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VOL. II.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1902.
NO. 32.
News of the World
Oklahoma went republican at the
recent election.
Order is being restored in Co
lombia, and the revolution is prac
tically at an end.
Robbers who blew open the vault
of the Bank of Greenwood at Green
wood, Wis., secured $11,000.
The director of the mint places
the amount of gold mined in Alas
ka the past ten months at $18,770,
075.
Ralph Espy, a young college stu
dent of Chicago, has become insane,
the result of a kick received in a
game of football.
Bar silver was sold in London
last week at 23 3-16 cents per
ounce, the lowest price in the his
tory of the metal.
Bert Casey and Jim Sims, two
notorious outlaws, were shot and
killed in a battle with officers in
Woods county, Oklahoma.
A convention of delegates from
river towns throughout the Missis
sippi valley has been called to meet
at Quincy, 111., November 14.
Gen. Fred Grant recently ap
pointed commander of the depart
ment of Texas, with headquarters
at San Antonio, has assumed com
mand.
Considerate trouble is being ex
perienced at New Orleans in en
forcing the new state law requiring
separate coaches for whites and
blacks.
A negro named Sam Harris was
shot to death at Salem, Ala., by a
mob of 250 people. He was iden
tified by Miss Meadows as the mur
derer of her mother, the daughter
also being assaulted and badly
wounded, the weapon used being an
axe.
The admission of Oklahoma, Ar
izona and New Mexico to state
hood will be one of the first ques.
tions considered by the senate when
congress meets in December. A
committee from the senate will
shortly visit the penitentiaries to
view the conditions.
Several American school teachers
and a number of natives favorable
to American rule, have recently been
murdered in Central Negros* Phil
ippine islands. The American
troops find but little organized op
position, but the murderers adopt
the tactics of an assassin, and their
victims are generally caught una
wares.
In its annual report the civil ser
vice commission urges that congress
provide for the reclassification of
the entire department service. The
commission says that until such re
classification is made it does not
feel justified in attempting to en
force any uniform system of regu
lations for promotions. It urges
that each department adopt a sys
tem of promotions of its own.
It is reported that the Frisco has
purchased the St. Louis and Gulf
railroad. This will give the Frisco
a Memphis outlet for their new pur
chase, the Chicago and Eastern Illi
nois railroad, which has its termi
nals across the river at Thebes. The
St. Louis and Gulf whs formerly
known as the Houck system, con
sisting of 233 miles in three divis
ions.
The highest pe£*yapita of money
in circulation in the United States
was reached on November 1, when
the amount was $29.36. The fig
ures for October 1 were $28.64, and
the lowest for recent years $25.93
on March 1, 1900. The total stock
of money of all kinds in the Unit
ed States November 1 was $2,627,
963,267, which was an increase of
$30,868,332 during the month, and
the amount in actual circulation on
that date was $2,336,111,992, being
an increase of $60,425,341 for the
month, and of $89,811,450 compar
ed with the same date last year.
The St. Louis world’s fair com
mission lias been officially notified
of Germany’s intention to make an
exhibit.
After a thorough test by , the
French navy of the Siene subma
rine boat, they have been declared
a failure.
A delegation of British .trades
unionists lias arrived in this coun
try to make observations on trade
and labor conditions.
Joseph Farrow and Marion Dun,
white, fought a pistol duel at Gran
din, Mo., and both men were killed,
each being shot four times.
The h aqui Indians of Mexico
have lately committed numerous
murders in the state of Sonora,
their victims being ranchmen.
The next legislature of Mary
land, which will be democratic, will
elect Arthur P. Gorman United
States senator tp( succeed Senator
Wellington, a republican.
Edmund Borsch, a former mem
ber of the St. Louis house of dele
gates, was found guilty of perjury
on his testimony before the grand
jury as to the -$~5,000 boodle fund
raised to secute the passage of the
suburban franchise bill, and given
five years in the penitentiary.
R. 0. Randall, a real estate deal
er of Carthage, Mo., was shot by
his wife and instantly killed. Mrs.
Randall was sued for divorce sev
eral days ago and when they met in
a lawyer’s office a quarrel ensued.
Randall drew a knife and attempt
ed to stab his wife, when she shot
him five times.
Clasped in each other’s arms, ly
ing on the floor of the pastor’s
study in the German Baptist church
at Omaha, Xob., the janitor discov
ered the dead bodies of Rev. W. C.
Rale, pastor,• and Miss' Augusta,
Busch, his 'secretary. Death was
caused by .asphyxiation, two jets be
ing found open..
A. C. Mason, a young- million
aire of Best , has been arrested on
the charge of having committed sev
eral mur.ders within the past
3’ear. Mason, whose father made
millons in the manufacture of pi
anos, was recently released from an
insane asylum. His latest alleged
victim was a young lady.
