The Newark Journal.
O F. CRAIG, Kdltor.
NEWARK- - , ARKANSAS.
A mob at Marshall, Texas, with
the aid of a telephone pole, forced
on opening in the wall of the coun
ty jail and took out Walter Davis, a
negro, and hanged him to a tree in
the edge of town. Davis was charg
ed with murdering an officer by
shooting him from ambush.
Fearing an epidemic of yellow fe
ver, a number of persons living
along the Rio Grande have appealed
to the war department for the es
tablishment of a “shotgun” quaran
tine, .and that soldiers be ordered
for this duty. The department does
not regard the situation so serious
as to warrant this course.
Clad in uniforms of blue and
gray, emblematic of the reunion as
comrades of men formerly separat
ed by sectional strife, one thousand
soldiers of the Spanish-Amcriean
war marched in parade September
28 at New Haven, Conn., as a pre
liminary to the opening of the
fourth annual assembly of the na
tional army and navy Spanish
'American war veterans. The mem
bership now numbers 140,000.
At a meeting of a special com
mittee of the Northern Presbyte
rian church, held to discuss the
status of the negro in the church,
it was decided to recommend to the
general assembly that no race dis
tinction be made. 13y this action
the 15,000 negro members of the
church will not be set apart as a
separate denomination, nor will the
church take part in any class legis
lation—that is to say, the word “ne
gro’’ will not be used as a qualifi
cation of any of the church laws
or regulations. There is nothing in
the committee’s report, however, to
prohibit the forming of presbyteries
composed wholly of negroes.
A bloody riot was started at Ox
ford, 0., on the 1st inst. by two
brothers named Joe and Louis Spi
vey getting drunk and trying to
run the town. Town Marshal Wood
ruff arrested Louis and started to
take him to jail, when Joe Spivey
deliberately shot the officer down.
.When the populace realized that the
officer had been murdered, a large
crowd started after the Spiveys, and
a running fight took place in which
several parties were woundod, among
them Joe Spivey. The two men
were landed in jail, but a few min
wtes later a mob, led by the father
of the dead officer, battered down
the door to the prison and, with a
rope around Joe Spivey's neck, haul
ed him to a tree a few hundred
yards away, lie was twice strung
up, but just before life was extinct
officers made their way through the
crowd, cut the rope and succeeded
in getting the prisoner out of the
city.
Mr. George Lynch, a representa
tive of the St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat, now in Macedonia, lias cabled
his paper of some of the sights that
lie has personally witnessed in the
Balkans. In describing the situa
tion at Monastir, after several days
fighting, the correspondent says:
“Scores of bodies, with limbs liter
ally torn away, as if by wild horses,
block the narrow streets, while the
weeping and wailing of mourners
make the day and night hideous. It
is impossible for me to estimate
with any accuracy the number of
dead and injured, but from all ac
counts it must run between 5,000
and 10,000. It is impossible to fix
the number of Turkish losses dur
ing the recent skirmishes.
Swift & Go., the Chicago packers,
are said to have lost in the neigh
borhood of a million dollars in an
unsuccessful attempt to corner the
supply of lard, being forced to sell
their holdings at a loss of 2 cents
Joseph Chamberlain, who re
cently resigned from ttye British
cabinet, has issued a manifesto,
Betting forth his opposition to the
English custom of free trade. Mr.
Chamberlain will make this an issue
tu the next British campaign.
1 Arkansas State News
Negro Convicted of Murder.
Robert Eaton, a one-legged negro
about 25 years of age, was found
guilty of murdering T. F. O'Brien,
a peddler, by a jury in Pulaski
circuit court. The evidence against
Eaton was circumstantial, but of
a strong character. The crime was
committed near Pinnacle Moun
tains, west of Little Rock, January
6 last. O’Brien left Little Rock
with a valise filled with spectacles
which he was selling. The next day
his body was discovered on the rail
road track by an engineer, who stop
ped his train within a few feet of
the murdered man. An investiga
tion showed that he had been shot
in the head with a load of buckshot,
and the body was placed on the track
to cover up the crime. Eaton was
seen with O'Brien, and then it was
known that he borrowed a shotgun
which was returned with one bar
rel empty. It was also proven that
the accused was seen wearing cloth
ing taken from the murdered man,
and when arrested he had in his
possession several pairs of spectacles
and O’Brien’s gold watch. Eaton
claims lie purchased these articles,
but could not produce any one to
substantiate this statement.
