The Russellville Democrat., 1893-09-28
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Coal is mined principally in the counties of Johnson, Pope and Sebastian. Flax is raised to limited extent in De- sha, Madison and Prairie counties.
 The immense granite beds of the state are beginning to attract wide spread atten- ton.
 There are about seventy five nurseries in this state, using perhaps 1000 acres of lasd.
 There is limestone enough in Arksnsas to put wall eight feet high around the whole state.
 Arkansas stands second in the actual yield per acre of cotton, Louisiana alone surpassing her.
 Ed. M. Dickinson, of Batesville, will be appointed chief of division in the treas ury department at a salary of $2000.
 In the mountain protected regions of Arkansas there has not been an absolu te failure in the peach crop in thirty five years.
 Lem Phillips took an overdose of mor- phine with suicidal intent at Newport Fri day. Domestic trouble was the cause of his rash act.
 The total product of coal in Arkansas, in the year 1891, was 542.379 tons; value, $647 ,560; an increase over 1890 of 142, ,49l tons, and of the value of $132, ,965.
 Arkansas leads twenty nine of the states of the Union in the actual yield of corn. That is, she raises more bushels of corn in the aggregate than any one of twenty nine states in the Union.
 The heaviest loss sustained by Kirby & Son in the burning of their mill at Blu chanan Station Tuesday night, was ocea- stoned by the destruction of sixteen dry kilns, aggregating in all over 1,00O, GOO feet of lumber. consumed by the flames.
 The case of the State against William Dacus, charged with murder, was not prosed in the Yell circuit court. Daeus was charged with murdering 6 child quite while ago but it seems that evidence could not be produced sufficient to convict him, so he was discharged
 Chss. Hunt had narrow escape from severe injury last Thursday at Dardanelle. He was coming home from Dsnville where he had been surveying some lands when his horse stumbled and fell and caught his leg under the horse. Fortunately he had g very large stirrup on the saddle which prevented his leg being broken.
 An agent for the nickel. n-the slot ma chine arrived at Conway about ten days ago and left one of his machines in Sam Heiligers grocery store. You could drop a nickel in the slot, and if the proper nun Der of dice spots were turned up you got cigar. The machine did fine business for ten days, and as the agent left Sam no key the machine was nearly full of nickels. A local burglar seeing his opportunity broke in at back window Tuesday night and carried the machine of. l. is estimated that it contained about s15 The machine has not been found, neither has tbe burg lar.
 John MeKinnis, a brakeman on the through freight which goes through Clarksville about o'clock pm, was thrown from the train Tuesday evening and seriously injured, sustaining a severe cut upon the back of the head, one upon the right side of the body, and having his collar bone broken in two places There are two stories as to how the accident oc. cured, one of which is that he was climbing from flat to the top of box car when his hold in seme manner loosened and he fell, striking the flat The other Is that in attempting to swing himself from the fiat car to the ladder of the box car he struck a box car which was standing on the switch, which they were passing at the time the accident occurred
 Jimmie Haynes, the coal miner, who was tried at Dardanelle for his life last week. for the assassination of one Enele. at Spadra, Johnson county, last Arril. was acquitted. Tom Gehagen, who was an ac- complice turned states evidence, but his testimony was not corroborated strongly enough to warrant the jury in convietine Haynes, Hampton was also indicted as an accessory before the fact, was dis charged upon the aequittal of Haynes. Gehagen turned state evidence upon con sideration that be be given fifteen years in the penitentiary. The murder of Eugle vas most dastardly deed, and if Jimmie Haynes did not do the shooting the evi. aence tended very strongly ts show that he was very close by at the time.