The Forrest City times., 1898-01-28
THE STATE IN BRIEF,

The Arkansas Central will be COM
pleted to Paris by the middle of March.
Four prisoners escaped from the Van
Buren, Jail by overpowering the jailer.
| Hon. Clifton r. Breckenridge will re-
sumo the practice of law in Pine Bluff
shortly.
| Ike Sanders was shot and instantly
killed in Helena saloon by w. Kline.
Both colored.
| j. Linn Duke, a well-known business
man and an old citizen of Fayetteville.
died on the Esd.
| Tom Davenport. boy years old.
| was crushed under a wagon wheel near
Lead Hill and fatally injured.
Jack Everhart, of New Orleans, de-
feated Eddie Donnelly. of Boston, in a
six round glove contest at Hot Springs.
| While returning from the funeral of
Gilmore Shirley, Calvin Murphy, of
Warren, dropped dead from heart dis
ease.
| The board of directors of the Pine
Bluff Fair association has changed the
name to the Pine Bluff State Fair asso-
citation.
Joe Jefferson, the actor, contributed
500 to the Fort Smith cyclone suffer
ers. The Kansas City Commercial club
also gave $1,000.
A severe earthquake shock was felt
at Helena and other points in Phillips
county at 1880 p. m. January 26. No
damage was done.
The Iron Mountain railroad issued
an order to all ticket agents to sell
tickets to Sisters of Charity at clergy
mems reduced rates.
| Thieves forced their way into the
postoffice at Mountainberg, Crawford
county, and stole less than 81 in stamps
and a small amount of money.
| Congressman Brundidge has intro
duced bill to prohibit the issuance of
liquor license of any kind by the gov
eminent in prohibition districts.
| A call has been issued for the eigh-
teenth annual meeting of the Arkansas
| Eclectic Medical association, to be held
at Little Rock April 20, 81 and %.
| j. NJ Blttle. Little Rock lawyer,
while waiting for a train at Kensett,
| in the dark walked off the depot plat
form and fell, breaking two ribs.
The second mid-winter trap shooting
tournament win be held in Hot Springs
February IS to 10. 1t is expected about
100 expert shots will be in attendance.
| An 11-year-old youth named Seesel
Kinney, in attempting to board NOV
| ing freight train at Jonesboro, fell be-
meath the cars and was terribly man
gled.
During the year 1897 the orphans
home at Little Rock cared for 50 home
less children. Forty-six were secured
homes i'm respectable families through
out the state.
Hon. w. j. Mayo. county judge OF
Monroe county, died January "a. Judge
Mayo was native of Tennessee and S5
years old. He held the Office of county
Judge the past six years.
The feed house and corral of III. c.
Mcdaniel, near Ell Dorado. was de-
stroyed by fire. Several mules were
also burned to death. 1t is thought the
building was set on fire.
Harry Delmar, a smooth crook, es-
capped from the Bentonville Jail. He
was recently convicted of defrauding
a milliner of a sum of money and sen
fenced to three years in the pen.
S. G. Marsh, who at one time was a
brewery agent at Little Rock, was ar
rested in that city on a warrant from
Bell county, Texas, charging him with
disposing of mortgaged property.
During the first IL months of his
term. Gov. Jones granted total of 297
pardons, including reservations to citi-
zenship in cases where sentence had
been served and remissions of fines.
Joe Tibbs and VIII Bremly, of Jack
son county, were sentenced to one and
two years respectively in the peniten-
tiary for cutting $50 worth of timber
from land that didn't belong to them.
Nelson Tucker, who lived on the st.
Francis river below Helena, in a fit of
jealousy, shot his wife twice with a
| shotgun loaded with slugs, killing her
instantly, and then committed suicide.
The poultry exhibit held at Fayette-
Vile. under the auspices of the North
west Arkansas Poultry association, was
well attended by breeders. There were
over GOO fowls exhibited, including
almost every variety.