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THE FORREST CITY TIMES j
LANDVOIGT A VADAKIN, Publisher!.
FORREST CITY. • ARKANSAS
CURRENT COMMENT.
Thk total number of voters regis
tered in Chicago was 383.515. an excess
©f 52.335 over the city of New York,
which was 331.180.
President Ci.rVfi.and did not got
his name on the registration books in
New York, and so he cannot vote at
the coming election.
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Last year the shipment of apples
from this country to Europe was 783.
AOO barreis. and this fall 77.*> 000 barrels
jL«\e-alrcady been sent over.
Thk Orange Judd Farmer says that
the potato crop is 24.">.4M).0<K) bushels,
a decrease of more than 50,000,000 bush
els or per cent compared with a
year ago.__
Fifty prominent ladies of Brooklyn
have combined in a Dress Culture club,
pledged to wear dresses three inches
from the ground in fair weather and
•ix inches on rainy or snowy days.
Wim.iam Chobknski traded his wife
t© Stanley Moloski for a meerschaum
pipe at Warrior Run, near Wilkes
barre, Pa., recently, and the latter dis
posed of the woman the next day for
•nother pipe and 33 to boot
According to reports, the coming
Bugar crop of Louisiana will be one of
the largest ever produced in that state.
There is every prospect that the yield
will bring satisfactory prices in view
•f the damage to the beet crop and the
bad outlook for the Cuban crop.
Lord Brasskt, the governor of Vic
toria, Australia, in a recent speech on
Imperial federation said: “It would
be wise, if possible, to bring America
Into a grand defen-ive league of the
Anglo-Saxon races, which would ef
fectually secure the peace of the
world.”
In Switzerland, from the smallest
village, it is now possible to telephone
to any place in the country at a fee of
from one penny to fourpenee for the
most distant points, on instruments on
which one can hear with perfect dis- |
tinctnesa, and which are kept in thor
ough repair.
Thr progressive Hollanders have in
view the project of draining the Zuy
der Zee, which has an area of 760
square mile. The cost of the dam
alone, if the project is undertaken,
will be 818,000,000. The cost of the
work will approximate Sii.'i.OOO.OiX) and
fct will take about 32 years to do it.
PrKiNC. the year postage stamps were
delivered to postmasters in the follow- j
ing amounts: Ordinary stamps, 3,025,
481,467; special delivery, 4,466,270;
postage due stamps. 19,348,714; news
paper, etc., 5.505,672; total number 3.
054.802,123. A saving for the year 1896
Is shown of 825.124 in the cost of the
production of postage stamps
In dismantling a Brooklyn watch
ca^e factory and burning the debris an
effort was made to reclaim any of the
gold that might have accumulated in
the process of manufacture So far
gold to the amount*- of 850.000 has been
reclaimed, and the company estimates
that from the clearing up yet to be
done of the basement 810,000 more will
be realized.
Edmund G. Bkow.nk. "King of the
Bums” and collaborator of Editor
Stead in his book, "If Christ Came to
Chicago," died at the Mercy hospital at
Chicago recently. He had been taken :
there, suffering from alcoholism. His
friends, however, said that his death :
was due to nicotine poisoning. For
many years lie had smoked on an
average of 100 cigarettes a day.
Aiim. Dot, well known ns Barnum’s
famous midget, and Brownie Ritter, ,
who took a leading part in Palmer
Cox's stage production of “The
Brownies" and is not much bigger tiian
Aiim. Dot, fought a duel with swords
at White Plains, N. Y., recently. The 1
a imiral drew blood from Ritter and 1
the seconds declared honor satisfied. |
The duel was caused by Adm. Dot !
ordering Brownie Ritter from the
former's hotel.
The Protestant Episcopal church of
the United States is about to organize
an army of uniformed evangelists,
somewhat similar to the Salvation
army, who will be. under military dis
cipline and stationed in different
cities. These men will preach
iu the streets and be aided by
bands of music. The work ultimately !
wiil include the erection of laborers’
homes ami lodging houses for men and i
rescue houses for fallen women.
