VOL. V.
McORORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1900.
NO. 45.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
an epitome of the most im
PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
north, east, west, south
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sweet Marie, in front of the largest
crowv. ever gathered at the Columbus
(O.) track, was successful in not only
lowering her own record of 2:03%,
but in establishing a new trotting
mark for the course. Her mile in 2:02
fiat is a quarter of a second better
than the time Cresceus made on the
same track in 1901.
It is believed that over ten thousand
Lives were lost in the typhoon at Hong
Kong. SSx hundred vessels $vere|
wrecked.
Twelve deaths, the injuring of scores
of other persons, and five hundred
thousand dollars' worth of damage to
property was caused at Jelllco, Tenn.,
when a carload of dynamite, standing
on a track near the Southern railway
depot, exploded with a report that was
heard for 20 miles.
At Cape Girardeau, Mo., in the fea
eral court, the jury in the Smith casp
returned a verdict of guilty against
Charles M. Smith and Charles M.
Smith. Jr., and the five tenants of
their farms, on the eleventh count
in the pect.age case.
Fowler McCormick, aged nine years,
son of Harold F. and Edith Rockefel
ler McCormick, is staying at Forest
Hill. Cleveland, O., his grandfather's
home. The lad plays about the
grounds near the house, but never
for an instant is he left by a French
maid. Within calling distance two or
more stalwart guards walk about.
Vice-President Fairbanks laid the
corner stone of Chicago’s now county
building which, when completed, is to
be the largest courthouse in the
world.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. has
awarded contracts for the construction
of 12.400 freight cars, at an estimated
cost of ?15,000,000.
The establishment of a permanent
peace in Cuba without armed inter
vention on the part of the United
States is apparently impossible.
Raisuli, the bandit chief in Morocco,
is seriously ill. He is believed to have
been poisoned by an agent of the
foreign board.
Count Honi de Castellane may delay
divorce proceedings by demanding to
be paid alimony.
Paraguay diplomat says South
American nations fear annexation and
Latin races cling together.
Four proposals have been submitted
to the isthmian canal commission for
the furnishing of Chinese labor to be
employed in the construction of the
Panama canal, but the award, if any,
will be announced later. One firm
agrees to furnish 15,000 Chinese la
borers at 9 cents per hour.
A crowded express train on the
Great Northern railway in England
jumped the track near Granthan, the
engine and several coaches going off
the bridge to a roadway. The debris
caught fire, but a neighboring fire
company extinguished the flames. At
least ten people were killed and many
others were injured.
General Nikolaieff, of the Russian
army, was assassinated at Poland. He
was erorneously thought to be a mem
ber of the field court-martial.
The president has issued a procla
mation opening the Kiowa and Co
manche and Apache Indian lands in
Oklahoma. The interior department
will announce the date for the recep
tion of bids for the 505,000 acres of
land to be disposed of to homestead
ers.
Secretary of War Taft and Assis
tant Secretary of State Bacon, on
their arirval in Cuba, began to hear
the stories of both sides of the Cuban
difficulty. It is believed that the
United States administration •will de
vise a means of settlement which
will mean virtual occupation of the
Island.
John Frick, aged 55 years, a car
penter, went into Mayor Boehne’s of
fice at Evansville, Ind., and, it is de
clared, made threats. The mayor,
fearing the man would assassinate
him, called for help, and Frick was
locked up. Both Frick and his
wife were declared to be insane by a
commission later. It is said Frick
had made several threats against
Mayor Boehne, because he imagine*
be is a relative of Henry C. Frick.
Ail counties in Arkansas have re
ported the vote on tho educational
amendment, showing that it received
93f,237 votes, with 47,375 votes
against.
At their Virginia home, directly
across the river from War Eagle, W.
Va., Dr. E. R. Hatfield fatally shot.
It is charged, his brother, Captain
Hatfield, son of "Devir Anse Hat
field, w’ho gained much notoriety be
cause of his c mnection with the fa
mous feud of tnat name.
Brigadier General Samuel M. Mills
chief of artillery, will be placed on the
retired list September 30, upon his
own application, after more than
fort.-five years of service. He will
be succeeded as chief of artillery by
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Murray.
There is a tendency to underesti
mate the importance of the American
mission to Fez. Minister Gummere
will not only present his credentials,
but also will lay before tile Sultan
bis government’s views of the exist
ing state of anarchy in Morocco, and
demand the payment of American
claims and punishment for offenses
against American citizens.