Choctaw Changes.
K. E. Cahill has been succeeded
as superintendent of the eastern di
vision of the Choctaw hv F. P>.
Stewart. The new superintendent
of the eastern division has been
with the Choctaw for nearly a year,
coming with it from the Central of
New Jersey, Superintendent Wentz’
old charge. He was first chief clerk
to Mr. Wentz, succeeding N. C.
Phillips, who was promoted to be
superintendent on the west end.
Then he became Mr. Wentz's assist
ant, and when Mr. Phillips resign
ed as superintendent on the west
end, on September 7, Mr. Stewart
was appointed to •uceeed him. Now
he is transferred to the eastern di
vision. W. M. Whittenton, the new
superintendent on the west end, has
been trainmaster on the cast end of
the western division, with headquar
ters at Shawnee.
Prohibition Election Void.
Judge Bryant of the federal
court at Sherman has granted to
the saloon men of the Texas side
of Texarkana a writ of permanent
injunction restraining the authori
ties on that side of the state line
from publishing and declaring the
result of the prohibition election
held on August 27 last, wherein the
county voted dry. The injunction
was granted on the ground that only
fourteen days’ notice of the elec
tion was given, whereas the law re
quires fifteen days. The prohibi
tionists announce that they will at
once call a county mass meeting and
take the necessary steps for holding
another election.
School District May Borrow Money.
The state department of public
instruction is receiving inquiries
concerning the fate of the bill in
the last legislature authorizing from
school districts to borrow money and
mortgage their property for the pur
pose of erecting school houses. It
is shown by the records that this
bill became a law without the gov
ernor's signature and was printed
in the acts of 1903, hence the free
school districts have authority to
borrow money and mortgage their
property for the purpose outlined.
Youth Kills His Brother.
At Green Forrest Walter Lynch,
aged 11 years, shot and probably
fatally wounded his 9-year-old
brother. The lads got hold of a
bottle of whisky and became drunk.
They quarreled over the whisky,
when the elder boy secured a shot
gun and fired a load of No. 6 shot,
at close range, into the neck and
face of his brother.
Gambling Houses Raided.
Several weeks ago the gambling
houses of Little ltock were raided
by the sheriff on a warrant sworn
out by a member of the anti-gam
bling association. When the cases
were called for trial the accused
were fined in a nominal sum with
the understanding that their places
should remain closed in the future.
Besides, the devices seized were or
dered burned. One of the leading
gamblers took an appeal on the
burning order, and the case is still
pending in the supreme court. The
gamblers, however, at least some
of them, did not remain closed but
a short time, and as a consequence
another writ was sworn out last
week and the sheriff raided the
places, securing a number of tables
and other gambling devices. The
night following the raid by the
sheriff, the police took a hand and
found one place running in full
blast. Twenty-five players and
dealers were captured, and given a
free ride to the calaboose, where
some of them spent the night in
default of $25 required for their
release. The anti-gambling asso
ciation is composed of leading citi
zens and ministers, and the mem
bers declare that open gambling
houses will never again be permit
ted at the state capital so long as
the law against this evil remains on
the statutes.
Want Peace Among Baptists.
The peace committee of the Bap
tist state convention has formulat
ed a statement containing recom
mendations and propositions fo'J
the consideration of the peace com
mittee of the General Association
of Arkansas Baptists. Recommend
ations looking to the restoration of
harmony in Baptist circles are
made with the conditions attaching
that the general association dis
solve and recommend to the church
es now representing in it to here
after send messengers to the Baptist
state convention; and that the two
papers, the Landmark Baptist and
the Baptist Advance, shall be
merked into one paper. The gen
eral association's state meeting will
be held in Little Bock on October
30, and the Baptist state conven
tion meets also in that city on No
vember 13.
Blind Tiger Decreasing.
In his charge to the grand jury
at Bentonville, Circuit Judge J. N.
