eIMMkaEmmtx News.
VOL. VII.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1908.
NO. 48.
NEWS Of THE WEEK
THE latest news of the
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Na
tion. and Particularly from the
Oreat Southwest.
TV hen Mrs. Sarah C. Byrne, hoarding
house keeper, C feet tall and muscular,
was granted a divorce and $500 ali
mony in the superior court at indian
poijs she proposed to Judge Harvey
that she would waive all claim to the
alimony if she could be locked up in
a room for five minutes with her form
er husband, William H. Byrne.
With a stinging arraignment of com
missions which attempt to regulate the
railroad business. Theodore P. Shonts
of the Chicago & Alton railroad ad
dressed the members of the Lakes to
the-Gulf Deep Waterway association,
and gave them their first real “sit-up
aml-tak notice" speech of the session.
The British cruiser Inflexible at her
official :,ials attained a speed of 27Vi
knots, breaking all records. It was
stated after the trial that her speed
would have been greater had not the
fog hindered.
With every aeroplane record to his
credit and all requirements fulfilled for
winning the French syndicate prize of
$100,000. Wilbur Wright is be
ing urgi 1 to make a flight across the
English Channel.
A shakeup in tlie official family of
whereby Vice-President P. White of
Iowa and W. D. Ryan, secretary-treas
urer, will retire, was announced at in
ternational headquarters.
A club of 12 Uucyrus (Ohio) young
women has been formed with the ex
press purpose of adopting the new
sheath gown. The gowns are not the
modified pattern, but the more in
teresting original pattern.
The London cabman who drove King
Alfonso during his recent London
visit, and had the temerity to ask his
majesty for his autograph, which he
received without a murmur, may con
sider himelf a specially favored mor
tal. for the king of Spain usually
makes it a rule never to give his auto
graph to anyone except his own inti
mate friends.
IV. L. Woolley, banker, capitalist
and large landholder, was arrested at.
Stuart, Oklahoma, and taken to
Stigler to answer an indictment for
murder. It is alleged the crime was
committed 27 years ago.
The battleship fleet will end its trip
around the world at Hampton Roads,
Virginia. President Roosevelt will
view the ships at New York, the ves
sels going there after arriving at the
Virginia port. At New York, the sail
ors will be given shore leave. The
fact that the fleet will complete the
trip at Hampton Roads has just been
made public.
The action of the United States Gov
ernment and the Provincial Govern
ment of Canada in setting aside a
tract i t land GO feet wide to mark the
international boundary between the
two countries involves no legal
features to which Uncle Sam is unac
customed. Such a strip has existed
for quite a number of years, it ex
tends along the southern boundaries
of Arizona and New Mexico, and is
known to the American residents there
as the "neutral" strip. The one decid
ed upon by Uncle Sam and John Dull
is to be called the "buffer" strip.
Congratulatory telegrams have been
received by officers of the interna
tional Congress on Tuberculosis from
Nathan Straus the New York nhilan
thro|ii»i, who for sixteen years has
been fighting the "white plague" by
distributing pasteurized milk in his
eity, and presenting pasteurizing
Plants to other municipalities.
The Prohibition National party is to
■ ereive $30,000 to carry on its work
against the liquor traffic, according to
an announcement from the Chicago
headquarters. The fund probably will
he available for this campaign.
Ih'ol. Eric Doolittle, assistant pro
fessor of astronomy at the University
of Pennsylvania, said at t?.e university
observatory that the spots on the sun
oould not he held accountable for the
recei‘t drought.
friends of Dr. Frederick E. Cook,
"'11-kiiown Brooklyn explorer, are
s,‘<hi:iL his financial backer, .John R.
1,1>. to urge him to fit out an ex
Pce.itjnn to search for the explorer, be
d to be lost in the Arctic.
l i.-U p Tierney of the diocese of
bonnettiout died as the result of an
apopietio stroke.
hresidtm William K. Kavanaugh of
J’l' P°ttis called the convention of the
akes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterways as
so> iation to order in Chicago. A
’ tousand delegates, including 230 gov
*1110,8 and congressmen and other
1111 u in public life, were present at the
“Pening session
Henry Baker, aged 42 years, once a
noted heavyweight pugilist, was run
over and killed by a train at Kansas
City. Baker fought Jim Jeffries to a
standstill for eight rounds May 19, 1897
in San Francisco. In the ninth round,
however, Jeffries knocked Baker out
and there were those who saw the
fight who said Jeffries won by a
chance blow.