Rear Admiral Sir Edward Chiches
ter, who commanded the British
squadron at Manila during the Span
ish-American war, died at Gibraltar of
pneumonia. He was chief of the sea
transport service during the South
African war. His work in transport
ing 250,000 men 5,000 miles to South
Africa won him great praise. It was
Sir Edward Chichester who, according
to report, stood by the Americans in
Manila bay at a time when friction
between Admiral Dewey and the Ger
man commander seemed likely to lead
to serious consequences.
A typhoon raged two hours at Hong
Kong, destroying and damaging many
vessels and causing much loss of life.
The harbor was strewn with wreck
age and the city with debris.
Charles M. Floyd was nominated
ay the republicans of New Hampshire
is their candidate for governor, de
feating Winston Churchill, the novel
ist.
Final preparations have been made
’or filing objections to the probation
)f the will of the late Russell Sage.
Several ot the financier's relatives
lave expressed their intention of try
ng to get a bigger share of the estate
han is coining to them according to
he provisions of the will. It looks
low, however, as if the brunt of the
tontest will be borne by Edson Con
-ad, the eight-year-old grand-nephew
if Mr. Sage, in whose name papers
will be filed.
Wiibur Glen Voliva has been chosen
by tiie people of Zion City as their
leader, by a vote of 1,911, to C for A.
N. Bliss. This practically makes Al
exander Dowie, th? self-styled prophet
and "Elijah II,” founder of the order,
an outcast.
During ail address at High Point.
X. C., William Jennings Bryan stated
’hat it was not free silver that de
feated him in 1896, but arbitration.
He stated that he believed in arbitra
tion between capital and labor, and
on the free silver question he believed
in the past that he was right, and he
still believes so.
A dispatch from Vladivostock states
that a number of Japanese were
caught sketching the fortifications. A
fight followed, in which nineteen Rus
sians and twelve Japs were killed. It
is said the guns of the fort opened fire
on the Japs.
The Universal Peace Congress at
Milan, Italy, has sent a telegram to
King Victor Emanuel, expressing the
nope that he may live in history as
:he “Sovereign of Peace."
Cash wheat strong in Chicago; re
ceipts by northwest elevators almost
nothing.
Paris and Berlin have increased the
rate of discount.
No further tightness of the money
market is looked for in New York.
Locomotive engineers in the west
are said to have organized a move
ment for a universal advance of the
wage scale.
Secretary Taft counsels Cubans tc
avoid intervention, and expresses the
belief that when they are brought
face to face with the danger of losing
their independence forever all patri
otic Cubans will be willing to make
concessions.
George W. Ryder, of Youngstown
O., who is charged with plowing up
a cemetery where the father and
mother of William J. Bryan are buried
has been sued by a woman whose rel
atives were interred there. The cent
etery is at Bear’s Den, and Rydei
bought it recently to add to his farm
The Ross and other families have
been buried there since 1772. Head
stones were used by the owner foi
walks. Bryan in 189G attempted tc
locate his parents’ graves there, but
failed to find them.
Further rulings in connection with
the enforcement of the meat inspec
tion law after October 1 next have
been made public. Frankfurter sau
sage can no longer be known as such
but must be called "Frankfurter style
sausage.”
According to figures compiled in the
state auditor's office, 72 out of the 7f
counties in Arkansas have 178,951
white poll taxpayers, to 49.9GG negrc
taxpayers.
John T. Morse, who was Harvard's
oldest living graduate and sole sur
vlvor of the class of 1832, died at hit
home on Beticon street, aged 93. He
was born in Boston, and came of £
long line of Harvard graduates. He
fitted for college at the Old Round Hil
school at Northampton when it was
under the direction of George Ban
croft, the historian.
Savannah theater, Savannah, Ga.
was destroyed by fire. The butldin*
was erected in 1818, and is said t<
have been the oldest theater in th<
United States.
OPENS NEXT WEEK
Arkansas Slate Fair and Exposition at
Beautiful Oaklawn ParK, Hot Springs.
Every Detail will be Completed for the Opening Next Monday, and
opecia.1 Excursion R.a.tes Offered from Every Section
During the Ten Days.
Nothing in recent years has attract
ed so much attention to the State of
Arkansas, as well as throughout the
entire State, as the State Fair and Ex
position to be held at Hot Springs the
first ten days in October. Under the
direction and management of S. R.
Jackson, president, and Ray Gill, gen
eral manager, nothing has been left
undone either in the matter of adver
tising throughout the State and en
tire Southwest or in the detail work
of preparation, exhibits, attractions,
and all that goes to make up a modern,
twentieth century Fair and Exposi
tion on a large scale—on an Arkansas
scale.
