Sharp County record., 1888-01-05
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.


Arkansas inventors are the following:
Frances M. Hewett, assignor of one-half
to C, Folksdorf and NJ. Nellis, Beirne, car
coupler; David c. Purvis, Para gould, fire
place; Cornelius V. Touhy, Locksburg,
ditching machine.
In endeavoring to get rid of DR.. j. E.
Chisholm, an obnoxious resident, L..
Adair, one of the most prominent citizens
of Lewisville, was fatally wounded, few
days ago, and another seriously injured.
The Judge of the Circuit Court at New
port granted the petition to prohibit the
sale of whisky within three miles of that
place. This limit takes in Jacks onport,
so, practically, whisky is voted out of the
county. The judges decision takes from
Newport yearly revenue of $1,000.
As Mrs. Manning, who is connected
with the Maxwell millinery store of Little
Rock, was returning home few evenings
since after the days work, she was fol-
lowed by two mon, and when she reached
her gate was attacked by them and terri
bly beaten. 1t was thought at first that
her skull was fractured, but the doctors
think her injuries will not prove fatal.
The scoundrels are being hunted by the
police. Money was evidently the object
of the attack.
A south-bound passenger train and
north-bound freight collided few days
ago OF a sharp curve a short distance
south of Newport. Both engines and sew
eral freight cars were completely wrecked.
The fireman on the passenger train was
Ill Ito1 al fipn
was so badly injured that his recovery Is
doubtful. Road-master English, who was
appointed only few days before, had one
arm broken and was otherwise injured.
The baggage and express cars were
turned over and Immediately took fire.
The passengers were badly shaken up,
but none were seriously hurt. The engi-
neer and fireman of the freight train
jumped and escaped unhurt
The case of the Eureka Vinegar Com.
pany of st. Louis VS.. the Gazette Printing
Company of Little Rock, for $4,000 libel,
was decided recently by the jury at Little
Rock returning a verdict for the defend
ant. The case has attracted great deal
of interest. The action was brought on
account of a communication in the Daily
Gazette, which said that old orchard cider
intoxicated the people who drank it. The
beverage was sold considerably through.
out the State in prohibition towns before
the article appeared, but since then no one
will handle it,
Harry Dean wa killed by William John.
MorriHton to the Nation with three
wagons. Each one had a woman, who
claimed to be his wife. They stopped and
camped in tho evening and had some
words, when johnson left the camp and
went to house about fifty yards distant
and bought a double barreled shotgun,
and asked the party from whom he
bought the gun to go to camp
and bring his roam horse. He started
to do so. When he was about twenty
yards from the camp Johnson fired toward
the camp. Dean started to run, and as he
ran fred his gun. Johnson ran after him,
shooting him as he ran. He caught Deau
and broke his gun over his head, bending
the barrel and cracking it in two places,
johnson returned to the camp nd said he
had killed Dean. He sadded his horse,
giving his wife instructions where to
meet him, and left. Dean lived only
few hours.
The fine exhibit of minerals, fruit, etc,
left over from the recent Exposition have
been arranged for safe keeping in room
in the State House at Little Rock under
the direction of Prof. Shinn.
A young lady operator at the Littl c
Rock Telephone Exch ange is reported to
have been Frustrated by an electric shock
caused by the prolonged and reckless
ringing by subscriber.
George Robinson, charged with burg
larizing a freight car belonging to the
Iron Mountain railroad lying in the yards
at Little Rock, was arrested by Officer W.
il. Sweeney at Texarkana and placed in
tho Miller County Jail awaiting a requisi-
tion from the Little Rock authorities.
Two men near Marianna in Lee Coun.
ty became engaged in a dispute over a
game of cards a few days ago, when one
OF them Rance Muzzle, drew a double
barreled shotgun and emptied the con
tents of both barrels into his companion,
Dick Roy. The latter ed!mmediatly, and
Muzz'e, after visiting his wife and in
structing her what disposition to make of
his property, fed the country.
Jim A. Head, the missing machine agent
of Fayetteville, has not been seen in New
Orleans, nor did such man board the
outgoing steamships or suicide in any of
the waters near there, as reported. This
report confirms the almost general opinion
now existing that Head is still alive. 1t
turns out that the money he had COL
lected and had in his possession when he
disappeared amounted to between $1,000
and $4,000 An agen. of the Mccormick
Harvesting Company has attached all his
possessions at Fayetteville.
Prof. L. B. Lease, who for two years
has been occupying the chair of Natural
Science at the Little Rock University, has
resigned and accepted a position in the
University of the Pacific at San Jose, Cal.
He, goes at once to the new field.
Rev. LIE Roy Bates, Ph. D., of Eureka
Springs, has resigned the superintendent
cy of schools and the pastorate of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in that city
and accepted the chair of natural
science in the Ii tile Rock University.
DIR. Bates was educated in Illinois and
I formerly was professor in the Jud son ia
university. He has rare reputation as
fln educator of experience and success,
nd bic &c