The Springdale news., 1899-04-21

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 Secretary Alger announces posi- tlvely that he will not resign. No one expected he would.
 The business men of Fort Smith have taken steps to organize q home insurance company.
 It is surprising at the number of prisoners who escape from the Benton County jail. What's the matter n2 there anyway?
 An antitrust law has been intro- duced III the Texas legislature, which Is identically the same as the now famous law Tn thIs State.
 The Little Rock papers have for given the members of the Leglsla- ture many things now that they have passed bill for new State house.
 The attorney general appears to know more about the antitrust law than the man who framed it and all the other lawyers who have investigated it.
 A dispatch from Houston. Tex as, announces that dry winds have almost destroyed the strawberry crop i'll that section. The are deep in dust and the frult IS drying up.
 The Southern Standard, publish cd Tt Philadelphia by our dlstin- guished friend, Col. Adam Clark, was 3 years old last week. As the paper grows old it's editor grows young.
 The Connecticut Fire Insurance Company has gwen notice that they will continue to do business In Arkansas, being member ot no combination that conflicts with the new antitrust law. I he company has aapital of s1,0o0, 900.
 The statement of the Little Rock Democrat that the present Legislature has done nothing to check mob law, cause the Helena World to remark that the country would breathe a sigh of relief fl the mob would check the legisla- ture.
 At the instance of the Illinois Humane Soclety a bill was recently introduced III the general assembly of that state to establish the whip ping post as means of punishment for certain offences. Illinois will come out of the dark some of these days.
 Hon. John Temple Graves lectur- ed at Van Buren few days ago on "The Reign of the Demagogne. Thls distinguished gentleman will be pleasantly remembered by Sprlngdale people as he was one of the lecturers at the Chautauqua last year.
 It is reported that Ex-Clrcuit Clerk J. D. Newton eashed forg- ed check for s250 on Byrom & Gray at Clarksville last Tuesday, and immediately left for parts un- known. It is thought by some of his friends that he will go to Puer- to Rico to begin life anew.-Har- rison Times.
 < Now can be seen the difference of slipshod and thorough methods in the cultivation of berries. The man wh worked his berries will make the money and the other fel low will grit his teeth and grumble at hard times while he wears out hls iack-knife whiting dry goods boxes. Van Buren Press.
 The railroad commissson have rented four rooms Tn the Fleming building on West Second street, just west of the county courthouse, as headquarters, and secretary Chas. E. Collins Is busily engaged in fit ting them up for occupancy by next Tuesday. At least one mem Der of the commission will be ill the rooms all the tune, and sessions very similar to those of court will be eld.-Little Rock Democrat.
 A largely attended meeting of representative business men of this State was held in Little Rock last week to ask the legislature for some relief from the antitrust law. Speeches were made and resolutions adopted, all of winch apparently made very little impression on the law makers. One of the speakers was Hor. ]. E. Woods who repre- sents Lee County in the lower house of the general assembly, and who voted for the antitrust law. He criticised the legislature for re fusing to make some amendments to the law, and the next day reso- luton was passed eensuring him for hls words. Among those who voted f Al L.. I Al.