Woodmkf Connjy News.
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VOL. VI.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1907.
NO. 40.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
the latest events of the
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
north, east west, south
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Na
tion and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.
Sensations followed each other in
rapid succession in the financial dis
trict as the result of the collapse of
the projected corner in United Copper
and the suspension of a permanent
brokerage firm. The firm of Otto
Heinr.e & Co. was suspended on the
stock exchange. F. Augustus Heinze,
the Butte copper magnate, resigned
the presidency of the Mercantile Na
tional Bank of New York. The Amal
gamated Copper Co., at Its directors’
meeting, cut its quarterly dividend
from 2 per cent to 1 per cent. The di
rectors of the Boston & Montana Cop
per Co. declared a quarterly dividend
of in place of a former dividend of
$12.
Kaiser Wilhelm has been sum
moned to the witness hcair in a most
unsavory case as one of a long list
of royal and aristocratic personages,
on whose testimony Editor Maximil
lian Harden of a Berlin weekly news
paper relies to win the libel suit
brought against him by Gen. Count
Guno Moltke.
The first railroad ever built in Low
er California will be in operation in
a few days under E. E. Calvin, gen
eral manager of the Southern Pacific.
This line was built by E. H. Harriman,
and runs 37 miles southward from
Calexico as far as Paradones.
Counsel for the Standard Oil Co.
have prepared an elaborate defense
in the government's suit for dissolu
tion of the oil combine, which they
say will be developed in its entirety.
One man, Harry Bausch, was killed
and 20 passengers injured, several so
seriously that they may die, in the
wreck of a street car in Cincinnati.
With impressive ceremonies and a
significant speech by Secretary of War
Taft, the first Philippine assembly was
opened in Manila.
Capt. Roland Amundsen, the Arctic
explorer, who arrived on the steam
ship Oscar II., said he will make an
attempt to reach the north pole in
1910. He announced that he is having
four big polar bears trained to haul
sleds and intends to use them in the
far north.
I he governor of Connecticut is or
a junket to the Jamestown exposition;
the lieutenant governor is on a trip to
Europe; Senator Stille Judson of
Stratford, president pro tem of the
state, is on a hunting trip; but Con
necticut is not suffering, for a woman
s seated in the official chair.
Immaculately attired as a mir
of the gospel, a stranger entered
office of the Indiaia state prise
Michigan City, Ind., and declare
was an escaped convict and had
to serve the rest of his sentence,
name is Allen J. Lawrence, and
caped from this prison in Septei
190G," he said.
David Redfield Proctor, 81 ■
old, a cousin of United States i
or Uedfield Proctor of Vermont,
tound dead in a cheap lodging 1
at_^S South Clark street, Cliicag
errific storms, torrential c
hours of rain, high wind and f
aie prevailing to an extent neve
fore realized in France, Spain,
and Great Britain. The storms
een so general that an accurate
late of the loss of life is impos:
Miss Rose L. Fritz of New
has successfully defended
e of champion typewriter at
National Rusiness Show at Mai
quare Garden, defeating Paul Hi
, loago, from whom she wor
onanfpiouBhip three years ago.
but three out of a crew of tw
ie have been saved from the
’ . •‘ewnahip Alfred Erlam
ifh went ashore near St. j
1 m , and was battered to piece
were81"-1 dUrhlK the Eigl
frn, !u’ept by the mountainous w
1 le dock and drowned. 01
1? ’ °ne was a woman,
homrf SUi^ 0f the territory of i
rout* asainst the Rock Island
time * * Cb haa been Pending for i
court dismisse'l by the sup
that ,°Vhe United States.
lailroad company, which o
wL n CT- The or(ler of the «
lflcaIanC iCa,lr identical with the
Sarriman8^ b>’ the attorney of
<Jertr^0“tanet- Jnd., the Dupont
of India*,teleKraphed the Kcm
extent t ° draw on them to
H f \\Mn tlle sufferer
man m lamuRoi:k Island b
.New stat ^ the corridor °
W. j ulu h°tel at Chikasha. :
allows is under arrest.