Every important bustness place in
the city of Inkster, N. D., except a drug
store, bank and hotel, was burned in
the fire which started in the Minnea
polis and Northern elevator, and,
crossing the street, swept the main
business block clean. The loss is
estimated at $150,000.
The Bryan campaign fund is to be
boosted in a novel way by the Demo
cratic women of Belle Hive, 111. They
have formed their plans to hold a pie
supper—every woman to bring a pic
and sell it to the highest bidder, the
purchaser getting the privilege of eat
ing the pie with its maker.
After an all night session, Mrs. Hose
de Hilt man of Minneapolis defeated
Mrs. Elizabeth Rodgers of Chicago for
the office of high chief ranger of the
Women’s Catholic Order of Foresters
by the slender margin of a single vote.
The count showed Mrs. Ritfraan re
ceived 400 votes to 399 for her op
ponent. Nineteen ballots were thrown
out as being improperly marked.
Tortured by robbers, beaten, kick
ed. pricked with pins for hours, sub
mitted to dozens of indignities savor
ing of the days of the inquisition—this
is the fate meted out to William
Chambers, 74 years old, in an unsuc
cessful attempt to wrest from him the
hiding place of his reputed hoard of
gold.
A mighty Japanese fleet of 29 ships,
now assembling at Yokohama, was de
signated by the Mikado as a
welcoming escort to the American
fleet. The ships will sail out of Yoko
hama harbor two days before the ad
rival of Admiral Sperry’s vessels, ana
on the last day of the cruise from
Manila the two fleets will sail to
gether.
Forced by the head of one of the
semi-civilized Tartar tribes in the
Caucasus to wall up the chieftain's
daughter in a litiug tomb somewhere
in or near the town of Baku, Peter
Kavuliteh, an Austrian mason, has
gone made with horror and has just
been committed to an institution in
Odessa.
The Island cf Crete, which occupies
the same position toward Turkey as
Bulgaria did, is momentarily expected
to declare her independence and effect
a union with Greece.
Germany looms up large as an ob
stacle in the way of an international
conference for a settlement of the aBl
kan imbroglio, according to the opin
ions expressed by the British diplo
mats today. No matter what reasons
may be officially assigned for failure
of the proposed conference, which
seems possible, England will hold the
kaiser responsible.
An appeal has been taken in the
Hepburn commodity clause case by
the government on the ground that,
the lower court was wrong in holding
the clause not to be proper exercise
of the congressional powers as to the
regulation of commerce. It is conten
ded that the court erred in ruling
the caluse confiscatory. It is under
stood the government will ask the
supreme court to take up tne case
immediately, owing to the importance
of the case,
Thirty days more time was given
the Buck's Stove and Range company
of St. Louis for taking additional
testimony in its suit against Samuel
Gompers and others of the .National
Federationist.
young woman of Paris, Tex., was
found in Cliff Park lake in Dallas. The
body was discovered by her father.
The girl left home Friday and came
to Dallas.
Any student of the University of
Missouri who prefers riding the "blind
baggage" to paying railroad fare is
invited to become a member of the
Quo Vadis club, a unique organization
in American college life.
William R. Hearst carried his light
against the junior senator from Texas
into his own state, when he read in
the course of a speech at El Paso,
letters from J. W. Bailey to H. C.
Pierce, a copy of a note for $S.0C0 and
extracts from a speecli by Bailey in
defense of .Joseph Sibley.
After GO years James Sherman ot
Bristol, Eng., has received the medal
for service in the Indian Mutiny, and
also a special campaign pension.
Wilbur Wright made a crushing
answer to his critics of the last few
days by a marvelous flight of one
hour thirty-one minutes and twenty
seconds, during which time hetraveled
an actual distance of ninety-eight kil
ometers, or nearly sixty-one mile3.
By this feat he established a new
world's record, beating his brother's
best performance by more than a
quarter of an hour, and demonstrating
the enormous superiority of the
Wliight aeroplane over all others yet
tried.
