I Woodmkk Cmmty News.
VOL. v.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1906.
iso. m.
An Epitome of the Most Impor
tant Events at Home and
Abroad the Past Week.
NORTH, east, west, south.
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation of Current News Items,
Bot.i Domestic and Foreign, For
People Who Want the Best.
GlCMSnAI. NEW* ITEHl
Judge John A. Rich, in the criminal
court at St. Joseph, Mo., decides that
the general Sunday closing law of Mis
souri applies to cities of the second
class. Notice of appeal was given.
The London Standard says that the
death of Lady Curzon is made sadder
by the fact, known only to a few, that
Lord Curzon is himself threatened
with a fatal disease.
Syzran, Russia, according to a Sa
mara dispatch, is a heap of ruins from
flie recent fire. Hundreds of persons
lost their lives and several men sus
pected of incendiarism were sum
marily dispatched. Four thousand
houses were burned.
The opening of the bids for the
130,000,000 Panama canal bonds indi
cated that the entire issue had been
subscribed for many times over at an
average of 103.94.
The will of the late Alfred Beit, the
Bouth African Croesus, leaves millions
to various public benefactions, largely
jn South Africa, $0,000,000 in one lump
being devised to aid in furthering
methods of communication and trans
portation in that part of the world.
Large sums are left to relatives,
friends and servants, his brother Otto
Beit, being made residuary legatee ab
solutely.
A treaty of peace between Guate
mala and Sajvador and Honduras was
signed on board the United States
cruiser Marblehead, at sea, July 20,
thus ending a war that threatened to
involve several other Central Ameri
can republic besides those concerned
in its beginning. The United States
has added another plume to its cap
of peace.
A decree appears in the Official
Journal in Paris nominating Maj. Al
fred Dreyfus to the Legion of Honor.
Hrig.-Uen. Edmund Rice, retired,
died at his home in Wakefield, Mass.,
after a brief illness of heart disease,
aged C4 years.
Japanese public sentiment is inex
pressibly shocked at the finding of
the Russian court of inquiry, which
recommends thi»t Gen. Stoessel be
shot. All say the verdict is at variance
With the facts in the case.
In a fire at Yokohama, Japan, 1,000
houses were destroyed.
In honor of Colombian independence
day, the government released all po
litical prisoners.
Andrew D. \\ hite, former president
of Cornell university, in an address
before the Cornell summer school, de
clared the time had come when techni
cal appeals in criminal cases should
no longer be allowed by the courts.
Ground has been broken on the
Jamestown (Va.) exposition for Penn
sylvania's state building, which will
oe a replica of Independence hall,
Philadelphia, and which will be pre
sented to the state of Virginia.
A portrait of the late Secretary of
State John Hay, three-quarters life
Hze, the work of Miss Ellen Emmett,
of Salisbury, Conn., has been placed
In the diplomatic reception room in
the state department in Washington.
Dr. W. D. McAfee, known in G. A. it.
circles in the United States as a lead
ing marcher at national encampments.
«hed at his home in Rockford, 111., aft
®r a lingering illness.
Kev. B. Royal Cheuy, pastor of the
Second Congregational church at Be
lch, Wis., was killed in an elevator ac
cident at Florence, Italy.
Gy the burning of the big bonded
warehouse of James Watson & Co., at
Dundee, Scotland, a loss of $1,250,000
'"as sustained. The streets in the vl
ctnity of the fire literally ran with
burning whisky.
Practically all the large cotton
mills of New England have voluntarily
announced increases of five to seven
^cent. in wages to begin August 1.
Massachusetts will turn over $400,
00 of its ban Francisco relief fund,
|Jld back owing to lack of confidence
in tlie San Francisco committee, to
e rehabilitation company.
The executive committee of the Na
°nal \\ holesale Grocers’ association,
a meeting in Chicago, adopted a res
et ution indorsing the new pure food
u* with a determination to obey its
mandates to the letter.
\\l en the announcement was mado
n Denver that Philadelphia had been
c osen lor the next Elks’ convention,
* band from the Quaker City ap
peared and started playing “There’ll be
“ uot time in the old town'to-night.”
rhe vote stood: Philadelphia, 495;
Baltimore, 265.
A report comes from Knott county,
Kentucky, of a bloody clash between
feud factions at Hindman, In which
several persons were killed. Particu
lars, however, were lacking.
As the result of an explosion in the
Dixon mine at Huger, VV. Va., four
miners were killed and two fatally in
jured.
