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Secretary of State Crockett calls
especial attention of parties inter
ested to the act passed by the last
general assembly relating to the
filing of articles of incorporation
with the county clerk of the county
in which a corporation is to have its
principal place of business, which
is necessary before the secretary of
state can issue a certificate. The
act referred to is as follows:
Section 1. That section 1334 of
Sandcls & Hill's digest be amended
so as to read as follows:
Section 1334. Before any cor
poration formed and established by
virtue of the provisions of this act
shill commence business the presi
dent and directors thereof shall file
their articles of association and also
certificate setting forth the pur
poses for which such corporation is
formed, the amount of its capital
stock, the amount actually paid in
and the names of its stockholders
and the number of shares by each
respectively owned, with the county
clerk of the county in which the
corporation is to have its principal
place of business and shall file said
articles and certificate, bearing the
endorsement of the county clerk in
the office of the secretary of state.
Said certificate shall be recorded by
the said county clerk and secretary
of state in books kept by them for
that purpose. T'pon the filing of
such endorsed articles and eertifi-!
cate with the secretary of state and
the payment of the fees required bv
law, the secretary of state shall is
sue to the incorporators a certifi
cate. which certificate, or a certified
r-rtnv thoronf slmll ho nilmwsihh* in !
all the courts of the state as prima
fa<in evidence of due incorporation;
for which certificate the secretary of
state shall charge a fee of $3.
Plans for Fair Building.
At a recent meeting of the Ar
kansas world’s fair commission,
held at Little Rock, plans for the
building, submitted by Architect
Gibb of Little Rock, were -elected.
The building will be a frame struc
ture, of the old colonial mansion
type of architecture. The structure
will be 0!) feet in width by 75 feet
in depth, with three wide porticos,
one in front and one on either side.
The building will be two stories in
height. On the first floor in the
corner will be the reception hall 22
by 31 feet in size, out of which will
lead a handsome double stairway to
the second floor. To the right will
be the Indies’ reception room, 1G by
2fl feet, and ir the left the gentle
men’s reception room, the same
size. The first floor will also con
tain a check room, postofliee, direct
ors’ room and a room for the gov
ernor; also an auditorium 22 by 40
feet. The second stor» will contain
n library in the center 22 by 31
feet, tin the right will be the la
dies’ reading room, 10 by 1G feet,
and on the left the gentlemen’s
smoking room the same size- also
rooms for the state associations,
which have expressed a desire to fit
up headquarters. The exhibit room
on the second floor will be 22 by 40
feet.
Saloon Holdup.
A stranger entered the saloon of
Tank & Gigginbotham at Jonesboro
about 11 o’clock at night and. at the
muzzle of a six-shooter, compelled
I.ink, who was behind the bar, to
hand over tho contents of the cash
drawer, about $S0. Link was
also relieved of a gold watch
and a diamond stud, valuta! at $250.
The robber made his escape.
Drank Poison Whisky.
Three citizens of Montgomery
county have died from drinking
moonshine whisky. The victims
were all well known young farmers.
L. A. Bowles was placed under ar
rest, charged with supplying the
liquor. It is believed the liquor
was stilled in a vessel unfit fur the
purpose.
Little Child Drowned.
The 3-year-old daughter of Tims.
Duke, residing a few miles from
Prescott, was drowned while play
ing with other children near a
pond. A rain t—up and the oth
er children of tVe party started
home. Later it vv.es discovered that
the little girl was missing, and
when search \j4(s made it was found
that she had f«’h-n into the pond
aad was drow ted.
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Little Rock Y. M. C. A. Building.
The new Y. M, C. A. building
!it Little Rook, viewed from the in
tersection of Scott and Fifth streets,
"ill present a very massive appear
ance. The salient features of tin
design are modern American, with
very hold and massive lines. All
unnecessary ornamentation has been
omitted, the designer depending
upon graceful lines and harmonious
details for the effect. The struct
ure will be faced with two shades of
gray pressed brick. All trimmings
will be white limestone except the
cornice, which will be terra-cotta.
The structure, as planned, is 80
feet east and west on Fifth street
and 150 feet north and south on
Scott, with three stories and full
basement. The basement story is
sunk six feet below ground and
extends six feet above grade, giv
ing a well lighted and ventilated
space twelve feet in the clear. The
basement will contain the bowling
alleys, swimming pool, lavatories,
toilets, tubs and shower hath sys
tems, locker rooms and boiler
room. The first floor will contain
the public library, reading room,
amusement room, secretary's office,
physical director's office, main floor
of the auditorium and the main
floor of the gymnasium.
