Wwdmkk LIMan News.
VOL. II.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1902.
ISO. 19
NEWS OF THE WORLD,
Hon. Andrew D. White, ambassa
dor to Germany, has resigned. Mr.
White’s resignation was due to ill
health.
Thirty-five buildings in the busi
ness section of Washington, La.,
were destroyed by fire, entailing a
loss of $100,000.
A number of people, said to have
taken part in the lynching of a ne
gro at Leesburg, Va., have been in
dicted by the grand jury.
Harry Benton, a negro boy 17,
years of age, was lynched near Ho
mer, La., for criminal assault on a
little 4-year-old child.
Charged with paying rewards for
assaults on non-union workmen, the
6cale varying according to the de
gree of injury inflicted, eleven union
brass moulders were indicted by the
grand jury at Chicago. This is said
to be the first action of the kind ever
taken against laboring men in the
west.
Tracy, the outlaw who escaped
from the Oregon penitentiary sev
eral weeks ago, is still at Jarge.
Tranoir rJ nr»l o ww fliof lin wonfc Ln
hold up a bank or rob an express
car. He says that he has promised
to give the sum of $5,000 within one
year to the parties who helped him
escape from the Oregon peniten
tiary. He is making his way to
the “hole in the wall” country in
Wyoming. When there, he declares
he will be a thief among thieves and
thinks he will be safe.
Tw'O of the robbers who held
up a Mexican Central train and se
cured $50,000 from the Wells-Fargo
express car have been captured at
Gomez Palacio and nearly $30,000
has been recovered. The first rob
ber to be caught has been fully iden
tified as “Bill” Taylor, who held up
a Santa Fe Pacific train in Texas
and killed two men. He was sen
tenced to death for that crime, but
escaped to Mexico. Fifteen thous
and dollars of the booty secured in
the recent robbery was recovered
from Taylor.
About 30,000 bound volumes of
the census report for 1900 have been
issued and mailed to those entitled
to them, and 40,000 more are to be
printed and mailed before the work
is finished. Two volumes are devot
ed to the report on population and
two each to agriculture and vital
statistics. Four are for manufac
tures. The latter will require an
edition of fully 8,000 to meet the de
mand, aud calls have been made for
more of the others than have been
nrinted. When the work of Dubli
cation is completed there will be
made an abstract of the entire work
of the census bureau and a statistical
atlas.
Commodore Montgomery, a noted
Confederate naval officer, who on
one occasion during the war came
near capturing Gen. Grant, died a
few days ago at the home of his son
in Chicago. Commodore Montgom
ery was born in Carrollton, Ky., in
J817, and front his youth until the
war broke out was engaged in river
traffic. At the battle of Mobile Bay
‘he played a conspicuous part. He
was in the engagements at Fort
Pillow and New Orleans, and at
Memphis he lost his feet.
According to statements obtained
from reliable sources, it is the in
tention of the Vatican that the friars
of the Augustinian, Dominican,
Franciscan and Recollecto orders
now in Manila, who number about
450 men, should leave there in small
numbers at different times, so that
when the moment comes to resume
negotiations between Gov. Taft and
the apostolic delegation, all the fri
ars will have left the archipelago in
*uch a way that the friar question
will have resolved itself without the
necessity of further discussion.
The Thouichtfal Girl.
Madge—Dolly is going somewhere
with that young man this evening.
Marjorie—Yes, going to sit with
him in the hammock. Right after
dinner she went upstairs and put on
a dark shirtwaist.”—Portland Ore
gonian.
The Texas cotton crop has been
cut short one-half by the boll weevil :
and the floods.
Several funerals had to be post- i
poned because of a strike of grave .
diggers in Chicago.
Two men held up a C. B. & Q. ex
press train two miles from Savan
nah, 111., and secured in the neigh
borhood of $20,000.
During a heavy storm several un
completed structures on the world's
fair site at St. Louis were blown
down. The damage is placed at
$30,000.
One of the bandits who held up a
C., B & Q. train near Savannah,
111., was killed either by the express
messenger, who fired several shots,
or one of his companions.
