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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY T1AY 16, 1902.
Vol. 2 No. 20.
CONDENSED ITEMS
GENERAL NEWS OF IMPORT
ANCE BOILED DOWN.
Items of General Interest Picked
Up From all Over Uncle
Sam's Great Broad
Domain.
A new steel foundries trust is
organized with a capital of $40,
000,000
News from South Africa indi
cates that peace is at hand there
and may be formally proclaimed
May 20.
Mrs. Soffel, who assisted the
liiddle brothers to escape from
the jail at Pittsburg, was sen
tenced to two years in the pen
itentiary.
The government is preparing
to open the Rosebud reservation
to homestead settlemens in the
same manner that the Kiowa lands
were opened lust year.
Judge Eller of Omaha barred
the doors of his home against the
Coroner, who sought to hold an
inquest over the body of his son.
who died under Christian Science
treatment.
The influx of Americans into
London disproves the oft-repeat
ed assertion that few from this
side the Atlantic would witness
the coronation procession* More
that 3,000 Americans arrived in
London last week.
Account of the Arkansas State
Music Teachers' Association, at
Little Rock June 11 and 12, the
Iron Mountain route will sell
round trip tickets to Little Rock
June 9 to 11 inclusive at rate o!
one fare for round trip. Final re
turn limit June l(i.
Eastern Democrats see politics
in tlie anthracite strike situation.
It is pointed out that potent in
tluenccs m Wall street are not
alarmed over the situation and
that the occasion will give Sena
tor Hanna the chance of his life
to make a political coup.
The New York Evening Rost
points out that repeatedly in the
past a mini who was seaicily
throught of thirty mouths before
the n itional election has been
selected as the Demociat presi
dential candidate, and suggests
that it is quite likely that history
will repeat its self mxt campaign.
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If you wish patent business
properly promptly done send it to
Swift & Co., opposite U. 8. Pat
ent Office, Washington, 1). c.
They have n > dissatisfied clients.
Write them for their confidential
letter: a postal card will bring it.
.aid it may lie worth money to
you. Seo < heir udvertisemen
elsewhere in this baper.
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Burns, cuts and other wounds
often fail to heal properly if neg
lected and become trobblesome
sores. DeWitt’s Witch IL.zel
Salve prevents such consequences.
Even wheie delay has aggravated
the injury DeWitt’s Witch Hazle
Salve effects a cure. “I had a
running sore on my leg thirty
year,” says H, C. Hurtly, Yunkee
town, Ind. “After useing many
remedies, I tried DeWitt’s Hazel
Salve. A few boxes healed tlie
sore. “Cures all skin diseases.
Piles yield to it at once. Beware
of counterfeits. J. I. Sturdivant.
Should be in Every Home.
The local newspaper should be
found in every home. -No child
ren should Ire brought up in ignor
ance who can be taught to appre
ciate home papers. It is said to
be the stepping stone to intelli
gence in all those matters not
found in books. Give your child
ren one foreign paper with not
one word about anv person, or
place they ever saw or hoard of .
I and how do you suppose them to
he interested? Bu‘ let them read
the home paper and hear from
people whom they meet, and of
places with which they are fa
| miliar, and soon an interest is
awakened which increases with
the arrival of every local news
paper. Thus a habit of reading
is formed, and those children will
read papers all their lives, and
become intelligent men and wom
an, a credit to their ancestors,
and strong in the knowledge of
the world as it is to day.
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New Matrimonial Scheme.
Mayor \V. R. Duley has under
advisement the establishment of a
unique matrimonial bureau. The
other day he received a letter from
a statictieal bureau in the East,
calling his attention to the larger
proportion of men than women in
the West and vice versa in the
East.
In order to bring the Eastern
women and the AN'estern men to
gether it was suggested that the
mayor prepare an album contain
ing photographs of those men who
were willing to take this means of
finding wives, the album then to
be circulated among the Eastern
cities, where women outnumber
the men. Any girl sc desiring
would be at liberty to open a cor
respondence with the originals in
the pictures.
The mayor is delighted with the
plan and says he will do his utmost
to carry it through.—Little Rock
Gazette.
Farmer Shoots His Tenant.
Rufus Johnson, one of the best
known farmers and stock-raisers
of Rich woods township, and a
man of considerable means, on
•Saturday morning, May 10.
shot and killed das. Cole, a tenant.
The news was tirst received here
Sunday morning and the stories as
told by different parties from that
section are too conflicting on some
points of the tragedy to give an
absolutely correct version of the
affray. Friends of the deceased
allege that Johnshon had been in
timate with the former's wife.—
Newport Independent.