A school, of housekeeping has been
founded in Chicago. In several of the
puolic schools the Kitchen Garden as
s< cti't’on has formed classes in domes
tic science, where children are trained
in ail the details of household duty.
In the regular housekeepinschool
le sons are given in laundering, in
house cleaning—in everything which
pertains to domestic government. The
association wishes to introduce the
teaching of household duties into all
®I the public schools of Chicago.
1 he famine in northern India, which
now appears to be inevitable, causes
the greatest anxiety in London, and it
is recognized that the import of Amer
ican wheat is likely to be the prime
factor of the situation. Prices in the
affected districts have risen consider
ably, and California wheat en route is
aold in advance at higher prices than
the native wheat, indicating the con
viction that prices will have risen still
higher by the time the imports arrive.
The Indian government has already
sketched out vast schemes for railroad,
canal and other relief work to mitigate
the distress
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gleaned Gy Tolograph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
President Cleveland and his wife
Attended the sc-qui-centennial at
Princton (X. J.) college on the 2!st
Much excitement was created at
Jacksonville. Fla., by the announce
ment that the United States steamship
Raleigh had captured the ul ege i fili
bustering tugs Dauntless and 11. L.
Mahey. Cubans were greatly excited
over the matter, as it was common
rumor that they had an immense
amount of munitions of all kinds
cached %t tlie key below New Smyrna
for the tugs to take on for Cuba.
Hon. Justin Morrill has been re
elected to the United States senate by
both houses of the Vermont legisla
ture in joint session.
s11 i:i [AM < MUM spoke at Cov
ington. Ky.. on the 22d. The meeting
was very disorderly, many in the crowd
cheering for Bryan. The secretary
was interrupted continually in his
speech and eggs were thrown about
the hall. At the clorc Mr. Carlisle was
escorted to where lie was stopping by
20 policemen. Many insulting remarks
were made by hoodlums gathered
about the exit of the hall.
The house of bishops of the Protes
tant Kpiscopal church of the United
States, in session at Xew York, elected
Rev. John D. Morrison, of Ogdensburg,
X. Y., to be bishop of the newly
created diocese of Duluth. Mlou.
Columbus Dkla.no, who was secre
tary of the interior under President
Grant, died at his home near Mount
Vernon, O., on the 23d. aged 87.
By a vote of fifteen to eight the Pres
byterian synod of Illinois has expelled
Rev. Frank B. Vroomun, of Chicago,
for heterodoxy.
uiAKLh.A r. v :;isr. ex-speaKcr 01 con
gress, died at Atlanta, Ga., on the 23d.
He had long been troubled with heart
disease and had recently been in bad
health and his death was not alto
gether unexpected. He was born in
Sheffield. Eng., January 29, 1845.
The Shipping and Industrial Sound
Money league of New York held a
novel parade on the, harbor and rivers
on the 24th. There were over 250 ves
sels of all kinds in line and all were
decked in gala attire. Fireworks,
magnesium lights and searchlights lit
up the fleet.
A Chicago dispatch on the 25th said
that the republicans had straight elec
toral tickets in 44 of the 45 states, hav
ing effected fusion in only one—Texas
—with the '•middle-of-the-road" popu
lists and gold standard democrats.
The democrats had straight electoral
tickets in only 15 of the states, having
effected a fusion with the populists
and free silver republicans in 29 of the
others, a conclusion not having vet
teen reached in the remainder of the
states.
The railroad men had a torchlight
parade on the 25th at Chicago for the
republican candidates, about 18.000
men be.ng in line. All of the roads
running out of Chicago were repre
sented.
Gen. Morton C. Hunter died of pa
ralvs s on the 25th at Bloomington, Ind.
