Pitcher McPartlin have been released by the directors of the Little Rock base ball | club as the first step owards d cur tailment of expenses.
 Nick Peay, county convict contract or for Pulaski county. has been sued by the county for about s6 1000 alleged to be due on his contract for the hire of the county conyicts for nearly two years.
 At Little Rock negro charged with snatching a charm and chain from another negro claims that he did so because sign of the lodge re presented by the charm was not re- sponded to when he made it.
 Miss Mamie Kanoche was drowned near Sulphur Springs while attempt ing to ford a creek which was swoI- len by a heavy rain She had just closed arrangements for a school at Sulphur Springs. Her home was in Noel, Mo.
 w. A. Clark and others have asked that receiver be appointed for the Arkansas Baptist company. at Little Rock The petition for receiver filed by H. G. Pugh was refused by the court ard the galleys and mailing list shipped to Kentucky.
 Fred Zeisler. watchman on a steamboat at Little Rock. shot a ne- gro in crowd which was attempting to push him into the river because he asked them to disperse from the deck The negro was named Lewis Day and was spirited away by friends.
 W. F. Pence a Little Rock grocer who was confined in the county jail a i short while several days since on ths charge of assaulting his wife, com. plains that he was the victim Of kangaroo court and struck twenty three times across the back with