Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-05
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

I is reported much better.
 The Mosquito row is expected to give new status to the Nicaragua canal bill.
 It is stated that congress IS to be asked to enact popular loan law on the basis of the French system.
 Three children of Mrs Walters at Palarm, Ark, were burned to death.
 Union Pacific receivers salaries have been fixed at $l9,ooo year by the court
 Two men were killed at Topeka by falling off scaffold on which they were working.
 Tine Van Leuven crowd expect to strengthen their defense by having Special Pension Fraud Examiner Waite indicted.
 Dr. J. B. Kinyoun has arrived from Paris to introduce the blood serum cure for diphtheria into the United State hospitals.
 Defalcation of Frank Cunningham, grandson of Postmaster Cunningham of Salem, Ills, was discovered after a | lapse of two years.
 Charles Watkins shot Green Atkins at Mount Sterling, Ky, because the lat ter testified to hi; "bootlegging" whisky.
 Kentucky coalmines near Middlesboro were closed, throwing 1000 men out of work.
 Two negroes were almost lynohed at Frederick, Md, for assaulting two men and a woman.
 The business portion of Lockwood, { Tenn, was destroyed by fire.
 Dependency caused Stewart F. Howie- to commit suicide at Little Rock, Ark.
 Adie Johnson, 19-year-old girl, took rough on rats at Palestine, Tex, and died The cotton crop of Arkansas is placed at from G25, ,000 to 6b0,000
 Dr. R. C. Flower was arrested at Conroe, Tex, on a charge of obtaining money under fals pretenses at Chicago.
 George Central was hanged Friday at Belleville, Ills., for the murder of Fred Kahn. Gustave Sherman, aged 1., was shot and killei by Frank Jessmer, aged T, at San Antonio, Tex. They were playing Santa Claus. s. NJ. Mercnant was assassinated ne ar Bovina, Miss. No clew.
 Jake Lewis is held at Ardmore, I. T., without bail for the killing of Zsno Martin.
 l.. B. Williams was given the death penalty for the brutal murder of his wife at Dallas, Tex.
 Attorney General Olney has ordered the famous Hay Meadows massacre case reopened. The fight occurred in No Mans Land in 1888. w k. Belcher, shot and killed E. N. Bull ill Childress county, Tex.
 Mrs. Jack Spruill was burned to death at Lometa, Tex. Her clothes caught fire while she was washing.
 Willie Murdock, the 14-year-oid boy, who killed Henry Kluge was given 8 years in the state reformitory by the jury at Galveston, Tex. A Santa Fe fast freight was wrecked at Gorin, Mo. Strikers at Molgate. O., burned the stavehouse of Shelley Bros factory.
 Captain William Manz Lowe, an e1- 1 Confederate and prominent citizen of l southwest Missouri, is dead
 It transpires that Expert McGrath was paid $500 for his work in the matter Of the plans for the new city hall at St. Louis.
 A bill for the appointment of an inter national ship canal commission will be presented to the senate this winter.
 Special trains have been provided fo, state troops for Montgomery, Ala, or tomorrow, where Kolb is expected.
 Orders have been given to shut down the reineries of the Havemeyer corn- pany in Boston, New York and Phila- delphia.
 An indictment has been brought in at Memphis for failure to pay tax on play 1 ing cards. This is tho first indictment under the Wilson law.
 Seyenty-eighr couples were licensed to wed Thanksgiving day in St. Louis.
 Two freight trains collided on tho Texas and Pacific road at Marshall, Texas. No one was killed. The en- I zines were demolished.
 J. H. Keloy was shot and dangerously wounded by ". E. Pinchard tt Wslch. La.