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The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Postoffice Safe at Arden Blown

The safe in the posoffice at Arden,
Sewer county, was blown open at l
o'clock Sunday morning and $500 tax
en-, beside quantity of stamps. The
money was postofice funds. Which
had been kept in the safe as 1t
had been taken in from time to time
from the sale of stamps.
The sheriff of Sewer county was
notified and arrived from De Queen
early Sunday morning. He took a
pair of blood hounds with him and
they started on the trail, but up TO
noon Sunday the robbers had not been
located.
The safe is a comparatively small
iron safe, and was easily blown open
by the charge of nitroglycerin. The
robbers are not believed to be expert
enced 'yeggs,s as they did not blow
the door off by "soaping' the cracks
between the door and the safe, but
hammered off the combination and
poured the charge of nitroglycerin into
the opening thus made. This broke off
the tumblers and forced back the
bolts so that it was not difficult to
open the door.
The postoffiee is located in general
store, but nothing in the store appar-
emily was taken. The robbers evident
ly desired nothing but stamps and
cash. 1t is supposed that they were
railroad hoboes. who went through
there on the Arkansas and Louisiana
and decided to blow the safe in the
postoffice.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Mrs. Maud imbeau Suicides.

Benton, Ark-Mrs. Maud Sigler I'M
beau. who, before her marrige, resided
in Little Rock, committed suicide
Monday night by shooting herself
through the head at her home at
Adams, about IS miles south of hero
on the Pine Bluff and Western No
cause Is given for the act. but it
is thought to be on account of her bad
health. Her mother, Mrs. N E. Sig
Ter, 1923 Water street. Little Rocla
has been notified
Mrs Imbeau was the wife of P. J.
Imbeau. prominent lumber man OF
Grant county. Besides her husband
she leaves four small children.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
GENERAL NEWS

Patrick Calhoun, pre- sident of the
United Railroads of San Francisco,
probably will be the next indicted man
to go to trial in the campaig against
the men accused of bribing supervis-
ors. This was the statement of Dis
trict Attorney William Langdon.
The combination of the big lumber
interests of the country which has
ben reported as imminent for some
time is believed to be near consum-
nation. Edward T. Hines, Frederick
Weyerhauser and representatives OF
the Duluth and Northern Minnesota
lumber interests are in conference III
Duluth.
Out of the dream period of aerial
navigation has come the first practical
evidence of the commercial phase OF
the situation with the introduction IN
New York of dirigible balloons as
purchasable luxury.
German court circles were shocked
when it became known that Grown
Princess Cecilia had sold the diamond
diadem which was given to her by the
emperor as a wedding gift, in order to
obtain large sum to contribute TO the
fund for the relief of the widows and
orphans of the Hamm Colliery ex
plosion several weeks ago.
The physicians at Chicago attending
Mr.. Sarah Hachett Stevenson, aband
oned hope of saving her life. she Ii
one of the best known womeI
physicians in the United States.
Peace" was the keynote OF the las
session of the federal council OF the
protestant churches in Philadelphia
when the delegates, who, for week
have debated every question agitatint
the religious worlds, and Godspeed
to each other.
Eight hundred school children were
thrown into a panic, one girl wa
bruised severely and.many others wsr'
hurt as the result of fire thaS start
ed in large frame building adjoining
the Scanlon school, Perry avenue AM
One Hundred and Seventeenth stree
Chicago.
A worldwide agreement of all tn
powder companies in this country an
Europe was presented at the fedora
hearing before Special Master Ma
haffey at Cleveland 1t provides
fine of $4,000 for any breach OF tn
agreement.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Another lneaHe Asylum Is Asked.

