Wwdmkk Ewij News.
VOL. II.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1902.
NO. 22
NEWS OF THE WORLD,
Ex-Gov. Hoadly, of Ohio, is
dead.
Alfonso, the boy king of Spain,
is said to be unbalanced mentally.
Tom Jones, a negro, was lynched
near Raleigh, N. C., for assaulting
a white woman.
President Roosevelt has accepted
an invitation to address the annual
convention of locomotive firemen, to
be held at Chattanooga, Tenn., Sep
tember 8.
It is charged that the owners of
the coal railroads in Pennsylvania
are violating the interstate com
merce law, and an investigation is
being made, and suits are likely to
be instituted by the government.
The conditions in the Beaumont
oil fields are said to be alarming.
The gas is so dangerous to the lives
of the operators that over 100 are
overcome by it daily, and danger of
total blindness is greatly feared as a
result of constant contact.
Near Lexington, Okla., Chas. Da
vis, a young man, shot and killed
his grandmother as she lay asleep
beside Miss Davis, the murderer’s
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of Frank Clines, a neighbor, and at
tempted to shoot the latter. He was
disharmed, but escaped. Davis is
believed to have gone suddenly in
sane.
James S. Pendleton, mayor of
Gentry, Mo., resorted to a novel plan
to escape punishment for bigamy.
Pendleton, under the name of C. S.
Morris, married at Emporia, Kan.,
without securing a divorce from wife
No. 1 in Missouri. Fearing discov
ery of his duplicity, he secured a
coffin, placed therein a dummy and
had it buried as the body of Morris.
His ruse was discovered, and he is
now in jail awaiting trial for his
crime.
George E. Roberts, director of the
mint, has issued his final estimate
of the production of gold and silver
in the United States during the cal
endar year 1001. Mr. Roberts’ state
ments show7 that during the year the
United States produced 3,805,500
ounces of gold, valued at $78,600,
700, a decrease of $504,300, or 0.630
per cent, as compared with the yield
of 1900. The silver yield for 1001
amounted to 55,214,000 ounces, of
the commercial value of $33,12S,
400, which was 2,433,000 ounces,
or 5 per cent, less than it was in
1000.
A dispatch from Johannesburg
says the worst feature of the situa
tion in South Africa at present is
that many of the natives have pro
cured firearms. The British au
thorities have disarmed the white
inhabitants and thus the colored na
tives are the only ones armed. There
are unconfirmed reports that these
armed natives are murdering the
Boers who are returning to their
homes. The Boers, the dispatch
says, are most concerned over sev
eral recent attemnts hv the blacks to
outrage white women. The whites
are unanimous in their opinion that
it is -necessary to disarm every na
tive.
Russell Sage, perhaps the great
est individual capitalist in the coun
try, his wealth being estimated at
$100,000,000, takes direct issue with
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan regarding
gigantic combinations and the con
solidation of great industries. To
a fellow-passenger on the steamship
Oceanic, Mr. Morgan said during
his trip to Europe that the era of
combination has just begun and that
he has other vast schemes which are
to dwarf the billion-dollar steel
trust and the shipping combine.
It is this announcement by Mr.
Morgan that leads Mr. Sage to sound
a note of warning. The veteran
financier declares that such gigantic
combinations are a menace; that
they w-ill inevitably result in one
of the greatest financial crashes this
country has ever experienced, and
that ultimately the American people
will no longer tolerate them.
Popular in France.
Two of Dickens’ novels, "Oliver
Twist” and the “Tale of Two Cities ”
are now running as serials in Parisian
daiij papers.
H. C. Frick, of the steel trust,
is a candidate for the United States
senate from Pennsylvania in oppo
sition to Senator Quay.
Attorney General Knox has gone
to France to take up the investiga
tion of the Panama canal title held
by the French company.
In the democratic primaries of
Alabama, W. P. Jelks, present gov
ernor, defeated former Governor
Johnston by 20,000 majority.
An electrical company at Lynn,
Mass., is building a train, which is
soon to be used in Illinois, and
make 90 to 100 miles an hour.
