The Forrest City times., 1892-06-03
STATE NEWS.

Little ROCK naS new aItef 0Cou pdpci called the Recorder.
 A disastrous canfagration visited Huntington on the 23d.
 Paragould is having considerable trouble with blind tigers.
 The cornerstone of the new Turner hall In Little Rock was laid Sunday
 Thirty families of negroes left Helena by boat Sunday night for Ok.aaoma
 Seven thousand negroes in Chicot county are reported without food or shelter.
 Mrs. Sue J. Carroll, one of the first settlers of Pine Biuff. died in that city Friday.
 The public school at Batesville closed last week. 1'ae enrolment for last year was s00.
 John Wesley, an escaped Mississippi coiyict, was rocaptured It Pine Blun Sasar- day.
 A Pine Bluff economist wants all the railroads doubie-tracSod to preveat coilis- ioaE.
 Judge Ira T. Church, prominent resident or Texassaua. aied Sunday, aged oe years.
 A boiler factory and car works are two enterprises which are seeking locaIions at Canloen.
 The Batesville Telephone company hss decored dividend of per cent foe tns last six Inoat5s.
 Gen. Powell Clayton has resigned his position as manager of the Crescent hotel at EIreka Springs.
 Work on the new Arkansas college building at Batesville win be begun within the next sixty cays.
 John Futrell, prominent young man of Sulpher ltocz, wGs drowned Tuesday while seining in a creek.
 Dire distress reigDs through all the over..Cwed country and the starving people are greatly in need of help.
 One of the berry farmers near Jud. sonia ;s eaid to have cleared a24Go on twe.ve acTee os straw berries tnis season.
 The laying of the cornerstone of the now court house at Newport has been post
 A stOckman named N. E. Mason from Salisbury, Mo, was run over and killed by . Cotton Belt train at Pine BluR Saturday.
 Seventeen guests of the WOoten house, Littie:Rock, wore mysteriously poisoned Tuesday night. None of the victims died.
 w. c. Allen, miner, was terribly maneled Monday morning by slate falling on him in the Stiewel mine in Johnson county.
 Thomas Austin, highly respected gentleman of Phillips county, was murdered trail.
 A seven-room dwelling and a small church with all tho benches in it drifted ashore and lodged in Gardens Bottoms last week.
 Fort Smith was visited Tuesday morning hy severe tornado, which inflicted the city.
 In the championship shoot at Pine Bluff Tuesday the team of the Little Rock club defeated the Pine Blufr team by . score of 22s to POI.
 The poolrooms formerly operated in Memphis have been moved across the river to the Arkansas side, where the gambling goes merriiy on.
 The 9-year- old daughter of John Kent of Gaiushoro township. Independence eouaty. was seriously burned recently by fall ing in the fire.
 Joshua Lester. 8 well-to-do farmer of Onech,ta county, was shot and killed Inst Bragg srrrenuefsd.
 c. o. Parker was found dead in a mu ihole four rnllos cast or Hampton. Being saoject to llts, l. ia supposed th.t he fei iron, hie uorso in a lit ana drowned.
 A number of the boys of Helena, be- the ages of F and s are making known ss the Ri5ge City Ri1es.
 N. D. Porter, an expert printer of Fort Smith, has purchased an interest in the Huntington Democrat and will have charge of the mechanical departments.
 Rev. w. A. Welsher has resigned the pastorate of the First Baptist church of Little harmony among the membership.
 The firemen of Little Rock have erected monument to Henry Brookins. a comradc who was killed in March of last year while in the discharge of h.s duty.
 X reunion of the survivors of the ments. .. s. A, will be held at Hot Springs on Friday and Saturday, July 9 and 30.
 The incendiaries who burned Col. hichardson's house near Popular grove, Phil lips county, last week hayo been captured. They were colored man and womrn.
 Brinkley should be proud of her base ball team. It has played against the teams at Stuttgart, Pine Dlla ana Memphis and scooped them n every timo.-8rink;ey Mirror.
 A base ball game between the Van Burcn and Fort Smita teams on Tuesday, in the latter city, srv.se ap ll a disgxacefui row, and two thousand spectators left the grounds ia disgust.
 Mrs. May Griffin of Cabin Creek wanted to marsy her stcp.flfher's Lrolher and because tho ftsmiiy suserfcfesi she swat. lowed {. te.-spooIfui oi morphile. Her life was saved.
 Aavergne was demolished by a cyclone satnrda! niehr The new Methodist church and inc Auvcsgue academy were colii- p'etely demolished. six people were .njagod, ore seriously.
 Kaufman Levy, whose little son was killed hy an electric car it Little Rock inssi. damages aud was awsrdei .ij00 by the iury Satilrday night The wind and hail storm which passed over Dallas. Polk county, Thursdny night os last week was tue uiasi destructive for years. Fsaces, trees crops aud houses were blown down or waened out. Sheriff Sewell of Columbia county left for Santa Rosa. Cal, Monday 10 bring back E negro murderer named Gus fraa.er who ia charged with killing q white man named Wilmington more than year ago. Feb Garibaldi burglarized his fathers saloon in Little Rock Last week, stealing twenty dollars. and is now in jail. with tue doors of the penitentiaiy standing inyst.ugl5 open. companion named Fox Is in the same predicament.
 James Raymond, drummer, foI say ing that he wonld give q premium on the virtue Of all girls in Clark county over the age Of IA years, was run out of Arkadei9h Frfiay by indignant citizeus. Raymond was roughly handled. The colored men stood around watch ing the supplies for the sufferers go aboard the O. b. Reese and refused to york st less everything was for their suffering brethren.- Pine Bluff Commercial. Wm. Mahune, who was at work in Ed Bonds sawmill on the head of War Eagle struck his leg against the saw while it was .at high rate of speed, and was drawn into 'the Ss e e sa saP Ss anss dent.
 Major J. w. Galloway of Little Rock has filed suit against the American Casualty and Insurance company of Baltimore for libel, laying his damage at &j0,0O0. The action