Acting under instructions from
Judge Cochran, the jury returned a
verdict acquitting Frederick Magill
ari his wife, Faye Graham Magill, of
the charge of murdering Mrs. Pet
Magill, the first wife of Magill. In
Ms instructions to the jurors the
judge said the state had failed to
prove the corpus delecti. The verdict
was greeted with applause.
The peace conference at The Hague
hns finished its work. The delegates
have agreed on thirteen conventions.
At the semi-annual conference of
English Mormons at Finsbury, it was
stated that no less than 300 mission
aries are working in Great Britain,
and that they have gained approxi
mately 15,000 converts within the past
seven years.
There is some speculation as to the
whereabouts of Mrs. Upton Sinclair,
wife cf the Socialist and novelist. Her
continued absence from the Sinclair
cottage in West Point Pleasant has
given rise to rumors, one of which is
that she may never return.
Four musked robbers, after binding
and gagging C. D. Cash, the night
operator at the Missouri Pacific depot
"',t Webb City, Mo., cracked the safe
and escaped with $800 in money and
checks.
Between twenty-five and fifty dead,
Gfh injured and a city of 1000 people
wiped out. Such is the fate which
overtook Fontanet, Ind., when the Du
Pc t powder works exploded Tues
day. Where stood a thriving and
busy town of 1000 people, there is
ruin and scattered wreckage. The
dead and more seriously injured have
been taken away. Five hundred in
habitants, all more or less wounded,
remain to gather their scattered house
hold goods and sleep under tents and
cots guarded by soldiers of the state.
A train made up of passenger
coaches bound from Scotland and the
North of England to Bristol left the
rails as it was entering the station
at Shrewsbury. Sixteen persons, in
cluding ten passengers, were killed
and many were injured.
Monroe M. Deaderlck, grandson of
the late Chief Justice Deaderick of
the Tennesse Supreme Court, and Miss
Hazel Wilbur of New York eloped on
a handcar from Unatra Springs to
Edwin, Tenn., the county seat of Uni
coci County, and were married.
Among the concerns against which
fraud orders have been issued for fake
mining and land development compa
nies appears the name of T. K. Ha
mer, a convict who has been in Carson
City penitentiary since last April for
swindling. Hamer operated his pres
ent venture, the Pitt burg-Manhattan
Mining Company, from his cell.
Helen Maloney was not wedded in
Canada. Uncle says license was is
sued, but was not used.
Arrivals from the Bear Uake en
campment tell marvelous stories of the
president’s hardihood and capacity for
roughing it. When he carried his blan
kets with him from the upper camp
last Friday and that night and next
morning ate only cold bread and
meat he had taken in his saddle pock
ets they marveled that a president
could be so easily satisfied, but when
he jumped into Bear Lake for a swim,
with the temperature at 40 degrees,
their astonishment was almost with
out bounds.
That railroad executives generally
approve of the plan for government
control and regulation of the trans
portation lines of the nation, as advo
cated by Robert Mather, president of
the Rock Island railroad, in his speech
to the Chicago Association of Com
merce, was strongly indicated by vari
ous officials.
The announcement that William G.
Rockefeller, assistant treasurer of the
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey,
has been notified by Frank B. Kellogg,
special assistant attorney general, to
be in readiness to testify before Ex
aminer Ferriss in the government’s
suit seeking to dissolve the New Jer
sey corporation under the Sherman
anti-trust law, has been received with
interest.
The body of Gen. Webb Syck, a
Civil War veteran, was found in the
yard of his home in Fairview, Ky.,
and that of his young wife, a bride
of two weeks, in her bed. It is be
lieved Gen. Syck killed his wife and
then committed suicide.
W.th a series of flashes that filled
the Marconi station with blinding
ligiit and of booms that fairly rocked
the station. William Marconi launched
the first commercial message by wire
less across the Atlantic ocean.
Miss Alice L Stanton Smith of St.