NEWS OF ^
ARKANSAS j
Robert Clay Kills Dan W. Holliday.
Robert E. Clay, constable-elect o£
Roland township and a prominent
planter and stock raiser, shot and al
most instantly killed his brother-in
law, Dan YV. Holliday of Dig Maumelle
Thursday morning shortly before 9
o’clock.
The killing took place at Shader’s
wagonyard, 910 West Seventh street,
Little Rock, and grew out of a quar
rel over evidence given in a recent
hearing in Chancery Court to decide
who was entitled to possession of
Clay’s son, Charlie Clay, aged 13
years.
Clay went to Tittle Rock Tuesday
to dispose of his cotton, and Thurs
day visited the wagonyard, in com
pany with B. C. Johnson, to look at
some cattle in the stock pens and de
cide on the purchase of them.
Just after leaving the stock pens,
witnesses say, Holliday, who had been
in town several days, approached
Clay and the two engaged in an altei
cation, Holliday demanding that Clay
make apologies to his (Holliday's)
mother, for statements he had made
relative to her veracity at the hearing
in court, and applying several times
vile epithets to Clay.
It is claimed that Clay repeatedly
warned Holliday to go away and leave
him, and walked from him toward his
own buggy. Holliday, it is said, had
a knife in his hand and was whittling
when I he two met for the first time,
and kepi the knife in his hand during
the trouble. Near Clay’s buggy the
snooting occurred, nay producing a
44 Colt’s pistol and snapping it four
times, three shots being fired.
Witnesses claim that the first at
tempt to tire the gun and a lunge with
the knife on the part of Holliday came
almost at the same instant, and it is
luird to say who made the first actual
move in the hostilities.
Clay fired two shots from his pistol
as HoliSv advanced and then
snapped the gun once on an empty
shell. A fourth time the trigger was
pulled, a bullet plowed its way
through the brain of Holliday, and he
fell on the ground, dying in a few
moments. It was then found that Clay
had a long gash across the muscle
of his right arm, from which the
blood poured freely.
Clay, carrying the weapon in his
hand, walked from the wagonyard and
was taken to the office of Sheriff C.
C. Kavanaugli by C. L. Kraft in his
buggy. He surrendered to the county
authorities and, in the custody of Will
Hobbs, a deputy sheriff, was taken to
the office of Dr. G. M. D. Cantrell,
where 18 stitches were taken in the
wound In his arm.
In the meantime, Deputy Coroner
A. A. Brown and city officials had been
called and, under the direction of .Mr.
Brown, the body of Holliday was re
moved to the undertaking establish
ment of Healey & Roth, where, at
10:30 o'clock, a coroner’s inquest, un
der the direction of Coroner S. 1*.
Vaughter. was begun.
After hearing the evidence of A. M.
Goodson, J. A. McHughes, B. F. Bra
shera, J. M. Greene and J. A. Good
son, and finding that the statements
of all the witnesses were substantially
the same, the coroner stopped the
taking of testimony and placed the
matter in the hands of the jury.
Brief deliberation resulted in re
turning a verdict that Holliday came
to his death as the result of gunshot
wounds inflicted by Robert E. Clay,
but the jury was unable to agree as to
whether the killing was justifiable
and this phase of the question was
left out of the verdict.
Clay was committed to jail to await
preliminary trial.
Standridge Again in Pen.
“Yes, I thought I would come back
to see you again,” was the common
place remark made by Yates Stand
ridge, celebrated criminal, recently
sentenced to 52 years in the peniten
tiary in Newton county on the charge
of murder on two counts, as he com
placently walked into the othces at
the 'old walls,” in Little Rock
Thursday night, heavily laden with
chains and shackles. He bears a few
light scratch* s about his neck, where
he attempted to commit suicide by
cutting his throat with an old knife
at Jasper Wednesday.
Says Negress Robbed Him.
According to a story told by Henry
R idoiph of Caddo Clap to the police,
he was set upon by two tall negro
women Thursday night about 7 o'clock
on ('toss street between Markham
end Second, Little Rock, knocked
down and tobbed of $45. He alleges
he regained his presence of mind in
time to chase the women and followed
so close on their heels that one of
them lost her shawl and her hat.
Rudolph took the garments to the po
lice station. He described the women
as being “tall and yellow.”