The Cologne Gazette’s St. Peters
burg correspondent says that the Rus
sian government has agreed in prin
ciple to dissolve parliament and order
new elections on the basis of universal
and direct suffrage.
Despite previous reports of victories
by the Salvadoreans at Platana and
Metapam, just before the armistice
was proclaimed, it is now learned
that the Guatemalans were successful
in both battles.
In the Elks’ parade at Denver, Col.,
the marchers were showered with
flowers and snowballs, several car
loads of snow having been brought
from the Continental divide. The tem
perature on the street during the snow
balling was about 85.
Att’y.-Gen. Coleman of Kansas has
filed a second contempt case against
Mayor W. W. Rose, and he has been
again ordered to show' cause why he
should not be adjudged in contempt
for holding the office of mayor after
having been ousted by the supreme
court.
Rev. Dr. I. Levis, of Greenfield. Ind.,
and George McNeenus, his assistant,
were killed by the explosion of a
tank of carbide, in a tent, while get
ting ready to give a stereopticon ex
hibition of the San Francisco disaster
at Glenwood, Ind. Harry E. Levis,
a son of Rev. Levis, was seriously in
jured.
Armed men attacked a cashier on
board a train between Rosto-von-Don,
Russia, and Voronezh, and robbed him
of |12,500. They made their escape.
The Russian commission that in
quired into )he surrender of Port Ar
thur recommends that Gen. Stoessel
be sentenced to death, and that Lieut.
Gen. Foek, who commanded the
Fourth East Siberian division at Port
Arthur, be condemned to 20 years in
the galleys.
The discovery of black rust in the
wheat fields of Minnesota and the Da
kotas has caused a sharp advance in
the price of wheat in the Chicago
market.
Harry K. Thaw appears to be at
outs wdth his mother, who wants the
insanity plea advanced in the defense
of her son. Thaw, however, insists
that he is sane and wants his case to
go to trial in the regular way, and let
the world hear the story.
Archbishop John Ireland, of St. Paul,
who is a member of Acker Post Xo. 1,
Department of Minnesota, Grand Army
of the Republic, has accepted an ap
pointment as aide-de-camp on the staff
of Commander-in-Chief Tanner, and
will ride with him in the parade at
Mineapolis, August 15.
Appraisal of the property owned by
the iate Marshal Field in New York
schedules $5,540,405 in personal prop
erty and $2,408,750 in real estate.
According to reports from San Fran
cisco, the refugees who left immedi
ately following the fire, are gradually
returning.
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L nanes a. jusius, a.gt?u ov, auu imc®
children of liis sister, Mrs. Samuel
Moudy, were burned to death when
the family homestead was destroyed,
four miles east of Middletown, Idaho.
In view of the fact that the late
Alfred Beit took out insurance policies
some years ago in an American com
pany in favor of “my intended wife,
Elizabeth Bennett Beit,” the question
has naturally arisen was he a bache
lor, as reported, or a benedict?
Miss Grace Howe McKinley, niece
of the late President McKinley and
Capt. Grayson V. Heidt, Eleventh
United States cavalry, were married
at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. Mrs. Wil
liam McKinley sent a mahogany chest
of silver as a wedding president.
The London papers dwell on the in
tellectual force, beauty, grace and tact
of the late Lady Curzon of Kedleston,
and attributes much of Lord Curzon's
success in India, where she worked
"with heart and head for the welfare
of the people,” to her.
The assassin of the Russian General
Kozloff, who was mistaken for Gen.
Trepoff, has been identified as a mem
ber of an organization which has sever
al others on its list.
A slaughterhouse near Wellington.
Kas., v. as found to be in such a filthy
condition that Dr. Crumbine, secre
tary of the state board of health, de
dared that nothing but destruction by
fire would restore its location to a
healthful condition.
W. Bourke Cockran, who is touring
California, insists that President
Roosevelt will be forced to run again
for president. He is not so sure
about Bryan, notwithstanding the
present drift toward the Nebraskan.
To avoid the disgrace of arrest for
an alleged defalcation approximating
$4,000, Albert O'Brien, tax collector o!
the borough of Totowa, N. J., shot and
killed himself while officers were ap
proaching his house.
Harry K. Thaw- has dismissed hit
lawyers, Black, Olcott, Gruber & Bon
ynge because of their advocacy of the
insanity plea for his defense, and ha?
Installed Clifford W. Hartridge as hit
thief counsel.
ARKANSAS STATE FAIR.
