Wocidrufk Cmmlty Nemsx
VOL. II.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1902.
NO. 20.
NEWS OF THE WORLD,
A severe earthquake shock was
felt at Skagway, Alaska, on the 11th
inst. Several brick structures were
damaged.
James Parish, the third of the
party who robbed a Mexican Cen
tral train, near the border, several
weeks ago, has been captured.
According to statistics of the cen
sus bureau, the cost of issuing mod
ern newspapers has increased with a
corresponding decrease in profits to
the publishers.
The government is sending out
special agents in the west to inves
tigate and adopt some plan to pro
tect forests from destruction by fire.
In the last few years millions worth
of timber, the property of the gov
ernment, has been consumed by fire,
the result of carelessness of hunters
and movers.
President Roosevelt has appoint
ed Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes,
chief justice of Massachusetts, to be
an associate justice of the United
States supreme court to succeed
Mr. Justice Gray, who resigns on
account of ill health. Mr. Gray
served as associate justice for twen
ty-five years.
A dispatch from Manila says a
6mall party of Moros surprised an
outpost of the Twenty-seventh in
tantry at Lamp vicars, sergeant
Foley and Private Carry were kill
ed and Private Van Dorn severely
wounded. The Moros, who num
bered only a dozen, were armed with
spears and swords.
The next congress will be asked to
pass a law directed especially to the
punishment of all persons having
anything to do with offering to sell
alleged imitations of United States
currency, under whatever name it
may be called. This is considered
necessary on account of renewed ac
tivity among the “green-goods”
men, who are busier just now than
they have been before in years.
A desperate battle took place Au
gust 5 between government troops
and revolutionists at Barcelona,
Venezuela, in which the revolution
ists gained a victory. The dead on
both sides numbered 1G7 and the
city was surrendered to the revolu
tionists. At the request of the
United States minister at Caracas,
a man of war was dispatched to the
scene of trouble to protect American
interests.
Joseph Dillon, a tramp who was
arrested at New Orleans for break
ing a show window, died in the par
ish prison, as a result of his greed.
Dillon was fed and there was some
stew served. He was delighted
when he found a big piece of meat
in his pan. He did not hike time to
break the piece, but swallowed it,
and in a second or so began strang
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iiu uitru. tyj iau
was unable to say a word. In a min
ute or so some of the prisoners no
ticed that Dillon was in pain, and
they called Capt. Rennyson and sev
eral deputies. They did all they
could for the man, and called an
ambulance, but before it reached
Dillon the end came.
Several months ago the Pacific
Commercial Cable Company sought
permission from the executive
branch of the government to lay a
Pacific cable running from San
Francisco, via Honolulu and Guam,
to China, there to connect with the
British cable to the Philippines.
The proposition of the company was
to assume all expense ot laying and
operating the cable. For the con
cessions of landings at San Fran
cisco, Honolulu and Guam the com
pany proposed to grant to the Unit
ed States government special rates,
and, in certain conditions of war,
practically absolute control of the
cable. It is understood President
Roosevelt and Attorney General
Knox are in favor of accepting the
proposition, and the senate will be
asked to ratify the same
Their Husbands Also.
Deaf and dumb brides are unspeak*
•bly happy.—Chicago Daily Newa.
i
Hon. R. A. Alger is a candidate
for the United States senate from
Michigan to succeed the late James
McMillan.
Officials of the G. A. R. are plan
ning to establish permanent head
quarters of the organization at
Washington.
A new gold field has been dis
covered in South Africa, said to
be more promising than the territo
ry already developed.
Ex-Senator Thurston, of Nebras
ka, is in Honolulu on the mission
of syndicating the big sugar plan
tations on the islands.
Albert Ullman, of Woodland,
Wis., has confessed to assassinating
his grown daughter, who was to
have been married in a few days.
United States Senator James
McMillan, of Michigan, died from
a sudden attack of heart disease on
the 10th. He was G4 years of age.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
will have coined $1 gold pieces bear
ing the face of Thomas Jefferson
as St. Louis world's fair souvenirs.
A damaging storm swept over
Kansas City and several people
were injured by flying timbers. The
wind reached a velocity of fifty
miles an hour.