James, L. I., heiress to $100,000, and
a cousin of Mrs. Stanford White, has
appealed to tne Society for the Pre
vention of Crime for protection against
relatives who, she says, are seeking to
send her *> ■'n insane asylum for a
fourth time.
Co!. Alfred I. Dupont .vice-president
of the Dupont Powder Co., accompa
tiied by General Superintendent Con
nable, arrived at Fontanet and began
an investigation as to the cause of the
disaster, in which 40 persons are
known to have been killed and sev
eral hundred injured.
Tragedy at Texarkana.
E. M. Sumner was shot and killed
by a negro, Monroe Ballard, while sit
ting on his front porch smoking a
pipe. Both the men were laboiers
and lived in the same neighborhood,
their houses being only a few yards
apart. The two houses were owned
by the same landlord. The presence
of the negro as a neighbor was objec
tionable to the white man, and it is
said he complained to the landlord.
The latter served notice on the negro
that he must vacate. This so incensed
the negro that he shot Sumner. Upon
the arrival of the officers the negro
barricaded himself in his house, but
was later shot on exposing himself at
en open door, his body being literally
riddled with bullets.
Alive With Boll Weevils.
A stalk of cotton, which, upon exam
ination was found to be alive with in
sects pronounced to be genuine Mexi
can boll weevils, was brought from
a plantation near Hope, to be exhibit
ed at the Hempstead county fair. The
stalk was selected for its size, fruitage
and healthy color, and with no thought
that it was infested with weevils. The
insects were to be seen on the cotton
in the various stages, from the small
grub, or worm, to the adult weevil,
and there was scarcely a boll on the
large stalk that had not been punc
tured by the weevil and in which de
posits of eggs had not been made by
the pest.
County Appropriations.
At a recent meeting of the Lonoke
County Quorum Court, $24,250 was
appropriated for the county as fol
lows: Circuit court, $5,000; county
general, $fi,500; justice of the peace
courts, $800; poor farm, $600; keep
ing prisoners, $800; bridges, $2,500;
assessors and tax books, $1,000; pub
lic records, $250; public buildings,
$500; levees, dumps and roads, $1,000;
rock crusher and operating same,
$5,000; janitor, $200. The county gen
eral tax was levied at five mills, road
tax three mills, Carlisle, Austin, Lon
oke, England and Cabot five mills.
Fair At Carlisle.
The second annual fair of the Cen
tral Arkansas Fair Association has
been inaugurated at Carlisle with nat
tering prospects. The agricultural ex
hibit is said to be very fine, while the
live stock displayed promises to ex
ceed anything ever witnessed at a
county fair in Arkansas. The pro
gram also calls for continuous racing
during the four days of the fair, and
Where will be two running aud three
harness races daily.
Found Dead in Bed.
Richard Owens of Fort Smith was
found dead in bed recently, and the
police are investigating the cause of
death, fearing murder. The dead man
was known to have had a sum of
money in his possession the day be
fore, which could not be found in his
rooms.
Found Dead By Track.
The body of an unknown man was
found beside the track of the Iron
Mountain at Shepherd, a station below
Hope. The man is supposed to have
fallen from a fast freight. Papers on
his person indicate that he had been
a telegraph operator.
May Share In Estate.
Mrs. James Fagan of Jonesboro, may
share in an estate amounting to $7,
000,000, which, it is said, has just been
left to her father by relatives in Eng
land. The father now lives in Ken
tucky.
Successful County Fair.
One of the most successful of any
previously held was the fifth annual
North Arkansas Fair which has just
closed at Berryville. The attendance
on the last day was about 5,000.
Fayetteville Daily Discontinued.
The Fayetteville Daily Sentinel has
suspended publication, but the Weekly
Sentinel will be continued under the
management of Miss Meah H. Merritt.
In Annual Conventionv
The Anti-Horse Thief Association,
an organization for the suppression of
every kind of crime, and which num
bers among its members almost every
sheriff in the State, is holding its an
nual session at Fayetteville with 110
delegates present.
Charged With Bigamy.
William Davis is under arrest at
Newport charged with bigamy. He
is alleged to have married Miss Scud
der five years ago and Miss Stoner
in September of last year. He is said
to have deserted both wives.