The Board of Trustees of the State
Chafitable Institutions concluded its
meeting at Little Rock Tuesday. after
adopting the biennial report In re-
gard to the State Hospital for Ner-
vous Diseases and awarding the CON
tracts for the months supplies for the
charitable institutions.
In its biennial report the board rec
ommends that the law providing for
the lighting of the State Hospital for
Nervous Diseases by the plant operat-
ed at the penitentiary be repealed;
that central heating plant be in
stalled at the institution with suffi-
eieht power to operate an electric
lighting plant. The board states that
for the year ending September 30.
1907, the amount paid 10 the pen
itentiary for lighting the institution
was s3,255.S0, and for the year end
ing September 30, 1908, the amount
paid was s5.22S.S1, total for the two
years of $S,4S4.61 The necessity for
some relief in this direction is pointed
ont by the board by recalling the fact
that the items of fuel and heat for the
Intuition for the past two years have
amounted TO 40,596.95.
Attention is called to the crowded
condition of the institution and the
necessity for the establishment of
another asylum. The board recon-
mends additions to the present institu-
ton or the establishment of new
one in some other portion of the state.
The board suggests that another in
stitution in some healthful locality,
built on the cottage plan, with sew
eral hundred acres of good agricul-
tural land adjoining, to which could
be assigned the chronic insane and the
epileptic, might be made largely self
supporting and at the same time be
greatly beneficial to the patient.
In view of the prevalence of tuber-
eulosis among the cows from which
the supply of milk for the institution
has been obtained, the board recon-
mends that the legislature appro-
pirate $1,000 for the purchase of a new
herd of COWS of the very best class,
all to be examined thoroughly by a
competent veterinarian and subject to
the tuberculin test before they are
paid for. The destruction of the old
barn is recommended and that the
premises be thoroughly disinfected
before the new herd of cows is placed
upon them.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
NEWS OF THE week
Mug LATEST News OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
itorelon Lands, Throughout the Ma.
lion. and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.
CONGRESSIONAL

Insurgents planning a fight on
Epeaker Cannon and the rules will
4 meet TO discuss the outlook. Repre-
sentatives Murdoch OF Kansas, Hayes
of ,alifornia and Townsend of Mich
iean will attend the meeting, and
other insurgents have been invited
At an early executive session of the
henate Thursday afternoon six treaties
With small European, Central and
South American countries were rati-
ned. This was the first real business
Of this session in the senate, barring
the action of the senate In confirming
Mrs. Longstreet, wife of the Confed-
crate general, as a postmistrees in
the south. The treaties dealt with
questions of naturalization and -arbi-
tration.
Gen. Henry G.. Worthington, for
mer member of congress from Nevada,
the only living pallbearer at the fu-
neral Of Abraham Lincoln. was strick-
en- with apoplexy on the floor of the
house shortly after noon Thursday.
Because of his fourscore years, Gen.
Worthingtons friends view his illness
with alarm.
Distinguished witnesses testified be-
fore the house committee on agricul-
ture Wednesday in favor of the fed
eral government establishing forest
reserves in the White mountains and
In the southern Appalachians 1t
marked the opening of the fight in this
these reserves to protect the navi-
gability of navigable streams, pur-
pose which the committee comedies is
constitutional.
Senator Curtis Wednesday reintro-
duced bill which he presented in the
last session of congress, providing for
the organization. regulation and con-
troll of corporations and kindred asso-
Citations doing business in interstate
commerce. The object Of reintroduc-
ing the bill Is to give it an enlarged
scope under an additional section and
notifications of other sections of the
bill, so that the proposed act shall be
effective as applying to all interstate
commerce as we'll as to the District
of Columbia and the territories which
are comprehended in Mr.. Curtis orig
inal bill.
President Fairbanks, as presid-
ing officer of the senate, wednesday
announced the appointment of Senator
Hopkins to the vacancy on the none
tary commission caused by the death
Ex-senator Allison of Iowa. This is
an important place for the junior Hi
nois, senator, and is recognition of
the ability he has shown as member
of the finance committee of the senate.
The dismissal of Cadets William 7.
Rossel, Jr., and Harry G. Weaver
from the military academy for hazing
was the subject of a speech in the
senate Wednesday by Senator Johnson
of Alabama. He insisted that the pun
ishment melted out to these cadets was
excessive.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Child Accidentally Shot.

Sitting at play in an empty dry
goods box, which concealed her from
view, Jewell Meeks, the Syear-old
daughter Of Mrs. Frances Meeks of
Roden's Mill, was accidentally shot
by George Carter, boy IL years of
age. The little girls injuries are Sc
rious, but she is expected to recover.
Young Carter, with another boy, was
passing the Meeks residence, about
10 miles east of Texarkana, and see
ing the box in which the girl was sit
ting, fired with his shotgun at it as
a target. Several Of the shot pierced
the boards and entered the girls face,
and the fact that they were small
saved her life.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Fell Trough Show Case.

