The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1893-05-18
STATE NEWS.
Items Cleaned From Our Esteemed Coz
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The Hurley r hss have been organized
! t Newport. The membership is forty
eight.
Frank Ward. of Greenwood, has been
lodged in the stale lunaiie asylum at Lit
! tie Rock.
Murderer Gahagan, of GAINESVILLE, has
been placed in the penitentiary at Little
Rock for safe keeping
Mad dogs have recently been killed at
| Nettleton and also at Bono. II is reported
that dogs, hogs and cattle were bitten.
| Within a very few days the new electric
| railway system will be in active operation
| in Hot Springs and the mule car will be
relegated to the number of things that used
to be in Hot Springs.
Isom Shelton died nes~ Elkins, Ark, in
his eigh..yJ az Ss: year. He had gone out
I. J. & sne field where his son was working.
and on his return to the house he fell dead
across branch where he was soon after
wards found. He twas highly respected
citizen.
The river bank at Dardanele has been
| caving badly Eeies~ town 1t caved off so
| close to Judge Gault's residence that it
was not safe for the family to remain, and
1 LUt HuustHoiu EUOuc were IdGoNtQ- HC
family viii 90 up to Their Nebo summer
residence.
! The second storm within month oc-
Cured at Oak Grove, Sebastian county, a
| few days ago. The rain lasted lly fifty
| minutes, but so great was the do wnpour
| that water averaged seven ard one-half
| inches deep all over the ground and moved
| rocks weighing 1000 pounds. All the
farms in the neighborhood were damaged.
/ man named Lemuel Depew was arrest
ed in Fayetteville Thursday for murder
alleged to have been committed by him
four years ago in Barber county, Kansas
Depew has been living in the Indian Terri
tory near Sloan Springs When he was
arrested he was attending court as wit
ness. The Kansas sheriff took Depew back
| for trial.
Two men, Hughes AMI Browning, broth
ers-in-law, were out hunting near Harris
burg Wednesday when Browning accident
| ally shot Hughes. A doctor was sent for
| at once and when he arrived found that a
| load Of No. shot had penetrated Hughes
body. Two shot entered just above one
/ eye and the others scattered over the breast
and abdomen. The doctor thinks his re-
covery very doubtful.
| w. A. Hollowoa brought suit in ESD
| Steltz' court at Russellville against Con-
stable Packet and John w. White for Sill,
| the value Of the gold headed walking cane
found in possession of Mr.. Holowoa and
claimed by Mr.. White. When the case
came 10 trial Tuesday the plaintiff took
change of venue to Gala Greek township,
where the trial will take place on the 18th
inst, before Esq. Brown.
| News has reached Poplar Grove that
| negro brute living south of that place six
| or eight miles in the Mississippi river bot
tom, had assaulted a little 9year-old negro
girl and the child had died from the effect
of the brute's treatment. Should he be
| found no court will be called on to decide
his guilt or innocence. The name Of the
negro is not known. The negroes of the
vicinity will attend the lynching.
j. w. Coffman, Of GAINESVILLE, has
shipped to w. B. Broadwell at Hutchin-
son, Kan, two barrels of Johnson county
coal which will be used as an experiment
in iron working. The coal produced by
the Philpott mine in this county is equal
to the celebrated Pennsylvania coal for
smelling and blacksmithing purposes, and
should it prove satisfactory can be mined
and shipped from this county much
cheaper than Pennsylvania coal can be
The case against Adolph Parker for
numbering Lilly Mckinley has been ig
nored by the grand jury OF the Sebastian
circuit court. Parker was arrested last
January upon the suppostion thai he had
killed Lilly Mckinley, woman of elastic
virtue with whom he had been intimate.
Suspicion was laid at bis door by reason of
the fact that the woman died shortly after
he had remained all night with her. Sub
sequent investigation show that she died
from morphine administered by her own
hand
Frank Hefferman, a brakeman on the
Frisco, died at Fort Smith Friday moraing
from injuries sustained the night before
while working in the yard. While step
ping between the cars to pull coupling
pin he caught his foot in frog and was
thrown down The wheels passed over his
legs cutting them both almost completely
off. The remains were buried at Spring
field. A few months ago young Hefferman
was married to Miss Lizzie, the beautiful
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Rube Carter, of
Fayetteville, and the happy yonpg couple
had just settled down to the joys of mar
ried life.
Arden B. Williams, the 20-year-o,d son
Of Wash Williams. died at East st. Louis
Tuesday Mr.. Williams was formerly
citizen of Rogers, Ark but recently moved
to st. Louis to engage in the stock bust
ness. The remains, accompanied by the
family and few friends, arrived at Rogers
Wednesday morning and was met at the
depot by large rumber Of friends and al
so by the Rogers fire company, who were
arrayed in uniform, to do honor to their
dead comrade. Funeral services were held
at the Methodist Episcopal Church, aud
was largely attended. Much sympathy is
expressed for the bereaved family.
Joe Byrd, the negro who so bru,ally
murdered his wife near Skullyville short
time ago surrendered Monday evening to
the United States authorities at Fort
Smith. He was afterward turned over to
w. J. Ksys sheriff of Skullyville county,
and taken back to the Choctaw Nation
The rumor that Byrd would be taken
from the sheriff and hanged by party of
negr es as soon as he put foot upon Choc-
taw soil was canard. Byrd surrendered
to the United States authorities upon the
superstition that be would receive protec-
ton from them for the reason that he had
been witntss against Eugene STANDBY. |
lie Is hard case ana VIII probably be |
hanged for his horrible crime.
The Phillips County Memorial Assoeia
ton, aided by theex Confederate Veterans
Association, the Sons Of ex- Confederate
Vetersns, the Helena Light Guards, the |
Uniform Rank Knights .of Pythias and |
vast coacourse of people, held their usual |
ceremonies Thursday at the Confed-
crate Cemetery, decorating the graves with |
flowers. The orator Of the occasion, Rev. |
p. II. 0Rielly, met with distre sing |
accident just before the ceremonies began. |
The horse attached to the buggy which |
conveyed him to the Confederate Hill be. |
came frightened and ran away, throwing |
him cut and bruising him up considerably. |
Though in great pain Father o'Rielly pro-
eeedel with his grafton, acquitting himself |
with great credit.
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