The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1893-06-29
STATE NEWS.
SPICY Items Selected and Boiled Down
Incidents and Hsppsnsrgs Gathered fo1
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A tfrlible wind and rain storm visited
r rrest CT Wednesday night, laying waste
to fences, trees. etc, and frightening the
women and children.
A terrible cutting ARRAY at the Sides
school house. near Rector, last Sunday,
In which L3unie King was stabbed twice,
and is probably fatally wounded, BY EN-
NETT Mizell.
Mr.. Tom Collins, brather Of the editor Of
The Sewer County Democrat, retuined
home from Waco, Tex, last week, where
he has been attending school for the past
ten months. Tom will teach near Browns
town during the summer, and will return
to Waco this fall.
Last Sunday at Sloan Springs, about
noon, T. r Conley's little boys were play
in the house and climbing up some
shelves in one corner of the room, when the
youngest, Herschell. fell on the edge of a
table, breaking his left arm and dislocating
the shoulder.
Deputy United States Marshal Flynn
came in on Tuesday, Gays The Hardy
Herald, and arrested Chas. ST. Ore for
cutting government timber and left with
him on Wednesday mornings train for
Little Rock Walker Clayton, who was
taken as witness, returned home yester-
day.
Little Archie Haley, son Of G. 7, Haley,
of Mountain Home, fell from Tree in the
lower part of town last Saturday evening.
he was picked up, apparently lifeless, and
upon examination his shoulder was found
to be dislocated, his collar bone broken,
and he had received serious internal in
! juries.
Augusta is chipping fruit. Mrs. I. b.
Roddy, who lives a few miles north of
town. has made several copsignnents Of
apples, peaches and plums and will continue
shipments. There is no county better
adapted to fruit raising than Woodruff, and
the markets may be quickly reached from
Augusta, McCrory or Cotton Plant
J. d. Everitt reports to The Warren
News that while riding through Lagle
bottoms last Monday be killed very large
rattle snake, which measured six feet and
eight inches in length and ad thirty two
rattles and button. The reptile was in
the act of swallowing large moss covered
chunk which he had taken from coon
when M. Everett located him.
/ Tuesday evening two boys drove into
/ Sloan Springs and stopped for the night.
lnclI d'tloAs Wcio suspicious duu aLtoA q
little delay Marshal Broyles and Deputy
Eslinger caused their arrest, and they were
taken before the mayor for an examination.
| They gave their names as Lee a. d Clarence
Browning, and confessed that they had
stolen the team and buggy from their
father at Raynerd, Bates county, Mo.
Joshua Tolliver, a colored man who was
engaged in caving dirt to fill up hole,
back of the Sacred Heart Academy in
Helena, was caught by falling embank
ment last Thursday, and crushed to an
| almost unacceptable mass. He had dug
under huge block of dirt and wal about
ready to go up and do the leaving act, !"
| when, suddenly the dirt thus undermined,
let go and came down with thud, COM
| pletely covering up Joshua and crushing
| the life out of him.
| Last Saturday morning al out 10 O. clock,
| the Rev. Mr.. Westbrooks, together with
his family, undertook to cross the Cossatot
| at the Pettus ford about four miles above
| Locksburg. They were in a hack and just
after getting into the water, near the east
bank, the hack was capsized, throwing
them all into the water. Mr.. Westbrooks
and his wife seized one child each and sue
ceeded in saving them, but one little girl,
the eldest, about ten years old, escaped the
grasp of her father and was carried down
by the swift current. The father while
landing his little boy cried with all his
heart to the little girl to catch limb, but
she could not and was drowned.