Wogdmkk County News.
VOL. VI.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1900.
NO. 1.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN
epitome of the most im
portant EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
I0RTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully DlgesUd and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
miscellaneous.
The first trip of a president outside
ot the main boundaries of the United
States was successfully concluded
when the battleship Louisiana, having
on hoard President Roosevelt and his
-arty, dropped anchor in the harbor
of Colon. Extensive precautions had
been made to protect the president
while on the isthmus. Several per
sons known to have anarchistic ten
dencies were locked up and remained
In jail until the president departed.
The United States census bureau
estimates the total wealth of the coun
try in 1904 to be $10G,881,415,009. This
shows an increase in wealth over the
estimates for 1900 of nearly 21 per
cent, and of 04 per cent over the esti
mate lor 1990. when the total wealth
was 105.087,091,197.
Satsuma, the biggest battleship in
the world, was launched in Japan. The
vessel embodies all the lessons of the
last war. Details in the main follow
those of the British bajtleship Dread
naught, whose steaming capacity she
Is expected to exceed.
Rear-Admiral Robely D. Evans is
quoted as saying: “At the present time
we have nothing more than a respecta
ble nucleus for a navy adequately to
represent the United States. It Is not
my business to criticise, but it some
times puzzles us of the navy to know
what congress is driving at."
According to the Iron Trade, a
Cleveland (O.) publication, “the car
shortage is an increasingly heavy
handicap to many industries. Deliv
ery of southern iron is much delayed,
and it is estimated that in the Pitts
burg district and in the Mahoning and
Shenango valleys there is a shortage
of 100,000 cars.”
A tribunal in Pa?is, France, has
granted a divorce to the Countess de
Castellane, formerly Anna Gould, of
N'ew York, and has given her the cus
tody of her children, who, however,
will not be allowed to be taken from
France without the consent of their
father. Count Boni de Castellane.
At Findlay, O., it was reported that
the grand jury had indicted John D.
Rockefeller, M. G. Vilas, treasurer of
the Standard Oil Co. of Ohio; J. M.
Robertson, secretary, and H, P. McIn
tosh, a director, alleging a violation of
the Valentine anti-trust law of that
state.
At a meeting of the Pullman Palace
Car Co., in Chicago, the capital stock
of the company wps increased by $26,
000,000, bringing th.e total capitaliza
tion up to $100,000,000.
The attorney-general has sent a let
ter to the United States district attor
neys, calling attention to the eiglit
hour-law. He says the government
intends to enforce it strictly.
Six men were killed and live seri
ously injured when a boiler in the
power house of the Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern railroad, in Col
lingewood, a suburb of Cleveland, O.,
blew up.
Giovanni Bruno, a Sicilian, believed
to be one of the most dangerous and
iaring Italian anarchists, was arrested
u Keon. a small station on the Bur
ington railroad, forty-seven miles east
if Denver, where he was employed as
a section hand.
Maj.-Gen. William Rufus Shatter,
;• A., retired, died at the ranch of
j-apt. \\. H. MeKittrick, his son-in-law,
mile* south of Bakersfield, Cal.,
dter an illness of seven days, despite
he best medical attention available in
Lalifcrnia.
The I nited States grand jury at
ensaeola has returned indictments
gainst 12 persons, charging peonage
? co,mection with cases which orig
nateci at the Jackson Lumber Co.'s
iamp several months since.
'illiam Randolph Hearst has gone
o California for recuperation from the
’ 1,1111 incident to his gubernatorial
•ampaign.
Si- Louis chapter of tile Daught
■ crm * onfe(leracy have subscril
inward the erection of a mo
m to the confederacy In For
^a,,k. in that city.
