Woodmklk County News.
VOL. V.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1900.
NO. 15.
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INTERESTING ITEMS GATHERED
FROM ALL SECTIONS.
WELL KNOWN BANKER DEAD
Pine Bluff Gets a Large Factory—New
Railroad to Be Built—Successful
Mail Order Marriage—Boy KTIIed
With a Baseball Bat—Small Pox In
terferes With Court Proceedings.
Prominent Financier Dead.
Chas. F. Penzel, a well known bank
er and business man of Little Rock,
died at that place last week after an
Illness of only a few minutes. The
cause of death is said to i-ave been
heart disease. Mr. Penzel was the
founder of the German National Bank
of Little Rock, and was also twice
president of the Exchange National
Bank of that city. The deceased
banker was also for many years iden
tified with the wholesale grocery busi
ness of the capital city. During the
Civil War Mr. Penzel was a soldier in
the confederate army and was serious
Iy wounded at Chickamauga. The Or
phan’s Home at Little Rock was
founded by Mr. Penzel, who was also
a prominent figure in several other
well known charitable institutions.
The death of Mr. Penzel is the fourth
that has occurred suddenly among
prominent men of Little Rock during
the last few weeks.
Will Employ 200 Men.
It fs reported that the Cotton Belt
railway has let a contract for the erec
tion of a large car factory at Pine
Bluff, on which work will be begun at
once. The factory will cost close to
$200,000, and will give employment to
about 200 men, in addition to the large
number now employed at the Cotton
Belt shops at that place. The factory
will have a capacity, when completed,
of forty complete freight cars per day,
with facilities for building passenger
coaches and special cars on short no
tice.
Killed With a Baseball Bat.
While Walter Morgan nad W'alter
Hickman, two negro boys about 11
years of age, were playing ball in Mar
ianna recently they became involved
in a dispute which led to a fight, when
the Hickman boy struck the other on
the head with a baseball bat, from the
effects of which he died soon after.
The town marshall arrested young
Hickman and left him in jail over
night, but on account of his youth he
was released the next morning and
will not be be prosecuted.
A Mail Order Marriage.
J. L. Green, a business man of Hat
field, recently advertised for a wife.
From the responses he selected that
of Miss Amelia Sutton of Ohio. It is
said that the largest crowd ever as
sembled at Hatfield was at the Kan
sas City Southern depot when the
bride-elect arrived. It was then the
couple met for the first time. They
were both pleased and within a short
while after her arrival they were
united in marriage.
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Will Build Railroad.
It Is reported that the Panama Air
I Line to be built by the Kansas City
and Gulf will be started as soon as
the right of way can be secured. The
road will be built from Beebe, Ark., to
Monroe, La. The leaders of the en
terprise hope to have their surveyors
In the Held by March 5.
Small Pox Interferes.
When Circuit Court opened at Mon
ticello recently, Judge Z. T. Wood im
paneled and instructed the Grand
Jury, which will Investigate the jail
cases, but owing to the prevalence of
smallpox the general business of the
court will go over until September.
$3700 Fire Loss.
The warehouse of the H. V. Bearlev
Music Company, at Texarkana was
destroyed by fire* entailing a total loss
of about $3,700. Of this sum $2,000
was on the building and $1,700 on
stock, which consisted of pianos, or
gans, etc. The total amount of Insur
ance is $2,000. The Are is believed to
have been of incendiary origin, as the
door of the warehouse was found open
when the fire was first discovered.
Growth of the State.
A bulletin recently made public by
the census office on manufactures of
Arkansas for 1906 and making a com
parison with manufactures of the state
in 1900 shows a large increase for
1905. The percentage of increase in es
tablishments in the state is 118. The
capital invested has increased nearly
90 per cent during the past five years.
The number of men employed in
manufactures in 1900 was 30,098
against 33,088 employed in 1905. The
three great industries of the state in
1905 were flour and grist mill pro
ducts, lumber, cotton seed oil and
cake, the lumber interests predominat
ing. Jhe report shows that Arkansas
has made material gains in almost
every industry during the five years
covered by the bulletin.
Planters Meet. ..
