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From: "Fran Warren" <>
Subject: [AR-OLD-NEWS] June 8, 1907 Van Buren Press
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:36:17 -0700

Good morning all! And here's your copy of the front page news for June 8,
1907. This is the "State News Section" only. Enjoy!

Van Buren Press
Crawford County, Arkansas
June 8, 1907

AGED MAN DEAD
Calvern Owensby, a pioneer of Arkansas, died at his home at Big Fork
recently at the age of 87. His funeral was attended by one hundred
descendants.

DIED ON TRAIN
Mrs. John Davis of Greenwood, who has been under treatment in the State
Hospital for Nervous Diseases for some time, died while being removed from
the train, to her home. She was perfectly restored in mind, but physically
very weak, and the exertion of taking her back to her home was too much for
her frail condition.

FATHER AND SON KILLED

Isaac Wright and his son Marcus, were shot and killed at Cisco, a small
station four miles west of Green Forest, by A H Short. The shooting was the
result of a family feud, which had existed for some time.

W R JONES DEAD
W R Jones, aged 70 years, died recently form the effects of burns received
in a fire at Corning.

Dock Bright, a young man employed in a sawmill near Prattsville, was crushed
to death recently by a long which rolled over him.

Grover Frazier, a young man 21 years old, shot himself at his home in Bald
Knob because Miss Elsie Edens, the girl with whom he was in love,
accompanied another young man to a prayer meeting. The ball passed through
his head, coming out below the ear. It is considered a miracle tha he id not
die instantly; but at the present time there is strong hope of his recovery.

NEGRO RUN OVER BY TRAIN
Frank Armstrong, a Negro, was run over by a train while on his way to
Jacksonport. He was riding on the side of the car, when in some way he was
jarred from his seat and fell beneath the train. The wheels crushing his
left leg from the ankle to a place six inches above the knee. After being
hurt he lay in a pool of water for two hours before he was discovered.

TWO KILLED IN WRECK
Fireman Jack Pepper and the baggage checker, whose name cannot be learned,
were killed in a railroad wreck near Siloam Springs recently. It is supposed
that the wreck was caused by a rock lodging on the track in such a manner
that the engine was derailed.

KILLED BY LIGHTENING
Mrs. A Shirley, an aged lady who lived at Oil Trough, Independence County,
was struck by lightening and instantly killed during the progress of a
severe storm recently.

BUILDING NEW MILL
A new mill is being built near Cane Hill, Washington County, on the bank of
the Little Jordan. The power selected to operate the mill is a mammoth steel
overshot waterwheel 36 feet in diameter by 3 feet wide, which will probably
be the largest of the kind in the state. In addition to the waterwheel,
steam power will be installed to prevent a shutdown in case of an accident.
Fran Alverson Warren
e-mail:
501-369-2703
http://www.crawfordcountyarkansas.net/

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