The Russellville Democrat., 1893-07-27
STATE NEWS.

Crops are in fine condition in Fanlkner county
 Farming reports from Union count give | very encouraging prospect. Wheat tbfssbipg is tho employment of most farmers in this section as the present time
 Recent heavy rains in Washington county have increased the prorpe ts Of a rood corn crop.
 Alma will soon have depot, which is under construction, to take the D ace of the one burned at that town. People from al parts Of the state are visiting the Worlds Fair, where they swell ATkansas' register at her bu' 'lding Coal | as recently been found in small quantities iu Faulkner county. It is sup. posed there is plenty of it thera that has not been developed.
 A large number of yisitrs are assem- hlsd at Eureka Spiipgs. where they will spend the hot season.. Visitors from thia an I neigabofiug states pay their annual calls at this popular resort. The number for this year k above the average. A wtman, two children and cat, were rut of the north bound passenger train Tuesday night at Lonoke. The woman was out of money and in destitute circum- stancse. She was kindly cared for and Mayor Adams raised purse and sent them on their way.
 Uncle Zach Baker says that he had one tract of land which produced 80 much hay
 that he bad to move part of it of the ground upon which it grew in order to give
 room to stack the remainder. Carter s oats was not circumstance. Come to
 Benton county to live.
 A negro by the nsme of Williams shot
 another by the name of Mcdaniel on the
 Little plantation, on the Arkansas river,
 Tuesday They fell out over game of
 craps. Mcdaniel was badly shot in the
 abdomen and died Wednesday evening
 Williams escaped and has not been heard
 from.
 Conductor Stewart, of the Frisco, has
 made wager to drive COW from Fort
 Smith to the Worlds Fair He has been
 accepted, aud the railroad boys are having
 considerable fun over it. If hs goes three
 men will go along to carry boards to
 throw across the culverts for the COW to
 cross on.
 A Mir Walden. of Black Springa, shielded
 last week by cutting his throat Hc had
 been dejected and Respondent for some
 time from loss of hops to recover himself
 from tlo sble, ths result of unsuccessful
 business ventures. The deceased was at
 one time prosperous business man, but
 misfortune came and left him destitute of 1 means.
 1 Henry Wilson, negro living at BuckEer,
 was brought to Magnolia in chains yester,
 day for the theft of $40Jin money and $500
 worth q jeweliy from & young lady of that
 place on tha 29th of August. The negro ] was suspected of the crime, and after 8 ! time was discovered to De spending money
 little too freely, when he was arrested
 and admitted the whole affair. About $i20 { of the money was recovered. He says he
 tradsd the $500 worth of j.wery for a watch in Camden.
 Suit was filed in the district court st
 Leaven ~or'h, Kan, last week by George
 Woolsey and others, apple dealers os Ben 1 ton and Washington counties. Arkaneas, against Matthew Ryan, ct al, to recover
 the sum of $3750 for alleged breach of G n- i tract It is alleged that in 1892 plaintiffs entered into an agreement to buy and pack
 a certain number of barrels If apples, for which thsy were to be paid thirty G nts
 per barrel, and that the defendants utterly
 refused and neglected to carry out their 1 part of the agreement.
 A young man named Curry was drowned
 in the Saline river at what is known as the 1 Cow Ford, on Thursday of last week. He had gone in bathing without removing his
 clothes, and, while out beyond his depth,
 was seized with cramp in the neck and
 was unable to reach the shore, and before his comrades could realize the situation and ceme to his rescue he had drowned. His body was carried down the river sew eral yards by the current, and was found soon after caught on trot-line. The oc- currence was quite sad one and is deeply regretted. The young maA was the son of widowed mother
 Last summer when Sheriff Bateman was canvassing the county, rays The Monroe County Sun, he stepped to take dinner with Jack Davis, well known Richland township farmer and Democrat. The seeker after suffrage heard loud, roaring noise, which he supposed to be an approach ing wind storm, but seeing all was clear outside, he inquired the cause. Mir. Davis took him out and showed him hen coop, which was almost full of honey bees. A few years ago hive of bees swarmed and settled in the hen-coop They have in creased in numbers until now there are from fifteen 10 twenty bushels of them. It is sprooabIy the largest colony of bees in