The log cabin Democrat., 1907-03-21
= NEWS OF l ARKANSAS I

The Rock Island passenger tram, known as the Hot Springs Memphis Flyer, was wrecked at Cuneo, load ing switch. four miles from Hagen, and two men were killed and several hurt. The accident is believed to have been the work of train wreck CTS, as the switch had been opened and locked. T. J. Kilcoyne, engl- neer. and NJ. A. Currier, fireman, both of Argenta, were killed, while Wendell Britt, express messenger, George c. Dodson and Charles 5. Roberts, mail clerks, James Bailey, negro porter, and four negro din- ing car walters, were injured.
 Ben Edwards, a miner, was seri- ously injured by the explosion of shot in Mine No. 4 at Coal Hill. He had lighted the fuse to shot, and when it did not explode went back to ascertain the trouble. Just as he reached the shot it went off, and he was badly wounded about the head. Only short time ago part her of Edwards was killed in the same mine in exactly the same way that Edwards was injured.
 Three men were killed and six in- jured by the bursting of stone burr in Stewards grist mill, located 13 miles northwest of Green Forest. The dead are John D. Stewart, Charles Carr and A. M'Elyea. The building was complete wreck. According to indefinite reports of the accident, a corn burr jumped from its position and burst. Among the men killed is son of the owner of the mill.
 W. D. Hayes was recently ar rested in the Indian Territory and taken to De Queen on a warrant charging him with bigamy. About two weeks ago he was married in De Queen to Miss Birdie Kirksey. Hayes, it is said, admitted that he had two other wives, but thought, however, that he had been separated from his other wives a sufficient length of time to make his last mar riage legal.
 One of the two sons of Scott Gar her, nine and eleven years old, re- spectively, of Lamar, shot the other accidentally while playing with a shotgun recently. The older boy was showing the oher how fast he could let the hammer down, when the weapon was discharged, the load entering the arm and side of the younger brother. The boy died two days later.
 A ghastly discovery was made at Helena recently which has greatly aroused the community. A dog was observed dragging an object across a vacant lot, and upon investigation it proved to be the dead body of d newly-born white infant. It is sup posed the babe was killed and thrown in some alley, ash barrel, or vacant lot, where the dog found it.
 Grading is now in progress along the right of way of the Pineville and Northern Railroad from Sulphur Springs to Beatty, a point west of Benton on the Frisco. The proposed route of this road lies between Sul- phur Springs and Muskogee, l. IT,, and its completion will give another valuable railway outlet to rich agricultural section.
 Dora Faulkner, a white woman living at Hope, IS under arrest, charged with manslaughter, the al- legged offense being the killing of her babe. The remains of the child were found in a sack, with cord tightly drawn around the neck, buried under a lot of cotton seed.
 A little 2-year-old child of MT. and Mrs. c. A. Hazerig, who live near West Point, White county, in some manner secured a bottle of car bolic acid and swallowed about two ounces of its contents, dying in great agony a short while after wards.
 Tn q nprsoDa1 difficulty at Hart.