Wandran Eounty News.
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VOL. VII.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1908.
NO. 49.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
the latest news of the
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
north, east, south, west
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Na
tion. and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.
Sixteen persons are known to have
teen burned to death, when the train
which was carrying 300 persons flee
ing from the fire which destroyed the
town of Metz, ran into a burned out
culvert, was overturned and destroyed
by the encircling forest fires. Art Lee
the fireman, sought safety in the water
tank on the engine, and was literally
boiled to death. William Barrett, the
brakeman, died on the engine, and the
charred remains of John Nowickis, Jr.,
were found in the road crossing the
track just ahead of the engine.
Japan and China, it is announced
have reached a basis of settlement of
the difficulty arising out of the recent
clash between the Japanese garrison
at Kantao. northern Korea, and a
company of Chinese marauders. Japan
made a formal protest that the
Chinese war office refused permission
to the garrison soldiers to pursue the
Chinese across the border. The basis
of settlement was not made public,
but it is said the matter will be amic
ably adjusted.
The English court of appeals has
found that the fire which swept the
business portion of Kingstown Jan.
14 of last year, the day of the great
earthquake, was not caused by the
earthquake, but preceeded it. The in
surance companies will, therefore,
have to pay, several million dollars to
Kinkstown policy holders.
May Yohe, formerly Lady r rancis
Hope, is living quietly in Portland,
Ore., to establish residence before be
ginning proceedings for divorce from
Bradlee Putnam Strong, here latest
husband. If the proceedings are suc
cesful she will marry a wealthy resi
dent of British Columbia, it is said,
whose name she will not divulge.
Fire in South Chicago destroyed the
International salt docks, with two
sheds loaded with salt, burned the of
fice of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern
(belt line) railroad and 35 empty
freight cars on its tracks, threatened
the Calumet elevator “C” and imperil
ed two grain vessels, the Admiral and
George Stone, causing a total loss of
between $700,000 and $SOO.OOO.
Senator Gore has appointed Samuel
Houston, grandson of the Texas hero,
and Henry Watterson Jr., grandson of
the noted editor, as cadets to West
Point from Oklahoma.
Twenty-three persons were killed or
mortally wounded and 40 were seri
ously hurt in a riot at Azambuja, be
tween the Monarchists and Republi
cans, during the municipal election
primaries.
Commanding him to produce Harry
K. Thaw in Pittsburg forthwith, a
United States marshal, served the
writ of a Federal court upon Dr.
Lamb, superintendent of the Mat
teawan asylum.
The Texas Railroad commission
does not believe that the Interstate
Commerce commission, or any other
Federal body, can compel Texans to
submit to riding in the same Pullman
sleeping cars with negroes.
Eight bricks, much resembling so
many loaves of bread for size, piled
up on the table in the First National
Bank were among the sights delight
ing the eyes of hundreds of delegates
to the National Convention of Bankers
who visited Colorado Springs last
week. Tire gold came from the great
Portland mine, Cripple Creek, which
has produced $25,000,000 and paid
$8,000,000 in dividends, and resulted
from a ten days’ clean-up at the Port
ianff lnill, West Colorado Springs. The
weight is 500 pounds and the value
$150,000.
The story is current in high society
circles in Home that Miss Katherine
Elkins, the American heiress, whose
engagement to the Duke of the Ab
ruzzi, cousin of King Emmanuel, has
jilted her royal suitor. One rumor is
that Miss Elkins has refused to
change iter religion, which would be
necessary in case she became the
hride of the Duke.
Reports from the International race
say the Spanish balloon Mantana. ex
ploded over Mestzendorff. Saxony,
while at a height of 0000 feet. The
car and the rigging shot toward the
earth, but when within 1000 feet of
the ground the ripped envelope form
ed in the shape of a parachute and the
speed was checked. The occupants of
the basket alighted without injury.
One man is dying and more than a
dozen others were injured in abattle
between Sheriff Jones of Macoupin
county, in., aided by four officials, on
°ne side, and four car loads of minors
011 ’he other, at the interurban depot
at Carlinville, ill.