Miss Maude Thompson, a prom
inent young lady, was brutally mur
dered near Huntington, Tenn., by
James Greer, her sweetheart, be
cause she would not elope with him.
Postmaster General Smith, in
answer to an inquiry as to the course
to be pursued by a federal office
holder in political affairs, says:
“There is no reason why you should
not be a delegate to the conventions
of your party, but you should not
serve as chairman of any state or
county convention or committee,
and should not take an unduly act
ive part in either local or state poli
til'd.
A clash between striking miners
and troops occurred August 30 at
a colliery near Tamaqua, Pa. Sev
eral parties on both sides were in
jured and a score of strikers arrest
ed. All efforts to resume operation
in the anthracite territory have fail
ed from the fact that men cannot be
induced to take the place of strik
ers. There is being less than 3,000
tons of coal mined daily in the
strike district, where the daily aver
age when the mines are in full op
eration is 2S,988 tons daily.
Dr. Pevrat, a French physician,
has called to the notice of the acad
emy of medicine a case in which a
man hit in the heart by a revolver
bullet had been completely cured.
The wounded man was attended in
one of the Paris hospitals, where
Dr. Launay successfully stitched the
wound. Some time ago Dr. Le
Dentu reported several cases of suc
cessful treatment of wounds in the
heart produced by knives, etc., the
proportion of cures being from 30 to
•12 per cent, but this appears to be
the first case of success in dealing
with a man shot in the heart.
Judge Henry C. Caldwell, the
only surviving appointee of Presi
dent Lincoln on the federal judi
ciary, has reached the age of 70
years. At this age Judge Caldwell
is entitled to retire on full pay, but
as he is still hale in body and vig
orous in mind he has no idea of re
signing. Judge Caldwell’s home is
in Little Rock, but for several
years he has been spending the sum
mer at Wagon Wheel Gap, in Col
orado, near which place he has re
cently entered 160 acres of land as
a homestead, and built a home upon
it. Here he has been living the
rugged life of the mountains, to
ho posseses at an age when the or
dinary man is broken in body and
mind. His nature is as rugged and
as stalwart as the mountains among
which lie lives, and he is capable of
as much labor as the hardiest moun
taineer.
The epidemic of cholera is reach
ing alarming proportions on the
other side of the Pacific, the out
break extending further and hav
ing more victims than ever before
reported. It extends from the is
land of Java to Japan, and almost
every city on the coast and many in
the interior are affected. The dis
ease, too, is being contracted by Eu
ropeans as well as natives. In
Hong Kong, from the first of the
outbreak to August 16, there had
been 5“15 cases, six of the patients
being Europeans, and 511 deaths of
whom four were Europeans. In
Tien Tsin the last report placed the
number of cases for the year at
1,049 and 154 deaths within the city
walls, and 1,015 cases and 593
deaths outside the city walls. In
other places in China the proper
tion of cases and deaths is just as
great. A dispatch says hundreds
have died in Java.
A general strike of Missouri coal
miners is threatened.
Six oil wc-lls have been brought
in at Chenute, Kansas.
Anton Ambrose, a wealthy New
Yorker, has contributed $58,000 to
the striking coal miners of Pennsyl
vania.
A Baltimore chemist claims to
have discovered a process to convert
common dirt into a fuel that will
equal the best of coal.
The United States steel corpora
tion owns property valued at $1,
400,000,000, which earns annually
$150,000,000.
A new packing plant, with a ca
pacity to handle 1,000 head of cat
tle per day, is to be established in
Chicago to compete with the trust.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
has requested national banks,, in or
der to avert any stringency in the
money market, to increase their cir
culating certificates to the amount
allowed by law, according to their
capital stock.
Eev. Sam Small, the Georgia
evangelist, is said to have been tak
en from a lecture platform at Bat
tlesboro, Vt., in a drunken condi
tion. Small appeared to lecture in
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didate for governor.