A number of prominent planters of
Pine Bluff and vicinity met at that
place last week and organized an asso
ciation. The chief object of this or
ganization is the importing of foreign
labor to assist in producing the crops
of that section of the state. It is
claimed that the present supply of
farm laborers is entirely inadequate
to the demand. The planters will
probably advocate the passage of a
state law compelling laborers to carry
out contracts made with plantation
owners.
New Guard.
President J. H. Wright of the Arkan
sas Central has invented a cattle
guard for railroad crossings which i»
said to possess extraordinary merit.
The guard contains revolving paddles
which catch the foot of the animal and
prevent it from crossing the track.
The animal can release its foot by
backing, but cannot move forward.
Demonstrations of the model con
structed will probably be made as
soon as any cattle apply for same.
Loses His Foot.
Wm. Sunderman an employe at the
planer of Leidigh & Havens at Mena,
met with a serious accident recently,
while working at the grading machine.
He was pulling a piece of molding
from the machine, having his foot
braced against the edge of the ma
chine. His foot slipped and was
caught betwen the revolving blades,
cuting his right foot in two.
Drunkenness Unpopular.
Gravette has a new ordinance to
prohibit and punish drunkenness. It
provides that “hereafter if any person
shall be found or seen drunk or in a
state of intoxication in any highway,
street, thoroughfare or public place,
he or she shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and upon conviction
shall be fined in any sum pot to exceed
$25.”
Meet at Little Rock.
At a meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the state Christian Endeavor
Society it was decided to hold the an
nual convention at Little Rock during
the latter part of May or early in June.
The session will continue foA three
days, and will be held on Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday, TJie meetings will
be held in the representative hall of
the capitol building.
Farmer Takes Morphine.
Burt Adams, a farmer who lives
near Maynard committed suicide re
cently by taking ap. overdose of mor
phine. After it was learned that he
had taken morphine a ■physician was
called, and every effort was made to
save him, but in vain. The taking of
the drug is said to have been the re
sult of a long drunken spree.
Mayor Suicides.
Charles H. Wilmans, mayor of New
port, prominent in state Democratic
politics and one of the best known
business men of Newport, died at his
home recently as the result of a pistol
shot wound inflicted with suicidal in
tent. The sad tragedy is said to have
been the result of nervousness and
V* a health
Small Pox at Bearden.
Dr. C. M. Morgan, who was sent by
the Camden Board of Health to inves
tigate the smallpox situation at Bear
den, reports all the cases convalescent,
and thinks there is no danger of its
spread nor cause for quarantine meas
ures.
Family Captured.
Samuel Willis, of Rich Mountain,
Polk county, while out hunting, ran
across a large black bear with three
small cubs, and after killing the moth
er captured the three young ones.
Found Dead.
A few days ago a man named Crews
was found dead with his throat cut on
the railroad track between Birkbeck
and Dobeyville. He had been working
on the Fort Smith and Gurdon Rail
road and has a brother in the bridge
department.
To Build Canning Factory.
A movement is on foot at Imboden
to organize a canning factory with a
capital stock of $2,000. If established,
the plant will be in operation by
June 1.
JOHANN HOGH IS NO MORE
ALLEGED MURDERER OF FOUR
TEEN WOMEN HANGED.
His Attorneys Fought to Save His
Fife Ip To the Very Fast
Possible Moment.
Chicago. — Johann Hoch i3
dead. The drop fell at 1:34 p. m., Fri
day. The hardest man to hang Cook
county ever knew breathed his last ona
minute later. The body was cut down
at 1:52.
A wail of grief from bis fellow pris
oners sounded through the jail at the
crash that marked the end of a re
markable criminal and the finish of a
fight against the penalty for murder
that for stubbornness, ingenuity and
dramatic features has seldom been
equaled.
Hoch stood on the scaffold like a sol
dier on parade. His last words were:
“O, Lord, they know not what they do.
Forgive them; I die an innocent man,
so help me God. Good-bye.”
Hoch was hanged for the murder of
Emily Welker-Hoch, one of his many
wives.
Hoch. obtained a new lease of life
when his attorneys, headed by former
State Legislator Frank Corr.erfonl, ap
plied to the United States circuit
court for a writ of habeas corpus to
save the condemned man. They ar
gued that Hoch’s execution would be.
in violation of the fourteenth amend
ment of the constitution, in that the
JOHANN HOOH
scner, on trial for his life, had fcsen
compelled to testify against himself.
