The Newark Journal
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OSCAR F. CRAIO, Editor.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 1904
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS
Short Items of* General Interest
Gathered Fresh From Our
Local Exchanges.
A bank lias been organized at
Altus.
Arkansas county ha* 5^10,01L.i>7
n cash in its treasury.
Hazen has doubled its popula
tion in the last, three years.
A negro child at Sandtown has
eleven fingers and twelve toes.
The net indebtedness of Monroe
county August 1, was $11,130.16.
Frank Dyer of DeQueen lost his
right hand by having it caught in
a planer.
Work is being rapidly pushed
on tunnels B and C on the W lute
Stiver Railroad.
The barn on the farm of R. D.
Sale, near Mena, was burned caus
ing a loss of $1,000.
John Loftus died at War Eagle
from the effects of drinking ice
water while too warm.
Five murder cases are to be
tried at the present term of the
Columbia circuit court.
DeKotie lime was killed by
Meyer Frost at a dance at For
clyce. Both were negroes.
The new $11,000 hotel of the
Van Noy News Company at
Wynne is rapidly nearing comple
tion.
In the prison camp near the
Yellville depot are 1^6 convicts, !
sixteen of whom are white and 11<»
black.
Miss Viola Lawrence of Fort
£>mith was painfully injurred in a
street ear wreck at St. Louis Sat
urday.
R. F. Masterson of Success re
cently shipped a carload of wheat,
the first load ever shipped out of
day county.
A numerously signed petition is
being circulated asking the Jones- j
boro city council to repeal the or
dinance requiring male adults to
■work the streets.
A very fine body of zinc and lead
ores lias been uncovered in the
Banoni mine at Gillam, and the
force of men has been greatly in
creased. One shot brought down
200 tons of ore.
John Ashworth, a farmer living
near Klin Springs, was shot and
killed by Amos Snavley, a neigh
bor, last Saturday. The shooting
was the result of Ashworth’s in
fatuation for the 17-year-old sis
ter-in-law of Snavley.
Ex-County Judge Warren of
Like county who was confined in
the state; insane asylum, but who
was released as cured, and return
ed to his home at .Murfreesboro,
became so violent recently that it
was necessary to incarcerate him
in the county jail.
The Magnolia News says: “Jes
se Burton, who lives three miles
east of town, has discovered on
his place what he ami others call
the genuine, guaranteed Mexican
boll weevil, or a first cousin to it.
Mr. Burton says it had just as well
be the weevil, for it is eating up
u
THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE MONUMENT.
hi* cotton. It is worse than the i
boll worm."
.Fohn Dyer, a farmer residing
near Nashville, was shot and in-j
stantly killed by liis son, Justin j
1)\er, who was defending Ids
mother from attack l>y her hus
band, who was intoxicated.
F. A. Wooten, a t’onfeterate
veteran and one of the oldest news
paper men in the state, died Aug
ust at his liome at Texarkana.
He and his brother, Jack and their
father, (J. H. Wooten, established;
the Texarkanian in 1ST A.
An unknown man attempted to
commit suicide at North Little
Rock last Friday. He slabbed
himself in the throat in nine ditf
erent places, but was carried to a
hospital, where his wounds were |
dressed and he is now <>n the road
to recovery. He refused to give!
his name.
Abscess.
\V. II. Harrison. Cleveland.!
Miss, wiiies, Aug. 15, 1!Mi2 : “l
want to say a word of praise for
Mallard's Snow Liniment. 1 step
ped on a nad. which eansed tin
cords in mv leg to contract and
an abscess to rise in my knee.1
and the doctor told me that I
would have a stiff leg. so one day
1 went to .1. I" . Lord s druu s| • »re
(who is now in Denver, Colo.)
He recommended a bottle of Snow
Liniment, 1 got a 50c sizu. and it
cured my leg. It is the best lini
ment in the world."
Abscesses, with few exceptions,
arc indicative of constipation or
dt lulity. The\ may. however, re
sult from blows or from foreign
bodies, introduced into the skin
or flesh, such as splinters, thorns,
eet. Sold by J. I. Sturdivant.
Aeronaut’s Skull Fractured.
Mammoth Spring, Ark., Aug. ,
25. Harry Sells, a traveling aer
onaut, while making an ascension
yesterday at 5 p. m. two miles
north of Mammoth Spring, on the
re union grounds met with an aw
ful accident that will probably re
j suit fatally, lie made a chute leap,
but while trying to dislodge the
! parachute from a treetop. where it
lodged, he missed his footing and
fell violently to the ground, fract-!
uring his skull in several places.
He was carried to the town of
Thayer, nearby, and medical aid at
once summoned. The physicians
think his recovery doubtful. He
was billed for three more ascen
sions this week, having made two
previous to his mishap.
FARMEPS ORGANIZED.
Foreman. Aik., Any:. 27. The
Farmers' Fducational and Co-op
erative Cnion of Little ltiver
county began a t wo days' session
here yesterday, with a representa
tion of seventy five delegates from
fifteen local unions. W.L.Hedge
cock of Wilton i> president, and
W. II. Wimherly of Ashdown,
secretary. 'J lie movement was 01 -
ganixed in Little River county in
dan nary of this year, and is grow
ing at a rapid rate. It is bast'd on
the necessity for better education
and more co-operation among the
farmers.
Fearful CcEls Against Him.
Bedridden, alone and destitute.
Such, ill brief wm l*’e condition
of an old soldier bv name of .J. J.
Havens, Versailles. O. 1* or years
lie was troubled with kidney dis
ease and m il her doctoi > nor uied
ieiues gave him relief. At length
lie tried Electric Bitters. It put
him on his feet in short older and
now he testifies: "I’m on the
road Incomplete recovery- Best
on earth for livei and knlnev
troubles and ail forms of stomach
and bowel complaints. Only f)0c.
Guaranteed by .J. I. Sturdivant.
Druggist.
Killed in Free-For-All Fight.
Alma, Ark.. Aug. 26. —In a
free-for-all light, which took place
on the outskirts of Alma at "o’
clock tonight, dim Rushing* was
stabbed to death. His death wound
is said to have been inflicted by
Henry Tompson, who, in turn,
was shot in the forehead, and is
thought to be fattally wounded.
.John Hikcoek. who was one of
the men in the light, was hit on
the head with a rock, but his in
juries are not thought to be seri
ous. Many Rushing, a brother of
.Jim Rushing, was badly hurt, but
the extent of his injuries is not
known.
The fight is said to have been
the outgrowth of an old trouble,
but the exact cause which precipi
tated it could not be learned to
night.
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.
Has world wide fame for mar
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balm for cuts, corns, burns,boils,
sores, felons, ulcers, tetter, salt
rheum, fever sores, chapped
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for piles. Cure guaranteed. On
ly 25 cents at J. I. Sturdivant’s.
Druggist,
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B of Agricultural Lands.
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We’ll admit it will cure malaria, but it leaves
g almost deadly after effects.
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Offeri' his professional services to the,
citizens of Newark and vicinity.
Diseases of Women and Children
a specialty. Office in the Racket Store.
Residence formerly the Jake Magness
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