He was the hero of Snodgrass hill, and
saved the day at Chickamauga.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The most disastrous cotton fire in
the history of Galveston, Tex., occurred
on the 25th, resulting in the destruc
tion of 4,400 bales and the warehouse
in which they were stored. Loss on
warehouse, $25,000; loss on cotton,
$135,000; fully covered by insurance.
A daring jail delivery was per
petrated on the 25th at the county jail
at Louisville, Ky., and six desperate
prisoners made their escape. They
gained their liberty by scraping the
moptf.r from the bricks in a cell and
got a hole large enough for them to
climb through to the roof and then let
themse'ves down by a rope.
A fire broke out at the Third Uni
tarian church at Chicago while service
was being held on the 25th. The pas
tor averted a panic by requesting the
congregation to retire quietly, his cool
ness reassuring the people. The church
was almost totally destroyed. Loss,
825,000.
Surgeon-General Tutor, chief of
the bureau of medicine and surgery,
has submitted his annual report to the
secretary of the navy. A strong argu
ment was made for ambulance or hos
pital snips specially fitted up and the
health of the navy was reported as
good.
ritzsimmoxs ana Miarkev have been
matched to bo* ten rounds at San
Francisco on December© for a purse of
810,000. The winner to take all.
Nine Indian territory criminals es
caped the other night from the United
States jail at Fort Smith. Ark.
The Catholic schools of Ottumwa,
la., have been closed on account of
diphtheria, and indications were that
the public schools would have to be
closed, as the disease showed no signs
of abatement.
An Omaha, X’eb., dispatch said that
the freight ear famine was assuming
alarming proportions in the west. The
roads need cars for extra freight, for
all the wheat in the country was being
rushed to market during the present
high price.
Besieged by iufuriated negroes, .1.
M. Criglar. manager of Hagerman’s
lumber mills, near Chipley, Fla., de
fended himself with such effect that he
killed two of his assailants and wound
ed four others. Criglar became in
volved in a quarrel with one of his em
ployes and the other negroes drew pis
tols and began firing at the manager.
For an honr the battle continued, and
the negroes were preparing to set fire
to the office in which Criglar had tak
en refuge and cremate him, when a
train crew and passengers rushed to
Criglar's aid and dispersed the negroes.
Sparks from an engine burned the
ca. sheds of the Powell’s Valley rail
w ay st Bigstone Gap, Va.
A farmer named Butka. who has a
large income from oil leases, was mur
dered on his farm, about 17 miles south
of Toledo. O.. bv robbers and hi’, wife
was seriously injured. All the robbers
got was a watch and a few dollars.
A moh of 100 men riotroved all ilia
tollgates in Franklin county, Ky., on
the night of the 24th.
Fitie broke out on the V.Vh in the
l.imber pit and in the mill plant prem
ises of the Center Lumber Co. at Zil
ivaukee, Mich., and destroyed about
8,000,000 feet of lumber. The loss will
• rproach 5150,000 and is fairly covered
by insurance.
Gustav I’ar.ht, son of the wealthy
brewer of Milwaukee, has been grant
ed a divorce from Margaret Mather
Pabst. the actress. The ground al
leged was cruel and inhuman treat
ment.
While Andrew J. Sprute with his
wife and five children were boating on
Smith's lake at Denver, Col., on the
25th. the boat was by some means
overturned and Mrs. Sprute and her
five children were drowned.
A negro boy, 14 years old, while at
tempting to get on a moving train at
Purcell, I. T., to steal a ride to Ard
more. foil beneath the wheels and was
horribly mangled, death ensuing in
stantly.
The National Spiritualist association,
at their concluding session in Washing
ton, adopted a recommendation pro
viding that the first Sunday before No
vember 20, the anniversary of modern
spiritualism, be known as national day
to spiritualism, and that societies take
up a collection on that day for the lien
efit of the cause.
Joseph Hetti.eb walked intoa black
smith shop at San Antonio, Tex,
where he was employed and shot a fel
low-workman, inflicting a mortal
wound, and then fired a bullet into his
own brain. He was believed to have
been insane. i
The annual financial statement of
Canada for the year ended June 30,
1896, was made public on the 23d. It
showed a deficit for the year of $363.
