» "Woodrnkk County News.
VOL. VII.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1908.
NO. 50.
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.
A million-dollar leaf tobacco pool
was formed in Madison, Wis., by the
members of the Wisconsin leaf tobac
co growers’ department of the Ameri
can Society of Equity. Delegates re
presenting growers of 10,000,000
pounds of leaf tobacco pledged them
selves to pool the crop and as far as
possible sell direct to the tobacco
manufacturers.
An epidemic of typhoid, which has
been prevailing in Montreal for
several weeks, is assuming serious
proportions. All the city hospitals
are filled and are refusing additional
patients. Private physicians are
overrun with calls. So far the num
ber of deaths have been compar
atively small. The bad water supply
and impure milk are given as the
causes.
By the adoption of an amendment to
the Constitution prohibiting the seat
ing in the annual convention of any
delegate not engaged actively at his
trade, the Illinois Federation of
Labor, put up the bars, against
politicians and those who the mem
bers claim have worked to the injury
of the organization by entering me
conventions in the interest of their
political bosses. The amendment to
the Constitution was presented by
Delegate Brady of Chicago.
Singing in a 10-cent moving picture
show at Fresno, Cal., May Yohe, once
Lady Fiances Hope, now Mrs. Put
nam Bradley Strong, is trying to save
up enough money to sue her husband
for divorce.
While C.000 feet in the air the
Parseval dirigible balloon met with
an accident and dropped to the
ground, causing great damage to the
apparatus with which the balloon
was equipped. Maj. Perseval and his
assistant were badly shaken up by the
fall. The bursting of the compart
ment forming the tail of the ship,
caused the accident.
It is officially stated at the Ad
miralty that the Duke of the Abruzzi,
who is to marry Miss Katherine
Elkins, has received three months
extraordinary leave, with permission
to go abroad.
The supreme court has sustained
the legality of the Nebraska blue
laws, forbidding almost all Sunday
business transactions.
At the trial of Ray La^nphere for
complicity in the Uunness murders,
Attorneys Darrow and Worden declar
ed that they expected to prove Mrs.
Gunness alive. They declare they have
three witnesses who saw Mrs. Gun
ness July 9.
Whatever doubts may have been
entertained by the Japanese of the
genuineness of American expressions
of good will is removed as the result
of the memorable meeting between
the mikado and Admiral Sperry at
the imperial palace and the inter
change of greeting on behalf of the
emperor and President Roosevelt.
The Isthmian canal commission
asks $36,000,000 for work on the Pan
according to estimates submitted to
Secretary of War Wright by Col.
Goethals, chairman of the committee.
The appropriation for 1908 was $27.
000,000, of which $1,500,000 was for
the purchase of three transports.
Electrification of all the tracks of
the Illinois Central railroad within the
city limits of Chicago was authorized
at the annual meeting of that road's
stockholders. ,J. Ogden Armour,
Charles A. Peabody and Alexander G.
Hackstaff are to succeed themselves
as stockholders.
A cloudburst at Gale, six miles
west of Shawnee, Okla., caused the
south Canadian to rise at an unpre
cedented rate to a height of two feet
above the former high water line.
Much damage has been done to pro
perty and to crops, but so far no loss
°f life has been reported. Train ser
vice was demoralized, all trains being
detoured.
1 hand owners and club organizations
In the Illinois river valley, met at
Havana, in Mason county, and formed
a permanent organization, the object
of which is to furnish whatever pro
tection may be necessary to guard
their respective properties from tres
passing, poaching and encroachments
of every character by hunters and
fishemen.
While it has been impossible thus
fnr to obtain a confirmation of the re
l°rt from Washington, it is rumored
in New York that President Roosevelt
!s to become associate editor of the
Outlook company, after his retirement
from the presidency.
Ferdinand Pinney Earle has escaped
all punishment for beating his wife
and “soul mate,” Julia Kuttner Earle,
for which he was arrested, after se
curing his release on $2,000 bail some
weeks ago. He was held to await the
action of the October grand jury, hut
that body finished its month’s labor
and was discharged without handing
up any indictment against Earle. This
to all intents and purposes, quashes
the case against Earle.
