- Woodrukk County INer
VOL. VII.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1909.
NO 8.
NEWS OF TIE PAST WEEK
LATEST news of the world
TERSELY TOLD
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Na
tion and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.
The first definite development of the
visit of Philander C. Knox the next
secretary of state, with President
elect Taft is that R. M. Thompson of
New York is out of the running as
a possibility for the navy portfolio.
The Earl of Granard and Miss Jane
Beatrice Mills went to the city hall
marriage license bureau in New York
and obtained a license to be married.
Miss Mills is the daughter of Odgen
Mills. The earl signs himself" Gran
nard," but gave his full name as
Bernard Aruthr William Patrick Hast
ings. Forbes, Earl of Granard. He is
34 years old.
The naming of Wilbur Wright, the
world-famous American aeroplanist,
as co-respondent in the divorce pet
ition of Lieut. Goujarde of the Cuiras
siers has created a tremendous sensa
tion in the American colony and in
scientific, social and army circles of
Paris. The trial of the suit is set for
February.
The body of Lieut Foertsch, the
pilot of the German balloon, Hergesell
which was lost In the North Sea in
the international races last October
was taken from the North Sea Friday
by the crew of the trawler Orion, The
body was sent to Hamburg.
By the use of compression, or the
printing method, instead of impact
and the hammer stroke, a company,
which is just organized intends to
put on the market an absolutely noise
less typewriter. The stock of the com
pany is $11,000,000.
George Frankhouser, noted train
robber, who has just been taken to
Montana from Minnesota, was ar
raigned in federal court and his trial
set for Jan. 19. Frankhouser is
charged with robbing a Great Northern
train and securing $10,000. The day
before his trial was to begin he made
a sensational escape from the Helena
jail.
The preliminary hearing of the
charges made by choir boys against
Rev. Robert Horris Kemp, rector of
St. Chrysostom's Episcopal church
Chicago, is begun in the criminal
court before Municipal Judge Blake.
Herbert Littman, 14 years old, was the
chief witness.
Thomas A. Edison has announced
the perfection of a storage battery
sufficiently powerful to operate a
street car 100 miles without recharg
ing and with a life of from five to
twenty years.
Thos. L. Lewis has been re-elected
President of the United States Mine
Workers of America over John H.
talker of Illinois. The work of the
national tellers counting the votes
cast last month has progressed far
enough to make the statement of
Lewis’ election a positive assertion.
With one propeller blade smashed
and a collision with the Nantucket
light ship averted only by the alert
ness of her captain, the White Star
liner Oceanic reached New York City
her decks buried beneath two inches
of snow after fighting the storms.
Jne body of Mrs. Maud McCreedy,
wi>0 escaped from a health resort near
Winnetka, was recovered from the
Lake Michigan, near Evanston. The
body was clothed only in a night robe.
Forty-five convicts Thursday tun
B®led their way to liberty through the
walls of ihe city jail of Oklahoma
City, only to be greeted by a tempera
ture of 30 below zero, and all but
three surrendered. These are now be
ing searched for by a posse.
J M. Krutcher of Kansas City, a
member of the state board of charity
and correction has laid before Gov.
Folk affidavit in which are serious
charges against certain persons of the
Confederate Home at Higginsville
Re\. Dr. Krutcher refuses to discuss
the
nature of the charges.
After accepting a bribe of $1 from
tWo white men, John McDaniel, negro
braketnan in Mississippi, stowed
them away in a refrigerator car. Then
when a white braketnan reproved Me
sniel, the negro went back, called
’he younger of the two tramps to the
top of the car. shot and killed him.
Several persons were reported to
310 been killed and the lives of a
number of others endangered when a
131110 dwelling at North Sixty-fourth
311,1 -Madison avenue, Irving park, Chi
Ca£o, blew down.