413. and an increase in the public debt
of $5,338,331. The net public debt now
age regales 5-.0. s.-, owi,
Tiik steamer T. I*. Leathers, belong
ing to the Interstate Transportation
Co., sank two miles above Natchez,
Miss., with a big load. In sinking she
settled up to her boiler deck and it
was thought she could be saved. The
boat na' valued at 540,000 and was in
sured for 520,000. No lives were lost,
but most of the passengers lost their
belongings.
According to Bradstreet’s there were
202 business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 23d, be
ing 33 more than in the correspond ng
week last year.
Pan Crekdon, of Australia, and
Henry Baker, of Chicago, fought a 20
round bout at Maspeth, L. L, on the
23d. The referee decided in favor of
Creedon.
Tiik town of Kuroff. in Russian
Poland, was almost totally destroyed
by fire and 3,000 persons made home
less.
The Bank of England's rate of dis
count was advanced from t%vo percent,
to four percent, on the p2d.
Ai.most the entire business portion
of Lancaster. N. Y.f was burned on the
21st.
Tom Cooper, of Detroit, Mich.,
smashed a bicycle record at Memphis,
Tenn., on the 22d. lie lowered the
world’s unrated quarter mile record
one-fifth of a second, making it in
26 2-5 seconds.
By a gasoline explosion at Peoria,
111., Mrs. James Vaughan and her
three-vear old child were fatally
burned and the house set on fire.
A negro who had killed a white man
was hanged by a por.se near Sunny
side, Miss., recently. The negroes aft
erwards challenge.! the whites to a
tight and a number left Sunnvside for
the scene and there was every prospect
of a riot taking place.
It was alleged at New York that
there was a gigantic deal in wheat, the
crop being cornered by a western syn
dicate representing SI50,000.000 of cap
ital. and that those interested had al
ready made fortunes on the rise in the
price of the cereal.
John Gi.enn, a miner, wascaught be- ]
neath a fall of rock in the mines near
South McAlester, I. T.. on the 23d. His '
back and neck were broken, causing
death instantly.
A drought has occurred in the north- ;
ern part of South Australia, as a re
sult of which the harvest is a total
failure and numbers of farmers are ;
destitute.
The national convention of musi- I
cians, in session at Indianapolis, lud., j
effected a complete affiliation with the |
American Federation of Labor. Owen j
Muller, of St. Louis, was elected presi- !
dent.
superintendent Rush, in charge of
the publication of the naval war rec
ords at Washington, in his annual re
port stated the second and third vol
ume had t een published and the fourth
was in the hands of the printer.
George Frazier and wife, colored,
were crossing the railroad track near
Lexington, Ky.. when a train struck
their vehicle. The horse was cut in
two and Frazier and his wife killed.
Mrs. Shelby Henderson, of Decatur,
Ini., became suddenly insane and sat
urated a l»ed with coal oil and attempt
ed to burn her two-year-old child on it,
but her husband rescued it She next
threw tlie child into the cistern, but it
was saved. The crazy woman then ran
througn the streets in a scantily-attired
condition.
At a tire at Brooklyn on the 22d in a
factory situated on Seventh street, in
which was stored a large quantity of
paints, oils and other inflammable ma
terials, one fireman was burned to
death, several others were injured and
property destroyed to the vulue of
$254,000.
The principal event at the sesqui
centennial of the university at Prince
ton, N. J., on tlie 22d was an address
by President Cleveland on the duties
and resoonsibilities that college men
owe to the cause of good government.
The sale of the Tomboy gold mine at
Telluride, Col., has been made to a
London syndicate for S2,< 00,00tt It
was bought a year ago for a compara
tively small sum.
A newspaper writer, named Eulen
berg. at Blacewitz, Germany, killed
his wife, three children and himself by
putting Doison in the food, lie had
become despondent through want of
employment.