On the face of the returns, as
shown by the census bulletin just
issued, the 921 slaughtering and
meat packing establishments of the
United States made a profit of $101,
978,850 in the year ending June 30,
1900. That was prior to the era
of high prices which have prevailed
during the last year.
Armed with dynamite to blow
his way out of prison, Gus Hyatt,
a train robber and desperado, led a
desperate band of sixteen convicts
to liberty from the Tennessee peni
tentiary at Nashville. Fifteen of
the escaping party got entirely clear
ui me premises aiiu uury umj,
Carney, a safeblower, paid the pen
alty of death in the bold undertak
ing. The prisoners were furnished
dynamite from the outside which
they used in blowing out an open
ing in the main wing of the prison.
Hyatt stood off the inside guard
with a brace of revolvers, which had
also been furnished him from the
outside, while the other convicts
made their exit.
Harry Tracy, the notorious out
law who, with David Merrill, escap
ed from the Oregon penitentiary at
Salem June 9 last, killing three
prison guards and a convict at the
time, committed suicide after being
wounded and run to bay in a wheat
field in the state of Washington on
the 6th inst. Tracy was hunted
down by four citizens and a deputy
sheriff, who will divide a reward of
$6,500. The outlaw was located on
a ranch belonging to a man named
Eddy. He made a bold dash for the
brush, firing no less than twenty
shots at his pursuers, but his aim
for the first time was bad and none
of the party were injured. Keeping
up a running fight he was pursued
to a wheat field, when he was seen
to stumble as though wounded. He
crawled into the grain, and in a few
moments a pistol shot was heard.
An entrance was made into the field
and Tracy 8 dead body was round
lying amid the grain with his face
turned toward the sky. His left
hand, thrown over his head, held a
revolver, which had inflicted the
death wound. The thumb of his
hand was on the trigger of the pis
tol. His right hand, thrown across
the lower part of his body, firmly
grasped the barrel of the famous ri
fle. Two bullet wounds on the left leg
showed the cause of the man's de
spondency. One shot had broken
the leg between the ankle and the
knee. The other cut the tibial nr
tery, which of itself was sufficient
to cause death. On June 28 Tracy
killed Merrill near Xapavine, Wash.,
shooting him from behind and leav
ing his body in the forest, where it
was found on July 15. On July 3,
near Seattle, in a fight with a posse,
Tracy shot and killed Charles Ray
mond, a deputy sheriff, E. E. Hr esse,
a policeman, and mortally wounded
Neil Hawley, who died on the fol
lowing day, and wounded Carl An
derson and Louie Seafrite, newspa
per reporters. He committed many
feats of daring during his flight, in
the course of which ho eluded va
rious posses when apparently sur
rounded, and held up numerous
farmers whom he forced to furnish
food and clothing and by threats of *
murdering their families, compelled
them t? cover up his tracks. Tracy
was serving a term for a double mur
der committed in 1897 at the time
of liis escape.
The 7-year-old son of Ira Bolton,
iving near Bolton, Tenn., shot and
tilled his five-year-old brother be
cause the latter would not give him
i tomato. The elder boy is said to
lave cried: “If yon don't give me
hat tomato I will shoot you.” He
lointed a 22-ealibre target gun at
he five-year-old, and it discharged,
tilling the boy instantly.
The government is said to be un
ible to secure a sufficient number
if recruits for the navy. Construc
tion of war vessels authorized by the
last congress will create a demand
for about 3,000 additional men, and
it is estimated that within a few
years there will be need for 40,000
enlisted men in the navy, an in
crease of 15,000 over the number
now allowed. Congress will be ask
ed to authorize this increase, from
time to time, but the demand is ur
gent now for recruits that will
bring the force up to the 25,500 en
listed men that are now authorized
and needed in the service. It is pro
posed, in this emergency, to open
recruiting stations in Texas, Mis
souri, Alabama, Mississippi and
probably other states in the south
and west.
