The Forrest City times., 1892-09-16
STATE NEWS.

tion called the Lime Kiln Clu D.
 Rev. w. T. Cartwright of Berryvi He lost Sl90 in greeubacks on Mond ay morning last week.
 J. w. Austin, president of the Aus tin Lumber company. died at his home at Preston Sunday night and was bu- ried at Conway Monday.
 Galloway college, Searcy, ope ned last Monday with the largest attendance in its history. Texas, Tennessee and Missouri were represented.
 Little River county will vote on the question of county seat removal in Oc- tober. Wilton, Ashdown and Rocky Comfort are all contesting for it. The residence of Bob Rogers. near Stony Point, together with it's contents, was destroyed by fire last Friday after noon about o'clock. Loss, 1900; in- | surance $500.
 MT. Maynard was badly injured last week while engaged in tearing down q schoolhouse near Mount Ida. He was struck by failing timber and knocked senseless, but will recover.
 Marion Allen, alias Jim Robinson, a desperado who had been terroriZing the neighborhood of Plummerville, Conway county, was captured Sunday after being shot through the thigh.
 Two unruly pupils named Thurman attacked schoolteacher named Gar rison at Lacy, Drew county, last week. and the latter was compelled to kill one of his assailants in self-defense.
 The 27th, 29th and 30th days of Sep tember next have been designated as the time for the annual reunion of ex- Cnnfederates of Arkansas and Indian Territory, which will be held at For. Smith.
 Prof. d'Ailey is doing some excellent work in collecting specimens of ouT minerals for the Words Fair exhibit. He already has display of which North Arkansas may feel proud.- Harrison Times.
 A. J. Smith, chairman of the repub- lican county central committee, was arrested at Jericho Monday, charged with circulating bogus tickets. Verify, the new election law is buzz saw to fool wiIh.-Marion Reform.
 S. NJ. Womack of Eentonville was bitten by spider one evening last week. That night he was taken very sick and came near dying. The doctor diagnosed 1t as sciatic r0eumat:Sm. The family think it was caused by the bite.
 l Out of forty-four insurance compa- Dies doing business in Pine Bluff six months ago, twenty-0ne have already given their agents notice to send in tteir stationery or to cease taking risks in this city until further notice.-Pine Bluf Commercial.
 At Mammoth Spring last week two small boys of Wm. Roach. aged and , ' years, went into their fathers room and securjDg two single barrel pistols opend fire upon a little neighbor boy, the ball strik .ug him in the head and glancing o1. Tue wounded boy is get ting well.
 Stuttgart and Arkansas River rail- road extension is being pushed very | vigorously; about 100 men are employed 1 in track-laying and tie-making. It is having good effect on other lines of | business, and we expect to see gen. eral revival of business resulting from 1 it.-DeWitt New Era.
 Last Monday the boiler of the Black fish Lumber company's sawmill, on the Bald Knob railroad, exploded Tie boiler and part of the engine and mill l iiOuoCs NttC tohbPtOtiy OoJ | fortunately no one was hurt The loss to the company will be about 5000 and the mill will be idle about month.
 Harrison Copeland stabbed Thomas Fancher, an old man and highly re- spected citizen of Carroll county, last week on but little, if any provocation brother of Polk Fancher, the lawyer of 1 Garruuillo and ua innHanuixy mo Copeland skipped the country and made good his escape.
 A negro, Cornelius Miles, who was laced on the convict farm near Fine Bluff over year ago, and afterwards made bis escape, was re-arrested at Camden. In making his escape he ing to the authorities at Pine Bluff. One hundred dollars reward was of- fered for his recaptule.
 Felix Lane,a young man 19years of age, was killed at Siddell, three miles north of Bepton on the railroad last Sunday evening. He tried to jump on a south-bound freight train running at the rate of fifteen miles an hour and the ties that it fractured his skull and biohC uio i'She obouluSi duu di III.
 The evaporator is running night and day, and turning hundreds of bushels of surplus apples into cash. Counting all the stock, fruit, eggs, produce. etc. we have shipped, it is safe to figure that Boone county has marketed more of her products this year than ever be- fore, and may therefore be counted more prosper0us.-Harris Times.
 MT. w. w. Forbes. who lives fou. miles southeast of BTinkley, on the Moro road, brought to the Argus office on Monday collection of cotton bolls which had been ruined by the boll- worm. He reports that the ruinous worm is at work all around in his neighborhood, and is doing great dam- age to the already short crops.--Brink- ley Argus.
 Monday last Jim Thompson was ar rested on q warrant charging him with stuffing the ballot box at a school elec- tion some weeks ago. He knew the warrant was out against him, but thought "tbey would not dare to arrest him because he was an officer." T'is strange, but the officers of this county have peculiarskn of daring" to do a good many things.-Marion Re- form.
 Dick Peevy was fatally stabbed at 1 Dyer last Saturday night. When the special train returning from the rally at Van Buren reached Dyer, Peevy got into quarrel with man, when a third party stepped up behind Peevy i and stahhad him in tho ci1a IT T.