After stabbing his aged mother to
°8th in their apartments in New
01 k, Arthur Cotter, 33 years old, at
ctupted to kill himself by jumping
l0In> the window. Cotter was taken
p Prisoner, charged with homicide to
Hellevue hospital.
The Chicago police obtained in
formation that led to the announce
ment that the man who is dying at
Alexian Brothers’ hospital from a
bullet wound through the head and
other injuries is Arthur Campbell, a
wealthy boot and shoe manufacturer
of Milwaukee, Wis.
City Magistrate Otto Droege of New
York, is found guilty of the charges
presented against him by the Bar as
sociation and was ordered removed
from office by the appellate di
vision. Droege is a graduate of the
university of Maryland. He was ad
mitted to the bar in 1890. He came
to New York in 1896.
At the suggestion of the civic league
of St. Louis, Representative Bartholdt
Friday introduced a bill providing for
the construction of a national highway
from the southern limits of the city
to the national cemetry at Jefferson
Barracks.
The verdict of the jury in the night
rider case finds six men guilty of
murder in the first degree with mit
igating circumstances. Bob Hoffman
and Bud Morris murder in the second
degree.
The vacancy in the office of assis
tant attorney geenral caused by the
retirement of Alfred W. Cooley, will
probably not be filled under this ad
ministration. Attorney General Bona
parte intimated that President-elect
Taft would be given the privilege of
selecting the man for the place.
Adolphus Busch, the St. Louis mil
lionaire brewer, who is spending the
winter at his country villa at
Pasadena, has signified his intention
of contributing $25,000 to a fund be
ing raised to build a museum which
will rival the Smithsonian Institute.
About $2,000,000 has been donated.
In response to a general alarm, all
the police and detectives in Greater
New York are working on the
mysterious disappearance of Mrs.
Elizabeth C. Burke Harrison, wife of
F. P. Harrison, a wealthy New York
merchant and president of the F. P.
Harrison Electric and Manufacturing
company.
Harry K. Thaw's appeal to the ap
pellate division of the supreme court
from the decision of Justice Mor
schauser, in dismissing his writ of
habeas corpus and remanding him
back to Matteawan, will he argued
Jan. IS.
Two masked highwaymen entered
the dining room of the Railway
Cleveland Y. M. C. A. and robbed the
diners at the point of revolvers.
Admiral Capps of the bureau of
construction of the navy department,
has disclosed to the senate naval
committee members that it is the de
sire of the department to make the
next battleship bigger than anything
now afloat in any navies of the
world.
President Roosevelt nominated Col.
Geo. H. Torney to be surgeon general
of the army to succeed Surgeon Gen
eral O'Reilly, who retires. Colonel
Torney is now stationed at the
general hospital at San Francisco.
President Roosevelt has made the
following appointments to the An
napolis Naval Academy for 1909:
Stephen Elliott, a son of Captain
Charles P. Elliott of the army, retir
ed; George M. Tisdale, a son of the
late lieutenant R. D. Tisdale, of the
naVy and Stewart B. Whitney, son of
Chief Gunner Frank H. Whitney, of
the navy.
Glen K. Shurtleff, general secretary
of the Cleveland Young Men’s
Christian Association, died of brights
disease. Secretary Shurtleff was one
of the best known Y. M. C. A. men In
the United States. He came to
Cleveland from Denver, where he had
been the general secretary of the as
sociation. Before that he was the
secretary in Syracuse, N. Y.
It is learned that negotiations have
just been concluded between the
governments of the United States
Colombia and Panama whereby all
matters in controversy between them
are settled. The treaty or treaties
have been signed by Secretary of
State Root for the United States,
Minister Cortez for Columbia and
Minister Arosemena for Panama.
The body of Father John of Cron
stadt, the famous Russian priest who
died last w’cek, was interred in St.
Petersburg in the presence of a small
body of his immediate followers. It
is evident from the excitement that
Father’s John's death is evoking that
his following will be greater in death
than in life.