The Chattanooga Tradesman re
ports the following new organiza
tions in Arkansas last week: Fay
etteville, $25,000 ice and cold-stor
age plant; Fort Smith, $20,000
broom factory; Hope, $15,000 gin
and grist mill; Little Rock, $10,000
boat-oar factory; Texarkana, $15,
000 lumber company.
The ancestral home of the Wash
ingtons in the village of Banbury,
eighty-six miles from London, is ad
vertised for sale at public auction
in September. It is possible the
house may be purchased by a syn
dicate of Americans and rebuilt at
some point in this country in honor
of the first president.
Pope Leo has consented to the
American terms, settled by Gov.
Taft, for the purchase of the eccle
siastical lauds in the Philippines
on condition that the money be not
paid to the friars, but expended by
the apostolic delegate for the pur
pose of creating new bishoprics and
supplying other church require
ments in the archipelago.
Henry H. Marmaduke, of Missou
ri, graduate of the United States
naval academy, veteran of the civil
war, ex-officer of the Confederate
navy, and survivor of the memor
able battle between the Monitor and
the Merrimac, has become a soldier
of fortune. Capt. Marmaduke left
Washington several days ago, after
resigning his position in the war
department, and accepting a com
mission as captain in the navy of the
Colombian government. He is now
en route to the country in which
he has decided to cast his lot. Mar
maduke is the brother of ex-Gor.
Mannadukc of Missouri, of a family
wealthy before the war and ruined
by that conflict. Shortly after his
graduation from the naval academy,
the civil war began and Capt. Mar
maduke resigned his commission in
the United States navy and took
service under the stars and bars*
He participated in many engage
ments and was an officer on the
ironclad Merrimac during her bat
tle with the Monitor, and later
served on the ram Alabama during
her battle with the Hartford and
other vessels of Commodore Farra
gut’s Mississippi squadron. He was
a watch officer on the Alabama when
the ram was sunk by a torpedo fired
by Lieut. Cushing. After the close
of the war Capt. Marmadukc en
gaged in private business, but was
unsuccessful. During the two ad
ministrations of President Cleve
land lie held an important position
in the war department, but upon
the return of the republican party
to power was reduced to the position
of a $1,000 clerk, on the temporary
roll, where he remained until re
cently, -.
NEWS OF ARKANSAS.
A Terrible Tragedy.
Mrs. Kate Wagner, of North
Little Hock, in a lit of insanity, cut
the throats of her two children aged
7 and !) years, with a razor, and
then ended her own life in the
same manner. Mrs. Wagner was
the wife of a machinist who at the
tune of the triple tragedy was in
El Paso, Tex., for the benefit of his
health. The family was in good
circumstances, and no motive exist
ed for the deed. Mrs. Kizer, the
mother of Mrs. Wagner, was the
first to discover the bodies. She
went to the home of her daughter to
pay a call, as was her custom, but
found the house closed. Believing
that the family was visiting neigh
bors, she returned homo, but on the
following day made another call.
The house still being closed, Mrs.
Kizer became alarmed and opened
a side window. A horrible sight
met her view. Lying on the bed in
their night gowns were the two
children, a girl and a boy, with gap
ing wounds in their necks. On the
floor a few feet away lay the moth
er, her head almost severed from
the body. The sight was most piti
ful. No family troubles could pos
eihl\’ Vi a xr a ni»rtnmforl ' f'lio -floor!
less brooding over her husbands’ ill
ness unbalanced the woman’s mind.
Mrs. Wagner was well provided
with funds and her husband owned
some property and their domestic
relations had always been happy.
At first the theory of murder was
advanced, but a thorough investiga
tion dispelled this idea. Everything
about the place was properly arrang
ed. and the house was securely fas
tened with the exception of one win
dow, which was raised, but a screer
in its proper place showed that nc
one could have entered or left the
room. Mrs. Wagner had undoubted
ly waited until the children wen
asleep before committing the awfu
and unnatural crime. After kill
ing the children she evidently stooc
in front of the dresser it
order to give her hand di
rect aim for the death stroke
as the mirror and top of the dressei
were bespattered with blood. Mrs
Wagner was 28 years old, and hac
been married about ten years. She
was greatly devoted to her little
family and had never before showr
any mental derangement. The vie
tims had been dead about thirty-sh
hours before the discovery of Sirs
Kizer.
