The Monticellonian., 1905-02-09
BRIEF MENTION.

The postoffce at Holly Grove was destroyed by fire
 The postoffice at Charlottesville was robbed recently.
 No more stone for the state capitol is expected until March.
 The cold caused racing to be tempo rarily abandoned at Hot Springs.
 Mount Nebo, a summer resort, has been sold to Fort Smith company.
 The Arkansas Funeral Directors as- sociation will meet in Little Rock May 16
 Up to January Is there had been 743,444 bales of cotton ginned in Ar kansas this season.
 Captain Wm. H. Wright, one of the pioneer oil men of Arkansas. died at his home in Little Rock.
 A Masonic school of instruction for deputies was held in Little Rock by Grand Lecturer Oathout.
 A movement is on foot for the con- solidation of the First and Second Bap- tist churches at Little Rock.
 Three girl babies were born to Mrs. F. R. Alexander at Jonesboro. All were alive at last accounts
 From March IA, 1900, to January 31. 1905, there were twenty national banks organized in Arkansas.
 A non-suit was taken in the Iibe' suit of Rev A. C. Graham against J. C. Miller ct al. at Poeahontas
 Jonesboro officers seized and de. stroyed a quantity of whisky and beer, as Craighead county is now dry
 The trial of E. H. Lake on thirteen charges of false pretenses went over at Little Rock until next August
 The lower house Of congress passed the bill authorizing the extension of the western boundary of Arkansas.
 Three prisoners in the Pulaski coun. ty jail at Little Rock made a break for liberty, but were unsuccessful.
 The two-year-o!d son of Y. G. Sut- ton of Siloam Springs. swallowed a large screw and died in ten minutes
 Joseph Voslow, head sawyer at the Shefflenberger sawmill at Brinkley was killed by a piece of loose timber.
 Surveyors are at work from Beaver on the St. Louis and North Arkansas railroad, working towards CassvilIe, Mo.
 w B. Carpenter, formerly a South ern league umpire, has been signed by President Kavanaugh for neyt sea. son.
 President Scullin of the St. Louis & North Arkansas railroad states that the road will be extended south from Leslie.
 Jesse Gee, aged IS years, was drowned while attempting to cross White river on the ice near Eureka Springs.
 John Carter, a negro, was hanged at Marianne February : for the mur- der of James Woods. white man. a year ago.
 A nine-year-old boy named Wadley broke his neck near Evening Shade in diving into hole he had made in a pile of cotton seed.
 Little Rock citizens decided in mass meeting to make the remuneration oi Argenta a political issue and elect members of the legislature who would vote to that end
 A meeting has been called for Feb ruary IS at Harrison for the organiza. ton of a North Arkansas Press Asso- citation. It was issued by John R. Newman of the Harrison Times
 Dr. J L. Gebhart, a retired Hot Springs physician, died at the ago of so years. He recently gained a wide reputation by advancing the theory of radio-actiyity in the waters at Hot Springs.
 While playing near a fro in the yard the clothes of 2-year-old Mrytle Cox caught fire at Texarkana, and she was fatally burned.
 The M E. church stewards of the Little Rock district adopted resolutions protesting against the proposed Sun- day baseball law.
 State Commissioner of Agriculture II. T. Bradford has been appointed by the president as cotton statisticiaa for Arkansas. It pays sG00 per annum.
 Mrs. E. M. Maazer. and son, former ly of Little Rock, had a narrow escape from burning to death in their home in St Louis.
 w. F. Hill, ex-coanty judge of rulas- Xxi county, died suddenly of paralysis near Little Rock February 1.
 L. s. Roach has been confirmed by the United States senate as postmas. ter at TeXarkana
 Wm. Nathan. negro postmaster at Savage Ashley county, is under arrest charged with embedding $200 of pub lie money.
 Gov. Davis has fixed March : for the execution at Morrilton of Chas. Hammond, the white man convicted of criminal assault on his 11-yearold step-daughter.