The state hank of Virgil. S. D., was
robbed of $4,700 in cash and valuable
papers by cracksmen. The robbers
dynamited the vaults and safe, and
took everything in sight, escaping be
fore citizens could reach the scene.
“Mr. eHarst’s Thieves” is the cap
tion of an article appearing in Col
lier’s Weekly, purporting to be the
real story of the “Archbold Standard
Oil Letters” read on the stump by
Wm. R. Hearst during the political
campaign. The story sets forth how
a negro file clerk in John D. Arch
bold's private office at No. 26 Broad
way and a messenger conspired to
steal and photograph the letters and
sell them to Hearst for $12,000. The
messenger is quoted as saying
Hearst has not read the most sen
sational of the letters.
To guard against indiscreet utter
ances of chiefs of bureaus at the
navy department during the cam
paign, Secretary Metcalf directed
that nothing contained in any regular
annual report of those officers shall
be made public until after the elec
tion in November.
A warrant has been issued for the
arrest of Miss Edith Wirt, a school
teacher in Kansas City, Kan., be
cause she pasted a strip of court
plaster across the lips of Harvey
Gallaway, a 9-year-old pupil who
talked too much in school. The war
rant was sworn out by the boy’s
father and charges cruel punish
ment.
One body and seven injured em
ployes have been taken from the
debris which buried from 40 to 50
men and boys when the roof of the
Lehigh Valley railway's roundhouse
collapsed at North Wilkes-Barre,
Pa. The body recovered is that of
Peter Mullen. It is feared that a
number of bodies still remain under
the wreckage.
Destructive forest fires are raging in
western Kentucky. The smoke is so
dense that it obscures the sun. In
Caldwell county 300 acres of fine tim
ber has been damaged, the damage to
fences, barns and hay stacks is esti
mated at $24,000. Farmers are working
night and day to save their property.
Herman Billek. fortune teller and
necromancer, must hang for the mur
der of six members of the Vrsal
family. The supreme court of the
United States at Washington dismis
sed, for want of jurisdiction, the plea
of the condemned murderer for a writ
of habeas corpus The writ had been
demanded of Judge Landis, but he
refused to issue it. Appeal was then
made to the United States supreme
court.
The German balloon Hergesell has
been picked up in the North Sea.
There was, however, no sign of the oc.
cupants, and the two are supposed to
have perished. The Hergesell was
found floating half deflated 100 miles
northwest of Heligoland by the Nor
wegian steamer Naddod and brought
to Yarmouth, Eng.
Mrs. Catherine T. Gelshenen, widow
cf the former president of the Gar
field bank, who. it is rumored two
years ago, Charles W. Morse would
marry, made $13,000 dealing in ice
stock through Morse, according to
testimony at the trial of the former
ice king and Alfred H. Curtis before
Judge Hough in the United States
circuit court.
A dispatch from Paintsvllie, Ky.,
says that George Stafford's residence
caught fire and lie and three children
were roasted alive. Mrs. Stafford tried
to save herself by jumping from a
second story window, and broke her
neck. The entire family was wiped
out by the disaster. The Staffords
were prominent.
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.
Mrs. Rosa Stone of Myrtle, Va.,
was given a $100 verdict against the
Norfolk & Western railroad for being
compelled to ride seven niiles in a
"Jim Crow” car with negroes. She
asked for $1,000. This is tlie only
case of that sort ever tried in Virgina.
The jury allowed her $40 a minute for
actual riding time.
Sixteen American battleships, con
stituting the American fleet on its
peaceful cruise around the world, are
riding at anchor in the bay of Tokio
occupying a post of honor in front of
a number of Japanese men-of-war, the
hulls of the American vessels making
strong contrast with the somber-hued
ones of the Japanese.
Aged Man Slain in His Store
Mystery surrounds the murder of
Samuel Randolph, aged 80 years,
owner of a general store at Dogtown
two miles from Mulberry, whose body
was found in his store at an early
hour Wednesday morning. A large
gash, apparently cut by a blunt in
strument, was found in the back of
his head. This wound had caused
his death.
