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G. W. KRAMER, Editor.
M’CRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1901.
VOL. I.—NO. 10.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONA!, AMI) POLITICAL.
On the 30th Count William Bis
tnarck died in Berlin, after an illness
of six days. The cause of death was
peritonitis, from which he had great
ly suffered. Count William leaves a
widow, whose maiden name was Sybil
Von Arnim, three daughters and one
son.
On the 30th Queen Wilhelmina and
Prince Henry arrived at Potsdam.
They were received at the station by
the German emperor and empress,
who accompanied them to the new
palace. The visitors were warmly
cheered. Many functions weie ar
ranged for their entertainment.
Mrs. L. St. Clair and Mrs. W. T.
Moore have presented to the trustees
of Christian college at Columbia- Mo.,
property valued -, $75,000.
On the 31st two men, representing
themselves to be Filipinos, called at
the United States embassy, in Lon
don, and made application to Mr.
Choate for passports. These the am
bassador declined to issue, giving as a
reason that they furnished him with
no evidence that they were American
citizens. The applicants threatened
to carry the question to Washington.
The London Spectator, discussing
the United States supreme court in
sular case decision, says: “The deci
sion is in accordance with common
sense and all the facts of the situa
tion. Tf American commerce is t,i be
world-wide, America must becon e a
wwrld power.”
On the 31st Prince Herbert Bis
marck published in the Hamburger
Naehrichten, another attack upon the
foreign policy of Count Von Buelow,
associating the emperor with the Im
perial chancellor in the attack. He
laid particular stress upon the An
glophile tendency of the German gov
ernment, and denies that his father
would ever have approached Great
Britain to the detriment of Russia.
On the 31st the Bismarck monu
ment committee formally announced
the postponement to an indefinite
date of the ceremony of the unveiling
of the statue to Bismarck, erected in
front, of the reichstag building, in
Berlin, which had been fixed for June
S.
While in Indianapolis, Decoration
day, Maj. Leo Rassieur, of St. Louis,
commander-in-chief of the G. A. R„
lost his official badge. It carries three
stars, the insignia of his rank in the
order.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bank notes to the value of £50,000,
mostly £50 notes, have been stolen
from the Singapore branch of the
Hong Kong and Shanghai bank. There
is no trace of the thief.
On the llOtli, as a result of a fire
which occurred at Staraya Eryman,
near Simbirsk, in southeastern Jtus
sia, 115 houses were destroyed. Two
women were killed and many persons
injured.
On the noth the graves of the 13,500
Union soldiers and the 400 Spanisn
American war soldiers buried in the
national cemetery at Chattanooga,
Tenn., were visited, and fitting cere
monies performed.
On the 31st James Dunn, a jockey,
was shot twice by Victor Collins, an
other jockey, at Overland park, Den
ver, Col., in a fracas that started in
good-natured “guying.” One bullet
lodged in Dunn's skull behind the ear
and the other entered his jaw. lie
was able to walk half a mile to a
doctor, and was afterwards taken to
a hospital.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $150,000,000 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued on the
31st, showed: Available cash balance,
$163,765,862; gold, $93,016,140.
On the 31st. the secretary of the
treasury bought several small lots of ;
bonds aggregating $44,000, all short
term fours. Thcp rice was 113.
7683. i
On the 31st Arbuckle Brothers, of
New York, reduced the price of all
trades of refined sugar 15 points. The
American Sugar Refining,Co. made no
changes.
On the 31st R. G. Dun <fc Co. report- (
cd: “Failures for the week num- ,
bored 148 in the United States,against
160 last year, and 27 in Canada,
against 20 last year.”
The German government has chsr
tereil 13 steamers to carry home the
German troops in China.
Paris papers, discussing the de
cision of the supreme court in the in
sular cases, profess to see a menace
to Mexico and other Latin nations
which the United States may at will
annex, and govern as England does
her crown colonies.
On the 3lst, at Alturas, Cal., vigi
lantes took four alleged horsethieves,
a father and three sons and another
young man, from the officers and
hanged them.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
Within a comparatively few days
the work on behalf of science and
humanity which the newly-incorpor
ated Rockefeller Institute of Medical
Research is to carry on, will be start
ed in the pathological laboratories of
half a dozen universities in this coun
try and one in Canada and in the lab
oratory of the health department of
New York city. Among the centers
of the work will be the University of
Chicago.
