The Forrest City times., 1888-04-07
ABOUT ARKANSAS.

Three prisoners made A successful escape from the Fort Smith i2l Tres5sT.
 Benjamin Richardson and Henry Rogers O. Jeutown. leading business men. had An alteration Tharsday night and Rogers vas shoi and dangerously wounded.
 Rudolph Muench, s butcher, oi Pine Bi1T. was taken to Mississippi 07 charge of catgle-ssealing.
 An attempt was made Thursday te destroy the Wzfers-fierce COmpany's oil tanks st TsXArSzua by placing rub bish underneath and setting ii on Ere. The flames were discovered and ex- iingBished.
 Burglars Wednesday morning earlJ entered the store Of J. T. Hzmb.et O AuEergne. The noise aroused the bookkeeper and several shofa were ex. changed in the dark. The burglars escaped.
 Calf Creek is intensely excited over mad dogs. Monday a rabid dog at- t&eke6 farmer named Clay Pickering, biting him several times He beat ths animal away. His wounds are not eoa- sldered dangerous The dog. then bii alo-year-Oie girl, and in protecting the child John Russell was bitten oa the cheek. aa ugly wound being made. II applied A mad.tone without success and is now searching for another. Al the dogs in this locality have beer Killed.
 Saturday night al a late hour, in lzloon st Pine BiuG. Frank Cox, farmer. and John Forts got into diff. iculty. Cox was snot five times, once iust ahov- the region ofthe heart, in .he wrist, breast, neck and back of the head. Ills clothes were TiGdisd Titb shot. Cox says he shot only twice, his wrist disabling him rom the use ofthe gun. Portis exhausted all his barrels. Cox. it Is stated, was shot ten or twelve .imea Portis' brother was present. but lleges that he did not fire Cox, with III this murderous artillery fire on him, las a charmed life. He is doing toler- ,bly well. Whisky was st the bottom )f it.
 Friday even ng the Coroner was sum. moned to hold an inquest over the re- mains Of Augustus Thomas, which were found in a dense cluster Of woods and bushes several miles f.om Helena. Thomas had been taken down with a serious attack of illness, and during one Of his delerious spells, while his family were absent he escaped 10 the woods. Search was made for him but it proved iruitless, and it was thought that he had drowned himself in the river. Friday colored man. while passing through the woods, found the body in an advanced state Of decom- position and very much mutilated by the buZzards that had bes an 10 prey on 1t. The body must have been lying In this place for moath. The Corners jury found verdict in accordance with the above facts
 The Governor, Secretary of State. and Attorney-General, composing the Penitentiary Board, have made known their report on the outrage al the Coal Hill Convict Camp at Little Rock. They find that the lessees have violated the rules, that the convicts have been inhumauly treated by the waTdens, in. sufficiently fed and clothed. over worked, improperly housed and m. reasonably punished that they were whipped for inability to work and, ir some instances, tortured to death by brutal wardens. They order the dis missal of the Warden of the Peni. tentirry and hold it to be necessary at once to abandon the camp at Coal Hill. No convicts will be permitted here- after to work in mines or other places beyond the supervision Of the peniten- tiary physicians. Coal Hill conyicts are to be rem ovcl to the pen!tentiary