J. I.. Rea Warned by Night Riders.
Some uneasiness was felt at Van
Rureu Tuesday, especially among
cotton buyers, ginners and compress
managers over a night rider warning
received through the mail there Tues
day afternoon by J. L. Rea, district
manager for the Lesser-Goldman Cot
ton Company, of St. Louis. Following
is a copy of the threatening letter:
“Van Buren, Ark., Oct. 0, 1908.
"Mr. J. L. Rea,
“Dear Sir and Friend: We ask you
to do one of two things and that it to
quit buying cotton or having it bought
or raise the price.
“You run it over the farmers last
year and you think you will again,
but we will take your hide for a pick
sack and leave your town by the light
of bales of cotton on fire.
“Yours for luck,
“Night Rider.
“P. S. We will paint the old town
red.”
This is the first warning of this kind
received there this year and while Mr.
Rea treats 1he matter as a hoax, the
more timid are somewhat alarmed and
the first report of a bale of cotton be
ing burned will paralyze the cotton
industry at that point.
The letter was posted on the Iron
Mountain south-bound passenger train
No. 103 at some point west of the city,
possibly at Cherokee junction. It was
plainly written with a lead pencil on a
leaf torn from a cheap tablet, but be
yond this there is no clue to lead to
Mr. Rea declares that he will con
the detection of the writer,
iinue to buy on the markets in his dis
trict and will pay no attention to it.
He is not a buyer of street cotton, but
ouys exclusively from merchants and
others, and it is thought, ihat scaring
Mr. Rea from the market, the mer
chants, fearing that they would be
unable to find a buyer, would be
forced to quit buying. Mr. Rea has
handled practically all of the cotton in
that district during the past 20 years,
as well as the bulk of the fruit grown
in Crawford county until three years
ago.
Show Boat Turns Turtle.
Emerson Floating Palace, which
gave an exhibition at Luxora Friday
night, sunk at Old Town landing. The
boat had just left Luxora and was
being towed down the river. In some
way she got in too close to shore
while passing the fleet of barges used
in constructing the big mat which is
being constructed by the government
at Old Town, and became entangled
in the wire cables used for holding
(lie fleet. The current was too much
for the craft and in a few minutes
she had turned turtle and sunk in
about 60 feet of water.
One life was lost, that of a Norwe
gian, who was leader of the orchestra.
His name and home cannot be
learned.
Considerable money was lost in the
safe. The boat is a total loss.
Those on hoard escaped by crawling
out on the government mat.
Ask That Ginning and Cotton Buying
End.
Cotton ginners are being requested
not to gin any cotton for 30 days and
merchants are being requested to
cease buying cotton by a committee
representing the local Farmers’ Union
organization, which met at Russell
ville last Friday and Saurday. Al
though it is no* known to be a fact, it
is presumed that the committee was
appointed at the meeting last week for
the purpose of checking the sale and
ginning of cotton in that vicinity. It
is believed that most of the ginners
and merchants will comply with the
request of the committee.
52 Years for Standrige.
•n.1 Clll CUIJUUl 11' VI LW in Wi ‘ iiv . - v »»
ton Circuit Court, begun at Jasper
Tuesday, Yates Siandridge, under two
indictments for murder in the iirst de
gree, committed in that county last
January, waived arraignment and
pleaded guilty in both cases to murder
in the second degree, and was, by
Judge Hudgins, sentenced to serve 52
years in the penitentiary. Standridge
received his sentence coolly and ex
pressed himself as being satisfied. He
will return to the penitentiary, where
he has just finished serving a sen
tence for assaulting Sheriff Hadley of
Cope county.
Horses Burned; Man Escapes.
At 10 o’clock Monday night the sta
bles of the Greer Bros.’ Grocery Com
pany at Foit Smith were destroyed by
fire. Five horses were burned to
death and all the company’s wagons
were destroyed. Night Watchman
Cox was in bed on the second floor
and he escaped with hts clothing on
fire. The firemen smothered the
flames in time to save his life.
County to Build Bridges.
At the regular session of the Hot
Spring County Levying Board at Mal
vern Monday the petition for the con
struction of a bridge across the
Ouachita river at Green’s ferry, eight
miles north of Arkadelphia and 15
miles south of Malvern, was granted
and a levy of 1 1-4 mills called for to
go toward building the bridge.