William Quinlan, a plasterer, fell
through a show case on West Broad
street. Texarkana, Saturday evening
and was frightfully cut by the broken
glass about the head and face. One
piece of glass cut an artery in his
head and he nearly bled to death
before the flow could be staunched.
The injured man was taken to
sanitarium. where he has remained
unconscious ever since. He is in a
critical condition and the physicians
saw he may die.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17

men that the Arkansas river will
eventually make its own cutoff and
leave Pine Bluff high and dry
A strip of land half block wide,
eight blocks long, from Walnut 10
Tennessee street, and from half block
to more than a block wide from Ten
nessee to Indiana street. four blocks
long, has caved in. About "a build
ings have been lost.
1t is a difficult matter to estimate
the great amount of damage and loss
from the caving. The actual losses
sustained, so far as it is possible to
estimate them, are as follows:
Jefferson county, destructon of court
house annex and loss of ground, $685.
900.
w. n. Trulock, quarter block Of
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Railroad Track in River.

Probably the most unusual place of
drift ever thrown upon the banks of
the Arkansas river was a 60-foot sec
ton of railroad track, consisting of
cross ties and two 60-pound rails Sc
curely spiked to each cross tie. This
piece of track, the loss of which meant
the loss of a considerable sum to
some railroad company, was left high
and dry on the river bank within Is
feet of the Iron Muntain Railroad
Company's stockyards at Van Buren,,
it having been FIRST lodged in the will
lows growing along the bank.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Fruit Industry in Union.

In only a few years the fruit in
dustry will add materially to the
wealth of Union county. Nursery
men are in the county this week de-
livering fruit trees sold this summer.
principally liberia and Early Wheeler
peaches, and more than 100000 trees
are now being delivered. Last year
there were shipped from Ell Dorado
about five cars, while this year the
crop, principally Elbertas, has furnish
ed something over 20 cars for the
Northern and Eastern markets, and
the outlook for the future is very
bright.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Leg Broken by Fall.

After falling 20 feet and striking
head first on the concrete pavement
Joe WEIGH is in a sanitarium hover
ing between life and death.
WEIGH is a painter and had been
employed on roof where he was at
work when he fell. Fellow-workmen
saw the painter strike head first and
expected to pick him up dead. A leg
was broken, but there is doubt as to
whether his skull is fractured.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17

ground in rear of Hotel jefferson and
storage buildings. $4,000.
S. Bluthenthal & Co. brick ware
house and quarter block of ground,
$4,000.
r. NJ Knox Comply. three brick
warehouses and strip of ground quar-
ter block in length and 1876 feet in
width. 1000.
Charles We'll. 60 feet of ground at
the foot of Chestnut street. $4,000
+. b. Bloom, cottage and lot on
Pullen street, $1,000
Berlin Bros, two lots and two big
brick stables, with fixtures, $4,000.
City of Pine Bluff, part of Pullen
street. $4,000.
American Excelsior Laundry Com
pany, part of building and loss of
real estate. $4,000
Charles Pruden, stable, $1,000.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17

j. B. Avery & Son, stable, $4,000.
A. c. Freeman and Patillo, black
smith shop, $1,000.
G. G. Broekway, seven residences,
two of them two stories, and a barn.
$4,000.
Pine Bluff Arkansas River Packet
Company. damage TO warehouse and
real estate, $1,000
Pine Bluff North Land Company, on
opposite side of river. 100 acres Of
land and tenant houses, $1,000.
Government dykes and revetment,
$4,000.
Government river guage, 800.
On east Barraque street, between
Texas and Louisiana streets, 200 feet
of ground and buildings. altogether
valued at $4,000.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Policeman Kills Negro.

Charles Golatt. negro. was shot and
almost instantly killed within few
feet Of the county Jail on the Texas
side of Texarkana about 8 O'Clock
Monday night. Policeman ]. A.
Nuckolls surrendered to Deputy
Sheriff Warrington Immediately after
the shooting, saying that he had fired
the shot According to his statement
the negro had thrown heavy stone
at him, barely missing his head, and
was in the act of throwing another
when he fired In self-defense.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
non.s Bite Creates Alarm.

