The Forrest City times., 1892-02-05
STATE NEWS.

A re3ulnE iui sa' Oeen orSauiLeu at Fordye,
 A democratic c,t IS to he organized in Argenta.
 Washington couiity tax roll foots up SS4. .599.07.
 Morrilton has shipped. l3 900 bales of cotton to date.
 The Courier is after the loafers of Narianna with a sharp stick
 Springdale has ahourishing dramatic club composed of home talent.
 The Tribune. republican paper published at Paris, has suspended.
 Fred Warde. the traaedian, is play ing towns in Northwest Arkansas.
 The sanitarium company will spend S200, 900 in Eureka Springs this year.
 Circuit court met at Paragould Man- day. There were lS4 cases on the docket.
 The young men at Coal Hill are thinking about organizing a company of cadets.
 II. J. Rogers X Son, a Searcy firm of twenty-five years standing, failed Saturday.
 The county judge of Lee county has refused to grant license for the sale of liquor at Marianna.
 Sebastian county will hold it's state, county. congressional and judicial conventions on April 23.
 The editor of the Woodruff County yidette has the grippe, a sore hand and lot of delinquent subscribers.
 Mrs. NJ. A. Thatcher's ginhouse in Jefferson county was burned last week. Loss, 5000; insurance, 5000.
 An unknown man from West Car roll parish. La. wantonlv killed two negroes at Portland last Friday. Dan Ottenheimer's stockIof dry goods in Little Rock was considerably dam- aged by fire Friday night. Insured.
 Jim Bsoaden killed Dave Clark in Conway county last week for assisting his daughter to elope. Both negroes.
 Judge w. w. Hughes of Warren died Monday at Sanford, Fla, where he had gone for the benefit of his health.
 The depot at Marianna was burglar ised few nights ago, the thieves se- curing d fine revolver and several jugs of wlliskey.
 The Little Rock city council has de- cided to reduce expenses by cutting down the police force. Four police men have been dismissed.
 Wood has almost become luxury m Bentonvilie. You can't buy basket of chips for much less than d dcllar.- Benton County Democrat.
 Anderson Pinion, a school teacher, was shot and killed near Heber last week by James McDougal, one of the school directors of the district.
 Officer John Jones of Helena caught a chicken thief Friday morning, but the man fired gun at the officer and was, in tur.l, fatally wounded.
 The store of s. A. Baxter & Co.,. with Sl0,0O0 worth of dry goods and groceries, was destroyed by fire at Bax- ter Sunday. Insured for s5OO0.
 Tom Easley, a bridge carpenter on the Iron Mountain road, took an over dose of morphine at Little Rock on Monday night, hut was saved by the doctors.
 In Marianna last week it was dis covered an organized bapd of young thieves existed, whose ages ranged from to F years. Several were ar rested and jailed.
 Miss Maud White and Mir. Kerr brought in a fine deer Thursday night last, the result of Miss Whites good with rife. It was killed about four miles from town Sulphur Springs Speaker.
 Thos. Nick. White has brought suit against the Arkansas Democrat com pany for damages in the sum of S5ssG to recover for a three fourths interest in the patent of the White fat-opening blank for use III the binding of blank books.
 On account of the insecurity of the old jail and the unfinished condition of the new one at Clarendon, "Rufc" An degson, charged with the murder of Reed, the Brinkley butcher, at a ''blind tiger'' not long since, has been taken to Helena.
 A stock company with authorized capital of $5O0,000, has purchased l70O acres of land near Eureka Springs for the purpose of establishing sani- tarium. Powell Clayton. Logan H. Roots and a number of capitalists are interested in the enterprise.
 An attempt was made on Monday night to wreck the ll:80 passenger trian by placing cross ties and rails on the track, but forum ately the 0bstruc- tion was discovered in time to prevent an accident It is not known who did the work Augusta Vidette.
 On last Thursday evening the Stutt- gart and Arkansas River railroad sold to the Hardwood Mill company of De- Witt all their interest in the sawmill, gristmill, cotton gin and water works for $5000 and gave them the contract to furnish water for one year. and all the ties, bridge and other timber re- quired by them to construct their line to the Arkansas river.
 A Mean Man.