Pleasant Spradling, of near Inez,
Ivy., brutally murdered his 4-year
old son by beating and kicking him
to death. Spradling, with the boy
an 1 two daughters, were herding
sheep, and he murdered the lad be
cause he could not keep up with the
flock. The girls told of the crime
and the brutal father was at once
indicted and convicted.
A circuit court jury at Grand
llapids, Mich., brought in a verdict
of $2,500 for Mrs. Mary J. Lewis
against the Modern Woodmen of
America. Mrs. Lewis sued for $50,
000 damages for injuries alleged to
have been received by her husband,
while being initiated into the order
last winter. As a result of these
injuries, it is alleged, necrosis set
in, which caused death.
A report issued by the census bu
reau places the quantity of the
present crop of cotton which had
been ginned up to the 18th of Octo
ber at 5,925,87.2 commercial bales,
which is estimated to be a little
more than sixty per cent of the en
tire crop. These figures were col
lected by the agents of the bureau
and_29,314 ginneries are represent
ed by the returns. ^The following
figures represent the amount gin
ned in each state by bales: Ala
bama 583,583, Arkansas 300,800,
Florida 29,779, Georgia 900,949,
Indian Territory 210,019, Ken
tucky 284, Louisiana 309,408, Mis
sissippi 559,120, Missouri 14,903,
North Carolina 303,029, Oklahoma
84,099, South Carolina 001,431,
Tennessee 121,180, Texas 1,781,
797, Virginia 5,025.
Gen. Miles arrived in the Phil
ippines on the 2d inst.
Work is under way on the $100,
000 Cotton Belt hospital at Texar
kana.
It is reported Schwab is to be
deposed as president of the great
steel trust.
Beef is retailing at 44 cents per
pound in Germany and other meats
are proportionately high.
The republicaiis claim the defeat
of Senator Teller, of Colorado, for
re-election to the United States
senate.
Morgan is said to be planning to
secure control of all the large Brit
ish insurance companies. He is as
sociated in this move with wealthy
American insurance men.
There is much excitement in the
surrounding country on account of
the eruption of Santa Maria moun
tain, situated* in the state of Chia
pias, Mexico.
Henry Douglass, of Paducah,
Ivy., has come into possession of
$5,000 life insurance money left
him by a tramp, whom he once be
friended.
The Philippine commission has
appropriated $2,000,000 with which
to purchase rice and deliver the
goods in provinces where crops
were a failure last season.
The coal strike commissioners
have announced that if any award
•affecting the existing rate of wages
shall be made, the award shall be
effective from November 1.
The receipts of the government
for the first four months of the fis
cal year have been $197,883,147,
and the expenditures $184,325,969,
leaving a surplus of $13,557,108.
A recent decision of the Kansas
supreme court to the effect that rec
ords of marriage license issued must
be kept open to the public will put
a stop to secret marriages in that
state.
Government officials of France,
patterning after the plan of Presi
dent Roosevelt, have succeeded in
bringing together arbitrators repre
| aenting striking coal minors and op
erators.
Bv a series of explosions in Madi
son- Square Garden, New York city,
eleven people were instantly killed
and about fifty fatally injured.
About 30,000 persons had assembled
in the garden to hear the election
re rns, and that more were not kill
ed is a mystery,.
A sensation occurred during a
political meeting at Cleveland, 0.,
in, which Mayor Tom L. Johnson
struck Wm. Mylecraine, a republi
can tax board official, in the face
with his fist. It seems, according
to the statement of the bystanders,
that the mayor overheard Myle
craine assert that he (Johnson) was
a liar. A few hot- words followed
and then the mayor struck Myle
craine in the face.
The absorption of the capital
stock of different roads by the
larger railroad corporations during
the last decade has reached a stu
pendous total; whole systems hav
ing passed out of legal existence
during this time. The different re
ports of the interstate commission
bring out this movement strikingly.
From 1890 to 1900 no less than
$506,000,000 of the capital stock
of the railroads of the country was
absorbed by the larger railroad sys
tems. During this decade the total
amount of the capital stock of all
rairoads increased 32 per cent, while
during the same period the amount
of stock of other roads owned by
the larger railroad corporations in
creased more than 52 per cent. In
other words, during these ten years
the absorption of outstanding stock
by the railroads increased at a rate
nearly twice as great as the entire
increase shown in the capital stock
of all the roads.
The flow of oil in the Beaumont
field is beginning to play out. Many
wells that formerly did not show
any water are now showing from
10 to 50 per cent, and a number
have been abandoned.
Revenue officers last week de
stroyed three illicit stills near Trim
postoffice, in Cleburne county.
