" Wwdmkk mejty News.
VOL. II.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1902.
NO. 12.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Gen. Wannamaker proposes to
build the largest department store
in the world in Chicago.
Senator Hanna has again given
out a statement that he is not a can
didate for president in 1902.
Col. Bryan says the issues in the
next presidential campaign will be
imperialism, money and the trusts.
The Spanish government recog
nizes the independence of Cuba and
will send a minister to that coun
try.
Albert A. Ames, mayor of Minne
apolis, Minn., has been indicted for
bribery in connection with munici
pal rottenness.
Senator Elkins introduced a
joint resolution in the senate for the
annexation of Cuba, and its admis
sion as a state of the Union.
The county judge of Zapata coun
ty, Texas, has issued an appeal say
ing that most of the county has had
no rain for three years. He says it
is impossible to exaggerate the sit
uation.
Johann Most, the anarchist, con
victed in New York on the charge
that he printed an incendiary arti
cle in a newspaper conducted b\
him, has been sentenced to serve
one year the penitentiary. The
article was printed at the time
President McKinley was shot. The
case was carried to the court of ap
peals, which confirmed the judg
ment of the lower court.
E. D. Johnson, a veteran of the
Cuban war and a member of Roose
velt’s rough riders, was shot and
killed at Oklahoma City, 0. T., by
W. T. McMichael, as a result of a
contest over a land claim. While
in a dying condition Johnson raised
himself upon hfis elbow, rested his
pistol on his wrist and fired twice
at McMichael. One shot struck
McMichael in the abdomen and lie
lived only a short time.
i no Associated rress gives me
details of a horrible tragedy enact
ed in Claiborne, county, Mississippi.
Mrs. Westrope, wife of a prosper
ous farmer, while her husband was
at church, took a winchester and
murdered her six children. After
shooting the last of the little ones
the demented woman set fire to her
home and then escaped to the woods.
After a search of twenty-four hours
she was found in a graveyard and
when approached placed the Win
chester, which she had taken away
with her, to her breast and fired, the
bullet passing through her body
just below the heart.
On the thirtieth day after being
sworn in the jury at Memphis in
the case of Mrs. Emma Hooks,
charged with murdering her hus
band, Cero Gurdo Hooks, was dis
charged, being unable to reach a
verdict. A majority favored con
viction. The ease was fought on
both sides by the most able legal
talent in Tennesee. Hooks died
last October. After the body had
been embalmed and interred per
sistent rumors gained currency that
his death was from other than nat
ural causes. About two weeks af
ter Hooks’ burial the authorities in
structed Hr. Win. Krause, a well
known chemist, to exhume the body
and conduct an autopsy. The
chemist reported that he had found
enough arsenic and ground glass in
the stomach and other organs to
cause death. The prosecution offer
ed evidence alleging that the de
fendant killed her first hus
band and her only son, who
died suddenly and of ailments sim
ilar to that with which Hooks died.
When Hooks married his wife,
then Mrs. Atkinson, he was a poor
man and she was quite wealthy, hav
ing received over $50,000 from life
insurance on her son and husband.
The evdenee against the accused
was all circumstantial.
A crank named McAlester, arm- I
ed with a revolver, was arrested at
the entrance to the white house. He
■V said he was looking for a mesmerist
who had him under control. The
insn ,was sent to an insane asylum.
The Choctaw has completed its
extension to Amarillo, Tex.
A vote on the Philippine reci
procity hill will be taken June 26.
A monument to the memory of
Hon. Richard P. Bland was unveil
ed at Lebanon, Mo., on the 17th.
The government will assist New
Mexico ranchmen in stamping out
the disease among sheep known as
“scab.”
A monument to the Confederate,
dead buried at Camp Chase, Colum
bus, 0., was unveiled on the 14th,
both Union and Confederate veter
ans joining in the ceremonies.
Pedro Felcize, the leader of the
ladrones who captured and subse
quently cut to pieces a sergeant,
two corporals and four privates of
the Fifth cavalry in the Philippines
May 30 has been captured.
Mary Custis Lee, daughter of
Gen. Robert E. Lee, was arrested at
Alexandria, Va., for violating the
separate street car act for white and
colored and was fined $5. Miss Da
vis got on the car for colored people,
the other being crowded, and the le
gality of the law will be tested, as
this is the first case of the kind on
record.