CHICAGO EGG HURLERS
Arrested and Looked Up Pending
Investigation.
THEY ARE TWO 17-YEAR-OLD YGUN6 MEM,
Students in the Metropolitan College,
and A jroit Their Guilt — The
Owner of the Building Makes
a Statement.
Tire KEg-Tbrowen Arrested.
Chicago, Oct. t’9.—Two young men,
Chauncey C. Foster ami Lewis
Hanchett,have been arrested for throw
ing eggs at Mr. Bryan during the ride
from the train to Battery I) Tuesday.
They admit their guilt. Foster is 17
and son of a retired merchant;
Hanchett is the same age. Ilis father
is vice-president of the Hanchett Paper
Co. The boys were locked up pending
further investigation.
fotHtenirnt of th«> Owiu*r of flit* Building.
Chjca go, Oct. a .—O. M Powers,
owner of the Powers building and
head of the Metropolitan college, has
made a statement regarding the eggs
which were hurled into the procession
escorting Mr. and Mrs. VV. J. Bryan
from the union depot to Battery I)
Tuesday afternoon. Thev were thrown
from a window of the writing room of
the Metropolitan business college, on
the upper floors s,f the Powers build
ing, at Michigan avenue und Monroe
street, but a few moments before the
march came to an eud.
Mr. Powers says:
II is reported to me that wnile the
procession escorting Mr. Bryan was
passing this building an improper dem
onstration was made by the hurling ol
missiles from the top of the build
ing or upper floors. At the time of
the occurrence the writer was on
one of tlie lower floors, the upper
stories being occupied by about
Too students. Not suspecting that any
thing of the kind would take place,
1 had not deemed it necessary to exer
cise any special surveillance over the
students of this college, and the ob
ject of this letter is to express my
mortification and regret at this un
seemly occurrence. While 1 am po
litically opposeil to Mr. Bryan and the
party he represents, I believe he
should be treated with respect, and I
desire to apologize for an act which
can only lie attributed to the thought
lessness of youth.-’
Chairman Hanna, when told of the
Incident last night, expressed deep re
gret that such an attempt hail been
made to insult the democratic presi
dential candidate, and expressed the
hope that the perpetrators might be
caught and punished.
Mr. Bryau said that he did not know
•nyefTtfs were thrown until late in the
evening, when he heard the report.
None of the eggs struck the carriage,
Mr. Bryau said, nor any of the mem
bers of the party occupying it. The
driver of the carriage knew nothing
whatever concerning the affair.
THE FRISCO WRECK.
Verdict Rendered by the Coroner's Jury
at Kirkwood, M o.
St. T oi ls, Oct. 29.—At 1 a- in., after
having been out since ten o'clock Tues
day night, the Kirkwood coroner's
jury Investigating the cause of the
Frisco wreck in Merameccut last Sun
day, resulting in the killing of eight
persons and the wounding of many
others, returned the following verdict.
We. the undersigned jurors, impaneled and
Sworn on the -nth day of October. 18P8, by Hugo
I. Jacob!, justice of the peace, acting as
Soroner. find that Adolph Mob.. Coortwl Kunst
C. C. Itlevius, Henry Thole. Ucuhsrd Mc
Kenna. Man. is MoKenne, Charles Moebius
end WUhsiu e\ Cartwright came to their
Heaths as ll.* of n collision between a
Heave-iu<ic: excursion train, going west Horn
Kt. Lou:*, and the local acooic modal too train,
fomlng east from V allay Par*, on the
Kt. lot!' k 9an Fianclaee rail
road cn Ue JB'h d»e of Octo
ber 'She, mch collision being due to the
:arelo»*n**s of C,e<n-«* Atwood. conductor,
and J. A. I)ry<J<r., engineer. In charge of the
wce’-oound trsit. and the failure of the St.