Preliminary returns to the
I, nKnt °T agriculture on the p
nt ,lfm f'f corn in 1900 indicates
8 J'1 Id of aboj.it 2,881,096 bu
' or_ an average of 30.2 bushels ]
,ls c°mpared withan avers
‘d ’inJiJ3 bu*hels as finally estln:
.,Z 19°* 20.8 in 1904 and a ten-y,
of 25.2 bushels.
icniriJ ° Jlst d!:y’s session of
,onf_rrn Immigration and Quarant
Ce Jf. at Grille, Tenn.,
)elif-v JS l°n came t0 the front. So
■hno J ,th8t ‘“migration from
bthpi-o sett‘e the problem, wl
t J thought the only way to se
- to remove the blacks.
On December 2 a window in a Jew
ish synagogue in Philadelphia, to the
memory of John Hay, former secre
tary of state, will be dedicated. This
is the first time in history that a non
Jew has been so honored. It is a
recognition of Mr. Hay's work toward
alleviating the sufferings of the Jews
in Russia.
John Sharp Williams, as a solution
of the race problem in the south, ad
vocates the importation .of white serv
ants.
Alleged New Jersey anarchists ar
rested in Naples on charge of plot to
kill king of Italy.
Former Gov. Thomas T. Crittenden
of Missouri and wife celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary at Kan
sas City.
There is foundation for belief that
the Bank of France has come to the
relief of the Bank of England, and is
furnishing that institution with gold
necessary to tide it over a pinch,
caused by the millions drawn from
the bank by Americans and shipped
to this country. The United States
government has the greatest amount
of gold in its treasury vaults of any
nation in the world. The tremendous
amount of gold this country has taken
from England in the past year has al
most stopped speculation in London,
according to a dispatch from that city,
for the reason that money is too
scarce and dear there to speculate
with.
The Midland National bank in New
ton, Kas., was held up by one man
and robbed of about $1,000 in currency.
Five or six persons were in the bank,
and all were ordered into the vault
and locked in. The robber then se
cured what currency was in sight and
escaped.
John E. Wilkie, chief of the secret
service, announces that the $61,500
shortage in the sub-treasury in St.
Louis is up to D. P. Dyer, Jr., and
Ralph P. Johnson. The federal grand
jury is investigating the affair.
V. C. Sweatman, of Philadelphia,
dropped dead at Trenton, N. while
running to catch a train. He was 85
years of age. Mr. Sweatman was one
af the heaviest dealers in malt in the
United States.
Bradstreets, in their review of trade,
say: "Marked advances in wages of
railway employes, greatly improved
collections, large tilling in orders (in
dicating heavy consumption), good
business on spring account, a contin
ued scarcity of labor and record-break
ing outputs of iron and steel, are pre
eminent business features.”
At Ashville. N. C., Patrolmen Chas.
Blackstock and William Bailey were
killed by a negro desperado named
Will Harris; the chief of police was
wounded, one negro killed and another
fatally wounded, all by the same des
perate character, who escaped to the
mountains.
Thomas Dougherty, a prominent
young man of Dunmore, Fa., died in
the state hospital at Sacranton, as the
result of being stabbed by an un
known woman. The corner says the
wound was in the heart and was in
flicted by a bat pin.
Mrs. Esther Summer Damon, said
to be the last surviving widow of a
soldier of the revolutionary war, died
at her home in Plymouth Union, Va.,
aged 93. She was married in 1835,
when 21 years old, to Noah Damon,
who was them 75 years old. Damon
served through the revolutionary war,
having enlisted in 1775.
The federal grand jury, in its inves
tigation of the Shelby tube scandal at
Pittsburg, Pa., returned indictments
against three individuals, charging
them with conspiracy to defraud the
government by selling it defective
boilers. Some of these tubes, accord
ing to the grand jury, are in use on
the battleship Louisiana, on which
President Roosevelt is making his
Panama trip.
