The Forrest City times., 1888-07-21
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.

thrown t0Ze1ael anu NSNea - ~ ~A house and public hall.
 The old soldiers of 10th armies united at Harrison to celebrate the Fourth and the strains of Dixie and Yankee Doodle were mingled in harmonious refrain.
 < toard of trade was organized as r.rz.3ap last week. with Dr. J. W. BfC~n as president, Joe Levy, wee president. '. 1T. stark, secretary and JC. Ritchie treasurer
 LII. Whitaker, who vas arrested in Carroll county a year ago ana carried back to Tennessee on a charge fl murder. committed in isse, has re- turned hsving stood his trial and been acquitted.
 .Two borse-,hieves from .hsi Indian Territory imposed themselves cH Washington county farmer the other aay as land hunters. and thus borrowed tw6 horses which they have not re- turned.
 The RusseTlville Democrat with eii- terprise most eommendable, issut1 last week a large illuminated midsummer immigration edition. There Is pront end progress in thus celebrating the ! Fourth
 ! 0r II. F. MeDHnisl, who died at Fayetteville lass week afteT an Illness | of many weeks, had done more " velop the county. says the DemSeTa., than any man in it. To him alone is due the buildins of the Fayetteville and Little Rock. railroad to Ii. Paul, ! and he al more men iff his employ and paid out more money to labo,eTs . than any man in North Arkansas He was liberal and progressive and would always be found at the head of the list | with his money and his time in any en- terprise that looaed to the advance ment of Arkansas. He left quite a ] fortune to he divieed between his! fam ! fly and relatives.
 | Lee Cato. aged f., burned his way ' into :. Y. Wood k Co. s store at Sum- meryiIle. Dallas county, Sunday night, put out the fire and stole 5 in money. His tracks betrayed him and he was arrested and plead guilty. ] Des Arc Citizen: Lead ore has been l discovered in the vicinity of Des Arc. \ piece weighing one and half ounces was exhidited on the streets ! this week by MT. Edward Collins. IL was found nve miles south of town'and | it Is generally believed that a lead mine is in that immediate vicinity.
 One Dr. R. D. Nickelson of Jeffer- son county attacked Dr. Donelson of i the same community, in the presence i of the latter's wife and other ladies, and but for the fact that his pistol missed fired. would have killed him. l On Sunday morning Albert Rogers, young man of Jefferson county, at tempted to swim the Arkansas river and return without resting Midway ! on his return he sank and drwoned.
 Harrison Times: The canning and evaporating factory is about completed and Superintendent Raymond is at Eureka now after machinery. Some ! fifteen wagons will be necessary to haul it here.
 The Fayetteville council paid c. NJ Prentice sG6.65 for a shade tree in front of his res idenee on Dickson street, which was in the way of the new grade ordered theTe.-Republiean.
 II. II. Moore, a prosperous farmer of Seyier county, has, for unknown cause and to the surprise of his friends. for saken his family and left the country.
 An old well, dug by the first settlers of Fayetteville and abandoned forty years ago because no one could be in duced to cleI it out the one negro who tried it almost losing his life is being sunk by patent boring process to supply the plblic square with good water.
 Mir Hugh ROane of Pine Bluff was attackedI by three negros as he was about to board passenger train the other night, and was so severely wOundei l, his arm being fractured and being cut with knives, that he will be confined to his room for several weeks. One of the negros has Lee captured.
 It is understood that work will be- gin on the Valley Route machine shops at Van Buren on the 20th.
 Hugh Bernard, colored, of Russell vile, received his arrears of pension a few days ago amounting to Ss9l.
 Helena is anxiously awaiting the ar rival of an official from Washington to select site for her public building.
 The Ozark canning factory is paying s3OO a week to its employees, besides the money paid for fruit and yegeta- bles.
 The second cotton compress at Helena is almost completed, and the street railway will soon be ready for the cars.
 Gen. Chas. R Chalmers of Missis- sippi is visiting Hot Springs, and will be invited to address the republicans while there.
 Will Mellett of Coylesville, aged 22, is the tallest man in Pope county He measures six feet eight and one-half inches and weighs l95 pounds.
 The Montgomery county moonshin- CTS are worth $500 for killing Officer Trammel, but there appears to be no great rush of men to secure the reward.
 A Cotton Belt freight and stock train collided near Camden the other night, wrecking both trains and delay ing all trains. One of the engineers Was running on slow watch.
 Fort Smith is wrangling with the Missouri Pacific railroad company over the subsidy to be donated for the con- structiOn of a railroad and wagon bridge across the river there.