Louts At San PYsncleec Railroad Co. In this
raso •'> ex'Mclse the proper auftrv s'ou over
the movements of It* trains.
s.£ucd this .'8th day of October. IS(*I
til) \\ Caktsh, Foratnai
Evkke- p. Miriy
Leopold MAnyriTA
TmCO. Stl'RTKB
Htviv HlCiOIltOlTItAB
Justus W. Johnsob
Conductor Atwood sud Kngitieer
Drvden admitted that they fp.-gu'
the'r ori'ees.
A HOT CONTEST
Frohahl* «n the Georf~a L«KU!ftiu<« 0»«r
'he £ep»*orsht«>.
Atlanta, (ia., Got. 49. —The Georgia
legislature rant at 10 a. ir... and was
Immediately organized. There was no
contest fer any of the offices, all of
these btiug sctHed by the caucus. Hon.
Robert Demur was elected presideutof
the senate; Hon. C. 11. Gray, president
pro tern.; Hon H. A. .'enkins,
of Putnam, was elected speaker; Hon.
W . A. Dodson, of Sumter, sneaker pro
tern; Hon. Mark Hardin. <lerk
l’1' business was done beyond the
formal organization. The legislature
has before it u 'not contest for the
United States senatorship,precipitated
by the sudden death of Hon. Charles
T. Crisp, who would have heeu unani
mously chosen. Theie are five candi
dates including Gov. Atkiuson.
ANOTHER CONSPIRACY
Acsintt Spanish Hills It *a« Islands „l
th* I’uriilr.
T.OKDOX, Oct. 29.—An official cable
gram received from Manila, the capita’
cf the Philippine islands, says that a
conspiracy against, the government
has bem dhco\erad iu the Zooloc
islands. Ivght Spar.lsh soldiers were
shot in conlliat with the revolution
's’' «♦ Zoo'oo the capital of the Zooloc
archipelago, uud troops h»\e been seut
there by .the governor of the Philip
pines. who h-.s also armed a local force
at Zooloo
■ ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
HAS THE POWER TO APPOINT.
—
The Supreme Court Say* the tlovernor
May Till (.riirral .%**« mhly Yaounde*.
At the September election. ISM, W.
] J. Matthews was elected representative
I of St. Francis county to the general as
sembly. lie afterwards died and Oov.
Clarke, under section 0. article 5, of the
constitution, issued a writ of election to
the sheriff of the county, commanding
him to issue n proclamation for an elec
tion to fill tlu vacancy. The sheriff re
fused to hold the election and there
upon a writ of mandamus was prayed
to compel him to do so. The circuit
court held that this section had been
superseded by a subsequent amendment
which empowers the governor to fill
such vacancies by appointment, and re
fused the writ. The state supreme
court passed upon the question the
other nay and that court, held that it
was the duty of the governor to till bv
appointment a vacancy occurring in the
office of representative, affirming the
judgment of the circuit court.
Moonshiners and Officers Meet.
Deputy I'nited States Marsha Dod
son reports an exciting brush with
moonshiners in the mountains about 15
miles from Marshall, in Searcy county,
near the Van Buren county line He
and three others captured and destroyed
a still. After the worm had been put
in a wagon, it was driven away a short
distance add one of the officers placed
in charge, while the others returned to
pour out the beer at the still. During
this time four of the ‘shiners came up to
the wagon, fully armed, and the officer
heard them lay their plans for the mur
der of the'officers. The three other
officers appeared and got the drop on
them, however, and drove away before
the reinforcement of five other moon
shiners known to be in the neighbor
hood and fully afined. The names of
five of the moonshiners were obtained:
George Homines, Kie Markham, John
Markham. John Wilbanks and Taylor
McBride.
No Negroes Wanted.
Advices received at Fort Smith from
the railroad camps below Mena are of
a sensational character. Mr. J. II. Mc
Carty. contractor of Little Rock, ar
rived in that city recently direct trom
Mena, ami on being questioned regard
ing the rumor, said that he had heard
of it and presumed the rumor was true.