Disappointed after a searcn of two
days in not finding Shep Jones, the
negro who assassinated A. J. Wall, a
wealthy cotton planter at his home
near Hickory, Miss., a mob of fifty
men has hanged one innocent negro
and shot two others to death. The
mob completed its work by burning
a negro church and lodge hall near
the scene in the negro colony.
Five men were blown to atoms
and from 15 to 20 others badly in
jured, some fatally, by a premature
explosion of dynamite at the Great
Wester Sugar company's lime rock
quarry near P’ort Collins, Colo.
Boldly stopping the motor of his
aeroplane while 05 feet, above the
earth Wilbur Wright proved his con
tention that accident would not fol
low. The big machine glided a dis
tance of 05 yards with wonderful
ease and steadiness, alighting on the
earth without even a serious jar.
Rendered desperate by a fire which
destroyed $500,000 worth of property
in that city, already staggering under
the loss of the great flood a few
months ago, Bisbee business men are
planning to abandon the town site.
The chemists of the department of
Agriculture believe they have solved
the problem of cheaper paper that
will dispense altogether with the
use of wood fiber. The new material
front which five grades of paper al
ready have been made is the ordin
ary cornstalk, and the officials pre
dicted when the manufacture of the
new' kind of paper is started on a
large scale it will be at least 50 per
cent cheaper than the print paper
now made from wood pulp.
Fearing exposure of his forgery of
deeds to neighbors’ farms, D. O. Sea
man, a wealthy farmer, respected
throughout Macon County, Mo., stoon
his three children in a row in the barn,
made them a little speech, then rnort
allv wnnnrieri nnp killpri annthpr and
sent a bullet into his own head, ending
his life instantly.
King Peter of Servia is in imminent
danger of assassination as the result
of his refusal of the war party’s de
mand to abdicate the throne in favor
of Crown Prince George.
A kingship awaits the Duke of
Abruzzi, whose engagement with Miss
Catherine Elkins was recently broken
off, if the proposed international con
ference will grant the Balkans their
independence.
The body of Charles McConnell,
who two years ago died at a hospital
at Wheeling, W. Va., has turned to
stone. The body has been kept since
death at the city morgue, in hopes that
relatives might claim it. It is be
lieved that this is the first case of a
body that was never buried under
ground turning to stone.
The Chicago Cubs again are the
baseball champions of the world. For
the second time they won a series that
means the title from the Detroit Tigers
pennant winners of the American
League. Of the five games played this
year for me championship, Detroit
won only one. Last year the Tigers
tied and lost four. Of the 10 most im
portant games they have played in the
past two years, therefore, the Cubs
have won eight, lost one and tied one
J. W. Lewis, chairman of the Dem
ocratic State Speakers' Bureau, in
Kansas received a telegram stating
that William J. Bryan will spend the
last day before election, Monday Nov
ember 2, in Kansas. It is likely that
he will travel in the state in a special
train, returning to Lincoln, Neb.
where he will speak at night.
Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist candi
Halt; lur picsiucui, wuu \>as iaacu m
while making a campaign tour on his
"Red Special.” was so ill that he
could not meet a delegation of Social
ists who had called to express sym
pathy. His physicians says be is suf
fering from tuberculosis to a small
degree.
Before quitting the military grounds
at Auvours, where be has won all the
world's aeroplane records, Wilbur
Wright announced Tuesday that lie
would attempt to sail his aeroplane at
a height of 1,000 meter's, or 3,250 feet,
and also would attempt a flight with
sails, discarding his motor.
■ Invoking an old blue law which
makes it a crime for a man to kiss
his wife in public on the Sabbath.
Dennis Burns was arrested at Nauga
tuck, Conn., and spent the night in the
lockup. He was then fined.
George Roeman, son of the superin
tendant of the municipal electric
light plant at Escanada, Mich while
testing wire connections, received a
shock of 300 volts and was killed in
stantly.
Bonner Springs, Kan, was almost
entirely destroyed by lire early Tues
day. Nine of the largest stores and one
residence were burned to the ground
and scores of other buildings and res
idence were scorched or badly burned.
