The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1893-06-01
ALL THE NEWS.
interesting Items From Every Section o.
Arkansas.
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Esteemed Contemporaries.


They say there lie coal in paying quaint
ties within a mile Of Atkins.
A carload Of -four was lately shipped
from the roller mill at Mammoth Spring
to Havana, Cuba.
The Mississippi river reached fifty feet
above low water mark at Arkansas City
last Friday, the highest ever known.
A cutting affair occurred at the depot at
Jonesboro Tuesday morning, in which Y,
g. Thacker was severely cut on the head
and face BY G. Fl. Miller.
Some We RS ago James Halbert disap-
peared from his home in st. Francis
county Last week his skeleton was found
in brier patch on his farm.
The citizens Of Fayetteville have petit
toned the council to enact a law prohi Dit
ing small boys from traipsing the town
after the hour Of 9 At night.
ar ~. me overlooked lands in the river bot
toms in Conway county are being planted
in corn and cotton, and with a fairly good
season viii produce abundant crops.
1t was reported at Conway the first Of
the week that Dr. StelI, of Springfield, was
very sick from an overdose of morphine.
1t was believed he took it with suicidal in
tent.
The eleventh anniversary of The
Brinkley Argus fell last Thursday. The
Argus is recognized as one of the most
thriving and staunchest Democratic
journals in Eastern Arkansas.
Wiley Cheek, who was indicted at the
spring term, 1889, of the circuit court for
selling whiskey, was arrested near judi
l. I'd do hr
and Deputy Marshal Finn. He gave bond
for his appearance at the next term of the
circuit court.
John Watson, was at the residence of
G. j. White, near Greenbrier, one night
last week when several persons were dis
cover I'd stealing meat from Mr.. Whites
smokehouse. He procured gun and shot
into them and 1t is believed wounded one
of the party seriously.
Sheriff Owens went to Jonesboro on last
Wednesday and arr ested Abe Brokaw, who
has two indictments against him in Inde-
pendenee county, one for assault and bat
terry the other for giving whiskey to a
minor. Sheriff Owens returned with him
on last Friday and lodged him in Jail.
Edwin Gould and party arrived at Hot
Springs Thursday. The party is composed
of Mr.. Edwin Gould and wife, Mrs. George
F. Shrady, Mrs. Gould's mother, and Miss
Jennie Shrady, and Messrs. Dwight NJ.
Harris and j. G.. Baldwin, Jr., of New
York. They are on a pleasure tour of the
South.
G. w. SWEET, whose farm is about three
miles east of town, brought in even 500
worth of strawberries this morning, says
The Times-Eeho. They were very fine and
were picked from a one-acre patch. North
west Arkanaas in general, and Carroll
county in particular, can beat the world
on fruits and berries.
HoT SPRINGS, ARK, May 25.-Miss
Elise Mellard, daughter of Capt. j. z.
MellsrJ, president of the Chamber of
Commerce, died to day at the home of her
parents. She was one Of the most beauti-
full and popular young ladies here, and has
a large rircle of friends and acquaintance,
and some relatives in Memphis.
The seventh annual session of the Grand
Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of the state of
Arkansas, subordinate to the Supreme
Lodge knights of Pythias, of North and
South America, Europe, Asia and Africa,
will convene at Castle Hall of ST. Pythiss
Lodge, No. /, at Pine Bluff, Ark, on Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday, July 3, 4
and 5.
Charles M. Reed, James NJ Burrows and
Charles Montgomery, who burned tie
United States Jail at Muscogee, |. t., were
sentenced in the United States court at
Fort Smith, Thursday. Reed ana Bur
rows were each convicted on two counts
and received four years each. Montgomery
was convicted on only one, and was sent
up for two years.
Squire James w. Ellis sent The Wash
ington Telegraph from Ozan the foot of
horned owl which jesse Goodlett caught in
a steel trap His owlship had been depre-
dating on Judge Dan Citty's hen roost and
got caught at it. 1t was an enormous owl,
measuring four feet eight inches from tip to
tip, the shank is three inches in circumfer
ence, while the foot measures five and
quarter inches from claw to claw.
A meeting was held at Searcy Tuesday
to consider proposition made
by the Northern Central Con
struction Company of Missouri.
They pre pose to build road from Carthage,
NO., to Des Arc, on White river, in this
state, and eventually to Helena in Phillips
county. Their proposition is, that if the
citizens of Sesrcy and White counties will
donate 10000 acres of land and the right of
way they will commence work immedi.
ately.
Even the children seem to be full of the
idea of lynching, says The Morrilton Head
light. Last Sunday evening, while walk
ing through the woods in the west end we
were astonished to see suspended by their
legs two chickens, dead. Upon going
farther another one was discovered, pres
emily another and another, until at least
half dozen were seen dangling from tree
limbs. We failed to find any marks of VIC
lence, but are free to confess that we did
not make an examination, the subjects
would not admit oft. Neither are we able
to give an explanation of the strange
phenomena.
Engineer John Mccartney, who runs the
switch engine in the Texas and Pacific
yards at Texarkana, was taken from his
engine at an early hour Thursday morning
in an unconscious condition. Mr.. Nc
Cartney had gone TO work as usual the night
before, and as he uttered no complaints, it
was not known that anything was the mat
with him, until the fireman observed
that he was leaning back with his eyes
closed and breathing heavily. Help was
at once summoned, and the sick man. after
being placed on cot, was removed 10 his
home, where medical assistance was
quickly summoned and every thing posi-
BILE done to relieve the sufferer. At latest
accounts the sick man was resting easily.
In the United States court at Fort
Smith Thursday morning, Judge Parker
sentenced Charley Hare TO three years in
the Reform School at Pontiac, H. Charley
Hare is fourteen year old Cherokee boy
and was protege of Ned Christie, the
noted Indian outlaw, and helped defend
the fort when the marshals attacked II last
November. II will be remembered that