In fact. Mr. McCarthy says, it is known
at Mena that a band of anti-negro citi
zens arc much opposed to the presence
in that county of any negroes at all.
The statements at Mena were that 15
men. armed with Winchesters, went to
a railroad camp, and with presented
guns made them move out. It, was said
this had been done to two or three dif
ferent gangs of negro laborers, who
liad been at work down there on the
railroad. The officers seem powerless
to do anything.
Old-Time Methods.
Dispatches from Hot Springs state
that arrangements are being quietly
perfected to establish a regular line of
100 wagons for the transportation of
freight between Little llock and that
city. The merchants regard the pres
ent freight rates from Little Ri>ek to
that city as exorbitant and a number of
them have concluded to patronize the
wagon line exclusively, so far as non
perishable goods are concerned.
Fired Into a Train.
Some luisereunt tired a shot at the
north-bound passenger train on the
Cotton Belt railroad at Camden re
cently. It occurred a short distance
south of that city, tiabe Klein, a Mew
Orleans grocery salesman, and II. 1’.
Morgan, of Stephens, had a narrow es
cape, as the bullet passed just over
them. There is no clew to lead to the
identity of the parties.
Mena’s Commercial League.
At a meeting of the business men of
Mena recently an enthusiastic commer
cial league was organized with :14 mem
bers. Col. Henry Glitsch was elected
president; J. B. Landis, secretary; J.
H. Hamilton, treasurer. It is expected
that this league will do much to de
velop the resources of western Arkan
sas. They are putting on metropolitan
airs.
County Seat Contest.
A county seat election will be held in
Pike county November 23. An effort is
being made by the promoters of Pike
C ity to have the county seat removed
from Murfreesboro to that place. Pike
City offers to build a fine brick court
house and donate it to the taxpayers of
the county free of cost.
A Sad Death.
Mrs. M. Townsend died in Helena re
cently after an illness of two weeks.
She arose from her bed two weeks be
fore to be married to her husband, then
"ent back to bed, and steadily de
clined. Mrs. Townsend was Miss Anna
Hubbard before her marriage, and was
u very attractive young woman.
. Twenty-One Years.
At Pine Bluff, J. I). Tucker and John
Hardin were tried and found guilty of
assisting in the murder of Andrew Car
son and were sentenced to the peniten
tiary for 21 and live years, respectfully.
Taggart, the murderer, plead guilty
and received a sentence of 21 years.
General Store Attached.
The general store of I). Weathersby
at New Lewisville was attached re
cently by Falk. Ottenheimer & Co. for
f 115. Other attachmeuts to the amount
of fci.ooo followed. Estimated liabili
ties, $12,000; assets, $a,000.
I. O. O. F. grand~looq^>
Two lliimlrpil l>p|pg»tp« In Attest
the Annual Meualon. ^**1
The fort}--seventh annual .rrj.
the grand lodge. I. O. O. F.. of thT*
of Arkansas, convened in I,itt]e sT
October 27. The Rtate assembly 2!
Daughters of Rebekah, the woj
auxiliary, also convened at the
time. About 200 delegates were •
tendance. The membership in 1
now numbers 4.101, anrl the numb*
lodges 140 Five suborinate and J
Rebekah lodges were organized d»k
the past year. The total receipt,^
{4.1:12.57, and amount paid for ,»&
was 12.501.30. Among the paat
present were: Adam Clark, ArkJ?
phia. 1881; W. A. Jett, Washing
1*82; lieo. W. Hurley, Newport, •%
A. S. Jett. Fulton. 1887; J:ts, p ^
sey. Bentonvllle, 1889; K. E. MonJ
Mulberry, 1892; J. P. Paul. 1894. ™
The proposition to establish a»u
ow'a nnd orphans’ home carried,*
the Eureka Springs proposition will 1
accepted if some better offer is not*,
dered. The following officers w
elected: Grand master. J. o. a. ss -
van. W aldron; deputy grand master j
15. Raker, of Melbourne; grand ward*
Theodore Treadway, Little Ro* k:jmj
secretary. J. R. Friedham, i
grand treasurer, II. Elirenberg, LUn
Rock; grand representative. E. II v*
▼enson. Fort Smith. The next meet*
will lie held at Texarkana.
