The Forrest City times., 1899-10-20

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 It is reported a large vein of black copper was discovered iu Newton county.
 Tufts Murphy, negro gambler. waA shot and killed by his twin brother at Camden.
 The excavating for the foundation of the new state capitol has been finished.
 Fourteen convicts were received at the penitentiary from Hemstead county last week.
 The Northwest Arkansas Medical as- sociation was organized at Springdale last week.
 Jesse Martin killed Abraham Voss at Plumerville in difficulty over woman. Both colored.
 Senator Jones will remain at his home in Hempstead county until con. gress meets.
 The city electric light and water. works plant at Prescott was destroyed by fire last week.
 The long drouth in the central part of the state was broken by general rain on the 18th.
 Hon. Wm. E. Fisher, a pioneer of White county, living near Beebe, died on the 18th inst
 John Baker shot and killed Howard Nelson over 8 game of craps on the Eagle plantation, Lonoke county.
 George Coleman was fined sl 1000 in police court at Pine Bluff oD the charge of selling whisky without license.
 The state convention of the German Catholic Benevolent Society was held st Paris October 18th, 17th and 18th.
 Jim Moore, colored, wanted in Jack. son county for the assassination of Til Mallory, also colored. was captured at Batesville.
 Col S. H. Whitthorne. of Benton, prominent in the councils of the demo- cratic party of this state the past ss years, is dead.
 Rube Thomas, who killed Ed Dick . fight at Hazen last May participate. in by several parties, was acquitted by . jury at DeValls Bluff. ,
 The state bureau of agriculture is receiving many letters from residenta of the east and middle west seeking in- formation about Arkansas.
 The office of superintendent of trans. portation of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf road has been removed from Texarkapa to Kansas City.
 R. H. Bowran has been appointed superintendent of the Arkansas and Missouri divisions of the Cotton Belt, with headquarters at Pine Bluff
 The residences of Dr. J. A. Blaydes, 6. W. Vaughan, Dave Butler, S. P. Coll ings and s. H. SLitt at Hot Spring gs were burglarized the same night.
 Cal Morton, colored, under indict- ment in Miller county for hog stealing, came in and surrendered, stating that he was tired of living in the woods.
 Deputy Revenue Collector Fred John son and posse destroyed an illicit still near Waco, Cleburne county, last week Jesse Golf, the operator, was captured.
 The gap between Little Rock and Weatherford, I. T., on the Choctaw 4 Memphis, has been closed up, the con- meeting rail having been laid on the 18th.
 Recently Mrs. Irene Turner, widow residing near Berryville, lost her gran cry by fire, and in few days her barn containing large quantity of hay was burned.
 Wort Battorff, who killed John Klein at Dermott about two months ago. was last week indicted for murder in the first degree and remanded to jail with out bail.
 The state commission has granted an extension of time to the railroads until November Sd to prepare their formal objections to the rattic rules recently prOmulRateu.
 Gov. Jones has offered a reward of s2o0 for the arrest and delivery to the sheriff of Pulaski county of Frank Bruce, colored, who shot and killed his wife at Little Rock two weeks ago.
 The state board of charities has de- cided to erect three one-story dormitor- les on the site of the buildings recently destroyed by fire for the use of the deafmute school, the same to be paid for out of the available funds appro- priated for maintaining the school
 Plead Guilty.
 George and Bryant Dunston, and Am- prose Beasley, from Montgomery coun-