Air. and Mrs. John Shandrow, a
wealthy but childless couple living
near South Haven, Mich., recently
adopted a whole orphan asylum. Tc
please his wife, Shandrow wrote tc
the Smith foundling hospital ir
Minneapolis asking them to sene
him several children for a summer’s
outing, with the privilege of choos
ing from them in case he shoulc
want to adopt a boy. The Minneap
olis institution is a small one, anc
the management promptly forward
ed the visible supply of ehildrer
over three years of age—no less
than twenty-two boys and girls
The couple became so attached t<
the homeless children they conelud
ed to legally adopt all of them, wh<
will not only have a comfortabh
home during the lifetime of thei:
benefactors, but will be left a for
tune each at their death.
» Program for Confederate Reunion.
Following is the programme o:
the Confederate reunion to be lick
at Hot Springs September 23, 24
and 25:
FIRST DAY, TUESDAY MORNING.
1. Calling ho order by S. Disher
oon, local commander.
2. Invocation by Chaplain-Gen
eral Key. John H. Dye.
3. Address of welcome on behalj
of the local camp, Hon. A. Curl.
4. Address of welcome on behal;
of the city, by Hon. Geo. R. Bold
ing.
0. Address of welcome on behall
of the Sons of Veterans, 0. H
Sumpter.
6. Response on behalf of U. C
V., Hon. J. E. Wood.
7. Division commander assumes
the chair and delivers his annual ad
dress, Gen. L. C. Balch.
8. Appointment of committee od
credentials.
9. Adjournment.
WEDNESDAY MORNING.
10 a. m. Grand march.
1. Commander calls to order.
2. Invocation by Rev. Julian C.
Brown.
3. Address by Hon. Minor Wal
lace.
4. Report of standing commit
tees.
5. Report of special committees.
5. Report of treasurer.
7. Unfinished business.
8.. New business.
9. Adjournment for the day.
At night grand ball at Arlington
hotel.
THURSDAY MORNING.
1. Call to order by commander.
2. Invocation by Rev. Mr. Dowl
ing.
3. Election of officers.
4. Final adjournment.
A man named Rolla, living near
Texarkana, was shot and fatally
wounded by Ernest Anderson, his
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NEWS OF ARKANSAS.
Kept His Word.
Ulysses Wators, a young farmer
of Pope county, voluntarily return
ed to the Pulaski county jail a few
days ago to serve out a sixty days’
sentence imposed in federal court
last April for the crime of illegal
sale of liquor. At the time of his
conviction Waters had planted a
crop, from the proceeds of which de
pended the support of himself and
aged mother. At his request and
upon petition of citizens of Pope
county, Judge Trieber permitted
Waters to return home without bond,
he agreeing to serve his time after
his crop was laid by. True to his
word, Waters presented himself to
the proper officials at the appointed
time. It is more than probable Wa
ters will be released by Judge Trieb
er. Waters tells of his trouble in a
straightforward, simple manner: “I
haven’t got anybody to look after
but my old mother,” he said at the
jail. “She is getting old and feeble
now, and it’s mighty hard to leave
her all by herself on the farm. I
was guilty of the charge against me,
but the good Lord knows I'll never
be guilty of it again. I had my crop
planted when I was arrested, and I
was glad to get back to it when the
judge let me off if I would promise
to come back and serve out my sen
rence. 1 imenuea an me mne iu
come back on the first day of August,
but I had not finished laying by my
crop and I just couldn't get away
any sooner. I came as quick as I
could, though I would be mighty
glad to get out of here now, for I
know things won't go well with
mother and the farm if I'm not
there. It is hard to leave her up
’ there by herself. If they don’t turn
me loose I have arranged with a
1 friend to gather my crop, but that
1 will take a good deal out of what I
■ ought to make by it. If I had my
> debts paid it wouldn’t make so much
• difference. But I owe $150 and I d
I hate worse than anything for the
; men who signed the notes to have to
• pay ’em for me.”
Seeking a Design.
Manager Milan of the world’s fair
commission for Arkansas is sending
! out the following self-explanatory
[ letter to the auxiliary county com
t missions:
Little Rock, Ark., July 31, 1902.
At a meeting of the state board
• held here yesterday, Hon. J. C. Rem
bert, of Helena, secretary of the
board, was elected treasurer for the
purpose of taking charge of funds
! raised bv subscription.