The dust and soot in the adrno
sphere of Chicago, as shown by test3
just taken by the health department,
is three times as great as tnat in the
atmosphere of London. Samples of
the air taken at a height of 40 feet
above the street level'at four points
of the city were subjected to analysis
NEWS OF
ARKANSAS
federal Jurors Chosen.
THe next regular term of the United
States District Court for the Texar
kana Division of the Western district
of Arkansas, will convene at Texar
kana on Monday, November 9.
Following are the lists of the grand
and petit jurors drawn for the term:
Grand Jury.
Tom Kent, Mineral Springs; W. H.
Baker, Bradley; Tom R. Landis, Buck
ner; D. Wood Fultz, Bearden; .T. L.
Davis, Strong; W. J. Henry, Dierks;
CL C. Williams, Village; u. N. Han
del, Walnut Hill; Paul T. Dismukes,
Magnolia; W. C. Horton. Bab; Asa J.
Forgv, Center Point; J. Sessions, Win
throp; Robert Bushman, Stamps; C. F.
Garner, Camden; G. M. Lee, Brad
ley; William G. Barton, Emmett;
Thomas Grisham, El Dorado; Walter
Terrell, Camden; Ed Waller, Rosston;
A. Warmock, Willisville; Tobe Galla
gher, Lockesburg; D. A. Rimes, Win
throp: W. J. Johnson, Bolding; A. H.
Sevier, Walnut Hill; M. L. William
son, Nashville; Tony Crawford, Na
than; Walter Winham. Frost ville;
Jake Parker, Murfreesboro; M. P.
Muse, Junction.
Petit Jury.
Hhnry J. Walker, Guernsey; John
Stinson, Ben Lomond: Alex Skillern,
Nashville; James Power, Nashville;
Eugene Hatley, Rosston; Lee C. Gil
bert, Bradley; George Gray, Chambers
ville; W. H. Norwood, Doyle; J. H.
Pepper, Caledonia; Sam Nutt, Cowl
ling; D. L. Thompson. Nashville; J.
D. Henry, Dierks; J. H. Landis,
oiamiJS, jij. it. Dcaiucii, Duciia \ ; 1 a,
W. Arnold, Elliott; D. Moss, Ogden;
W. A, Parker, Murfreesboro; Prank
B. Ohidister, Camden; Rufus Diews.
Hampton; John D. Ellis, Little Bay;
Floyd Thompson, Texarkana; M. L.
Moore, Prescott; Joe Greer, Horatio;
John Wade, Wallaceburg; Robert
Johnson, Alene; A. J. Milner, Elliott;
Patrick Cassidy, Emerson; S. M. Red
burn. Ashdown; W. M. Gatling. Beard
en; William Anderson, Foreman; Lew
is Lester, Mars; Ben Cox, Texarkana;
W. A. Ellis, Woodberry; J. B. Me
Clerkin, Stephens; D. W. Green, Cam
den; D. S. Phillips, Ashdown; Joe
Boyd, Lewisville; James Hutchinson,
Corinth; Charles A. Hayes, Hope;
Sam Grayson, Brister; .1. W. Baxter,
Horatio; Wood Huddleston, Jaka
jones; L. A. Smith, McNeil; W. G.
Mize, Ben Lomond.
“Rider” Notice in Johnson.
Sheriff W. H. McPherson received
a telephone message Monday from
Hartman, a town 10 miles west of
Clarksville, that some person or per
sons, presumably night riders, had
tacked a notice on the gin owned and
operated by W. F. Oberste, demanding
that he cease ginning cotton at once
or suffer the consequence. This is
the first appearance of night riders in
this (Johnson) county and but little
importance is attached to the matter,
as it is believed to have been done
by irresponsible persons. The cotton
crop is being rapidly gathered and
marketed.
To Bridge the Caddo.
The Clark County Court, which is
now in session, appropriated $1,500
for two bridges across Caddo river,
one at Cash’s ford, four miles north
of Arkadelphia and the other near
Amity in the western part of the
county. Caddo which is a swift moun
tainous stream, rises very rapidly and
these bridges had long been needed.
The county judge in his report
stated that the roads of the county
are in splendid condition.