The motive for killing the aged man
cannot be fixed, as he was not known
to have any enemies, and the con
siderable amount of money which was
in the store at the time was
not touched. He had $40 in cash on
his person and about. $300 in the
store. Not a cent was taken.
The body was discovered Wednes
day morning by Sterling Party and
Lem Beneaux, who went into the store
to make a purchase. They found
both doors to the store open and the
body lying in a pool of blood be
tween the stove and a counter. The
lamp was still burning. The coron
er’s jury, which conducted the inquest
over the body, returned a verdict to
the effect that Randolph was mur
dered by parties unknown to the jury. I
Randolph had lived at Dogtown j
several years. He had no relatives j
in that section of the country. He |
was separated from his wife some j
time ago. She now lives at Fort j
Smith.
Farmers’ Union Sells Its Cotton.
Monroe County Farmers’ Union sold
at public auction to the highest bid
der Thursday at their warehouse in
Clarendon 885 bales of cotton, Max
Rotholz of the Lesser-Goldman Cotton
Company being the purchaser. The
cotton was classed as middling into
two grades, 241 halos being classed as
middling, and 044 bales as strict mid
dling. The middling sold for 58.76 1-2
per hundred pounds, and the strict
middling brought $8.$6 1-2.
More than one hundred members of
the union who had cotton or were
otherwise interested were in town
TUwaday In attendance at the sale,
and dinner free to each and every
farmer was furnished by the Claren
don Business Men’s League.
J. B. Hagin, president of the coun
ty union, auctioned the cotton, and
together with a committee had active
charge of the sale. Another sale by
the union was announced for Novem
ber 26, at which it is expected that
1,200 bales of cotton will be offered
in one lot. There is now in the union
warehouse and on the yard more than
500 bales that were not included in
the sale Thursday. Nearly 550.000
will be paid out in settlement of the
cotton sold.
Negress Slain With Axe.
Henry Davis, a negro of Judsonia,
is in jail, and it is believed he killed
his wife by striking her on the head
with an axe Wednesday afternoon
about 2 o'clock, as the woman was
found in a dying condition, with a
gash in her head, a bloody axe near
her, and Davis was found hiding under
an outbuilding at their home.
It is understood that Davis and his
wife had been quarreling a great deal
and that Wednesday afternoon Davis
ran his children out of the house and
locked the doors. The children went
to the home of llieir grandmother, and
when she came home from her work !
she went to the Davis home and
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broke open the door.
The mother of the children was
found lying across the bed with a j
gash in iter head and a bloody axe
was found on the floor. At that time
the woman was alive, but she died
without regaining consciousness.
Mad Dogs at Van Suren.
The fear of rabid dogs in Van Bu
ren that had been gradually subsid
ing for the past week, was renewed
Tuesday night when a small dog be
longing to E. B. Buckingham showed
every indication of hydrophobia and
was finally killed by Chief of Police
Dick.
Following a proclamation issued
by Mayor Hays 10 days ago, this,
with many other dogs in the city,
has been muzzled, but late Tuesday
afternoon it slipped its muzzle and
attacked every dog and chicken in
the neighborhood. The dog tried to
force its way through the screen door
of Kev. J. L. Crane, living next door,
and when he attempted to drive it
away it snapped at him, but fortunate
ly Mr. Cane escaped it, this being the
only instance known whore the dog
attempted t.o bite any one.
Mill and Gin Burned.
The null and gin of Lee Piles at
Hon was burned Wednesday morning.
The to^s on the plant is estimated at
$4,000, and in addition 22 bales of
cotton were burned. The insurance is
$2,100. The origin of the Are is un- j
known. 1
James Cain Slain by John Taylor.
James Cain, a liveryman of McCrary
and a brother of William Cain of
Augusta, sheriff of Woodruff county,
was shot and almost instantly killed
on the streets in front of his stable
at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon by City
Marshal John C. Taylor, with whom
he had been involved in i quarrel.
There were a number of winesses to
the shooting and the general opinion
prevails there that the officer acted in
self-defense, although he has been ar
rested and is being held in jail.
