Wwdmjkk Cjoujncm News. «
VOL. II.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1902.
NO. 18.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Oom Paul Kruger is writing a
history of the South African war.
The rapid spread of cholera is the
cause of panics throughout Egypt
John Wise, colored, was lynched
at Pembroke, Ga., for assaulting s
white woman.
The “midway” at the coming St
Louis exposition will be known bj
name as “Skinker lload.”
Floods in the western part of Tex
as did considerable damage to crops
and several lives were lost.
A colony of fifteen Filipinos hav<
taken up their residence in Caldwel
county, Texas. These colonists ar<
direct from the Philippines, and af
ter establishing homes will send to
other members of the race.
The coal mine operators of Penn
eylvania have not been able to se
cure a sufficient number of non
union men to start up any of tin
large mines, and as a result tin
price of anthracite coal has climbei
to $10 a ton. President Mitchell
of the miners’ union, says the mei
are in good condition, and with tin
system adopted of raising funds the^
can hold out indefinitely.
(
Gen. Dalgedo, who commande<
the Cuban sharpshooters operatin'
against Wcyler’s black Spanisl
^guerrillas in Havana province dur
ing the last revolution, now an of
ficer of Cuban guardia rural, o
mounted genarmes force, and act
ing as chief of police of the town o
Punta Prava, where Maceo was am
bushed and killed, is under arres
charged with having assassinated i
prisoner.
The absolute control of the mea
' and packing industry of the coun
try by the “Big Three,” or what i
termed the beef trust, and which i
now being investigated by the gov
ernment, Is best shown by an officia
census bulletin just issued at Wash
ington. It states that a capital o
$19,198,264 is invested in the busi
ness, and also shows that the valu
of the yearly production reaches th
amazing figures of $785,562,433.
Several severe earthquake shock
were felt at Los Alamos, Cal., Jut
31, and the damage done was ver
heavy. Not a brick structure in th
town escaped serious damage, am
most of them were razed to th
ground. The shocks seemed t<
have a spiral motion. Goods wer
hurled from the shelves of stores am
piled in the middle of rooms. Evei
such heavy articles as desks wer
thrown about. Not a chimney is lef
standing in the town, and all bricl
walls are badly damaged, but fraim
structures generally escaped seriou
injury. In the drug stores not i
single bottle escaped, and the saloon
were flooded with liquor from brokei
bottles. The whole town was arous
CU cl llll Ill'll llUlli LUCIE
to the streets in panic.
For the first time in the liistor
of future dealing, several member
of the board of trade of Chicago win
had been caught short in the oa
corner, resorted to the courts fo
protection. The parties were grant
ed a temporary injunction, restrain
ing the holders of contracts fron
forcing up the price of oats, and is
sued the following in explanatioi
of their course: “For a year or tw<
there has been a regular epidemic o
manipulation and attempted cor
ners in the market of the Chieagi
board of trade, which inflicted in
jury to the grain interests of thi
city and the country tributary t<
Chicago. These attempts to squeeze
the trade have now become so ex
treme and unscrupulous that it ha:
become high time for some one t<
make a tight and find out where tin
trade stands and whether it is t<
be for all time possible for groups
of millionaires to turn upside dowi
the grain business of the country
and inflict heavy losses on tin
trade.” The final outcome of this
litigation will be watched with in
teresi. _
FI(| Mil Thl»»I*».
The church is the creature and not
the creator of Christianity.
God will us« the preaching workman
as well as the working preacher.
If God puts you in a dark place it
may be a compliment ts» the light that
** 4=
George H. Durand, a sound money
man, is the democratic nominee for
governor of Michigan.
Chas. M. Schwab, president of the
United States Steel company, is
dangerously ill from a stroke of
apoplexy.
John W. Gates, the Chicago mil
lionaire, is at the head of a company
to perfect and build airships. The
corporation has a capital of $U,000,
000.
llichard Croker is to return tc
New York from England. He will
1 dispose of his English estate and re
main permanently in this conutry.