The board adopted a resolution
1 requesting that designs be submitted
on or before the 1st of September,
with manufacturer’s prices in lots
Hi C UiUUOaiAVA VI “i'
propriate souvenir to be used as a
button, brooch or hat pin, for the
purpose of sale under the supervis
ion of the board, the proceeds to be
used for the benefit of the world’s
fair fund, and that a gold medal
would be offered by the board to one
whose design is adopted.
Address communications to Man
ager T. W. Milan, Box 308, Little
Rock, Ark.
Tlios. \V. Milan, Manager.
The Dam Broke.
The dam of the Bodcaw Lumber
Company’s lake at Stamps, gave way
last week, floating off two million
feet of logs and causing a damage
reckoned at $500,000. The dump
around the aqueduct of the big lum
ber company at Boggy also yielded
to the freshet, causing a far-reach
ing loss. The two plants arc the
largest of the milling industries of
the South and their loss will affect
fully one thousand laborers for the
time being.
Killed by a Train.
J. B. Ellison, a timber man, wae
struck by a Choctaw engine at Beebe
and killed. Ellison and R. D. An
derson were being pulled into the
city by two negroes on a railroad
speeder, which was shattered to
pieces and all the party thrown into
the air. The other members of the
party escaped without a scratch.
Fire at Helena.
Fire destroyed the Ivoeln hotel at
Helena, and the two grocery stocks
of Oates & Co. and Mitchell Bros,
were ruined by water. The fire
started in the hotel about 2 o’clock
in the morning. There were about
fifty people in the hotel and none
of them saved anything of value.
The loss is divided as follows: Mrs.
Harry Koeln, on furnishings, $1,
000; insured for half; G. Essertier,
on furniture, $1,000; covered;
Mitchell Bros., insured for $1,500;
loss still unknown; Oates & Co.,
insured for $1,000; loss unknown;
J. M. Noland, barber shop, insured
for $800; loss perhaps half; Straub
estate, insurance on buildings, $9,
000, with loss of $4,000, the roof be
ing burned off and the entire second
story ruined.
Earthquake Shock Felt at the Springs.
A slight earthquake shock was felt
at Hot Springs on the 1st inst.
About the time the earthquake so
severely shocked the western sec
tions of the country, a strange inci
dent occurred at the new building
under course of construction on the
Williamson property near the Great
Northern hotel. The brick masons
were at work on the wall when it
began to tremble. They noticed the
trouble at cnee and consulted about
the matter. Walls under construc
tion often sway perceptibly, but this
was more of a trembling than a
swaying, and the masons could not
understand it. At tne time one oi
the men on the work remarked that
such was the effect on walls when
earthquakes shock terra firma.
New Road Incorporated.
The St. Louis, Memphis and
Little Rock railroad has been incor
porated with a capital stock of $1,
200,000. The road will begin al
Hoxie, Lawrence county, and rut
a distance of 125 miles througl
Craighead, Jackson, Woodruff
Prairie and Lonoke counties to Lit
tie Rock. The articles specify a cor
porate existence of lifty years
Stock is to be sold at $100 per share
The directors are F. E. Blomeyer
F. E. Borrouglis, Louis M. Levy
Gordon X. Peay and George W
Rogers. The capital stock of mor<
than a million is to cover the ex
penses of construction, motive powci
and appurtenances. The surveyors
of the road are already in the field
laying out the route.
Arrested for an Old Crime.
A negro named Mathew Hill wai
arrested last week at Little Rod
on the charge of larceny and bur
glary, alleged to have been commit
ted in Ashley county seven year:
ago. Hill has worked in Little
Rock since 1895, with the exceptior
of a term of enlistment in the vol
unteer army, when he saw active
service in the Philippines. He i:
said to have been a brave and mode’
soldier, being honorably cnscnargee
at the expiration of his term of en
listment, and his arrest was a sur
prise to those with whom he cam<
in contact since his residence
in Little Rock.
Fight at a Dance.
At a dance at the residence o!