The court, however, denied the petition,
and the execution proceeded.
Hoch is said to have had fully 60
wives, and to have murdered 14 of them.
Owing' to the illness of Sheriff Bar
rett lye was not able to take personal
charge of the execution. Chief Dep
uty Peters had all of the details under
his personal supervision.
CURTIS JACKSON MUST DIE
Tlie Negro Who Assaulted Mrs. Dan
Norman Near Poplar Uluft'. Mo.,
Sentenced to Death.
Poplar Bluff, Mo. — Curtis
Jackson, the 17-year-old negro who as
saulted Mrs. Pan Norman, near here,
three weeks ago, was convicted at a
special session of the Butler county
court Tuesday afternoon and sentenced
to hang March 23.
The jury’s verdict fixing the death
penalty was received with a tumult b*
the crowd in the courtroom.
The attack on Mrs. Norman was made
while she was walking on the railroad
after dark. She was found unconscious
and taken to a physician on a hand car.
Jackson wras arrested a few' hours later.
Jackson wull remain in the county
jail at Poplar Bluff until executed, as
there is no fear of an attempt to lynch
him.
RAILROADS STRIKE BACK
No More Cat Rates For Any One in
Ohio—Nothing: Bat the begat
Trro-Cent Fare.
vui \ aw.* i J ui luo
portation except the regular two cent
rate provided by lawr, will be cut off
by the railroads in Ohio. The decision
was reached at a conference here of
passenger representatives of all rail
roads with lines in that state. It was
agreed that by eliminating everything
except two cent fares the roads could
in a measure recompense themselves for
the loss caused by the new rate law.
The action contemplated will deprive
Ohioans of all reduced transportation
for conventions; of the 1,000-mile book;
of all charity business, and of all round
trip rates and clergyman’s rates.
SHOT AND KILLED ~BY WIFE
Tragedy In the Family of Eduard
DroKmuiiil, n Musician, at
IvanNUN City, Ivu*.
Kansas City, Mo. — Edward
Drogmur.d, leader of the orchestra of
a Kansas City (Kas.) theater, was shot
and killed here, Tuesday afternoon, at
87 East Seventeenth street, by his
wife, who fired two shots at him. The
couple had been separated. Tuesday,
Orogmund called on his wife while she
was visiting a friend. They quarreled
and the woman shot her husband. He
died before any one reached him and
Mrs. Drogmund fled. She was arrested
later.
THEN AND NOW.
1889 -
BEING UNDONE BY GERMANY
MOROCCAN CONFERENCE LIKE
LY TO BE A FAILURE.
CMlicial Opinion in CnKlanil Is Thai
Germany Would Hnllier See
It Fail Tliun >ot.
London. — Official opinion ii
Great Britain regarding the Moroccar
conference can be summed up by th«
statement that “it is now certain Ger
many desires the Algeciras conferer.ci
to break up without settling the vexec
Moroccan question.”
It is contended here that not satis
fled with refusing what Great Britaii
calls “the most liberal offer” on tin
part of France in respect to policins
Morocco. Germany has placed anothe;
obstacle in the way of a settlement bj
making impossible suggestions in re
gard to the proposed state bank. Th<
belief in Great Britain is that all the
efforts of German and British subject:
to create a better feeling between then
respective countries are being undent
by the German attitude at Algeciras
In English official circles there is nc
attempt to hide the discomfort at the
course of events at the conference.
The suggestion coming from Ber’lr
that King Edward and Emperor Will
iam will meet shortly is officially de
nied; at least, the foreign office offi
cials say that they have no cognizance
of the rumored meeting.
DEATH OF JOHN A. M’CALL
The Former President of the \ew
York Life Pa sued Auay at
Lakewood, \. J.
New York, — John A. McCal
until recently president of the New
York Life Insurance Co., died at 5:31
Sunday afternoon at the Laurel house
in Lakewood, N. J., where he had beer
taken, three weeks ago, in the hope thai
the change might benefit his health
which had suffered a breakdown twc
months ago.
