The Forrest City times., 1892-05-20
STATE NEWS.


 Large crowds attended the races at | Texarkana.
 A major portion of Chicot county is | under water.
 All portions of the state are suffering | from heavy rains and high waters. A 4-year-old son of Frank Gray was drowned last week near Marshall. The mills of the smithton Lumber company. | near Malvern, burned Friday night.
 John Patterson's sawmill at Dalark
 has been purchased by B. H. Eavins. X Franklin county paper wants the time for collecting taxes changed to October
 l6th
 The Arkansas river scored higher
 gauge Tuesday night than it has attained since 1sI4.
 A preliminary survey has been made preparatory to constructing waterworks at Huntington.
 A third party has been organized in at the first meeting. Many citizens Of Arkansas will be at the Southwestern Firemen's tournament at Springfield. Mo. June 14th. Twenty-seven boats, constituting part of the Dardanellc pontoon bridge. were swept out by the recent high water. Anegro named Jim Hancock burglar ized the depot at Thornton Friday night and was arrested but escaped from the officers. Tom Moore of Pine Bluff was too inc timate with William Chiiton's wife and IS now full of regret and buckshot. Chiffon IS in jail and Moore cannot recover. In spite of warning of danger, a col ored preacher named Spears attempted to ford the Little Missouri river in Howard county last week and was drowned The local authorities of Arkansas City are making an effort to got the secretary of the navy to allow the Concord to stop half day at that place on its return to the gulf. Two boys, aged 13 and l5 years, have been arrested for burning the store of Watt kins Bros. at Mount Ida. They impiicato their uncle. Theo Caldwell, who has been ar. rested. The prisoners in the Berryville jail made another unsuccessful attempt to escape on last Sunday night by, trying to saw out with caseknife. which had been furnished them by outside parties. Two l6-year-old schoolgirls, Misses Hattie Alexander and Cora Wheat, were drowned at Nashville. Howard county. Tues
 day afternoon by the overturning of footlog | across q swollen stream The people residing in the eastern portion of Little Rock couldn't stand the smell emanating from the cattle pens of the South. ern Oil company, and the board Of health has ordered the nuisance abated. | Sam Vaughan, who murdered man 1 named Gage at Huntsville last September. | and whose trial took place In Washington county on change of venue. was found guilty | The Prairie Grove Banner learns that l.. G. Stephens of Rhea's Mills hns shipped this season thirty-ffve carloads of
 hogs. and that he has paid l6,OO0 to the farm.
 CTS of Washington county for them and is
 still buying.
 The Franklin News, a new venture
 in the field of journalism. has made it's bow to
 the Ozark public. It is published by 2. Q.
 I.ewter and edited by Hon: ]. V. Bourand, | be e welcome visitor
 Here is one of the Mammoth Spring | Monitors fish stories: The latest report from the Myatt is that that stream is so full of fish 1 them. and that their backs and fins may ba
 seen for quite distance showing above the
 surface of the water.
 | A famished bear recently entered a yard near Mountain Home where the children | of Mrs. Mary Carter, widow, were playing. killed the eldest hoy with stroke of his paw.
 slew another child. seized the baby and rnade | from limb before the frantic mothers eyes.
 The poor woman is q raving maniac.
 J. T. Shelby, one of the best farmers
 in the South. whose home is in Calhoun town
 sOth birthday the sOth day of April. by plough. ing hard till noon. and then making the trip | from home to town and back in the evening.
 sons would take him to bc over 45 years of age.
 The barn of Thomas l.. Jones, near Saratoga. was destroyed by fire Thursday of
 last week. and with the barn about $50 bushels of corn and 6 large amount of fodder and hay,
 and a fine jack which he had recently pur- chased at cost of &j00 He had only e25O in. surance. The fire Is thought to have been caused from children playing with matches
 around the barn.--Nashvile News, 14th.
 We copy the following, with some
 misgivings. from the Harrisburg News Of last
 week: J. T. Eskridge has a peculiar freak of nature on his place in the shape Of Q young | calf. The calf's mother was claimed by his little three-year-old daughter. whose initials are l.. T. The calf has . white letter l. in its face and white letter on one shoulder, and now the proud little girl says she knows tho calf is hers. .s