Woodrnkk Eounty News.
VOL. VI.
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McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1907.
NO. 50.
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.
A national contest for balloonists
to be held in St. Louis each year is
practically assured. Adolphus Busch,
the milionaire brewer, will furnish the
prize, which will be an elaborate gold
cup valued at $1,000.
For the killing of his father, George
Cain, Carroll Cain, prize fighter, of
St. Louis, was assessed three months
in jail and a fine of $100 by a jury
in the court of Judge Hugo Muench.
Cholera is raging throughout south
eastern Russia and people are dying
like flies. Mortality is greatest in
the cities. At Kieff alone the death
list averages 100 daily.
Latest reports indicate that the dis
aster caused by earthquake shocks in
Sicily and Calebria is even greater
than at first reported. The dead will
possibly be as many as 1,000, while
the property loss is tremendous.
One of the boldest attempts at rob
bery in Philadelphia in a long time
occurred when two men tried to get
away with $5,000, which they had
seized from a bank runner in the
United States subtreasury.
After executing his will and telling
his son where to look the following
day for his body, Ransom Goodwin,
aged 76, of Johnston county, Ohio,
went into the woods and shot himself
through the heart. Ransom had made
two previous attempts to kill him
self.
Eighteen thousand dollars in gold
and currency, supposed to have been
shipped by a Chicago bank to a bank
in Oshkosh, Wis., was stolen from the
office of the express company in the
union station in Milwaukee.
“Jack the Stabber” seems to be at
large in Louisville, Ky. During the
last two weeks two prominent young
women hare been his victims while
walking along the street.
Three armed men held up a freight
train within five miles of Los An
geles, wounded one of the train crew,
robbed them of $250 and two watches
and made their escape.
Earthquake shocks were felt throug
out Italy. The severest shocks were
experienced in Sicily and Calabria
where the panic-stricken people are
now camping in the open air Two
hundred bodies have been taken from
the ruins at Ferruzzano. Many in
jured persons have also been removed.
It is estimated that the total number
of killed is 500. Members of the Red
Cross, soldiers and volunteers are
busily searching for the dead and
rescuing the injured throughout the
affected area.
Ur. Walter R. Gillette of New York,
who was connected with the Mutual
Life Insurance Co. for 36 years, and
''ho was vice-president when he re
tired about a year ago, after the in
surance disclosures was convifted of
perjury for having sworn falsely be
fore the grand jury. The jury was out
an hour and a half. The trial lasted
four days.
President Roosevelt proposes to ask
congress to appropriate money enough
to bring the battleship fleet back from
the Pacific oceon, or else pass the
"hole question of its return up to con
gress.
The tribe of Ute Indians which
tnore than a year ago wandered away
from their reservation in Utah and
created trouble in Colorado and Wyo
ming by threatening to take the war
Path and raid ranches is reported to
have again broken out on the Chey
enne River reservation in South Da
0,a’ where the trible was given tem
porary quarters.
tnited State# Judge Thompson has
granted a permanent injunction
against the International Printing
rt^smen's and Assistants’ Union of
^ °ith America upon application of
e United Typothetae of America,
e workmen are enjoined from vio
al ng an agreement which does not.
^Pire until 1909, calling for a 54
hour week.
brat! 6r a fortnight spent tn the cane
0,. es’ an<* l°°king bronzed and vig
ir,°"S’ President Roosevelt paid a fly
g visit to Vicksburg, Monday after
on and delivered a speech, in which
promised to aid the deep water
, J.s Pr°lect, as the trip on the Mis
■ lPpi River convinced him it was a
accessary project.
\VhpeSkient Roosevelt reached the
pv„ ® House from his southern trip
n" ,c •' on schedule. To those who
that a l‘resl<lent it was noticeable
the t ^ ^ded several shades to
durin r01?ze countenance acquired
BayQ^ summer months at Oyster
Timely action on the part of men
of wealth and influence has served
as oil on the troublbed waters of
finance, and New York, which has
been the center of a money storm
for several days, In which many in
terests have been sorely buffeted, has
begun business again under conditions
of the most optimistic nature.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.’s
crack oriental liner Empress of China
sank Wednesday evening alongside
her docks in Portland, Ore. Her sea
cocks must have been opened, but
how, no one seems able to ascertain.
