The Forrest City times., 1892-02-26
STATE NEWS.

Iopdn county lltICildiilo VIII och Aoi cash this year.
 Harrison is to have new roller mill in the near future.
 A Catholic school will soon be or ganized at Harrisburg.
 There was meteroric shower at Mammoth Spring last week. The Courier is kicking against Ma rianna's too-numercus yagrants.
 Five stores at Sulphur Rock were burglarized in one night recently.
 Little Rock grocers have organized to protect themselves from fraud.
 A colored man at Monticello had a ten-pound tumor removed from his head.
 Clarksville wants the corporation line extended half-mile in every direction.
 Mir. John Miller of Hackett City eel ebrated his 92d birthday anniversary "Wednesday. b The fine buggy horse of J. IT. Me Clung of Morrilton died of hydropfo- bia last week.
 The grand lodge of Knights of Honor will hold it's next annual meet ing at Camden.
 J.E. Speers has been convicted, of murder at Magnolia. Columbia county, and sentenced to be anged. Two little negro children. living near England, LonOke county, were ac- cidentally burned to death last week.
 The store of Berger Bros. at Mall vern, was destroyed by fire Sunday morning. Loss, S75,0OO. Partly in- surpd.
 The Texarkana and Fort Smith rail- road is doing Il very profitable business under the management of w. A. Will lians-.
 A Masonic hall is to be built at Jonesboro. X lot on which the stitlct- ure is to be built has been purchased at cost of $l0C0.
 The Arkansas Republican State Cen tral committee will meet in Little Rock tomorrow to fix date for hold ing the state convention. A new mill is being erected at the Sulphur River terminus of the Gate City road, which will have capacity of 10000 feet of lumber daily. The new Fourche bridge in Yell county is about complete. The main span is 150 feet in length and the structure is to cost about $S000. Charles Bolin, an employe of the Southern Land and Lumber company, near Fordyce, was accidentally killed the other day by large log rolling on him.
 The Voice, an Alliance paper pub lshed at Bateseville. with J. w. Dol lisOn as editor and II. M. Hodge mana ging editor, made it's appearance last week.
 Adda E. Remmel of Newport has sued the Batesville and Brinkley Rail- road company for S50,000 damages re- sultlng from overflow of land caused by the roads embankments. X stock company with paid up cap ital of SEQ GOO is to organized at Van Buren for the purpose of establishing and maintaiuga large wholesale and retail dry goods business. During the late snow l3l deer were killed in the vicinity of Big Flat, Bax- ter county, and turkeys too numerous ! to mention Three bears were killed near limbo, Stone county.
 John Jenkins, half-witted negro boy, WAS murdered at Raggio City, Lee county, last week by George Krouse. n white carpenter. The murder is said to have been entirely unprovoked.
 Quite number of professional base ball players are at Hot Springs. Among the number are Mark Bald- wing. pitcher for the Pittsburg team, and Billy Joyce. Brooklyn's third base man.
 While digging a sewer in Argenta the other day the workmen struck several graves, and one threw out q quantity of human bones, supposed to be remains of soldiers who were buried there during the war. There were over 1900 dozen eggs brought to town last Saturday in buckets and baskets and sold to mer- chants here. The income from eggs exceeds everything else from this coun. ty.-Madisoli County Democrat. On last Friday night Cass Caruthers | fcolored), who was sent to the pen for I six years for burglarizing Geo. Spen- cer's store at Charleston made an at tempt to escape by throwing pepper i'll the guards eyes, but did not succeed
 Hismour de Laigne, the young man who was caught in the shafting of the | Woodruff Printing company in Little Rock last November, has by his next friend. Louis Roberts. filed suit in | the Pulaski circuit court against the company for s5000 for dampges sus- tained.
 | F. A. Thomson x Co.,, leading mer- chants of Spring Creek, are sufferers from fire to the extent of about $3000. Their storehouse and content were burned Sunday of last week, and all l indications are that the fire was of in- cendiary. About $750 insurance. = Marianne Index.
 A successful robbery was perpetrated l last Friday night at Dover, a town ten
 miles north of Russellyille. The safe
 of w. A. Baird was blown open and
 $500 in cash was taken, also $3000 or
 S4OO0 in notes and valuable paper. The
 notes and paper were subsequently, found on wagon by the roadside, but the cash and burglars are still miss
 ing.-Morrilton Headlight.
 Last Thursday evening about
 o'clock B. F. Bonds storehouse and contents at Raggio City were destroyed by fire. The store was on the site of the old one burned last fall. Everything
 was lost, even the safe door was left fopen. Some think it was set fire to, | while others think it was an accident. There was no insurance OH either
 building or contents. Marianna In dex.