A Letter From Texas.
To the Editor of The Journal.
Through the kindness of my
friend, G. F. Grosser, of your
town, 1 am permitted to read your
paper. We are glad to get it, as
it gives us all the news from our
old home and through it I see that
some of my old friends are still
able to answer roll-call, many of
whom 1 would be glad to see. But
I am too well satisfied in Burnet
county Texas to ever think of
making my home in Arkansas
again.
We have a fine, fertile country
and prosperous people, and while
we havn’t got all the coons up one
tree we have enough to pass very
nicely.
Farmers are in fine spirits. Cot
ton is looking fine, and they are
laying-by their corn. Wheat and
oats are short; fruit is line; plenty
of rain, so far.
As I have not much time to
write tonight I will close, but will
give you a few dots from, this
Western country if you wish it.
Wishing The Journal prosperity,
I am, Respectfully yours,
J. II. Powell.
Bertram, Tex., May 9, 1902.
Wants Others to Know.
“I have used DeWitt’s Little
Early Risers for constipation and
torpid liver and they are all right.
I am glad to indorse them for I
think when we find a good thing
we ought to let others know it,”
writes Alfred Heiuzo Quincy. 111.
They never gripe or distress.
Sure, safe-pills. J- I Sturdivant.
'The Journal, $1 per year.
ITEANS DEVISED BY WHICH IT
MAY BE AVOIDED.
An Ingenious Russian Has Invent
ed a Coffin That Gives the
Alarm \Y hen ft Corpse
Breathes.
The mere thought of being hur
ried alive is enough to send the
cold chills creeping up one’s spine
in lively fashion. Kimiici-Karniei,
a chainberlian of the Russian em
peror, and the owner of an in
genious mind, experienced this
unnerving sensation some time
ago when, at the funeral of a
young woman, he heaid piteous
cries arising from the coffin after
it had been lowered into the grave
and dirt was being thrtwn on the
lid. The incident so affected him
that he set to work to invent a
device that would prevent prema
ture burials, and after seveial
trials he announces that he has
succeeded.
Count Karmu-Karnici’s appiu
atus consists of a hermetically
closed iron box, which is placed
on the top of the grave and is {
connected with the coffin by a
hollow, removable tube. Inside
this tube is a spring which at one
end is connected with the iron :
box and to the other end, inside
the coffin, is affixed a glass ball
so that it just touches the chest. I
The faintest movement of this
ball, as a result of the slightest
movement of the body, or even
the simple mo ion of breathing.:
suffices to cause the lid of the!
iron box to spring open and a
flag to rise perpendicularly about
tour feet above ilie ground.
At the same time a strong alarm
bell is rung auU an electric lamp
is lighted, and these signals are
intended to attract attention both
day and night. By the opening
of the box lid the tube admits in
to the coffin light from the lamp,
sufficient air for breathing, and
also serves as a speaking tube.
As t lie box is hermetically closed
it allows no gas to escape, and as
it cannot lie mterfeied with from
the outside, but opened only by
pressure from within the coffin,
it requires only from II to 21 dajs
to make it an absolute remedy in
eases of premature burial.
Don’t Start Wrong.
Don't start the summer with a
lingering cough or cold. We all
know what *“suminor cold"i<. It's
the hardest kind to cure. Often
it “hangs on” through the entire
season. Take it in hand light
now. A few dos°s of One Min
ute Cough Cure will set you right.
Sui i cui e for coughs, colds, ci oup
grip, bronchitis, all throat and
lung trouble. Absolutely safe.
Acts at once. Children likn it,
“One Minute Cough Cure is the
best cough medicine 1 ever used,
’’says J. 11. llowles, Groveton, N.
11. ‘“1 never found anytlnug else
that acted so safely and quickly.’
J. 1. Sturdivant.
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From Ground Hog.
OsKEit:-I've tried hard to swirl
ier that Batesville fellers tail
about that koller butt in and hare
pin and it won’t swaller. Dr.
Sturdivant will have to strain his
milk over.
Prosperity has struck us now
shore. We air in the midst of
more base haulers and boss shu
pichers than ever cussed a town
sense ole Karo fotch the frogs
outen Egip and swapped ’em for
; grasshoppers, but we haint got
the buysickle as bad as last year.
Polly tix is on the decrease hut
j spot backs and seed tix air on the
I increase. G. II
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hor nice furniture in sets, or m
single peaces call at Muguess Bros.
I They also have a nice lot of
i lounges and couches.
WRITES OF THE SITUATION AT
THE CAPITAL OF HADES
Advises 11 is Friends Not to Come
.Down Till Fall and Bring
Only Some Very
Light Clothing.