With the completion of the dirigible
race and awarding of prizes to the
winners Wednesday afternoon the
great balloon tournament, conceded
to have been the greatest in the his
tory of aeronautics, came to an end
at St. Louis amid the plaudits of over
40,000 people and the strains of mar
tial music.
It is announced that Don Enrique
C. Creel will soon retire as ambassa
dor to the United States from Mexico.
The great international balloon con
test for the James Gordon Bennett
cup ended Wednesday with the Ger
mans, the Pommern, and the French,
Isle de France cars, two out of the
nine starters, so equally divided for
honors that it will be necessary to
await a decision from the war depart
ment at Washington tell who wins.
The discovery of Mile. Lusson, 65
years old, dead in her bed, her head
cut off and twenty-seven stab wounds
in her body, adds another atrocity
to a long list that has recently ap
palled Paris.
Probably 20,000 people were in dan
ger of injuries at the Central Sta
tion at Chattanooga, Tenn.. when
President Roosevelt’s special train
rolled into the shed. It was a surging
mass of humanity that could not be
controlled. The demonstration was
so great that it was practically im
possible for the president to speak.
He made many attempts, but finally
gave up.
President Roosevelt’s latest hunt in
the Louisiana canebrakes is made the
subject of bitter criticism and sar
castic comment by Rev. Dr. W. J.
Long, who has been attacked by the
president as a nature faker.
After writing to his wife, “I’m tired
of you,” Leo Antone of Charleston,
W. Va., sat down on 14 sticks of dyna
mite and fired a fuse attached to one
of them. Fellow workmen had tried to
get him away, but failed, and had to
flee. Antone was literally blown to
atoms.
A vcruiui iui was awaiucu
by the jury in the suit of Mrs. Ellen
E. Kenyon Warner, a writer on edu
cational subjects, against Dr. Flavins
Packer and Dr. Sidney D. Wilgus for
$50,000 damages because they ad
judged her insane and caused her com
mitment in the Middletown (N. J.) in
sane asylum".
French troops caught in trap by
Moors and only timely arrival of re
enforcements saves reconnoitering
party from annihilation. Cruiser shells
enemy, putting them to rout.
Seven thousand photographs of the
planet Mars, taken in Chili, promise
to reveal remarkable discoveries re
garding the proofs of life on the
planet.
Thirty bandits are still disturbing
the peace of the Sancti Spiritus dis
trict, Santa Clara province, and the
authorities are endeavoring to effect
the capture of the leaders.
No. 2 mixing mill of the Atlantic
Dynamite Co.’s factory, six miles
southwest of Ashland, Wis., blew up.
Two hundred pounds of nitrogrlycerin
exploded. The cause is unknown.
William Lepper, for 30 years a resi
dent of Laramie, Wyo., shot Judge
Charles W. Brammell three times in
the law office of the latter, then turn
ing the revolver upon himself, blew
out his brains.
The ceremonies marking the formal
completion of the Hennepin canal
between Lake Michigan and the Mis
sissippi river were attended by many
thousands of people, all sections of
Illinois being represented.
The Aero Club of St. Louis awarded
$2,500 cash prizes to the winners of
the dirigible balloon race in Forest
Park, at the close of the aeronautic
carnival, which will go down in his
tory as one of the greatest ever held.
With him will go Mrs. Lemieux; his
secretary, Hector Vorrette; Under
Secretary of State Joseph Pope and
Mrs. Pope.
An unknown man, who was found
dead in a standing posture in a
slough oft of Macoupin creek, north
of Alton, 111., is believed to have be
come mired in the quicksand of the
creek and succumbed to starvation or
exhaustion and exposure. His clothes
were found 200 yards away. He had
apparently been dead for several days.
A bank robbery and murder unpre
cedented in the criminal annals of
Switzerland occurred at Montreux.
