Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-02-18
NEWS BRIEFS

ie"hs Hds ruled adversely 10 the owners of the Three Friends.
 Henry Gilbert, Of Shawnee. Tenn. was shot and killed by Phil Brown of Al)endale, Tenn. because of q debt.
 Dick Stinson, at Decatur, Ala, was held up by masked highwaymen, who took $267 with iewelry and valuable papers.
 At Boaz, Ala, Brash snead's babg was playing with knife. The littlp one fell on the knife which piereca it's eye, bringing instant death.
 Twenty or thirty men who went fishing on Lake Erie, near Buffalo. are either lost or adrift on the ice. A large rescue party is out.
 Moonshiners of Cleburne counny. Ark twenty-six in number, have agreed to meet the deputy sherlffs and surrender.
 Arkansans.are at Omaha arrang- ing for a great exhibition of their products at Mississippi Ex- position.
 The House elections committe re- ports in favor of Underwood, of Alabama. in the contest brought by G. B. Grove.
 
 There are nine eases of smallpox at Johnson City, Tenn. Fifty people who have been exposed are i'll quar- antine. All trains are inspected.
 A big tugboat sank in the lower bay at New York, and only two men were saved. The number of lost is not known.
 It is ascertained that tbe steamer Clara Nevada, wrecked off British Columbia, was the victim of an ex- plosion of the boilers. All on board went down.
 The Kansas Pacific road was bought in at Topeka by Alvin ". Kretch, for $6,3e3 GOO. Faronresents the reorganizatia e.,:s..44iss,. anu was the only bidder.
 Rev. N. 4. Mathews, at Jackson, Tenh.,in the course of a prayer meet ing lecture, announced himself ready to captain loo men to help the Cubans. He got several recruits.
 Ellis and silas Morgan, brothers, fox hunting near Hamburg, Ark, got seperated in the night. When they approached agoin Ellis shot his brother. mistakiag him for q fox. Silas will die.
 United States Minister Woedford has received Spaln's reply concern ing the De Lome letter, and at Mad rid the incident is regarded as ter minated. The reply has not been re- ceiyed at Washington.
 Smallpox has been deciared cpl demic ut MiddIesbor9, Ky. All sa- looms and schools are closed, the town has been quarantined against and mail matter is fumigated.
 The French steamer Fiachat, Mar .seiles to Cologn, was wrecked on Canary Island. Thirty-eight of the crew and forty-nine passengers were lost. She struck in fog and broke in two. Fourteen survivors were brought in.
 Insurance Commissioner Wills, of Tennessee, is preparing his annual report. The total premiums paid were S2,O47, ,64G; losses paid. $1,93l,- 595; losses incurred. $2,003.093. These figures are larger than for any pre- ous year
 c. W. Sweets. of Birmingham, found himself confronted by two masked negroes, who leyeled pistols at his head. He noored one with blow of his fist, but the other shot him and both fled. His thigh was broken by the shot, but he will re cover.
 Itis given ont at Washington that during the recent Senatorial contest in Tennessee, Bate was appealed to for word in favor Of Hurley, but re fused to give it. Bates friends use this as an argument why Hurley 
 should keep hands off in the Taylor. Bate campaign.
 Gen. Pellieux was on the stand in the Zola case yesterday, and roasted the Dreyfus sympathisers for ex- citing feeling against the army, inti- mating that the army would be needed sooner than people expected. He said the bordereaux was iden- tified in Dreyfus handwriting by ex- perts, while only amateurs took an opposite view. The feeling is grow ing that the bordereaux will be in- trodueed in court before the trial is over.
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