A lone boy bandit, weighing scarcely
110 pounds, held up the Golden State
Limited, the fast Chicago. Rock Island
& Pacific train, near Slater, Mo., and
telling the passengers that he was
from Missouri, robbed the rear Pull
man car, forcing the porter to collect
in his cap the booty from the occu
pants of each berth. He allowed the
women in the car to go unmolested,
saying that: "Jesse James nevei
robbed ladies.”
A complimentary dinner was given
to William Randolph Hearst. in New
York city, by Lewis Stuyvesant Chan
ler, W. S. Jackson, John S. Whalen,
Julius Hauser and F. W. Skene, his
associates on the democratic and in
dependence league state ticket.
The payment of some $72,060,000
on account of new St. Paul stock was
the cause for a flurry In money in
Wall street.
S. J. Demaresque, at Kilpatrick’s
camp, on Hotkam's sound, British Co
lumbia, shot down a shingle flume
3,000 feet, tossed 25 feet, falling into
the ocean. He swam to the rocks and
clung there until rescued by his wife.
He went down the flume so last that
his clothing was torn off and then his
skin was burned off.
Emboldened by the apparent help
lessness of the police and detective
forces of the city, the highwaymen
and burglars that have terrorized
Pittsburg, Pa., for several days have
extended their operations into broad
daylight as well as woiking uudei
jover of darkness.
AB
R KANSAS
STATE NEWS
Test Suits.
The appeal iu the anti-trust suit
against the Hammond Packing Com
pany has been filed in the Supreme
Court. The suit will test the consti- |
tutionaJty of the anti-trust law which |
provides for taking of testimony before
a commissioner in another state. The :
attorneys for the company refused to ]
produce witnesses before the commis
sioner in Chicago and on the strength
of it judgment was entered for $10,
000 against the company in favor of
the state.
Assassinated at Rose Bud.
W. E. Bassinger was assassinated
at his home at Rose Bud recently.
The body was discovered lying on
the floor of his home with a load of
buckshot in the abdomen, two rifle
bullets in the side of his head, and his
under jaw blown off. He is said to
have had several enemies, but as yet
no arrests have been made.
Difficulty at Lamar.
Prof. N. C. Burgess, principal of the
public school at Lamar, became in
volved in a difficulty with Lester
Stovall, but bystanders interferred
before any serious damage was done
either party. The trouble arose over
the whipping of Stovall's sister by
Burgess.
A Mad Dog Scare.
Considerable excitement was caused
on the streets of Pine Bluff recently
by a mad dog. The dog was frothing
at the mouth and snapping at every
thing in sight, but officers succeeded
in killing it before any. damage was
done.
Awarded Damages.
Judge Trieber, in the United States
Circuit Court, awarded $12.50 damages
to a negro woman, against the St.
Louiit. Iron Mountain and Southern
Railway Company, for being denied the
privilege of eating in the dining car
of one of the company's trains while
she was a passenger between Little
Rock and St. Louis, but she must pay
the costs, which amount to about $30.
A Badly Wanted Negro Found.
Frank Williams, the negro who has
been wanted for some time by the
police, on a charge of haying stolen
meat from a firm in Little Rock, was
found near Main street, suffering
from cuts about the face and neck,
and was taken to the hospital for
treatment, afterwards being removed
to the city jail. He refuses to tell
how he received the wounds.
Killed by Colt.
Harold, the ten-year-old son of Si
mon Dennie of Uniontown, Crawford
county, was dragged to his death by
a runaway colt. He had tied the hal
ter around his wrist and was leading
the colt when it became frightened
and ran away, dragging and kicking
the child for a quarter of a mile be
fore it could be stopped.
Cotton Still Held.
Only about 100 of the 1200 bales of
cotton advertised to be sold at Bates
vitle recently, were disposed of. There
were no out-of-town buyers at the
sale, and most of the cotton was taken
back to the farms to be held for higher
prices.
Accidentally Shot Himself.
While accompanying a young lady
home at Benton recently, Wood Wal
lace, a clerk in the Iron Mountain
freight depot, accidentally shot him
self in the leg and foot with a pistol
he was carrying in his coat pocket.