There will be also, the daily flight
of the airship “California Arrow,” the
race of "Whirlwind,’ the trotting os
trich against swift horses, unique bal
loon ascensions and double parachute
leaps, high dives, day and night fire
works, band concerts, etc.
Every afternoon there will be a
complete racing program, one high
class harness event and five running
races. $21,500 is offered in purses by
the Association during the nine days
of racing.
Each night at six o’clock the gen
eral admssion will be reduced to 25
cents. The Midway will be a wierd
and enticing scene baffling descrip
tion and wholesome fun and frolic
^RK5rATE%iR G«°u*os
Oaklawn Park Hot Spbincs.Arh. "n.
The State Fair Grounds, Oaklawn
of Hot Springs connected by a double
The cars enter directly into the ground
Park, less than a mile from the center
track electric street railway system,
s at the main entrance.
Popular priced excursions will be
run from every section of the State
on certain days, and in addition to this
the railroads have made a rate of one
fare plus fifty cents for the roundtrip,
good during the entire period of the
Fair. Arrangements are also under
way for special excursions from St.
Louis, Kansas City, Memphis and other
cities throughout the South and West.
It is no guess work to predict that the
first Arkansas State Fair and Exposi
tion will be a wonderful success, and
that, it will become a permanent an*
nual feature of the State. The fact
that it is not a local affair, but of by
and for the entire State is realized by
the citizenship. The people of every
town and section have taken hold of
the project with a vigor and purpose
tlia* means success, and the visitors
frovn afar will see one of the largest
attended State re-unions ever before
held.
The programme as prepared includes
the following:
Monday, Oct. 1—Grand Inaugural
day.
Tuesday, Oct. 2—Pine Bluff and
Southeastern Arkansas day.
Wednesday, Oct. 3—Little Rock and
Red Men day.
Thursday, Oct. 4—Northeastern Ar
kansas day.
Friday, Oct. 5—Hot Springs and Ar
kansas Retail Hardware day.
Saturday, Oct. 6—Arkansas Travel
ers and Arkansas University day.
Sunday, Oct. 7—No special program.
Monday, Oct. 8—Fort Smith and
Northwestern Arkansas day.
Tuesday, Oct. 9—Texarkana and
Southwestern Arkansas and Farmers'
Union day.
Wednesday, Oct. 10—Grand Finale
and closing day.
Special popular priced excursions
will be run by the railroads from each
section of the State on the day set
apart for that section. These excur
sions will be in addition to the one fare
rates which will be in force from every
point in Arkansas from September
80th until October 11, and good during
the entire Fair.
Each day will be featured with a
complete program from morning until
midnight. Some important division
of the live stock department will be
paraded and exhibited in the arena
and prize r.wards made.
Each morning important oratorical
programs will be rendered by noted
speakers in the Auditorium.
will reign until midnight amid the
most stupendous aggregation of high
class attractions ever assembled in
this state.
The splendid exhibits in all depart
ments will be carefully arranged for
inspection and instructive demonstra
tion. These include the Farm and
Mill, Horticulture, Forestry, Mineral
ogy, Metalurgy, Live Stock, Culinery,
Textile, Trades, Manufactories, Art
and Educational.
The industries and products of this
wonderful state are so diversified that
it has been almost impossible to com.
pletely catalogue each and every item
produced or manufactured in this
state.
The coming Fair being the first
one, the Executive department have
made the premium list for the Fair
as comprehensive as possible. It is
realized, however, that even the ex
tensive premium list now being cir
culated, will prove imperfect and in
complete in many respects. The As
sociation has decided, therefore, to re
ceive without any charge for entry
each and every Arkansas product offer
ed for exhibition, provided only that
these exhibits have some artistic, edu
cational, industrial or commercial
merit. Articles entered for exhibit
purposes that are not specifically
enumerated in the premium list, will
be placed on a competitive basis with
any other articles of the same class,
and each and every article thus ex
hibited, will receive a diploma, medal
or other valuable mark of merit, for
all point^.of superiority possessed.
No charge 'is being made for the
entrance of any article for competitive
exhibition in any of the departments
and every person so exhibiting is en
titled to an exhibitors ticket costing
$2.50 for the entire ten days of the
Fair.
The State Fair Association have
placed the prices of admission as low
as possible and well within the reach
of all.
The general admission will be fifty
cents for adults and twenty-five cents
for children. At night the general ad
mission will be twenty-five cents for
all.
Persons who have only one day to
spend at the Fair need only pay one
admission and may enjoy the entire
day from eight o'clock in the morning
until midnight, seeing as much of the
Fair as possible within that time.
