The Woodruff County News.
G. W. KRAMER, Editor.
McCRORY, * - ARKANSAS
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Admiral Schley has been retired
from active service by age limit.
It is reported King Edward of
England is suffering from cancer.
A Carlist uprising is threatened
in the mountain resgions of Spain.
Independent distillers of Peoria,
111., have organized to fight the
whisky trust.
Louis Herman, a wealthy New
Orleans broker, suicided by shoot
ing himself.
A company with $30,000,000 cap
ital has been organized to control
the salt output.
Jeffries and Ruhlin will battle for
the heavy weight championship in
San Francisco November 15.
Burglars stole $5,000 worth of
diamonds from the residence of
Claus Spreckles in San Francisco.
The second trial of ex-Secretary
of State Caleb Powers as accessory
to the murder of Gov. Goebel began
at Georgetown, Ky., on the 9th inst.
Senator Depew will shortly be
married to Miss May Palmer, an
American resident of Paris. The
groom is G7 years old, and the bride
23.
Experts who have just completed
an examination of the famous
Brooklyn bridge, state that the
structure is unsafe, and should
be strengthened at once.
Admiral Dewey’, sitting as judge
in the Schley case, has further en
deared himself to the people by the
fairness of his rulings on questions
affecting all parties concerned.
The American Sugar Refining
Company has reduced the price on
beet sugar 30 cents per 100 and 20
cents per 100 on cane sugar. This is
said to be a move against the beet
sugar industry.
The commissioner of internal rev
enue has decided that a delivery of
stock as collateral security for the
future payment of money is taxable
at the rate of 2 cents for each $100
or fraction thereof, provided such
delivery is accompanied by any pa
per or agreement or memorandum or
other evidence of transfer as requir
ed by the statute, and also that a so
called collateral note, in which such
stock should be described with rea
sonable certainty would be such evi
dence.
Airs. A. J. Wilmer, a widow liv
ing at Dayton, O., is under arrest
suspected of fourteen murders, the
list including four husbands, five
children, one sister and four mem
bers of different families in which
she was employed as housekeeper.
The last supposed victim was her
sister, Mrs. Anna Pugh, who died
under mysterious circumstances.
An autopsy is said to have disclosed
the presence of arsenic and copperas
in the stomach. In each instance
death was sudden and all strangely
alike.
It has been determined at the
war department to send troops to
the Philippines to take the places
of those whose term of enlistment
expires. Where the re-enlistments
are not large in any one regiment,
their places will be filled by separ
ate detachments of recruits. If any
considerable number of enlistments
expire in a single organization it is
probable that the organization as a
whole will be returned from the
Philippines and another regiment
sent to take its place.
The triennial Episcopal conven
tion in session at San Francisco,
adopted by a vote of 37 to 21 can
on 36, relating to the marriage
vow, which forbids the marriage of
persons divorced for any cause not
existing before marriage. “For any
cause not existing before marriage”
is understood to refer to such cause
as insanity, inability to execute a
contract, the existence of a living
wife or husband or like reasons,
which practically render the mar
Tiage null and void.
Gen. Alger’s book reviewing the
“embalmed beef” controversy, is
out of the press. Gen. Alger charges
that Gen. Miles, who was responsi
ble for the famous investigation,
directed that the food be used.
Traffic was stopped on the Chicago
& Southwestern railroad by the em
ployes going on a strike. The
strike was caused by failure
of the company to pay off for
two months. Engines and cts
were attached at many points and
chained to the track to prevent them
being moved.
The directors of the Choctaw,
Oklahoma & Gulf railroad have de
clared a semi-annual dividend of
2 1-2 per cent on preferred stock
and 2 1-2 per cent on common stock.
A 10 per cent common stock divi
dend has also been declared to be
paid out of the accumulated earn
ings made during the past year.
A bloody fight took place at the
Union Baptist church, ten miles
from Tazewell, Tenn., between fam
ilies named Chadwell and Morgan,
the result of a feud of long standing.
Tip and John Chadwell and Bush
and Henry Morgan were killed and
John Morgan and Asa Chadwell fa
tally wounded.
President Roosevelt has appoint
ed ex-Gov. Thomas Goode Jones, of
Alabama, to be United States dis
trict judge of the middle and north
ern district of Alabama, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of
Judge John Bruce. Ex-Gov. Jones
has always been a democrat, and
was twice chief executive of his
state. He was Gen. Gordon’s adju
tant general during the civil war.
In 1896, as a gold democrat, he sup
ported Palmer and Buckner.