Rice Airship Refused to Fly.
The theory of a large gas baloon
encased fixedly to the mechanism of
the airship it is to float, received an
other disappointing setback at Hot
Springs Sunday afternoon when the
Joe Rice airship endeavored to make
its initial flight.
Rice had undertaken to construct
his airship along more extended lines
than ever attempted before. The
fragile framework extended from nose
to nose of the great baloon 1hat was
to lift it, and was connected further
to the bag by a circle of aluminum
belting which encased the bag along
a parallel with its widest points.
Under the framework of the bag was
wholly encased and firmly fixed to
the airship mechanism. When Prof.
Carl Meyer of New York first ex
amined the affair he shook his head
in doubt. But it was the Rice theory,
and he permitted the inventor to pro
ceed without the discouragement of
his doubts.
“It is a problem yet unsolved, to
make a moving, squirming gas baloon,
and a fragile bit of framework co
operate in unison,” was all Prof.
Myer said. Sunday the first flight,
was to have been attempted. With
everything in readiness the ballast
bags were carefully taken away one
by one, while men stood about the
framework carefully patching the ef
fects when the mechanism became
dependent on the gas bag.
With Rice as the pilot, and the en
gine well in motion, the baloon was
taken charge of by several men, and
slowly allowed to rise about six feet.
The result was disappointing. The
framework constructed of steel tubing
was loose at other points, a's the hag
swerved but slightly, and was warped
so badly that further effort at flight
was impossible. It was hauled down,
dismantled of every foot of unneces
sary tubing, the circular belt removed,
and when the next attempt at flight
is made it will be with the steering
mechanism of the inventor's ship
floating under the baloon, bound only
by the lax soft cotton rope used as
netting.
State Exhibit at Fair.
The Arkansas agricultural experi
ment station at Fayetteville has ar
ranged for an exhibit of many articles
at the Arkansas State Fair at Hot
Springs. The exhibit will not be a
competitive one, but will be solely for
educational purposes. The exhibits
will be follows:
Thirty varieties of cotton.
Ten varieties of fall wheat with
glass tubes. showing comparative
yields (varieties in straw).
Fight varieties of fall oats, showing
comparative yields (in straw).
Four varieties of fall barley, show
ing comparative yields (in straw).
Ten varieties of rice (in straw).
Twenty-one varieties of Soja beaus
(on vines).
Fifty varieties of cowpeas (in the
pod).
Fifty varieties of cowpeas unde: j
glass.
Exhibit of cowpeas showing nodules
on roots.
Forage crops of interest, to farm
ers.
An educational exhibit of corn.
Five hundred w'eed and farm seed,
etc.
Dairy department:
Butter-—One-pound prints in five,
10 and 30-pound shipping packages.
Solids—Ten-pound packages (two
styles), five-pound packages (two
styles), three-pound package.
Samples of butter moulds, ladles,
wrappers, salt.
One milk-testing outfit complete.
One herd record outfit.
Six jars containing constituents of
milk.
Six one-gallon jars containing sam
ples of silage and balanced rations.
samples or cotton seed meai in jars
with analysis showing feeding value.
One model silo.
Demonstration work.
Photographs of dairy building, in
terior showing creamery, cheese and
milk testing rooms. Interior of dairy
barn, silos and herd.
Slain While at His Prayers.
Jeff Blanks, a negro, was shot and
instantly killed Friday night by
George Quinn, another negro. The
shooting occurred at Mt. Nebo, a j
negro church in a negro district on
West Second Avenue, Pine Bluff. A ;
prayer meeting was being held at !
the church and Blanks was attend- '
iug the services when Quinn shot him '
through a window of the church with
a shotgun.
Most of the negroes who were iu
the building ran outside, some jump
ing through windows. The few who
were lefi with the body of Blanks
summoned a doctor, thinking he was
still alive, but the shot had entered
his head, killing him almost instantly.
Quinn made his escape, but blood
hounds were put on his trail and he
was soon located in his house, where
he was arrested. Blanks died with a
Bible in his hand.
II is thought the killing was on
account of some trouble the two men
had recently about a woman.
When arrested Quinn ha-3 in hil
house two shotguns and a pistol.
