The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-04-14

Conway has a curfew law.

The water-works plant at Paragould
has been completed and is now in opera
ton.
The public school at Berryville closed
last week on account of an epidemic of
measles.
The bank of Fayetteville has in
creased its paid-up capital stock to
$40, 900.
There were 81 deaths from spinal
meningitis in Little Rock during the
month of March.
On April LIST there were $50 convicts
in the state penitentiary, compared
with 1,o05 July /. 1895.
General passenger agents of the lead
ing southern lines held q meeting at
Hot Springs April 18th.
Green Hogan died at Conway on the
10th as result Of injuries received in
falling from hay loft.
Track-laying was commenced on the
Choctaw & Memphis eastward from
Howe. I. T.. April sth.
Under the allotment made for the
1900 census, there will be six supervis-
ors' districts in Arkansas.
Miss Lima Mitchell, of Dardanelle.
died from the effects of an overdose of
morphine, taken by mistake.
During the month of March the Sec
rotary of state turned into the state
treasury the sum of s4,57O in fees.
Attorney-General Davis has decided
that insurance companies have a right
to cancel insurance carried in this state.
Gov. Jones appointed II. 1. Turner
circuit clerk of Bradley county, to fill
the unexpired term of Il. F. Langston,
deceased.
w. L. Elder shot and killed his father
in-law, j. w. Outlet, in Faulkner coun-
ty. Both men were drinking, and fell
out about Outlets stepson.
The second trial of DR.. r. L. Ramey,
charged with attempted assault, at Fort
Smith, resulted as did the first trial
in a hung jury
Miss Maggie Hughes, postmistress at
the little town of Hugo, in Carroll
county, committed suicide by hanging
on account of disappointment in love
affair.
Gov. Jones has offered a reward of
500 for the arrest and conviction of
any or all of the unknown persons who
took part in the Little River county
lynchings.
Revenue officers last week destroyed
three illicit stills in Montgomery coun-
ty and placed under arrest VIM. Cog
burn and George. James, Bryant and
Lige Dunston.
Floyd Isom, % years old. 6 feet four
inches tall, and Miss Martha Million, IA
years old and only feet 8 inches tall,
were married at Powhatan, Lawrence
county, last week.
Internal revenue receipts at the Little
Rock Office for the month of March
amounted to s19,S4452, and for the
same month of 1898, e6,4Ss. 43, an in
crease of s12,906.09.
Mr.. L. b. Leigh, an insurance agent
at Little Rock, addressed a meeting of
insurance magnates in New York CITY,
during which he explained the provis-
ions of the antitrust law.
j. ID. Conant, who killed Joe Town
send at Little Rock about two months
ago, was acquitted. Conant plead self
defense. The men were partners in a
gambling establishment and quarreled
over division of their winnings.
J. B. Redmond, 62 years old, and lit
tie daughter, IA years old. were thrown
from wagon in runaway at Little
Rock and seriougly injured. Redmond's
right thigh was broken and both the
child's wrists were broken.
Articles of consolidation of the Ar.
kansas Railroad Company and the Alex
andria, junction City & Shreveport
railroad, forming the Arkansas South
ern Railroad Company, were last week
filed with the secretary of state.
Gov. Jones last week named the fol-
lowing gentlemen to compose the board
of trustees of the Confederate home
for the next two years: Col. John G.
Fletcher. I. ]. Oliphint, B. w. Green,
Geo. w. Murphy and ]. F. Richie.
Senator ]. X. p Douglass, who rep
resented the Twenty-ffth senatorial
district, died on the 10th at Little Rock
OF typhoid fever. His home was at
Alma, where he had resided since CON-
ing to Arkansas from Mississippi in 1878.
He was IS years old.
An opinion of general interest was
delivered last Saturday in the state
supreme court by Justice Riddick, In
which it is held that a citizen is not
exempt from jury duty because of fail
ure to pay poll tax, nor can an office be
vacated because the office-holder fails