The following letter has been
received from the late Col. Bob
Ingersoll in regard to the situa
tion at the capital ot Hades :
Bank ot Stix. Slioel, May 1. — I
will now endeavor to write the let
ter 1 promised before leaving
New York. Sam Jones inadvcrt
edly told the truth, for,just as he
predicted, and as I myself hall
way expected, I am in llades.
Came through without a stop. I
am silting on a hot cinder writing
this letter on a slate gouged from
tiie ceiling with my tiindot. A
“trindet,” you know, is one of
those funny looking little pitch
forks like Neptune used to carry
around with him at the sea side.
Everybody has one and it makes
a fellow think lie’s at a populist
convention.
When 1 was on earth I didn't
beleive in hell, for 1 had traveled
through Kansas and couldn't be
leive there were two places so
much alike. But 1 hadn't been
here half a day till I bdeived in it
a whole lot. It is much more gen
uine and realistic that I anticipat
ed, hut 1 think 1 u ill like it when I
get aclimated. Just now my feet
are Mistered from walking on the
hot pavement and 1 am dabbling
them in the styx to cool them off.
I was talking to Moses a while
ago, and he says they will soon
get calloused and then 1 will be
all hunkadory. lie lias read my
‘‘Mistakes of Moses,” and laugh
ingly admitted that he had made
a good many mistakes when lie
was new to the business. He is a
joviilokl cuss ami I rather like
him. Told me on the dead—that
lie didn’t write the Pentateuch,
ha* knows who did. There are
lot of people here and strangers
arrive daily. But I would not ad
vise jou to come down till fall or
winter and even then you needn't
bring anything but a light summer
suit. You won’t need an over
coat 01 an umheralle 01 skates,
but you might bring a palm leaf
fan or two. For an amaginay,
mythical, ligutative, ellegorwal,
unorthodox hell this is the hotesl
one 1 ever ran into- lint say, I
got here ju-l in the nick of time
to strike a snap. Ilenry Ward
Beecher had just retired on ac
count of age and I was appointed
to succeed him as boss of the
.New York colony—the largest
one here. 1 have a lovely new
trindet with cute little spear
point businesses on the tines, and
the devil has promised to get me
a long red tail next week. Ho
sterns to have taken a fancy to
me. There are ministers here of all
denomination, and several camp
meeting are in progress down
farther. Horace (freely introdu
ced me to old Peter Cartwright
last t ight and we had a very
pleasant chat. Have also shook
hands with Tom Paine and Vrol
laire and found them very pleas
ant gentlemen. Said they watch
ed my career for some time and
expected me every day.
Of course the trust is here
“higer’n a chipmunk.” Solomon
and Brigham Young have all the
women cornered, hut Roberts is
expected soon and a lively tight
will probably uisue. The politi
cians are organizing to defeat the
present administration and elect
a new devil. They want mo to
make the nominating speech.
You know I nominated Blaine
for president once and did il up
in shape. Don’t know who will
he the nominee. Jay Gould is
running well on account of his
j money, and Judas Iscariot and
Annaniua uro quite popular.
I wish you oouM sent! mo the
papers ; would like to sou what is
being said about me. 1 suppose
they have printed a l-t of my old
letters, and every little two-by
four preacher has told “how it
happened,” and ail that sort of
tilings. 1 wish the whole dod tot
ed pack were down here it while
—they wouldn't feci so all tired
Well I must close. We need
rain the worst kind—nearly every
thing is burning up. If 30U are
ever down tins way drop in.
Yours truly,
Bob Inoku.ioll.
P. S. A soda fountain would
pay well down here. Bon.
Just For Fun.
A fishing 1 tarty composed of Mr.
and Mrs. James Brooks, the editor
and wife, Mrs. Bettie Moore, Mrs.
Elbert Arnold, Mrs. Maggie
Shirey, Miss Lora Craig, Pink
Moore, Price Kellett and Jimmie
Edwards went down on Wall's
lake Sunday evening and struck
camp in an old empty house so as
to be on the ground early Monday
morning.
After sitting up till a late bom
in a vain endeavor to smoke the
mosquitos away, the crowd finally
went to bed—no to roost. The
mosquitos saw by this move that
they were at least holding their
own, and thus encouraged again
charged the enemy with renewed
vigor and kept hitting the mark
with painful regularity.
Am me mgm me crowd
j that is, part of them was awaken
ed no, startled -by the sound of
many voices, and upon investiga
! lion it was found that part of the
crowd was just in the act of desert
ing and going over to the enemy,
or somewhere. By a desperate
effort and much good advice, they
were Anally persuaded to stay,
but insisted that the mosquitos
should have a fair show, so they
crawled up in the wagon outside
with apparent bravado.
