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VOL. II.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1902.
ISO. 24.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Preparations are under way for
taking a census of the Philippines.
Brig. Gen. Forwood, surgeon gen-,
eral of the army, has retired under
the age limit and is succeeded by
Brig. Gen. Robert O’Reilley.
On September 8 the amount of
gold in the United States treasury
was $573,936,194, the largest gum
on hand at any time in the _history
of thtt country.
President Roosevelt delivered an
address to the convention of locomo
tive firemen at Chattan'ooga, and
was elected an honorary inember of
the brotherhood.
The navy department is planning
to place all Americans on board the
new vessels as they are built, and to
eventually retire all foreign born
persons from the naval service.
Gen. Chaffee, since repeated un
looked for attacks on American pick
ets, has inaugurated a vigorous
campaign to subdue the hostile Moros
in the province of Mindanao, P. I.
A revolt against the sultan of
Morocco, headed by the sultan's
brother, has grown to such propor
tions as to alarm the monarch in
power, who is collecting a large
army for defense.
Prosecuting Attorney Folk, of St.
Louis, who is prosecuting the mu
nicipal boodlers of the above city,,
has been threatened with assassina
tion. Mr. Folk says such threats
will have no effect upon him, and
that he will send every guilty man
t.n the nonitoutinrv
Mrs. Joseph Leslie, aged 28, vfas
6hot and killed at Bloomington, 111.,
by Miss Daisy Carlton, aged 20.
Mrs. Leslie had come into posses
sion of some endearing letters writ
ten to her husband by Miss Carlton
and was administering punishment
on her with a cowhide when 6hot.
Catholic missionaries of the Ger
man colony of Togo, west Africa,
have appealed to the kaiser, “be
cause their own and the labors of
other Christian missionaries among
the blacks are in vain, as the Ger
man schnapps barons flood the coun
try with cheap fusil, turning the na
tives into drunkards,” The report
says that on an average 2,889 quarts
of rank potato schnapps are intro
duced into that small colony, con
taining 118 Europeans, all told.
“Rum,” say the missionaries, “ac
companies the German black from
the cradle to the grave; when coin
ing into the world he is saluted by
a schnapps orgie; the young buck
buys his bride with German
schnapps; schnapps makes brothers
out of the chief and the wicked fe
tich priest, schnapps is used to rob
the blacks of their land and schnapps
plays a leading part at their canni
bal festivals. The black is getting
more' and more demoralized by the
wholesale introduction of schnapps.
J. K. Murrell, one of the m ‘mbers
of the municipal assembly under in
dictment in St. Louis for bribery,
aim lui livu liiuiiiuo a xugmvu uum
justice, has returned to St. Louis
from Mexico and made a complete
confession, which caused the arrest
of eighteen other members and ex
members of the house of delegates.
In his confession Murrell states that
a majority of the delegates, compos
ed of men under arrest, formed a
combine, and sold their votes for
the passage of numerous franchise
and contract bills, notably the light
ing bill and the suburban railway
bill. To secure the support of the
combine for the lighting bill $47,500,
or $2,500 each, was paid the bood
lers, and $75,000 was deposited in
a safety deposit vault, to be delivered
when the suburban franchise was
granted. Each of the parties under
arrest is held in $30,000 bond, and
only a few have been able to make
the bond. The men under arrest
belong to both the democratic and re
publican parties.
Codlik Omelet.
Shred cooked salt codfish finely.
To each cupful allow one of milk and
one of egg1, sprinkle with pepper; add
one tablespoonful of flour and one
of butter for each pint of milk; cool*
together as for cream sauce, and
bake half an hour.—American Queen
An American fleet has been or
dered to Panama, with instructions
to prevent the warring factions from
The democratic state convention
of Colorado has endorsed Henry M.
Teller for re-election to the United
States senate.
C. A. Percy has invented a boat
on the order of a skiff in which he
made the trip safely through the
rapids of Niagara Falls.
Fire in the Beaumont oil field de
stroyed several large tanks filled
with oil and caused great consterna
tion. The financial loss is placed
at $200,000.
The president and general freight
agent of the Ann Arbor and Michi
gan railway have been indicted by
the federal grand jury at Indianap
olis for manipulating rates by
means of rebates.