' It is believed Croker's intention is
to resume the leadership of Tam
; many, either directly or by proxy
An earthquake shock, which was
general over portions of California
Nebraska, western Iowa and South
■ Dakota, occurred July 20. The
• seismic disturbances were felt at a
• large number of towns in the three
: states and lasted from ten to lifteer
' seconds. At Lampo, Cal., a violeni
l shock was felt, which lasted fully
» thirty seconds and was so severe that
1 dishes, clocks, house plants anc
' other articles were thrown fron
r shelves. The people were strickei:
with terror and ran from then
1 houses, some fearing to return, a:
; other lighter shocks continued foi
i several hours afterward.
The annual report of the coal pro
' duction shows that there are twenty
: eight states in which coal was pro
' duced in 1901. The greatest in
^ crease in 1901 was in anthracite
' coal in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvanh
t is also credited with the largest in
1 crease in the bituminous product
followed by Ohio, Illinois, Wes
t Virginia and Maryland in the ordei
- named, each of these states increas
3 ing its output over 1900 by more
3 than 1,000,000 tons. The entire
- gain for the United States was 23,
I 026,659 short tons, valued at $41,
- 871,675, an increase in value o
l 13.6 per cent. The total productioi
- for the year was 292,908,486 shor
j tons, valued at $348,763,039. The
? production in 1881, twenty years pre
vious, was 85,881.030 short tons
3 valued at $124,349,180. The pro
• duction for 1901 was 269,881,82"
short tons, valued at $306,891,364
What is regarded by ordnance
l experts of the army and navy as the
J most important advance in moderi
' war devices since the perfection o
; the Krupp face-hardening proces:
l for armor, has been achieved by the
1 ordnance department of the army
5 It is no other than a new time fuse
1 used in combination with a power
: ful secret explosive, the formula ol
! which is known only to the ordnance
* department. The importance of this
1 fuse lies in the fact that it does nol
5 detonate the projectile until the pen
1 etration limit of the projectile is
■ reached. Its great value to the
! United States will be understood
when it is explained that with this
’ fncan anrl o clw»ll loarlivl wi+Vi tlio cn.
> cret explosive fired from a twelve
> inch gun, a penetration of fourteen
; inches of Krupp armor lias been se
• cured before the detonation.
The case of Gen. Clayton, ambas
■ 6ador to Mexico, charged with own
i ing stock in a Mexican mining com
■ pany, and failing in his official ca
1 pacity to properly protect the inter
1 ests of one Mr. Mealy, has been re
- opened. The above allegations were
■ made sometime ago, and caused Gen.
> Clayton to visit Washington by
• direction of the president. The
> ambassador made an explanation,
1 which was accepted by Mr. Itoose
' velt, and it was officially announced
■ that Gen. Clayton had been fully
1 exonerated. llis explanation was
1 that he had acted simply as the ex
! ecutor of the estate of a relative,
1 and did not himself own any stock
1 in the mining company. Senator
Penrose has since filed additional
affidavits at the state department,
1 in which it is alleged that Gen. Clay
i ton actually holds 100 shares of
stock in the company and has been
one of its directors. Upon the
strength of these affidavits Senator
Penrose asks that the department in
vestigate the charge made by Mr.
Mealy that Gen. Clayton is not a
proper diplomatic representative of
Um United States.
Joe Goddard, the pugilist, waa
•hot and fatally wounded by a negro
constable at Camden, N. J., during
a political riot.
A rough estimate of the number
of acres of cotton and other crops
practically ruined by the floods in
the Brazos bottoms in Texas is 20,
000.
Senator Platt, of New York, says
Roosevelt will receive the solid sup
port in the republican national con
vention of the delegation from his
state.
Dave Witt, a night watchman for
a Des Moines wholesale house, went
to sleep on duty, when fire broke out
in the building and he was burned
to death.
The United States will have no
special representative at the corona
tion of King Edward, Whitelavv Reid
and his staff having returned to this
country. The coronation is to be
a very quiet alfair.
Experiments are being made to
determine if paper cannot be made
of chaff of sugar cane, thousands
of tons of which are annually de
stroyed on the sugar plantations of
Hawaii.
A man named C. A. Hall made a
bold attempt to rob a bank at Fort
ville, Ind. The bandit stepped up
to the window and, with a drawn
revolver, demanded that the cashier
trive him $2,500. The cashier dods
ed behind the counter and the robber
tired two ineffectual shots at him.