Twenty-five deputy sheriffs guard
ing a mine at Duryea, Pa., were
placed in jail on a charge of riot
ing. The deputies, it is alleged,
fired on a mob of strikers, who were
endeavoring to prevent non-union
men from working.
F. H. Gerdes, a prominent Mem
phis business man, hearing a noise
in his back yard, took his revolver
and went to investigate when he
stumbled and fell, the weapon be
ing discharged, the bullet entering
his brain.
J. F. Gaynor and Capt. B. R.
Grei-ne, under arrest at Quebec,
Canada, in connection with alleged
frauds in harbor work at Charles
ton, gained a victory in their fight
against extradition, and have been
released. The United States gov
ernment will endeavor to get a re
hearing in order that the accused
may be brought back to this coun
try for trial.
The treasury department is sending
out millions daily to banks through
out the country, the money to b(
used in marketing this year’s crop
These funds are secured by depos
its of bonds, and on account of the
enormous yield of grain and othei
farm products the volume of circu
lation throughout the country has
increased during the last year by a
large amount. On the 1st of July
the total circulation was $2,260,
700,242, or nearly $200,000,000
more than it was at the end of the
fiscal, year 1901.
Members of religious orders ex
pelled from France, especially the
- -Mrrv—o — —w
authorities for permission to settle
in the United States. Several of
them went to Home personally for
the purpose of urging their requests.
A reply has been sent to them point
ing out that there are no vacancies
in the United States, and besides,
calling attention to the difficulty
arising from the fact that the ex
pelled sisters do not speak the Eng
lish language. Canada has been
suggested as a better field, as the
sisters are comparatively scarce
there, and because French is 6poken
in a large area of the dominion.
Seven people perished by the
burning of a frame hotel at San
Marcus, Texas, a summer resort.
The building was a frame structure.
The dead are: Mrs. J. C. Landon,
San Angelo; B. Hendricks, Waco;
Mrs. Frank Schltipinsky and two
children, Houston; Mrs. N. A. Fow
ler and grandchild, Houston. Cut
off from all avenues of escape, this
little group, huddled, panic-stricken,
in a balcony of the hotel, ignored
all entreaties to jump into wet
blankets held by willing hands. Mrs.
J. C. Landon lost her life in seek
ing to save the others of the group,
and while she was appealing to them
the wall slowly toppled inward,
pitching the little band into the very
canter of the flames.
Mrs. I. N. Hargis, of Clinton, has
raised a cabbage weighing 9 pounds.
The cornerstone of a $50,000 col
ored Masonic temple was laid at
Pine Bluff on the 14th.
H. F. Westbrook, city treasurer
of Pine Bluff, was overcome by heat
and died in a few hours.
Five laborers working on the Fort
Smith road near Van Buren were
overcome by heat and three died.
John Johnson, accused of killing
his brother two years ago, was cap
tured near Fayetteville on the 14th
inst.
The United States recruiting sta
tion at Jonesboro has sent out 287
men since it was established a year
ago.
The populist state committee has
endorsed Hon. Geo. H. Kimball,
the prohibition candidate for gov
ernor.
The name of Mr. Greaves, insur
gent republican candidate for gov
ernor, will appear on the election
ticket as an independent.
James Fisher, a farmer living six
miles east of Van Buren, is under
arrest charged with killing with
poison the illegitimate child of his
daughter.
Fayette Spencer, aged 18, was
shot and killed at an ice cream fes
tival given at the house of B. C.
Rash in Drew county. Robert Er
win is charged with the killing.
Dave Ford, a farmer living near
Plummerville, was killed bv Calvin
Walker, his stepson. Ford qtiarrel
ed with his wife, and later Walker
crushed his skull with a stone.
Sam P. Rody, an aged negro, was
killed by the ears at Scott’s Station
Pulaski county. Rody, who was
almost deaf, was walking along the
track and did not hear the approach
ing train.
Gambling houses are said to be
running wide open at Little Rock
Pine Bluff and other points in the
state, despite the drastic Wilson
anti-gaming law passed by the Iasi
general assembly.