This promises to be a notable year
for morality on account of malig
nant diseases. Pestilence of one
kind or another is raging in nearly
every quarter of the globe. Asiatic
cholera is devastating China, west
ern Russia and has extended into
the Philippines. Egypt is threaten
ed with a scourge of Asiatic chole
ra, United States C onsul Long hav
ing reported from Cairo that the
authorities are making desperate ef
forts to keep the disease in check.
It has broken out at Maucha, about
250 miles south of Cairo, and a
strong military cordon has been
placed around the infected district.
Plague is also prevalent in certain
parts of Egypt, and the same disease
is taking the people off in consider
able numbers in Odessa, Russia, in
British India and in Cape Colony.
Japan also has many cases of chole
ra, and the plague has even been re
ported by, Sol. Berliner, United
States consul at Teneriffe, Canary
islands.
A statement from President
Mitchell at the close of the seven
teenth week of the coal strike places
the loss to those concerned at $100,
000,000. President Mitchell says:
“The strike began May 12. It may be
prolonged indefinitely unless there
is legislative interference. The mi
ners are sustained with a stream of
gold and silver that flows into the
headquarters one day and out. the
next day for the defense of the
strikers. Under these circumstances
the miners can hold out as well as
operators. The story of the ‘hun
dred iiiillion loss’ can be obtained
from the following figures: Length
of strike, 17 weeks; number of
miners involved, 147,000; average
weekly wages of a miner, $7; aver
age weekly output of mines, 1,250,
000 tons; normal market price of
anthracite, $4.50 a ton; normal cost
of production, $1.50 a ton. If op
erated the mines would have pro
duced approximately 21,250,000
tons in the period covered by the
strike. At $4.50 a ton the market
uxo v-vai nuuiu nu\c
$93,625,000. The total weekly
wages of the strikers is approxi
mately $1,020,000. In seventeen
weeks the miners would have earned
$17,493,000. The total cost of pro
ducing the coal ready for the market
would have been $31,875,000. This,
taken from $93,025,000—the market
value—would leave $03,750,000 for
the operators. From this, however,
must be taken the cost of transpor
tation of the coal from the mines to
the markets to get the loss of the
operators—as operators—as four
railroads practically control the en
tire production of the region. The
loss to the business men of the dis
trict is approximately $14,000,000,
on the basis that the strike would
have spent three-fourths of their
weekly wages for the actual necessi
ties of life. The loss to the mining
property from idleness, according
to estimates sent out from the an
thracite region, will be more than
$G,000,000. The operators have
spent nearly $1,000,000 in policing
their property and importing non
union men, while the state of Penn
sylvania has spent more than $3,
000.000 keeping troops in the field.”
NEWS OK ARKANSAS,
Big Fire at Cotton Plant.
The town of Cotton Plant suffer
ed a disastrous fire last week, nine
teen business houses being totally
consumed. The fire originated in
the Mayberry building, in a room
occupied by two men, whose charred
bodies were found in the ruins. All
the buildings burned were frame
structures. Following are the
losses: Mayberry's law office li
brary and fixtures, valued at $1,000,
no insurance; Masonic hall on sec
ond Ifoor; building total loss, val
ued at $700; R. E. Spivey, pool
and billiard hall, $500 loss, no in
surance; F. H. Kennedy, grocery
store and postoffice, loss $1,500, in
surance $750, mail and postoffice
fixtures saved; building owned by
R. R. James, valued at $1,700, no
insurance; Evans’ restaurant, loss
$250 on building and goods, no in
surance; L. A. Mackey & Co., gen
eral merchandise, stock $1,000, in
surance $f00, building owned by
Miss Eva Ware, loss $050, no insur
ance; Mullen’s blacksmith shop,
loss $250, no insurance; W. T.
Echols, Arkansan, newsnaper plant,
loss $700; no insurance; Dr. L. P.
Moore, drug store, building valued
at $1,000, stock $2,000; no insur
ance ; J. W. Russell, restaurant and
lodging house, stock $500, no insur
anee; ouuamg owneu uy w. i.
