The Russellville Democrat., 1893-10-19
STATE NEWS.
Items of Interest Cleaned From the Col
 umns of Arkansas Newspapers.
\ Record of Marriages, Deaths, Casual ties and Other Items-The News
 Boiled Down.
Arkansas cotton is king.

Court IS Tn session at Huntsville.
 Bruce Muikey has leased The Marianna Index.
 Arkansas has made a great hit at the Worlds Fair.
 Mrs. Cornelia w. Zanone died at Fort Smith Wednesday.
 A gang of young negro thieves are operating in Hot Springs.
 The Valley Guards is the name of a new military company at Hot Springs.
 Emory Sullivan will be tried for murder at Hot Springs on the 23d inst. Ez- Mayor Loughran's trial is set for the 26th.
 Joe Dickens, of Greenbrier, has received notice from White Caps" warning him to sell out and leave within sixty days under penalty of being burned out. A vigorous eff tort will be made to find and punish these lawless persons.
 Last Friday evening while Grant Hardin and his wife, who live across Fourche from Rover, were out picking cotton, their house and all their earthly effects were totally destroyed by fire. Mir. Hardin had recently married and he and his wife were left without anything, except ing what they wore at the time.
 A cold wave struck Cotton Plant at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon and the mercury went tumbling down until now 1t is almost at freezing temperature. At this time Cotton Plant has shipped nearly 800 bales of cotton and 500 tons of seed There has teen a lively seed war on there for several days. Seed were selling from wagons at $l4 per ton, and cotton seven and a half cents per pound.
 Among the proceedings of the supreme court of the United States at Fort Smith Tuesday was the ad- vancing on the docket of the cases of Alex Allen, Marshall Tucker, John Hicks, John Gourko and Famous Smith, who were convicted of murder and took appeals. The defendants are all confined in jail awaiting rhe action of the supreme court. The cases were advanced upon the motion of the solicitor general.
 On last Saturday morning, Mr Ed Harris, an old and respected citizen, was found dead in his horse lot, says The Cross County Citizen He got up in the morning apparent ly in as good health as ever, assisted bis wife about breakfast, then going to the barn tc feed. He stayed a little longer than usual so his wife sent the children to look for him, and found him as stated. MT liar ris was about 70 years old and has been d citizen of Arkansas fifty nine years.
 ueoFge +. Johnson died near Paragould last Saturday. Deceased was born in Redditeh, Woothen- shire, England, November 15, 1880. In January, 1863, he enlisted as ar- merer on the ship Laekawana, U. $. N. On August ,, 1864, in the engagement with the Confederate ram at Bay Battle, his skull was fractured. In this battle two were killed and twelve wounded in bis division. After be was wounded he crawled to the shell-room, which was on fire, and smothered the fire out with his naked hands, for which heroic act he held medal of honor. After the war be settled in Illinois and remained there until about fourteen years ago, when he moved to Arkansas and has siace been en- gagged in the nursery business. He was constant member of the Epis. eopal Church, having joined that church at the age of 15, and was at the time of his death 63 years old.