The Conway log cabin., 1901-08-20

federal building al fOfl SHlltH.
 A big Confederate reunion will be 1eld at Batesyille September F..
 The shipment of the famous AL oerta peach from this state is now n full blast.
 A young man served out a fine in jail at Greenwood for smoking a clg- lrette in church.
 Lonnie Morgan aged IT, and Miss Eva Seward, aged Is, were married 1t Fort Smith last week.
 l. II. Bell and Edward Wolfolk were run over by a hack at Hot Springs and seriously injured.
 Out of the l3,000 homesteads drawn in the United States land lot tery at Fl Reno 151 went to Arkan- sas.
 Ben Williams, wanted at Helena for the killing of Henry Smith July 20, was captured at Hillhouse, Miss, last week.
 Three highwaymen held up Ben Holland and his wife about three miles from Hot Springs and secured $50 in money.
 Tillman Campbell, from this state, has been appointed second lieutenant of artillery corps i'll the regular army.
 James Powell, Tom Lynn and John Gossett were bound over to the grand jury at Helena on the charge of illicit distilling. Miss Jonnie George of Little Rock is an applicant for the position of lady manager of the Arkansas Worlds Fair commission.
 It is rumored that the Choctow railroad is to extend its branch from Jacksonport into the zinc regions of Sharp and Lawrence counties.
 Brooks Willis, d negro eX-conyict, shot and killed his wife, Fannie Willis, near Laplle, Union county. He claims it was an accident.
 Proprietors of pool rooms at hit tie Rock propose to fight through the courts city ordinace assessing a fine of $lO0 for each day they operate.
 The sixty-sixth Arkansas supreme court reports are out and ready for distribution by the secretary of state They cover from March, 1900, to February, 1901.
 Lou Harmon, negress, who on July 22 at Helena stabbed Hum phrey Hardison to death, was cap tured on the 5th at Robinsonyille, on the valley road.
 Charles lfairchild, negro sport of Pine Bluff. was shot and killed as the result of d quarrel over woman Steve Jones and Early Mathis, both colored, were arrested
 In attempting to alight from a moving train al Fulton, II. B. Dick inson, merchant at the above place, fell under the wheels and was instantly killed.
 Jim Phillips, colored, was shot and killed by posse that was try ing to arrest him on what is known as the Cypress Creek place in Rich land township, Desha county
 The residence of William Hughes and his son Mack, near Mena, were set on fire by incendiaries. Besides the houses, all barns belonging to both men were entirely consumed.
 A law was passed by the last legis- lature making the county surveyors timber inspectors for their respective counties and requiring them to make quarterly reports to the state auditor. The reports are due on Mondays of January, April, July and October.
 The White Cliffs Cement Works were sold at Richmond by special master in chancery on the 4th. The property was purchased for $160,00o by the holders of second mortgage bonds, who will form a company with sufficient capital to operate the plant successfully. The product of this concern is said to be of the finest grade.
 Governor Davis has renewed the reward for Jesse Roper, who in 1899 murdered A. c. Byler, sheriff of Bax- ter county. Every governor since the murder was committed has of fered reward for Roper, but he has succeeded in keeping out of the way Besides the sum of $500 offered by the state, private parties of Baxter county will pay large sum for the | man. dead or alive.