Newport weekly independent., 1902-06-13


 meetings at Clarendon, Arkansas this week.
 Jno. Welch, of Eight Mile moved to Newport Thursday to enter the shell business.
 H. B. Jones of Kenyon was down Monday on his way to the state con- vention at Little Rock.
 Judge O. w. Scarborough returned from Little Rock Wednesday,, where he attended the state convention.
 Mr. and Mrs. H. E. McCollum re- turned Tuesday noon from a short visit and business trip to Searcy.
 Lath Nance, the ten year old son of Esquire w. N. Nance of Eight Mile was taken quite sick week ago with slow fever.
 Gus Graham, after short visit to J. w. and Miss Lizzie Grubbs, left Tuesday morning for his home in New Mexico.
 J. R. Cox has returned from Mary vile, Mo-, where he accompanied his wife on visit to her parents MT. and Mrs. Wm. R. Jones.
 w. w. Dutton left Tuesday on the noon train for Little Rock, where he will attend the Democratic state con- vention and buy goods as we'll.
 N. B. Wishon was in St. Louis Mon day and owing to the absence of an other alderman, no meeting of the council was held Monday evening.
 A negro named Samuel Daniels, living 12 miles south of town, died Monday night of dropsy, at the age of IS years, burial being held Tuesday afternoon.
 The pupils of Arkansas College came down on the local from Batesville Thursday morning in large numbers, returning to their homes for the sum- mer vacation.
 MT. and Mrs. J. T. Cummins will probably leave this week or next for their former home in Milford, Michi- gan, where they will spend the re- mainder of the Summer.
 Guy Stephens nephew of T. s. Stephens is visiting in Newport. On Saturday he sold pearl which he had found on the river above Augusta for $50 to w. D. Burd of Black Rock.
 w. M. Gregg and Sig Adler took the trip to Penter's Bluff Sunday. They say that the scenery above Batesville is beautiful and the White River rail road when completed promises to be scenic route.
 Invitations have been received by Newport friends of Miss May Moss to her wedding on Wednesday morning, June 25 at, 9:30 o'clock to MT. Philip Henry Porter at the Christian church in Clinton, Kentucky.
 Two Greeks were brought down on the branch local Tuesday morning, who had sustained serious injuries, while blasting for the extension above Penter's Bluff. They left on No. 4 for the railroad hospital at St. Louis. R. J. Wise returned Monday from Memphis where he spent couple of days and saw the ball game between Memphis and Nashville, when the team of the former city won shut out by scratch with a score of to O. Sheriff Hinkle of Batesville is here as a delegate from Independence county. Sheriff Hinkle is one of the most popular sheriffs in Arkansas, and recently captured R. s. Deener, 8 fugitive who had left the county ten years ago. He says Deener has an nounced that as soon as he gets out of trouble he expects to go on the lecture platform and deliver lecture on the subject, ''Ten Years an Exile. ."-Little | Rock Gazette.
 The officers have not yet been able to arrest Lee Peebles, who forged the name of Otto Bowen to check Sat urday afternoon for $SO.75. He pre- sented same to the Bank of Newport, but it looked suspicious and was not hOnored. The negro however by good use of his limbs managed to make his escape down the lake and into the woods, where pursuit was