Drunk and Dressed Up.
A girl giving her name as Mamie
Stuart was arrested at Texarkana re
cently. She was wearing boys' clothes
and was intoxicated. The disclosure
of her sex followed her arrest. She
claimed to be an orphan, and was ac
companied by a boy 12 years of age.
She said she could not make a living
for both of them as a girl, and so put
on man’s garb so she could get man's
work. She had been working at a local
dairy tor several weeks, plowing and
doing chores. She told conflicting
stories, claiming sometimes to be from
Texas and headed towards Little Rock,
and again to be from Arkansas, work
ing her way to Texas. She is about 16
years of age.
Poinsett County Rice.
It has been demonstrated that rice
can be successfully grown in Poinsett
county. The prairie lands are adapted
to rice culture, and there is a great
deal being grown by the planters in
that section. J. G. Probst has been ex
perimenting on a large scale, and his
rice is very fine. It is now being har
vested, and many other farmers say
they expect to sow rice.
ARKANSAS BRIZFS
The amusement features at the First
Arkansas State Fair held at Hot
Springs during the first ten days of
October will be far superior to any ex
hibition ever attempted in the state.
Among the free attractions are the
daily flights of the famous airship
“The California Arrow,’’ this is the
wonderful dirigible air car that made
such a sensation at the World's Fair
and which has made successful flights
during the past two years. The daily
race of the trotting ostrich, “Black
Diamond,” against the fastest horses,
is another unique feature of added
interest from the fact that this won
derful bird was reared in Hot Springs
at the famous Ostrich Farm owned by
Mr. Thomas Cockburn. There will be
daily and nightly fire-works,
display salutes, the high dive
by the “Wizard Swan,” the
trained animal baloon ascensions and
double parachute leaps. One of the
most interesting and wonderful attrac
tions will be the Infant Incubator Hos
pital. Here living human beings as
tiny as two pounds may be seen
in the most scientific surroundings,
nurtured and cared for with the ut
most skill. The sight of this strange
Hospital with its tiny occupants grows
in wonder as one gazes upon the
scene, and hears the explanation of
the hundreds of lives thus saved.
There will also be Capt. Ament with
a long line of the choicest attractions
that have apeared this year on the
eastern circuits. He will present
among others his world famous Lon
don Ghost show, the Mystifying Illu
sion Exhibition and the great South
ern Plantation Concert, the Cora
Beckworth show, the world's champion
Swimming Exhibition, Capt. Sarcho's
Deep Sea Divers, Turner’s Famous
Reptiles, Montgomery’s Electric Thea
ter. There will also be Sterling's Ela
borate Gypsy Camp, the latest in life
pictures, “The Girl From Texas,”
Carroussels and Merry-Go-Rounds,
trained animal exhibitions of the high
est order, national exhibitions from
far lands and so on, and on through
the mystic maze of varied sights and
mingling of weird sounds until one
comes to the newest and most novel
of exhibitions, the trained alligators
following “Alligator Joe” like trained
dogs and shooting the chutes in the
most startling manner. The Midway
streets will be free and will remain
open until midnight each day. The
cost of the various attractions has
been reduced to the minimum. Fair
opens October 1st and closes October
10th.
William Wyatt, who owns a farm
near Jonesboro, lost his gold watch
in a field in which he was working
eleven years ago. The watch was
found recently and was in a state of
good preservation. There was a little
rust on the case and both hands were
missing.
At a recent meeting of the Ozark
board of aldermen it was determined
that the city tax should be reduced
two mills. Next year property holders
will be assessed two mills general tax
and one mill street tax. The board of
aldermen will recommend the reduc
tion to the levying court.
W. C. Park has an old field in How
ard county from which he has har
vested a big crop of wild Japanese
clover. There are 35 acres in the
field, upon which there is not a tree
nor a stump, the field having been in
cultivation for more than 50 years. The
clover was rank over the entire field,
and knee high and higher. It will
make about 2,000 bales .
Petitions are being circulated in De
Queen to prohibit the sale of whiskey
within three miles of town. A re
monstrance is also being circulated.
From reports it will be a lively tussle.
Attorney General Rogers nd bis
assistants left Little Rock recently
on their second pilgrimage Into the
enemey's country for the purpose of
securing evidence to be used in prose
cuting the anti-trust suits which have
been instituted on behalf of the state.
Mr. Rogers, accompanied by J'.me?
