Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-12
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Shut Il EvcrS, hardware merchants,
dong business at Texarkana, Miller Coun-
ty, have been closed by the Sheriff at the
instance of home creditors. Liabilities,
$4,000.
Platt Nj. Robbins, a leading business
man and United States COMMISSIONER, died
at Hot Springs few days age from the
effects of injuries sustained in being
thrown from a horse scvcraFdays ago.
Governor B .rry, Auditor Files and
Judg. Mansfield, the digeSter, have been
restrained by the Chancery Court, on mo-
TO any o her firm Jn- IF the laws
of the last Legislature. Bids hal Been
v.rtiscd for the same, to lie opened within
. day or two.
Reports from MorriltOn say there is
considerable excitement over the disap-
pearance of w. &. Beers, promincn. cotton
and commission mer erchant and local land
agent of the Little Rock & Fort Smith Rail-
way. He has been absent since the 18th of
March. Suspcions being aroused, his ac-
counts were found t. be in very confused
condition. He owed nearly everybody in
the city and the railroad small amount.
He has been regarded one of the most
energetic business men of the place. His
whereabouts are concealed beyond all e.
forts 50 far toward discovery. The amount
of his debts have no: been determined as
vet, ut they will reach several thousand
dollars.
Mr.. Drccr, living at Ninth and Arch
streets, Little Rock, commenced the spring
cleaning up in his back yard recently, and
unearthcd The remains of co!orcd baby
that Lad been strangled, with a calico cord
still around It's neck. y Coroner's jury
found fl ON the evidence that Matte Drew
the inhuman mo her, and size was ac-
cordinyly arrested and committed to jail
without bail to await the, action of the
Grand Jury.
Henry Rose, colored. was hanged n
few days ago at O,ceoia, for assassina,in.s .s
Dempsey Taylor, p ointment coIored man
living Il short distance in the country from
OSceola. The killing occurred about one
wear ago. Taylor was shot through the
window one dark night while sitting in
his bedroom. Rose was detected shortly
afterward by means of a pair of socks
which he wore on the night of the killing.
a large crowd OF negroes witnessed the eX-
ncution. The condemned man confessed
his guilt on the scaffold, and advised the
large crowd present to take war ming by his
fate. A Athree-quar,er-inch rope was used
by Sheriff Haskins, as Rose weighed POO
pounds. His neck was broken by the fall.
Jesse Smith, farmer of Richland
Township, i'll jefferson County, i few days
ago returned from a neighboring store
where he had been making some purchases,
and on reaching the door of his house fell
dead at the feet of his wife, who was await
ing his coming. The Coroner's jury re-
turned the stereotyped verdict, ''died of
heart disease"
The sale of the Memphis & Little
Rock Road has been ordered to be made in
thirty DAYS unless mort gage liens due are
paid.
Market gardeners are busy.
the municipal election held in Jones'
Doro on TIE lst created intense excitement.
Such interest never before manifested
there in city election. The following
citizens' ticket was elected: Mayor, w. H.
Balfour: Recorder, j. ID. Black: Aldermen,
Mooney, Culberhaus. Grace, Esgleston and
Hummel. There was no political contest
Balfour defeated Adair, the present incum-
bent, for Mayor, by only seven votes.
Trains on the Memphis & Little Rock
Railroad have been abandoned between
Memphis and Madison for several days,
~Iand connection was being made by boat.
Spring work is sadly retarded by the
high water III the river counties.
a few days ago Policeman Allen, OF
Ho: Springs, shot recalcitrant negro
named Henry Haines, in the shoulder-b -bl lde
for attempting to evade arrest. Haines
had previously drawn revolver on Alder
man Rowell, but he was disarmed and
handed over to Policeman Allen, who, be-
ins unable to secure Haines, fired upon
him as he trying to get away. The
wound will not prove serious. Haines en-
joys pugnacious record, one of his boasted
darnSel's anatomy.
Rev. $. G.. Colburn, of Little Rock,
lied recently after a weeks illness.
The general dampncss continues.
The city election for Aldermen took
place in Little Rock on the 1st. and the
contest was unusually exciting. Politics
were eschewed and the race was made on
local issues. The result at this writing had
not been announced.
4 violent hail storm visited the re-
giun between Mckinney bayou and the
ago. In it's course small trees, shrubbery
etc, were crushed and destroyed. The
roofs of several houses were badly damaged.
Lige Thompson and Henry Carr. two
of the Howard County rioters under SEM
tence of death, were granted a new trial 10y
the Supreme Court.