A serious riot occurred at Patter
son, N. J'., between striking mill
workers and the police. Several mill
plants were wrecked and several of
the strikers were wounded by the
police, who were compelled to use
their revolvers. There is a num
ber of anarchists among the strik
ers and the police being unable to
preserve order, the militia was call
ed on.
A rather alarming situation with
regard to the epidemic of cholera in
the Philippines is sent out in a
report received by Surgeon General
Forward from Lieut. Col. Heize
man, at present in charge of the
medical department of the army in
the islands. In Manila alone a to
tal of 277 eases, with 215 deaths,
had occurred up to the date of the
report, with 453 cases and 308
deaths outside the city. In the prov
inces the disease attacked twenty
two different places. In the Cama
rines, at Nuena Cacares, the disease
appeared, and this has been the only
point where the army has suffered,
two cavalrymen and an infantryman
having the disease.
Special Commissioner Taft has
submitted to the pope the following
propositions to settle differences be
tween the friars in the Philippines
and the United States: (1) Pur
chase of the lands of the friars, the
price to be fixed by arbitration; (2)
the arbiters to decide the indemnity
which the Americans will pay for
occupation of ecclesiastical build
ings; (3) the above propositions ab
solutely condition on the withdrawal
of the friars; (4) if the other prop
ositions arc accepted the Americans
propose to give a deed or by law to
grant a patent to ecclesiastical
buildings on public land; (5) to set
tle by compromise or arbitration the
several trusts for schools, hospitals,
etc., claimed on the one hand by the
civil, on the other by the church au
thorities.
The construction of an intcr
oceanic canal, a question that has
been the subject of political agita
tion and discussion in congress for
half a century, is, in all probabil
ity, about to be settled. The sen
ate last week, by a vote of 42 to 34,
adopted the Spooner amendment, in
lieu of the Hepburn bill, which
passed the house some weeks ago.
The house bill provided for the
construction of the canal on the
Nicaragua route. The Spooner
proposition is an alternative one. It
authorizes and directs the president
to negotiate for the purchase of the
stock of the new Panama company
of France, and to secure perpetual
right of way for the canal from the
republic of Colombia. In the event
of the failure to secure this ar
rangement. the president is instruct
'd to direct the construction of the
Nicaragua canal. The bill as pass
'd authorizes an issue of $130,000,
700 of gold honds, bearing 2 per
:cn interest, to carry on the work
if construction.
A strike of Alabama coal miner*
is threatened, the operators having
refused to sign the wage scale de
manded.
At the end. of the sixth week of
the anthracite coal miners’ strike
both sides stand firm and there ia
no prospect of an early settlement.
The governor of North Carolina
offers rewards aggregating $30,000
for the arrest and conviction of the
person who, on June 11, took two
negroes from jail at Salisbury and
lynched them.
Advices from Home state that
the pope has accepted the Ameri
can proposition for the withdrawal
of tht friars from the Philippines
and the purchase by the government
of their lands.
Secretary Hoot has assumed full
responsibility of the payment of a
pension to Gen. Gomez during the
American occupation of Cuba, and
says the course pursued was wise
and statesmanlike.
Illinois democrats in state, con
vention adopted a platform in
which the Kansas City platform
is not specifically endorsed. Bry
an's name was not mentioned in
any of the resolutions adopted.
Charles F. Jones, who was valet
to Wm. M. Rice, the Texas mil
lionaire, and who confessed that in
conjunction with Albert T. Patrick,
he caused the death of Rice, has
been admitted to bail in the sum of
$1,000. Jo lies will be taken to Tex
as by a brother.
Gov. Heard, of Louisiana, has
been notified by the British consul
that Louisiana cattle will be shut
out of South Africa. This action
is believed to be in retaliation for
Heard's protest to the state depart
ment about mule shipments and op
erations of the British military
camp at Chalmette.
The supromcr court of Alabama
affirmed the decision of the crimi
nal court of Jefferson county in the
case of Will Dorsey (colored), con
victed of highway robbery and sen
tenced to death, and fixed the date
for his execution at August 8. Dor
sey was indicted for holding up a
white man and robbing him of
$r.50.