Sixty-one indictments charging Re
mblican politicians with perjury and
rands at the Illinois primaries on
Aug. 8 at which John J. Healy w as de
feated for renomination as state's at
torney, were thrown out of court.
This sweeping action was taken with
the consent of Special State's Attorney
Frank J. Loesch.
A dispatch from a St. Petersburg
fcorrespondent to the effect that 20
men have been arrested as a result
of the bomb throwing at the emperor’s
palace. A vast terrorist plot agginst
the imperial family was responsible
for the bomb outrage.
CULCOA, FLEET’S SANTA CLAUS SHIP, ON ITS WAY TO
MESSINA LADEN WITH PROVISIONS.
POPE WILL DONATE JOBILEE FUND
Estimates Now Say 80,000 Are Buried in Ruins of Messina and
Reggio, Which Are to Be Rebuilt—Dead Being Buried
in the Sea—United States Fleet Officers
Are at Cairo Awaiting Orders.
Washington, D. C.—Following the
reading in the house Monday of Pres
ident Roosevelt's message urging re
lief measures be advanced at once,
the house unanimously passed a bill
carrying an appropriation of $800,000
for the earthquake sufferers in Sicily
and Italy.
The house acted at once and passed
a bill appropriating $500,000 in cash
and the supplies on board the naval
supply ships Celtic and Culgoa, val
ued at $300,000.
The house adjourned at 1:05 p. m.
out of respect to Representative Da
vey of Louisiana.
Senate Will Act Promptly.
The President’s earthquake mes
sage was referred by the senate to the
committee on appropriations. Sena
tor Hale and the committee will at
once hold an informal meeting and
prepare a suitable measure, which will
be reported later in the day. He re
quested that adjournment should be
deferred until action could be taken.
The supply ship Celtic, “the Santa
Claus ship’’ for the fleet, has sailed
and the Culgoa has left Port Said.
The total amount sent to the Ital
ian Red Cross by Red Cross officials
here is $320,000.
Tells of Distress.
The President’s message follows:
"To the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives: The appalling calam
ity which has befallen the people of
Italy is followed by distress and suf
fering throughout a wide region
among many thousands who have es
caped with life, but whose shelter and
food and means of living are de
stroyed.
"The ordinary machinery for sup
plying the wants of civilized commu
nities is paralyzed, and an exception
al emergency exists, which demands
that the obligations of humanity shall
regard no limit of national lines.
"The immense debt of civilization
to Italy; the warm and steadfast
friendship between that country and
our own; the affection for their native,
land felt by great numbers of good
American citizens who are immigrants
from Italy; the abundance with which
God has blessed us in our safety; all
those should prompt us to immediate
and effective relief.
“Private generosity is responding
nobly to the demand by contributions
through the safe and efficient channel
of the American Red Cross Society.
Celtic and Culgoa Ordered to Scene.
"Confident of your approval, I have
ordered the government supply ships
Celtic and Culgoa to the scene of dis
aster, where, upon receiving the au
thority which I ask for, they will be
able to dispense food, clothing and
other supplies with which they are
laden, to the value of about $300,000.
“The Celtic has already sailed and
the Culgoa is at Port Said. Bight ves
sels of the returning battleship fleet
are already under orders for Italian
waters, and that government has been
asked if their services can be made
useful.
"I recommend that the congress ap
prove the application of supplies
above indicated, and further appropri
ate the sum of $500,000 to be applied
to the work of relief at the discretion
of the executive and consent of the
Italian government.
"I suggest that the law follow the
form of that passed after the Mount
Pelee disaster in 1902.
(Signed) "Theodore Roosevelt.
"The White House, Jan. 4, 1909."
200 American Officers at Cairo.
Cairo, Egypt.—Two hundred officers
from the American fleet, now at Suez,
arrived here Monday, the advance
guard of 500 officers who have permis
sion to stop off here. It is understood
that Admiral Sperry and his staff will
come later, but this has not been defi
nitely decided.
