The Forrest City times., 1894-04-27
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Arkansas Bankars

ne fourth annual convention of tha Arkansas Bankers association was held in Little Rock.
 president Xix, of Hot Springs, being absent rom the state, his annual address was read bv Secretary M H. Johnson The paner wac a review or the financial situation in its yarious phases throughout the past year, replete with ,n.erestihg g facts and figures. Referring to hrkansas, he pointed to the record of Ar kansas banks and bankers challenging any other state in the Union to show a career so clean. so wholesome so commenda. oie In every respect as that of Arkansas dur. ing the recent severe finan cial depression. Wlth profound sorrow he spoke of the death or Logan H. Roots. eulogizing him and his work in words we'll chosen and fitly expressed | The political and financial history of the work or congress during the last year wa. touched on orleny and turned from without comment The address was received with approval and ordered incorporated in the minutes of the | convention
 resolution, declaring it to be the sense of | tne convention that the 10 per cent. tax on state banks of issue be not repealed was about l to be vosed upon when motion was made and carried that action be deferred Nhea the convention convened on the sec 1 ohd day discussion began on the resolution de. claring against the repeal of the 10 per cent l tax on state banks. Julius Lesser of Marian. u. III, l Buren, favored state banks and believed the | states could make their money as good as na. tlonal currency. Col John c Fletcher was convinced that the Arkansas legislature could handle the money question as intelligently as congress ever did State banks are the natural | successors of the national ban ks The time mas come, said Col Fletcher, to pass reasona. l ble laws and give the states power to look af. 1 ter themselves MT. Horner of Helena thought the enactment of laws placing m. tionai and state banks on parity would fur. | for thn | no action should be taken by the association | MT Hogaboom, of Hot Springs the author of the resolution. spoke strongly in it's favor By a close vote the convention declined to take ac. l ton.
 1 Officers were elected and the convention ad- | lourned. MT. w. K. Ramsey, of Camden, was the place for the next convention, and the third Thursday in April. 1895, the date. Ministers Predictions. Rev. J. T. Shelton, a well-known minister of Little Rock, in sermon delived the other night, made use of the following language: Laeoring men will remember that during the strike in 1856 predicted from the pulpit of | the old Scott Street Christian church the pres ] ent tur2 in the warfare for the recognition of ! the rights of the individual Again. in 1890. | prophesied every movement that has taken | place since and all that will be, in general way 1 until 1910 The present movement is fer mentation of conflicting thoughts. Look out for hell and fury in the next six months with moro to follow until ls99
 New Postmasters.
 Blachton, Bradley county, R s. Smith vice | Y. B. Craig, resigned.
 Moro Bay. Bradley county, J. c. Wilson. vice L.. w. Belln resigned.
 Toronto, Jefferson county, W. E. Jackson vice H.. K Spcllman. dead.
 Chancil, Newton county, I. c. Adams, vice J E.. Moore, resigned.
 | Lee Creek. Crawford county, w. Oliver, vice J. R. Smiley. resigned.
 Rosston. Nevada county. Thomas P. Fincher vice Wm o. Reagan, resigned. | Spadra. Johnson county. Albert M. Shield vice F. J. Landers. resigned.
 Trippe. Desha county, E. Trippe, vice R. D. Crenshaw, resigned.
 A Remarkable Colored Woman.
 There is a colored woman in Hot | Springs who was born in l7S0.
 Her name is Chloe Wright, and Halifax | county. N C.. is the place of her nativity. She | celebrated her one hundred and thirteenth | birthday anniversary on July l3 last Over | half of her life has been spent in Arka nsas | She nursed Judge J. D. Kimbell when he was an infant, and that gentleman is caring for her | in her old age. She is remarkably bright | and very intelligent. She reads with the aid of | A Negro Bank Thief Killed.
 A negro entered the Bank of Conway at Conway the other day and grabbed a package of Sl0 bills and ran into the street. Cashier D. R. Zones gave the alarm, and in a few minutes several men were in pursuit. A deputy sheriff called on him to halt, but he paid no attention. The deputy fired, and shot the negro through the heart Grew Abusive and Was Shot.
 Walter Porter, white. shot and killed James Green, negro, near Trenton, Phillips county. Porter's younger brother injured calf belonging to the negro. He appeared at the Porter homestead. and, it is claimed, refused to accept any explanation, abused young Porter and handled gun very recklessly.
 To Remove tho Plant to ArkansaA Negotiations have been closed with parties from Michigan for the loca- ton in Fort Smith of one of the larg- est woodenware factories in the United States, employing more than 200 hands. Fort Smith donates forty acres of land lying just outside the corporate limits.
 Tic Contract Awarded.
 The tie contract for the Little Rock, Hot Springs & Texas railroad has been awarded to F. H. Hicks. of Mississippi. The contract calls for 1000 ties, to be used on the road from Benton to the Ouachita river. The road will