The Forrest City times., 1892-03-04
STATE NEW s.

I
 $50, 900 capital.
 There were 1000 visitors in Hot
 Springs last week.
 Burglars are successfully working
 Little Rock and Argenta.
 A lodge of Pythian Sisters has been
 organized at Hot Springs.
 There are 5000 children in Arkan-
 sas who do not attend school.
 The business men of Hot Springs
 have organized board of trade. The residence of John and Dave
 Bird, at Pine Bluff, was burned Satur-
 day.
 Atelephone line from the postoflice to
 the depot at Marion is soon tc be con- structed.
 The cedar stump to which Ed Coy
 WAS lynched, has been entirely carried away by relic hunters.
 The plucky and enterprising citizens of Hardy are rebuilding the territory recently devastated by fire. Ransom Wiggins. aged 96, was mar ried to Mrs. McMinn, in Shoal Creek township, Logan coxnty, recently. Tenn Broughton, a highly respected citizen of Garland county, was mur- dered at Hot Springs Friday night. The sensible farmers of Little River county have determined to reduce their cotton acreage one-third or one-half. One hundred and ninety-four negro converts were baptized in the Arkan- sas river at Little Rock last Sunday. Marion Kendrick, aged AS years, con- fined in the Malvern jail, committed suicide Saturday evening by hanging. A. c. Hull, editor of the Boone County Banner, has announced him self candidate for secretary of state The Arkansas Industrial university opened Monday with full attendance A large number of new students were enrolled.
 A little son of Charles Dodd of Dar- danelle fell and broke his arm in two places while jumping rope at school few days ago.
 predating in Little Rock was captured at Leland, Miss, with part of the booty on his person.
 Kaufman Levy has instituted suit for $15 900 against the Little Rock Elec- tric Street Railway company for killing his 3-year-old son. The people of Nashville are aroused over the violations of the en-mile law. and at recent massmeeting resolved to suppress the "blind tigers" A chicken at Marion recently swal- lowed a lot of morphine pellets which had been accidentally spilled and in a short time died from the effects. The citizens bank of Pine Blnff. with a capital of SlO0.OOO. has S65. GOO surplus, with undivided profits of $l3,- 90l.5S, and deposits aggregating S256, 869.40.
 J. E. Speers. convicted at Magnolia of murder in the first degree and sen- tenced to be hanged. has been placed in the pententiary at Little Rock for safe-keeping. Little Rocks chief of police was sent for to settle d dispute in gambling room Monday night. He took posses sion of all the money in sight and closed the place.
 R. G. Craig. the southern seed man of Memphis. Tenn. was prospecting at Mammoth Spring last week for the To- cation of large apple orchard of sev- eral hundred acres. Charles Meyers, manager at Plum merville of the store of K. Epstein of Atkins. was found dead in bed Thurs day morning of last week. His death was attributed to natural causes. G. w. Lacey. colored Methodist preacher, has sued the Iron Mountain road for 5000 damages because Of abusive language used toward him by an employe of the road while passen- ger on one of its trains. Farmers of LonOke county held a meeting at Lonoke Saturday and per fectrd a permanent organization. All the townships in the county were rep resented. The object was to devise some method for reducing the prodnc- tion of cotton. A committee was ap- pointed to draft plan, and in it's re-
 port it recommended a reduction of one-quarter in the cotton acreage and a regular hog-and-hominy course of farming.