Wm. Carter was convicted al
Searcy of manslaughter for killing
Tom Owen, a 6-year-old boy in his
melon patch, near Bald Knob, and
was sentenced to thirty days in the
penitentiary.
Geo. Berberich, a Little Rock sa
loonkeeper and a man of family,
was shot and fatally wounded bj
Walter Hamilton while out driv
ing about 2 o'clock in the morning
with Hamilton’s wife.
The lowor portion of the city ol
Altata, Hex., on the Pacific coast
just west of Caliacan, has been com
pletely destroyed by a tidal wave,
and no fewer than thirty persons
are known to have been drowned.
The loss of life may be several times
that number. The property loss is
ucuvj.
Two Chicago men—Hamilton
White and Joseph W. Burton, a
lawyer—are the leaders in the move
ment to establish a “farmers' co-op
erative exchange corjpany,” incor
porated at Pierre, S. D., Wednesday
with a capital of $50 000,000. This
company is designed to help the
farmers by organizing them for the
purpose of selling their produce.
A POOR SPELLER.
Tha Boy’s Father Thought Flogging
Might Be of Benefit.
The master of an elementary
school sent a circular to the parents
of some of the pupils under his
charge stating that judicious corporal
punishment often had a beneficial
effect on backward boys, and asking
if they would approve of such a
course when he considered it neces
sary.
The following is one of the replies
he got:
“Der sir,—I hav reseved ur floggin
sirkler, an u hav my sankshun too
wolp my son Jhon ass much as u like,
i no Jhon is a bad skoler, his spaleng
is simpeley atroshes. I hav tried to
teatch him mysilf, but he wil not lern
nothing, so i hope u wil get it intow
him as much ass u kan.
“F S—The resin .Jhon is sich a
bad skoler is bekas he is my sun by
my wife’s first husband.”—Stray
Stories.
NEWS OF ARKANSAS,
Apple Growers to Hold Convention
A meeting of the apple-growers
and shippers of the Louisiana Pur
chase has been called to meet in St.
Louis August 19 for the purpose of
arranging for an apple congress to
he held later in the year in St.
Louis, and President John P. Lo
gan of the Arkansas State Horticul
tural Society has appointed the fol
lowing delegates to represent the
state society at that meeting: Geo.
West, Eureka Springs; Capt. T. F.
Hawley, Eureka Springs; 0. W.
Patterson, Gentry; A. W. Poole,
Ozark; I. H. Henthorn, Benton
ville; E. S. Forman, Green Forest.
Temples of Knowledge.
Thirty-nine counties that have so
far reported to the state superin
tendent show that during the year
ending June 30, 1902, there were
134 school houses built in Arkansas,
at a total cost of $70,405.10. Lee
county leads in number with four
teen, valued at $0,450, and Ashley
leads in value, with six houses at
$10,518. This is an average of one
new school house for every day and
a half. At the same ratio the state
will show a total of $140,000 in
vested last year in new school
houses.
Murder and Suicide.
L. M. Huggins, a well to do citi
len of Lone Elm, a village in Frank
lin county, shot and killed his wife
and took his own life. It is sup
posed that jealousy prompted the
doubtless temporarily crazed hus
band to the deed. The couple were
the parents of six children. At the
time of the tragedy there were six
grown daughters sleeping in the
household. They were awakened by
the shots that took the life of theii
parents, and rushing to their room
found the mother dead, and the
father lived only a few moments.
Used Knife and Pistol.
At a saw mill, near Lebanon,
there was a cutting and shooting
scrape between Henry Ladd and Ar
thur Littlefield, in which the formei
was seriously cut and the othei
slightly shot. The row was the
outcome of an old feud. It appears
that Ladd ordered Littlefield ofl
the premises, and when he left, Ladd
followed, striking Littlefield, wher
the latter cut the former, and ther
Ladd shot Littlefield in the leg, in
flicting a flesh wound.
Colored Tramps Killed.
