Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-12-01
Miscellaneous items.

The land case of the Iron Mountain
Railway Company, plaintiff, H. NJ.
Beidler, defendant, for lands lying in the
vicinity of the railroad stock yards at Tex
arkana, had a hearing in the Miller Circuit
Court recently, and resulted in a verdict in
the defendants favor. Beidler bought the
lands of the plaintiff in 1879. Soon after
the plaintiff found it would need the sama
for local yards on aooounG OF the increase
of bnsinrss, and instituted suit against
Beidler in 1880, charging fraud in the pur-
chase on the part of the defendant.
A man named Charles Fallon died at
tai in Little Rock few days
ago. He had been connected with the
Anglo-American Circus song
and dance man in side show. He joined
the show at Lincoln, Nebraska.
The following is list of premiums
awarded to Arkansians at the Louisville
Exposition: Second best long staple cot
ton (exceptng Sea Island), 500, w. B.
Garrison, Warren, Bradley County. Sec
ond best short staple, $500, w. B. Garrison,
Warren, Bradley County. Best twenty
stalks, 500, j. r. Allen, Wrightvilie, Pu-
laski County. Best bale from Arkansas,
800, V. c. lizard & Co., Forrest City, st.
Francis County.
Deputy United States Marshal Wiegcl
arrived in Little Rock from Monroe County
few DAYS ago with Julius Houser, the
fifth and last person charged with conspir-
ing to intimidate Granville Warden, a
United States witness. This is the we'll
known Evans case. The parties now held
for this crime are James Evans, Julius
Houser, Richard Gideon, Lorenzo Houser
and Alexander Baker. The authorities
have been trying to arrest julius Houser
for some time, but he had managed to evade
it until Deputy Marshal Wiegel went after
him. The deputy, after trying to come up
with him for several days, was finally
walking in the road near Houser's house,
when he came out and surrendered himself.
The real crime which these men are charged
with committing is the murder of Granville
Warden But the Government can not
reach them except on the charge Of intim-
| idating q witness of the Federal Court. The
! trial promises to be a very interesting one.
| Hon. Lecil Bobo and Hon. S. P. Hughes are
counsel for the defense, and John e.
| Palmer, ESQ.,, of Helena, will assist Dis
trict Attorney c. c. Waters in the prosecu
| ton
Articles of association of the Memphis,
Marion & St. Francis River Raiload Com
pany were recently filed with the Secretary
| of State. The road is to run from near the
mouth of Old River near Hopefield, through
Marion, Crittenden County, to Lake
Grandee and Charlottesville to point on
the St. Francis River, twenty-five miles
from the starting point. The capital stock
is 500 900, and the Directors are A. Fogol-
man: r. B. Barton, of Crittenden County,
and p. NJ. Patterson and J. d. Randle, of
Memphis. The officers are not named
Cotton picking is nearly completed
A Little Rock Coroner recently wrote
out a verdict that a man who jumped from
a ferry:boat and was drowned, did SO with
felouious intent, and the jury SO rendered
the verdict.
Ferdinand Weiher, n prominent Ger
man colonist at Dixie, Perry County, was
murdered at a church festival few nights
ago, by a young man named Stephens,
whom he was trying to restrain from caus-
ing a disturbance. The affair is greatly
deplored as Weiher was one of the best men
of the colony. Stephens had not been cap
tured at last accounts.
B. H. Tillmeyer is the new Post
master at Knobel, Clay County.
A remarkable trial, or series of trials,
is In progress in Center Point, the county
seat of Harvard County. Last July the
negroes there had a riot with the whites, In
which Thomas Wyatt and several other
whites and a number Of negroes were
killed. Thirty or forty of the negroes were
arrested, indicted for the murder of Wyatt,
and are now being tried. The first one was
Charlie Wright, and the jury returned a
verdict of murder in the first degree, being
out but a few hours.
New ostoffice-Moorefeld, Indepen-
dence County.
The rivers are all raising.