VOL. I.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUYRY 23, 1902.
NO. 42.
NEWS OF THE WORLD
The past season’s coffee crop of
Guatemala is said to be 40 per cent
short of the average.
Hon. H. C. Payne, of Wisconsin,
assumed the duties of postmaster
general on the loth, vice Hon. Chas;
Emory Smith, resigned.
A dispatch from Washington says
the Isthmian canal commission has
reported in favor of the purchase of
the Nicarauguan canal.
It cost Perry Belmont, of New
York, $14,837, or $2 for every vote
he received as a candidate for con
gress, and then he was defeated.
Senator Hanna is reported as fa
voring the Panama canal route, and
against the Nicaraguan outlet as
proposed in the bill passed by the
house.
Schwab, president of the steel
trust, is visiting Monte Carlo, the
famous gambling resort, and is said
to have recently won large sums at
that place.
In a recent review promulgated by
the Dun commercial agency an ex
pert states that the cost of living in
this country has increased 40 per
cent since 1897.
James Booth, an aged farmer,
was murdered at his home near Ot
tawa, Ivas., and his wife and four
children are under arrest charged
with the crime.
The pension appropriation bill re
ported to the house carries $139,
842,230, exactly the amount of the
estimates, as against $145,245,230
appropriated last year.
Gen. Wood, military governor of
Cuba, in an exhaustive magazine ar
ticle, makes a plea for trade reci
procity between the United States
and the Cuban republic.
A commission representing labor
unions, commercial organizations
and institutions of learning of Eng
land will shortly visit this country
to study the labor question.
The British war ship Loudon,
which left Victoria December 2 last,
has beeh given up as lost, and it is
believed -all the crew went to the
bottom of tUe sea with the vessel.
President Roosevelt is said to be
seeking a way by which lie can fur
ther reward Capt. Charles E. Clark,
the commander during the war with
Spain of the famous battleship Ore
gon.
It is the general opinion of the
“knowing ones” at Washington that
Secretary of the Navy Long will re
tire as soon as the Schley case is
finally disposed of by the president
and congress.
Mr. Oscar S. Straus, of New
York, formerly United States min
ister to Turkey, has been appointed
as a permanent member of the com
mittee of arbitration at The Hague.
The appointment is to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of ex
President Harrison.
The total output of coal for
the state of Illinois last year was
26,635,319 tons, an increase of
about a million and a half tons over
the output of 1900. This increase
was had despite the fact that there
was a decrease of two hours a day
in the time put in by the miners.
South Dakota's building at the
Louisiana Purchase exposition at
St. Louis in 1903 -will be a duplicate
of the original corn palace at Mitch
ell. The corn palace held its first
exposition in 1893, and each year
since that time the handsome build
ing, erected at a cost of $15,000,
has been coated witli split corn cars,
and a ten days’ fair held.
The state supreme court of Kan
sas has handed down a decision sus
taining the eight-hour law. The de
cision was by Justice Smith, and
was in the case of W. W. Atkin, of
Kansas City, Kan., who, in filling a
street-paving contract for the city,
worked his men more than eight
hours a day. He was convicted in
the district court of violating the
law, and appealed.
A number of British tobacco man
ufacturers have combined for the
purpose of fighting the American
Tobacco Company, which has secur
ed a strong foothold in the United
Kingdom.
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The government of Nicaragua has
arrested (ten. Vasquez, the former
president of Honduras. The gener
al is charged with attempting to in
cite a rebellion in Venezuela against
President Zelaya, of Nicaragua,
who drove Gen. Velasquez from the
presidency of Honduras in 1894 for
the same offense.
Nellie Corneilson, a 11-year-old
girl, who killed her baby sister at
Wichita, Kan., with a razor and
chairged her 5-year-old brother with
the crime, finally confessed that she
did it, but was unable to assign any
reason for the act. She said the
notion to kill her sister came into
her head, and that she could not re
sist it.
As a result of a collision between
a passenger and a freight train on
the Southern Railway at Rome, Ga.,
Mine. Lillian Nordica, the singer,
was injured; her accompanist, E.
Romayne Simmon, sustained a
bruised hand, an engineer was kill
ed and three other employes of the
road were injured. Frank Tracey,
passenger train engineer, residing in
Atlanta, was the one killed.