Two negroes who were stealing a
ride on an Iron Mountain freight
train were seriously injured at Hope
in a peculiar way. The negroes
were riding in a car loaded with
steel and had gotten down in the
■pace ueiwt'cn me iaua aiiu uic c-uu
of the car to keep out of sight of
the conductor. The train crew was
switching and the car the negroes
were in was struck pretty hard by
the engine, causing the load of steel
to shift, catching the negroes. One
of them escaped with a badly crush
ed foot, but the other received in
ternal injuries from which he died.
Alleged Bank Robber.
The sheriff of Johnson county
has returned from Evansville, Ind.,
with Fred Underwood, alias Chas.
Johnson, who is charged with being
implicated in the murder in Clarks
ville last February of Sheriff John
H. Powers, during the robbery of
the Clarksville bank. Five men
are under indictment for the mur
der of Sheriff Powers. Jim Wal
lace, George Durham and Under
wood are in jail awaiting trial be
fore the circuit court of Johnson
county. The other two are still at
large.
Ancient Burial Caskets Unearthed.
Several days ago two iron caskets,
in each of which was buried a child
apparently about four years old,
were unearthed in the heart of the
business district of Pine Bluff. The
children were apparently buried
about fifty years ago. Their bod
ies were in a good state of preserva
tion.
A Novel Invention.
I. S. Grieves, a native of Yell
county, is exhibiting at Kansas City
a peculiar machine on the order of
perpetual motion. The invention is
remarkably simple, but it is the re
sult of twelve years’ work. Grimes
first took a circular piece cut from
a thick board and trimmed down the
edge to resemble a circular switch
back railway. In the center of this
board he fastened a second circular
board on a steel post that fit into a
ball-bearing bicycle axle. To the
top board was fastened, by means of
a rod, a small wheel, which was so
fixed that it would strike at each
revolution of the upper board at a
point near the top of the inclined
plane of the lower board, the lower
board being slightly inclined
Grimes then placed a weight on top
of the upper disk, placed the wheel
at the top of the inclined plane, re
leased it, and the machine began tc
move and continued in motion until
stopped by its inventor. The ma
chine is started by the wheel run
ning down the incline on one side
This takes the weight on the oppo
site side away from the center o:
gravity, and it carries the machim
around until the wheel strikes thi
top of the incline again, when nev
force is imparted to the revolving
upper disk.
Granted an Appeal.
Chief Justice H. G. Bunn, of thi
supreme court, has granted an ap
peal to John Stokes, of Pine Bluff
who was convicted of the murde
of one Coon Scott, and sentencei
to be hanged on August 29. H
was convicted on September 11
1901, on purely circumstantial evi
dence.
Post Office Inspector Resigns.
W. P. Houck, postoffice inspecto
for western Arkansas and India
Territory for the past ten years, i
no longer an officer of the govern
ment. This is a result of an investi
gation recently made by the official
of the postoffice department, i
which several charges were looker
into. The nature of the charge
has never been made public.
The Monitor Arkansas.
The navy department is ver
much gratified over the result o
the official trial of the monitor Ai
kansas, which has put through he
paces over the Barren Island cours
off Hampton Roads on the 9th insl
The vessel averaged 12 2-3 knots
which exceeds her contract speed b
one knot.
Charged With An Old Crime.
Howard Patterson, colored, a Jei
ferson county farmer, has been ar
rested on the charge of murder, al
leged to have been committed ii
1882 in Pulaski county. The par
ty said to have been murdered b
Patterson was Harrison Hickmac
also colored.
Poatoffice Changes.
Postoffices established — Bass
Newton county; Pedro, Chicot eoun
ty. Discontinued—Olney, Critten
den county, send matter to Craw
fordsville; Rallyhill, Boone count)
send matter to Valley Springs. L
effect August 30: Lowe, J acksoi
county, send matter to Olyphant.
BRIEF MENTION.
Pine Bluff’s “first bale” brough
16 cents per pound.
Four deaths occurred at Texar
kana within two days as a result o;
excessive use of liquor.
Two ex-convicts, while loading
bed slats on a car at a spur neai
Conway, assaulted Job Evans wher
he killed one of them.
0. C. Nall, a young man, was
caught in the shafting of a stave
factor)' at Sheridan and his lefl
arm was torn completely off.