The fleet is said to be under orders
to split up temporarily and scatter to
Malta, Algiers. Marseilles, Trieste,
Messina and other Italian quake ports
that are in need of aid.
Heavy Quakes in Lipart Group.
Naples, Italy.—Heavy quakes have
juSt been felt throughout the Pipari
group of islands, according to mes
sages that are now coming in. The
Stromboli volcano, the northeastern
most one of the islands, is in a state
of eruption, great streams of lava be
ing belched forth. No fatalities have
yet been reported from the island.
In the initial shock a week ago,
these islands were badly shaken,
many houses being cracked.
The population of Stromboli is 2,500
and that of the Lipari group 25,000.
Messina and Reggio Will Be Rebuilt.
Rome, Italy—Messina and Reggio
will be rebuilt. This is the message
brought to Rome Monday by Cardinal
Nava, Archbishop of Catania, who ar
rived from Messina.
“The destruction of these cities,”
said the Archbishop, “is just as com
plete as the most extravagant stories
have pictured, but the commercial ad
I vantage of their sites is such that
they must be rebuilt.
“It will take a generation for these
cities to recover and it will be a quar
ter of a century before Messina’s
glory is restored. There is absolutely
no thought among the more prominent,
citizens of Messina and Reggio to
abandon the towns. Many of the
smaller towns, however, will not be
! rebuilt. Some of these are literally
I blotted out and as their sites had no
J peculiar advantage, it would be cheap
! er and easier for the people to estab
lish other towns.”
80.000 Bodies in the Ruined Cities.
Director Paterno of the government
chemical laboratory and Vice-Director
| Lutrario of the department of public
| health left for Messina and Reggio
, Monday. They say that from the best
I estimates obtainable, 80,000 bodies a ’•a
j burled in the ruins of Messina alone.
The rescuers are now weighting the
| bodies and sinking them in the Straits
j of Messina. Apprehension is felt that
if all the bodies are dumped into the
I straight a fearful contamination will
follow.
The pope said that he would con
tribute all of the jubilee fund to the
sufferers. This fund has been raised
in all parts of the world and amounts
to a large sunt.
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SYNOPSIS OF DISASTER.
The cities of Messina and
Reggio are almost demolished,
with life losses of 110,000.
More earthquake shocks
through southern Italy and Si
cily wrought further destruction
and added to the fright of the
people.
Italy's minister of maritime
estimates dead at 115,000.
Refugees swarming into Na
ples and Rome tell harrowing
stories of the calamity.
Thousands camped on fields
and hundreds dying from hun
ger, thirst and exposure. Piti
ful pleas for help stir the out
side world to magnanimous giv
* Ing. Estimated $100,000,000 will
£ be donated.
* The king and queen are as
sisting in the rescue work.
*♦* American Consul Cheney and
♦:* family are dead. Their bodies
1) still lie beneath the ruins of
4* the consulate.
£ The estimate of 200,000 dead
^ is still looked upon as the most
.j. authentic computation of the
1* casualties.
* Thirty cities have been wiped
* off the map.
v The Straits of Messina and
4» the whole coast of Italy has
* been changed.
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versal terror by its activity.
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PRESIDENT DUSTIN TO QUIT.
Said W. E. Crane of Fort Smith Will
Manage Fort Smith and Western.
Fort Smith.—It is announced on
good authority that W. E. Crane of
Fort Smith, vice president of the
Fort Smith and Western railroad,
will immediately assume the duties
of the president of that road in place
of President A. C. Dustin of Cleve
land.
Mr. Crane will make his headquar
ters in St. Louis, instead of Fort
Smith, as formerly. It is understood
that official confirmation of the ap
pointment of Mr. Crane to his new
duties will be sent out from the offices
of President Dustin in a few days.
The change in the management of
the road has been brought about by
the press of business which has been
put upon President Dustin by his ap
pointment as receiver for the defunct
municipal road, Mayor Johnson’s
3-cent line. In addition to his duties
as receiver. President Dustin's large
legal practice in Cleveland made it
imperativq^upon him to turn the rail
road business over to Mr. Crane.