This attracted people on the outside
and Hall made a dash from the
building, firing on his pursuers. He
was shot in the hand by an officer,
and, being unable to further use his
' revolver, surrendered.
A most disgraceful affair oc
. curred in New York City, when a
■ Jewish funeral party engaged in a
• riot with the employes of a big man
ufacturing house. The procession
1 is said to have beeu delayed more
than an hour, during which time
many persons were severely injured,
and the windows of the factory al
most completely demolished. The
first interruption was from the up
per stories of the factory from the
windows of which pails of water
were emptied on the heads of those
who were in the line of procession.
Then followed retaliation, and final
ly bricks and other missiles were
hurled from both sides.
The striking coal miners of Penn
sylvania are daily becoming more
demonstrative, and clashes between
the strikers and non-unionists are of
frequent occurrence. The most se
rious trouble since the strike was
ordered occurred at Shenandoah,
where no less than fort}' people were
wounded. An officer attempted to
escort two strike breakers into a mine
when they were attacked by a mob.
One of the non-union men was
clubbed into insensibility and the
officer and third man took retuge in
the depot building, which was soon
surrounded by an infuriated mob
of 5,000. A brother of the deputy
at bay in the depot building at
tempted to go to his assistance, when
he was attacked and beaten nigh to
death. By this time the police had
gathered and tired into the mob,
wounding several. The shots of the
officers only infuriated the mob the
more, and the howling army made a
dash for the police, some armed with
guns, sticks and stones. The offi
cers were unable to make a stand,
and fled for their lives. The dep
uty and his companion in the depot,
when the mob was paying its atten
tion to the officer, mounted a loco
motive and escaped. After the riot
was over the doctors reported that
they had dressed the wounds of for
tj people, ten of whom will die.
PERSONAL NOTES.
A monument has been raised on the
grounds of the institute for the
Rachitic at Milan in honor of Dr. Pietro
Panzeri. It is by the sculptor Luigi
Panzeri, and shows a bronze half
length of the celebrated specialist
holding a child in hi* arms.
Prof. N. W. Hodge, of Hartiand, Wis..
who has just celebrated his eighty
eighth birthday, was the instructor of
the late Miss Frances E. Willard at
Oberlin, Ohio, in her youth. He ia a
native of the West Indies, and is still
interested ia edueaUnaal work.
NEWS OF ARKANSAS,
To Collect Mortgage Tax.
The decision of the sheriff of Pu
laski county to go into court for the
purpose of forcing the payment of
mortgage tax is attracting consider
able attention. The validity of the
law taxing mortgages has never been
definitely settled in this state. A
prominent Little Rock attorney,
who represents foreign capital with
large loans in this state, has this to
say on the subject: “You cannot
collect the tax from non-resident
mortgagees. That the supreme court
of the' United States has settled.
The situs of the debt is where the
creditor lives, and the mortgage debt
iiust be assessed there. Local mort
gages can be taxed, but it is an un
wise discrimination against our
lpcal capital and unjust. It is un
just because the tax will eventually
fall on the mortgagor, who will thus
have to pay taxes twice, once on the
land and again on the mortgage that
is upon it. If the capitalist would
lend the money for 8 per cent with
out the tax, he will charge 10 if he
has the tax to pay. There is no
way in which you can lift the bur
den from the debtor’s shoulders.”
Governmenr Agents Appointed.
The following agents have been
appointed under the jurisdiction ol
the census bureau: Pulaski county,
James T. O’Hair, Little Rock; Ark
ansas county, S. M. Hamilton, De
Witt; Lincoln county, T. II. Free,
Varner; Uesha county, Jack oern
hardt, Dumas; Drew county, Wil
liam D. llogers, Monticello; Brad
ley county, Henry C. Hale, War
ren; Calhoun county, D. W. Bass
Hampton; Ouachita county, J. H
Parker, Camden; Dallas county
Henry 11. Thomas, Ramsey. It wil
be the duty of each of the abovt
agents, during the cotton marke
period, to report to the bureau tin
number of bales of cotton ginned ir
his county. Three reports will la
rendered each season. Later othei
agents will be appointed in Arkan
sas, and the entire cotton raising ter
ritory will be covered. In this man
ner the census bureau will have £
much more intelligent idea of tin
amount of cotton produced in tlu
southern states than has been here
tofore obtained.
