The Osceola times., 1888-05-12
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.

wife and her lover at st. Francis recent
ly. They found him late at night sleep
ing under a tree, and hanged him on one
of the limbs.
An unknown man was thrown from q
wagon with which a horse was running
away, In Little Rock, few nights ago
and his skull was crushed. He is said TO
look very much like a man who attempted
suicide there recently by taking chloro-
form, but there was no way OF estabhsh-
ing his identity.
A blaze was discovered in Phil Pfeifer's
cotton warehouse at Little Rock q Few
mornings since. The watchman OF the
Union machine-shop, who discovered the
fire, mmed lately alarmed the hremen OF
the Torrent Company, who turned out IN
stantly and resolved to extinguish the
flames, il possible, without giving a gem
eral alarm. They succeeded in controlling
the flames before il reached coal-ol
warehouse adjoining. The loss will reach
about $500
The Mccarthy Life Guards, the new
Little Rock company, have elected the
following officers: President, 4. o.
Clark; vice president, W. =. Hughes;
secretary and treasurer, I. b. Rawlings;
Captain, J. Waters; FIRST Lieutenant. 5.
W. Tucker; Second Lieutenant, j. Nj.
DUNCAN; Quartermaster, r. F. Harrocks.
This company is the old Quapaw Guards
reoryanzed, and named after j. ii. Nc
Carthy, patron, through whose generosi'
ty the full company will be presented
with new uniforms. The company has
membership Of seventy-five.
A passenger on south bound Iron
Mountain train was awakened the other
night from his slumbers at Newport, by
the unearthly whistle of engines at that
place, several trains having met there. 1t
was about the hour that the new year Is
generally ushered in. The passenger, MIR.
Joseph 7. MaSale, on his way to Calves
ton, Tex, sprang from his berth in the
Pullman car and jumped through double
plate glass window, under the be-
lief that two trains were about to collide.
He fell TO the ground, some ten feet be-
low. His face and head were badly cut
and scratched, two fingers on the left
hand were injured and his left side and
leg had a number Of CORY wounds to re-
mind him Of his nights experience. He
was carried to Little Rock, where he was
properly cared for.
The town Of Morrilton instead Of going
for license, as heretofore reported. has
gone dry, and there will be no whisky in
Morrilton for two years longer.
Little Sallie. baby daughter of Secretary
of State Il. b. Moore, is recovering from
severe illness, caused by a blow on the
head from a stone, thrown by careless
boy.
The malbags on the Plummersv lille and
Marshall route which left Plummersvile lie
few mornings since, were subsequently
found on the roadside, cut open, and all
the registered packages rifled and the
rider missing.
The last General Assembly passed an
act prohibiting the sale of fermented
liquors within ten mil les of Ouachita Col
lege after the first Of January, 1888 This
puts whisky out OF all possible reach for
the town Of Arkndelph
George D. Williams, who killed his
mistress, a wealthy married woman from
Leavenwortb, Kau., at Hot Springs, lit.
tie over a year ago, has been placed in the
penitentiarv for twenty-one years. He
was sentenced nearly year ago, but
managed to escape from jail, and was re-
captured while working in w-mill at
Pine Bluff. Williams belongs to one OF
the most prominent families in the State,
and the rash deed was committed while
he was drunk
The question of local option has been
the all.absorbing question at Arkansas
City recently. The Prohibitionists laid
before the County Court a numerously-
signed petition asking that no licenses be
granted there for this year, which the
"antis" met with a counter petition, al
leging that the prohibition petition was
signed in a number Of cases by non-resi.
dents, and after three davs' fight Judge
Peterson decided the Prohibitionists had
not a majority, aud therefore granted
license
Captain @. +. Huggans, chic engineer
of the Valley Route extension from Van
Buren to Fort Gibson, says that steel
track has been laid from Wagner tc
the Memphis, Kansas e. Texas crossing at
Grand River, where an iron bridge will
have to be constructed. The force will be
taken to Van Buren,, and track will be
laid in a westerly direction until COM
pleted. The road will be completed by
February IS, when double daily passenger
service will be established between Lift le
ROCK ana w agOntr, L. L.
VIM. skirving, switch engineer at Little
Rock. on the Iron Mountain road, while at
work on his engine, few mornings since,
observed the dead body of man lying by
the track at the Iron Noun tain freight
house at the Union depot The head was
cut Off and lying in the center of the track,
and the body lay on the west side. From
the appearance Of the mans clothes and
the trait On the ground, IL would
seem that the body had been dragged
some distance By the cars. II was evi
dent that the BODY was decapitated by a
train going south, and it is supposed that
the local freight was the train. When
the body was found il was warm, and
evidently had not been dead long. No
one recognized the man, but on his person
was found Swedish memorandum book
with passport bearing the name Of
Laurits Alfred Olsen.
Judge Hill, of Little Rock, recently ef.
fected a settlement with Judge Crawford
of Saline County Of the indie btedness due
Pulaski County. The debt was created
when that part Of Saline County, now
known as Perkins township, was cut of
of Pulaski County and attached to Saline
in 1870 a portion of the debt OF
Pulaski was imposed upon Saline County
for this, amounting to $4,000, for which
the debtor county issued warrants which
have been held by the creditor county for
five years without any benefit accruing
therefrom.
The County Court at Goldman granted
n petition against the sale OF liquors in
the town of Goldman, making IL "dry"
town for two years.
This ought to be a great year.
The infant daughter of Rev. j, NJ, Nc