Two Russians, evidently members of
a terrorist group, shot dead the cash
ier of the bank, rifled the safe and
then ran through the principal street
firing indiscriminately at their pursu
ers, and wounding four, one of them
fatally
I. O. O. F. Grand Lodge
The fifty-eighth annual session of
the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows' of
Arkansas, also the state Assembly of
Rebekahs is in session at Eureka
Springs with the largest attendance
in the history of the Grand Lodge.
During the first day’s session officers
were elected as follows: Grand Patri
arch, Robert E. Rowe of Greenwood:
grand high priest, N. M. Alexander of
Batesville; grand senior warden,
George T. Humphries of Siloam
Springs; grand junior warden, W. A.
Bayles of St. Paul; grand representa
tive (long term), George T. Robinson,
of Salem and (short term) G. S. Parker
of Paragould; grand mashall, H. M.
Morris of Hot Springs; grand scribe,
John P. Paul of Gravette: grand treas
urer, A. C. Veach of Gravette; outside
sentinel, G. W. Oglesby of Gravette.
Death Ends Case.
Govan Beard, the negro, who was
in prison at Marianna under sentence
of do*th, charged with a criminal as
sault on Annie Hartley, a white
woman living at Helena, died recently
of consumption. The negro was con
victed solely on the evidence of the
Hartley woman. After his conviction
the woman confessed that she had
sworn falsely and that the negro had
not assaulted her. The judge, before
whom Beard was first tried held that
he had no right to reopen the case
on the strength of this confession,
however, and Governor Davis was ap
pealed to. Ho refused to pardon the
negro, and the case was then appealed
to the Supreme Court of the United
States, where it was pending at the
time of Beard's death.
Murderer Attempts Suicide.
Dave Kinloe, the negro minstrel who
slew J. N. Kent of Pike county, at
Hot Springs, attempted to commit sui
cide by cutting his throat. Feeling
against the negro is intense at Hot
Springs, where the killing was done,
and mob violence Is feared. The ne
gro’s victim was a man of consider
able prominence and wealth in Pike
county, where he owned several farms.
His wife is said to be prostrated with
grief, and his little 6-months-old child
may die as a result of the tragedy,
because of the mother's condition.
Bold Highway Robbery.
T. M. Meigs of Siloam Springs re
ceived a letter recently, purporting to
be from his son at Sommers, saying
that if he would come down there
with $750 he could clear up a couple
of hundred dollars in an apple deal.
The letter was delivered by two men,
who said they were from Sommers.
Mr. Meigs procured the money and
started for Sommers, but on the way
was held up and robbed by the two
men who had brought the letter. So
far the robbers have escaped capture.
Survey Has Been Completed.
The survey of the Little Rock-Pine
Bluff interurban has been completed.
The road extends from Little Rock
toward Galloway, along the line of
the Rock Island. Thence in a genera)
way the line follows the Arkansas
river, taking the northeast side, to
a point near Pine Bluff, where the
river is crossed. Efforts are now be
ing directed to securing right of way
for the line, and a part of this has
already been secured.
Arrested After Four Years.
James F. Holcomb was arrested at
Earnheart recently, charged with the
murder of an old man by the name
of Mott four years ago. He was the
owner of a shingle mill at Ingleside,
In Jackson county, and Mott was his
partner. It is alleged that he killed
Mott after a quarrel over a misunder
standing in a business matter.
Child Badly Burned.
A little 5-year-old child of Frank
Guerrin of Hot Springs was badly
burned recently. The little girl with
some other children were playing
around a bonfire which they had built,
when her clothing cought fire.
Another Bank For Fayetteville.
The Dickson Street bank, with a
eapital stock of $25,000 has been or
ganized at Fayetteville. This makes
the fifth bank for that city.
To Improve White River.
An organization has been formed at
De Vail's Bluff looking to the Improve
ment of White river. The organiza
tion will be known as the White River
Navigation Association, with Hon.
Eugene Lankford, circuit judge, presi
dent, and H. R- Whyte, secretary.
Woman Found Dead.
Sadie Carter, a woman who had
been living alone in Argenta for the
past two years, was found dead by
neighbors in the house she occupied,
recently. Death was found to have
resulted from natural causes.