The second story will contain the
gallery of the auditorium, the gal
lery of the gymnasium, two library
rooms, members’ parlor, class room,
dining room and kitchen. The
third floor will contain 33 sleeping
rooms and a large space thirty-six
feet by one hundred for the junior
department. The principal archi
tectural feature of the exterior is
the front entrance, which is made
up of three arches and is bold,
unique and severely plain Above
the entrance will be a stone bearing
this inscription. ‘‘Young Men’s
Christian Association.”
Negro Murderer Convicted.
Will Lee, colored, was convicted
of murder in the first degree in
Pulaski circuit court for the kill
ing of Tom Porter, another negro,
last October. The killing occurred
in a negro restaurant, and was due
to jealousy on the part of Lee.
Porter had just entered the restaur
ant for his supper, and in conversa
tion with a waitress told her Lee
was not a fit man for her to keep
company with. Lee overheard the
remark and, drawing a knife,
plunged the blade into Porter’s
neck, severing the jugular vein.
The murderer escaped, but was cap
tured a few days later on a farm
near Little Rock.
To Be Tried in Federal Court.
The twelve alleged whitecappers,
charged with intimidating colored
tenants in eastern Arkansas, have
been turned over to the federal au
thorities. bv whom they will be
tried. Under the federal statutes
they are charged with inciting riot,
und t section 3508, Revised Feder
al statutes. The penalty is not
more than $ 1,000 and not less than
two nor more than ten years in the
penitentiary. The whitecappers
were first arrested by the state au
thorities, but the penalties und t
me ieaerai siaiuies u 'iujj
mi agreement was reached whereby
they were turned over fur federal
prosecution.
Opposed to Change of Name.
Bv a vote of 11 to 5, the council
of the diocese of Arkansas of the
Protestant Episcopal church of the
United States decided against mak
ing any change in the name of the
church. This question is being con
sidered by the various diocer.es
throughout the country, and there
is a wide diversity of opinion as to
the wisdom of malting any change
in the name of the denomination.
Tlie matter will he settled at the
next meeting of the general couu
cil. _
Child Accidentally Killed.
The 10-year-old son of Wm.
Snetzer shot and killed the 5-year
old son of 1). B. Dunham at New
port. The boys were playing with
] a small rifle when the weapon was
! accidentally discharged, the bullet
severing the artery of young Dun
ham’s heart.
Tat Biley, a stranger from Little
j Rock, was found dead in a board
1 ing house at Texarkana.
Gov. Exercises Power of Veto.
Eight of the Wills passed during
the last session of the general assem
bly have been vetoed by Gov. David.
The bills are as follows:
Senate bill No. DM, known as
the Flower Island bill, which au
thorizes the attorney general to
bring suit in the supreme court o'
the United States for the settlement
of the boundary line between this
state and the state of Tennessee at
or near Flower Island, in the Mis
sissippi river. The land involved in
the matter is very valuable and
there are many thousands of acres
of it.
House bill No. 97 prohibits the
taking or soliciting of orders for
the sale of intoxicating liquors in
prohibition territory.
House hill No. 350 provides for
the amendment of the law in rela
tion to the payment of poll taxes,
which law was approved in March,
1895.
House bill Mo. 556, a bill provid
ing for the printing of the biennial
report of Former Commissioner of
Mines, Manufactures and Agricul
ture Frank Hill.
Senate bill No. 50 is similar to
senate hill No. 134. except that the
boundary line to be settled is be
tween Arkansas and Mississippi in
stead of Arkansas and Tennessee.
House hill No. 516 provides for
the regulation of mutual insurance
companies.
House bill No. 567. This is the
general deficiency bill and only one
item, that of $1,874.76. for the Ar
kansas penitentiary is vetoed.
Gov. Davis issued a lengthy proc
lamation, setting forth his reasons
for votoeing the above measures.
Disastrous Wreck on Choctaw.
A fatal passenger wreck occurred
on the Choctaw road about a mile
from Hot Springs, in which Fire
man Joe Riley was instantly killed.
The following were injured: Con
ductor Weir, cut about the head and
injured internally; Engineer J. It.