Found Dead In Road.
The dead body of M. M. Gilliam was
found in the road near Newport re
cently. He had been hauling lumber
and his team became frightened and
ran away, throwing him out to instant
death. The team taking the family of
the dead man to the scene of the acci
dent also ran away, wrecking the sur
rey, but none of the occupants were
injured.
Planted Seventy-Five Years Ago.
The first apple tree planted in
Arkansas is said to have been brought
from Tennessee seventy-five years ago
by 'William Skelton and planted about
a mile northwest of Fayetteville on
what is now known as the Cardwell
farm. This tree from which many
others have been grafted, was still
alive only a few years ago.
Trial Now On.
The trial of Mayor W. C. Faucette
of Argenta and former Mayor Frank
Cumnock of Baring Cross, who are
under charge of a conspiracy to bribe
the jury in the trial of Senator A. T.
Gross at Perryville last August, is iu
progress in the Pulaski County Cir
cuit Court before Judge Robert E.
Lea.
Press Association Meeting.
Owing to the small attendance at
the meeting of the Press Association
in Fayetteville two weeks ago, a meet
ing has been called for Rogers on
Saturday, October 2(1. A program has
been arranged and a large attendance
is expected.
New Bank Organized.
A new bank to be known as the
Rose City Bank, has been organized
in Little Rock, with a capital of $100,
000. J. M. Stewart is president of the
bank, S. D. Knox vice-president and
A. H. Lange, secretary. The bank
will be open for business in about GO
days.
Convention Has Adjourned.
The convention of the Medical As
sociation of the Southwest, represent
ing Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri,
Kansas and Texas, which has been iu
session at Hot Springs, adjourned af
ter a three days’ session to meet in
Kansas City, Mo., next year.
Prominent Physician Stabbed.
Dr. George Smith, a prominent phy
sician of Lary, was stabbed through
the lungs in an altercation with a
young man whose name could not be
learned, and who afterwards escaped
and is still at large. Dr. Smith is in
a critical condition.
Dream Coming True.
J. J. Farmer, who lives near Green
wood, had a dream 34 years ago that
he was the father of 24 children. Sev
eral days ago his wife presented him
with a girl, his twenty-first child. Mr.
Farmer is 05 years old and has been
married four times.
Caught In Flywheel.
While engaged in putting rosin on
the pulley of the engine of the Rubbeeke
Milling Company's plant at Boonevi'-le,
Walter Parks was caught in the halt
ing and horribly mangled in the
band and flywheel.
Scalded by Engine.
Joe Ballon, a fireman on the Iron
Mountain, was caught under an over
turned switch engine near Little Rock.
?.nd seriously scalded. The accident
was caused by a defective track.
Killed by Tram Car.
James Taylor, mill boss for the
Grant Lumber Company at Grapevine,
was run over and killed by a car on
the tram. Mr. Taylor was thrown
under the car and horribly mangled.
Money Plentiful.
It is said that money was never
more plentiful in Benton county than
now. The two banks at Gravette have
a paid-up capital and deposits amount
ing to nearly $250,000.
Still Suffering.
Henry Crouch of Independence
county was bitten by a snake 33 years
ago, and has been an invalid ever
since that time. For three years he
has been unable to work.
Shipments From Canning Factory.
Four cars of canned tomatoes have
been shipped from the canning factory
at Cotter. Out of the lot only 15 cans
swelled or were spoiled.
Will Make Boxes.
The Rogers Canning Company will
locate a sawmill on White river and
make boxes next year for their own
and the Bentonville plant. Much an
noyance was experienced this year,
and no little loss, by a scarcity of
boxes when they were most needed.
Region of Sponge Divers.
In many of the Green islands div
ing for sponges forms a consideiable
part of the occupation of the inhabi
tants. The natives make it a trade
to gather these, and their income from
this source is far from contemptible.
To Make Changes.