Undoubtedly the oldest married
couple in the state are James Bra
den and wife of Fulton county, aged
respectively 104 and 93 years.
The first bale of cotton of the
season was marketed at Fort Smith
on the 9th inst. It was raised b)
W. J. Falkner, who received a pre
mium of $100.
A CHEAP TRIP ABROAD.
How It Can Be Done Without Spending
a Great Deal of Money.
“I don’t suppose I will ever go
abroad,” remarked the young lawyer
to his friend, the life insurance agent,
as the two happened to board the
same car for the theater one even
ing.
“Why not?” asked the other, as he
picked off from his coat a piece of dry
mud, which a horse in passing had
flung from his heels.
“Haven’t got the money,” was the
answer. “I don’t know whether I
am going to succeed at my profession
or not, and if I do happen to pull out
a few thousands I will doubtless go
and get married, like the rest of them,
and then I will be anchored for all
time.”
“Haven’t you got, say, $200 to
spare?” asked the insurance agent,
as the car turned Fifty-ninth street
and Sixth avenue.
“Oh, I have that much; but that
will only pay my passage one way,”
rejoined the other, with a laugh.
“Nonsense!” said the agent, as ha
doubled himself up to let a fat man
squeeze through to an end seat.
“Why, look here. The year I left
college I took $175—mark you, that
was all 1 had—and went to Kuropa
with it, traveled almost the whole
Innnlk 1)1.:._ ._
O 1 ; a cma
of the German language, took in the
palaces and art galleries at Berlin,
saw England a few hours, and came
back with enough new bone and flesh
> to last me a whole year.”
’'•But you couldn’t have done it in
1 any style,” said the other, according
to the New York Journal.
, “Style!” exclaimed the other. “X
- didn’t go over there for style. I can
get all of that I want, and more, too,
in New York. I went over to see and
to learn. For example, my passage
r —steerage—from New York to Ant
i werp, cost just $25. The crowd
s wasn’t so bad after I got used to it.
- It was summer, and 1 slept most of
- the time on deck. A mark tip to the
s steward, and 1 had a hammock for
i the whole week we were out. And
1 the food! Well, it was pretty rugged,
s and, ah! how nice things did taste
the first meal ashore! Old man, you
don’t appreciate good living until
you have missed it a little while.
Y “Well, in Antwerp I saw the ca
f thedral, the Reubens paintings, and
. took a ride out to Waterloo. Was at
r Brussels a couple of days. The two
g cities are only a couple of hours apart.
Then I went by rail, fourth class, to
i; Cologne, for $1.50. Left Brussels
y in the morning and got to Cologne
in the evening.
“After that I did all my traveling
by foot, and in a thickly populated
- country you go plenty fast enough
- that way. Got a knapsack and a good
- pair of shoes and started out. 1 had
1
<* v/x in me xviiapsauiv9
. so that when 1 got to a town in the
• evening 1 could wash, put on a clean
} collar and a smile and look like an
aristocrat.
“That is the way I hoofed it from
Cologne as far south as Heidelberg,
, then cross lots to Nuremberg, then
- north to Berlin. It cost me about
- one dollar a day. 1 made it by easy
stages. Sometimes I walked ten
, miles, sometimes 30. From Berlin,
i after a week seeing the sights, I went
i by fourth class train to ltotterdam;
cost me four dollars; took a day and
an evening; put up a night at what
they call ‘gasthauser.’ Bed and
breakfast, 25 cents—one mark—and
: I could not complain of them, either.
I had enough money over to stop in
. London two days and to come back
t in the cabin.”
“Sounds feasible,” remarked the
lawyer, as the two got off the car.
' “Maybe I’ll try it.”
A Proud Community.
The people are pointing with pride
to a North Atchison piano that hasn’t
been opened in four years.—Atch
ison Globe.
Dickens Popular in Franc*.
Two of Dickens’ novels, “Olivet
Twist” and the “Tale of Two Cities,’'
are now running as serials in Parisian
daily papers.
Their Husband* Also.
Deaf and dumb brides are unspeak
ably happy.—Chicago Daily News.