A TWO DAYS A1TT.E I’l'KCHASE AT ROGERS.
Tie* above view represents the large vinegar plant of the Southern Fruit Product
Company of I{oger8, Including 5,820 bushels of apples, a two days purchase. During
the season beginning August 14. and ending October 20. this company purchased loO.tinu
bushels of apples. This, however, represents but a small portion of the total product
of Renton county—the famous "world's apple orchard," as many companies were repre
sented at Rogers and other points. _
Lost Damage Suit.
The $-50,000 damage suit of Miss
Maude E. Pillow against the Texar
kana Traction Company for personal
injuries, was decided in favor of the
i defendants. The suit was the result
of a street car accident in which Miss
Pillow lost both feet.
Burglars at Pine Bluff.
Burglars entered the stores of W. E.
DeWoody & Co., and Gould-Galbraith,
at Pine Bluff, securing $12 at the form
er, but going away empty-handed from
the latter place as all valuables had
been removed from the cash drawer.
Donation to College.
$2,000 was donated to Shorter Col
lege, a negro school iu Argenta, by the
A. M. E. Conference in session at
Morrilton. , The amount was given to
lift a debt hanging over the school.
Death of Joe F. Clark.
Joe F. Clark, a paper hanger and
painter at Waldo, died of heart fail
ure while at work on a scaffold, fall
ing to the ground, a distance of fif
teen feet.
Missionary to China.
Miss Grace Funk, a young lady of
Rogers,' is on her way to Chine to
serve as a missionary. She goes un
der the auspices of the Woman’s
Foreign Missionary Board.
Fell From Roof.
While at work on the roof of his
barn, Sol Klllbury, a farmer living
near Rust, fell to the ground, sustain
ing a broken shoulder blade and a
number of bruises.
Nearing Completion.
The Building Committee of the local
Y. M. C. A. at Jonesboro, is push
ing the work on the building rapidly,
and expresses satisfaction at the work
so far accomplished.
Gin Burned at Texarkana.
A cotton gin, owned by T. M. Ward
at Texarkana, was destroyed by fire
recently. The fire was caused by a
match falling into the gin stand.
30,000 Barrels of Apples.
30,000 barrels of apples, or some
ten frains of twenty cars each, have
been stored in the cold storage plant
at Fayetteville. In addition to this
stock, the growers in Washington
county have great quantities stored
in houses and cellars.
Out on Bond.
The three men, D. C. McBride, R.
D. Cardwell and Tom Mayfield, who
were arrested at Hot Springs on a
charge of grand larceny, have been
admitted to bond, pending an investi
gation by the Grand Jury.
Seriously Injured.
While engaged in killing hogs,
Harvey Forsythe, a prominent school
teacher of Gainesville, accidentally cut
an artery in his neck and is in a seri
ous condition.
Mineral Wells Near Batesville.
The mineral wells, about ten miles
northeast of Batesville, have become
the property of a stock company, and
the water will be placed on the mar
ket.
Killed in Explosion.
Four men were killed at Caulksville,
a small town in Logan county, by the
explosion of the boiler in a steam cot
ton gin plant, and several others were
Injured.
A Prominent Citizen of Grady Dead.
Dr. W. M. Bittinger, a citizen of
Grady, died suddenly of heart failure,
and was buried under the auspices of
the Masonic, Red Men and Knights of
Pythias lodges.
Wagon Factory at Lewijville.
A company has been organized at
Lewisville and will immediately estab
lish a wagon and spoke factory in
that town.
Fell From Tree.
Herbert Manuel of Dyer, died while
being operated on for a fracture of
the skull received in a fall from a
pecan tree.
Won Suit.
