The Russellville Democrat., 1893-09-14

Van Buren is overrun with tramps. A public library will be established at Eureka Sprir gs.
 A number of residences are under course [ of erection at Fl Dorado.
 A horrible murder was committed in Baxter county last week. Jim Smith, colored, is in jail at Benton, charged with attempting to assault white girl
 Camps of exConfederate soldiers are be- ing organized all over Northwest Arkansas and they will attend the great reunion at Bentonville on the 27th, 18th and 29th.
 There has been quite an exodus from Madison county during the last week for the strip, probably as many as twenty five or thirty from Huntsville and immediate vicinity.
 Uncle Brinkley Tyler died at the home of his son, Gus Tyler, at Conway Tuesday night. He was one of tue oldest citizens of the county, being about 90 years of age, and has been sixty-n years citizen of Faulkner county.
 While Contractor w. II. Ward was working convicts on switch near Ger mantown, Friday afternoon, i've of the Pulaski convlets made break for liberty. Two were badly wounded and captured, and three made their escape. Officers are in pursuit. In the case of the state against Frank Tillery for killing Hugh King last March, the Saline grand jury has returned an in. dictment against said defendant for mur- der in the second degree. His case is set for Monday of the seccnd week of the February term, 1894.
 A man named General Jackson, who murdered another at Bearden, was arrested yesterday and is in jail at Pine Bluff. He will be taken to Bearden. He at tempted to escape as he was being put in jail, but failed. He is guilty of many crimes and will doubtless be hung. After their evaporator was destroyed by fire ten days ago at Fayetteville McNabb & Jaggers went to work and fitted up an other old building in the southwest DOT. tion of the city and got ready for busi ness Tuesday. Early yesterday morning it caught fire from the furnace and was | destroyed.
 John Powell, colored, was shot aad | killed by some one in ambush, near War ren, Friday morning. Suspicion points l strongly to Bill Beavers as the perpetra- l tor, as he and Powell had been on bad terms, caused by improper intimacy of | Powell with Beavers wife. Search is be- | ing made for Beavers, but he is still at large.
 Col w. G. Vincenheller was in Fayette- vile Monday. He will be in Northwest | Arkansas until the 1st of October, and in | the meantime will collect a carload of | specimens of fall and winter apples that | will do Arkansas proud even in World s Fair contest. Col. Vincenheller is pre- eminently the right man in the right | place.
 | At a Sunday drunk participated in by several German and French citizens a few miles east of Conway last Sunday, diff | feulty arose between two French l men in which John Leuit was | badly cut in the neck by Joe | Myer. Several important blood vessels were severed and the wound came near proving fatal.
 Joseph W. German is lying in critical | condition at Warren from the effects of a | kick of mule. He was waiting at the bedside of his cousin, Sandy German, and | walked out to see about his mule which was hitched near by, when the animal | kicked him with both hind feet, one strik- | ing him in the pit of the stomach, and the other breaking three ribs. When last heard from he was in very dangerous condition.
 Ben Sears followed man named Harris from Gassville to church trying to pick | quarrel with him. Harris went to church while Sears returned to town, secured l long. bladed barlow knife, and went back
 to church. When church was over Sears
 renewed his quarrel with Harris, pulling his hair, when Harris struck him with his
 fist, and Sears stabbed him with the bars
 low knife killing him instantly. Sears escaped, but reward is offered for his
 capture.
 | A negro named Jim Hawkins was arrest | ed yesterday at Fort Smith on a warrant
 from the authorities of Yell county, charg-
 ing him with larceny, said to have been
 committed at Dardanelle, in that county,
 some time last spring. A few days since
 an officer, suspecting Hawkins of being
 the man wanted in Yell county, wrote to
 the skeriif at Dsrdanelle. and inc reply at
 once came in the shape of a warrant, which,
 as stated, was served upon Hawkins yes
 terday.
 Cattle thieves have recently been getting
 in their work in the west
 ern part of Lee county. Eight
 or ten head have recently been stolen. R. | A. Darby lost four, Mir. Dozier lost one,
 and the remainder have been distributed
 among their neighbors. Four of the cattle
 were sold here by two men to k. B. Wal
 ton. Mir. Walton says he questioned the
 men closely, but they said they had to sell
 the cattle to pay their taxes, and satisfied
 him that they were all right. He took | kate h,,k la
 could write them down.