Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1894 — A LOCAL AFFAIR. [ARTICLE]

A LOCAL AFFAIR.

Incident* In the Social Whirl of Arkansan. A Guerdon, Ark., dispatch, Jan. 30. says: Information has been received from Alpine, a small village in the northwestern portion of Clark eouuty, announcing the killing of three men and the Injuring of three others during a country dance held at the residence of James Forbes. Frenzied by drink, the men came to blows, and knives and revolvers were brought Into action. Lew Jones, Charles Ross and Sam Powell were those killed, Jones and Powell having been shotr while Ross was stabbed through the heart with a botcherknife. Walker Jones and Bill Jones wen both seriously, if not fatally, wounded, the latter having be:n slashed fourteen times. Several others received slight eats and bruises.