President Roosevelt has selected
the following trustees for the Mc
Kinley National Monument Asso
ciation : Wm. R. Day, Canton;
Wm. A. Lynch, Canton ; M. A. Han
na, Cleveland; Cornelius N. Bliss,
New York; John G. Milburn, Buf
falo ; Thomas Dolan, Philadelphia;
W. Murray Crane, Boston; David
R. Francis, St. Louis; Alexander S.
Revell, Chicago; Robert J. Lowry,
Atlanta, Ga.; Charles W. Fairbanks,
Indianapolis; Henry C. Payne, Mil
waukee; Gen. Henry M. Duffington;
Detroit; George B. Cortelyou, Wash
ington; Henry L. Scott, San Fran
cisco; Franklin Murphy, Newark,
X. J.; Gen. Eli Torrance, St. Paul.
The count of the population of
the United States by race has been
completed at the census office. The
greatest question has been the rela
tive growth of the colored popula
tion. Final figures show that the
negro population at this time con
stitute about 11.58 per cent of our
total population. Ten years ago the
figures on a similar basis were 11.93.
The figures since 1790, showing the
percentage the negroes have consti
tuted of our total population, are as
follows: 1790, 19.27 per cent;
1800, 18.88; 1810, 19.03; 1820,
18.39; 1830, 18.10; 1840, 1G.84;
1850, 15.69; 1860, 14.13; 1870,
12.66; 1880, 13.13; 1890, 11.93;
1900, 11.58.
A, dispatch from Manila of the
10th says: A detachment of the
twenty-first company of Macabebes
today encountered a large force of
insurgents near Lipa, province of
Batansas, Lieut. Beau of the Mac
abebes was killed and one of the
force was wounded. The enemy
was strongly entrenched. After two
hours’ fighting the Americans re
treated to await reinforcements.
The insurgents numbered over 300,
were armed with Remington and
Mauser rifles and apparently had
plenty of ammunition. Martin, a
teacher of Mauban, was captured by
insurgents while visiting a neighbor
ing town under an escort of native
police. The next day his captors,
relenting, tied him in a hammock
and carried him to a point within a
mile of the town and released him,
saying he was a noncombatant. The
entire force of police of Calanaga,
province of Taybas, numbering elev
en, have been carried off by insur
gents, armed only with bolos. Pre
sumably the police made no resist
ance, though they were well armed
with carbines and revolvers.
NEWS OFAKKANSAS.
Grand and Petit Jurors.
The grand and petit juries for the
fall term of the United States court
which opens in Little Eock October
21 are as follows:
Grand Jury—G. M. Walthah
Conway; J. W. Puryear, Carlisle,
Lonoke county; Matt Nailer, Scotts
ville, Pope county; G. M. Croeger,
Tollville, Prairie county; Fritz Tim
merman, Ulm, Prairie county; J.
W. Rich, McAlmont, Pulaski coun
ty; G. W. Burris, Isabell, Pope
county; John T. Harris, New Edin
burgh, Cleveland county; W. K.
Bryant, Hazen, Prairie county; W.
J. Greenless, Calmar, Cleveland
county; Henry McGuire, Little
Eock, Pulaski county; Mark L.
Phillips, Tyro, Lincoln county; J.
B. Palmer, Little Eock, Pulaski
county; Cecil Price, Stuttgart, Ar
kansas county; C. C. Falls, Lonoke,
Lonoke county; Edward Moore, Bee
be, White county; J. T. Davis, Lit
tle Eock, Pulaski county; J. E. El
dridge, Eglantine, Van Buren coun
ty; Thomas E. Hammett, Montieel
lo, Drew county; G. H. Booth, West
Point, White county. Alternates—
0. J. Keyler, Pine Bluff, Jeiferson
county; A. J. Jones, Little Eock,
Pulaski county; Lewis E. Webb,
Stuttgart, Arkansas county; A. J.
Marsh, McCrory, Woodruff county;
M. Nadoo, Carlisle, Lonoke county;
L. Hill, Kingsland, Cleveland
county.
Petit Jury—T. B. Tipton, New
Edinburg, Cleveland county; E. T.
Leonard, Carlisle, Lonoke county;
A. P. Bryan, Russellville, Pope
^ounty; A. J. Stevenson,\ Crook,
Cleveland county; W. II. Crouch,
Preston, Faulkner county; B. C.
Simms, Greenbrier, Faulkner coun
ty; J. A. Brewer, Eison, Cleveland
county; J. A. Garlington, England,
Lonoke county; Jonathan Click,
Carlisle, Lonoke county; J. D. Dun
can, Warsaw, Pulaski county; J. H.