IVILL EMBRACE MANY FEATURES—OAKLAWN PARK BEING CON
VERTED INTO STATE FAIR GROUNDS—OVER 100,000 AR
KANSANS EXPECTED IN HOT SPRINGS DURING
FIRST FAIR, OCT. 1 TO 10 THIS YEAR.
The Arkansas StE,te Fair Associa
tion are spending several thousand
dollars in addition to the $550,000 al
ready invested at Oaklawn Park in
fully adapting this magnificent plant
for State Fair purposes. This work is
now over half completed.
Oaklawn Park, the permanent State
Fair Grounds, is located on the main
electric car line less than a mile from
the center of the city of Hot Springs.
The grounds are finest and newest in
this country. The main Exposition
building is nearly 200 by 400 feet, two
stories high, steel framed, steam
heated with electric light, water and
sewerage; elegantly equipped iu every
detail with solid glass front and ends
made removable at a minute’s notice,
and having amphitheatre and audi
torium capacity for 5,000 seated.
The other buildings are on the same
immense scale. The grounds are elab
orately landscaped. There are over a
thousand of the finest stables and
stock stalls that were ever built. The
stock department alone has fifty arc
lights on the main streets, complete
sewerage system and water mains tra
verse the entire plant. There are
The industries and products of this
wonderful state are so diversified that
it has been almost impossible to com
pletely catalogue each and every item
produced or manufactured in this
state.
The coming Fair being the first one,
the Executive Department have made
the Premium List for the Fair as com
prehensive as possible. It is realized,
however, that even the extensive Pre
mium List now being published, will
be imperfect and incomplete in many
respects. The Association has de
cided therefore, to receive, without
any charge for entry, each and every
Arkansas product offered for exhibi
tion, provided only that these exhibits
have some artistic, educational, indus
trial or commercial merit. Articles
entered for exhibit purposes that are
not specifically enumerated in the
Premium List, will be placed on a
competitive basis with any other art!
cles of the same class, and each and
every article thus exhibited, will re
ceive a diploma, medal or other vain
abue mark of merit, for all points ol
superiority possessed.
In the Educational Department it
Exposition Palace—Arkansas State Fair Grounds.
fifteen full gauge fire plugs with
natural pressure to throw a stream of
water over 100 feet and 5,000 feet
of standard fire hose ready for instant
use. The stable department has alsc
thirty kitchens and sleeping apart
ments with every convenience for use
of stock owners.
The mile speedway is admittedly
one of the finest courses ever built in
America. A midway of over 2,000
feet of street frontage has already
been built and twenty of the highest
classed amusement features obtainable
are already under contract for the
State Fair.
The fair will include a Live Stock
Show, all Exposition Features, all
wholesome amusement features, and a
daily racing program of both harness
and running speed contests. There
will he reduced rates on all railroads
in the State during the first State
Fair from October 1 to 10.
An important feature will be the
morning programs which will be ar
ranged by ten of the most important
municipal, fraternal or social organi
zations of the State. The organiza
tions which hold their conventions
during the State Fair will not only
have advantage of the low excursion
rates but will be given the free use of
the large auditorium, of nearly 5.000
seating capacity, in which to hold
their sessions.
is especially desired that, every class
and character of school within the
' state of Arkansas be represented, the
district school as well as the great
universitiy. There has been no at
tempt at all to classify or enumerate
in this important department, but each
and every creditable exhibition of
school work will be exhibited at the
Fair. In this department the Associa
tion does not even require that the
exhibits be brought to the Fair in per
son. From September the 15th until
the day before the Fair opens, or
September the 30th, any school may
consign exhibits to the State Fair
Association with the assurance that
[ they will be well taken care of, ex
hibited during the Fair and carefully
packed ready for reshipment to the
original consignor if so desired.
The premiums in the Educational
Department will be in the form of
medals, diplomas and high class books
suitable for school libraries or pri
| vate use.
The Fair Association is determined
i make the Educational Division of the
I immense Exposition Department one
of the most valuable and important
features. The Association is desirous
of correspondence from every school
and school teacher in the state.
The Arkansas State Fair is to he a
permanent institution, and the A. S.
F. A. as now organized, will earnestly
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Grand Stand—Arkansas State Fair Grounds.
Friday, October 5th, will be "Little
Rock Day;” Saturday, October Gth.
will be “Arkansas Travelers’ Day.”