Tillman said that the effort in that
circuit to put a stop to the illegal
whisky traffic had been attended
with gratifying results. Six months
ago eighteen government licenses to
retail liquor were in force in Ben
ton county; now there are only
three. There were then fourteen
in Madison; now only two. Two
in the eastern district of Carroll;
now, none. Seven in Washington;
only one now. In the whole dis
trict there were forty-one licenses
in force six months ago; now there
are only six.
A Strange Case.
A. M. Lee, a prominent farmer of
the Indian Territory, while attend
ing a circus at Fort Smith, was
approached by a pretty little girl
about eight years of age, who was
crying and who said she was lost.
Mr. Lee notified the officers, but a
search for her parents was unsuc
cessful. Mr. Lee concluded to take
the child home with him. Should
her parents fail to claim her, Mr.
Lee will adopt the child.
Crop Will Be Very Short.
Hon. W. If. Eagle, one of the
most extensive cotton growers in the
state, says the crop will be the
shortest in ten years. The planters,
however, Mr. Eagle says, will be
about as well off as he would^ be
with a full crop and low prices, foi*
as labor is very scarce he would have
to pay more than usual to gather
the staple,
A
F«r m • r A m Kmc Kg j
William Ribrlin, a farmer resid
ing near Hot Springs, was ambush
ed while en route home from Hot
Springs and left for dead on the
roadside. He was wounded in the
thigh, and a bullet also struck his
skull and his throat was cut. Ribe
lin's team was proceeding home
when they passed a neighbor's
house, who stopped them and began
a search. Upon the discovery of
Ribelin he was removed to a farm
house and medical aid summoned.
He was revived sufficiently to tell
who his probable assailants were,
and within a few hours Jesse and
Algy Burks and “Shorty” Martell
were lodged in jail. Ribelin can
not recover.
Activity in the Zinc Fields.
As the branch of the Batesville
etxension of the Iron Mountain
nears completion into the zinc belt
of the northwest, activity in min
ing in that section increases. Ma
chinery has been ordered for the
; erection of a number of new mills,
and within the last few months out
side capital has been seeking invest
ment in mineral lands with greater
1 persistency than heretofore.
McLane An Imposter.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
says the party giving the name of
C. P. McLane. claiming to be a
government chemist, and who start
ed the report that boll weevil* was
destroying the cotton crop in the
western part of this state, is an im
poster and is not known in Wash
ington.
Ex-Cashier Indicted.
George C. Strong, former cashier
of the Bank of DeValls Bluff, has
been indicted by the grand jury of
Prairie county on charges of forg
ery and embezzlement. Strong ha
been under $10,000 bond awaiting
the grand jury's action.
BRIEF MENTION,
Sam Taylor is under arrest
charged with shooting and killing
1 Dave Ellis near Hammonsville,
White county.
Some unknown person set fire to
the Batesville bank building, and
the structure was saved after hard
work by the firemen.
The silver jubilee of the Roman
Catholic church at Atkins was cel
ebrated with imposing ceremonies,
beginning on the 4th.
Otis J. Gray, assistant chief of
the Hot Springs fire department,
died from injuries sustained in a
fall from the roof of the St. Cloud
hotel when the building was on fire.
J. W. Kendall, an old citizen of
Lawrence county, suicided by tak
ing morphine. He was G5 years of
age and had lived in Lawrence coun
ty thirty years.
Several residences at Hot Springs
situated on Crest Hill were destroy
ed by fire, which started in the un
occupied residence of Mrs. R. J.
Lea. The fire is thought to have
been the work of an incendiary.
Sam Taylor is under arrest at
Searcy, charged with the murder of
Dave Ellis at Hammondsville. The
evidence against him is ciroumstan
tial. Ellis was murdered about
two weeks ago, his body being terri
bly slashed.
It is estimated at the office of
state auditor that there is an in
crease of about $6,000,000 in the
assessed valuation of the state for
this year, or an aggregate of about
$230,000,000.
T. W. Jones, aged 50 years, died
as the result of an accident at a
saw mill near Little Rock. While at
work Jones’ right arm became en
tangled in a circular saw and was
cut off, and he died from the scok.
Walter Horten, convicted on Sep
tember 11, at the present term of
the Jackson circuit court, of the
^murder of Ed Clark September
1902, at Weldon, must pay the
perkdty for his crime in death on
the ghllows
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