The Forrest City times., 1894-02-02
STATE CUlllNGS.
News Items Cleaned from Various soufee'
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tory.
 Malvern wants a railroad to Pine Bluff.
 Helena wants a woodworking estab- lishment
 Scarlet fever has made its appearance at Fl Dorado.
 Moonshiners are being hunted down in Sevier county.
 Hot Springs people want President Cleveland to visit them.
 Logan county farmers boast of surplus of meat and corn.
 Siloam Springs citizens have hopes of the future of the town.
 Monroe county farmers are going in for more 'hog and hominy."
 Fl. L. Benjamin, an old citizen of Little Rock. died the other evening.
 Stephens merchants claim that they always pay the top prices for cotton
 Hon. Hardy $. Carter died at Oar danelle few days ago from asthma
 Louis Robett was found guilty at Little Rock of attempting to kill his wife.
 William Edwards, of Little Rock. will go to the penitentiary one year fer lar ceny.
 Capt Robert Hiil, an old river man, was nearly frozen to death at Little Rock.
 Fifty families were invited to swell Polish wedding at Marche, Pulaski county.
 R. E. Thompson. white farmer near Fl Dorado, was badly injured by fall- ing tree.
 John Kelley. white, was found in starving condition in a hut near Little Rock. He was cared for.
 The Logan county circuit court dis patched great amount of business at its recent session.
 Heavy snow in portions of northern Arkansas delayed railway trains during the late cold snap.
 The mercury dropped GO degrees iD six hours at Cotton Plant when the cold snap arrived.
 Henry Hudson. of Little Rock. goes to the penitentiary for three years for attempted burglary.
 Fred Link. well-known German citizen of Little Rock, was assaulted the other night by some one unknown and severely injured.
 Nat Wicher. who moved from Poplar Grove to Texas year ago. killed him. self few days ago. His friends at Poplar Grove believe 1t was accidental
 More newcomers have arrived in Montgomery county during the past year than for the six years previous. They say they have friends who will follow.
 Adams < Bro, dealers in merchan- disc at Malvern have failed. Liabili- ties about sl5, 900: assets not known. The cause is bad collections and loss on cotton.
 Anderson Mills. sheriff of Pulaski county. has turned slo,000 into the state treasury for whisky licenses. and Sheriff J. J. Towery of Miller county e. 343 S5.
 The preliminary trial of George Cole. man, colored, who killed fellow negro at Dewitt with an ax, resulted in Cole man being remanded to jail without bail. He is charged with murder in the first degree.
 The governor has received a letter from William H. Kurtz, a young man of New York city engaged in the manufacture of cotton and jute sacks, saying that he wants to locate in Little Rock. The letter was referred to the commercial league.
 4. Carpenter indicted in Yell county on April 1, 1889, for murder in the first degree, has been located in Texas, near the Rio Grande river. Carpenter was indicted for the murder of William Keyser. who was murdered in cold blood by one E. Nj. Wells. who was paid by Carpenter to commit the crime.
 Charles S Troy, of tn. Poole Fruit Farm Co, of Ozark, has placed an or der with Commissioner Vincenheller for 5000 apple trees, to be put out on their fruit farm this spring. The farm already has 200 acres of trees, and the owners are selling apples at @. 50 per bushel. This is the largest apple or chard south of the mountains
 Nj. D McCrary. representing a com pany in Beaumont, Tex. with capital stock of $750, 900. has written Gov. Fishb back for information as to the re- sources of the western tier of counties in Arkansas He proposes the con- struction of road from Kansas City though this section to Sabine Pass. Tex. Exhaustive reports on the re- sources of the entire state have been sent him.
 Gov. Fishback has appointed the fol- lowing delegates to the Trans-Missis- sippi congress, which meets in San