The Mena star., 1898-11-23
STATE EXCHANGES.

J the soldiers buried there Though consigned to the grave more than a quarter of century ago the bones were perfectly sound Van Buren Venture.
 Sheriff Stacy of Cross county, reports the assassination of one Mir. Baker by Nathan Reed in Cross county Sunday night. The trouble was an old one, but was thought to be settled. Reed pretended to make friends with Baker Sunday, but slipped to his dwelling and shot him through 2 window Sun day ight.-Paragould Events
 MT. Wellington of South Hot Springs sent to the News office to-day another specimen of the magnificent pears that were grown by him this year. It is certainly as fine in size and flavor as any country produces. weigh ing fraction under two pounds. He gathered about five bushels from two young trees, being their second crop and the entlre lot will average over a pound each. Why don't our farmers pay more attention to raising fine fruit. Hot Springs News.
 
 A rich mineral find has been made in the upper part of town by F. NJ. Hudson and James Keys, on land be- longing to R. W. Harrison. The best mineral judges in Jasper pronounce 1t good indications of silver and copper A shaft is now being sunk, and the parties feel confident that only few more feet further will lay bare good paying silver and copper ore. A good deal of excitement is manifested in Jasper over the find and the people are awaiting further developments with interest Newton Herald.
 The agent of the railway company at Savannah, l. T., was held up Monday night by two masked men, who se- cured little over $900 from the depot Deputy Sheriff Lide Rector, who re- turned last night from trip to South McAlester in search of the man who stole his horse, is confident that the hold-up was the work of the two men who stole his horse and the News Re- cords pony last Thursday night. "The  men had passed through South McAl- ester before I got there," he said to a reporter this morning ''The last trace got of them they were beyond Savannah, but they had turned back toward the town. That was late in the afternoon and the agent was rob- bed that night l am confident that the horsethieves are the ones who held him up From the description I got of the thieves. one of them was large, rather heavy-set fellow, and the other was a stripping of a boy about 10 years of age. The robbers were masked, but this suits their des- cription right we'll. ''-Ft. Smith News Record.
 Hon. w. R. Chimney is in receipt of a letter from q man in Galveston, Tex, named.Devaney, who announces him. self as candidate for the presidency in 1900 and offers to pay 10 cents per pound for all the cotton and $l per bushel for all the wheat raisad next year. He claims to be backed by a i capital of one hundred million dollars, and to be fully able to carry out his contracts. He further proposes to have the general government pay a pension of S35 per month to all Feder- al soldiers and S20 per month to all Confederates. Mir. Devaney claims to be an old Federal soldier from Ohio, 1 and says he has strong petition from meLt to pension the old ex-Confeder- atcs. This man seems to have wheels | in his head or something else equally | as bad, and 1t seems hard to see what l he is driving at. He sends out long circular addressed to the Daughters of the Confederacy" and an appeal to l all old soldiers of the civil ar to stand | by him and support him in 1900. He does not refer to politics in any form. This IS the first we have ever heard of Mn. Devaney, of Ohio and Texas. - Warren Sentinel