Peculiar Accident.
John Newton, a 16-year-old boy of
Camden, was accidentally shot in a
peculiar manner. He was standing on
the bank of a lake a few miles from
Camden wth a party of boys, whet>
one of them threw a tin can in the
air and shot at it with a rifle. When
the can fell it struck the trigger of a
shotgun lying in a boat in the lake and
discharged it. The full load struck
young Newton in the fleshy part of
the right hip, scooping out a great
hole in the flesh.
Conference Meets At Bentonville.
The Arkansas Conference of the M.
E. Church, South, meets at Benton
ville, November 6th, in its 72nd an
nual session. Bishop F. R. Hendrix of
Kansas City will preside. This con
ference, one of three in the State, has,
within its purlieus about 27,000 mem
bers, and about 400 church edifices.
These congregations are ministered
to by about 100 preachers, and there
are about 25 superannuates in the
conference.
Shot From Ambush.
Lonnie Shackleford, a middle-aged
farmer, living near Darysaw, Grant
county, was shot from ambush while
riding along a country road near his
home and probably fatally wounded.
A man named Williams, who is said
to have threatened Shackleford’s life,
has been arrested and is in jail at
Sheridan. He denies the charge
against him.
Poultry Show At Nashville.
The Nashville Poultry Association
will hold its first annual show on Janu
ary 8, 9 and 10, 1908, at Nashyllle.
George M. Knebel of Waco, Texas, said
to be one of the best authorities on
poultry in the United States, and one
of the judges at the St. Louis World’s
Fair and at the Jamestown Exposition,
has been secured to judge the exhibit.
Will Establish Two Parks.
The Fort Smith Public Park and
Boulevard Association has been
formed for the purpose of formulating
plans to raise $1,000,000 to be spent in
roads and parks at Fort Smith. One
project is to build a boulevard 25 miles
long, circling the city, to be known as
the Cliff drive. It is also proposed
to establish two new parks.
Flooring Collapsed.
The concrete flooring being laid in
the new national bank building at
Fort Smith collapsed recently, owing
to weakness in the falsework support.
A dozen men were at work at the
time and narrowly escaped injury,
one man being obliged to hang from
the rods used in reinforcing the con
crete.
Newspaper Changes Hands.
L. B. Powell, who for four years
has been foreman of the Daily and
Weekly Republican at Siloam Springs,
has purchased a controlling interest
in the plant. P. M. Kokamour, the
former manager, goes to McAlister,
Okla., and becomes manager of the
News Printing Company.
Y. M. C. A. Building Dedicated.
The new Y. M. C. A. building which
has been erected at a cost of $30,000
at Jonesboro was dedicated recently
with appropriate ceremonies. Miss
Helen Miller Gould, who gave $500
to the building fund was the guest of
honor.
An Improvement District.
The property owners of El Dorado
have organized an improvement dis
trict, which includes all territory with
in a half mile of the county court
house, for the purpose of establishing
a system of waterworks.
Want District Court.
The tax payers of the eastern por
tion of Poinsett county have started
a movement for the division of the
judicial district of that county so as
to have the Eastern district estab- j
lished at Marked Tree.
Three Accidents By Street Car
Mrs. Louis Volmer of Little Rock,
and two visiting young ladies. Miss
Etta Miller of Orange, Texas, and Miss
Nelda Kaiser of New Orleans, were in
jured by a street car in the capital
city recently.
Big Profit In Apples.
Conservative estimates place the to
tal value of the apple crop in Benton,
Washington and Madison counties this
year at $3,000,000.
Ground To Pieces.
An unknown man was ground to
pieces beneath the wheels of a train
near Campbell recently. On his body
was found an unbroken pint bottle of
whiskey, and it is supposed that un
der the stupor of liquor he laid down
upon the track and never awoke.
Will Bore For Gas and Oil.
A company is being organized at
Siloarn Springs for the purpose of bor
ing for oil and gas and a soliciting
committee appointed. A paid capital
of $6,000 will be required to sink a
test hole 2,000 feet or more.