John A. McCall was born In Albany
i., aiarcn t, is-rn. tie entered im
insurance business early in life, and ii
1885 was appointed state insurant
commissioner by Grover Cleveland, whi
was then governor of New York. Hf
relinquished that position to becomf
comptroller of the Equitable Life As
surance society, which position he helc
until he became president of the Nev
York Life Insurance Co. in 1S92.
OMAHA WOMEN IDNIGNANT
They Adopt Resolutions Protesting
Against the Verdict Acquit
ting Pat Crone.
Omaha. Neb. — More than
400 of the most prominent women in
Omoha adopted resolutions protesting
against the verdict in the case of Pat
Crowe, who was, last week, acquitted
of tire charge of robbing E. A. Cudahy
of $25,000 through the kidnaping of the
latter’s son, five years ago. This is
said to be the preliminary to a general
mass meeeting of citizens to take sim
ilar action.
HER SENTENCE COMMUTED
Ollic Roberts has Returned to St.
Louis to Testify in Cases of
Police Crafting
Jefferson City, Mo. — Governor
Folk has committed the sentence ol
Ollie Roberts, of St. Louis, serving a
sentence of 15 years on conviction ol
murder in the second degree, that she
may be used as a witness in the prose
cution of charges of graft in the St
Louis police department. She has de
parted for St. Louis.
CHARLES H. TURNER DEAD
He Was Formerly President of the
St. Louis A. Siihnrbnu Hnlhvay
System in St. Louis.
St. Louis.—Charles H. Tur
ner, former president of the St. Louis
& Suburban street railway system, who
turned state’s evidence and was a
strong witness for the prosecution in
convicting boodlers who tried to pass
, the notorious “Suburban bill,” died
Thursday in his apartments in the
, Waldorf-Astoria hotel, New York.
His St. Louis relatives were at the
bedside, having arrived in New York
Tuesday night.
Press dispatches from New York say
, Mr. Turner was taken ill several weeks
, ago, but improved steadily, and no
! thought of his sickness having a fatal
termination was entertained until Mon
day. when he had a severe hemorrhage
of the stomach. From that time he
grew' rapidly worse and became uncon
scious Thursday morning.
Hr. Gibbons, who had been attending
Mr. Turner, summoned Dr. Janawav, a
celebrated specialist, who attended the
late Charles T. Yerkes at the hotel, and
a consultation was held Wednesday.
Mr. Turner rallied that day. but he
collapsed Thursday evening, and soon
passed away.
Charles H. Turner was best known
in St. Louis business and finance as
president of the Suburban railroad and
of the Commonwealth Trust Co., but he
was connected prominently with many
of the city’s business interests.
MAY NEVER BE RECOVERED
Bodies of Dead Fire Fighters In the
Old Dominion Mine Are Beyond
the Hope of Rescue.
Glebe, Arlz.—The bodies of
Joseph Ikenberrv, Jo Artlssey and John
James, who met death in an effort to
fight the flames in the Old Dominion
mine, probably will never be recov
i erea. aii me compartments nave oeen
bulkheaded off, and miners are making
heroic efforts to subdue the flames.
■ They can not reach the pumps on some
: levels, however, and it is feared the
i mine will be flooded, and it will take
i six months to extinguish the fire. All
the miners in the mine when the fire
■ broke out escaped. The dead men were
suffocated while trying to put out the
flames.
HE DECLINES THE HONOR
President Mitchell of tlie Mine
Workers Decline* n Ueinocrittlc
Nomination for Congress.
New York. — John Mitchell,
president of the United Mine Workers
of America, received a telegram from
Peoria, 111. in which he was
offered the democratic nomination for
congress to represent that district. Mr.
Mitchell immediately replied to the
committee, then in session in Peoria,
declining the nomination. He stated
that he would not accept any political
office while head of the mine workers.
Mr. Mitchell lives at Spring Valley, 111.
JOS. WHEELER MEMORIAL
It In to lie Held in Atlanta, On.,
March 20—President Roosevelt
To lie Invited.
Atlanta, Ga.—The Iccal citizens’
committee of arrangements having in
charge the memorial of Gc-n. Joseph
Wheeler has made its plans to have the
memorial March 2G, the day preceding
the gathering of the Blue and the Gray.