Owing to increased property valua
tions the county tax was reduced
from 5 mills to 4 mills.
$100,000 Fire at Camden.
Fire at a late hour Thursday night
destroyed the Agee wagon works at
Camden. The works were valued at
t,»iw»pn STf.OOO and $100,000. The
amount of insurance is not known.
The fire broke out in the wagon
works at 12 o’clock Thursday night.
The origin is not known. The entire
plant is a complete wreck.
The fire department was unable to
save the plant, but managed to keep :
the flames from spreading to the bus
iness section of Camden.
Store Robbed at Tupelo.
The store of N. M. Robinett, a prom
inent Tupelo merchant, was entered
Wednesday night while the proprie- !
tor was attending a show, and a few
dollars were taken from the cash
drawer. Mr. Robinett telephoned to
Newport for a bloodfcound, but none
could be furnished.
Safe-Blowers at Black Rock.
The safe in Krone Bros.’ store in
Blac.lt Rock was blown open Friday
night and $125 was secured. Blood
hounds failed to take up the trail and
there is no clue to the identity of the
ro(
Fires Shotgun With Stick.
A tragic chapter in the story of the
failure of the Bradford bank at Brad
ford was added at 11 o’clock Wednes
day night when H. J. Drennon, cashier
of the bank, while a fugitive from jus
tice, wanted for embezzling between
$8,000 and $10,000 from the bank, com
mitted suicide by blowing out his
brains with a shotgun. He killed him
self in the barn at his home in Brad
ford just seven hours after leaving the
bank for the last time, and only a
few hours after a warrant was issued
for his arrest on the charge of em
bezzlement. His body was not found
until Thursday morning.
The shot, when Drennen discharged
the gun, was heard throughout Brad
ford, but no attention was paid to it
at the time. Drennen’s wife was ab
sent from home at the time, visiting
at Jonesboro. Only his three small
children were at home.
The charge from the gun blew off
the entire crown of Drennen’s head
and his brains were scattered over
several feet.
At a recent meeting of the direc
tors of the bank, it was decided that
the books of the institution should
be examined. James Johnson of Sear
cy, a lawyer, but formerly an
export accountant, was em
ployed to examine the books.
During the examination Wed
nesday errors began to show up and
at 4 o’clock Drennen walked out the
back door. Nothing was thought of
his departure until some time had
elapsed, and he failed to return. By
that time it had been definitely ascer
tained that the bank was short be
tween $S,000 and $10,000, and a war
rant was issued for the cashier's ar
rest and a search instituted for him.
It was learned later that he went di
rectly from the bank to his home,
where he secured his shotgun and
went out into the woods. He was
not seen after that until his body was
found Thursday morning.
Drennen killed himself by discharg
ing his shotgun with a stick. He held
the barrel of the shotgun in his right
hand and was still grasping the stick
in his left when his body was found
ne nan raaea up a pue or corn snucas
so that he fell hack on them when tho
shot was fired.
Want Penitentiary Record.
Superintendent James Pitcock of the
state penitentiary Monday received a
letter from Hal Norwood of Mena, at
torney general of Arkansas, pertain
ing to the suit of tf.e New York Life
Insurance Company against the estate
of the late Gus Frye, in which it is
alleged that Frye defrauded the in
surance company out of $10,000. Mr.
Norwood is attorney for the insurance
company in the suit and he asks Mr
Pitcock to make out, in deposition
from, a description of Frye’s body,
Frye having been in the penitentiary
at one time. Certain marks are said
to distinguish Frye’s body and a de
scription of these marks will be con?
pared with those found on the partia'
remains of a body found in a well
near Mena which were said to be the
remains of Frye’s body, but which,
the insurance company claims, are
those of another.
To Stop Caving of River Bank.
Work which will result in a new
revetment on the river front at Pine
Bluff and the raising of several dikes
was begun Monday by the United
States snagboat, in charge of Captain
Henry Mayer. The work was begun
with clearing the river at that point
of snags and other obstructions and
it is being carried out by the gov
DtMi ntonf tn nrntfi/'t tVlO U i\'PT V);ink
from Beech to Tennessee street, which
caved considerably of late. Captain
William Conner, the government en
gineer in charge of that district,
recommended the improvements. The
government will expend $1(>,000 and
the property owners along the river
front, who formed an improvement
district for that purpose, $10,000.