Frank Seidel, in Logan county, a
general row occurred and several ol
the participants were badly in
jured. Will Kush, Sam Cowan anc
Ruby Reynolds, it is alleged, wenl
to the party without invitation
which was resented by the host and
a fight took place, in which Seidel
was seriously wounded with a knift
in the hands of one of the boys, th»:
knife blade entering just below tht
last rib. Aloise Bergup was shat
through the hand. Rush and Cow
an were arrested and are under a
bond of $1,000 each.
Cheap Rates to Fair Exhibitors.
The railroads entering Little Bock
have informed the officials of tht
state fair association that freight
rates on exhibits will be reduced.
State exhibits will be shipped to Lit
tle Rock and return for one straight
rate and half on the return. Inter
state exhibits wik be returned free
upon the payment of one straight
rate. These rates do not ineludt
race horsey buggies, nor other rac
ing paraphernalia.
Guy Jones Drowned.
Guy Jones, white, was drowned
while attempting to swim across a
stream near Mena. In company
with a couple of friends, he started
across the swollen stream in a boat.
All being good swimmers, and with
no fear of the water, they rocked the
boat around until it capsized. One
man swam across while Jones and
the other returned to the shore from
which they started, and after a few
moments’ rest re-entered the stream
to swim across. They were fully
clothed and made rather slow prog
ress, and while in the middle of the
stream both were taken with cramps.
Before help eould reach him Jones
sank out of sight. His companions
succeeded in reaching some rocks
standing up in the stream, and after
a rest swam on to shore.
Delegates Named.
Gov. Davis has appointed the fol
lowing as delegates to the Trans
Mississippi Commercial Congress,
to be held at St. Paul, Minn., the
latter part of this month: Geo. R.
Wood, Van Buren; Julian Blass,
Little Rock; J. M. Richardson, De
Vall’s Bluff; John C. Hill, Clarks
ville; Dr. L. E. Love, Dardanellc;
B. 0. Hardon, Conway; Wood
Rainwater, Morrilton : Ben H. Crow
ley, Paragould; M. J. Grant, Mag
nolia; T. M. Brown, Clarendon; W.
A. Babcock, Hot Springs; Ad Ber
tig. Paragould; J. T. W. Tillar, Lit
tie Rock; Dick Hamm, Mulberry;
R. C. Brown, Russellville; Ben
Berger, Malvern.
Bold Escape from Tail.
Henry Hudley, colored, confined
in the Pulaski jail awaiting trial
on the charge of murder in the first
degree, made his escape in a bold
and daring manner. Hudley secret
ed himself near the inner door, and
after this entrance was opened he
sprang against the jailer, who lost
his balance. Before the officers
could regain his feet Hudley had
rushed down a flight of steps and
1 from the jail yard. The jailer was
' delayed a few moments in locking
the doors of other prisoners, which
1 gave the fleeing man an opportunity
to get away.
1 Bad Negro Preacher.
■ Joe Wilson, a negro Baptist
preacher, shot and wounded his wife
and another woman at Prescott.
Wilson’s wife had him arrested for
’ assault and battery, and while he
was in jail she removed all her ef
fects to the home of a neighbor,
When released Wilson waylaid the
women as they were coming from
church. His wife was slightly
wounded, but the other woman will
die.
Took Morphine.
John Crow, a prominent citizen
of Batesville, suicided by taking an
overdose of morphine. Mr. Crow
had recently sold his residence prop
erty and was preparing to go to Col
orado for the health of his wife, who
is very feeble. Mr. Crow went up
into the bathroom to take a bath.
He came out shortly, very sick and
vomiting, and relapsed into a dull
stupor, from which he never recov
ered.
BRIEF liENTION.
During a storm at Batesville
lightning struck the Batesville
hobd and the barn of J. A. Luster,
the latter being burned to the
ground.
The Arkansas State Guard will be
represented at the autumn military,
maneuvers on the government reser
vation at Fort Riley, Kan., about the
end of September.
An application for pardon has
been made by Harve Bruce, convict
ed last April of illicit distilling and
sentenced to three years’ imprison
ment at Leavenworth, Kan.
John Bond, aged 13, inflicted se
rious and probably fatal injuries on
Jeff Hardwick, aged 12 years, at
Hot Springs. The boys engaged in
a fight when Bond struck Hardwick
a heavy blow on the head with a
stick.