A committee has been named to go to
Washington to invite President Roose
velt to be present and make an address
on the occasion.
PATTISON HAS PARESH3
Ohio’n Governor In No Condition to
Tru n»nc*t DnnineMM and In A di
vined to nenitfn.
Columbus, O.—Doctor E. J.
Wilson, physician in attendance upon
Gov. John M. Pattison, who, since his
inauguration on January 8, has been,
confined to his home with an illness,
the exact nature of which has been
carefully kept secret, made th9 start
ling statement during habeas corpus
proceedings to effect the release of a
discharged federal prisoner held thera
on a warrant from Boston, that the
governor was incapable of sustained
attention on any subject and that he
was so weakened in body and brain
that he could not pass on the requisi
tion sought by the Massachusetts
authorities.
The requisition was later returned
with the governor's signature sprawled
across the bottom at thejplace his sec
retary had designated with a pencil
mark.
A yrell-known alienist is authority
for the statement that the governor is
afflicted with paresis. This theory has
been patent to several well-informed
public officials for some time, dating
from the time a bill wms returned to
the senate with the governor’s signa
ture spread out diagonally over its
face.
ac pciaioicuuj' i umuicu Ud . mo
governor's family and friends are try
ing to persuade him to resign and seek
recuperation at Hot Springs.
FARMERS CO ON STRIKE
Two Hundred Thousand Farmers
Expected to tnite In Demanding
Equitable Prices For Prodoee.
Indianapolis, Ind. — A strike
of the 200,000 farmers, composing the
American Society of Equity, an organi
zation with headquarters in Indianapo
lis, has been called for March 1. Every
one who responds to this call will agree
to withhold from marketing any agri
caltural products excepting at prices
that are up to the level that has been
agreed as equitable by the officials of
this organization.
This organization claims ihat the pro
ducer ought to get at least one dollar
a bushel for wheat, no matter what may
be the size of the crop. The cal! for
the strike sets forth a minimum selling
price on all farm products, prices which
the agricultural strikers claim they are
entitled to and can get if they stand to
gether.
Kansas and Minnesota are being
flooded with copies of this call. It 13
figured by the officials of the organiza
tion that if these states should hold out
fcr the higher price the movement will
prove a success.
EARLY AND LONG SPRING
That In tlie I la si* On Which the
Most of tlie Commercial Ilu.si
11CNM In Being; Predicated.
New York. — Bradstreet’a
weekly review says:
Springlike weather stimulates job
bing distribution, inducing a larger
volume of house trade and also helping
retail business in spring and summer
fabrics. Crop preparations are going
forward actively, and at the south some
actual planting has been done. Ship
ments cn orders are heavier than ever
before, and no complaints of freight
congestion are heard. At practicably
all points an early and long spring sea
son is predicted. At the same time
there is an air of conservatism as to
the more distant future, due mainly to
the larger stocks of winter goods car
ried over, and also because of the re
cent heavy drop in raw cotton, making
buyers for next season cautious in plac
ing orders. Like conditions are noted
in the leading industries. Iron and steel
production, while of unprecedented vol
ume, is largely for the first half of the
year’s requirements, far future orders
being of lighter volume.
DR MINOR WANTED APOLOGY
The President Was of the Opinion
That the Least Saiil About the
flatter the lietter.
Washington, D. C. — Dr. Minor
Morris, whose wife some weeks ago
was ejected from the White House,
where she had gone to present alleged
grievances to the president, Wednesday
gave out for publication the corre
spondence which recentiy pissed be
tween himself and the president re
garding the case.
Dr. Morris demanded a public apology
of the president “for this outrage on
womanhood and common decency.”
Secretary Locb replied to the letter,
stating that an investigation by the
chief of police showed that the arrest
was justified, and that the kindest act
to Mrs. Morris and her kinsfolk was to
refrain from giving the case additional
publicity.
Greek Slashed By Filipino.
St. Louis, Mo.—Yalse Capore, a
Greek, 3S, is in the city hospital, and
may die. Florenzio Quinio, a Filipi
no, 17, used a razor on the Greek, cut
ting his throat. The doctors bellev#
the Greek will dla