The senate committee on naval
affairs has authorized a favorable
report on Senator McComas’ bill
giving Admiral Schley the full pay
of a rear admiral on the active list
of the navy. As a retired officer he
now receives only three-fourths of
the pay of a rear admiral on the act
ive list. The bill was amended by
the committee so as to eliminate the
preamble reciting that the admiral
was in absolute command of the
American forces at the time of the
battle with Cervera's fleet off San
tiago.
Admiral Dewey is to go to sea
again, flying his flag with the four
stars, in command of the greatest
fleet in numbers the United States
has gotten together since the days
of the civil war, and far more pow
erful in offense and defense even
than any of those war fleets. Secre
tary Moody has conceived the idea,
and after consulting the pleasure of
Admiral Dewey it has been arranged
that he shall ly> placed in supreme
command of the fleet (comprising
the North Atlantic, the European
and the South Atlantic squadrons),
which is to assemble near Culebra
island in the West Indies next De
cember for the winter maneuvers.
King Albert, of Saxony, died at
Dresden on the 19th, aged 82 years.
Prince George, duke of Saxony, suc
ceeds to the throne. The dead mon
arch was the. eldest son of King
John and of Queen Amalie, who
was the daughter of Maximilian I,
king of Bavaria, lie was educated
for the career of a soldier and en
tered the Saxon army at the fender
age of 15. At 20 the young man
saw his first service in actual fight
ing. He took part in the Danish
war in ISIS, fought with the Aus
trians in the disastrous battle of
Sandowa, in 18G6, and cut a consid
erable figure in the Franco-Ger
man war, especially in the opera
tions before Metz, which led up to
the surrender of Napoleon ai Se
dan.
NEWS OE ARKANSAS.
Will Remit Penalties.
Gov. Davis has sent out the fol
lowing to sheriffs of the counties
over which the drouth extended last
3 car:
‘‘Little Rock. Ark., .June 14, 1902.
“Dear Sir—It has been my pur
pose to issue a proclamation reliev
ing the citizens of the drouth
stricken regions from the payment
of penalties incident to their fail
ure to pay their taxes, but I have
found some trouble in this matter,
growing out of the fact that it is
difficult to say whether or not I
have the power to remit these penal
ties, except in individual cases; that
is, I doubt having the power to make
a general remission for your coun
ty. Will you, therefore, kindly send
me a list of the taxpayers in your
county who you think are worthy
and deserving to have their penalties
remitted on account of the preva
lence of the recent drouth? It is my
purpose to limit this clemency to
such taxpayers as have been render
ed unable to pay their taxes hy rea
son of the misfortune of the drouth,
and to withhold it from such as
might be able to pay their taxes, but
who yet refrain from doing so in
the hope that they might share the
clemency extended the deserving,
and I want to make a distinction be
tween the two classes. In sending
me this list, please include only
those who, in your judgment, you
deem to be worthy, and none others.
I am willing to risk your judgment
in the matter.
“Let me hear from you by early
mail, and in the meantime hold up
any action about the collection of
penalties till I hear from you. In
sending me the list you may simply
let it contain tire names and the
amounts of the penalty incurred by
reason of the delinquency.
Killed By a Negro.
James Cross, a young white man,
was murdered by Martin Nash, a
negro, at l’endleton, Desha county.
The killing was witnessed by Col.
Cross, father of the murdered man,
and a younger brother. The weap
on used was a shotgun, and both
barrels were discharged. Col.
Cross and his two sons went to the
steamboat landing to see Mrs. Cross
safely aboard a steamer. Mrs. Cross
had gone on the boat and the trip up
the river had been resumed by the
steamer when the tragedy occurred.
Col. Cross had observed ihc negro
Nash, armed with a shotgun, stand
ing around the landing. When the
party started to return to the Cross
home Col. Cross said to the negro.
“What are you doing here on my
premises with a shotgun?” The ne
gro made no verbal reply. He turn
ed and tired upon James Cross,
with the result mentioned. Young
Cross fell dead. The negro then
took to flight, but Col. Cross and
Clay Cross opened fire, on him with
their revolvers and it is thought
they wounded him in the leg, but
he eluded them and making his way
to Arkansas City, surrendered.