Henry Hollenberg’s Terrible Experience
H. Walker Hollenberg, formcrlj
of Little Rock, who was supposed
to have been drowned at Coney Is
land, August 12, is alive. Twc
weeks after he was supposed to have
been drowned, Hollenberg arrived
at his home in New Rochelle, N. J
Hollcnberg’s story is that he was car
ried out to sea by the undertow while
in swimming. His cries for help
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crowds on the beach, and he had
been carried out a long distance
when he managed to get hold of a
piece of wreckage that drifted to
ward him, and by means of this sup
ported himself until rescued by the
fishing smack Mary Baker. As
he \ras in bathing trunks
when piced up there was noth
ing to reveal his identity
until he became conscious, when lie
was sent ashore. Ilollenberg is suf
fering from serious illness, but his
relatives hope for his ultimate re
covery. He is a brother of F. B. T.
Hollenberg, the well known Little
Bock music dealer.
Bra Iceman Killed.
E. A. Hogue, a brakeman on the
Fort Smith road, was killed near
Conway by the westbound passenger
train, No. 53. Hogue was braking
on a freight train, and he was sent
west of Conway to flag down an
east bound freight. He had been
on duty thirty-six hours and was
almost exhausted. Soon he was
fast asleep. In the meantime the
westbound passenger rolled into
Conway and pulled out to the next
stop. It ran upon Hogu?and killed
him instantly.
Alleged Murderer Indicted.
J. A. Huddleston was indicted at
Perryville on the charge of killing
Sain Childers, postmaster at Jen
nings Falls, Yell county, April 24,
1902, while he was on his way to
Aplin to appear against Huddleston
in a magistrate’s court. Childers’
dead body was found on the road
side and suspicion pointed to Hud
dleston, who had been living at
Casa for twelve years, and who had
been arrested in March last on the
charge of being a fugitive from jus
tice at Paris, Tex. His discovery
was brought about by Childers. He
was discharged at Paris and return
ed to his old home. The murder
followed, but as there were no wit
nesses to the crime the evidence
against the accused is all circum
stantial.
The Game Season.
The hunting season will soon be
open, so far, at least, as turkeys and
deer are concerned, but there is yet
more than a month before quail can
legally be killed in the state. Deer
may be iiilled any time between the
1st day of September and the 1st
day of March. Turkeys may be kill
ed between September 1 and May
1, two months longer being allowed
than for the hunting of deer. Quail
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1, the “season” for partridges begin
ning one month later than for the
other two, and being three months
shorter than the season for turkey
shooting.
Phosphate Rock.
According to a report of the ex
periment station of the University
of Arkansas, the phosphate rock de
posits of north Arkansas, in the
counties of Independence, Stone,
Izard, Searcy, Newton and Baxter,
are scarcely known, hut from exami
nation they promise to be of con
siderable extent and richness. They
will, therefore, be valuable to the
state as a source of the manufacture
of acid phosphate, an important
plant food that is extensively used
as a fertilizer for increasing the
yield of crops.
Insurance Company Fails.
The Arkansas Live Stock Insur
ance company, with headquarters at
Little llock, has been placed in the
hands of a receiver. It is under
stood that the failure of the com
pany was due to the failure of farm
ers and others to pay the premiums
of insurance carried promptly. Tl?e
amount alleged in the petition, as
due to all creditors, is $15,000, but
it is understood that the sum is
somewhat larger. The company has
$75,000 outstanding.
Negro Rescued a Child.
A negro named Johnson, at the
risk of being seriously injured, if
not killed, snatched a little 3-year
old girl from beneath the feet of a
runaway horse at Little Rock. Al
though the animal had knocked the
child down, and the wheels of the
vehicle drawn by the horse were
upon her, she escaped without a
ov-i a uu.
Drowned in Mississippi.