John Spain, who sued the Arkansas
Democrat Company for $25,000 was
awarded $350 in the United States Cir
cuit Court. The suit was occasioned
by an article in that paper some time
ago in which it was alleged that Spain
was insane and that while on his
deathbed confessed to the killing of his
brother-in-law, Pat M. C. Koin. The
present publishers were not owners
of the paper when the publication was
made.
Circulating School Library.
The Jefferson public school at Fay
etteville is building up a circulating
library, the first and only one of its
kind in that city. The first books are
said to have been secured by pupils
cutting wood for their neighbors, and
is being added to from time to time
by the donation of a book at every
promotion of the students. The teach
ers and some of the county officials
have also agreed to help.
Distillery Moved.
Acting upon a promise made him by
Prosecuting Attorney Lake, that if he
would move his distillery out of his
jurisdiction, the suits against him
would be dismissed at the next term
of court, D. W. Henry, has moved
his distillery from the eastern suburb
of Nashville to some point on the
Prescott Northwestern Railway, where
it is said a site has been donated
for the purpose.
Cut By Flying Glass.
While enroute to Alicia on the White
river road, Miss Ely Sims was cut and
scratched about the face by shattered
glass caused by a rock thrown through
the window beside which she was sit
ting. The rock was said to have been
thrown by a negro woman working in
a field near Diaz.
Suit for $50,000.
The case of B. E. Pillow against the
Texarkana Traction Company, is on
trial at Texarkana. Mr. Pillow is su
ing the company for $50,000 damages,
the result of a street car accident in
which two of his children were killed
and one maimed for life.
W. R. Bolling Dead.
Capt. W. R. Bolling, one of the
wealthiest men in Crawford county,
died at his home in Alma recently. He
was an ex-Confederate soldier, a Ma
son, and Knight of Pythias, and has
been prominent in county affairs for
thirty years.
Examining Board in Session.
'l'he Examining Board of the State
Board of Pharmacists is conducting
the semi-annual examination in Lit
tle Rock. At this meeting of the
Board there are between twenty and
thirty applicants for registration as
pharmacists.
Dogs Kill Sheep.
Mr. Howard, while moving a herd
of sheep and goats to his farm near
Rogers had about fifty of them killed
by dogs. In their attack the dogs are
said to have killed the best breed,
while those of common stock were not
molested.
Disastrous Fire.
The Powell Hickory Handle Fac
tory at Rowe, has been destroyed by
fire, including a large quantity of lum
ber. The estimated loss is $25,000
with $4,00o insurance.
Car Shortage.
The two planing mills at Crossett
have shut down on account of shortage
of cars. Both mills have a large num
ber of orders they are unable to fill
on account of this shortage.
Negro College to be Sold.
Williams Industrial College, a negro
institution in Little Rock, is to be
sold to satisfy a mortgage of about
112,000 held by Adam C. Penzel.
Thrown from Wagon.
While driving along a road near
Newark, W. N. Hancock, a farmer, was
thrown from a wagon loaded with hay,
sustaining two broken ribs and many
bruises.
Death of Mrs. Apperson.
IVJrs. Marguerite Apperson, a promi
ment lady of Little Rock, died sudden
ly at her plantation near DeVall’s
Bluff. She was 72 years of age.
Baptist Convention.
The State Baptist Convention is in
session at Texarkana with about 1,000
messengers and visitors present
among whom are many notables.
A New Company Organized.
The Talley Lumber and Feed Com
pany has been organized at Batesville,
a number of representative business
men subscribing to the stock.
Charged With Murder.
Mrs. Gay Shales has surrendered
to the sheriff, and is under guard at
Black Rock for the killing of Alfred
Judkins at that place recently.
A Big Tomato Crop.
Farmers near Gassville planted
about 50 acres in tomatoes this year
from which they have realized $4,000,
an average of $80 per acre.
Cotton Destroyed.
A spark from a negro’s pipe caused
tiie destruction of about thirty bales
•f cotton at Mammoth Springs.
A CRUDE BOMB
EXPLODED IN ST. PETER’S AT
ROME NOVEMBER 18.
