Sharp County record., 1896-01-24
STATE news.

little child OF Thomas Barley |
i burned to death near Newport
week.
bunch of banaaes raised by
Age w. D. Johnson, of this State,
pm exhibition at Pine Bluff.
\ Helena man is sueing drug
for $1,000 for serving him
pkelng glass in a glass of soda
ter.
AT Sloan Springs, on the 4th, a
".le child of R. j. Alfrey fell into
s fire and was burned to death.
W. T. Gaines, an old resident of
escott, died from apoplexy last
EEK. He was 70 years of age.
sR. &. Gill, Little Rock merchant,
is knocked from his bicycle by
unknown person and severely ln-
red.
Judge II. N. Hutton, of Lee
,Dunty, Is holding circuit court at
Oonway, in exchange with Judge
S. Thomas, of monroe.
: Little Book has an ordinance to
bunish persons who circulate false
..ports about the financial condition
If the city.
: ]. w, Kimmons' residence at
.owell burned last week. Loss be-
ween 800 ard $4,000, partially
iovered by insurance.
Dan Cantrell, who murdered
oung Newton Thorne at Marked
Tree recently, was arrested last
syeek at Moscow, Tenn.
Brinkley seems to be oyerrun with
esoot.pads, the papers there making
.cnention of several hold-ups and at
lempted robberies.
4 Grahom & Coffman, of st.
/. Francis county. recently shipped ten
ll,arlloads of potatoes to Dallas,
Ilrexas, that netted them 1925 per
h5nshel,
"a Revenue officers had battle with
omoonshlners IN Sewer county last
, week. Seventeen shots were fired
iand two of the sinners were
wounded.
, Joe Warner, a lunch stand keeper
vim Little Rock, dropped dead last
cweek from heart disease. He had
Just retarned from visit to his
opbyslcian.
{ J. H. Adalr, who lives near Harr-
|, son, killed killed SIX b0gs, the aggregate
weight of which'was 1927 pounds
net, and the Oldest one was but l6
:, months old,
Twenty one retail and three
/, Wholesale liquor dealers retired from
i, business in Little Rock January lst,
The retailers claimed that they could
not afford to pay tie license.
! A. 4. Mallory. the agent of the
: Suthern Building and Loan company
{ who recently decamped from Little
Rock with $1,000 of the company's
funds, has not yet been located.
Eugene Shuford's grocers store at
Fayetteville was burglarized one
night last week, and while the
thieves we're gong through the
goods a policeman stepped IN and
arrested them.
The laundry house at the insane
asylum at Little Rock was burned
last Friday evening, The loss is
$1,000. The fire Is supposed to
have originated from an explosion
of gasoline, No insurance.
Eight cases OF smallpox are re-
ported from Conway county. The
patients are negroes, who contracted
the disease from parties who came
from Memphis or the Infected portion
of Eastern Arkansas.
A 4.year-old son of James
Whittle died last week at Mariana
from lockjaw. A few days before
his death be fell on an oil can, the
point of which pierced his thigh to
The bone, and death resulted from
the wound.
J. L. Bay, assistant superintendent
Of the penltentiary, spent yesterday
morning iu Van Buren. He has
escorted more than 200 prisoners to
the penitentiary and has never allow
cd one to escape, though he has
taken them unalded and unattended
fran many Of the inland countless
Van Buren Venture,