Man Who Would Have Killed Gar
field’s Slayer Held for Death of
Employe Near Washington.
Washington.—Xoted for having at
tempted to avenge the death of Pres
ident Garfield by shool ing at Guiteau,
the assassin, William Jones, locally
known as “Bill Jones, the avenger,”
a farmer, Sunday night shot and kill
ed John A. McPerson of Detroit,
Mich., at Bates farm, near Brookland
on the outskirts of this city.
The weapon used was a shotgun
and McPheron’s breast was riddled
with buckshot, several of which pene
trated his heart. An unloaded Win
chester rifle was found lying beside
the body. The shotgun was found on
the porch of Jones’ house.
Jones was arrested shortly after the
crime was committed while he was on
his way to Baltimore, where he owns
property. He was brought to this
city and lodged in jail.
The police are able to advance but
one theory as to the motive for the
crime. They have learned, it is said,
ihat the two men had quarreled over
the possession of a horse.
McPherson, who was 29 years old,
had been working on Jones' farm since
he was discharged from the United
States marine corps on June 26 last.
Several days following upon Presi
dent Garfield’s death, Guiteau was
taken to court for a preliminary hear
ing and it was while he was being
returned to jail in charge of District
Marshal Corkhill, that Jones attempted
f C h nnt liim Tnnnc; J rl i -n rr
a spirited horse. He followed the pris
on van from the court house to with
in several blocks of the jail, when he
suddenly spurred his horse, darted
through the crowd, drew’ a revolver
and tired into the van. Guiteau, who
was sitting near the door caught a
glimpse of Jones as he drewr the weap
on and dodged. The bullet sped over
his head and lodgpd in the side of the
wagon. Jones, believing that he had
killed Guiteau, dug the spurs into his
horse’s side and escaped arrest at that
time. He was captured shortly af
tenvard near Fredericksburg, Va.
Jones was tried and acquitted.,
Detective Shot From Dark.
Chattanooga, Tenn.—T. J. McElhan
ey, special detective for the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad,
was shot and killed at 1:30 o’clock
Sunday morning while on duty in the
yards of the company at Cravens, two
miles from the Union station. W. S.
Smith, who was until recently em
ployed as a detective for the road, is
in jail charged with the crime. Two
trainmen, who were near the Cravens
watchtower, heard a pistol shot and
hurried to the scene, where they
found McElhaney with a bullet hole in
his forehead. Bloodhounds were im
mediately put on the trail and track
ed Smith to his home. The men had
been on bad terms for some time. Mc
Elhaney leaves a widow and seven
children.
Negro Taken Out and Shot.
Empire, Ga.—A negro named Henry
hite, was shot to death by a mob
at. Younkers, Saturday night. White,
it is said, started out to shoot up the
family of Thomas Allen and on his
way met another negro, whom he shot
and wounded for refusing to join him
in his expedition. He went on to Al
len’s and shot at him and his wife.
A posse gathered, pursued and cap
tured \\ hite and placed him in the
lock-up. About 11 o’clock Saturday
night a band of unknown men took
.•unc Hum me iocK-up, carried mm
about a mile from Younkers, tied him
to a tree and riddled him with bul
lets.
Boy Bitten by Leopard.
Houston. Tex.—Joe Lass, 10 years
if age, was Sunday attacked by a cir
jus leopard cat he and other children
had been teasing, and his left hand
and arm were stripped of flesh, and
other wounds inflicted. When the boy
?ot too close to the cage the leopard,
which has a bad record, puched her
paw through the opening and seized
fne lad by the left arm. An iron rod
ased by workmen was necessary to
force open the mouth of the beast
before the boy was released. A big
-rowd witnessed the attack.
Welch Killed by Train.
Marlin, Tex—John C. Welsh was
run over and killed by a freight train
an the International and Great North
ern road Saturday night about three
miles south of Marlin. The body was
1 ragged more than a hundred feet,
then passed under the train, being
horribly mutilated. The remains were
gathered in fragments.
Cairo, 111.—The steamer Peters Lee,
with a large number of passengers on
ooard. went aground at the mouth of
:he Ohio river, while turning into this
port at noon Sunday. Efforts to re
lease the boat have thus far failed.
She is lying safe and will probably
je taken off the bar soon.