From time to time the Board of Pen
itentiary Commissioners have made
changes in the handling of the State
convicts, and that still further changes
are contemplated was manifested by
the action of the board in authorizing
Acting Governor X. O. Pindall to visit
the state farm whenever convenient,
and as it may seem necessary to him,
and deal with matters there as it ap
pears in his judgment to he for the
successful operation of the penitenti
ary system. The authority to do this
was given to Acting Governor Pindall
in a written order signed by Secretary
of State O. C. Ludwig, State Auditor
A. E. Moore and Commissioner Guy B.
Tucker, and is as follows: “Where
as, The next regular meeting of the
Penitentiary Board is not due until
some time next month, and condi
tions now confronting the board re
quiring immediate attention, and some
one interested with authority from the
board, we, the undersigned members
of the Penitentiary Board, do hereby
authorize the acting governor, Hon. X.
O. Pindall, to make such trips to the
state farm in Lincoln county as may
to him seem necessary in dealing with
the levee situation, the cotton picking
situation there, the labor situation
there, concerning a return of the con
victs or a removal of them to the other
camps of the state, and all other mat
ters incident to the proper manage
ment of the farm, and we each
promise at the next meeting of the
board to ratify the action of the acting
governor in this behalf.’’ In accord
ance with this order and the author
ity vested in him. Acting Governor
Pindall left Thursday on his first visit
to the farm, and will spend several
days there looking over the situation
and giving orders for such changes as
in his opinion will redound to the ben
efits of the plantation.
Judge Riddick's Successor.
A great deal of interest has centered
around the probable appointment of
Acting Governor Pindall to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of Judge
Riddick owing to the legal points in
volved. The opinion seems to prevail
among the legal fraternity that the
governor has the power to fill the va
cancy only until such time as an elec
tion may be called, and the people de
cide by popular vote. Acting Gover
nor Pindall, it is said, has accepted
this version of the law and will be gov
erned accordingly. It was understood
several days ago that Chancellor Jesse
C. Hart, of the Pulaski Chancery Court
had been tendered the position, and
in the event of his acceptance, Major
John E. Martineau would be appointed
to the Chancellorship. Should he de
cline the appointmoat. Major Mar
tineau will be placed on the supremo
bench. In either event, whether Judge
Hart accepts or declines the proffered
position, there will be a vacancy in
the assistant adjutant general’s office,
which it is stated, will be filled by the
appointment of L. P. Berry, Jr., of
Marion, lieutenant colonel on Acting
Governor Pindall's staff.
Assignment of Maj. Dowdy.
Maj. R. W. Dowdy, U. S. A., retired,
has been assigned to the headquarters
of the Arkansas National Guard, and
has reported to Assistant Adjutant
General Martineau. It was at the re
quest of Gov. Pindall that Maj. Dowdy
was given the assignment, which is
one of an advisory character. Maj.
Dowdy is an Arkansas man and has
had considerable experience in Na
tional Guard work. Du»ing the Span
ish-American war he was engaged in
service in Cuba. He spent two years
in the Philippines, where he was pro
moted from captain to major and then
retired on account of ill health.
Inspected State Capitol.
J. Massey Rhind, the sculptor of
New York, who has done a number of
notable pieces of work in various
cities of the country, was in Little
Rock recently and inspected the new
state capitol, with a view to gaining
an idea of what the building demands
in the way of sculptural treatment.
Mr. Rhind was accompanied by Gil
bank Twigg, who is closely associated
with him in his work. Mr. Rhind was
much taken with the capitol as an
architectural achievement, and was of
the opinion that well-placed figures
and groups in bronze and stone would
add immeasurably to the edifice,
which he said should symbolize all
that is best and most striking in Ar
kansas.
Paid Charter Fees.
The American Lumber and Manu
facturing Company of Pittsburg, has
filed a certificate of its incorpora
tion with the secretary of state and
paid its charter fees amounting to
$1,000. The company is capitalized at
$200,000, and designates the secretary
of state as its agent in Arkansas upon
whom service of process may be had.
Many Imrpovements Made.