Thursday. October 4th, has been se
lected as “Hot Springs Day.” Still
another date will be selected as “Far
mers' Union Day,” and arrangements
are oeing made for the designation of
the remaining dates of the State Fair.
The one idea which the State Ftalr
Association Is keeping continually be
fore them is to make the State Fair as
valuable as possible from an iudus
rial standpoint to the entire state of
Arkansas.
endeavor to give to the people or Ar
kansas a great annual State Fair ol
such magnitude, of so much value to
every worthy enterprise within the
state, and so free from objectionable
features, that all the broad minded,
intelligent, patriotic citizens of the
Commonwealth can consistently sup
port itnd co-operate in this great work
to the end that this state, with great
er possibilities than almost any other
domain in the world, may have and
maintain the greatest educationtl and
industrial exposition In the United
States.
AR
RKANSAS
STATE NEWS
Corporations.
Articles of incorporation wore filed
with the secretary of state by the O.
D. Hardy Drug Company of Camden,
showing a capital stock of $ 10,000, of
which $(>,000 has been subscribed.
The incorporators are: O. D. Hardy,
Ed Harper and C. S. Leake. The Bank
of Conway filed a certificate showing
an increase in the capital stock from
$25,000 to $50,000. Articles were also
filed by the People’s Building and
Savings Association of Batesville,
showing a capital stock of $100,000, of
which $25,000 has been subscribed.
The incorporatohs are: James F. Bar
nett, A. A. Maxwell, W. P. Jones, D.
D. Adams, J. E. Roseborough, Charles
Mosby, R. A. Dowdy, Charles F. Cole
and W. F. Ball. Articles were filed by
The Dean-Pelley Lumber Company,
of Big Lake, Mississippi county,
showing a capital stock of $10,000, of
which $2,500 has been subscribed.
The incorporators are: O. E. Pelley,
F. M. Kinisam, J. F. Dean, Sr., J. F.
Dean, Jr., and Orin F. Dean.
Why Did She Do It?
Saying that she had lived long
enough, Mrs. Tompkins, 70 years of
age, a resident of Greene county, car
ried out a startling plan of self-de
struction. With a hammer she drove
two nails through her skull and into
the brain. One was a ten-penny and
one a six-penny nail. She lived sev
eral hours after that. It was found
that the nails both passed through the
brain. Once before the aged woman
attempted to commit suicide. At the
inquest held the verdict of the cor
oner's jury was thar. she died as the
result of driving nails into her head.
Mrs. Tompkins was a white woman of
family, and was in comfortable cir
cumstances. She had no domestic
troubles. She had been heard to say
that she had lived long enough.
Elks After a Good Time.
With a view to organizing the Elk
lodges in the state into an organiza
tion to hold annual fetes for the pro
motion of a general good time, letters
have been sent out by the officers
of Little Rock Lodge, No. 29, to all
Elk lodges of the state, requesting
them to signify by letter their willing
ness to join such an organization. The
letter also states that it is the pur
pose to arrange for a meeting to be
held in Little Rock for three days dur
ing October or November of this year
and hold annual sessions at different
points in the state where Elk lodges
are located.
Farmers Mean Business.
At a recent meeting of the Farmers’
Union at Tomberlin it was voted to
establish warehouses in Lonoke coun
ty for the storing and holding of cot
ton, which contemplates one at Cabot,
one at Lonoke and one at England.
The meeting also voted to send a
young man to a textile school to learn
the business of grading cotton.
She Did Her Part.
Investigation of the Confederate
records has disclosed the fact that
Independence county sent 22 com
panies of soldiers, with a total \>£
more than 1,700 men, into the Con
federate service. As many as four
companies of Union soldiers also
went from there. Baxter's Fourth
Arkansas Regiment was recruited at
that point.
There’s Life in the Old Land Yet.
The Faulkner County Grand Jury,
in its report, says the sanitary condi
tions at the county farm in regard to
beds and bedding are very unsatisfac
tory, and not in keeping with the dig
nity of the county. The Grand Jury
recommends an entire overhauling of
the farm.
A Nasty Business.
A couple of Mormons who have
been preaching iu the streets of Rog
ers had their meeting rudely inter
rupted by a crowd of boys. The
youthful assailants threw water upon
the Mormons and bespattered them
with eggs, both fresh and ancient.
An ordinance has been adopted by
the Texarkana City council prohibit
ing the use and soundiug of gongs on
the strets of the city by vehicles other
than those of the Fire Department, un
der a penalty not exceding ?10 for
every offense.