Echols, valued at $1,200, no insur
ance; Holland & Son, grocery store,
building owned by A. S. Mayberry,
valued at $300, stock $000, no in
surance; S. 11. Cowan & Son, gro-.
ceries, building owned by Mayberry,
valued at $350, stock $500, no in
surance; W. P. Trice, law office,
building and fixtures valued at $400,
no insurance; J. B. Dunlap, groce
ries, building valued at $500, stock
$700, no insurance; It. A. Bowen,
general merchandise, building val
ued at $400, stock $1,200; insurance
$500 on latter; C. E. Newman, bar
ber shop, fixtures saved, building
total loss, $300; E. It. Highsmith,
meat shop, $250 loss, no insurance.
Three Killed in Wreck
A freight on the Iron Mountain
W'as wrecked north of Hoxie-,
caused by a broken journal.
Three well-dressed men were
riding in a carload of loose,
wheat.. This car, with several oth
ers, was thrown from the track. In
clearing up the wreck the smothered
bodies of these men were found cov
ered with wheat. One of them had
an accident policy in favor of his
mother. His name was McNulty.
Eleven dollars and a watch were on
his person. The other two men had
nothing about them by which they
could be identified.
The Filhiol Claim.
The United States has held un
disputed possession of the govern
ment reservation at Hot Springs
for nearly a hundred years, but is
now called upon to defend its title
aLTtUnSL mu L'laiUIS U1 a BUUIC UI muic
of the heirs of a French soldier, says
a Washington dispatch. The claim
runs back to the time of Louis XVI, j
who is alleged to have made a ,
grant to a soldier named Villott of
a square league of land in the
French territory, which was after
ward conveyed to the United States
in the Louisiana purchase.
Benefits Arkansas Miner*.
One of the largest coal operators
in‘this state says the strike in Penn
sylvania is a good thing for the Ar
kansas miners. There is a big de
mand for Arkansas hard coal, and
only about one-tenth of the orders
can be filled, owing to the limited
output. Heretofore the Pennsylva
nia fields have supplied the demand
for anthracite which confined the
Arkansas product to the home mar
ket. _
Announces His Staff.
Land Commissioner Conway has
announced his official force, as fol
lows: C. B. Myers, deputy, re
tained; George B. Gill, of White
county, retained; R. G. Dye, of St.
Francis county, retained; L. L. Coff
man, of Boone county, new appoint- .
tee; Miss May F. Conway, stenog
rapher, new appointee.
A Negro’s Bloody Deed.
A negro desperado named Baldy
Taylor murdered E. li. Hughes, fa
tally wounded H. G. Fisher, slightly
wounded E. W. Schudy and was
fiimself mortally wounded on a
Deckervilie passenger train between
Luxora and Osceola. The victims
of the negro were all prominent
business men of eastern Arkansas,
and the murderer had not the least
provocation, as proven by eyewit
nesses. Taylor entered the coach
for whites with two female compan
ions and in an insolent manner told
the women to take seats. Mr. Hughes
quietly spoke to Taylor, inform
ing him that be was in the wrong
car. The negro became greatly en
raged and with an oath drew a 44
calibre revolver and fired at Hughes,
who fell and expired in a short time.
As Hughes sank to the floor Fisher,
who was sitting in the same se^t, got
his pistol out and both he and the
desperado fired at the same time.
Fisher’s aim was good, Taylor re
ceiving a wound in the side,
but he succeeded in firing a shot
that slightly wounded Schudy. The
train crew barricaded the doors to
the car and secured Taylor, who was
placed in jail at Osceola. When the
news of the tragedy became known
a crowd assembled for the purpose
of lynching Taylor, but when they
reached the jail they found that he
had died from the wound received
in the bloody battle he precipitated.
School Statistics.
The statistics of the department
of education for the past year show
that the average length of the terms
of school in the state was 1)1 1-2
days. In 1901 it was eighty-four
days and in 1900 it was only seven
ty-eight days. Men teachers are
still in the majority in the state,
there being 4,22(5 males and 3,257
females. The total enumeration
was 495,368, the total enrollment
was 340,695, or 69 per cent; the
average attendance was 214,460, or
63 per cent of the enrollment. This
is an increase of 3 per cent in the
enrollment over last year. There
are in Arkansas 5,420 school-houses
of which eighty-live are brick, 5,063
are frame and 272 are log. The to
tal value of these houses is $2,190,
241, or an average value of $405.21.