Ryan, injured internally; Will
Marshal, porter, seriously injured;
Xewt Holt, attorney, Hot Springs,
injuries serious; Deputy Sheriff
Jack Archer, badly shocked and
bruised; Dave Davis, hotel man,
hand mashed; Jesse Holley (Ken
tucky), head, arm and hip in
jured; Express Messenger Frank
King, lower limbs injured. A num
ber of other passengers were slight
ly injured. The wrecked train was
bound for Little Rock i J jumped
the track on a fifteen-foot embank
•ment, just as it was approaching a
bridge across a small stream. The
engine crashed into the bridge,
which, together with the baggage
car, smoker and chair car, rolled
down the embankment and into the
creek twenty feet below. The sleep
er was the only coach that did not
tumble down the embankment. 'That
more of the passengers and crew
were mfl instantly killed is a mira
cle, as the engine and coaches were
piled on ton of one another and to
tally' demolished. The wreck was
caused by spreading rails, the re
suit of heavy rains.
BRIEF MENTION.
Alice Ann Thompson, a negress,
is confined in jail at Camden »nder
sentence of death for killing anoth
er negro woman.
Dr. J. M. Parks, a well known
eclectic physician of Little Rock,
dropped dead while driving along
a public* road near the line of Pu
laski and Lonoke counties. Dr.
Parks had been a sufferer from
heart trouble for several vears.
(i. \Y. Donaghey of Conway has
been elected superintendent of the
work of completing the new state
capitol. Mr. Donaghey was form
erly a member of the state capitol
commission and is one of the best
known contractors in the state.
All the sheet iron and metal
workers of Little Rock, with the ex
ception of those employed in the
railroad shops, struck upon being
refused an increase from 30 to 35
cents per hour. The railroads
granted the increase to their men.
The Batavia Fruit Farm Com
pany of Boom**county has just com
pleted planting an orchard of 130,
000 peach trees. This company also
has in 120 acres in cantaloupes.
S. J. Engli>h shot and killed
Will Wise at Wynne. Ar. old quar
rel was the primary cause. Bad
blood existed between them for sev
eral years. Wise was a prominent
'planter and well connected. Eng
lish is proprietor of the English
Gin Company.
Sybil Sanderson, the well known
American opera singer, died sud
denly in France from pneumonia.
Former Mayor A. A. Ames of
Minneapolis has been convicted and
sentenced to six years in the peni
tentiary for receiving bribes while
in office
Chas. Hiatt has been convicted at
Stillwater, O. '1'., of the murder of
his wife. The crime was commit
ted nine years ago to prevent the
women testifying to another crime
Hiatt committed. Hiatt was re
cently captured in Virginia.
Former Lieut. Gov. Ijee of Mis
souri is said to have made a state
ment to Prosecutor Folk of St.
Louis, admitting that he handled
$15,000 boodle money during the
last session of the Missouri legisla
ture.
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Bv a mistake in orders a head-on
collision occurred on tin* Missouri
Pacific about twenty miles from St.
Louis between the special train of
General Manager Harding and an
extra fright. The only one injured
was a colored porter, though both
engines were demolished and the
cars of the freight were piled in an
indiscriminate heap.
Wm. McCarthy, a condemned
wife murderer, confined in jail at
Lexington. Ky., eommitteed suicide
bv swallowing morphine a few hours
before the time set for his execution.
The death watch sat within a few
f(>et of McCarthy the night he took
the drug, but discovered nettling
wrong until a few minutes before
tlie man was dead. The unison was
smuggled to McCarthy by some
friends.
For the week ending the 1fth,
the commercial agencies report in
dustrial conditions over the county
greatly disturbed on account of the
unusual number of strikes being
waged. Leaders of organized labor
justify the demands of their various
bodies for increased wages on ac
count of the greatly increased cost
of living in cities and industrial
sections the past few years, stating
that while it is a fact that, as a rule,
labor has been steadily employed, at
the same time rents, the cost of fuel
and food stuffs, to say nothing of
the cost of clothing, has increased
in some localities as great as 40 per
cent.