H. Steveson, one of his assistants,
went to St. Louis, where they will
endeavor to secure evidence against
several of the corporations which are
under fire. Chief of these is the
Watfers-Fierce Oil Company.
On September 19 at 12:30 o’clock
the Cook Manufacturing Company's
plant, on the corner of Bridge street
and Gate avenue, Jonesboro, was de
stroyed by fire. The company manu
factures lawn seats and chairs, and
nad been in business only a short
time. The origin of the fire is un
known, but it is thought by some to
have been the work of an incendiary.
The machinery, stock and fixtures
were valued at $5,000, and were insur
ed for $3,000. It is thought that the
owners will rebuild as soon as possi
ble.
TAFT HOPEFUL
SAYS HE HAS PLAN TO SAVE
CUBAN SOVEREIGNTY.
The Race Issue Has Beer: Raised, and
Negroes Do Not Like
Aspect of Things.
Havana.—Everything hangs upon a
conference in progress at United
States Minister Morgan’s home be
tween Secretary of War Taft and As
sistant Secretary of Stat^ Bacon and
the representatives of the Liberal
leaders, the prisoners under arrest for
alleged conspiracy, and the rebel field
commander. Since the arrangements
for this important meeting were com
pleted, Secretary Taft had believed
that there was fair reason for expect
ing a favorable outcome to the nego
tiations which would lead to a settle
ment without the necessity of Amer
ican intervention.
The indications are that peace will
be obtained without intervention.
President Palma has not resigned,
as rumored.
Secretary Taft says he sees a way
of saving the sovereignty of the Cu
ban republic. He admits that he has
a tangible plan, but will not disclose
its exact character. It is not a victory
for either political party, but contem
plates radical concessions by both.
The secretary's program is as yet
embryonic and depends upon the pa
triotism of the Moderate and Liberal
leaders, both of whom have shown
confidence in the mediators by naming
delegates with definite power of at
torney to treat for their respective
parties.
The unwelcome news having
reached the mediators that the govern-,
ment had refused to release the pris
oners, in order that they might at
tend the conference, and that the pris
oners themselves had refused to ac
cept these conditions, declining abso
lutely to be the recipients of favors
from the present government, Secre
tary Taft took up the matter diplo
matically, with the result that Consul
General Stienhart and Capt. McCoy,
military aide to President Roosevelt,
drove to the Presidio here, where
they saw Secretary Montavlo and got
consent for the release of Jose Miguel
Gomez and four others of the leading
alleged conspirators. The latter re
turned with them to Minister Mor
gan’s house. Meanwhile Machado and
Ferrera, the rebel leaders in Santa
Clara province, had taken an auto
mobile here and gone direct to the
rebel camps outside Marianao, return
ing with Gen. Del Castillo and Pino
Guerra, respectively, the leaders of
the revolt in the provinces of Havana
and Pinar del Rio, who were on horse
back.
The impression is that the sugges
tions of the commissioners will in
clude the retention of President
Palma, and perhaps Senator Sterling,
secretary of the treasury, in his pres
ent position, or in the cabinet. The
suggestion of the commissioners prob
ably also will include new general
elections, although there may be only
an arrangement for electing members
of the cabinet, the present Congress
to continue until next year’s congres
sional elections.
In general the public discussion of
the entire matter is assuming more
and more the nature of a controversy
between the blacks and whites. The
whites, and they include every for
eigner, welcomed the arrival of the
United States warships. On the other
hand, the negroes give vent to expres
sions of hatred and disappointment
as each new vessel appears. The ne
groes seem to be of the opinion that if
the Americans gain control of Cuba
the present race equality will become
a thing of the past.
Some of the Liberal leaders declare
that the rebels would lay down their
arms if the government would resign.
The men in the field generally aver
that they would just as soon fight
Americans as the Palma government.
American planters at Bahia Honda
have requested of Minister Morgan
that a warship be sent there, and the
minister intimated that this would ba
done.
All is reported quiet throughout the
island. The rebels generally are
strongly disposed to resume warfare
if the negotiations fail or if their
leaders believe they are unfairly
treated.
The National Bank of Mena adver
tises that none of its funds are or will
be loaned to its office' s or employes.
A Contract He Didn't Want.
Philadelphia—President Cassatt of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is confined to his home at Havreford,
a suburb of this city, suffering with
whooping cough. Mr. Cassatt con
tracted whooping cough from his
grandchildren, who were with him at
Bar Harbor.
Hebrew Terrorist Executed.
Odessa.—The first field court mar
tial was held here recently when a
terrorist Jew named Tarle was sen
tenced to death and executed for kill
ing a policeman.