The comparative statement of the
government receipts and expenditures
shows that during the month of May
the total receipts were $52,629,440 and
the expenditures $42,136,560, leaving a
surplus for the month of $10,492,8S0
and a surplus for the 11 months of
the present fiscal year of $58,587,135.
By a collision between a car on the
United Traction Co.’s line and a train
on the McKeesport & Belle Vernon
branch of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
railroad, at McKeesport, on the 2d,
nine people were more or less seri
ously injured, one perhaps fatally.
Prussia’s losses on account of crop
shortage -.re. erfimated by the presi
dent of the standing committee of
the Prussian board of trade and ag
riculture, in his report to Count Von
Buelow to be: Wheat, 183,750,000
marks, and rye, 103,000,000 marks.
It is officially stated that the Unit
ed States will remain in control in
Cuba until the Platt amendment has
been “substantially” adopted. This
has been made known to Gen. Wood
by Secretary Root, and his action has
been approved by the president.
On the 2d Gov. Gage of California
offered a reward of $5,000 for the ar
rest and conviction of the persons
implicated in the lynching of the five
men at Lookout, Modoc county, on
the 31st.
Capt. Henry W. Howgate, formerly
signal officer in the United States
army, died suddenly, on the 1st, of
cerebral hemorrhage, at his home in
Washington city- lie was 67 years
old.
President Castro of Venezuela has
dismissed Senor Gala vis, the attor
ney general, because of his opinion
on the last judgment in the case of
the New York and Burmese Asphalt
Co.
It. is said that the captain-general
of Spain has been warned of a foreign
anarchist plot to kill the king and
queen regent.
Chv Nin TTui, the newly-arrived Cor
ean minister, called at the state de
partment, in Washington, on the 3d,
and paid his respects to Secretary
Hay and the other officials, arranging
to present his credentials at the White
House on the 4th. The minister
brought with him to America Messrs.
Ye and Min, two young Japanese no
blemen of high rank, who will sojourn
for a while in the United States.
The State Bank of Indiana at In
lianapolis, closed business on the 3d.
l'he gilt-edged assets and deposits
ivere transferred to the Columbia na
tional bank, which opened its doors
the same day. Other paper was
placed in the hands of the Security
1’rust, Co. as trustee, for collection.
Ml depositors of the State bank will
be paid dollar for dollar on demand.
The Terre Haute (Ind.) Street Uail
ivay Co. was tied up, on the 3d. by a
strike of all the men in the employ
>f the company. The men claimed
hat the company had failed to give
he firemen employed at the Brazil
ilant nil advance from 12 to 16 cents
:>er hour, according to an agreement
"cached after the strike of last Octo
ber.
From many districts of Germany
ionic reports of great damage caused
■ecently by lightning and cloud
bursts. The districts of Wurtemburg.
Hesse, Waldcek and Thuringia have
been especially affected, and Thurin
pa railroad communications have
been interrupted.
The San Dominican government has
ssued a decree restoring the constitu
tional guarantees which were sus
pended on account of the last revo
ution. The political prisoners have
been released, the country is quiet
ind confidence has been restored.
Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, of Topeka,
!vas., has been granted a leave of ab
sence from his church, and will, dur
ng the month of July, have charge o>*
he South Congregational church in
Chicago.
Reuben H. Donnelly was, on the 3d,
sleeted president of the Chicago ex
shange, and John J. Mitchell was
shosen treasurer. There was but one
icket in the field for those offices.
It was reported, on the 3d, that
President Havemyer would soon re
sign the presidency of the American
Sugar Refining Co., and be succeeded
jy W. B. Thomas, of Boston.
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Even Drug; .Stores Affected.
The Sunday-closing act, passed by
the last legislature, has been con
strued by Att’y.-Gen. G. W. Murphy
to apply to drug stores, restaurants,
refreshment stands and any place
where commodities are offered for
sale. In reply to an inquiry Mr. Mur
phy said: The law says any store
and a drug store is a store. Again it
prohibits retailing any goods. Ba
nanas, ice cream, confections and
sandwiches are goods.”
