The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1892-10-13
STATE NEWS.
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Fresh Items Cleaned from Exchanges and
Other Available Sources.
The 8-year- old daughter of Mr.. j. w.
Little,lo Pine Bluff, broke her arm while
playing with several companions.
F. B. Brown, of Richland township, JEFF
ferson county, has been convicted of inn
personating a constable and sentenced to
one year in the penitentiary.
Floyd, the little son Of VIM. Harris, of
Eureka Springs, while at Berryville yester-
day had the misfortune of falling and
breaking his right arm at the elbow.
A German we'll digger at Dixie, named
Jos. Leugmeyer, died in well from damp
last Saturday. Parties tried to get him
out, but before they succeeded life was ex
tinct.
An alteration occurred at the camp of
the workmen at Spring Lake, near Hot
Springs, Saturday night, between the fore
man and the cook, colored man, in which
the latter was stabbed and slashed in a
dangerous manner.
The gin house and contents situated on
the Sadler farm, on North Mulberry
burned down one day this week. The mill
had been running, and, while the operatives
were at dinner, the house caught fire from
spark and was beyond control when dis
covered.
While Rutledge Russell was driving a
delivery wagon down Malvern avenue at
Hot Springs the horse took fright and ran
away, striking telephone pole opposite
the gas works and throwing the lad vio-
lently upon the pavement. He was picked
up unconscious.
Nancy Simmons was arrested and lodged
in Jail at Hot Springs, charged with the
m1rder of her husband, George Simmons.
In family row about two weeks ago, it is
alleged that she struck her husband on the
head with beer bottle, and laid him out
He died from the effects of the blow The
woman claims that he was whipping her at
the time she struck him.
A little son of Mr.. Upton, near Parker's
mill, Cleburne county, had the misfortune
last week to get his head caught between
sorghum mill beam and wagon wheel,
where it was horribly torn and mangled.
The jaw bone was broken and the flesh
torn from one side of the face. Prompt
medical attention was given the little suf-
ferer, and he may recover.
John Stevens, who shot and killed a me-
gro near Blackfsh last spring while the
latter was trying to kill him, was arrested
and Jailed last week. The coroners jury
and the examining magistrate both held
Mr. Stevens blameless, but an indict-
ment was uttered by the grand jury. The
officers knowing that he would not leave
the country, deferred the arrest until last
week.
Tue fire bug in the Ben Lomond neigh
borhood, Sewer county, has again got in
his work. The gin house Of Samuel Stin-
son, which has just been repaired and re-
fitted for the incoming season, was burned
Monday night. THIS is the fifth gin house
burned by incendiaries in that neigh borhood
within the last year or SO. 1t will be re-
membered that the Ben Lomond school
building was also burned short time ago.
Says The Baxter Citizen: Rev. J. M.
Cantrell has just closed great revival
meeting at Evening Shade. There were a
great many conversions and between fifty
and sixty accessions to the M. Z. Church,
South. Grand Scribe Bone, of Batesville,
came through there last week to fill an ap-
pointment with the chapter at that place,
and the people were all so much interested
in the meeting he couldn't get man to
talk about going to the chapter.
During the session of the levying court,
Mr.. John Black, who has been clerk of the
county for the past twenty years, and who
is now about to retire from that Office,
having been elected to represent Benton
county in the next legislature, was called
upon and addressed the court in a very be-
coming manner, being responded to by sew
eral members OF the court. An order was
afterwards passed by the court returning
the thanks of the court TO Mr. Black for
his uniform politeness and kindness TO all
parties for the past twenty years, when and
where the court ordered the resolution en-
tered upon the records, the county court
presiding Benton County Democrat