An Indianapolis inventor who at
this time refuses to have his iden
tity divulged, through a sworn affi
davit by his attorney, says he will
shortly give to the world a device
called “The Telectroscope,” where
by a man using a telephone may see
and be seen as well as talk, hear and
be heard. The telectroscope, it is
said, has reached a stage where
perfection is practically assured. It
only remains to add an improve
ment or two before the mechanism
will be in shape to be put on the
market.
According to a report of the cen
sus bureau, for the first time in the
history of this country the popula
tion of the south has increased some
what more rapidly than that of the
north. The east, geographically, is
included in the term north. Offi
cial announcement divided the coun
try as follows: The west from the
Pacific to the eastern boundary of
Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and
New Mexico; north and south, the
respective lines of a line formed by
the Potomac and Ohio rivers and the
southern boundaries of Missouri and
Kansas. The percentage of increase
from 18(50 to 1880 was <>1.0 in the
north; -18.4 in the south, and 185.6
in the west, while in the last twenty
years, 1880-1900. it was 48.7 in the
north, 48.0 in the south and 131.5
in the west.
Dr. Daniel C. Oilman, president;
emeritus of the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, and who will be t he execu
tive head of the board of trustees of
the Carnegie institution at Wash
ington, gave important information
concerning the scope of the institu
tion in an address to the faculty and
students of the Hopkins. As out
lined by Dr. Gilman Mr. Andrew
Carnegie’s plan is more universal
than the university and is broad
enough to cover the whole field of
human effort and achievement. It
involves no rivalry with existing in
stitutions, nor yet the establishment
of a new one in the sense of a sep
arate college or university with a res
ident faculty. Its privileges will be
extended to anybody, young or old,
white or black, man or woman, grad
uate or undergraduate, native or
foreign.
The report of Hon. John W. Yer
kes, commissioner of internal reve
nue, shows that the cost of collec
tion of the internal revenue for the
fiscal year ended June 30. 1901. was
1.55 per cent. This is the lowest
cost of collection in the history of
the internal revenue bureau. The
cost for the year ended June 30,
1900, under the administration of
Commissioner G. W. Wilson, was
1.58 per cent, the lowest up to that
year. The report also shows that
there arc over 4,000 registered dis
tilleries in the United States, which
produced 124,520,599 gallons of dis
tilled spirits during the year ended
June 30, 1901. There remained in
the warehouses of the United States
upon June 30, 1901, 150,994,301.6
gallons of distilled spirits; June 30,
1900, 136,071,879.5 of distilleiUspir
its. i
A family of seven persons named
Pearlstein, consisting of husband,
wife and five children, were burned
to death in a fire which destroyed
their home at Boston.
Gov. Van Sant will call an extra
session of the Minnesota legislature
to deal with the question of the re
cent consolidation of principal rail
roads traversing that state.
A telegram from the city of Mexi
co says the city of Chilfeueingo, state
of Guerrero, suffered severely from
an earthquake shock, over 600 peo
ple being killed. The shock lasted
for nearly a minute and was one of
the most destructive seismic distur
bances ever recorded in Mexico.
Those Confederate soldiers whose
horses, saddles and bridles were tak
en from them by the Union forces in
violation of the terms of surrender
agreed upon between Gen. Grant
and Gen. Lee at Appomattox are to
be reimbursed by the federal gov
ernment. Bills for this purpose
have been favorably reported to both
the house and senate, and will be
come a law at an early date. A sim
ilar bill passed both houses during
the closing hours of the last con
gress, but failed to receive the presi
dent's signature owing to the large
number of bills presented for his
approval on the 4th day of March,
immediately before final adjourn
ment.
According to the report of Chair
man McLeod, of the Western Pas
senger Association, showing the
number of immigrants arriving in
the United States through all ports
for the year ending June do, 1901,
the ten states receiving the larger
number of immigrants were: New
York, 1(57,241; Penn-ylvania, 99,
4-5(5; Massachusetts, 41,789; Illinois,
30,509; New Hampshire, 23,344;
North Dakota, 13,754; Connecticut,
12,925; California, 11,(501; Michi
gan, 10,818; Minnesota, 10,223.