Made Seventy-Five Thousand.
Says a Pine Bluff dispatch: A close
friend of Horace G. Allis, of this city,
announces that Allis has just cleared
$75,000 in an oil deal at Beaumont
Tex. Allis had letters of credit from
San Francisco capitalists and with
these secured an option on one ol
the gushers and sold at the profit in
dicated. Allis has left for New York
where he will confer with parties in
terested in his mining ventures in the
Klondike regions.
Gets Dong; Term in Prison.
C. D. Etu was convicted of robbery
and assault to kill J. F. Wilson, and
given 21 years in the penitentiary, at
Hot Springs. G. C. James was sen
tenced to 21 y;ears for the same crime
a week before. When the verdict
was read to Etu he broke down com
pletely, and cried like a child.
New Firm nt Fort Smith.
Articles of incorporation of the
Fort Smith Shoe Manufacturing Co.
have been tiled. The capital stock is
$50,000, of which $25,000 is paid. The
'dent of the Heberling Shoe Manu
facturing Co., of Warrensburif. Mo.
will be shipped to Fort Smith, and
operated by- the new company.
Bled to Dentil.
George Smith, a farmer, six miles
north of Eureka Springs, accidentally
shot and killed himself while hunt
ing. While sitting on a log playing
with his dog his gun was discharged,
the contents entering his leg, and he
bled to death before medical aid
:ould be reached.
Arknnsits Representatives.
Acting Gov. Huddleson appointee
the following honorary members of
the Louisiana Purchase World’s fait
commission: Judge X. O. Pindall,
Desha county: W. H. Halliburton, Ar
kansas county; H. ('. Stinson, C'hicof
county; A. Hertig, Greene county.
Site Foe n New Temple.
The board of trustees of 1he Con
gregation Anshe Emetli.at Pine Bluff
has purchased the 15. S. Mills home
on West Second street. It is a quar
ter of a block, and will be the sitq
for the magnificent new temple which
that new organization will erect.
Hail Fire jNear 1’lne mull.
The Ezell Stave Co.’s plant, east o.
Pine Bluff, was destroyed by fire, en
tailing a loss of $12,000, with no insur
anee. The plant was owned by .1,
11. Ezell & Sons, of Pine Bluff, whq
own several similar plants in othei
parts of the state.
I.icenses Increased.
The Pine Bluff city eouneil has re
vised the tax list of licenses for spe
cial privileges, and increased the tas
in nearly every instance. Selling pools
on horse races or other sporting
events was increased from $25 to $5(
per week.
Death of a Soldier.
Thomas Scolt, a soldier, recently re
turned from the Philippines, died at
Texarkana. He was buried by the
Sheppard rilles with military honors
Scott served two years in the Philip
pines, with Co. A, Thirty-third regi
ment.
First Time in .16 Yearn.
August Kerksiek, who lives at Hot
Springs, and Herman Kerksiek, of St
Louis, Mo., brothers, who fought up
on opposite sides throughout the wai
of the rebellion, met each other in
the latter city for the first time since
1865.
Oenlli nt Malvern.
Mrs. Mary Brassier died at the rest
dence of her father, (apt. W. D. Help
er, in Malvern. Her husband, A. W.
Brassier, is a well-known citizen of
that town.
Falls Dead 'While Iliiildina a Fire.
Mrs. E. Phillips, aged 64, dropped
dead from heart failure at the home
of her son, H. M. Phillips, in Pine
Bluff, as she was starting a fire in a
stove.
Scweraare System and Waterworks
Jonesboro, Craighead county, is t<
put in a sewerage system, and pur
chase waterworks, at a total estimat
ed cost of $97,000.
Taken to Fort Smith.
Pres Edwards, who shot and killed
W. T. Phillips, at Barber, Scott coun
ty, has been taken to Fort Smith foi
safe keeping.
Will liana Jnne ZO.
The date for the execution of Will
iam Bussy, colored, convicted of crim
inal assault, at Camden, has been sei
for June 29.
N
Had Enough on Hand to Commit
Murder, But Not Enough
for Suicide.