A cloudburst visited Hope and
vicinity last week, destroying sever
al bridges and a great deal of fenc
ing.
Albert Vaughan, aged 16 years,
while felling a tree near Augusta,
was caught by a limb and badly in
jured.
The cotton yield of this state
will be greater by at least 10 per
cent than expected six weeks ago.
J. T. Chearis, a prominent mer
chant of Winchester, Jefferson
county, was caught in the shafting
of a gin and fatally injured.
Lee Phillips and Tom Baker had
a row at a saloon near Mammoth
Springs which resulted in the form
er being shot and seriously wound
ed.
Bert Bean, who was locked in
jail at Eureka Springs for drunk
enness, set fire to his bedding and
narrowly escaped being burned
alive.
Wm. Courtney, a freight handler,
was fatally injured in the yards of
the Choctaw at Hot Springs by a
crate of plate glass weighing two
tons falling on him.
Jimmie Malone, aged 19, was
playing in a gin press near Bates
ville, when the fellow block and pin,
weighing about 700 pounds, fell
and crushed him to death.
While looking out of the cab win
dow of his engine near Magazine,
Engineer T. A. Heidt was struck in
the head by a box car on a siding
and fatally injured.
Jack Holland, a young man em
ployed at a gin near Ozark, was
caught in the belting and killed.
His arms and legs were torn off
and his body terribly mangled.
Joseph Jones, aged 17 years,
died recently at Pine Bluff of hy
drophobia. The young man was
bitten by a dog about ten years ago,
but the disease did not assert itself
until five days before his death.
Walter Neil, who was convicted
at Pine Bluff several weeks ago of
kidnaping a young lad from his
parents’ home and sentenced to a
term on the farm, made his escape.
The state paid a reward of $100 for
Neil’s capture.
Tom Stringer, aged about 20
years, was found dead near the rail
road track a few miles from Fay
etteville. It is supposed he was
riding a freight and fell from the
train.
V. A. Miller, a Texarkana mer
chant, is missing and it is feared
he met with foul play. He went to
the country to make some collec
tions and nothing has been seen of
him since.
The attorneys for Wm. R. Ilearst
have filed formal complaint with
the interstate commerce commis
sion against the coal-carrying roads
in Pennsylvania charging them
with demanding excessive rates for
carrying coal to eastern points.
As the result of demands made
bv Great Britain, the emperor of
China has ordered that a captain of
native troops, who refused to give
protection to two missionaries who
were murdered, be put to death.
TOLD OF TITLED FOLKS,
The king is the first British mon
arch to play golf since the clays of
James II.
A magnificent dress is being em
broidered for Lady Cnrzon, to be
worn at the Delhi Durbar on Jan
uary 1. It is being worked on rich
Indian silk in a magnificent design
of peacock feathers, and the whole
dress is to be entirely of Indian
workmanship.
Loyal Germans who feel in duty
bound to'ape their emperor have an
other terror confronting them. It
will not be so hard to overcome as
the upturned mustaches, however.
The emperors doctor told him he has
astigmatism in his right eye, and the
emperor bought a monocle. As a
result there has been n tremendous
run on single eyeglasses by German
army officers. The spread of the
habit to court circles is looked for.
It is declared, however, that in stim
ulating this fad Emperor William
was innocent of premeditation only
so far as he was concerned about
his astigmatic eye.
Arkansas State News
Murderer Still at Large.
The fiend who murdered Miss
Florence Shillcut near Little Ilock,
has not been captured. Several ne
gro suspects taken into custody
shortly after the awful crime was
committed have been released, there
being no evidence of their guilt.
Some adhere to the theory that a
white man committed the crime,
from the fact that no assault was
committed and other peculiar cir
cumstances surrounding the murder
The many wounds found on the
body of the girl were apparently
inflicted with a penknife, there be
ing no less than a half dozen stabs
over the heart, none of them, how
ever, deep enough to prove fatal.
The wounds that proved fatal,
though, were inflicted with the same
weapon, but were on either side of
the throat, one stab penetrating in
to the jugular vein. The murder
is one of the most mysterious that
ever occurred in the state. Miss
Shillcutt, who was hut 19 years of
age, was reared only a short dis
tance from the spot where she was
killed, and was a most highly
respected young lady. The murder
er could have had but one object—
that of criminal assault, and the
fiend in the guise of a human being,
baffled by the heroic resistance of
the girl, may have committed the
awful murder with the object of
shielding himself from identity.
Col. Hill’s Recommendation.
In his annual report to the gov
ernor Hon. Frank Hill, who has
just retired from office, makes the
following recommendations for the
management of the world's fair ex
hibit: “I recommend that appro
priation be made for a suitable ex
hibit of the state’ products at the
centennial exposition at St. Louis
in 1904, commemorating the pur
chase of the Louisiana territory.
