The Forrest City times., 1892-01-22
STATE NEW s.
Collins is bothered by burglars.

StliiIiS lS DbiiitIcu DN Dulkidio.
 Van Buren wants waterworks.
 The debt of Lonoke county is only s12. 2.547.53.
 The merchants of Clarksville will not sell cigarettes.
 The Western Arkansas Press club met at Van Buren on Friday.
 A store in Huntington did a cash business of $225 900 last year.
 The Prairie Grove Banner is mak- ing it warm for the loafers of that town.
 The farmers of Hempstead county are said to have $60, 900 in the bank at Hope.
 Clinton is to have railroad-a branch of the Kansas City, Arkansas and New Orleans. Efforts are being made to organize ation at Fort Smith. The Southern Lumber Manufactur- ing association of Arkansas met at Camden Wednesday. Land rents in some portions of Lo- noke county have been reduced from eight to five dollars per acre. Horace X. Whitten was acquitted at Prescott Friday of the charge of murdering Dr. G. A. Rockett. A colony of thirteen families from
 Alabama have located on Bois d. Ark prairie in Hampstead county. With it's issue of the 16th inst. the Nashville News entered upon the thirteenth year of it's usefulnes. II. E. Van Valkenburg of Warren has book of law notes in manuscript
 which bears the date of August IT., l7S3.
 The safe of the Bonanza saloon at Hot Springs was burglarized Sunday
 night, the thieves securing S66O0 ill
 cash.
 An alligator measuring eight feet | four inches in length was killed in
 Bearskin lake, Lonoke county, last | week.
 Camden's fine electric light and
 waterworks plant was totally destroyed by fire Monday morning. No in-
 surance.
 The farmers of Franklin county met
 at Ozark Monday for the purpose of
 devising some plan for reducing the l COtlOu uCiCukCs There is increasing excitement in Yell county over the discovery of gold.
 Experienced miners have been put to
 work on the find. There were sixty-six fires in Little
 Rock during 1891, entailing a total
 loss of $258 .805, covered by an insu-
 rance of S260,625. Owing to financial endorsements the electric light company of Morrill, ton has suspended operations and the | city is in darkness. Sam Bender has mvsteriously disap- peared from his home in Helena and
 his family and friends are very much
 alarmed about him. Several casualties occurred to coasters during the recent season in Little Rock. Some of the injuries were se-
 rious. consisting of broken legs. The officials of the Splitlog railroad
 have been looking over the line from
 Sulphur Springs, Benton county, the
 present terminus, to Fort Smith. w. E. Maloney, young man of Brinkley, has instituted suits for $10,- 900 each against the Memphis Com mercial and Memphis Scimitar for islander.
 Robert Meyer, who was recently in- jured and his son killed by a work train on the Fort Smith road, has brought suit against the company for S25, 900 damages. John H. Spar, aged 84 years, died at Fayetteville on the 14th. At one time he was proprietor of the LiRdell hotel in St. Louis, and lost his fortune when that hostelry burned. There is only one saloon in Howard county, those at Nashville having re- gently been closed by an act of the last legislature prohibiting the sale of liquor within ten miles of Central Col lege.
 Chancellor Carroll has decided that a criminal cannot be held m one cOun- ty on telegram from officers of an- other county. If the chancellor is sus- tained it will prove an important and very annoying interpretation of the law.
 w. M. Kavanaugh, business mana ger of the Little Rock Gazette, was called to Frankfort, Ky. Sunday
 night by telegram announcing the dy- ing condition of his father, but did not
 reach his destination in time to see him alive.
 One hundred miners from the Brice- vile and Oliver Springs coal mines of East Tennessee have arrived at the Ouita mines on the Little Rock and Fort Smith road. Others will follow.
 The hegira is the result of the recent convict troubles. Little Rocks volunteer firemen mo- tified the city council that they would
 refuse to respond to any alarm until their chief. Robert Mckay, was con- frmed. The paid firemen of the city
 number thirteen, which would leave
 the city virtually helpless in case of se-
 rious conflagration.
 The following soulful reminder is from last weeks Nashville News
 "S0me of our delinquent subscribers
 could pay for their paper with few
 cords of wood. ."As the thermometer reg
 istered 2 degrees below zero at Nash
 vile on the morning of the 14th, the
 News suggestion may be regarded as timely.
 The Democrat was sorry to learn of the death of MT. and Mrs. N. B. Cummings, aged parents of County Treasurer K. c. Cummings. Mrs.
 died on Friday night and Mir. Cum
 mings on Saturday night and both were buried in the same grave at