Sharp County record., 1896-08-07
STATE NEWS.

j. NJ. Rogers was killed three
miles from ElDorado on The 81 by a
falling tree.
Conway Is lighted by electricity
for the irst time IN the history OF
the town,
Jule.Newton had ole of his hands
torn of 10 q thresher at Ludwig last
Week.
DE. Williams, a well known CIT
lzen of Hot Springs county, died last
week.
The residence of J. a. Ford clerk
of Searcy county, burned last week
Loss about 5000.
Another "gold mine has b 9 e n
discovered in the State. lhls time
II 10 near Little Rock.
While osrelessly handling a pistol
last Monday Sam Antoine, of Helena
sbot Aubry Burke in the leg'
Rev. II. M, Cryer, pastor of the
Methodist church of North Little
Rock, died last Friday of malarlal
fever.
Marv White, 10 years old. COM
m,tted suicide at Newport last week
BY jumping into the nver Cause an
known,
Charlie Nichols killed John Perry
At Bsta's mill, in Yell county, last
week, shooting him in tie head with
o shotgun.
Ina quarrel over dog, Ross
Knott shot and fatally wounded So
on Howard. They are both farmers
living eight miles from Hope
At New Louisville last Friday
morning w. A. Campbell, white,
shot and killed William II urv eN
colored, III o dispute about q sottle'
mept,
The plant Of the Sunny South
Lumber Company at New Louisville
was burned Monday Seven cars
were also destroyed. Loss $40, 900.
James M. Iobgood, sheriff Of
Jackson county, has been indicted
for spproprlating public funds to bis
own use and suspended from office
A weekly labor paper will be start
ed IN Little Rock August lst, with
Robert w. Woodward and W, M.
Shelley publishers and editors.
The residence of MIS-. Myers, near
Rogers, was burned last week. Mrs
Darling neighbor, has been arrest
cd on suspicion of setting fire TO-
1t,
AdoIph Busch, Of Little Rock
died suddenly Friday just after eat
ING dinner. 1t is supposed his death
was superinteuded by the excessive
heat.
Miss Va,ena Johnson d,ed sudden
" near Fort Douglass, j o h nson
county, last week, and 1t is suspect
sha no,soned herself with trough on
Eats"
At Jonesboro last week Mrs. I.
D. Swift killed herself by drinking
water IN which the heads OF a box
Of sulphur matches had been soaked
by herself
The Little River Ledger says
that at a picnic recently Sam Smith
struck his brother.in.law, a man
named Dlaylock, on the head with a
spade INJECTING fatal injury,
James shannon, an old resident OF
Washington county died last week.
lie was member OF Brooks regl'
ment, G. y. A., during the OWL war
aud made splendid record as SOL
der.
The two men who were arrested
on suspicion of burning Malvern
have been in the pen,tentiary at lat
tic Rock for safe keeping. The in.
furiatcd people Of Malvern wanted
" lynch them,
The Rogers Republican says that
Hugh Stroud and B. +. Stroud lost
a stack OF wheat last week hy a
spark from threshlng engine set.
tinp It on fire. There was about go
bashela Of wheat in the attack.
Hon, Seth j. Howell, one of the
pioneers of the State, died at Clarks
vile Monday, aged SO years, Mr.,
Howell represented johnson county
in the convention Of 1874. No bet
Ter man ever lived than unolo Seth
Howell,
Mr.. Fielding Of Harrison IS maxi
Ing o walking cane Of lead taken
from the battlefield of Petersburg,
Va, an elm sprout from Waterloo