Col. Cross did not know until the
smoke of battle had cleared away
that his son had been killed. He
assumed that the negro was firing at
him and did not. intend to kill any
one but him.
Battle With Bobbers.
Lemuel White, a. bartender of
Texarkana, had a thrilling expe
rience with highwaymen while en
route home a few mornings ago.
Titerc were two of the robbers, and
they presented their pistols at
White's head and called on him to
throw up his hands. He drew his
gun, and a tierce battle ensued.
When his right, hand was shattered
by a bullet, he transferred his pistol
to his left, but that member was
likewise disabled, and the pistol fell
to the ground. He turned and ran.
followed by more shots from the
robbers. White thinks he wounded
one of the men badly. Tt is known
that a young man about town was
mysteriously shot, and will die. Sus
picion points to him as one of the
robbers.
Noted Damage Suit Settled.
Warren G. Furry, of Van Rli
re n county, received from the Fris
co road a check for $17,800, in full
settlement of judgment and inter
est rendered against the railway in
the Fort Smith federal court one
year ago, the case having been af
firmed in the United States supreme
court about three weeks ago. This
is supposed to be the largest amount
ever given for personal injury in
Arkansas. Furry while working as
a locomotive fireman was injured
in a collision near Springdale three
years ago, his lower limbs being so
badly burned as to cause amputa
tion, besides receiving a compound
fracture of the skull. The accident
was alleged to have been caused by
the failure, of an operator to deliver
orders to the train upon which Fur
ry was fireman. The Frisco road
set up the defense that a fireman
and an operator are fellow-servants.
Furry received a verdict for sixteen
thousand dollars. The case was
taken to the court of appeals and
thence to the supreme court of the
United States, b.oth the higher
courts sustaining Judge Rogers’ de
cision.
New Faculty Selected.
At a meeting of the board of
trustees of the State University,
held at Fayetteville last week, the
following faculty was selected:
Harrison Randolph of Virginia,
president; A. E. Menkc, chemistry;
J. C. Futrall, ancient language; G.
W. Drake, mathematics; J. J.
Enoch, civil engineering; W. N.
Gladson, electrical engineering; A.
: H. Perdue, geology; II. M. Willis,
economics; W. S. Johnson, peda
gogics; F. W. Fickle, biology; J. H.
Reynolds, history; J. W. Kuyken
dall, preparatory department ; Mrs.
Xeil Carothers, librarian; J. W.
Carr, English and modern lan
guages; Mrs. Jennie Bowman, elo
cution.
Arkansas University Graduates.
Below is a list of the graduates
of the University of Arkansas for
this year: Rathburn Alden, B. A.;
Wroten E. Babb. B. S.; Richard B.
Borton. B. I’ll.: John W. Baxter, B.
A. and B. S.; John I). Beakley, B.
Ph.; Oscar I). Briggs, B. A. and B.
Pt.; Fred I. Brown, M. E.; Herbert
E. Buchanan, B. A.; William Clan
cey, 0. E.: William Y. Ellis, E. E.;
Rowena McO. Galloway, B. A.;
Freeman I. Gibson, B. 8.; Roswell
8. Lander, C. E.; John L. McCon
nell. ('. E.; Dennis C. Mooring, B.
8.; Thomas D. Sedgwick, B. A. and
B. 8.; Carl D. Smith, B. A.; Gar
field Stubblefield, C. E,; Mabel Sut
ton, C. E.: Alfred W. Wesson, B.
A.; Nina Hardin, B. A.
Bunch of Convicts Escape.
A bunch of convicts escaped last
week from the convict camp at Eng
land. They were: Fayette Rogers,
colored, Columbia county, 15 years,
assault to kill and aiding escape,
committed October 19, 1900; Ru
fus Hardridge, colored, alias Joe
Dcmond, alias Joe Smith, Pulaski
county, 16 years, burglary and lar
ceny, received December 3, 1895 ;
Sam Swin, alias Lee Smith, white
Jackson county, 11 years, murder,
received August 4, 1895 ; E. F. Mil
ler, white, Benton county, 1 year,
grand larceny, received April 9,
1902; Herbert Lane, white, Sebas
tian county, 1 year, robbery, re
ceived March 10, 1902; Wallace
Cook, colored, assault to kill, re
ceived March 12, 1902.