The grand encampment branch «f
the order met and after transact*
routine business, the following ns*i
patriarchs were elected and install*
Theo. Treadway, grand patriarch; J. p
Paul, grand high priest; E E. Monst
grand senior warden; J. R. Kriedhe®.
grand scribe; II. Ehrenberg,
treasurer; J. A. Dirkson. grand jos*
warden: J. R. Snodgrass, grand m*.
shal; J. W. Lippineott, grand insideset
tinel; W. T. Farrar, grand outside set
tinel.
Abstracts of Taxes.
Auditor Mills has received the ab
streets of the tax books in the folio*,
ing counties:
Howard County—Value land taxed.
$393,419; total value real estate, 1787k
persons liable to poll tax. 2.510; total
value personal property, ♦522,440; total
amount taxes. $21,593 47.
Clark County—Total value of land.
$915,233; total value of real estate,$1,
293,453; persons liable to poll tax,4,US:
total value personal property. $1,511,
031; total amount taxes, $53,337.44,
Faulkner County—Total value of
land, $1,123,123; total value real estate
$1,527,951; persons liable to poll tax
4,230; value personal property, $2,307.
652; amount of taxes, $39,425.06.
Killing of Tom Smith.
Quite an interest is being manifested
over tile kilHVig of Tom Smith, a yoonf
man aged 19, by John C. Fitzpatrick,!
mill man at Pine City, recently. It
seems now that Smith was the agifra
sor and was shot in the hip by Fitzpat
rick, from which he afterwards died.
Fitzpatrick was released on bond foe
aggravated assault, but after Smiths
death was arrested for murder in the
first degree.
Nine Prisoners Escape.
Nine prisoners escaped from the fed
eral jail at Fort Smith the other Bight.
They drilled through the roofs of two
cells and by means of a rope which con
nected with a ventilator let themselvw
down to the ground. They were charged
with robbery and larceny and were
awaiting the November term of court
for trial.
Mrs. Annette Ellis.
Mrs. Annette Ellis, wife of Dr. D. B.
Ellis, died of typhoid fever at F.ureltt
recently. She was very prominent in
city charities, and will be greatly
missed by the poor.
THE STATE IN BRIEF.
There have been live railway surveys
in Scott county.
One hundred aud fifty Illinois fami
lies will move to Lawrence county.
Chas. Mack, the Pulaski county col
ored wife murderer, received a sentence
of 31 years.
Senator-elect R. D. McMullin, of th*
Eighth district, is taking the A. 1. i-*
law course.
The state agriculture department hai
received from Desha county two sweet
potatoes weighing 13 and 10 pounds.
Uov. Clarke appointed W. F. Illy the
to succeed Justice of the Peace John
Kennedy at Fort Smith.
The case against Tom McK. White,
of Little Rock, accused of obtaining
money under false pretense, was dis
missed.
The governor has remitted a line of
•50 assessed against Nancy Dodson ia
May, 1800, in the Stone county circuit
court, for malicious mischief.
The regular commutation list of con
victs to be released during November
has been certified to the secretary of
state. It contains 31 names.
F. W. DeRossitt was elected repre
sentative from St. Francis county, to
till the vacancy caused by the death of
Representative-elect Matthews.
Prof. F. O. Butt, of Carroll couuty.
who is only 93 years old, will be the
youngest member of the next legist*"
ture. S. L. Jeffers, who will represent
Crawford county-, is a year older.
The clerks in the secretary of states
office arc now busily engaged in issu
ing 3,000 commissions to the officers,
township and county, elected at the re
cent election.