The Carlisle independent., 1906-03-15
ARKANSAS BRIEFS

estine, with capital of s7,000 A $50,OO0 mining and milling com.
 pany has been established at Poca. hontas
 A gas and oil company has been
 organized at Hot Springs with a cap
 ital of s25.ooo
 A state convention of the Fraternal Order of Eagles will be held at Little
 Rock in a short time
 The painters and paper hangers of Jonesboro have organized a union. with 10 charter members. Mildred Davis, young child, fell
 from a swing at Jonesboro recently
 and broke her left arm. A 12-year-old son of Wm. Campbell, Mt Holly, was killed in a runaway
 near that place several days ago.
 Plans are being prepared for new | $50,000 bank at Manila. The town al
 ready has one bank in operation. B. H. Zufall, a brakeman on the Midland Valley railroad, was killed by train near Greenwood, few days ago.
 Oscar Gearin, a young white man, was fined $20 for disturbing worship in Hot Springs church short time since.
 J. T. Brooks. a well known citizen of Prescott, was drowned in the Little | Missouri river near that place few days ago.
 | Miss Minnie Clark, g, daughter Of
 J. L. Clark, who lived west of Searcy. is dead from burns received a few
 days ago.
 Steps have been taken at Wynne l for the erection of new house of
 worship for the NJ. E.Church, South,
 at cost of s15,000 Eugene Roper, aged about IS years,
 was shot and killed near Hot Springs
 last week The shooting is said to
 have been accidental w. Rippy, of Pike City. has in his possession a skillet that has been in
 use for 125 years. It was brought
 from Ireland by his grandfather sew eral years ago.
 Arthur Lassel, aged r, while snap l ping a pistol at his home at England accidentally discharged it and shot | himself i'll the knee, the bl,llet lodg- 1 ing in the kneecap. The Farmers Gin Company of
 Greenway, Clay county, filed articles
 of incorporation recently showing a
 capital stock of s15,0o0, all sub l scribed and paid in. The grand jury now in session at
 Fort Smith will investigate the con 'and Trust Company, which institu- | tion failed several weeks ago. 1 A band of Igorrotes are to be ex- | hibited at Hot Springs in the near fu- ture- These gentlemen were part | of the dog-eating crew that were ex- | hibited at the St. Louis Worlds Fair. George Davis and Lee Coulter have l been arrested at Jonesboro on the 1 charge of murdering John Gibson, the | man who was slain in blind tiger
 in that town on the night of February l 10.
 Mrs. Lucretia Easter of Carrolltor. is convalescent after a brief illness. | She is nearing her tooth birthday, and
 is enjoying reasonably good health. although she is slightly crippled,
 caused by a fall. .. | The city council of Fort Smith has 1 passed an ordinance appropriating | S2,50o annually for the maintenance
 of Carnegie library. The donation
 from Andrew Carnegie for the library
 is to be s25,00O.
 Triplets were born recently to MT.
 and Mrs. Coke Gibson, near, Brook | land The infants are two boys and
 a girl. The combined weight of the | three is 21-1-2 pounds. Mother and
 babes are doing we'll
 said to be in correspondence with
 immigration agents and the represen-
 tatives of several foreign countries, with view to importing laborers for work on cotton plantations. | Plans and specifications for the s50,-
 900 sanitarium which the Hot Springs Lithia Water Company proposes to 1 construct in Hot Springs have been | completed and will be forwarded to
 St. Louis for examination by those in
 terested in the enterprise. During a severe electrical storm re-
 gently the barn of John Gaston, at
 Mimosa, was struck by lightning, set ting it on fire, destroying 800 bushels
 of corn, 30 bushels of cotton seed and
 killing fine mare, valued at $50. Frank Browning. who shot and instantly killed T. W. Midkiff at
 Hoxie last December, has been in-- l dicted by the Lawrence county grand jury. Great indignation was ex- l pressed at the time of the shooting l against Browning, as the shooting is
 said to have been wholly uncalled
 for.
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