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VOL. V.
McORORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 2*i, 190(1,
KO. 23.
fl WEEK’S NEWS
BRIEFLY NARRATED
late events of the world.
In Foreign Lands, In Washington,
and Particularly In the
Great Southwest.
WHAT CONGRESS IS DOING
A joint resolution appropriat
ing $1,000,000 for the relief of suf
fering in San Francisco was
adopted by both houses of con
gress, and was promptly signed
by the president.
House passed the bill permit
ting withdrawal from bond, tax
free, of domestic alcohol when
rendered unfit for beverage or
liquid medicinal uses by mixture
with suitable denaturing materi
als.
House passed bill permitting
the withdrawal from bond, tax
free, of domestic alcohol when
rendered unfit for beverage or
liquid medicinal uses by mixture
with suitable denaturalizing mate
rials.
House passed bill to increase
the limit of loans by national
banks by allowing the banks to
loan ten per cent, of their cap
ital and ten per cent, of their sur
plus to any person, firm or corpo
ration.
Senate passed bills increasing
11IC U1 CA-5U1U1C13 W 1IU
lost limbs in the service; retiring
and pensioning petty officers and
men of the army, navy and ma
rine corps after 30 years of serv
ice at three-fourths their regular
pay.
House concurred in senate
amendments to the bill fixing the
terms of court in the southern
district of Texas.
Senate committee on public
lands reported favorably bill for
allotment of homesteads in Alas
ka to Indians and Eskimos, na
tive of that territory.
A concurrent resolution passed
the house providing for the sale
of all buildings now or heretofore
used for governmental schools
and other tribal purposes by the
Five Civilized Tribes.
Senate committee's report on
Indian bill, winding up tribal af
fairs, is accepted at conference.
NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERY
WHERE.
The American people have re
sponded liberally in contributing
for the relief of the sufferers in
San Francisco. It is believed that
fully $20,000,000 will be raised.
I he Hawaiian islands were
shaken by an earthquake three
days after the California disaster.
At Honolulu marines were land
ed from a warship to preserve or
der.
I wo distinct earthquake shocks
were felt at Folsom, N. M., and
the side of Mount Capulin, an ex
tinct volcano, was cracked. The
mountain emitted heat .and
smoke.
I he outlook for statehood leg
lsiation in Washington is begin
ning to discourage some of the
friends of the measure.
i he pope cabled a blessing and
sympathy for San Francisco.
Fourteen men who attempted
to enter the United States mint
building in San Francisco, whose
vaults contain $309,000,000 in
coin and bullion, were shot down
by United States regulars.
Eleven postal clerks were taken
alive from the debris of the San
Francisco post office, after having
been for three days without food
or water. All the mail was saved.
1 he wiping out of Chinatown
in San Francisco has revealed se
crets the police never dreamed of.
The wooden structures were sim
ply a veneer for a vast system of
burrows in the ground, some 100
feet deep, where things occurred
that the outside world never saw.
In the federal court at Chicago
the Chicago, Burlington & Quin
cy Railroad Co. was fined $40,000
mid two officials of the. company
$10,000 each, having been found
guilty of rebating.
I be Canadian government
voted $100,000 for the earthquake
and lire sufferers in San F'rancis
co.
John Lawrence Brady, the St.
Louis stabbpr of women, was
found guilty of felonious assault,
and was sentenced to six months
in the workhouse.
John Badie, aged 64, a painter,
fell from the roof of a house in
St. Louis, and was impaled on a
picket fence, causing almost in
stant death.
At a mass meeting of the citi
zens of Hobart, Okla., a commit
tee composed of six business
men, appointed at a former meet
ing to call upon A. Wooten, man
ager of the Hobart Oil Mill Co.,
and request him to discharge his
large force of negro help, report
ed that Wooten said that it was
impossible to operate the mill
without them. A petition was
formulated demanding that the
negroes be discharged at once.
At Tulsa, I. T.. Marshal W. J
Baber shot and killed R. A. West
brooks, a negro from Dallas Tex.
in a cab while taking him to the
city prison on a charge of drunk
enness. Westbrooks was armed
with a razor and tried to slash
the officer.