9-month-old puppy created excite
ment in lumber camp of the Reaves
Lumber Company near Helena Tues
day. Mont Sexton, young white man
was sent to a sanitarium in Memphis
Wednesday and the head of the dog
will be examined at the same institu
ton.
Sexton is one of several men in the
camp bitten by the dog after he had
been bitten by what is now supposed
to have been mad odg.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Stranger Struck by Car.

An unknown white man was run
over by an electric street car on the
College Hill line at Texarkana Thurs
day afternoon and fatally hurt. He
has been unconscious since he was
struck.
The injured man had no papers OF
any kind and the only articles in his
pockets were a small testament and
another small book the title of which
is "A Trip to He'll" He is appar-
emily about 40 years old and is dressed
as a laborer.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Fake Burns Fool Public,

Two small boys travelling with two
men caused the arrest of the latter
at Helena Tuesday, by revealing a
swindle which they said had netted
them heavy profits at Helena and
other places The men burned their
hands and faces with a tincture and
then told a story of having been blown
up in a gasoline launch explosion and
generally getting liberal financial aid.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Another Job for BRYAN.

Dallas, Tsx.-Wm. J. Bryan may be
come president of the Texas Univcr-
sity. This is the latest report about
the future of the commoner, which
originated Monday through the sugge@
ton of Cato Sells. president Of fh=
State Bank and Trust Company q
Cleburne, Tex. To accept the pos
ton Bryan would be required to re
tire from politics. Sells is close
friend of Bryan and that he should be
sponsor for the report IS regarded as
indicating the suggestion is at least
under seious consideration
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Nearo Shot by Marauders.

Lon Ward, a negro, was called out
of his house at Hope shortly before
midnight Friday night by six men and
following a scuffie. when the negro
started to run, he was shot by one OF
tho marauders. The bullet entered
below the left shoulder blade and
naesed through the body. 1t is thought
Tho negro will not survive the injury.
No arrests have been made, but
the officers are endeavering to dis
cover those in the party that attack
Cd the negro.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Ten Times Enough Poison to Kill a
Man

Dr. William Krauss at Memphis
Thursday completed the examination
of the stomachs of the McBroom girls,
who died recently at Marked Tree,
Ark, and announced that he found
five grains of strychnine in each stom-
ach, ten times enough to kill man.
McBroom is now in jail at Jones
boro, charged with poisoning his two
children
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
"a BUILDINGS ARE DESTROYED.
Strip of Land IL Blocks Conq and
From One-Half to a Block and a
Half Wide, Also Lost.

The river is falling rapidly at Pine
Blum and all danger is believed to
have passed, but another rise in the
Arkansas river will result in great
damage TO property down the river.
The government fleet is now at
work repairing revetments and dykes
along the river front at Pine Bluff
and the work will continue at least
until the funds authorized by the gov
eminent is exhausted It is believed
by engineers and experienced river
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Neqro Shoots Negro.

Bud Stousel was shot and perhaps
fatally wounded by Jim Alexander,
on the Darr farm 10 miles southeast
of Atkins. Saturday night, following
a quarrel over 81. Both men are
negroes. Alexander was arrested Sun
day morning by Deputy Sheriff w. J.,
Chambers. and is confined in the Pope
county Jail at Russellville.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Horses Are Dying.

A peculiar disease, known locally
as sleepy staggers," has appeared
among the horses in Conway county,
and a number of valuable animals
have died Two especially valuable
horses, the property of William Cupp.
the planter, died, supposedly from
the disease. The malady is supposed
70 have been taken into that county
by g. horse driven there from Plumer.
Vile
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Effort to Save Court House Annex.

In the absence of County Judge
James Gould, who is in Washington
in an effort to get an immediate ap-
preparation for river work at Pine
Bluff, Sheriff c. M. Philpot has as
sumed charge of the affairs of JEFF
ferson county, and he is preparing to
repair the river bank in the rear of
the Jefferson county court house and
its big annex. An effort will be made
to save the annex, although Engineer
Parkin told Sheriff Philpot that he
thought 1t useless to attempt to save
the structure
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Seize 1000 Pints of Booze.