Taylor and Cain, both of whom are
married and have families, have been
neighbors for some time. Monday
Cain and his family moved to another
part of the town, and before leaving
Cain took down the wire fence be
tween the yards and carried it away
with him, ignoring the protest of .Mrs.
Taylor, who claimed that a portion
of the fence at least, was the prop
erty of her husband, absent from
home at the time.
Not until Tuesday morning did the
two men meet. The marshal at once
asked Cain why he had taken the
fence down without first notifying
him. Cain answered that he owned
the wire and had a right to it and in
the argument that followed both men
became very angry. At 2:30 Tuesday
afternoon the men again met and the
quarrel wras renewed. Taylor is said
to have struck Cain with his fist, and
when the latter drew his revolver is
alleged to have secured his own from
its holster and had fired twice before
Cain could press the trigger of his
vv capuu,
each bullet taking effect in Cain’s body
on» striking his arm, another enter
ing the back and two penetrating the
chest. Crying to Taylor not to shoot
again, Cain turned and ran toward his
barn, falling dead before he had gone
more than a few feet.
After the shooting Taylor gave him
self np to the officers and was taken
to jail to await the verdict of the
coroner’s jury.
Anti-Betting Law May Be Assailed.
The Business Men's League of Hot
Springs Tuesday night recognized the
issue as to whether or not there shall
be a repeal of the Amis anti-betting
law in this state, and decided to hold
a meeting next month, with a full at
tendance present when a vote will be
taken as to whether the operation of
a race track at that place is best for
the community.
The Oakland track, one of the best
racing plants in the country, is located
there, and in former years had been
the big drawing attraction for winter
season patronage. The reform ele
ment of the city waged a fight against
it in the last legislature, and caused
the passage of a law against betting
on racing. Sentiment has changed to
a degree, and the commercial or
ganizations will decide on a stand,
and if a majority favor racing, will
urge the legislature to repeal the pre
sent law.
Big Interurban Scheme.
J. H. Ahefield, promoter of the in
terurban railway, has returned to
Fayetteville to confer with the com
mittee in regard to the terms of the
franchise. An ordinance consisting
of 21 sections and providing a 50-year
franchise has been prepared and will
be presented to the City Council
soon. In the franchise are the pro
visions that any power may be used
except steam, no fewer than six trains
a day must be run each way, and the
line to be completed within two
years. The interurban when com
pleted will connect all (he principal
cities of northeast Arkansas. A stand
aril gauge line win ue uum uuui
Siloam Springs to Huntsville, and af
terward the street car lines will be
laid in Fayetteville. The promoters
intend eventually to build the line
throu'gh from Coffeyville, Kan., to
Memphis, Tenn.
Big Fire at Bradley.
A disastrous fire swept Bradley Sat
urday night about 8 o’clock. The store
of the Hamiter Bros. Mercantile Com
pany, the largest concern there, was
completely destroyed, as was those
of E. Ham, G. M. Lee, A. J. Price and
the postoffice, besides a number of
vacant houses and smaller concerns.
The business part of town was on
one street, and only two buildings are
left standing.
Rob Washington Postoffice.
The postoffice at Washington, 10
miles from Hope, was broken into
and robbed Monday night of $50 gov
ernment funds and about $35 which
belonged to a church at Washington.
The commission of the postmistress
was also stolen. There is no clue to
the identity of the robbers.
Officer’s Aim Was Bad.
A shot from a revolver in the hands
of Deputy Marshal Strange, and in
tended for a fleeing negro robber, en
tered the home of Mr. Tinnell through
a window at 5 o'clock Sunday after
noon at Stamps, and took effect in the
hip of the latter’s daughter, infllct
ling a painful flesh wound.
Three-Cent Rate Now Effective.
The three-cent intrastate passenger
rate went into effect at 12:01 a. m.
Monday. Although the Iron Mountain
had failed to file its rates on Saturday
morning, the new rates became effec
tive on its lines also, as officials for
the Iron Mountain assert that the new
schedule was expressed from St. Louis
on Friday in plenty of time to be de
livered to the commission on Satur
day. As the railroad acted in good
faith in the matter, it is expected
that the commission will consider that
the rates were practically filed on Sat
urday.