Johnson, Atkins, Pope county; A.
M. Keith, Little Eock, Pulaski
county; Guilford D. Gardner, Oden,
Montgomery county; James D. Lea,
Tulip, Dallas county; A. Reiman,
Little Eock, Pulaski county; Er
nest D. Gregory, Hamburg, Ashley
county; J. C. Mills, Morganton,
White county; W. II. McIIughes,
Doe Branch, Pulaski county; L. G.
Call, Perryville, Perry county; C.
H. Newell, Fordyce, Dallas county;
A. L. Holt, Little Rock, Pulaski
county; James M. Holland, Der
mott, Chicot county; P. G. Thoinp
kins, Joplin, Montgomery county;
J. H. Douglass, Jacksonville, Pu
laski county; A. G. Chrisman, Lit
tle Rock, Pulaski county; C. V. Ed
gar, Fordyce, Dallas county; T. J.
Hunter, Choctaw, Van Buren; W.
M. Knight, Greenbrier, Faulkner
county; John Gentry, Guy, Faulk
ner county; N. M. Twombly, Perry
ville, Perry county; Shock West
brook, Sweden, Jefferson county;
E. A. Duvall, Benton, Saline coun
ty; H. B. Walker, Higginson, White
county; L. II. Thompson, Benton,
Saline county; B. F. Thompson,
Ca!bot, Lonoke county; Young Wor
tham, Searcy, White county; Dan
Nelson, Index, Conway county; R.
0. Carpenter, Silver, Montgomery
county; Granville A. Whitington,
Mount Ida, Montgomery county; J.
G. Tucker, Leconte, Pulaski county.
To Bridge the Mississippi.
Russell Harding, vice president
of the Missouri Pacific-Iron Moun
tain system, recently visited Mem
phis for the purpose of making an
inspection of terminals, and other
matters of importance to his 'com
pany’s interests. Mr. Harding
states that it is the intention of his
company to bridge the Mississippi
at Memphis and also to construct a
connecting line from Trippe, Ark.,
south to a connection with the New
Orleans and Northwestern line near
Vidalia, La., and from Trippe north
ward to a connection with the Hel
ena branch of the Iron Mountain.
Bids have been asked for this work.
II. M. Webb, colored, postmaster
at Luna, Jefferson county, has been
bound over to the federal grand
jury, charged with being a defaulter
in the sum of $1,500.
May Be an Impostor.
State Superintendent J. J. Doyne
lias issued the following circular let
ter:
“I am informed that one Harry
Batdorf, claiming to have a letter
of recommendation from me, is sell
ing school supplies in the state for
the National Supply Company, St.
Louis or Kansas City. I have nev
er heard of any such firm, and Mr.
Batdorf has no letter of recommend
ation from me. It further appears
that, in some instances, warrants
have been drawn by the directors in
advance of the delivery of the goods,
and the goods have in no ease been
received.
“Examiners and treasurers are
urged to keep the directors on the
alert against such impositions, and
no director should draw warrants
for goods purchased until the same
have been delivered. Permit me
also to ask that you call their atten
tion to the comments on section 7019
of the school law, as a guide to the
legitimate expenditure of the school
moneys for purchase of supplies.”
Half a Million Loss.
Half a million dollar fire occur
red at Arkansas City on the 7th,
completely consuming the Paepcke
Leight Lumber Company's immense
yard of cottonwood lumber, con
taining some four million feet of
seasoned lumber, ready for the mar
ket, and six box cars belonging to
the Missouri Pacific railway com
pany. The fire seems to have caught
from a spark from the mill smoke
stack. It was thought for awhile
that the Kimball mill would be
burned, but heroic efforts on the
part of the citizens and the fire com
pany saved it and prevented the
spread of the angry flames beyond
the lumber yard.
Daughters of Confederacy.
The annual convention of the
Daughters of the Confederacy of
Arkansas was held at Little Hock
last week. A large number of dele
gates took part in the meeting. Offi
cers for the ensuing year were elect
ed, as follows: Mrs. B. E. Benton,
Pine Bluil, president; .Mrs. Clem
entine Boles, Fayetteville, first vice
president; Mrs. Cravens, Clarks
ville, second vice president; Mrs. A.
P. Coolidge, Helena, recording sec
retary; Mrs. Hunter Hall, Darda
nelle, corresponding secretary; Mrs.
S. S. Wassell, Little Hock, treas
urer.
Penalties Remitted.