No other change is said to be slated
in the officials. The report to the
effect that General Manager Bushner
is to retire seems to be without foun
dation and it is understood he will
remain in this position.
ARKANSAN GRANTS REQUEST.
Sends Saddle and Birds to St. Louis
ian, Still St. Louisiana is Dis
pleased.
St. Louis.—“Ship saddle and birds,”
was the body of a telegram sent to
Henry Wrape of the Wrape Stave
Company at Paragould by Edward
Beckmann, a St. Louis broker.
Wrape read the message literally,
and therein hangs a tale. When
Beckmann wired Wrape to remind
him of the saddle Wrape had prom
ised him, he referred to a saddle of
venison. By birds he meant quail.
Beckmann was at his hotel when
the express man drove around to his
office. The stenographer called Beck
mann on the telephone and told him
an express package had arrived with
$4.50 charges on it, and wanted to
know whether she should accept it
and make the payment.
“Where is it from?” asked Mr.
Beckmann.
“Paragould,” replied the stenogra
pher.
“My venison!” said Beckmann.
“Pay the man.”
Beckmann hurried to the office and
broke open the box. There was a sad
dle, but it had once been used on a
horse’s back, and there were birds,
but who’s going to eat woodpeckers?
Wrape heard today, he said, that
Beckmann had sent the birds to the
state game warden.
“Beckmann shouldn't have sent mo
the telegram,” says Wrape.
PLAN TO JOIN WAREHOUSES.
Call for Mass Meeting of Arkansas
Division Issued.
Little Rock.—President John Bow
ers of the Arkansas division Farmers’
Union has issued a call for a mass
meeting of the Arkansas organization
in Little Rock, January 28, for the
purpose of adopting a plan for fed
eration of local warehouses. The na
tional executive committee at Beebe
recently instructed National Presi
dent Barrett to request the state
presidents of the Farmers' Union in
the several states to call a mass meet
ing of the Farmers’ Union for th?
purpose of discussing, with a view7 to
adoption, the plan of federation of
all local warehouses in the state, as
the plan adopted by the state union
in Tennessee, under one management
or control.
Arkansas Cotton Seed in Demand.
Arkansas cotton-seed products are
this year keeping live stock of Kan
sas and will guarantee the sugar
planters of Louisiana good crops. The
demand for cotton-seed cake and meil
from these two states this year has
put the price up, and cottou oil men
of this section are holding on to all
they have not sold on contract, for
they anticipate a healthy rise in the
meal between now and time for
planting in the spring. The high
price of grain in Kansas has forced j
the farmers there to turn to some
thing cheaper, and they are buying
largely of cracked cake, the cotton
meal cake broken into lumps the size
of a walnut. In Louisiana the meal
is taken, no matter what the condi
tion of it may be. so long as it has
the properties for rejuvenating the
soil. Tnis gives the oil mills a
chance to work up all their overheat
ed seed and dispose of the produce
for fertilizer.
Little Rock.—Louis Davis, seven
years of age, son of United States
Senator Jeff Davis, has a slight at
tack of smallpox and is quarantined
at the home of his parents, 142S
Broadway. Dr. O. K. Judd, city phy
! sician, w'ho examined the case, stated
i last night that it was a very mild
j one and was satisfied that the boy's
Illness would bo of short duration.
HOLDS FISH LAW VALID,
Supreme Court Affirms Decision
Against Shipper.
Little Rock.—The supreme court
has decided the case of Louis Fritz
against the state. The indictment
was based on the law which makes
it a misdemeanor to ship any kind of
game or fish from the state, and pro
vides a penalty of from $100 to $500.
Fritz had shipped some fish to
Memphis, but relied on the fact that
he caught them from an inland lake,
and from that part of the lake bor
dering on property to which he had
fee simple title as a defense. How
ever, he was fined for the offense
and appealed.