This will be, in my opinion, the
most effective advertising medium
that has ever been offered to place
the state in its true position before
the world. A liberal appropriation
for this purpose would, in my judg
ment, be one of the most profitable
investments the state could make at
this time. In my judgment, the
disbursement of such appropriation
should be placed in the hands of the
agricultural bureau, and the entire
management of -the exhibits should
be placed in the hands of the com
missioner of mines, manufactures
and agriculture, who, under our
statutes, is already paid for such
service without encroaching on the
appropriation.”
Tells a Flimsy Story.
J. E. McMahel, of Van Buren
county, will have to answer in fed
eral court to the charge of fraudu
lently using the mails, because he
answered an alluring circular of a
“green goods” man. But the officers
are not of the opinion that McMahel
is so green as his confession would
imply. He acknowledges to writing
for the bogus “coin,” enclosing $10
of Uncle Sam’s redeemable therefor,
but says he was only anxious to
get in with the crooks in order to
expose them, and thereby secure an
appointment in the secret service.
The officers believe the capture a
good one, and that he has been act
ing as a staller for dealers in the
“green.”
Baptists May Compromise.
At the Baptist State Association,
just closed at Searcy, a committee
of ten was appointed to confer with
a like committee from the Baptist
State Convention on the differences
between the two factions of the
Baptist denomination in this state.
A split in the denomination arose
over the manner of conducting the
missionary work of the church, and
the proposition to appoint harmony
committees originated in the meet
ing of the Caroline association,
which met a few weeks ago at Aus
tin.
Hall Mahone Hanged.
Hall Mahone, the negro who
pleaded guilty to assault, was hang
sd at Van Buren on the 7th inst.
Mahone committed an assault on
Mrs. Rebecca McLeod at her home
six miles from Van Buren on Sep
tember 5 last. The execution was
public, in conformity to an act of
the last general assembly. Mahorfe
showed a stolid and ignorant indif
ference to the last, expressing no
regret or remorse. The crime for
which he forfeited his life under
the law was heinous, one that only
such a character could commit, and
it is doubtful if he realized the pen
alty exacted. Shortly after the
crime was committed, the guilty
man was apprehended and made a
full confession. At first it seemed
that a lynching could not be avert
ed, but the officers pledged the peo
ple that a speedy trial should be
had. Mahone was arraigned in a
few days and entered a plea of
guilty, when the death penalty was
assessed by the trial judge. The
question then arose over the legal
ity of the sentence being carried
out, Gov. Davis taking the view
that a defendant, upon a plea of
guilty before the court sitting as a
jury, could not be given the death
penalty. The governor stated, how
ever, he would not interfere with
the execution of the law, but sug
gested that the supreme court be
allowed to pass upon the case, and
ordered the condemned man placed
in the state penitentiary, where he
remained until a few days before
his execution.
Homestead Frauds.
The annual report of Commis
sioner Henry Hermann, of the gen
eral land office at Washington,
shows that ten convictions were
secured for fraud, in connection
with soldiers’ additional assign
ments, executed in Arkansas. A
systematic conspiracy for the pur
pose of defrauding the government
was discovered in 1901. Fraudulent
applications from Minnesota and
other states have been held up.
Notorious frauds, Commissioner
Hermann says, have been discover
ed in this class of cases.
Aged Farmer Assassinated.
Swan Anderson, an aged and
highly respected citizen of Hemp
stead county, residing a few milea
from Hope, was recently called to
his door by some unknown party
and foully murdered. The assassin
was so close to his victim that his
face was badly powder burned. The
weapon used was a revolver, and but
one bullet took effect, entering the
forehead. Mr. Anderson lived alone,
and as he had no enemies, the mo
tive for his murder wds undoubted
ly robbery. Harry Bradley, a colored
tenant on his place, was taken into
custody, suspected of the crime.
Will Raise the Fund.
A renewed effort is being made
to raise sufficient funds to erect a
monument at the state capital to
the memory of Confederate dead.
There has already been raised
through efforts of the Daughters of
the Confederacy and others some
thing like $2,000 for this purpose,
and the next general assembly will
be asked to supplement this with a
liberal appropriation.
Hunt Captured.
Joe F. Hunt, who deserted his
bride of three weeks at Little Rock
after securing $G00 from her, was
captured last week in Los Angeles,
Cal. Hunt was accompanied by a
woman of ill repute, and both will
likely serve time in the peniten
tiary.
BRIEF MENTION.
Newport is to have a new bank,
with a capital of $100,000.
Ben Glass, a negro with numer
ous aliases, pleaded guilty at Little
.Rock to five charges of forgery.