The Arkansas railroad commis
sion has remitted the penalty against
the following railroads for failure
to file their reports within the
specified time: Arkansas & Choc
taw, Arkansas & Oklahoma, Arkan
sas Southern, Arkansas Southwest
ern, Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf,
Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern,
Frisco, St. Louis, Caruthersville &
Memphis, Texarkana, Shreveport &
Natchez, Ultima Thule, Arkadel
pliia & Mississippi, White & Black
River Valley and Warren & Ouachi
ta Valley. /
Engineer Arrested.
Charles V. Bachant, since June
an engineer on the Cotton Belt rail
way, with headquarters at Pine
Bluff, was arrested last week by
Detectives P. M. Hennessey and I).
Allman, of St. Paul, Minn. Ba
chant is alleged to be one of a gang
of robbers which broke into a car
of the Great Northern at De Soto,
Mo., and stole a considerable quan
tity of valuable goods.
Three Drowned.
Paschal Hudson, aged 26, Elsie
Franks, aged 14, and Pearl Grissom,
aged 11, were drowned in the Mis
souri river near Murfreesboro. Mr.
Paschal was crossing the river in a
small boat, accompanied by five
children, when the boat sprung a
leak. The three children who clng
to the boat were rescued.
Fulton County Leads.
Fulton county is the first county
in the state to set a day of demo
cratic primaries in 1902. Primaries
will be held March 29 for the pur
pose of nominating candidates foi
state, district and county offices.
BRIEF MENTION.
A. M. Orrick has been appointed
postmaster at Van Buren.
The new road from Harrison is
being built at a rapid rate.
The state supreme court convened
on the 8th inst. after a recess of two
months.
Arkansas zinc, exhibited at the
Buffalo exposition by Bees & Seaw
ell, was awarded a medal.
Richard Hokes, the alleged mur
derer of James Gaiter at Dumas,
was captured in Bradley county.
A white man made an unsuccess
ful attempt to assault a little 8-year
old white girl in a Little Rock sub
urb.
Architect Geo. B. Mann has com
pleted the revision of the plans for
the new state capitol. They have
been cut down to the $1,000,000
limit.
The census report shows that
there is within the borders of Ar
kansas forty-seven nurseries, valued
at $101,455.
The fall reunion of the Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Bite, Valley
of Little Rock, will be held No
vember 25, 26, 27 and 28 in Little
Bock.
Charles Iloerning, one of the old
est engineers on the Frisco line,
committed suicide at his home in
Fort Smith. Ill health is supposed
to have been the cause.
While a work train on the Gate
City road was loading dirt at a deep
cut near Texarkana, a huge bank of
earth caved in and caught one man,
Frank German, killing him instant
ly
It is announced in St. Louis that
the southwestern district of the
American Sunday School Union has
arranged to hold its annual confer
ence at Little Rock October 15 to
18, inclusive.
The Mexican government has is
sued a decree suspending import and
other duties on corn.
The election for city officials of
Indianapolis, Ind., resulted in a
complete victory for the republicans.
Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of
the Mormon church, died at his
home in Salt Lake City on the 10th.
Miss Helen Long, daughter of the
secretary of the navy, died at the
home of her parents in Burghara,
Mass.
A large number of employes of
the Southern Pacific railroad have
recently been dismissed “for fre
quenting' saloons.”
One of the horrors of the famine
in Shansi province, China, is the
eating of human flesh, which is sold
for $1.10 per pound.
The Rosebud Indians, occupying
a reservation in South Dakota, have
signed an agreement to open the
country to settlers.
Lord Kitchener reports that Gen.
Botha has again succeeded in out
witting Britisli troops and escaped
from close quarters.
The German minister of educa
tion has issued an order barring for
eigners from attending the famous
Berlin technology school.
Mrs. Nation, the Kansas saloon
wrecker, was given hours to leave
Wheeling, W. Ya., for attempting
to demolish a dram shop.
Gen. Miles takes occasion, in his
“embalmed beef” book, to severely
critisise Admiral Sampson, as well
as other army and navy officials.
Many English writers are de
manding the recall of Lord Kitch
ener, suggesting that Lord Roberts
be sent back to South Africa.
The request of Lord Tipton,
owner of the defeated yacht Sham
rock, for another trial with the Co
lumbia has been refused, it being
the rule that a defeated vessel can
not again race for the cup under two
years.
Hon. Z. T. Sweeney, of Columbus,
Ind., ex-consul general to Turkey,
says lie is of opinion the kidnaping
by brigands of Miss Stone, the
American missionary was for polit
ical purposes, her captors desiring
the United States to seek revenge
upon Turkey.