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State Capital Notes
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Important Decisions.
The session of the Supreme Courl
Monday was a most important one
The decision of the court declaring
the Russellville Waterworks bill un
constitutional was perhaps the most
important and far-reaching opinior
handed down by the Supreme Courl
for years. It means that improvement
work being done at Pine Bluff, Helena
DeQueen and Brinkley, as well as al
Russellville, shall be stopped, unti
these districts are reorganized, undei
the general statutes governing sucl
cases. It applies only in cases of cities
and towns, and does not affect anj
improvements under way in this city
The constitutional provision undei
which the court held the law invalic
was Section 27 of Article 19, whicf
provides that no improvements shal
be made unless under and with the
consent of a majority in value of th<
property holders to be affected. Judge
John Fletcher was counsel for Craig
•who brought the suit to the Supremf
Court, on appeal from the Poke Coun
ty Chancery Court. The affirmatior
of the decision of the Izard Circuii
Court, in the case of the Iron Moun
tain vs. The State, is a sweeping vie
tory for the railroad commission, anr
establishes the power of the commis
sion w'ithout a shadow of a doubt, tc
require and compel railroads to per
form what is considered to be a rea
sonable service to the public. The de
cision of the court, affirming the de
cision of the Independence County Cir
cuit Court in the case of Browning vs
The State, was no surprise to thos<
who have kept in touch with the facts
Browning shot and killed T. W. Mid
klff, agent for the railroads at Wal
nut Ridge, it being alleged that h<
became exasperated at Midkiff for hii
failure to receive a reply to a message
sont earlier in the day. Browning
will have to serve his term in prison
Diamond Bearing Rock Exhibit.
Guy B. Tucker, commissioner of th<
Bureau of Mines, Manufacturers anc
agriculture, has had Prof. Philip F
Schneider, the New York geologist
who has been preparing a report foi
the state upon the Arkansas diamonc
field, also prepare an exhibit of th«
diamond-bearing rocks properly cm
and labeled, and which will be oper
for inspection by visitors jus
as soon as the case is com
pleted. A descriptive catalogue o
these is now being prepared so tha
visitors can know just what each speci
men is, where it came from, and it:
value and use. The exhibit contains
first specimens of the fresh diamond
bearing rock, just as broken from th(
ledges in Pike county; next, cut ant
polished specimens of this same rock
to show the form and character o
the peculiar minerals composing th<
same. This rock, while it appear!
hard and compact, changes under th<
atmospheric agencies to a yellowisl
brown rock and specimens of this roci
both rough and polished are nex
shown. A very handsome rock of mot
tied bluish appearance comes nex
and said to be a dike of serpentim
anq chlorite which cuts through thi
diamond-bearing peridotite.
Martineau To Take Oath.
Attorney John E. Martineau wil
take the oath of office as chaneelloi
shortly after his predecessor, Judg<
Jesse C. Hart, will have become as
sociate justice of the Supreme Couri
to succeed the late Justice J. E. Rid
dick. Either Judges Lea or Winfielc
will administer the oath to Mr. Mar
tineau Chancellor Hart has worket
night and day during his last fev
days in office for the purpose of dis
posing of the greater part of the cases
on the docket in the Chancery Cour
and his efforts cleared the docket o;
a large number of cases.
To Run On Time.
The Arkansas Railroad Commis
6km will within the next few days is
sue notice of a hearing to compel th<
railroads cf the state to start all trains
originating in the state on schedule
time, allowing them to wait on con
nections for only 30 minutes, and tc
run on schedule time by way stations
unless unavoidable accidents prevent
Notice will also be issued for a hear
lng to compel the railroads to keer
the public informed of the movement
of trains by posting reliable bulletins,
Should the order be issued, railroads
will be required to revise bulletins on
trains every 15 minutes where neces
sary. Except trains originating in
Arkansas, interstate trains will not
be affected.
Fame and Human Happiness.
Whatever may be the temporary ap
plause of men, or the expressions oi
public opinion, it may be asserted
without fear of contradiction, that nc
true and permanent fame can be
founded, except iu labors which prom
ise the happiness of mankind.—
Charles Sumner.