This total is the steerage immigra
tion. The table shows that of the
total arrivals 4(59,287 came from Eu
ropean countries, 13,593 from Asia,
173 from Africa and 4,915 from all
other sources.
The following is an official state
ment furnished by F. A. Molitor,
chief engineer of the Choctaw, Ok
lahoma and Gulf, of track laid on
extensions and branches of this sys
tem during the var 1901: Weath
-erford, west to Wheeler, Texas, 102
miles, of which 8t!.G miles are in
Oklahoma; Ardmore Junction (2.8
miles west of Ilartshorne, I. T.)
southwest to Wapanueka, (53 miles;
Choctaw Northern, from Gary to
Alva, 104 miles, with a branch from
ingcrsoll to Anthony, Ivan., 33
miles, of which 14.(5 miles are in
Kansas. Hoi Springs extension,
Benton westward toward Butter
Held, eight miles. No track was
laid on the extension of the Tecipn
sch short line, which is under con
struction.
The southbound Kansas City
Southern passenger train was held
up at 11 o'clock on the night of
the 15th half a mile north of Spiro,
1. T., fifteen miles from Fort Smith,
by seven masked men. The express
and mail cars were entered. The lo
cal safe of the express car was op
ened. hut nothing was secured from
it. The robbers tried to open the
through safe, but failed. Then they
rifled the mail car, and, it is said,
secured a quantity of registered
mail. The robbers flagged the
train between Spiro and Redland.
While two of the seven men covered
the engineer and fireman with re
volvers, others forced a porter, who
had appeared on the steps of the
forward coach, to uncouple the bag
u-age car from the rest of the train.
John Block, a traveling salesman
from Fort Smith, alighted from the
train and was about to tire upon one
of the robbers when he was pre
vented by Conductor Sullivan, who
feared that the men would fire into
the passenger coaches. The bag
cage car was uncoupled and the en
gineer forced to pull up the road a
distance of a mile. There the rob
bers, after disarming the messenger,
went through the baggage and mail
car. Their work finished, one of.
the robbers handed the messenger
the revolver taker- from him, and all
made for the timber.
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NEWS OF ARKANSAS.
Plea from the Sheriffs.
Sheriff Sehader, of Pulaski coun
ty, secretary qf the Arkansas Sher
iff’s Association, is sending out the
following circular letter to the mem
bers and to the newspapers through
out the state, it being a plea for the
agitation in the present campaign
of the need for an addition to the
state insane asylum: “Home, Sweet
Home,” is the nearest spot on earth
to man and woman, and ’tis more
appreciated by those denied a home.
Those of us who are sound in mind
and body can look out for ourselves;
those of us who are afflicted in body,
if not able to look out for ourselves,
have relatives or friends, or san be
taken care of by the county in which
we live. Those of use who are so
unfortunate as to be sick in mind
not only cannot look out for our
selves, but neither relatives nor
friends can properly take care of us,
because we know not what we do.
The insane are with us; and the
state should provides a place where
they can be treated and confined
without doing violence to themselves
or to others. Our jails are filled
with the unfortunate insane. Our
jails are not constructed to prop
erly treat or confine this class of un
fortunates. The sheriffs do the best
possible, but that is poor indeed.
There can be no sight so sad as a
man or woman dethroned of rea
son, oftentimes naked, swearing and
tearing, breaking up everything in
reach, confined in a little cell in one
of our county jails. If the state
owes a duty more sacred than an
other to its citizens it is to provide
a place for its insane, where they
can have medical treatment and can
be clothed, confined and properly
handled. In view of the fact that
the last legislature would have pro
vided for the erection of a branch
asylum or an addition to the present
one but for the claims of different
localities, it is deemed wise that this
question should be discussed in the
coming campaign, so that senators
and representatives will go to hit
tie Rock prepared to vote for an ap
propriation and location of an asy
lum.
Disastrous Fire at Brinkley.
Brinkley was visited by a disas
trous fire on the 11th inst., which
swept away a large portion of the
business center of the town. The
fire originated in the rear of the Ar
lington hotel, a large frame struct
ure, containing twenty-five rooms.
There was an unusually large num
ber of guests in the hostelry at the
time, and the alarm was followed by
the utmost confusion among them.
A strong wind blew from the west,
fanning the flames into fury. The
entire structure was quickly wrap
ped in sheets of flame. The frame
building on the east of the hotel,
and adjoining were soon ignited.