1 he Arkansas state board ol
railway incorporators has grant
ed a charter to the Hot Springs.
Ouachita & Mena Railroad Co.
The capital stock is $1,000,000.
Arthur Fowler, aged 37 years,
son of Col. Pleas Fowler, of Val
ley Springs, Ark., was drowned
while fishing at night in Buffalo
river.
At Greenville, Miss., Charlie
Jeter was fatally shot by J. E.
Lenz. The trouble followed the
receipt of ugly letters by Jeter's
sister, and it was thought by Je
ter that Lenz was the author.
Lenz was chief electrician for the
Delta Light Co. Jeter is an en
gineer on the Southern railway.
A. J. Foster, a business man of
Berwyn. I. T„ committed suicide
by cutting his throat. He was
insane.
R. A. Chitwood, a former clerk
in the Hot Springs (Ark.) post
office, has been sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary for
rifling letters.
hire destroyed the Simon
building at Shreveport, La.
William Beckers, a «v.illionaire
of Milwaukee, Wis., committed
suicide at Mobile, Ala.
Fire swept the town of Mari
quina, in Rizl province, island of
Luzon, destroying 2,000 dwell
ings. Many thousands of people
were made destitute. Two hun
dred houses in the town of Pasil,
near Cebu, were also destroyed.
The Philippine government is af
fording relief.
The two hundredth anniver
sary of the birth of Benjamin
Franklin was fittingly celebated
at Philadelphia.
Many babies were born in the
relief camps at San Francisco.
The United Mine Workers of
America have again notified the
soft coal operators of their will
ingness to arbitrate. The op
erators and miners in Iowa have
signed the 1903 scale.
Father Biever, president of the
Jesuit community at New Or
leans, savs that one of the Fran
. _ .
Francisco in 1776, predicted that
the locality would some day be
destroyed by an earthquake.
The San Francisco disaster is
the greatest in loss of property
in the history of the United
States. In the Chicago fire there
were 17.450 buildings destroyed :
in San Francisco 30,000. In Chi
cago the monetary loss was
$200,000.000; in San Francisco
probably $300,000,000.
Representative and Mrs. Long
worth will sail for England June
2, returning by way of France,
August 28.
The prohibitionists have placed
a state ticket in the field in Illi
nois.
Senator Hopkins, of Illinois,
delivered a bitter denunciation of
Senator Tillman in the senate.
The London papers had great
“scare heads” that the entire
North American continent west
of the Sierra Nevada mountains
was breaking up.
Burglars blew a safe in Fergu
son’s grocery at El Reno, Okla.,
wrecked the building, all for $62.
Capt. Win. M. Morrow, with
the Twenty-first infantry, at
tacked Tiducdtic’s band, in their
mountain fastness, on island of
Sanar. Philippines, killing1 eight
in hand-to-hand fight. Three sol
diers were wounded.
At the annual convention of Ar
kansas Bankers’ association a res
olution was passed requesting the
legislature to pass tire uniform
negotiable instrument law.
Much sickness seems inevitable
in the camps at San Francisco.
Typhoid fever is feared. The san
itary conditions are unavoidably
bad.
1 he race feeling engendered at
Springfield, Mo., by the lynching
of two negroes charged with a
crime against a white woman, and
another who was charged with
murder, was further intensified
by the killing of a negro by a boy
of 16. 1 lie youth was escorting
a girl of 15, at night, when they
were set upon by two negroes,
who assaulted them. The youth
used his revolver. lie surren
dered to the authorities, but was
released. * * 1= A special
grand jury was convened, many
bench warrants issued for the ar
rest of alleged participants in the
affair, and a number of arrests
made. The governor oft'-rs a re
ward of $300 for every lyncher
convicted.
At the convention of the South
western mercantile associations
at St. Louis, a resolution was in
troduced indorsing the efforts of
Gov. hoik of Missouri to appre
hend and punish the members of
the mob that lynched three ne
groes at Springfield, Mo. It was
voted down. Former Mayor Pad
dock, of Forth Worth, Tex.,
stampeded the convention against
flip resolution wIipmt 1ir» cnifl • “ \ I 1*
Chairman, I move to table that
resolution. The people of Spring
field did just exactly right. They
ought to do more like it." * * *
A communication was read from
a negro of Bonita. Ariz., styling
himself “President of the Black
Movement Association," request
ing influence to induce the fed
eral government to lend aid to
transport negroes to Africa. This
also was tabled. George Russell
Brown, of Little Rock. Ark., de
clared Arkansas needed the ne
gro.