DESPERATE LOVER'S DEED IN CHICAGO.
Alls* Edna Stokes, nn Actress, Killed by
Edward Forishay, Also of the Theatri
cal Persuasion, Who Intended to Com
mit Suicide, But Whose Nerve Failed
Him.
Chicago, June 4.—Edward Forishay
of Kansas City, an actor and assistant
manager of theatrical companies,
last night shot and killed Miss Edna
Stokes, an actress, whose home is at
Sedalia, Mo., and with whom he was
deeply in love. 1’orishay claims to
have met Miss Stokes in St. Louis six
years ago, when they were both play
ing an engagement. The couple played
in different cities of the country until
last fall when they came to Chicago
and became members of the stock
company playing at the Victoria the
ater.
The couple had engaged in a des
perate quarrel three days ago, and
Forishay is said to have beaten the
actress badly, cutting her head in two
places.
Miss Stokes gave orders to the pro
prietor of the Vernon hotel, at which
she was stopping, that Forishay
should not be admitted to her pres
ence, tthu, although he called there
twice during the early part of the
evening, he was compelled to leave by
the attendants. Later be called, and
the proprietor told hid? that he couid
wait in tlie parlor, where Miss Stokes
would see him. She came down from
her room, and ihe couple talked for
about ten minutes, when Forishay
suddenly drew a revolver and tired
two shots, one passing through the
right lung and the other close to the
heart. She died almost instantly.
After killing the woman, Forishav
ran from the building, and was close
ly followed by James lleim and Will
iam Kennedy, the porter of the hotel.
After pursuing Forishay a short dis
tance lleim overlook him. and, throw
ing him to the sidewalk, held him un
til the arrival of the police.
When taken to the police station
Forishay said that he intended to kill
himself, as he could not live without
Miss Stokes’ love, but that his nerve
failed him at the last moment.
BRAINED BY A NEGRO,
Cownrtlly Assault, With a Hatchet, Upon a
Seventy-Year-Old Woman at
Kansas City.
Kansas City, Mo., June 4.—While sit
ting, rocking a baby, at her home at
Second street and Woodland avenue,
yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Mary
Schuler, TO years old, was struck down
with a hatchet in the hands of a ne
gro who appeared suddenly before
her. Mrs. Schuler's skull was frac
tured. and she can not live. The ne
gro escaped and is being searched for
by a large number of neighbors and
policemen.
Neighbors were attracted to the
Schuler house by the woman’s
screams. Mrs. Schuler staggered from
the house, bleeding from the wound
in her head, inflicted with the hatchet.
On the floor near where she sat rock
ing the baby there was a pool of
blood. Bureau drawers had been
searched, trunks had been ransacked
and beddings had been dragged from
the bed by the negro in his search for
valuables.
Mrs. Schuler was able to repeat,
weakly, “Nigger, nigger,” and then
lapsed into unconsciousness. Later,
during a period of momentary con
sciousness she described her assailant,
ami a crowd that had gathered, aided
by a squad of police, began a search
of the neighborhood.
■ Mrs. Schuler was taken to St. Jo
seph's hospital, where examination
disclosed two severe, but not neces
sarily fatal, fractures of the skull. An
operation was necessary.
A PLUCKY TOWN MARSHAL.
Shot Through the Body He* Fire*
Three ShotM an<l Kills Hi*
\Nsai la nt.
Metropolis, 111., June 4.—Last night
about ten o'clock Marshal AY. E. Oakes
of this city went to the hotel and sa
loon of A. M. Covington and ordered
him to turn away some women who
had been staying at, the hotel. As the
marshal then turned to depart Cov
ington drew a revolver and shot him
through the body, just below the
heart.
Wheeling about, Oakes drew his re
volver and shot.Covington three times,
killing him instantly.
Marshal Oakes is lying unconscious
at his home, and is not expected ot
live. Oakes was filling the unexpired
term of (ins. II. Crouch, w’ho was
killed last February while making an
arrest here.
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THE SHIP SUBSIDY MOVEMENT
Republicans Quietly ArrniitflnK tt
Pass the Inicjnltoun Measure
at Next Session.