An Extraordinary Incident.
A dispatch from Pine Bluff §ays:
An extraordinary -incident concern
ing people well known in Arkansas,
and former residents of Pine Bluff,
has just been related here in a let
ter received from parties at South
McAlester, I. T. L. W. Bryan and
family have been residing there for
several years. Just prior to the Gal
veston storm Mrs. Bryan and their
daughter went to Galveston. Noth
ing was heard of her afterward, and
she and her daughter were mourned
as dead. Bryan married again and
by his second wife a child was born
last week the first Mrs. Bryan re
gained her sanity in a lexas sani
tarium, where, her identify un
known, she was taken just after the
storm, crazed by the disaster.
A Unique Design.
Mrs. Amanda Stephens, of De
Luee,' Arkansas county, aged 73,
years, has written to Manager T. W.
Milan, of the Arkansas world’s fair
directory, to the effect that she is
preparing a pongee silk quilt, repro
ducing, with all possible accuracy,
the exact map of the state of Arkan
sas, giving all the rivers, county
lines and the county seats. She of
fers the quilt to the management for
exhibition at the world’s fair.
Personnel of the fiext General Assembly.
Secretary of State Crockett has
completed the compiling of returns
of votes cast at the recent election
for state senators and representa
tives. The senate will be solidly
democratic, while only two republi
cans will be in the next house. They
hail from Newton and Searcy coun
ties.
Monitor Arkansas.
The monitor Arkansas, which re- i
ocntly underwent a successful trial <
on the water, has been accepted by i
the government and will be put into i
commission at once with Chas. E.
Yreeland as • commander. i
BRIEF MENTION,
The city jail at Mena was de
stroyed by fire, and John Hammond,
the only inmate, narrowly escaped
being cremated.
The cool weather has further
caused cotton to deteriorate, and the
estimates of experts will be reduced
as a consequence.
Eire destroyed Wolverton’s big
mill and box factory near Luxora.
This was one of the most thorough
ly equipped mill plants in the state.
A charter has been granted to the
Oklahoma Central ltailread com
pany, which proposes to build a line
from Fort Smith to Vernon, Texas.
The opening of the state blind
school and deaf mute institute has
been postponed until October 29 on
account of new buildings being un
completed.
An unknown negro, who was .put
off a passenger train as it was leav
ing Pine Bluff, fired two shots at
the conductor. The shots went
through a coach, but fortunately hit
no one.
The state board of world’s fair
commissioners has selected as a fair
souvenir button a unique design of
a perpetual calendar showing the
agricultural, mineral and industrial
resources of the state.
Henrv Wooldridne. a vounsr son
of Attorney Wooldridge, of Pine
Bluff, was shot and perhaps serious
ly wounded while playing with a
comrade who was shooting rats with
a rifle. The ball entered Wool
dridge's stomach.
A complete display of the re
sources of the Philippine Islands is
to be made at the St. Louis world's
fair.
A census of England, just com
pleted, shows a decrease in the birth
rate in that country, also a decrease
in the death rate.
In the recent state election in
Maine the republicans won with an
increased majority over those usual
ly returned in an off. year.
Operators in the Pennsylvania
coal fields are having winter quar
ters erected at the- mines for guards,
which indicates their intention to
prolong the struggle.
The monthly statement of the
public debt shows that at the close
of business August 30, 1902, the
debt, less cash in the treasury,
amounted to $968,091,321, a de
crease for the month of $5,818,646.
This decrease is principally account
ed for by a corresponding increase
in the cash on hand.
The body of a man thought to be
Wm. Bartholin, who murdered his
mother and sweetheart in Chicago
six weeks ago, was found in a field
near Lowther, la., a. bullet hole in
the head and a revolver beside the
body indicating suicide. In the
man’s coat pocket was a letter stat
ing that he had murdered two wo
men in Chicago.
Bitten by a flv two weeks ago,
George Lindhurst, of Brooklyn, is
dead. The physicians pronounce it
an extraordinary case. Lindhurst
was bitten on the thumb of his right
hand. Three days later swelling
began and spread rapidly. The doc
tors declared the fly bite had caused
blood poisoning which they could
not check, and the victim died in
great agony.
