The Russellville Democrat., 1893-04-27
STATE NzWs.
Items og Interest Cleaned From Our Es.
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be rebuilt.
 A base ball club will be organized at Si- loam Springs.
 Tho cold weather damaged young corn in Jackson county.
 A canning and evapoIating factory wll be established at Stephens.
 Benton county reports the fruit crop was not hurt by the recent cold snap.
 Gene Wright's leg was broken in run away at Sloan Springs Saturday.
 Dr. F. N. Burke's cottage at South Helena was destroyed by fire Saturday.
 The Odd Fellows st Nebo will have big anniversary celebration on the 26th inst.
 A seventh annual state convention of the Y. M. C. A. was held at Pine Bluh last week.
 w. H. Harris, an old man, was struck and killed by train near Gainesville st Wednesday.
 The country around Fayetteville was swept by a cylcone last week Eight people were injured.
 Dr. J. w Perdue was fined $50 and costs at Stephens for carrying pistol and disturbing the peace.
 A freight train on tha peatonville road ran into sn5ee;sen switch last week. The eaiSiire train was wrecked
 R. A. Willam., of South Fork, killed nine wolves in one day last week. The bounty OH wolf scalp is g.
 All the strawberry towns on the Iron Mountain road are shipping berries. This years crop will be very large.
 Al ,xf .txy.f "a gallons each, were shipped recently from the Rhodenbaugh pottery near Benton.
 The heavy frost last Friday night killed some guden plants in Baxter county, and in some localities killed the cherries. The general reports are that fruit was not dam aged much.
 The cold weather did considerable dam age to young cotton in Desha county, and the repoi ts coming in from the country are to the effect that considerable of the crop will have to be replanted.
 Andy Walker, the man who so misteri- ously disappeared frem Batesville last winter, has been located at Alligator Lake, Miss, and has written for his household effects to be sent to him. He gives no reason for the manner of his leaving.
 A Chicago swindIer is sending out cireu- lars advertising steel engraving of the Landing of Colambus,n on receipt of $1. The man who sends $l gets a two-cent postage stamp of the Columbian series, but it is a steel engraving all right. The fraud is said to be reapiDg rich harvest
 Sheriff D. A. Eoff has returned to liar rison with E. B. Adams, who skipped out from here several months ago, leaving his hondsmen with the bag 10 hold. The sheriff found him in PauPs Valley, Chickasaw Nation, in the extreme western portion of the Indian Territory. Adams was farming, had in fifteen acres of corn and the same in cotton.
 Nose Mitchell, an old negro of Arkan- sas City, went out on one of the bayeus west of that town Tuesday for the purpose of fishing. His dog returned that night, but Nose did not put in his appear ance, and as he is old and decrepit the supposition is that he was drowned. A searching party went out yesterday to look for the body, but with no success.
 The news comes from Little Rock that Governor Fishback has appointed Judge J. w. Butler as supreme judge of the state, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Cockrill If this be true it is one of the best appointments ever made in the state, and will probably result in placing Judge Butler permanently in position that he should have occupied ears ago.--Newport Herald.
 The board of inspectors of tn, Lnwood and Auburn Levee Board met at Warner and organized Dr. c. NJ. Taylor was elected president; R. W. Jordan, treasurer, and T. A. Ingram, clerk. The other members present were Messrs. J. J. Bowles, of Tgro, and J. G. Garrett, of Sarrassa. Dr. Taylor and Judge X. J Pindall were elected to represent the beard before the Tensas Levee Board aad the Mississippi River Commission for the purpose of obtaining their cooperation in the building of levees.
 A rabid dog took possession of Knoble last Tuesday He bit several dogs and hogs and chased all night pedestrians within doors. He finally assaulted the residence of Dr. J. Bond and fiereely leaped against the window of the room in which the occupants were gathered. The doctor rammed charge of buckshot into his "trusty," and as the dog came plunging through the broken glass he filled him with the deadly lead. Much uneasiness is felt as to the outcome of the hydrophobia i'm parted to the bitten dogs and hogs.
 Tuesday Gwaultney, of Francis town ship, Cleburne, went 10 his neighbor, V. G. Chrauser, wh, resides alone, and asked him if he did not want some buttermilk, and later in the day sent him some by boy. Chrauser took couple of swallows, but it being bitter did not drink more. However, what little he did drink caused him to become very sick and threw him in- to convulsions. Wednesday morning some of the milk was taken to Heber, where it was aseertained that it contained strych nine Four ounces given to dog killed it in thirty minutes. Gwaultney was arrested.
 Clay Watts had frightful experience with blacksnake near Mountain Home He was out in the field cutting sprouts when large blacksnake, nearly six feet long, came crawling towards him. When the reptile got within few feet of him he began trying to hit it with his axe Fail ing to make his licks effective, and seeing that he could not frighten it back he threw his axe down and broke to run. The snake overlook him and threw him to the ground. He arose to his feet, grasping the reptiles body just below tLe head. The snake wrapped its length, six feet, around the mans legs and body and was squeezing with all the power it had. He held fast his grip and hobbled back to his axe and to log, where he succeeded in chopping the reptile in two, and thus ended several minutes tussle and fearful experience.
 
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