W. C. Barnes, local passenger an?J
ticket agent for the Iron Mountain,
announced Sunday that all of the short
line roads under control of the Mis
souri Pacific will stick to the old
two-ceut rate. These lines are the
Arkansas and Southwestern, Guidon
and Fort Smith, Brinkley, Helena
and Indian Bay, El Dorado and Bas
trop. Farmersville and Southern, Lit
tle Rock and Monroe, Mississippi
River, Hamburg and Western and the
Arkansas and Louisiana.
He said that he had not heard that
the nine short lines had filed the
announcement on Saturday with the
Railway Commission to the effect that
they would on Tuesday, October 20,
apply to Judge Trieber for an in
junction against the commission's
freight tariffs and the passenger tar
iffs as established by the state legis
lature of 1907. This would make the
freight and passenger rates on the
branch lines the same as that on the
main linns
The commission will protest in court
that the present rates are just and rea
sonable and will light against an in
junction being granted to the branch
lines.
The new rate will not affect travel
ers between Memphis and Little Rock,
as that comes under the interstate tar
iff. So on the Rock Island it will
cost but $2.85 to go to Memphis, while
it will cost $4.15 to go to Bridge Junc
tion, just this side of the river at
Memphis,
Although the rates were not all
figured our by the Iron Mountain pas
senger traffic men Sunday afternoon,
it is believed that the same rule will
apply to the passenger who wishes
to go to Hoxie, Ark., in that he would
save money by purchasing his ticket
through to Neeleyville, Mo., at the ia
terstate rate of two cents per mile
Of course, the companies will endeav
or to prevent such tactics on the part
of their patrons, but when people see
that they can ride a great deal cheap
er by obtaining the two-cent rate for
a longer distance, rather than the
three-cent one for a shorter distance
they will doubtless not consult the
companies about the matter.
The fare to Fort Smith, Ark., will
be made at the rare of two cents pet
mile by the Rock Island and it is un
derstood by the Iron Mountain, also.
The Rock Island tracks cross into Ok
lahoma near Jensen, Ark., on the line
to Fort Smith, so that technically,
Fort Smith comes under the inter
state, rather than the intrastate, tar
iff. One of the Iron Mountain trains
remains in the state all the way to
Fort Smith, using the Frisco bridge
from Van Buren while the other skirts
the Oklahoma line.
The cheaper interstate rate, how
ever, will only prevail until after the
required 30 days' notice is given and
the new tariff filed with the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
Many Sentences Imposed.
The following sentences were im
posed by the United States court held
at Harrison Saturday last:
William Allen, Ollie Redding. Yank
Sutton, John T. Wilson and Shadwick
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days in jail. Elbert Noe and Frank
Allison were lined $100 and 30 days
each in jail.
Arch C. Gresham, ex-postmaster at
Kingston, was fined $1,030 for falsi
fying the records in the cancellation
of stamps; Robert W. Brady, who
pleaded guilty of safe-blowing in the
Mountain Home postoffice last July,
was sentenced to 10 years in the Leav
enworth penitentiary and pay fines to
the amount of $200. This is said to be
the third time he has been convicted
of this kind of work, so Judge Rogers
gave him the limit. It developed that
he had not been out of the pententtarv
60 days at the time of the commission
of the offense.
Monroe Tucker was sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary for
breaking into a postoffice in Marion
county, Ark.
Bettis and Dean, two young men
from Leslie, Ark., were given two and
one-half years in the Missouri train
ing school at Bocnville, Mo., on a
charge of counterfeiting nickels and
passing them.
Held on Charge of Murder.
John D. Holt of near Lincoln,
charged with the assassination of Mil
itant Murray, a farmer who for seven
years was a resident of Washington
county, was hold to the Grand Jury
without bail in his preliminary trial
at Fayetteville Saturday. The killing
of Murray took place Sunday after
noon, September 10, in a public high
way near Liucol^
SWlf r JUSTICE IS ANTICIPATED
Ten Thousand People Expected At
Union City Monday to Attend
Night Riders’ Hearing.