According to a census bulletin re
cently issued, the cotton crop of
lOOt? foots up 10,030,045 bales of
,500 pounds, with some additions yet
to be made before the cotton year
ends in August. The total crop of
1002 is larger than the crops of
1001, 1000 and 1899 by from 5 to
14 per cent. Yet the price is re
markably high and the market un
usually excited. The value of the
cotton crop of 1002 exceeded that
of wheat by $34,000,000 and was
second only to the corn crop, valued
at $921,000,000. For the year end
ing June 30 last cotton held the
first place in exports, representing a
value of $200,000,000, which was
$77,000,000 more than the exports
of hreadstuffs, and $00,000,000
more than the exoorts of meats and
uun » uiwuui in. *iuuiir.i;
goods and cotton-seed oil to the
item of raw cotton, the total value
of cotton exported during the last
fiscal vear was $349,000,000, or one
fourth the aggregate of all exports.
The striking trainmen of the
Mobile and Ohio railroad were re
inforced by a walk out of all the
boilermen, blacksmiths and maehin'
ists in the shop* at Mobile. The
service of the road was greatly
crippled by the strike, but officials
of the road in many cases took the
places of strikers and operated the
passenger trains. One non-union
brakeman was slmt and killed bv
unknown parties at Jackson, Tenn.
The strikers succeeded in complete
ly tieing up freight traffic on the
road.
The governor of Kansas has is
sued a proclamation ordering that
all cattle brought into that state
must be “dipped"’ to relieve them
of all disease.
C’apt. Overton of the Fifteenth
cavalry and Private Harry Noyes
were hacked to death in an encount
er with Philippine insurgents in a
fight at Sucatlan, Island of Minda
^noa. Capt. Overton was appointed
.ary academy from Tex
<>
Thi> safe at the union ticket office
at Birmingham, Ala., was robbed of
$7,000 in cash.
A man by the name of Curtis
Jett has been arrested, charged with
the assassination at Jackson, Ky.,
of Attorney Marcum. Jett i- also
accused of assassinating two other
parties interested in the election
contests that resulted in Marcum’s
death.
The strike of trainmen on the
Mobile and Ohio extends over the
entire system. Trains were desert
ed at many way stations by crews,
and all efforts to handle freight had
to be abandoned. The effect of the
strike is felt by shippers along the
entire length of the system from
St. Louis to New Orleans.
Former State Senator F. L.
Busche of Missouri, laboring under
a heavy mental strain owing to in
vestigations into boodling in the
Missouri legislature, has made a
complete confession of the workings
of the combine to Attorney Folk of
St. Louis. Buseho’s declarations in
volve several men of prominence,
and he names those who have been
conspicuous at the state capital as
distributers of hoodie.
An officer of the monitor Arkan
sas, which is tied up at St. Gene
vieve, Mo., states tha* owing to
low water, the vessel may be
compelled to remain where she
is all summer, unless a June rise
comes. Some of the vessel’s crew
win pi* iransierreu 10 oilier war
ships in the east and those remain
ing on the Arkansas will pass the
summer and fall in the comprehen
sive drills which will probably make
the boat an object of attraction to
the western people.
Reports from Guatamala state
that terrible destruction resulted
from recent eruptions of St. Maria
volcano. All the coffee plantations
in the vicinity of the volcano have
been destroyed for all time. Ashes
from ten to fifteen feet deep cover
the country. In the neighborhood
of the volcano ashes are so deep that
only some of the tops of trees can
be seen. Scoria and ashes cover
1,000 square miles of land to a
depth of five to fifteen feet and five
thousand square miles to depths of
from one to five feet. One-third of
the coffee crop has been destroyed.
Judge Dickinson of Omaha,
upon application of an attorney
representing labor unions, issued a
sweeping injunction against busi
ness men from refusing to sell
goods to dealers who employ union
men, and forbidding the merchants
association from holding meet
ings and conspiring against the
unions, or in any way interferting
in the management of union affairs,
'l'he court also enjoins the mer
chants’ association from importing
or engaging agents or servants to
import any laborers into the city of
Omaha or state of Nebraska in pur
suance of any existing plan to de
stroy labor organizations or under
any similar or new arrangement or
plan.
That the proposed road from
rU t ft I Tot Sinn n tr.i rtn-Drl tn
the Central of Arkansas, will be
speedily constructed, there is nr
doubt whatever expressed bv those
acquainted with the parties financ
ing the scheme. The directors arc
F. A. Molitor, A. W. Lefeber, J. C.
Hart, W. \V. Gardner and W. R.
Abott, and it is reported Col. .T. W.