Bank Lands Sold.
Commissioner of State Lands J.
W. Colquitt last week sold $1,155.85
worth of real estate bank lands sit
uated in Chicot county, the purchas
ers being B. F. Merritt, G. W. Snell
and G. lv. Cracroft. The sale was
made ui?Jer an act passed by the
last legislature. The state has no
record of these lands, and the pros
pective purchaser must establish the
state's title to the same bv abstract
before they can be transferred.
Bessie, the 8-year-old daughter
of Hon. B. F. Wolford, of Crawford
county, was accidentally killed by
the accidental discharge of a gun
in the hands of Homer Webb, aged
le.
BUSINESS INSTINCT.
Broker Who Made a Prosperous Trade
With a Street Beggar.
A prominent Wall street man told
the following story on himself tha
other day, but made his hearers prom
ise that under no conditions would
they reveal his name, as he did not
wish to be bothered by the beggar
who figures in the story.
The Wall street man was walk
ing with a friend down Broadway
when, at Twenty-third street, he was
accosted by 4 beggar. The man was
more persistent than the ordinary
mendicant, and to get rid of him the
broker said:
“I will give you 50 cents if you will
give me your coat/’
“All right, Boss,” replied the beg
gar, and within a moment the change
had been made.
The broker and his friend then,
turned back and went up Fifth av
enue to the Holland house. Still
carrying the beggar’s coat the man of
finance strolled into the bar and be
gan telling the story to his friends.
“I think you made a bad bargain,’'’
said one.
“Look in the pockets,” said an
other.
And as the broker went through
the ragged garment he pulled forth
45 cents in money, a silver-tipped
pipe, a flask of whisky, and a pouch
of tobacco.
“You sec,” he replied, “this only
proves that I never made a bad trade,
even when 1 don’t know what I am
buying.”—N. Y. Times.
BAD BLOW TO CUPID.
Bridegrooms Ought to Buy Railroad
Ticket Beforehand.
“It was pretty hard to have the hon
eymoon clouded before we had been
married two hours/"’ complained
a newly-married man. “Fact is,
though, the excitement of the wed
ding day took away the little sense
I had remaining.
“We were married at noon, andaf
ter dodging the customary rice and
old shoes, left for the station. Wo
had barely time to catch our train,
and 1 rushed up to the ticket window
at once. Then, once more, we had
to run the gauntlet of friends, who
think it smart to throw rice down into
one’s collar and have it sift down
into one’s shoes.
“We got into the train at last, and
when it started I heaved a sigh of re
lief. When the collector came
around for the tickets, I handed mine
i over. After looking at it for a mo
' ment, he asked me if the lady was
traveling with me.
“That was the last straw, and I
snapped out to him to mind his own
business.
“ ‘That is only what I am trying
to do,’ he answered, coolly. ‘One
more ticket, please.’
“Then it flashed upon me that in
the hurry and excitement of the mo
ment 1 had forgotten that 1 had a
wife. I paid the other fare and tried
to laugh it off. but the look that my
wife gave me will linger with me as
long as I live. It took me two hours
to argue her out of the impression
that 1 didn’t love her any more, and
she isn’t fully satisfied yet.”—Stray
Stories.
“ BUNDLES. ”
Curious Character Who Looks Aftet
Patrons of a New York Railroad.
The soul of one corporation has
been located. It abides in the person
of a brakeman on one of the railroads
entering this city. It is a paternal,
solicitous soul, and it watches over
the commuters in the smoking ear
as assidiously as if they were the tip
giving occupants of the parlor coach.
On nearing the terminal it quietly
calls the attention of the travelers
to their valises, bundles, topcoats, and
other impediamenta on the racks;and
its announcement of the “last stop”
is accompanied by the admonition,
“Look out for your bundles, gents.”
Kainy days bring this variation,
“Don’t forget your umbrellas.”
'Bundles, as the youngs tor and irrev
erent commuters call him, tripped!
over a dress-suit ease in the aisle the
other morning while announcing the
next stop, and the call went like this:
“The next station for this train will
be (any objection to putting this grip
on tlie rack? No? Here goes Ik
Port Chester.”—N. Y. Post.