A fierce riot occurred in the
southern part of Phillips county,
Ark., between Greeks, Roumani
ans, Poles and Slavs, at work on
a railway. They were drunk, and
used knives, pistols, guns and
axes on one another. The fore
man and five men were killed.
The next morning hostilities
were renewed, and three others
vvere killed. The sheriff and a
posse attempted to restore order,
killed three others, and then tel
egraphed for the militia.
One of the most systematic oil
robberies on record has been un
earthed in the Sour lake and Bat
son fields, in Texas. It is esti
mated that nearly 250,000 barrels
of oil have been stolen. Two
pipe lines were tapped by the
thieves, and the mouths of the
false lines extended to a point on
the bayou, where the oil was
loaded into barrels and then
shipped to New Orleans.
In order to get into the United
States, after being rejected by the
immigration authorities, four
Italians now nnclcr arrest at c>an
Antonio, Tex., swam the Rio
Grande river near Laredo. After
they landed on the Texas shore,
they walked 150 miles to San An
tonio, only to be arrested. They |
are afflicted with traconta, a dis
ease of the eyes, and will be de
ported.
The United States supreme
court has decided that both par
ties to a divorce suit must reside
in the same state in order to
make the decree effective. A New
York man lied to Connecticut,
leaving his wife in New York.
He obtained a divorce in Connec
ticut, service being made on the.
wife by publication. This was in
1881. Returning to New York
in 1899, his former wife sued for
divorce, securing personal serv
ice on him. She was granted di
vorce, on the ground of desertion,
and also granted alimony. The
case was appealed to the United
States supreme court, and the de
cision, as announced, will, it is es
timated. cast a stigma upon thou
sands of children, and prove a
blow to the divorce evil.
It is reported, on good authori
ty, that E. Ii. Harriman is to
build a railroad from Kansas City
through Indian territory to Den
ison, Tex.
NEWS OF ARKANSAS
Walter Pitts, a young man at
Alma, met with a painful accident
at that place. Ite turning from
church at night, he struck a match
to light the lamp in his room, when
an open bottle of gasoline on the
same table with the lamp caught
fire. .Mr. Pitts picked up the bottle
and started toward the door, but in
his haste he stumbled and fell, the
gasoline being dashed over his cloth
ing and igniting it at the same time.
After a desperate effort he suc
ceeded in smothering the flames, hut
his hands were severely burned.
The next few weeks promise to be
busy ones in Hot Springs in so far
as the entertainment of conventions
is concerned. Among the conventions
proposed are: State Druggists’ Asso
; ciation. May 8. 9 and 10, and the
State Board of Pharmacy, for the
examination of applicants for regis
tration. on May 11; State Grocers’
Association, May 20, 21, 22 and 23;
State Medical Society, May 8, 9 and
10; I-Yderation of Women’s Clubs,
April 24. 25 and 26; the State Dem
ocratic Convention, June 5, extend
ing until all business is completed.
At Ola the railroad prospects are
considered very bright. The work
of laying steel on the "Y” that will
connect the Bock Island with the
Central of Arkansas, which is being
built south of Ola has been started.
A considerable portion of the road
bed of the Central of Arkansas is
ready for the track and tics are be
ing distributed. Work on the Dar
! danelle. Ola and Southern is also
being pushed between Ola and Dar
da nolle.
A charter has been granted to the
Hot Springs, Ouachita and Mena
Railroad Company. The company
tiled articles of incorporation with
the secretary of state recently and
the Board of Railroad Incorpora
tion met shortly afterwards and
granted the charter. The company
is capitalized at $1,000,000 and
proposes to build a road from Hot
Springs to Black Springs, in Mont
gomery county, a distance of fifty
i miles.
The Blytheville, Burdette and
Mississippi River Railroad Com
pany has been granted a charter by
the State Board of Railway Incor
poration. The road will run from
Blytheville to a point on the Mis
sissippi river near Luxora, a dis
tance of about twenty miles. A
branch about one mile in length
wijl connect the road with the town
of Burdette. The headquarters of
the road will also be located at Bur
dette.
