The Osceola times., 1888-10-20
Miscellaneous Items.


Watts, insane asylum; James Caruthers'
school for the blind Miss Belle Elmore
and George Pritchard, deaf mute insu.
tute. and lastly criminal, Dinton
Plumbly, convicted at recent term OF
court for murder in the second degree
and sentenced for ten years.
Suit has been filed in the Pulaski Cir
| cult Court by the Arkansas Industrial
Company, against the Union Compress
Company, for balance due of s35 0)0. The
Arkansas Industrial Company is COM
posed Of the lessees OF the State oonv!cts,
and the compress was built with convict
labor. W. II. Wright who Is president
OF the compress company is also one OF
the stockholders of the Industrial COM
pany. The parties can not agree on the
amount due, the compress people claim
ing that the compress building should
have been finished In November last
when, in fact it was not done until April.
The Jones G Ii dewell contest at Little
Rock has resulted in an important dis
| covery, which may necessitate the forma-
ton Of an entirely new set OF election
laws. The discovery was made that the
| bill passed in the Legis lature of 1919,
| governing election contests, was read the
second time by title only, when the
entire bill, under the Constitution,
should have been read. The discovery
has created deep interest in legal circles
and several attorneys assert that the law
is invalid. 1t remains to be seen what
the result of the discovery will be. In
the meantime it is being thoroughly dis :
cussed by the lawyers of the city. An
examination of the archive journal leaves
no possible doubt OF the passage OF the
passage Of the bill in the above. stated
manner. II it should turn out that the
law is invalid which many assert, there
will be something for the next Legisla-
ture to do.
Additional money. order offices have
been designated in this State as follows:
Black Rock, Buckner, Galveston, Harri.
son, Heber, st. Charles ST. Paul, Stut.-
gart, Wynne. Postal notes only-Bright.
water, Caledonia Cove, James town, Men :
ford, Valley Springs, Wyandotte.
The Arkansas Lumbermen's Associa-
tion held an important meeting in Little
X ok, recently. The object OF the meet
ing was TO obtain relief in transportation
facilities along the Iron Mountain road
and its branches. The present condition
VI affairs is distressing to lumbermen, as
they are short to date 800 cars for ship
ping lumber.
Sheriff Coblentz OF Conway County ar
rived in Little Rock, few days ago, with
three prisoners for the penitentiary, and
they were committed One of them was
Daniel Caar, u darky. The following day
full pardon was granted Caar, who was
convicted at the present term of the Con-
way Circuit Court OF grand larceny and
sentenced TO to rm of one year.
1t was at first thought no one was killed
by the falling walls in the recent fire al
Little Rock, hut now it seems that man
was buried under the debris. W. H.
Jones, a street-car driver, left the stables
to go to the fire. He was seen working
there up to midnight when the walls tell.
and he had not been seen since. He left
large sum of money in his trunk, and
the company owed him forty dollars, and
as he had no debts it is hardly supposed
he ran away.
An examination shows that the next
State Legislature, which will convene
in January, has l27 members. OF
this number, twelve are Republic.
aus, three members of the Union Labor
party, and five Wheelers, the remainder
being Democrats. The oldest member is
Hon. W. II. Halliburton, Of Arkansas
County, aged seventy tive years, and the
youngest Hon. j. I. Patterson, Of Cross
County, aged twenty one years. Both
the Baptist and Methodist churches each
have thirty-seven members, while seven
are Presbyterians. The farmers are there
sixty two in number, while there are only
thirty three lawyers.
The internal revenue collections for the
strict Of Arkansas for September were
as follows: Lists, Sl23 81; spirits, 81,
9l0.5); cigars, S633.9O; tobacco, S7l5. 81:
special tax, Sli,Ul6 50; making total OF
s. 800. 53
d. f. Rose by his attorneys, Vaughan
& Collins, has brought suit in the Pulaski
Circuit Court against Angelo Marie for
5000 dam iges. Rose alleges that one
day last August lie was, without Just
cause, painfully injured by being assaults
ell, hit bruised kicked and otherwise
brutally maltreated by Marie on the pub
lie streets of Little Rock, for which he
prays iud gment in the sum above stated.
Governor Hug hes has sold his farms,
Jim Burrows, one Of the men who
FODutu lue Sl' LOUIS, ATkdusdS x texas
train at Genoa, last December died in the
penitentiary at III tie Rock, a few dsys
ago, where he had been confined for safe
keeping pending his trial In the Miller
County Circuit Court
J. NJ Rocks. the negro assessor OF Crit.
tenden County, was in Little Rock, a few
days ago, asking for protection from
Governor Hughes. He is under indict-
ment for connection with the Crittenden
County race troubles.
A new post office has been established
at Wardsdale, Craighead County Frank
lin Higginbotham postmaster.
Independence County is figuring on
building new Jail.
Quite a number OF suits have been filed
In the United States Court at Little Rock
against the St Louis, Iron Mountain a
southern Railway Company for cotton
destroyed in that city at the burning Of
the compress on December IA, 1887.
The Guarantee Trust Company, OF Lit
tie Rock, was organized recently. Its
capital is $4,000 and the officers are:
Charles +. Pencil, presidents; john NJ.
Moore, vice. president and W. J. Turner.
secretary.
The large grocery and feed store of
Isom q. O'Neal Of Little Rock has been
closed by creditors. Liabilities, sl9, 900:
assets, p 900.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows will
meet at Fort Smith on the pa inst