The Forrest City times., 1892-07-01
STATE NEWS.

A gun club has been organized at Newport.
 A bicycle club is to be organized at Pine Blum.
 Cutworms are destroying crops in Mississippi county.
 Blacks military band won the first prize at Springfield.
 Brnkley's base ball club is winning q national reputation.
 The glorious fourth will be grandly celebrated at Jonesboro.
 A new republican paper has been established at Stuttgart.
 Work has commenced on the new compress at Van Buren.
 Another large milling plant will soon be in operation at Hampton.
 The Hackett City Horseshoe sus- pended publication last week.
 The Newport band has ordered a new set of silver instruments.
 A movement is on foot to establish swimming school in Little Rock.
 Searcy is to have an electric light plant in operation by September 1.
 The flying jenny has struck Newport and the kids are wild with delight.
 The law-abiding people of Augusta want the gambling dens broken up.
 Little Daniel Hall was drowned in Current river near Putnam last week.
 $. w. Wass Is building a sorghum factory at Dickson, Washington county.
 Major Penn, the revivalist. is con- ducting a series of meetings at Van Duren.
 Dardanelle's pontoon bridge, de- stroyed by the late floods. will be re-estab- lished.
 The work of constructing the water works saystem at Morrilton is progressing | rapidly.
 The cotton acreage of Fulton county will be ;S per cent less this season than 1t was | last year.
 A Sl5OO clock, with chimes, will be placed in the tower of Galloway Female col | iege. Scarcy.
 The old courthouse at Batesville is being torn down preparatory to the building | of new one.
 Rev. Sam Jones, the great Southern evangelist. will lecture at Eureka Springs on | the 4th of July. | Yell-cOunty citizens are agitating the question of reuniting the two court districts | of that county.
 The new seats for the Methodist church at Augusta have arrived and been | placed in position.
 The Southwestern Bible institute is in session at Eureka Springs. The institute | will adjourn July 6. l The Beebe staye factory will probably | be removed from that town. 1t might go else | where and fare worse.
 The Harrisburg canning factory has ! filed its articles of incorporation. The capital 1 etock Is placed at t10,000. 1 The dwelling and furniture of June incendiary fire last week. I The Fort Smith flremen carried off l nine prizes in the fremeu's tournament at Springfield, Mo-, last week.
 The Little Rock Evening Recorder, after brief struggle, has succumbed to the l inevitable and passed away.
 A branch of the American asSocia- | ton of railroad clerks and accountants has been organized at Little Rock. Rev. J. l.. Massey, sensational preacher of the Parkhurst order. has stirred up a big church row at Morrilton.
 The dwelling of George II. Sanders | of Little Rock was entered by burglars one | night last week and S4 dollars stolen.
 Black and Williams, the Little Rock l jcwelry thieves, have been captured in San Antonia, Texas, and returned for trial. Rewards aggregating $500 have been offered for the apprehension of Jesse Roper. the murderer of Sheriff Byler of Baxter | county.
 Some farmers are finishing up their corn crop in Izard is promising lizard County Democrat.
 l &ohn Rogers, who lived about ten | mfies northwest of Monticello, was shot and killed Tuesday of last week, by a man named
 The Hot Springs Gun club has form- ally declined the challenge of the Little Rock club to competitive shoot on July 4, for 6 purse of eI00. l Mrs. Minnie Burks, an insane wom- an of Grand Junction, Tenn. who ran away with her two children, was arrested last week | in Little Rock. | Andrew Phipps, confined in the Poca- hontas jail for obtaining goods under false pretenses, attempted suicide last week by cut | ting his throat.
 Mrs. Lou Hutchinson of Corinth has set of spoons over loo years old. Also. a | her grandmother.
 The fare served by the taller of Craig head county is 60 superior that the prisoners | refuse to leave even when the doors of the | jail are left standing wide open.
 The body of Sam Bender, who was ary. was found one day last week near Latonia. l It is supposed he committed suicide. Not to be outdOne by their Little | Rock contemporaries the Hot Springs alder. l men amuse themselves and disgust the pu blic by indulging in bad language and nsticuffs
 The machinery of the old Pine Bluff compress near the Valley depot is being moved | to Van Buren. where the compress will be erected and operated by the company there.
 Fred Jackson and Will Wheelock have applied to Commissioner Raum for . pension. The boys were severely injured | while playing the national game.-MOnroe County Sun.
 At Bierne, a small station three miles | south of Gurdon, . negro named BOazman was brutally murdered by an unknown aseis- | sin last week. his head being aimost severed from his body. | Little Fred, the 6-year-old son of Mir. playing around the saw mill, fell into a pit of | boiling water and was 60 seriously scaldei that he may not recover. l A mysterious firebug has made sev- | erai attempts recently to burn the Owens boardinghouee at Hot Springs, and all the in. | surance policies on both the building and fur | niture have been cancelled. Col. Fishback's brother, Hon. Fred 1 N. Fishback of Illinois. was in Little Rock at | the convention. He was one of the famoG ioi who stood by John Y Palmer in the Hi. in the United States senate.
 The prisoners, three in number, con- fined in the county jail at Lonoke effected their escape early Saturday morning. One was negro charged with the murder of Joe Frauenthal of Faulkner county.
 James Sartain, an Englishman, fore man of the LonOke tannery at Austin. cut his throat with a razor after taking morphine He was separated from his wife and was tired of life. His wife lives in Little Rock.
 During the absence of the family Friday night thieves broke into the dwelling of County Treasurer Fuller of Paris. Logan and distracted tsl00 therefrom. No clue Dardanplla'e tiromQO will calahra f a