The Forrest City times., 1892-02-19
STATE NEW s.
FlDorado has mad-dog scare.

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 A tanpery is in operation at Bethes- da Springs.
 A S2O 900 coal company is organizing at Greenwood.
 Arkadelphia's new truck house is nearly completed.
 A new blaming mill is to be estab- lished at Fort Smith.
 There is some talk of building new operahouse at Marianne. Burglars and fakirs are troubling the denizens of Little Rock. The society folks at Gurdon have or ganized literary society. A camp of Woodmen of the World is to be organized at Newport. All the lumber concerns at Jonesbo- TO are running on full time. Eighty hands are employed by the Mammoth Spring cotton mills. A mill company has been organized at Dewitt with capital of S35,0OO.
 George Lee. an Iowa postoffice thief. was arrested in Hot Springs Saturday. Three members of the family of Tom Smith of Trenton died of grippe last week.
 A canton of the Patriarchs Militant, I. o. 0. F., is soon to be instituted at Bentonville.
 The Gate City Graphic says that Ashtown is the coming town ill Little River county. The Times is new journalistic ven- ture at Paris. It succeeds the Tribune, a republican paper. A. T. Harris of Eureka Springs sold an English setter last week to parties in Indiana for 5000.
 The capital stock of the Beebe Slave company of Beebe has been increased from S15 900 to sa0,009.
 A carpenter named Ward, while at work on building in Little Rock, dropped dead Saturday.
 The name of the Van Buren Graphic has been changed. It is now the Crawford County Gazette.
 The Green County Events is of the opinion that a canninp and pickle fac tory would pay at Paragould.
 A3-year-old son of K. Levy of Little Rock was fatally injured by an electric car Sunday, while playing in front of his home.
 The value of the lumber product of the state of Arkansas for 1891 was at least S5 900 900 more than any other South ern state.
 There are 9Sl cOnyicts in the state penitentiary; 6S of the prisoners are under 5 years of age, and 1S6 from 15 to 20 years old.
 The sale of the Fordyce Lumbe con- pany's plant to E. c. Crossett of Day. snport, la, for $l4,450, was per fected last Thursday,
 Mrs. John Miller, who ived twelve miles south of Mammoth Spring. was burned to death last week by her cloth ing taking fire.
 John Wilkerson, the gambler who was shot by Abe Boyd at Pine Bluff, is improving and there is hope for his complete recovery.
 J. r. Wright, a colored preacher of Lincoln county, was arrested last week by federal officers for selling liquor to his flock without license.
 John Kelly and Gilbert Blanks, ne- groes, were lynched at Pine Bluff Sum day night for the murder of mer- chant named McAdams.
 A jury in the federal court at Little Rock awared Mrs. D. l.. Needham a verdict of $4500 last week against the Iron Mountain road for the killing of her husband in 1889.
 Mrs. Jake ErDer was fined ten dol lars in the Little Rock police court Monday for thrashing her husband. After being released she pounded him again and was rearrested.
 Four young ladies, employed in the telephone exchange at Hot Springs, have married in the past fourteen months and two more will be led to Hymen's altar within the next few weeks.
 A farmer living near Siloam Springs has packed 33 900 pounds of pork this season, and he does not run packing house. either. Farmers of this sort care very little about the price of cot ton.-Eureka Springs Democrat.
 Here is another is industry that will beat cotton seventy-fve per cent. The genuine Havana tobacco will yield three crops per year in this state; each crop will average 500 to 800 pounds per acre and sells from ten to twenty cents per pound. Just think of it!-McCro ry Chronicle.
 One day last week just opposite Kfumm's mill, five miles east of town, Ia 6 year-old child attempted to cross the track in front of the passenger train and was picked up by the cow catcher and thrown several feet from the track. Fortunately the child was not seriously hurt and was around next day.-Augusta Vidette. Mrs. F. c. Nichols met with a most horrible fate at Marked Tree on last Wednesday. She was preparing her garden and in burning brush heap she went too near the blaze. Her dress caught on fire and before she could ex- tinguish it the flames enyeloped her, and her clothing was burned off, and her body burned in a most horrible manner, her left arm being burned to a crisp. There was no one present ex- cept little girl, who became so excited as to be of no assistance. Drs. Jones and Lutterloh were called to gee the poor woman, but they could not save her life, and she died on Friday night. -Jonesboro Times.