The supreme court held the law
against shipping game from the state
is valid, under former opinions of
the court, and that the evidence jus
tified the verdict against Fritz. Hence
it is affirmed.
Interpreting the law for the state
to be that any decree, foreign or do
mestic, may be renewed or taken up
by parties in actions at law in this
state, the supreme court handed
down an opinion in the case of Jor
dan vs. Muse. The action was brought
by Muse to revive a decree rendered
against Jordan by the chancery court
of Henderson County, Tenn., in 1899.
The judgment was never satisfied,
and in 1907 Muse undertook reviver
suit. Jordan claimed the action was
barred by the statute of limitations,
since it had been more than five
years since the decree of the Tennes
see court. The supreme court holds
the limitation of five years was ap
plied in this state prior to 1844, but
in that year an enactment provided
that decrees and judgments might
be taken up within ten years.
JUDGE TRIEBER PRESIDES.
Hearing Case in Which U. S. Senator
Jeff Davis is Attorney.
St. Louis.—Judge Jacob Trieber of
the Federal District Court of Arkan
sas, relieving Judge D. P. Dyer, pre
sided in the case of William Brooks
and John H. Ganner against Louis
Elsieben, H. C. Betner, W. A. Miller
and Julius W. Renshaldt of St. Louis.
The suit is for $79,000 damages for
alleged failure to keep a contract.
The plaintiffs assert that the de
fendants entered into an agreement
with them to organize a coal company
and that the latter were to buy 50,
000 acres of coal land in Pope and
Yell counties, Arkansas, for $60,000.
Today the testimony for the plain
tiff was almost completed and the
case will be carried on tomorrow.
Senator Jeff Davis is principal at
torney for plaintiffs.
Judge Dyer will not go to Arkan
sas, as expected to do, to handle
Judge Trieber’s work there, finding
it unnecessary.
DULY WINS FOR MAYOR.
Incumbent Has Majority of 482 in
Democratic Primaries over Brooks.
Little Rock.—By a majority of 482
votes W. R. Duley was renominated
for mayor at the primary Tuesday.
He carried five of the eight wards in
the city by majorities ranging from
four to 264. The First ward he lost
by 92 votes, the Fourth by 72 and the
Eighth by 63.
E. R. Ratterree swamped his oppo
nents in the race for police judge. He
secured a total of 1,789 votes to 1,165
received by A. A. Fleming and Sam
Churchill. His plurality over Church
ill, who stood second, is 1,080.
A total of 2,998 votes was cast for
mayor, indicating about 3,000 voters.
This is near the average primary vote
on city matters.
Officer Makes Report.
Brig. Gen. W. K. Surridge of the
Arkansas National Guard, wh^p lives
at Black Rock, has submitted his bi
ennial report of Arkansas National
Guard affairs to Adjt. Gen. Paul Little
and in his report gives a short re
sume of the work done by the guard
organization in the past two years
and the present condition of the
guard, and also makes several recom
mendations. He compliments the
condiiion and showing of the guard
and recommends, among other things,
that no provisional regiments be.sent
to any maneuvers again, iliat Arkan
sas troops never be sent to any en
campment where there are negro sol
diers, that the office of adjutant gen
eral and secretary to the governor
be separated, and that a more liberal
appropriation be given the guard by
the coming session of the legislature
Wealthy Arkansan Dead.
Portland.—Robert Aaron Pugb,
aged CT years, one of the most weal
thy and best known business men in
southeastern Arkansas, died at his
home here. He had been sick (inly a
few days.
Mr. Pugh was born in Mississippi,
the son of Greenwood Pugh. He
moved io Asliley county in 1850 and
lived in that count} his en,ire life,
with the exception of ihe time ho
served in the civil war. He settled
■w ith his father 10 miles west of Ham
burg, where they lived for years,
finally moving to Portland.