Double Drowrinj; Averted.
A double or tripple drowning was
narrowly averted on Poteau rivei
near Fort Smith through the pres
ence of mind and courage of Paul
Furner, 17 years old, he saving
Misses Nellie Hogan and iPearl
Shaw from drowning. The two
girls and Furner, who went up the
river with a large party, were out
boat riding and in attempting to step
from one boat into another Miss Ho
gan fell into the water, grabbing
Furner and pulling him in also. In
tipping, the skiff dipped consider
able water, and, thinking it would
sink, Miss Shaw also jumped out
of the boat. As neither girl could
swim, turner had Ins hands full.
After much difficulty he managed
to reach the shore with his compan
ions.
Floods at Texarkana.
Heavy rains caused an overflow in
Swampoodle, at Texarkana, and
many houses were washed from
their foundations. A branch runs
through the section oi’ town named,
which is settled mostly by colored
people. An ordinary overflow of
water passes off through a canal, but
the downpour was so great the
place was flooded to a depth of eight
and ten feet in some places. All
trains entering Texarkana from the
south were delayed for two days, and
many plantations on lied river were
completely inundated and the crops
virtually destroyed.
Killed Over Debt.
Joe Kidd, colored, was shot and
killed by Frank Brewer, white, at
Camden. The shooting occurred in
the courthouse yard. Kidd owed
Brewer for some groceries and re
fused to pay. The men met in
front of the courthouse and passed
some wohls, when Brewer tired four
shots into Kidd’s body, death being
instantaneous.
DR. P. 0. HOOPER.
Another Distinguished Citizen of Arkan
sas Passes Away.
Dr. P. 0. Hooper, father of the
State Insane Asylum, who resigned
from the position of superintendent
of that institution only a few weeks
ago, died July 29, on a Choctaw
train, near Sayre, 0. T. Dr. Hooper,
whose health had been failing for
some time, was en route to San
Francisco when the end came. The
deceased was a native of Little Rock
and was one of the most noted alien
ists in the country. Amore popu
lar man never lived within the
borders of Arkansas, and his death
will bo mourned by his thousands of
friends throughout the country.
He was horn October 11, 1833, and
resided all his life in Little Rock.
His father, who was one of the ter
ritorial pioneers, removed to Little
Rock in 1827, and died when Dr.
Hooper was quite young. His moth
er, Mrs. Magdalene Hooper, died
January 3, 1877, at the age of 77
years. She was one of the noblest
women the state has ever known.
His education was acquired in the
public schools of his native city, and
in early manhood he clerked in a
drug store. Having acquired some
knowledge of drugs, he attended
Jefferson Medical College in Phila
delphia, from which institution he
graduated m 18o<. He then re
turned to his home in Little Rock
and began the practice of medicine
with Dr. Lorenzo Gibson, which l;e
continued until the breaking out of
the civil war. He was then ap
pointed on a board to examine ap
plicants for the Confederate service,
and to inspect camps and hospitals,
and served through the war in that
capacity with Dr. Win. Lawrence, of
Batesville, and Dr. Scott, of New
Orleans. He was in the trans-Mis
sissippi department, and followed
the Confederate army when they
evacuated Little Rock on Septem
ber 10, 1803, being located after
wards at Camden and other head
quarters until the surrender. After
the war he returned to Little Rock
and resumed the active practice, for
years standing at the head of the
profession in the state. He had
made diseases of the mind a spec
ialty; in fact, he devoted his en
tire life to that line of study, and
received his first recognition as an
alienist when Governor Clayton ap
pointed hint on the board of trustees
of the state lunatic asylum, with
Judge H. C. Caldwell, Gordon Pcay
and men of like distinction. The
board sent him all over the United
States to inspect other institutions
of a like character and secure in
formation and suggestions that
would be useful in the construction
of the proposed asylum in Little
Rock. He was elected president
of the board appointed by Governor
Churchill, the first after reconstruc
tion, the other members being Col.
John G. Fletcher and Rev. T. R.
Welch, of Little Rock, J. M. Hud
son, of Pine Bluff, and J. W. Stay
ton, of Newport. The present in
stitution was built in 1882 and I)r.