The government at Washington
has notified the officers of the Ar
kansas State Guard that $(1,000 has
been allowed by the government for
the expenses of quarantine duty per
formed by the State Chard. This
money will be paid to merchants
who furtished supplies to the
troops.
While inspecting the road near
Stamps recently, President William
Buchanan, of the Louisiana and
Arkansas Railway, fell down an em
bankment and was seriously injured.
The mother of Judge Johnson, of
Paragould, Mrs. Margaret Johnson,
was burned so badly recently that
she will die from the effects of the
accident. Mrs. Johnson was said to
be nearly 80 years of age.
A former agent of the Singer
Sewing Machine Company, named
Hoover, was sentenced to one year
in the penitentiary by the court at
Camden recently. Hoover was ac
cused of embezzling funds belong
ing to the Singer Company.
II. 0. McGill, an inmate of the
city jail at Ft. Smith, attempted
suicide recently. McGiil is await
ing trial on several charges of
forgery.
A meeting of the Presbytery of
Arkansas was held at Wynne re
cently.
The Ouchita-Hendrix college de
bating contest, held at Little Rock
recently, resulted in a victory for
Hendrix College.
In a few weeks tlie grading of the
-Rogers and Southwestern, between
Rogers and Spring-town, will be
completed. Several miles of ties
out of Springtown have been laid
and the laying of ties has also com
menced at the Rogers end of the
line.
Roys and girls under 16 years of
age are now required to be off the
streets of Jonesboro before 8 o’clock
unless accompanied by adults.
Mayor Young, of that city, having
I insisted on a rigid enforcement of
the local curfew law ordinance.
A special strawberry train will be
run by the Kansas City Southern
from Siloam Springs to Kansas
City. The train will leave early in the
evening and deliver berries picked
the previous day to the market in
good condition.
The sum of $1,800 has been sub
scribed by the citizens of Stuttgart
for the purpose of establishing a
Y. M. C. A. Suitable headquar
ters for the institution have al
ready been secured.
The gold m\hrl for the best ex
hibit of alfalfa hay at the St. Louis
World's Fair has been delivered to
( apt. lb M. Goodlet, of Ozan. The
modal was struck at the government
mint at Philadelphia.
Joe Gibson was fatally stabbed in
an encounter with Jake Driskell
near Walnut Ridge recently. The
quarrel is said to have originated
umt some trivial mailer.
Tiie wife of the foreman of the
Towniey Shingle Mill, at Fitzhngh,
was badly burned recently. The ac
cident was caused by a turpentine
bottle exploding in the kitchen
where the lady was cooking.
A negro washwoman, Mary Col
lins. lost $1500 in a fire at Hot
Springs recently. This money is
said to represent the savings of
many years on the part of the
n egress.
The Mariana Board of Health has
granted the negroes of that place
the privilege of resuming church
services as the further spread of
smallpox at that place is consid
ered improbable.
The Little Rock Automobile Com
pany has been incorporated at Little 1
Rock. The company will erect a ]
building for use as an aufomobile -
garage. !
The death of T. ,T. Xelson, who
died under peculiar circumstances
at Cotter recently, is to be investi
gated. Foul play is suspected.
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Col. Win. Childers, of lmboden,
was badly hurt by falling from a
stalk cutter on his farm near Im
boden, several davs ago.
l
Ten thousand dollars was paid for ,
a OtiO-acrc alfalfa farm nhar Wash- ,
ington recently. E. Boyd, of Illi
nois, was the purchaser. 1
Mi-s Rhcna Mushier, national or- <
ganizer of the W. C. T. U., has or- 1
ganized a branch of that society at
Newark.
1
A timberman. U in. Ritchie, was
fatally injured by a falling tree on
the White River, near Augusta, a
lew days ago.