Finally, after what some mem
bers of the party swore must have
been three days, or rather, nights,
it began to get light, and about Id
hours afterward the sun rose.
About this time the genial, whole
souled Tiltnan Tate appeared on
the scene with his net and in ti
short time we had Ash enough t<
feed a multitude and the real en
joyments of the occasion began,
j When the noon hour arrived a
stack of fried Ash you couldn't set
i over greeted the crowd and they
fell to eating with a determinatioi
to eat that pile of Ash or bust.
Mrs. Brooks captured the prize
as champion Ash-eater, and it was
declared a tie between Mrs. Shirey
and Tom Ilulsey as eh impion col
fee-drinkers. We started in tc
keep tab, but run out of papci
just as Mrs. Brooks had eaten the
thirty fourth piece of Ash and Mrs.
1 Shirey and Tom had passed theii
cups back for coffee the eighteenth
time. At any rate the Ash all dis
appeared and the coffee pots wen
as dry as bone dust when the
crowd attempted to get up from
the table.
The whole party enjoyed the
! occasion to the utmost and i
; unanimous vote of thanks B ex
j tended Mr. Tate for favors shown
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Patents at Cut Prices.
In order to Keep buBy during t In
| summer. Swift & (Jo., the prompi
! and proper patent lawyers, oppo
; site lT. S. Patent Office, Wash
!iugton, 1). O’., have made a bh
j cut in the price for obtainin'
patents, inventory who de>i •
! to save money and get tin* bes
work should write them whir
the cut prices prevails.
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STATE CHRONICLES
—
ITEHS OF INTEREST GATHER
ED HERE AND THERE.
Boiler Explosion at Clio Killed
One Person and Fatally
Wounded the Slcei>
ing Engineer.
I John Whitlege, of Harrisburg
j came near killing himself recent
ly. lie stalled to split open a
hoard with an axe and struck a
clothes lire. The axe rebounded
and hit him in the forehead, mak
ing an ugly wound.
Near Caledonia the wife of Bob
Ford, colored, was killed by
( Jelly Creer, a seventeen-year-old
negro boy. The lay claims that
it was an accident; that he went
to hang up a target rifle and by
some means it was fired accident
ally, tin* ball entering tlie head of
the negro woman just below her
eye, causing death in a few min
utes.
W. V. Head, who, last Friday,
during a tit of temporary insanity,
horribly multilated Ins body with
an axe, died Saturday night of
bis injuries at the home of his
brother. The unfortunate man
was a truck farmer on the Jack
Dows place, and in his early
youth be was the victim of ail ac
cident while playing with some
companions, since which time he
has been subject to spells of lun
acy. —Marianna Index.
The twentieth annual encamp
ment of the G. A. li. of the de
partment of Arkansas will be held
at Siloam Springs May 14,15 and lb
1D02, to which all old Federal and
Confederate soldiers and citizens
are invited. Parades, campfires
and a general good lime for
everybody. Addresses by proini
neut (J. A. K. men and citiaens.
j (irand camp tire will be held in a
'largo tent in the city paik May
15, 8 p. m.
i lino was a nuiier explosion at
Clio Monday night that resulted
in the instant death of the fireman
and perhaps fatal injury of all
ot her party. The Bluff City peo
ple have two large boilers at work
and had just put down an old
boiler and the iugiueer had in
structed the fireman to wake hint
! up when lie got up steam and that
they would make connection with
; the other two boilers. It is sup
1 posed that the tire man undertook
the job by himself and the steam
being unequal in the different
boilers may have caused the trou
ble. The man killed was blown
250 feet and the boiler was found
i almost a quarter of a mile away
the next morning- The mill shed
was wrecked and one of the other
boilers badly damaged.
Reveries of a Campaign Mule.
They say a mule has no soul.
But that is all light. When the
candidate strikes the hereafter ho
will envy his mule,
I have been carrying a eandidato
around for three weeks, if l
could not run any belter than he
is lulling 1 would throw up the
sponge and eat grass.
1 am tied out in the hot sun
three hours on a stretch, during
which time the candidate is un
1 noting a huge crowd of voters by
praising himself to the skies, it
is my private opinion that if ho
ever gets to the skies they will
take him down in a hurry.
It amuses me to hear his war ree
led. 1 happened to be in e
: war wit 11 him, and his record con
, -is;- in tkoigiUe fastest time in
g»':i u of it. He went
i lightning,
b-■' a- >. uur voices
o'd oil . • in . virrender.—A
‘ Mule.
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