No great strain is put upon popu
lar credulity in accepting the state
ment from an authorized republican
source that arrangements are being
quietly made to pass the ship subsidy
inquiry at the next session of congress.
The.prime and most active advocates
of the measure have never thought of
abandoning their original purpose and
are now quietly making an effort un
der the most approved methods to ac
quire the necessary support in con
gress. This is to be had on acceptable
terms, provided the people can be rec
onciled to this further drain upon their
resources, and' it is largely with the
local molders of public sentiment with
in the republican party that the plu
tocratic lobbyists are laboring. They
are not tooting fanfares from noisy
horns, firing cannon or beating tom
toms, but employing the quiet methods
of the literary bureau.
What they seem to handle as their
knockdown argument amounts, when
analyzed, to a point blank assertion
that a Nicaragua canal will make it ab
solutely imperative that, the merchant
marine be placed In control of our car
rying trade, through the bounty of the
government. The answer to this dog
matic assertion is that the canal, even
when built, will have little to do with
the expansion of our sales in foreign
markets, for they only take such sur
plus of our production as they must
have, and would take no more if the
American fleet were larger than all
the rest combined. But if it be granted
that the isthmian waterway is going to
make a greater call upon our resources
and means of transportation, that fact
will in itself make sea-going vessel
property remunerative and invite cor
porate capital without reference to
government aid. The fact is that the
canal is a remote contingency when
considered in connection with present
conditions, and can only be used in this
connection for purposes that are un
justified and misleading.
The purchase of a large English
transportation line by the syndicate
which J. Pierpont Morgan represents
was made without any reference to
the canal. Yet we have no doubt that
if a new subsidy bill be introduced next
term it will make liberal provision for
this same fleet. But that it is in itself
a paying venture is evident beyond dis
pute in the fact that the shrewd pro
moter went after it and paid 45 per
cent, more than the shares showed it
to be worth in the judgment of its Eng
lish owners. Another fact that should
tend to set the popular mind against
the proposed subsidies is the fact that
the movement to capture the people
is under the personal direction of
President Griseom, of the Interna
tional Navigation company, the man
who had modestly and adToitly man
aged to feather his own nest, inside
and out, by the provisions of the bill
defeated by the last congress.
It will be recalled that the smooth
Mr. Griseom had so arranged his hop
pers as to catch all but the bran and
middlings of the subsidy grist. He had
way the best of all the proposed legis
lation, retroactive, present and future.
Either by connivance or an intuition
that can discount miracles, he had all
inside information and had his inter-*
ests in a position to rake down the
bulk of the subsidies. He had no rival
as the prince of grnbbers. He dictated
the bill. He enlisted its powerful and
wealthy supporters, he formed the re
ports of committees and inspired the
speeches of the subsidy champions on
the floor. Yet he had the humility of
Uriah Heap when interviewed for pub
lic information. Knowledge of what
he has brought about in the alienation
of national statesmen from their al
legiance to the people, and of the mo
tives that actuated him. should dis
credit him and his movement to re
vive the subsidy scheme.—Detroit Free
Press.
-It. is one of the strange politic;,1
changes wrought as a result of the new
policy of expansion lhat an adminis
tration headed by a statesman so prom
inently identified with protection as
was Mr. McKinley should now be or
ganizing an effort to break down the
tariff walls for the purpose of opening
new markets to American manufactur
ers and of building up dependencies by
opening our own markets to the prod
ucts of the islands of the sea. It is a
situation which democratic tariff re
formers are justified in regarding with
much satisfaction, since it vindicates
the principles for which the democ
racy battled for years.—Buffalo Cou
rier.
-Mr. Hanna has been an intimate
part of the administration, but he did
not go with the president to California.
Perhaps he is waiting till the spring of,
say, 1909. That time, according to any
calendar that Hon. Perry S. Heath
might take a notion to get out, would
be directly after his second inaugura*
lion. Mr. Hanna would not care to go
on a trip of that sort merely as an
“understudy” of the president.—Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
-How to be a protectionist and an
txpansionist at the same time i9 be
coming a puzzle.—Indianapolis News
(Ind.),
QUAY’S RACE IS RUN
Pminjl vain R^jialillcnn Bom Bfti
Reached the End of Hla Po
litical Rope.