A dispatch from Paris says the
admiral commanding the French
naval division in the Atlantic has
sent word of the sudden disappear
ance of the island of Bermeja, in
the gulf of Mexico. On the 8th inst.
t was reported that the volcano on
•Strampoli island was in full erup
:ion. Stromboli is the northern
nost of the Lipari islands, in the
Mediterranean, off the north coast
)f Sicily. Its area is eight square
niles. It is wholly of volcanic for
nation and has a constantly active
rolcano 3,040 feet high, with an
:xtinct crater on top, but an active
rne’on the side, at the height of
ibout 2,150 feet. On the east side
>f the island lies the small town of
■Stromboli. The population of the
■sland is placed at 500 persons.
I
GEOLOGICAL PIANO.
A Musical Instrument of Flints the
Strangest in Existence.
Sermons in stones have become
common enough since geologists
learned to interpret the secrets of fos
sils. To awake melodies and har
monics in pebbles and rocks would
seem a much more diHicult, if not im
possible, achievement.
It has been accomplished, howev
er, according to L’lllustration, for
there is in existence a wonderful pi
ano, the notes of which are given
forth by flints, arranged in a regular
scale. The tones of this geological
piano are of remarkable quality. Mo
zart dreamed of an orchestra of
stones for the “Magic Flute.” If the
patience and skill of the piano’s cre
ator and owner, .Mr. Ilonore Baudre,
could be carried on to further
lengths, it is not impossible that
such an orchestra could be forthcom
ing.
It was the work of years for M.
Baudre to make the collection of
liints which constitute his geological
piano. They are now to be seen at
an exhibition which is being held at
Brest. The stones do not belong to
the class of resonant rocks known as
“phonolytes,” such as are found in
Auvergne, not far from Mont-Dore,
but are flints collected by M. Baudre
with infinite toil and research, each
giving when struck a true musical
note.
By accident while takingacountry
walk one day he picked up a flint and
chancing to strike it heard a faint
note respond to the blow. The idea
took hold of him to gather, if possi
ble, enough flints to form a complete
chromatic scale. Difficulties in the
search for such stones only increased
his ardor. For more than 30 years
he pursued the quest, making it the
principal aim of his life to form out
of a collection of flints the instrument
he called the “geological piano.”
After many years he has at length
got together the full scale in flint
notes, and numerous examples of
each with the exception of one. He
had been so far unsuccessful in put
ting his hand on the first “Do.” Per
haps it did not exist in nature. He
gave up hope that he could meet with
it in France. He would try Canada.
But the new world showed no trace
of the initial note of the octave, and
M. Baudre returned to his native
land resigned to the notion that the
chase mpst be abandoned in his old
age. Fortune once again smiled, and
the stone of which he despaired sud
denly appeared as he was walking in
Berry.
Advanced in years, he now passes
his leisure in playing, as he does with
skill, on this curious piano.
CHINA’S NATIONAL ANTHEM.
It Took a Prince Imperial to Discover
the Curious Fraud.
Much amusement was caused at
Brussels recently during the official re
ception of the Chinese prince impe
rial. All day the young oriental was
over me euy, vismng. Duncungs,
monuments, museums, dining and re
viewing, and everywhere he went he
was struck by the same monotonous
tune wearily intoned by the military
bands. After a while it jarred so
terribly on his nerves that he asked
his interpreter to inquire what the
blessed thing was. “The Chinese
national anthem,” the reply of the
somewhat surprised burgomaster of
Brussels, Mr. De Mot. “But we have
none,” was the response made by the
royal guest to the embarrassment of
the entourage, “and this tune was
certainly never heard in the land of
the celestials.’” “Murder will out,”
and it seems that a wily European
some years ago composed a sort of
tumtum, with an accompaniment,
and called it the “ Chinese National
Anthem,” and sold the right to per
form the same on all occasions when
any Chinese dignitaries were being
entertained. He has already made
a nice little sum out of it. This in
cident has caused much chagrin at
the Hotel de Ville in Brussels, but
more amusement among the general
public, who are enjoying a laugh at
the expense of the city fathers.—
Boston Transcript._
An Ancient Pea.
At a show organized in London by
the Sweet Pea society a plant was.in
bloom w hich had been raised from a
pea found in the hand of an Egyptian
•huminy.