The Green Forest tribune., 1911-03-24
STATE NEWS TERsELY TOLD.

Several months ago, while brake. man on a local freight train was TIC ing into the little town of Brookland on the COW catcher If a locomotive the engine struck team driven by Dr. W. F. Jinks and the brakeman was killed. His wife sued Dr. links for S20,000. and the case was tried last week at JonesboTO. A verdict in favor of the defendant was rendered.
 Five unusually large sassafras logs were brought into Jasper recently. one of them was six feet long, an ether eight feet, two ten feet and one twelve feet The largest log was if ty-tWo inches in diameter at the butt, The five contained 5.261 feet of lum, ber Several timber men said they were the largest and finest sassafras logs they had ever seen.
 Sheridan Dorsey, charged with petit larceny, broke jail al Huntsville last week. He was captured a few hours after he escaped
 John Tiider's barn at Fordxee, with 800 bushels of corn and several tons of hay and other proyender was de stroyed by fire last week.
 James Bede Johnson, who sormerly lived in Bradley County, has been con- Victed of the murder of a constable at Jasper, Texas, and sentenced to inn pTisonment for life. He has been sranted a new trial since the conVic- tiCn, and the case will be heard next June.
 Jack Alexander, a negro who lives at Stephens, claims to be 104 years old. When one of the older white residents of Stephens was child he lived in South Carolina and kneW the negro, who was then a middle aged man.
 An ordinance prohibiting the spit ting on sidewalks and in public places at Harrison has been passed by the Harrison town council.
 Mrs. Rebecca Williams died last week at Waldron. She was probably the oldest resident of Scott County Had she lived until the 24th of next month she would have been 99 years old.
 Pope County will hold a fair next October. H. W. Patrick has been erected president of the fair associa tiOn.
 An oil well is being sunk at Hud- son, three miles south of Ashdown
 Hosea Keeling has sold the Leslie News and Edward P Payne has leas- ed the plant from the new owners and will in future edit the paper.
 The C1aighead County grand jury, in it's report, recently filed, suggest ed that Jonesboro drug stores be re- Guired to remain closed on Sundays except that on demand the druggist may provide medicines in case of sickness.
 Professor A. NJ. Mccain has noti- fec the Camden school board that he will not be an applicant for re-elec- tion to the position of superintendent of schools there. He has had sev- eral offers, among others the princi- palship of the Clary Training School ct Fordyce.
 The plant of the National Slate Company, which is located sixteen miles east of Mena, is ready for op- eTation, and the shipment of slate from there will soon begin.
 Judge J. R. Reeves has been indict- ed at Jonesboro for forging the name of J. G. Nichols and others to the will of Mrs. Jane Dixon. MT. Nichols swears that he did not sign his name as it appears in the will.
 A dog suffering with rabies was shot and killed near Van Buren re- gently after it had attacked several | horses and other animals. The Harrison Board of Education has decided to borrow $20,000 for the l purchase of grounds and the erection | Of high school building. While standing near stove at | Oppelo the clothing worn by the g. year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. w. | s. Hoskins became ignited and the | little girl was fatally burned. Her 6-year-old brother, by heroic efforts, | extinguished the flames by wrapping