The Osceola times., 1888-04-14
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.

| last summer. I, IL said to have been
cold -blooded murder, and the people ol
Mississippi County are anxious TO secure
the arrest Of Lee.
Ernest II. Kehrmann, brakemen or
| .he IRON Mountain railroad, was knockeo
| off a car few nights ago while his train
was passing over bridge spanning tlr
| Little Red river. near Little Rock. lie
was instantly killed, his head been badly
mashed The body was found IN The
| river. At the time of the mishap he tor
| got to stoop i0wr while crossing the river
ard beam of the bridge struck him on
the head.
The Desha Land & Lumber Company
| of Little Rock has filed articles of incor-
poration with the Secretary of State. The
| incorporators are: John ID. Adams, James
| Mdrphy, q. ". Sappington, W. j. Turner,
| !. NJ. Moore, Elisah Atkins and VIM. 4.
stowe. Capital stock, SljO,0OD, ot which
| amount ss6CoC has already been sub
| scribed. 90 @
a Coal Hill dispatch says that all the
miners employed in the mines there hays
| struck because the Ouita Coal Company
will not promise not to employ any of the
| late employees ot the Arkansas industrial
/ y.
| working the conyicts at that place, sna
| who were thus connected with the recent
brutal outrages brought 10 light.
sWm. Nelson, alias Wipins. was ar.
rested at Memphis, Tenn, few days
| since tliafg q with the murder of the
sheriff OF Deshea County, tlils State, in
1886. Nelson was a prisoner at The time
he threw pepper in the eyes of the sheriff
shot him and escaped. - .,,
Mr.. A. +. Livingston, the editor of the
| Morrilton Star, died few days since
lie was good man, thoroughly alive &c
all public enterprises and will be greatly
missed in the town. r..
Alb. Booty, recently indicted ia Federal
Court for selling liquor without license il
Mississippi County submitted his case be.
| fore Judge Caldwell. at Little Rock. and
was 6ped 800 and sentenced to thirty days
| imprisonment, ...
Tlie Governor mas offered reward ot
500 for the apprehension of Willis sharp
who murdered Lee Caldwell, in Phillips
County in May, 1881. II is said to have
been a very brutal affair, and the Officers
are in possession of information which
will lead to the capture of Sharp.
At the annual election of the Little Rock
| Board of Trade the following board OF
| directors was chosen for the ensuing year:
John G.. Fletcher J. W. Dcshon, G.. f.
Baucun, s. o. Smith, O. II. Whittemore,
7. X. Roots, J. A. Fones, j. b. Miller, h.
| a. Little, Jos. Wolf, c. r. Tobey, James
Joyce, A. Z. Howell.
The one hundred and forty unemployed
convicts from Coal Hill are white ele.
! phant on the hands of the State.
In u quarrel about some land, a few
days ago, William Buttress, a farmer, liv.
ing in Greenwood County, was struck on
the head with pick handle by q. W. Full.
Ter, from the effects of which he died.
Mrs. Nagle, Of Texarkana, had her hus
band. C. Nagle, who she had several
months ago abandoned, arrested few days
since. char ying him with attempting &c
burn the house she had occupied by plac
ing coal oil under the building and setting
fire TO the saine He viii be tried for ar
son.
The ST. Louis, Arkansas & Texas rail-
road is now finished to Little Rock. A
celebration of the event is to be had in the
latter city. This line will give Little Rock
another line both 10 st. Louis and Texas
points, and makes the sixth railroad line
entering the State capital.
The residence occupied by Joe John
ston, in Texarkana, was discovered on fire
a few days ago, and before assistance ar
rived the building and contents were con-
sumed. From the burning house the
storehouse belonging to the same party
near by ignited, and both were burned.
The loss on stock and dwelling is esti-
mated at $500, with only 800 insurance.
Miller County recently had regular
Jail delivery, eight prisoners having es
capped. They got out by boring through
the walls with augers furnished by out
side friends. ..
d. o. Wasson, one of the publishers OF
the Corning IRder, disappeared very sud
denly aud mystcriously last Friday and has
not been heard of since. When last seen he
was walking on the railroad track in the
direction OF Knoble. His strange disap.
pearance can not be accounted for, and
his friends are quite uneasy about him.
Recent coal discoveries in Southern
Arkansas have been made which attracted
much attention. A company has
been chartered with s75,ooo capital
stock subscribed and paid up for working
the mines in Ouachita County. The COM
pany is known as the Ouachita Coal Com.
pany, and the incorporators are A.
Garnet and Ed Hogaboom. Of Hot Springs,
and K. e. Turnstall, of st. Louis.
ReY. b. b. McCraw, ID. D., of the Littl,
Rock Conference OF the Methodist Episco.
pal Church South, has united with The
Christian Church in Little Rock. Pastor
shelton said as Mr.. McCraw was an i'm.
mersed believer and had been ordained
by the ". e. Church South, he would sim
ply give him the hand of fellowship as 0
Christian minister, recognizing the
validity OF his ordination and baptism.
Sheriff J d. Hawkins of Crawford re.
Gently delivered 70 the pcnitentiary A. J.
Tut, convicted of larceny and given two
years; Frank Potter, burglary, three
gears; John Collins, five years; Jane!
Carraway, larceny, ten years; W. P.
Carrar, larceny, one year; c. w. White
head, larceny, seventeen years; George
5. Calvin, larceny, two years; Charles
Price, larceny, five years; W. g. Bennett
larceny, two years.
George A. Leiper, ex-warden of the
penitentiary, has been arrested on war.
rant sworn out by the coroner of Johns
County, charging him with being au ac.
cessory to the murder of the seven con
victs who were whipped TO death by
deputy warden at Coal Hill, who were
under Leiper's charge and supervision
| captain j. II. Miller, lessee of the peni.
! Tertiary, went ON Leiper's bond, and tn,
latter went TO Clarksyille for his examin.
ing trial.
| High water In the lowlands.
| Amos Sharp shot and killed John Rice
| near Wittsburg, few days ago The lat.
| ter had become infptuatpf with Shorn,s
wife, and had been annoying her with his
attentions. Rice's wife vas witness of
| the killing, Sharp suddenly entering the
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