At a dinner and reception recently
given in Senator Quay’s honor irt Phil
adelphia by the State League of Repub
lican Clubs the senator announced in
the course of his speech that he would
retire from politics at the close of his
present term. He said:
"Mv political race Is run. It Is not to bs
understood that God's sword Is drawn Im
mediately against my life, nor that my scat
In the senate 1s to be prematurely vacated,
but that, with the subscription of my of
ficial oath on the 18th of January my con
nection with the serious labors and respon
sibilities of active politics ceased, except In
so far as I may be committed to certain
measures pending In the present legisla
ture.
"I will never again be a candidate for nor
accept any official position."
The public service would'have gained
in decency and dignity andi the state
of Pennsylvania would have gained in
prestige and influence in national af
fairs if Mr. Quay had made this deci
sion many years ago. Such a deter
mination would have commanded the
hearty support and approval of a ma
jority of the citizenship of the Key
stone state. It would have received,
also, the unqualified) indorsement of a
very large and respectable portion of
the republican party.
But now that we have it from the
lips of the Pennsylvania boss himself
that his political race is run, it is in
teresting to look over the public rec
ord that is soon to close for any evi
dences of high-minded statesmanship
or constructive legislative genius that
might be suggestive or inspiring to the
ambitious young men of the country.
What public service has Mr. Quay ren
dered to the country in return for the
pecuniary rewards he has reaped)from
politics?
Careful and diligent scrutiny of his
career from the time he entered peJA
ties in 1865 as a member of the state
legislature of Pennsylvania fails to re
veal any legislative idea or measure
that may be traced to his authorship
or that owes its enactment to his
championship. As secretary of the
commonwealth, as recorder of Phila
delphia. as treasurer of the common
wealth. he never instituted any con
spicuous state or municipal reforms!
As L'nited States senator he never par
ticipated in any great debate or made
a notable speech upon any issue of na
tional importance.
The “political race” which he now
says is about to close extends over 35
years of public offioeholding and parfy
dictatorship. Its close will end the po
litical career of a man who will be re
membered only as one of the most sa
gacious, unscrupulous and invincible
party bosses that ever figured in our
political history. — Chicago Record
Herald (Rep.).
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS,
-Mr. Hannah may say “poohr
pooh” and “tut-tut” and “d—d non
sense” and all lhat, but it is to be no
ticed that he has not turned Perry
Heath out of the office of the national
committee for suggesting him for
president in 1904. — Cincinnati En
quirer.
-The truth that a country injures
itself by shutting out or increasing
the price of raw material is almost self
evident, and it is equally clear that
with higher-priced materials the only
chance to reduce prices for competitive
purposes must come Ihrough cuu._g
wages.—Indianapolis Sentinel.
-At Buffalo Senator Hanna was
still jesting about his nomination for
the presidency. That is all right, if
it goes no further, but the danger is
he will become so fond of the joke that
he will want to work it off in practical
form on the American people as a
whole, and that would be a situation
entirely devoid of humor for quite a
number of people.—Baltimore News.
-Uncle Sam is in the position of
the farmer with a mortgage on his
farm, the interest of which he is just
able to pay. Although he has the ap
pearance of prosperity, he is barely
able to pay his interest and keep the
machinery of his farm going. He
works hard, but the profit of his labor
goes to the man who clips the coupons,
Europe is clipping Uncle Sam’s cou
pons.—St. Paul Globe.
-The development of free trade
tendencies, continues in the republican
party. In his transcontinental speeches
the president gave the cue, and all
along the line it is echoed and with
amplification, by the whilom protec
tionist newspapers. The manufactur
ers are already growing restive, and
this will account for the hedging of the
president, who is the very voice of tho
manufacturers. — Louisville Courier
Journal.
-When Conkling and his cohort*
planned for the third election of Grant
to the presidency they did not pay high
compliment to the intelligence of the
American people. The talk of a third
term for McKinley is even less of a
compliment. Certainly what Grant
could not accomplish would not b*
easy of accomplishment by McKinley.
If it has come to such a pass that w«
must elect a man to a third term in
order to sustain business or carry out
defined policies, then t* is high time to
change our form <*■ government.—>
Omaha World-Herald.