Camp Nemo, Reelfoot Lake, Tenn.
—Sensations came thick and fast Sat
urday when soldiers, sheriffs’ posses
and private citizens, who have mo
bilized here for the purpose of hunt
ing the murderers of Oapt. Quentin
Rankin, rounded up more than 50 pris
oners, all charged wiih being members
of the secret clan of night riders in
the Reelfoot section where one prom
inent Tennesseean lost his life and
where another escaped after the night
riders emptied their rifles at him.
The arrests are responsible for the
statement, that all but five of the
masked mob who took Capt. Rankin
and Col. Taylor from the hotel at
Walnut Log are now guarded by sol
diers or are securely locked in jails
in five counties bordering the seat of
trouble.
The most surprising event was the
detention of J. F. Carpenter, promi
nent attorney of Union City, who was
imprisoned in the guardhouse, charged
with having been in conspiracy with
night riders, who decoyed Capt. Ran
kin and Col. Taylor to the hotel at
Walnut Log under pretense of meet
ing a purchaser for some of the land
which had been in dispute and which
was claimed by the squatters.
Carpenter, by agreement, it is
charged, had preceded Col. Taylor and
Capt. Rankin to Reelfoot lake the day
before the night of the tragedy, but
remained at home of relatives in the
neighborhood. He was to have met
the attorneys the day afterward, but
the outrage had been committed which
ended in the finding of Rankin’s corpse
in the woods.
Col. Tatum, in command of the mili
tia, says that sufficient evidence is at
hand to show that Carpenter knew of
the night rider actions.
Intense excitement prevailed in the
entire neighborhood, and it is antici
pated that probably 10,000 visitors
will be in Union City Monday to lis
ten to the first court proceedings to
ward the indictment of the guilty.
Swift justice is surely to be meted
out. Governor Patterson, who reached
the scene of the tragedy just a week
ago, not more than 18 hours after the
outrage was committed, and whose
call for state troops resulted in the
community being honeycombed with
soldiers and sheriffs’ deputies 24 hours
later, is known to have already con
ferred with Special Judge Wiggert,
who will hold court, and the plan is
to dispose of the cases as quickly as
possible for fear of mob violence from
the enraged citizens of entire north
west Tennessee.
The hangman's knot is believed to
await more than a score of night rid
ers.
Governor Patterson spent Sunday
in Nashville. He has abandoned all
idea of resuming his campaign in the
gubernational race for a second terra
with possible exception of a final
speech the night before the Novem
ber election. This however depends
on the progress made in the trials
of the night riders.
Governor Patterson is expected in
Union City Monday morning to resume
active command of the situation. His
wife and members of her family re
mained at the residence of Mayor
Gardner, her father, Sunday.
No further threats were reported
and in face of the wholesale arrests
Sunday it is not believed that further
efforts will be made by the night
riders to intimidate Mrs. Patterson or
othprs in thn familv.
Precuation. however, has been taken,
to have a special guard in the neigh
borhood of the Gardner household.
Governor Patterson was also accom
panied to Nashville by trusted friends
and others who remain with him at
all times.
More soldiers will be- stationed in
Union City Monday. In addition, or
ganized band of determined men
from counties of Lake, Gibson and
Obion will be on hatid.
Hillsman Taylor, son of Col. Z. R.
Taylor, and son-in-law of United States
Senator Taylor, is at the head of a
hnIf a hundred personal friends, called
together from ranks of his college
mates with whc'n he played football.
Three brothers of Captain Rankin,
the only victim of the night riders,
are also on the ground.
Editor Seriously Shot.
Houston, Tex.—H. T. Warner, man
aging editor of the Houston Post was
accidentally seriously shot Sunday
morning while going from Alvin to
his country home, a few miles north of
that town. He was driving alone
across the prairie and had gotten out
of his buggy when he lifted his gun
out. The gun was discharged, the
load entering his left breast and pass
ing out through the right breast. Both
sides of his breast were shot away,
and the surgeons are not yet able to
announce the probable outcome of the
wounds.