The hotel building was entirely de
stroyed, and six store rooms were
burned. The fire fighters managed
to save a great portion of the goods
in the several stores. One man per
ished in the Arlington hotel. Charles
Starkey, of Stuttgart, employed by
a real estate firm of Wheatley, had
arrived at the hotel during the after
noon. He ate an early supper and re
tired. He was the only guest who
failed to escape from the burning
building. He occupied a room near
the point where the fire originated,
and was probably suffocated from
smoke. The body was recovered. It
was horribly charred, but was iden
tified by the proprietor of the hotel.
The loss is estimated at between
$50,000 and $75,000.
Desperate Fight.
Fete Douglass and Harvey Sim
mons, two deputy sheriffs of Arkan
sas county, accompanied by the spec
ial officers, had a desperate fight with
Ch.as. Maddox, an alleged horse
thief, at his home. The officers
went to Maddox’s place to serve a
warrant, when he appeared on the
the front porch and opened hostili
ties with a shot gun. Officers Sim
mons and Douglass were slightly
wounded by the bandit, who was fa
tally wonuded, dying before a physi
cian could be summoned.
State Bonds Bought.
At a meeting of the state debt
board last week, the board accepted
the offer of Kohn & Co., of St. Louis,
for the sale of thirteen $1,000
bonds and one $500 bond of tlie 3
per cent funding issue of 1809. The
offer was made at 98 V- cents, and
the discount balancing the interest
the state secured the bonds at their
face value of $13,500, and thereby
saved six months’ interest. The
$500 bond and eleven of the others
were bought for the state university
permanent endowment fund, and the
other two bonds were redeemed out
right from the sinking fund. On
January 1 there was a total of $140,
780.02 in the treasury to the credit
of the sinking fund. On that date,
under act of the legislature approv
ed on April 25 last, $80,000 of this
amount was transferred to the capi
tol fund, and after the deduction of
the payment of accrued interest on
the bonds recently taken up from
Washington county and the purchase
of the bonds, there is left a balance
of $00,798.12 in the sinking fund
with which to retire the state’s bond
ed indebtedness. On January 1 the
floating debt amounted to $05,000,
which has been reduced to $51,500.
It thus appears that the state has
funds in hand sufficient to discharge
every cent of its indebtedness, with
a surplus of 09,298.12.
Retail Grocers Meet.
The first annual meeting of the
State Retail Grocers’ Association
was held in Little Rock on the 13th
and 14th. The object of this or
ganization is to adopt business meth
ods to protect its members from
loss through creditors, to se
cure proper treatment through the
hands of jobbers, and to
secure the enactment of laws pro
tective to their business. Below is a
list of the officers elected: C'has. J.
Kramer, Little Rock, president; L.
Itollwage, Forrest City, vice presi
dent; E. D. Russell, Pine Bluff, sec
retary ; T. \Y. Edmondson, Van Bu
ren, treasurer. The following were
elected delegates to the national
convention which meets at Milwau
kee January 21-29: Otto B. Roll
wage, James Chappie, E. D. Russell,
T. W. Edmondson, C. J. Kramer,
Joe Jones and C. L. Kenard. It was
decided to hold the next annual con
vention in Little Rock, next Jan
uary, during the session of the leg
islature.
Interesting Case in Supreme Court.
Tn the ease of John R. Ferguson
et al. vs. Josey & Ward, there arose
in the supreme court an interesting
question as to the right of officers to
seize and destroy liquor brought
into prohibition districts contrary
to law. Ferguson, as sheriff of
Hempstead county, acting on the
warrant of the mayor of Hope, seized
certain liquors which were the prop
erty of Josey & Ward, they having
been previously arrested on warrant
from the mayor. The act of Feb
ruary 13, 1899, authorizes proper
authorities to issue search warrants
for the seizure and confiscation of
liquors brought into prohibition dis
tricts to be sold. The appellees, Jo
sey & Ward, insisted that so much
of this act as provided for search
was unconstitutional.
The supreme court held that since
the evidence showed that the liquors
were illegally kept for sale in the
prohibition district the seizure of
and destruction of the goods was
perfectly legal, and that the plaintiff
could not recover.
On Charge of Grand Larceny.
