The Forrest City times., 1888-09-08
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.


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 Brinkley Argus: The pay car on the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas came down Monday evening and gladdeheu tbe hearts of many by paying TWO months wages past due.
 The six prisoners confined in the Jefferson county jail had everything fixed for an escape last Thursday, but the iailer discovered their plans and stopped them.
 The canning factory at Fordyce has filled one more contract for 40,0)0 three mound cans of fruit and is at work now on an order for 10000 twJ-poun1 cans.
 Thirteen citizens of Tomlinson town ship, Scott county, were indicted last week for assault with intent to kill, for shooting a man nsmed Edrington-
 All the money for witnesses at the Fort Smith federal court is again ex- hausted, and many hardships among the witnesses are reported.
 Messrs. McCarty and Kerrigan have legun work on the first section of the Fort Smith and Gurdon railroad.
 The safe at the LeGrange Hotel at Fort Smith was robbed of si00 Friday night.
 Attorneys J. IT. Evans, T. C. TIum- pbrevs and E. Hiner were fined s23 each in the Waldron circuit court last week for contempt, the ofiense te'ng using language which reflected on the court in brief fled in the Supreme Court.
 Thieves entered the preachers tent at c6mp-meeting near Greenwood last week and stole th5 poeketbook ot Rev. J. A. Andersoii and the yaise of Rev. V. Harlan. The yalise and a portion of the money was fecoy@red' Saturday, section boss, walking along the railroad track in Hope, be- cahie so absorbed ill brown study that he did not hear a freight train, and was knocked off and badly hurt.
 R. L. Maxwell, of Waldrn, has teen indicted ill the federal court for the mail robbery on the route from Dallas, Polk county, to Waldron ill May last.
 Henry Mason, a young eolored man, was run ovef by a Cotton Belt train at Stephens few nlgl'ts since. IL is be- ffeyed he was murdered and his body placed on the track 10 hide the crifDe.
 The Beacon says that during tie present year there has not been an av- craze of one death per month in Searcy. For a town of 2000 inhabitants this is certainly good showing.
 The miners of Montgomery county are still hopefully and energetically at work on their claims, in spite of the l late unfavorable report of State Geolo- gist Branuer.
 At Forrest City Saturday afternoon a negro stepped off the east bound Memphis and Little Rock train and 1 fired two shots at a man named | Smith. neither shot however taking eff feet. The negro ran but was caught, ! after half hours chase, and lodged in jail.
 4 successful jail delivery was eff fected at Lake Village, Chicot county, last Wednesday, When the acting | iailer started into the cells he saw something was wong and pulled his pistol, but a prisoner, Monroe Kim l brough. wrenched it from him, then l threw him down stairs. Three other prisoners, John Harris, Tom Granville and Ali Hooper, then made their es- cape. but Kimbrough was captured by two trusties who were in another part of the jail.
 1 Last Saturday morning near Prince town, negro girl ten years old was playing with pistol; thinking it un- 1 loaded she snapped it several times at a smaller girl, after which she placed the muzzle in the younger girls mouth and then commanded her 13-year-old sister to pull the trigger which was 1 done. and to their surprise and horror it went off and there was one negro l less.
 Dr. W. II. Barry, chief executive health officer of Hot Springs, has just 1 issued his semi-annual report, besides showing the city to be in excellent san itary and health condition, it shows that the rate of mortality, 6.92 in l0O0, l is the smallest of any city in the union except one, Los Angeles, Cal. l Frank Arlington, colored, while rid ing a mustang pony in Ashley county last Saturday, was thrown from the animal; his foot hung in the stirrup and he was kicked until almost dead and when found was unconscious and | is still in that condition.
 A man named Cline, was tried at Berryville last Friday for killing his brother-in-law, Clinkerbeard, in Car roll county seventeen years ago. He was found guilty and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary.
 $. F. Dykes, conductor on the Cotton Belt road, and wife came near being poisoned at Pine Bluff one day last week by taking tartar emetic, given them by drug clerk for sub ni- trate of bismuth. Only physician s timely services saved their lives.
 The street car line at Helena, a new enterprise, is said to be satisfactory l success.
 Miss Annie Vibbert disappeared from her home in Ashley township, h. dependence county, on Thursday last She is IS years old, weighs about l60 pounds, has black hair and is robust looking. When last seen she was at a spring, near the house, washing.
 Judge Carder, near Dallas, Folk county, will make fifty barrels of