Hooper, as president of the board,
had as much to do with it as any
one man. Dr. C. C. Forbes was ap
pointed as the first superintendent,
and after serving two years he re
signed. There was no other man
in the state than Dr. Hooper qual
ified to take up the work and man
age the institution, and at the earn
est solicitation of his colleagues on
the board he consented to accept the
superintendency. Before this time,
however, he had formed a partner
ship in the practice of medicine with
the late l)r. A. L. Breysacher, which
lasted for about fifteen years. x\f
ter taking charge of the asylum,
which he had practically built, he
continued in that pcsitioix almost
continuously with the exception of a
few years’ interim when Dr. J. J.
Robertson was superintendent, until
about a month ago.
Fatal Mine Explosion.
In the first fatal explosion at the
mines which the San Bois Coal com
pany is operating at McCurtain, near
Fort Smith, Andrew Bossell and
James Brown were killed. The ex
plosion was caused by choke damp,
and there were only four men in the
mine at the time.
Women Ride in Box Car.
Eva Beck, aged 18, made the trip
of 600 miles from Van Buren to
Kansas City in a box car. All
went well until within a hundred
miles of Kansas City, when Miss
Beck and a girl who accompanied
her on the box car tour found the
car so warm that they removed their
clothing and lay down to sleep.
When Miss Beck awoke she found
her friend gone and also her own
clothing. When the freight train
came to a standstill in the Kan
sas City yards railroad men were
amazed to see a bare feminine arm
protruding from the car door and
to hear a woman’s voice calling
them. Concealed behind the door
she related her story and the rail
road men hastily collected as many
feminine garments as they could,
rescuing the girl from her embar
rassing plight.
Freaks of the Lightning.
During a storm lightning struck
H. H. Hall’s fine residence, three
miles northeast of Ozark, breaking
all the windows, pictures and
frames, tore carpets into rags and
damaged the floors. Mrs. Hall had
just entered the house and was
changing her dress beside a bed,
which was torn into splinters. The
Knrl nlntlino imwn r\~r\ Knf
most surprising, Mrs. Hall was not
seriously injured.
Cash Received by State.
Below is a statement of the
amounts paid into the state treasury
since July 1:
State tax".$344,458 6G
Liquor license. 20,327 00
Peddlers’ license . 200 00
Common school . 318,GG8 72
Confederate pensions .. 123,117 17
Sinking fund . 41,847 75
State capitol. 82,964 53
Total .$931,583 83
BRIEF MENTION.
Fred Mock, aged 15, was drowned
in Current river, near Corning,
while in bathing.
Admiral Schley will be the guest
of Fort Smith October 13 and 14,
during fair week.
Emmett Harrington, aged 27,
was electrocuted at Pine Bluff while
at work on the lines.
All records of rainfall at Little
Rock were broken July 30 and 31,
when the precipitation was 5.69 in
ches.
An alligator gar, seven feet nine
inches long, was caught in the Ar
kansas river at Arkansas City. It
weighed 254 pounds.
A man named T. H. Dunn, who
formerly resided at Coal Hill, is
under arrest at Shawnee, O. T., on
the charge of taking unto himself
another man's wife.
A team driven by a party of young
people en route to a Sunday school
picnic, near Fayetteville, took fright
and ran away, seriously injuring
Miss Phoebe Evans.
uov. .Davis lias rcmiuoa tno pen
alty for nonpayment of taxes of a
large number of Fulton county citi
zens, whose delinquency was due to
the drouth last year.
Citizens of Hot Springs propose
to raise the sum of $1,500 to defray
the expenses of Col. Milan, state
manager of the Arkansas exhibit at
the St. Louis exposition.
John Poweli, white, was drowned
while hunting pearls in Black river
near Corning. He had been wad
ing in the river some time, and it
is believed was seized with cramps.
The coal production in Arkansas
for 1901 was 1,783,930 short tons,
fvorth a spot value of $2,033,193, as
compared with 1,447,845 tons, at
a valuation of $1,053,618 for 1900.
President Newman Erb, of the St.
Louis, Memphis and Southeastern,
says his read will be extended south
from Hoxie to Little Rock if proper
arrangements for right-of-way and
terminal facilities can be made.
Chas. Cravens, a white man, was
taken from jail at Washington, Va.,
and hanged. He was suspected of
murder and barn burning, but de
nied his guilt.