_Next! "
J. G. Still, who resides on the J. K.
Bryant place, near Bingen, reports the
most prolific crop of squash known
in Hempstead county. He says he has
two hills from which he has gathered
1.81 squash, and that there are 24 more
still on the vines.
Shipments of Fruits.
The shipment of Elberta peaches
from Crawford county has begun.
Cantaloupes in large quantities are
also being shipped to foreign markets.
In a few days melons and peaches
will be shipped in carload lots.
Good News from Baxter.
A letter from the promoters of the
Mountain Home and Cotter electric
line says that the details of the
project have been delayed consider
ably, but that the work will probably
begin early in the fall. It is estimated
that it will take about three months
to complete the work. Preparations
are being pushed for the Mountain
Home annual two-day picnic, which
will be held on Friday and Saturday,
August 3 and 4. A large list of pre
miums is announced. Nearly all the
schools over the county began their
sessions this week. A great deal
more interest is being taken in edu
cation this year than formerly, and
the school interest in this county is
rapidly being built up Reports from
the threshers in the county are to the
effect that the quality of grain is bet
ter this season than ever seen here
and the quantity is larger than was at
first supposed.
Double Tragedy in Union.
There was a double tragedy lately
near the Edgar Lumber Company's
logging camp, Union county. Rufus
Eastridge fatally wounded Charley
Bishop in attempting to arrest him,
and was himself killed by Bishop.
Bishop wras under indictment on a
charge of killing Dallas Hunter in
September, 1903, and several warrants
were out against him for selling whis
key. It is thought that Eastridge was
attempting to arrest him for the latter
offense. Bishop resisted arrest and
Eastridge shot him six times with a
pistol of large caliber. It was after
he fell that Bishop fired the shot
which killed Eastridge, the ball pierc
ing the heart. Both men died in a
few minutes. Eastridge was also un
der indictment on a charge of killing
Young Parnell near Three Creeks two
years ago.
Good News for Old Soldiers.
The increase from three-fourths of a
mill to a mill tax for the Confederate
pension fund has caused a large in
crease in the amount of money raised
for this fund during the past year.
The amount raised this year for this
fund is estimated at $250,000, an in
crease of $75,000 to $80,000 over the
amount raised a year ago, or in pre
vious years. The valuation on which
taxes was collected last year was
larger than for any previous year,
and the increase of a quarter of a
mill increased the fund more than a
third for this reason. Last year the
amount raised was less than $200,000,
and in former years the fund was less
than this.
After Prominent Citizens.
The Grand Jury of Little River
county is no respecter of persons when
it comes to infractions of the law.
They got wind of some election beti
made by prominent citizens of the
county and proceeded to investigate.
As a result bills were found against
C. E. Oxford of Foreman and W. L.
Perkins of Winthrop for laying a
wager on the primary election last
March. It developed that J. M. John
son. mayor of Ashdown, was the
stakeholder, and he was also indicted
for nonfeasance in office, but the case
was dismissed on payment of the
costs. Mr. Perkins entered a plea
of guilty and his fine was assessed at
$50.
Drunk and Asleep—Dead Now.
The body of Henry White, a negro,
was recently found lying in the Lin
coln county road in Jefferson county,
and the indications were that he had
been dead about two hours. He was
found lying on one side of the road
with a watermelon and a piece of
meat near him. The watermelon was
not broken, but the meat looked as if
a wagon wheel had passed over it.
The negro had been seen drunk that
evening as he left town and it is
supposed that he fell down in the
road and went to sleep and a wagon
passed over his head, as the skull
was broken in several places.
May Consolidate.
At the next meeting of the Omer R.
Weaver Camp, United Confederate
Veterans, Little Rock, the proposition
of merging the Sons of Veterans with
the local camp of veterans will be
taken up and discussed and it is prob
able that the veterans will take favor
able action on the matter. Instruc
tions have recently been issued from
headquarters that the young men can
be taken into the organization of the
veterans and by uniting the two or
ders make a stronger organization.
Reward for Two Negroes.
Governor Davis has issued rewards
of $100 each for the arrest and con
viction of two negroes wanted on
charges of murder. The first reward
was for Will Scott, who is wanted in
Lincoln county on a charge of killing
Edmond Taylor, another negro, July
9. The other reward is for Perry
Curtis, who is wanted in Desha
county on a charge of having mur
dered his wife July 1, and having
buried her body in the woods back of
the house. Both negroes have left
the country and are at large.