The Forrest City times., 1892-01-08
STATE N EWS.

Eureka Springs is to have a sanita- tarium.
 Bsinkley's "blind tiger'' has been extinguished.
 The Alliance Advocate of Fayette- vile has suspended.
 A university training school is to be established in Little Rock.
 Iaragould is to have a spoke and hub factory of large capacity.
 Salem, Fulton county. has one of the finest courthouses in the state.
 The Little Rock newspapers are talking up the canning industry.
 Plummerville's three saloons closed on the lst and the town is dry"
 The Knights of Pythias of Brink ley will give their annual ball on the 18th inst.
 j. A. Van Pelt of Morrilton as- signed last week. Liabilities, s4000; assets, s5000.
 Two serious cutting affrays occurred near Mount Ida, Montgomery county, on Christmas day.
 Willie Smith, IS years old, was thrown from lis pony aud killed near 1OtetH idub odIuiQdt.
 Pine Bluff had sl5 200 fire on Sat urday morning. A residence and 4S0 bales of cotton were burned.
 Morrilton is having trouble with it's electric lights on account of the fre- quent breakage of machinery.
 Alphin 6 Pinson, the largest firm at Fl Dorado, Union county, failed Fri day for et3 .000. Assets only Sl0,000.
 The prohibitionists of Paris are en- deavorihg to stop the sale of native wine within three miles of Paris acad emy.
 St. Johns Methodist church (colcred) in course of erection at Pine Bluff. was blown down by the storm of Saturday morning.
 The fine steam gin of James X Cha. ney at Cotton Plant was destroyed by fire Sunday night. Loss S2500, with no insurance.
 The entire block ill which the Beidler hotel at TexaTkana was situated was burned Monday night and was mostly uninsured.
 John Dowdle shot and killed Lum Thomas in Conway county on Christ mas day, jealousy being the cause of the trouble. Both colored.
 The Hot Springs Bulletin begins the new year by changing it's form to "an eight-page quarto from a four-page folio," to quote it's own language.
 On Christmas day, while out hunting in Logan county, Richard Anderson was killed by the accidental discharge of gun in the hands of companion.
 The gas ordinance, the loss of which kicked up such a rumpuS in Little Rock municipal circles, has been found in pigeonhole in the city clerks desk.
 The dwellings of c. J. Wells and John Morris, near Texarkana, were de- stroyed by the storm of Friday and the inmates buried in the ruins, but none seriously injured.
 It is said that gold, in paying quan- titses. has been discovered i'll an old Spanish mine rear Rover, MarioE county, and there is considerable ex- citement among the natives.
 Rev. John H. Dye, fer years presi- dent of the school for the blind in Little Rock, has resigned that position to accept the presidency of the Gallo way Female college at Searcy.
 J. R. Frazier, who outraged his step daughter in Cleveland county and was sentenced to be hanged in February has been placed in the nen:tentIary at Little Rock to protect him from asinob.
 Three members of the family of John F. Jackson of Plummerville died of pneumonia last week. John k. Jackson, who had nursed the sick ones, also died of the same malady.
 J. l.. Exby, recently arrested for inn plication in the Zimmerman diamond robbery in Little Rock, has instituted suit against the chief of police and his assistants for SIC, 900 damages for false imprisonment.
 A sensation was created in Spring. dale, Washington county, last week when it became known that Jim Stump, young man of 20 years and a member of one of the best families of county, was burglar.
 The Democrat is angry with the postmaster at Alma and calls kin q "superanuated egotist." The super anuated egotist had called the editor of the Democrat liar, which, with case of the grippe, caused Higg's temper to get out of plumb.
 Jerry Terry and Bob Ready. ne- groes, are in jail at Little Rock, charged with the murder of the man found tied to a cypress knee in pond on the Scruggs place in Pulaski county last week. J. F. Hackman was the victims name, and he was a peddler.
 Olin Gather, young man attend ing the commercial college at Arkadel- phia, was arrested few days ago for passing counterfeit silver dollars Rowdy Wilson, ayoung man living six miles in the country, was arrested as his accomplice, and both are held in $500 bond.
 John Brewer, the boy who killed his companion last week while hunting near West Memphis, and was dis charged by the coroIers jury, was re- arrested on warrant sworn out by the father of tEe dead boy and tried be- fore Esq. Rieves. Young Brewer was again acquitted.
 4 party Of "scaDs," enroute to Texas to take the places Of the strikers on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass railroad. were set upon by party of union men at Argenta on the lst, taken from the special coach in which they were joIrneying, driven to the bushes and their baggage destroyed.
 The annual meeting Of the Arkan- sas State Horticultural society will convene in Little Rock at 10 o'clock a. m. on Wednesday, January 20, for the purpose of electing officers to serve for tha ancuip1 vaar anf in decide what ac-