One thousand pints of whiskey. con-
signed to Wilson Bros, Jonesboro
Ark, and hauled over land three miles
to Fayetteville for sale, was confis-
Gated by order of Mayor Mullholland
and destroyed.
President Tillman of the University
of Arkansas assisted the officers in the
prosecution of the case.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Killed by Flying Timber.

VIII Fleming, young man, was in
stantly killed Thursday morning in a
sawmill at Dierks. He was working
at a rip saw when a heavy piece of
timber was in some manner hurled
backward, striking him over the heat
with such force as to cause instant
death.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Child Hurt by Kick of Horse.

Paul Lashley, the six-year-old son
of ]. w Lashley, was kicked by a
horse and perhaps fatally injured at
Texarkana Thursday morning. The
animals iron-shod hoof struck the lit
tie fellow squarely on the mouth,
knocking out all his front teeth and
breaking both the upper and lower
iam
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Maloy Must Face Serious Charge.

Will Maloy of Newnata, IL miles
west of Mountain Home. is under ar
rest charged with criminal assault on
Mrs. Lizzie Cothran of that vicinity,
Joe Tubbs of limbo is wanted in con-
nection with the charge against Ma
10y. Tubbs is thought to be in Okla
homa.
Maloy will have his trial before
Justice Cover of Sycamore Township.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Conway Burglar Takes $3.50.

Entering his residence at Conway
through a rear door, which had been
left unlocked, a burglar stole $3.50 in
currency from ]. r. Saunders, taking
the money from his trousers pocket.
Nothing else was disturbed.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
crazed Girl Burns to Death.

Miss Martha Mccullough was burn
ed to death in her brothers home
near Paragould and Orville Thompson
and Will Mcdonald were seriously
injured trying to save her. The house
caught fire and Miss Mccullough
lost her reason through fright.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Contract Let for New Church.

The Building Committee of the First
Baptist church of Camden met Thurs
day morning and let the contract for
the erection of a South Camden Bap-
fist mission church at a cost of $3.50.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1908-12-17
Five Prisoners Gain Liberty.

Five prisoners escaped from the city
Jail at Helena Monday. Three of
them were under sentence and left
adorned with balls and chains. The
negro vino has been feeding the pri
soners left at the same time.
Mower County transcript., 1908-10-07

pa used to have horse races, how she
rode to town to get the mail and drive
the stock home, also helped pa to haul
wheat to the elevator. How her team
was hitched behind pas wagon to help
hold the load back going down hill and
her team in front going up hill etc. 1t
is but few minutes work now for the
girl to get the team in the pasture
and hitch them up to the buggy when
her mother wishes to drive to town.
When her mother was away she took
care of the house and the younger
children went out to the garden dug
up the potatoes and cooked good
meal. Quite a contrast when compared
with many children of modern times
Many of them can hardly dress them-
selves, to say nothing of doing any use:
fal work. You may think her sad and
downhearted when she had to perform
such duties but, no, she was happy "a a
lark and when playing ran around. like
q Whirlwind. 49,. ).
C. LAGERVALL,
Renova, Mimi.
Mower County transcript., 1908-10-07
WHAT HAS THE GOVERNOR
, DONE;

| One of the most amusing reasons
! given, when you ask what Gov. John.
son has done as governor to etitle
him to third term is the one he
gave himself, and that is being
echoed by the Democratic papers,
| when hard pushed. 1t is that the
valuation of the assessment of iron
ore property in St. Louis county has
been increased during the past four
years. The fact is that several mil
lions of dollars have been expended
in these years in developing this in
dustry, and there is more property
to assess. .,-* p. '-.
Ten years ago there was not an
automobile in St. Cloud. The city
assessor might just as we'll claim
that he is entitled to life Job be-
cause this year he put, on the assess
ment roles some thirty, and thus in
creased the taxable property of the
city. "~. :. :. 4. :~..
The men who expended their
money in discovering the ore and de-
veloping the mines are the ones who
made the increase possible. Had any
other man been governor the prop
erty would have been there and
would have been assessed.
Gov. johnson for want of a rec
ord Of his own, is not only appropri-
ating that Of Republican legisla-
ture, but also Of the men who have