After a wide range of debate,
consuming three days, the United
States senate passed the deficiency
appropriation bill, the principal
item being a loan of $4,000,000 to
the St. Louis Louisiana Purchase
Imposition company.
A iast mail train on the Missouri
Pacific was derailed near Miller,
Kan. A baggage car, mail, smoker
and a chair car were thrown into a
ditch. One person was killed out
right and several others fatally
injured. The wreck was caused by
a defective rail.
'I he worst break in the history of
trading in cotton futures occurred
on the Aew Orleans exchange on the
dtb, when May dropped $}) per bale.
It was simply a move on tlie part
of the clique manipulating the
market to squeeze a few millions
out of the “lambs.”
The senate has ratific^ the natur
alization treaty ! tween the United
States and Ilayti. The treaty pro
vide: that citizens of Ilayti who may
1>« naturalized in the United States
and then return to Ilayti shall cease
to he considered citizens of this
country after an absence of five
vi «*i rs.
W. P. Hunter, special agent in
charge of the cotton boll weevil in
vestigation for tin1 division of ento
mology, department of agriculture,
says the work of his division for sev
eral y ar- “has demonstrated that
there is not even a remote probabil
ity that the boll weevil will be ex
terminat< d.”
\fter a deadlock of several weeks
the democratic member^ of the Ma
ryland legislature met in caucus
and selected Isadore Raynor United
Stabs senator to succeed Senator
Met Pinas, the pre-ent incumbent.
Mr. Raynor was then duly elected
in joint session. The successful
candidate was leading counsel for
Admiral Schley during the naval
court of inquiry.
c'ahlegrams of the 5th inst. state
that Russia and Japan had virtual
ly declared war and vessels of both
navies stood ready to tire the first
shot. Probably by the time this is
read several naval battles will have
been fought. Whatever the strength
ofTlie navies of the two powers may
s he, the real battle, unless the pow
ej> inttrvene, will be settled by the
And forces, with the odds in favor
oT Russia, on account of superior
numbers, though she will he greatly
hampered by transporting troops
and supplies to the scene of con
flict.
K. win K -inard nf Xew York is
the i |irth member of Prof, Kussell
II ' rittendon's dietary squad at
YHe to desert rather than face any
k’Uf^C a vegetable diet. Privates
Hughes, Davis and Prince are the
others who have deserted. Davis
loft after he had gone insane, alter
four months of vegetable diet. ’I here
are twelve soldiers left in the squad.
All have lost weight and are looking
pale and gaunt I They belong to the
regular army, to the hospital corps,
from the Washington barracks.
The soldiery have grumbled loudly
for several weeks, and Prof, t rit
tc.nden announces that the tests and
cereal diet, will cease April 1 . Ac
cording to the original plans, they
were to last till June 1. One of
the objects of the tests is to learn
how little food can be taken and al
low physical energy enough to per
form the usual amount of manual
labor.
Secret service men have placed
under arrest James Smith, a mil
lionaire manufacturer of Blissville,
Jj. I., and his son, charging them
iHi counterfeiting. Smith is the
owner of a plant where metal nov
elties are made. The officers raid
ed the place- and claim to have
found a quantWvof dies and blank
silver pieces read Uo he minted into
half dollars. They also claim to
have found a groat quantity of spu
rious half dolters.
The machinists of the Missouri
Pacific and Iron Mountain systems
have demanded an increase in wages.
They now receive 35 cents per
hour.
A large share of the $40,000,000
which the government will pay for
the property of the Panama Canal
Company will not leave this coun
try. It is estimated by treasury of
ficials that about one-third of the
canal company's stock and bonds is
held by New York capitalists.
Probably the most destructive fire
in the history of the country occur
red at Baltimore on the 8th inst.,
when betwene $60,000,000 and
$100,000,000 worth of property was
reduced to ashes. The tire was in
the business center of the city, and
not a daily newspaper plant was
left.
Word has been received of the
killing by San Dominican rebels of
J. C. Johnson, engineer of the
American auxiliary cruiser Yankee.
The American consul has been
directed to take drastic measures to
avenge Johnson's death. While
steaming into San Domingo hay the
t ankee was deliberately tired upon
by the insurgents.
Jo-Jo, tin' original dog-faced
man, is dead at Salonioa, Macedo-'
nia. Pneumonia sent him to an un
timely grave. The original “dog
faced” man was brought to public
notice by 1*. T. Barnum. lie had
a face resembling that of a Scotch
terrier, and tin1 long hair about
his cheeks and forehead gave him a
hideous appearance, lie was a
native of Finland.
'flic naval appropriation hill as
recommended to congress carries an
aggregate appropriation of $5)5,
000,000. In case the secretary of
the navy cannot secure armor plate
from private bidders the sum of
$4,000,000 is available with which
to erect an armor plate factory. The
ships authorized are one battle ship,
two armored cruisers, three scout
cruisers and two squadron colliers.