Rob Postoffice at Strong.
The building occupied by the Dugul
Merchandise Company and postoffice
at Strong, was entered Thursday
morning about l o'clock, and the safe
in the postoffloe was blown open and
badly wrecked. The robbers got about
$400 in money aud stamps. They left
some cf their tools.
The explosion attracted quite a few
people, but by the time they had gath
ered, the robbers had gone.
Col. W. M. Taggart Stricken.
Col. \V. M. Taggart, one of the old
est citizens of Pine Bluff and an ex
Confederate soldier, was stricken with
appolexy while at the table of his
son. W. A. Taggart, Monday, and lies
at the home of his son in a critical
condition.
Aged Negro Killed By Train.
James Peters, and old negro, was
killed by a train on the Iron Moun
tain railroad two miles south of Grady
Sunday night. He is supposed to have
been drunk and asleep on the track.
A bottle of whiskey or gin was found
on him
Farmers Rush Cotton to Gin.
An unusually large amount of cotton
grown in the northwest portion of
Crawford county has been offered on
the local markets at Van Buren, and it
now develops that the haste to mar
ket the cotton is due to threats of
night riders to burn gins, these threats
having become more frequent along
the Arkansas and Oklahoma state line.
Persons in Van Buren Saturday morn
ing from Arkloe, 11 miles northwest
of Van Buren, brought the following
copy of a letter received by J. S.
Brown, a ginner, and posted by him.
as requested:
“please post.”
"Mr. J. S. Brown, Ginner: To all
farmers, union and nonunion, we warn
you not to sell your cotton for less
than 10 cents. If you do you will pay
the rest. You will think that the
Lord has blessed you wonderfully if
you come out with your scalp. D— you.
“Yours for the Dough.
“Night Riders.
“P. S.—We are out to do the work.
If you havn't the nerve to protect
your family, we will, and you must go
when we call you. God help us
through the fight.”
J. L. Rea, who received the first
warning, and others who have been
watching the trend of affairs, are con
fident that if there is an organization
of this kind in the county it has head
quarters in the northwest part of the
county in close proximity to the state,
line. The greatest fear is felt in that
section, as the county is less thickly
settled and the cotton growers are
small farmers who have a hard time
to live from one year's crop to another.
It is absolutely necessary for them to
sell their crops as soon as ginned, and
if they cannot market it, many of them
with winter approaching, will be re
duced to absolute want.
Up to President Bowers
R. H. McCulloch of Beebe, chairman
of the Executive Committee of the
Arkansas Farmers’ Union and secre
tary of the national organization of
the same union, Sunday night stated
that he had been misunderstood in
his statements concerning a possible
extra session of the state union for
nnrnnoo nf frol.incr ctpnc in rPCTard
to the night rider movement in Arkan
sas. He stated that the1 calling of such
meeting was entirely up to President
Bowers of Jacksonville and that he
had merely stated that, in case such a
meeting was called, it would be held
in the House chamber of the state
house.
“I knew that I would not have time
enough to call the executive committee
together to decide where the meeting
should be held in case one should be
called.” stated Mr. McCulloch, ‘‘and
merely stated that I would have to de
cide the matter myself and that my
decision would be to hold the meeting
in the house chamber. The calling of
the session is up to the president. The
place where the session should be held
is up to the executive committee, of
which I am chairman."
Sheriff Got the Whiskey.
A unique race took place at Hamp
ton late Saturday afternoon. George
Sindle, in company with a negro, drove
a wagon into town loaded with four
boxes of whiskey. Sheriff Biggers
found out they had the whiskey, so
he set out to capture it. The sheriff
was in his buggy and the buggy and
wagon had a race for more than half
a mile. Finally Sheriff Biggers found
a wide place in the road where he
headed off the wagon and forced it to
stop. It is not known definitely for
whom the whiskey was intended, but
he will be sure not to get it.
Cotton Gin Burned.