Fred Payne, white, and a negro
named Trent were drowned in the
Mississippi river a few miles below
Helena. The two men had been
to Helena to get a skiff load of lum
ber. As they were on their way
down the river with the heavily
loaded skiff a heavy wind overtook
them and capsized the boat.
Two Young Men Daowned.
Allen Denison apd Ernest Gray,
two young men, were drowned in
White river near Batesville. They
were fishing at a picnic and fish fry,
when young Gray, who could not
swim, got beyond his depth, and
Denison went to his rescue, and lost
his own life trying to save the life
of his friend.
Killing at Spadra.
Win. Bleet was shot and killed at
Spadra by John Blanton without
apparent cause. The men, with
others, had just arrived at Spadra
from Clarksville when Blanton
jumped from the wagon and began
firing indiscriminately at those in
range, one bullet striking Bleet in
the neck.
Charged With Holding Women in Bondage.,
John Burris, a negro farmer o£
Jefferson county, is under arrest on*
a charge of operating a place o£
bondage. Burris, it is alleged, in
duces colored women to go to his
place, and makes them work for
him. It is charged that he confines
them at night behind closed doors
and barred windows and threatens
them should they try to escape. It
is also alleged that Burris gets pos
session of these women by visiting
the magistrates and police courts
and offering to let women with fines
to pay work out their fines on his
place, he advancing the money to
pay the fines.
Terrible Death.
Thomas Dolan, a civil engineer,
met a terrible death near Newport.
Dolan became ill while making the
survey of the Jonesboro and West
ern railroad and started to a farm
house a short distance away. Two
hours later the man was found ia
an almost lifeless condition hang
ing upon a picket fence. In climb
ing the fence, his foot had proba
bly slipped and the picket below had
almost disemboweled him.
All Had Their Inning.
Deputy Marshal U. G. Copeland
reports that on August 23, a b
Clarendon lie arrested Antbnnv
Pickenpack and Hannah, his wife,
3n the charge of selling liquor ille
gally, and took them before Com
missioner Crum, of Helena, who
bound them over to the grand jury.
Bud and Cal Pickenpack, and Mrs.
Cecil McRae, their sister, and her
husband, had previously been ar
rested on a similar charge.
Subiaco Abbey Nearidg Completion.
It is reported that a portion of the
new Subiaco Abbey, an institution
which is being erected by the Order
of St. Benedict, near Spielerville,
Logan county, will be ready for oc
cupancy next winter. When com
pleted it will be one of the largest
buildings of the kind in the world,
being of granite and four or five
stories high. It will require several
years to complete it, and will cost
H,000,000.
Reedy Vance Sentenced.
A notable case was concluded at
Perryville last week when Judge
Jos. W. Martin sentenced Ecedy
Vance to twenty years’ imprison
ment in the penitentiary for killing
Lee Tick, the Chinaman, on West
Fifth street, in Little Rock, June 4,
1901. He was once under sentence
of death, but escaped the gallows
through the action of the supreme
court.
BRIEF MENTION.
The state deaf mute institute will
open about October la.
A new bank has been organized
it Okolona.
The First National Bank has been
organized at Arkadelphia..
The Fordyce street fair is to be
held the latter part of October.
The residence of D. M. Bluthen
thal at Pine Bluff burned Au<niafc
26.
The Iron Mountain depot at Ivno
bel was struck by lightning and
burned.
Three hundred coal miners in the
Spadra district are on strike for an
advance of 10 cents jper ton for
digging coal.
Homer Jones, a farmer near At
kins. w*is shot and killed by A. J.
Mathias, his brother-in-law. The
men had been at outs for some time.
Com Bostic, a barkeeper, shot and
killed C. C. Davis, a deputy sheriff,
near Mammoth Spring, in a bar
room brawl.
Hattie Johnson, a 19-year-old ne
gress, committed suicide at Conway
by jumping into a well. It is be
lieved the woman became crazed
from long illness.
The ex-Confederate pension board
has completed the work of passing
on applications for pensions. The
total amount allowed is $323,820,
while the amount available is $156,
554.85, making a pro rata of 4S
cents.