Faucette Declared Guilty.
W. C. Faucette, mayor of Argenta,
and Frank Cumnock, former mayor
of Baring Cross, have been adjudged
guilty of attempting a conspiracy to
bribe the Perry county jury that last
August found Senator A. T. Gross
guilty of soliciting a bribe in connec
tion with the pure food bill before
the legislature of 1905. The trial
which has occupied the attention of
the public for the past week, went
to the jury Saturday afternoon, and
after three hours, they arrived at a
verdict of guilty, leaving the sen
tence to be fixed by the court.
Eminent counsel had been em
ployed by the defense, United Stnates
Senator James P. Clark and Col.
George W. Murphy, representing them,,
while Prosecuting Attorney Lewia
Rhoton conducted the case for the
State. Every inch of ground was con
tested and many sensational incidents
introduced, in one of the hardest
fought trials in the criminal court
annals of Arkansas.
The verdict created general surprise
among those who had followed the
proceedings from day to day, as many
believed the jury would hang.
It is expected that a motion for a
new trial will be made.
Developments In Bank Failure.
Recent developments in the failure
of the Arkansas Valley Bank of this
city on October 11, show that many
of the drafts given by Cashier E. E.
Wilson to the depositors on the Mer
cantile Trust Company of St. Louis
have been returned here unpaid. It
appears from a careful inquiry Into
the cause of the bank’s closing that
the institution has securities on de
posit in the Missouri Lincoln Trust
Company of St. Louis, which were
not taken over by the Mercantile
Trust Company when the latter cor
poration absorbed the Missouri-Lin
coln recently. This was the beginning
of the difficulties that resulted in the
closiug of the doors of the Arkansas
Valley It. is impossible at present to
learn the financial status of the insti
tution. It was incorporated with a
capital of $100,000, which amount is
said to have been paid in. If this
money has been paid in and on in
vestigation cannot be properly ac
counted for, serious developments
. may result. It is understood that the
bank owns between 2,000 and 3,000
acres of land in Cleburne county,
which is said to be worth $10 an acre.
If this is found intact all obligations
’ will be met.
Water Supply Being Considered.
The water question is still one of
- great importance to the capital city
, and various plans have been suggested
, for a pure water supply. One plan is
, to pipe the city’s water from White
river and the feasibility of this is be
ing investigated. Others hold that
there are in the vicinity of Little Rock
abundant sources of water supply
which can be drawn upon merely by
sinking wells. It has been pointed out
that the city of Indianapolis, as well
as other municipalities much larger
than Little Rock, gets its water from
wells, and that the well-known re
I sources of Arkansas in the way of
water veins should make the problem
a comparatively simple one.
Will Go To Supreme Court.
Prof. S. D. Lucas is having prepared
a petition for a writ of quo warranto
to be presented to the Supreme Court,
with a view to securing the position
1 of superintendent of the blind school.
The Pulaski Chancery Court recently
decided that it had no jurisdiction in
the Lucas-Futrall controversy, and
that Prof. Lucas' only course of pro
cedure was through quo warranto pro
ceedings.
Appointment Made.
Acting Governor X. O. Pindall Tues
day appointed Col. L. P. Berry Jr., of
Marion, Crittenden county, assistant
adjutant general of the Arkansas Na
tional Guard, to succeed John E. Mar
tineau, recently appointed chancellor
of the Pulasiki Chancery Court ta
succeed Jesse C. Hart, appointed to
the supreme bench to succeed the lat«
Justice E. Riddick. The appointment
of Berry as assistant adjutant general
was recommended by Col. William K.
Surridge, in command of the state
guard, and many others prominent of
ficers of the organization.
May Return To the Farm.
Governor Pindall will in all proba
bility return to the State convict farm
this week, but as yet he has not de
finitely determined. It is the desire
of the Governor to spend several days
on the farm, if possibie, in connection
with considerable work which is to
be done. He will go as the representa
tive of the Board of Penitentiary Com
missioners and will order such work,
performed as he deems advisable.