Little Rock, February 6--A gentleman who reached here today from Harrison, Ark., says that there are several cases of small-pox in Boone county.  Frank White, a farmer living on Bear creek, contracted the disease while on a business trip to Springfield, Mo., and gave it to a number of parties in the neighborhood, including his wife and son.  Mrs. White has since died and the boy is in critical condition.  Other informants say that there are as many as ten cases in the immediate neighborhood, and that great alarm is felt in consequence.  The town of Harrison has escaped the disease entirely, and has taken every precaution against the scourge.  --Galveston (TX) Weekly News, Feb 9, 1882.

The sheriff of Boone County, Ark. and a posse of four men while attempting to arrest G. W. Middleton here, were fired upon by the latter and Charles Richardson, one of the sheriff's men, was killed and another seriously wounded. Middleton made good his escape. Middleton is a member of the Tanney County Bald Knobbers and was tried last term of court at Forsyth and convicted of murdering a young man. He was sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary but broke jail and is still at large. - [Ex.]

--From Marion Herald, Marion County, AL - Feb. 23, 1888 - Transcirbed and submitted by Veneta McKinney.

Harrison, Ark., Dec 23--On Tuesday night, near Bellefonte, Boone county, an awful crime was committed.  Miss Mate, daughter of John Mate, attended a dance, where her escort was taken ill and she accepted the company of a young man named John Dees on the way home.  Dees mistook the way home and, though she protested, he insisted the road he had taken was the shorter way.  After travelling a few miles the couple were overtaken by five drunken men, who made an assault on Miss Mate, dragged her from her horse and compelled her by force to submit to them.  Her escort made no effort to defend her.  She was kept in the woods, at the mercy of these men, until daylight.  It is feared she cannot recover from her injuries.
    The injured girl cannot identify any of her assailants, but it is thought all of them will be captured and summary justice will probably be visited upon them.  Young Dees' conduct is the cause of great indignation, and it is freely charged that, while he was guilty of no overt act himself, he acted as a decoy for the others.  Dees is the son of a clergyman.  The unfortunate girl was highly respected and bore an unblemished reputation.  --St. Louis Republic, Dec 29, 1889.

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