Edifice Was Crowded and There Was
Much Fright. But No One
»
Was Injured.
Rome.—A bomb was exploded in
St. Peter’s November 18. The edifice
was crowded and an indescribable
scene of confusion ensued. There
were no fatalities. As soon as the
echoes of the tremendous roar had
ceased, a canon sought by reassuring
words to quiet the people, but in
vain. They fled in all directions and
a number of women fainted. Women
and children screamed and men tried
to protect their families in the crush.
The church is so large, howevei, that
there was ample room for the crowd
to scatter and no one was injured.
No trace of the perpetrator of the
deed has been found.
Since Saint Anacletus, who was or
dained by Peter himself, erected an
oratory in 90 A. D. on the site of the
present basilica to rpark the spot
where the remains of St. Peter are
buried, no such dastardly act has ever
been perpetrated.
Holy relics were exposed and a
large number of the faithful attend
ed the service. Cardinal Rampolla,
formerly papal secretary of state, was
among those present. He took part
in the service in the choir chapel.
The last mass had just been con
cluded when the explosion occurred,
and only one canon, who had not
quite finished, remained at the altar
of St. Petroni.
This altar is at the end of the
right aisle and it was near here that
the bomb had been placed. As the
canon turned to bless the communi
cants there was a tremendous roar,
which echoed through the lofty arch
es of the immense dome like a thun
der clap. Smoke spread through this
portion of the basilica and the strong
odor of gunpowder filled the air.
Confusion and panic at once seized
the people. The canon at the altar
tried to stem the tide of fear. He
shouted out:
”Do not be afraid. It is nothing—
merely the noonday gun.’’
His words, however, had little ef
fect. They were refuted by the smoke
and the smell of powder, and the peo
ple continued their headlong flight.
Chairs were overthrown, making the
confusion more serious. Men and wo
men fled, stumbling in all directions.
The screams of children and cries of
anguish were heard on all sides, and
for a few minutes it seemed as if
nothing could obviate a grave disas
ter.
r\a auuu aa me ouiuivv, v<ivui vu « ■■
a hasty examination showed that no
body had been hurt in the crush and
that no one had been wounded by the
explosion.
Calm was gradually restored and
people returned to view the extent of
the damage.
It was discovered that the bomb
had been placed under a scaffolding
which had been erected to facilitate
repairs to the roof, exactly over the
celebrated tomb of Clement XIII. by
Canova, which consists of a figure of
the pope and two lions, and which
was the most remarkable piece of
sculpture in the basilica.
When the first gendarmes reached
the spot the scaffolding was fou*id to
be smouldering, but this fire was eas
ily extinguished.
The tomb was found to be abso
lutely uninjured, and even the pave
ments show scarcely any sign of the
explosion.
An examination of the remains of
the bomb leads to the supposition
that unless it was crudely prepared on
purpose to mislead them, it was man
ufactured in the country and brought
into Rome. It is said that the bomb
had a very long fuse in order to en
able the criminal to gain the piazza
before the explosion. It has been
impossible to trace him, and no one
has any recollection of a man who.
by his movements, might have aroused
suspicion.
The pope was engaged in his reg
ular noon-hour devotions when the
bomb went off. He heard a muffled
sound which surprised him but did
not alarm him. Moivsignor Misciatel
li, sub-prefect of the apostolic
palaces, and Monsignor Bisleti, major
dotno of the Vatican, at once hurried
ly entered the pontiff’s chamber. They
were so pale that the pope immediate
ly asked: “What has happened?”
“Do not be alarmed. Holy Father,”
was the answer, “a bomb has exploded
in the basilica, but fortunately there
are no deaths to deplore, and no one
has been wounded.”
The pontiff asked anxiously if the
church had been injured. On being
reassured he fell on his knees, say
ing he must implore mercy for Jj$p
misguided perpetrator of the deed,
I