McLeod will shortly be added to
the board. All the above named
gentlemen were directors of the
Choctaw when that line was sold
to the Rock Island amt did much
toward developing the Choctaw into
a great railway. An agent for the
Central has been at work several
months buying up coal lands along
I the route to be traversed by this
in length and will open up an un
road. The line will be 150 miles
developed but enormously rich ter
ritory.
A serious and fatal clash between
whites and blacks took place in the
northern part of Smith count}', Mis
sissippi, in which one white man
was mortally wounded and several
negroes killed. The trouble started
over a negro leaving a planter to
whom he was in debt. While a par
j ty of whites was on the way to force
the negro tenant to return or pay
whatf he owed, the whites were fired
on, from ambush and one was ifi.
sintlv killed.
The British cup challenger and
the Shamrock II, owned by Lord
Tipton, will sail for this country
the latter part of this month.
In a clash between blacks and
whites in St. Tammany parish,
La., four negroes, all members of 4;
a family named Floient, were kill
ed.
Miss Ellen Stone, the American
missionary captured and hold pris
oner by brigands while in the Turk
ish empire, has written a letter to \ f “
the state department asking that a
demand for indemnity be made
upon the Turkish government.
The British attleship Common
wealth, the largest vessel of the
kind in the world, was recently
launched at (lovan, on the Clyde.
Sin; is of 16,350 tons displacement,
her engines are to be of 18,000
horse power and will carry a crew
of 755 men.
The state department has inform
ed (iov. Dockery of Missouri that
it cannot grant his request to se
cure the extradition of Ellis Wain
wright, a millionaire brewer of St.
Louis, who is wanted in connection
with municipal bril>ery and who is
now residing in France, the extra
dition treaty not including the of
fense of bribery.
The volume relating to appro
priations made and new officers
created during the last session of
congress has been completed. A
summary of the appropriations
shows a grand total of $753,058,
506. In addition to the specific ap
propriations made, contracts arc au
thorized to be entered into for cer
tain public works requiring future
appropriations by congress, in the
aggregate or tne prin- ,
cipal item of which is $20,426,000
for additions to the navy.
President Diaz of Mexico has
consented to accept the office for
another term of four years. He
has been at tlie head of the govern
ment of his country ever since 1870,
when he was first elected, except for
one four years, when he was nomi
nally in the
he, ip realiI
man who fed
removal of
tions which took place at that time
permitted him to enter the executive
office fit the end of the term of his
representative, and his country has
kept him in office ever since.
Four employes of the Adams Ex
press Company at Cincinnati were
poisoned by drinking from a bottle
of whisky that in some way was
broken, and one of the men died in
a short time. The whisky was sent
from Memphis to the address of
Mrs. Kate Nobbe of Cincinnati. An
investigation revealed that the whis
ky contained arsenic. Mrs. Lucy
McCormick of Memphis was arrest
ed on the charge of expressing the
whisky. Mrs. Nobbe and Mrs. Mc
Cormick were formerly friends, but
became enemies through jealousy of
the attentions paid the former by
Edwin Pell of Memphis, for whom
Mrs. McCormick kept hou.se.
Japanese arsenals are being work
ed day and night and all prepara
tions are being made for war in
case Russia persists in her apparent
intention to occupy Manchuria. The
North China Daily News reports
that there has been a continuous
flow of Russian troons traveling by
background, but when
ruled through the
i
he barrier tore-elec
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train from Harbin to Port Arthur,
while other large bodies have been
moving to the eastern borders of
Manchuria, camping in the vicinity
cf Yalu river, which divides that
country from Corea. The warlike
movements are causing great alarm
to Chinese officials, and an unnam
ed Chinese official is quoted as say
ing that the Russians are preparing
for the inevitable struggle with Ja
pan, a day which all Chinese offi
cials believe to be not far distant.
One report that has caused great
excitement in Japan is to the effect
that Russia is endeavoring to make
an. agreement with China regarding
Manchuria.
As a result of a small riot be
tween whites and blacks at Fremont'
O., Otto Miske, white, is dead and
Wheeler Kimber and Lorenzo Mar
tin, colored, are in jail, charged
with murder.
Mrs. Alex Lawton of Sacramento,
Ky., defended herself from assault
by a white man named Ross Rich
ards by filling his body full of
buckshot. The woman was alone
when Richards forcibly entered her
house.
The latest political rumor is that
ex-President Cleveland shortly be
fore the next national democratic
convention, will dccfaffi| for Jndsoa
Harmon of Ohio as the party nomi
nee