Many improvements have been
made or are being made at the several
state institutions in Little Rock, the
cost of which will aggregate $75,000.
i At the State Hospital for Nervous Dis
eases a two-story ward building, hav
ing a capacity of 66 patients and to
cost $25,000, is to be located in the
rear of the present annex for female
patients, also additions are being
made to the hospital consisting of a
new ward which is to have a capacity
of 16 beds; an enlargement of the
kitchen and dining room, to cost
$13,000; a cow barn with a capacity
for stabling 120 cows, a brick dairy
house with concrete floor, cold storage
plant and all modern machinery used
in the operation of a dairy, to cost
$5,500. At the Deaf Mute Institute a
large addition is being constructed to
the industrial department, in which
'will be placed all of the wood work
ing machinery. The boiler plant has
been overhauled and one new 80
horsepower boiler has been installed
and the other boiler has set. The
expenditures for new structures and
the installation of this work has been
about $15,000. At the Blind School
a Are protection system similar to the
one at the Deaf Mute asylum with the
exception that the water used for the
system Is pumped from a well on the
premises, the well having a capacity
of from 15,000 to 20,000 gallons j>er
day, and which also may be connect
ed with the city water mains, in
case of Are has been installed. The
negro blind and deaf mute schools
have also had attention, the former
having new plumbing installed and
the latter entirely remodelled, reno
vated and painted.
Supreme Court Meets.
The Supreme Court met Monday
and early in the day three criminal
cases, each for murder in the second
degree were called for submission.
They were those of William Kerr and
Lee Scoville of Sebastian county and
J. R. Bell of Sevier county. Other
cases subject to call are: Chicot Lum
ber Company and others against Hen
ry Darnell and others, Chicot Chan
cery Court. Central Lumber Com
pany against M. E. Chappell and oth
ers. Pulaski Chancery Court. St. Louis
and San Francisco Railroad Company
against Bertie Wyatt, by next friend,
etc.; Crawford Circuit Court. St.
Louis and San Francisco Railroad
Company against William T. Scott,
Cazert & McGehee Company; Craw
ford Circuit Court. W. .1. McDonald
against J. M. Tyner, guardian; Greene
Chancery Court. Fort Smith Wagon
Company against F. A. Baker; Se
bastian Chancery Court. Kansas City
Southern Railway Company against
W. S. Brooks and others; Miller Cir
cuit Court. Mollie E. Robertson and
others against Maud Franklin; Mon
roe Chancery Court. Western Union
Telegraph Company against Clara
Weniski; Pulaski Circuit Court. M.
Abelson against the St.. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Sonthern Railway Com
pany; Miller Circuit Court. St. Louis
Iron Mountain and Southern Railway
Company against T. F. Priest; Miller
Circuit Court. Emma McGill against
J. M. Hughes and others; Monroe
Chancery Court.
Take Case Under Advisement.
The mandamus suit of W. B. Alex
der. state capitol commissioner,
against State Auditor Avery E. Moore,
was argued before Judges R. J. Lea
and E. W. Winfield Saturday morning.
At the conclusion of the argument the
court asked for citations of the au
thorities relied upon and indicated
that it would hand down a decision
within a short time.
May rurcnase rdiR.
Some time ago the Little Rock Rail
way and Electric Company offered
to sell to the city, to be used as a
park, the six blocks comprising West
End park, for $30,000 in consideration,
of the pavement of certain streets
with brick instead of asphalt. An
other proposition presented at the
same time is for the unconditional
sale of the four blocks comprised in
the West End park, exclusive of that
portion now used as a baseball park,
for $40,000. Neither of these proposi
tions have been acted upon, but it
is believed that it will come up for
action within a few days. The street
railway people, it is understood,
value the park at $00,000, and have
made the offer to sell at what they
claim is a greatly reduced price in an
endeavor to prevent the pavement of
West Fifth street with asphalt.
Pardon Granted.
George Merritt, convicted in the St.
Francis Circuit Court recently on the
charge of assault to kill and sen
tenced to four years In the peniten
tiary, has been granted a pardon by
Acting Governor Pindall.