The log cabin Democrat., 1907-05-30

Since the illness of Governor John $. Little has taken such a serious turn, there are being prominently mentioned many possibilities for the office of chief executive. each with d large number of supporters. Among them are John II. Hinemon, form- CT superintendent of public instruc- ton. and now president of Header son College at Philadelphia; Col. k. W. Chrisp of Searcy. former mem- Der of the legislature and candidate for governor in 1905, John r. Lee of Clarendon. state senator from Monroe county and lieutenant gov ernor in 1905: John l. Moore of Helena. president of the Senate Of 800, and acting governor during the recent session Allen lamlter, of Louisville. speaker of the House of Representatives. There are stlll others mentioned who will doubtless enter the race. Acting Governor X. o. Pindall is not eligible to the gov ernorship, since he will still be q member of the legislature when the next executive is selected.
 Green Began. the father of Wal ter Began, 1,-year-old boy. who was injured at Morrell, November 20, while acting as head brakeman on an Iron Mountain freight train. has filed suit in the Jefferson County Circuit Court against the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Rail- way Company for $10,OO0 damages. The suit is creating considerable in- tercst among attorneys of the state, and especially railroad employees, for the reason that 1t is the first suit to be filed in any court i'll Ar- kansas under the provisions of the new fellow-servants law which was recently enacted by the Arkansas legislature.
 The Nashville Lumber Company has been organized at Nashville with a capital stock of $50O,000, all paid The corporation acquired by pur- chase all the interests of the Brown Henderson Improvement Company, consisting of sawmills. blaming mills, box factory. timber lands and timber. The lands aggregate more than 5O,O00 acres, and the timber owned exceeding 25O,000,0o0 feet. The holdings are in Seyier. Hemp stead and Little River counties.
 A severe rain and wind storm vis- ited Perryville recently, during which the new Baptist church and the steam gin and mill of George Smith X Bros. were demolished, a number of buildings were blown from their foundation and houses were flooded. The storm also did considerable damage to fruit and growing crops.
 Jim Henry, negro, shot Frank Allen, another negro, near Spring Hill. The weapon used was shotgun loaded with squirrel shot fired at short range, two loads taking effect in the negro's left hip, side, bowels and wrist The shoot ing was the result of a family quar- rel, Henry being Aliens son-in-law.
 < negro by the name of Pruett, employed at Reeves mill, Helena, had his clothing caught by the ma chinerv of the mill and was drawn into the big cog wheel where his body was badly mangled. But fer the prompt assistance of bystanders, the negro would have been ground into miEcemcat.
 The Antoine Valley Railroad Company has been organized with a capital stock of $150,00o. The company will build from Arkadel- :,hia to Graysonia, a distance of 27 miles, where it will join the Cur yaon and Fort Smith. The headquar- Gers of the company will be Arkadel- ?hia.
 Hillman Beck shot his father at the home of the latter at Driggs, Logan county, recently. The shoot ing was the outgrowth of long standing family quarrel.
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