The Forrest City times., 1897-12-10
THE STATE IN BRIEF.


 There are e5,cOo colcred Baptists in Arkansas
 Riceville is a new postofiee in Crittep. den county
 A G. A. R. post was recently organ ized at Brinkley
 Fort Smith will have an exhibit at the Omaha exposition.
 The drivers in the coal mines at Hunt ington struck for higher wages.
 H. E. Stone and P. J. Miller were ar rested in Fort Smith on the charge of running a lottery w. E. Carter, stationery peddler was killed by robber at Benton, syhile trying to effect his capture.
 Ben Tate, Pulaski county farmer. accidentally shot himself through the head and died in few hours. Two young men passed through Fort smith en route to the gulf, having drove overland all the way from Mime sota.
 Lewis Rollins, white man, was found lying dead in the road near Shawnee Village, Craighead county, shot through the heart
 Lulu Nichols, negress, was On vlcted at Texarkana of abandoning her babe and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. The foundry and machine shops of the State university at Fayetteville are now thoroughly equipped with new and modern machinery. RurUlarS antarol .Lz church at Jacksonville. Pulaski county. and carried off all the song-books and other articles of value
 The monthly meteorological summary | issued by the Little Rock bureau for November records the first killing frost in the state on the 17th. Two Searcy county farmers each hauled wagon load of apples to Little Rock, distance of 110 miles. The fruit brought l.25 per bushel. Charles Weaver, near Texarkana, was | invited to the home of his sweetheart | and assassinated by her brother and father, who were opposed to his suit Hon. k. D. Hearn, of Philadelphia, IS dead. He was 57 years old. and at the time of his death was serving his third term as judge of the Ninth judicial | district
 In a drunken row at Hot Springs Henry Wise killed his companion by | cutting his throat. Both men were tramps and the name of the dead man | IS unknown.
 R. W. Arnold, who recently went to Pine Bluff penniless, has fallen heir to the snug sum of s22, ,0OO He will wed Pine Bluff lady and make that his | future home.
 James Duncan, a former resident of St. Paul, Ark, suicided at Springfield, | Mo, by the morphine route He was but 19 years old, and said he was tired of life's battles. The postoffice at Altharp, Saline county, was destroyed by fire The mail sacks, office fixtures and all stamps and registers were burned. The loss is estimated at $500. Mrs Jane P. Barber died at her home in Little Rock at the age of s2 years and months. She was the widow of | Luke E. Barber, at one time clerk of the state supreme court. Ella Duncan, a quadroon, shot and instantly killed Charles Cahin in the latter's blacksmith shop in Fort Smith. Jealousy is supposed to have been the cause of the killing. The city council of Little Rock passed an ordinance increasing the license on every line of business 20 per cent. and appropriated s, 900 for the maintain ance of public hospital.
 At Helena Daggett Carter playfully | jabbed his umbrella at an old darkev named George Washing ton, the steel | ferrule striking the old man in the tenn pie and penetrating the lrain.
 In the United States land office at Little Rock during Nosember there were IS homestead entries, embracing s.15s acres, and SS final proofs, embrac- | ing s,015 acres. The months receipts | were 21 BOT qO