Monticello Jan. 30 1902 - On last Thursday night two sons of a colored man by the name of Fieling Ragland, living on Mr. Jack Cowan's place, about nine miles south of Monticello, took their father's rifle and went out in the yard to watch for an own that had been catching chickens. Some time during their vigil the rifle was carelessly handled, causing it to go off, killing the younger of the two. The range was so close that the boy's head was blown to atoms. The killing was purely accidental. July 10, 1907, Little Rock - The body of Mrs. M. S. Jordan, who died Monday afternoon at 721 West Tenth Street, was sent yesterday morning to Monticello for burial. No services were held here. She was 79 years of age. July 25, 1907, Wilmar - Robert Fletcher, a negro farmer living three miles southwest of Wilmar killed a white coon in his corn field last Friday morning. It was pure white and had no signs of any rings anywhere on its hairy coat. Fletcher says he wishes he had kept the animal alive, for he knows if he had sent it to President Roosevelt he would have given him $1,000 for it.