Mammoth Spring witnessed a specta
cular fire near the center ot town in
the burning of B. F. Elder's cotton
gin about midnight Friday. People
not being able to locate the blaze from
the resident section of town, appeared
upon the scene promptly, but not in
the garb usually worn to church.
There being but little cotton in the
gin, the loss was nominal.
Governor Little Slowly Recovering.
Governor John S. Little, who is in
a private sanitarium in St. Joseph,
Mo., is reported to be slowly recover
ing, mentally and physically, but
physicians at the sanitarium do not
believe he will be able to resume his
official duties before his successor,
George W. Donaghey, elected Mon
day, is inaugurated the ilrst of the
year.
Girl Loses Her Hand.
Miss Minnie Bell, the 15-year-old
daughter of Frank Bell, who resides
at Antioch, seven miles north of Beebe,
had her left hand caught between the
rollers of a sorghum mill while they
were in motion and her hand was so
badly crushed that amputation at the
wrist was necessary.
Forced Out Competitor.
A cotton seed war has been on in
Magnolia between the local cotton oil
company and the company at Homer,
La. The price was forced to 30 cents
a bushel and the Homer agent with
drew from the market.
§^rup»jTigs
^E\ixir '-fbenna
acts gently j/et prompt
ly ontbe bowels, cleanses
I
\e system ej|ectuaUy,
assists one m overcoming
habitual constipation
permanently. To get its
oenejiciol ejects buy
the genuine.
hlanujactured by the
California
Jig Syrup Co.
SOLD BY LEADING DRUCGI3TS-504 po-BOTTlt
WANTED IT OVER WITH.
Game Youngster Preferred Drastic
Action in Punishment.
“Youngsters are pretty philosoph
ical," observed Wallace Knight, and
then he went ahead to set forth the
point of view of a small daughter at
his house.
The child was sent to bed early
the other evening as punishment for
some act contrary to rules and regula
tions.
After she had been tucked in bed
for some time and was supposedly
asleep, the youngster called her fa
ther and told him she wished he would
go ahead and spank her and have it
over with, instead of sending her off
to bed that way. “This lying in bed
never’s going to make me any better,”
she said, “and a good spanking would.
Besides it makes me so mad I can’t
sleep and so what's the use of it?”~«
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
CONSIDERATION.
The Workman—Hey, what’s that?
The Kid—I sez, any time you gits
tired I'll take de job fer two cents a
hour.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Congratulations Wanted.
On entering his club one evening
not long ago a young Philadelphian
was accosted by a friend, who ex
claimed:
! “Why, Charley, you are positively
beaming! What’s up?”
| “I’m in the greatest luck imagin
able,” responded the other. “You
know, I’ve been hanging about a pretty
Yonkers girl for almost a year. Dur
ing all this time she w-ould never ad
mit that she loved me; she would only
say that she respected me. But now.
old chap, congratulate me, for last
night she confessed that she respected
me no longer—that she loved me!”—
Llppincott's.
NOT A MIRACLE.
Just Plain Cause and Effect.
There are some quite remarkable
things happening every day, which
seem almost miraculous.
Some persons would not believe that
a man could suffer from coffee drink
ing so severely as to cause spells of
unconsciousness. And to find complete
relief in changing from coffee to Pos
tum is well worth recording.
“I used to be a great coffee drinker,
so much so that it was killing me by
inches. My heart became so weak I
would fall and lie unconscious for an
hour at a time. The spells caught
me sometimes two or three times a
day.
“My friends, and even the doctor,
told me it was drinking coffee that
caused the trouble. I would not be
lieve it, and still drank coffee until I
could not leave my room.
“Then my doctor, who drinks Pos
tum himself, persuaded me to stop cof
fee and try Postum. After much hesi
tation I concluded to try’it. That was
eight months ago. Since then I have
had but few of .those spells, none for
I more than four months.
“I feel better, sleep better and am
! better every way. I now drink noth
! ing but Postum and touch no coffee,
and as I am seventy years of age all
my friends think the improvement
quite remarkable.”
“'There's a Reason.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read ‘ The Road to Weli
S ville,” in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
; one appears from time to time. They
j are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.