Sydney Laschellesy a noted swin
dler wanted at Hot Springs on a
charge of grand larceny and embez
zlement, was taken into custody at
Boston last week. He masqueraded
jt the Springs as a British lord, and
it was upon cablegrams from sup
posed banking firms that he obtain
ed upward of $3,000 from Lyman
T. Hay, manager of the Arlington
hotel, and Fred Waulbaum, of the
Arkansaw club. The “lord” was a
smooth fellow and made many ac
quaintances at the Springs. He left
between two suns, after he had real
ized on his cablegrams.
Adjutant General’s Report.
A report completed by Adjt. Gen.
Chas. Jacobson, of the Arkansas
state guard, shows that the guard
consists of two regiments of infan
try and one batallion of cavalry,
making twenty-six organized com
panies. There are twenty-one com
missioned officers, distributed as fol
lows: Two colonels, two lieutenant
colonels, six majors, two surgeons,
two assistant surgeons, two adju
tants, two quartermasters, two
commissaries, one chaplain general,
twenty-four captains, twenty-four
first lieutenants, twenty-four sec
ond lieutenants. There are 258 non
commissioned officers and a total of
1,288 men in the Arkansas state
guard.
Postmasters Appointed.
The appointment of the following
Arkansas postmasters has been con
firmed by the senate: W. P. Jones,
Batesville; J. C. Russell, Camden;
•T. X. Sarber, Jr., Clarksville; II. M.
Sugg, Dardanelle; A. B. Andrews,
Harrison: E. H. Vance, Jr., Mal
vern ; B. W. Ford, Mammoth
Spring; J. Shaul, Marianna; F. M.
Reeves, Mena; T. D. Hawkins, Mor
rilton; W. P. Empie, Newport;
D. F. Taylor, Osceola; J. R. Snod
grass, Paragould : J. Grayson, Pres
cott; S. Davis, Russellville; I). R.
Hamer, Siloam Springs; A. L.
Thompson, Springdale; A. M. Or
rick, Van Buren.
Worthen Road Sold.
Under decree of federal eonrt
the old Mississippi & Little Rock
railroad was sold at Tattle Rock last
week to Chicago capitalists. The
property purchased embraces about
twenty-seven miles of graded road
and rail, in part, together with a
locomotive and several cars, repre
senting the assets of the company,
which, a number of years ago,
started out to build a road from
Little Rock eastward through Lo
noke and Prairie counties, and ulti-'
matelv to the Mississippi river. It
is understood that the purchasers
will develop the property in accord
ance with the original intentions.
Big Lumber Fire.
Fire destroyed the lumber yard
and dry kilns of Frank Kendall at
Kedron, a station on the Cotton
Belt railway, sixteen miles south of
Pine Bluff. Four million feet of
lumber were embraced in the amount
on the yards. The estimate made
by Mr. Kendall places the loss at
$50,000. The planer and sawmill
were left intact. Less than one year
ago Mr. Kendall suffered a loss of
$20,000 by the complete destruction
by tire of his planing mill. There
was no insurance carried, either at
the former fire, or the last om-...
Tour of Helen Gould.
Miss Helen Gould passed through
the state last week, and stopped for
short intervals at Little Rock and
other points along the Iron Moun
tain route. An effort will be made
to interest Miss Gould in Y. M.
C. A. work and buildings at points
along the Guold lines, she already
having contributed liberally to the
Texarkana association.
Alleged Counterfeiters Captured.
Will Cochran and Miles John
son, two negroes of Wynne, Cross
county, have been bound over to the
federal grand jury by United States
Commissioner Crum at Helena on
charges of passing counterfeit mon
ey. It is believed by government de
tectives the negroes were operating
with an organized gang of counter
feiters.
BRIEF MENTION.
Senator Berry, who was injured
by a fall during the holidays, has
returned to Washington.
Mr. Harvey, a railroad man, sui
cided by taking morphine at Joifes
boro. Domestic trouble the cause.
Gen. B. W. Green, of Little Rock,
has been appointed brigadier gen
eral of Arkansas division, U. C. V.,
vice J. E. Wood, resigned. ?
Thos. Johnson was instantly killed
and John Frazier fatally injured as
the result of a premature blast in
a coal mine at Snrada.
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