'fhe secretary of the interior has
requested the civil service commis
sion to hold an examination as
soon as possible for construction
engineers in the United States
reclamation service. This examina
tion is similar to that to be held
for consulting engineers the last of
August. 'fhe competition is
to be confined to men who
have had responsible charge
of hydraulic works, such as
dams and canals. The positions
pay from $3,GOO to $1,000 per an
num, and applications for particu
lars should be made to the civil ser
vice commission at Washington.
A jury at Fulton. Wo., in the
ease of Col. Edwin Butler, the mil
lionaire politician of St. Louis,
charged with bribing nineteen mem
bers of the St. Louis house of dele
gates in connection with a light
ning franchise, returned a verict
of not guilty. Several of the men
alleged to have been bribed testified
that they received money from But
ler for their votes, but the foreman
of the jury declared they did not
feel like1 convicting on evidence of
men already convicted of perjurv.
Prosecutor Folk expressed great
surprise at the verdict. This will
probably be the last case to be push
ed against Butler, as the supreme
court in another instance where
conviction was secured dismissed
the case on a technicality.
During a minstrel performance
at Widdlesboro, Ky„ John White, a
lA'gro ex-convict, shot and killed
Policeman John Buns and John
Sharp. The tragedy was the re
sult of an effort on the part of the
officer to arrest White.
The circuit judge at Farmington,
Wo., discharged a panel of forty
men, from which a jury was being
selected to try a murder case be
cause some of the men took a social
drink with interested attorneys.
State Sunday School Work.
Clifford 1’. Boles of Fayetteville,
president of the Arkansas State
Sunday-school Association, has is
sued an address to the officers and
members of the Sunday-schools of
Arkansas, in which ho says:
‘"The Arkansas State Sunday
school Association is one of the six
ty-seven organizations that consti
tute the great International Sun
day-school Association of North
America.
“And while it is not known exact
ly how many members are enrolled
in the Sunday-schools of Arkansas,
yet a conservative estimate places
that number at 200,000, in about
2,500 Sunday-schools.
“The organization, as such, is co
operative, and interdenominational;
truly an organization ‘of the denom
inations, by the denominations and
for the denominations’ of the
church, and has for its object the
promotion of all that is helpful and
good in Sunday-school work.
“The state of Arkansas, with a
territory of over 53,000 square
miles, in a climate that is almost
unsurpassed; with mineral and ag
ricultural resources practically un
limited; with a population of some- ■
tiling like a million and a half of
people, is and will continue to be a
great state from a commercial point
of view, and much honor and credit
is due to all those whose efforts are I
being put forth for the advance- ;
meat of the material welfare of the ;
state. Yet there remains for the |
churches a work that is of greater
importance than any material inter- i
est can be.
“The Sunday-school, considered
as ‘the bible studying and bible
teaching service of the church/ or
‘the church at work/ as it is some
times called, assumes in a large de
gree the responsibility of the devel
opment and training of our moral
and spiritual interests. Ilow best
can this be done, is the question that
should receive the most earnest con
sideration of all church and Sunday
school workers in the state.
“Of the seventy-five counties in
the state, possibly not more than
twenty-five have real, live county
Sunday-school associations, and
without organization it is impossi
ble to have unity of purpose and
concert of action.
“‘Organization for Evangelism/
the motto of the International As
sociation, should be accepted as the
motto of the Arkansas association.
A county association in every coun
ty in the state; a township associa
tion in every voting precinct, and a
Sunday-school in every school house
is the ideal which we should earn
estly strive to attain.
“The progress made in recent
years is certainly encouraging. The
convention held at Fort Smith in
15)01 seems to have opened a new
era of prosperity in Sunday-school
work in the state. Since then there
has been a field secretary at work
much of the time, and a number of
counties have been organized and
others aroused and revived.
“The present condition of the
work is full of hope and promise.
“With .Mr. W. Fred Long as
field secretary, giving his whole time
to the work and the establishment
of the Arkansas Sunday-school Her
ald, published in the interest of
the Sunday-school cause in the
state, we confidently hope that the
work will be advanced as it has
never been before."
New Superintendent.
At a meeting of the hoard of trus
tees of the Confederate soldiers'
home, Samuel Hardwick was elect
ed superintendent, to succeed the
late E. L. McCracken. The mem
bers of the board of trustees are
John G. Fletcher, It. J. Polk, Chas.
F. Martin, E. A. Itamsey and S. A.
Henry. Mr. Henry is a new mem
ber having been appointed by the
governor to succeed \V. X. Peeler of
Kussellville, who resigned in order
to become a candidate for superin
tendent.
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