People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — DRINK CAUSES MURDER. [ARTICLE]

DRINK CAUSES MURDER.

Three Men Killed and Two Badly Injured lu a Row at an Arkansas Dauce. Gurdon, Ark., Feb. I.—Reliable information has been received from Alpine, a small village in the northwestern portion of this (Clark) county, announcing the killing of three men and the wounding of tw r o others during a melee at a country dance at the house of James Forbes [Saturday night. Frenzied by drink the men came to blows among themselves, and as a final resort knives and revolvers were brought into action. Lew Jones, Charles Ross and Sam Powell were killed, Jones and Pow’ell having been shot, while Ross W’as stabbed through the heart with a butcher knife. Walker Jones and Bill Jones were both seriously, if not fatally, wounded.