The college building of the old ;
Quitman College lias been purchased <
by Dr. J. '1'. Fleming, of that place. 1
An effort to revive this once famous '
educational institution is to be made s
by Dr. Fleming. <
Eleven hundred and seventy doz
en eggs were marketed at Imboden J
recently by W. R. Mize. This is the (
largest single load of eggs ever mar- ,
kcted at Imboden. ^
M. W. and Earl Gamble, father 1
and son, were drowned while at- *
tempting to ford the Cowskin river '
near Siloam Springs recently. 1
The Universalist churches of Ar- '
kansas held a state conference at
Little Rock a few days ago.
After serving twenty-one years as i
alderman of Pine Bluff, Chas. Weil i
has retired from office. I
The Saint Louis, Iron Mountain '
and Southern Railway Company 1
has purchased the Little Rock and
Ft. Smith Railway. ■
DANCE IN ANCIENT GREECE
Mere Acrobatic “Stunts” Looked Up
on as Inferior by People of
Olden Time.
A passage in Herodotus tells us
with what contempt the Greeks
treated mere acrobatic dancing,
and how inferior it was considered
the highest art, says Marcello
Azra Hiucks, in the Nineteenth
Century. A certain Hippoclei
des having been asked to show one
of the many accomplishments
which entitled hint to become
the husband of tin* daughter of
the tyrant of Kieyon, proceeded
to display himself in the dance;
and having commenced with a
stately measure, he then wished
to show his wonderful agility, and
so well did In* succeed that Clis
thones, tin* tyrant, angrily ex
claimed: “Son of Tisander, you
have danced away your marriage,”
refusing to have a son-in-law who
was so little of an artist that he
could make a boast of his mere
skill. Socrates, too, had great
dislike to the “wonderful tricks”
which dancers could perform wit h
their bodies, and thought them
very ugly. What would have been
his disgust could he have seen
some of our modern contortions—
the high-kicking tlie skirt dance,
I lie “split!” As in all great art,
the Greeks in their dancing made
use of mechanical means only in
so far as they could assist in car
1 ‘“(n 1 i lit 1 (ll IVMI.
1’he true artist should not be ham
pered by any technical difficulties;
he must be an absolute master of
"technique,” but never should he
lllow that “technique” to be the
■nd and aim of his art; by doing
50 he forfeits all claim to the title
>f artist in the real and higher
sense of that much abused word.
Looking, then, at the subject
‘rom this point of view, we can
;ee the gulf which separates mod
ern dancing from the Greek dan
ing. The modern term denotes
something entirely mechanical,
lowever pretty and pleasing our
lancing masters contrive to make,
t by having rhythmical acrobatic
eats performed by beautiful exec
ltants. Dancing, in tin* Greek
sense, must be interpreted quite
lifferently; it is rhythmical move
neut—and so far it is mechanical
—but it is also pantomimic. It
s the imitation of words by ges
ures; the bodily expression of a
‘eeling.
BOOKING WITH LIQUID A*R.
low Experiments on Vegetables and
Animal Life Have Proved That
They May B; “Cooked’’Cold.
That meat may be “cooked" by
utense cold has been demonstral -
■d by experiments with liquid air,
■ays the Literary Digest. That a
ess degree of cold may produce
he same effect on vegetables,
ind that freezing potatoes or
ruit may make them more edibl*
han before is asserted by Dr.
Sphraim Cutter in the Dieteth*
md Hygienic Gazette. Dr. Cutte.'
lays of a “frost-bitten” potato
Hit l lit* ILMSl (MI .
"It was shrunken soft, limp ami
Iastic to the feel. It looked dark,
is if rotten, and yet there was no m
lead ami decaying odor. T’nder
he microscope the starch grains
vere shrunken, cracked and lis
ured in the long and short diani
■ters. wrinkled and polarized
iglit beautifully. Tin* form of
jolarization was not that of nor
nal potato starch, diffic-ylt to be
old in words. Besides, there
vere broken shreds of connect iio
ibrous tissue that looked as if rot
eu. The writer tasted of the said
o-ealled ‘rotten potato' and it
vas sweet in his mouth. He
hinks they might be eaten with
nit harm."
Similar results were obtained
ivith cranberries, onions and
iquashes. The frozen vegetables
(■acted with copper sulphate,
vhicli is one of the tests for cooked
ood, but the fact that their starch
trains polarized the light showed
hat there \ias a difference, as
■ooking by heat destroys the
:oIarization.