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O. F. CRAIO, Kdltor.
NEWARK- - , ARKANSAS.
Foreign governments have pre
sented claims against Venezuela
eiceeding $54,000,000.
Four persons perished in a fire
which destroyed the Brunswick ho
tel at Rochester, N. H.
A Berlin paper prints a charge
that the United States has designs
of annexing Hayti and San Domin
go.
Lord Milner, the British high
commissioner in South Africa, has
declined the cabinet position of co
lonial secretary.
Curtis Jett, convicted of murder
ing James Cockrill at. Jackson,
Ky., has been sentenced to be hang
ed December 12.
Hon. E. H. Roberts, treasurer of
the United States, reports the larg
est holdings of gold in the history
of the country—$053,000,000.
Minister Leishman has recom
mended that the American warships
be not withdrawn from Beirut at
present, as conditions are such as to
require their presence.
A bill has passed both branches
of the Alabama legislature prohib
iting labor unions from issuing
boycotts against firms or corpora
tions. The bill is a strong one and
members of labor unions are strong
in denouncing its supporters.
That a person should lie ill and
actually die for the want of food in
one of our thickly populated cities
seems beyond comprehension but
according to a doctor’s certificate
Albert Hammock, who died at
Montgomery a few days ago, was a
victim of starvation. The father
and mother were factory employes
and both were found to be too ill
to wait on the sick boy, and thece
was nothing in their home to eat.
An unsuccessful attempt was
made by an ex-convict to kidnap a
child of the governor of Nebraska.
The plot was hatched out t*f re
venge for the governor’s failure to
commute the death sentence of a
noted murderer. The children
were playing in front of the gov
ernor’s mansion when the ex-con
vict grabbed the 8-year-old girl of
the governor’s and started on a
run. The screams of the children
attracted neighbors, and when they
took up the chase the man drop
ped the child and escaped.
rassengers on a Kansas C ity ex
press had a miraculous escape from
death at a point about two miles
north of Independence, Kas. With
the apparent intention of holding
up the train, robbers twisted out
two rails at the end of a high tres
tle. The train was going down
grade, and the engineer was unable
to stop before the cars plunged
across the trestle on the ties. At
one place the trucks of the coaches
were within four inches of the edge
of the bridge, which is thirty feet
above the bed of the river.
When Oberlin M. Carter, former
captain in the United States army,
leaves the federal prison at Fort
Leavenworth on November 28, he
will begin a contest for the prop
erty taken by the court at the time
of his conviction for embezzlement
in connection with the Havana har
bor improvement frauds. Since his
imprisonment, Carter has been de
voting himself to the study of law
and has acquired a knowledge of le
gal subjects, which will be used in
his battle for the property he says
was taken from him without war
rant of law.
Officials of the street ear compa
ny at Lynn, Mass., have discovered
that employes defrauded the system
of thousands of dollars by using
fraudulent transfer tickets. Sever
al arrests have been made.
The state of Texas has secured a
writ of temporary injunction agains* i
the LTnited States to prevent inter-;
ferenee with quarantine buildings1
on Galveston island. The land in
question is claimed by both th«
state and federal governments.
Injunction Continued.
The injunction suit involving the
increased assessments levied by the
state levying board upon railroad
property in this state was taken up
before Judge Trieber at Little Hock
on the 21st. After some discussion
by attorneys on both sides Judge
Trieber granted a temporary injunc
tion, restraining the secretary of
state from certifying to the various
county clerks the last assessments
as ordered by the board, composed
of the governor, state auditor and
secretary of state. It was ordered,
that, meanwhile, the assessments
be continued on the basis of the fig
ures levied by the state board last
year. The question as to whether
the railroads shall be required to
pay on the increased assessments of
this year was deferred for final hear
ing on the merits of the controver
sy. Xo date has yet been set for
suc-h final hearing. The only rail
roads interested in the case are the
Choctaw, Frisco, Cotton Belt and
Kansas City Southern. At the
meeting of the state assessment
board on June 1 last the assessments
on the taxable property of the four
roads mentioned were raised to a
level with that pf the Iron Moun
tain, which was $14,000 per mile.
The assessments of all other railway
and the express, telegraph and sleep
ing car companies were increased
20 per cent.
Confederate Reunion
The following order has been is
sued relative to the annual state
convention of Arkansas division,
United Confederate Veterans:
U. C. A'., Little Lock, Ark., Sep
tember 22, 1903.
“Headquarters Arkansas Division,
General Order Xo. 4.
“1. The commanding general
announces to the camps and staff of
the division that he has accepted the
very cordial invitation of J. Ed
Murray Camp, Xo. 510, located at
Tine Bluff, to hold the annual slate
convention in that city as their
guest.
“2. The convention will he con
vened in the Merrill Institute at
the city of Pine Bluff, October 21,
noon.
“3. The commanding general
urges the importance of a full rep
resentation of every camp in the
state. Commanders of camps are
therefore directed to call their
camps together as soon as practica
ble for the purpose* of electing dele
gates. The railroads will give a re
duced rate. B. W. Green,
“Maj. Gen. Commanding.
Cotton Men Organize.
About fifty representative busi
ness men, including cotton grow
ers, ginners, spinners, buyers and
seed men, met at Little Rock Sep
tember 22 and perfected the or
ganization of the Arkansas Cotton
Dealers’ Association. The object of
the organization is mutual protec
tion and assistance to those en
gaged in the cotton business, wheth
er planter, buyer, banker or manu
facturer. The by-laws exclude
from membership those interested
in the round bale process. Oflicers
of the association are as follows:
President, H. K. Morris, Little
Rock; first vice president. Ziba
Bennitt of Little Rock; second vice
president, Peter P. Byrd of Pine
Bluff; third vice president, W. A.
Short of Helena; secretary and
treasurer, (too. R. Brown of Little
Rock.
Hubbard Head Found Guilty.
Hubbard Head, white, was con
victed at Newport of the charge of
committing a criminal assault on a
married woman on April 30 last and
sentenced to three years in the pen
itentiary. The crime was commit
ted in Independence county and the
er*e was taken to Newport on a
'•iaange of venue. Head was tried
two years ago on the charge of
burning a portion of the town of
Newark, but was acquitted.
Col. J. W. Colquitt.
Col. J. W. Colquitt, former state
land commissioner, died at his home
in Little Rock September 24. Col.
Colquitt's death was due to illness
attributed to Mounds received in the
civil Mar. In accordance with his
dying wish, he was clothed in a
suit of Confederate gray and his re
mains interred in the Confederate
cemetery at Little Rock.
Col. John W. Colquitt was born
in Columbus, Muscogee county,
Georgia, October 28, 1840. lie re
ceived his early education in the Co
lumbus schools and at the age of 19
years graduated from the Georgia
Military Institute. The following
year, I860, he came to Arkansas aaid
in 1801 located in Drew county,
where he taught school until the out
break of the war. He enlisted that
year in the Confederate army in tl*c
Montieello Guards, which became
Company I, First Arkansas Regi
ment, Col. James F. Fagan com
manding. The young soldier wus
made second lieutenant of his com
pany. As soon as the regiment was
formed it was mustered directly in
to the Confederate army and moved
to Lynchburg, Va. rl'iie first battle
in which Col. Colquitt participated
was that of Manassas, his regiment
supporting Walker’s artillery. Af
ter the battle of Kvausport tlie regi
ment went into winter quarters at
Acquia Creek in September, 1S01.
The time of enlistment expiring,
the whole regiment re-enlisted un
der the sanu? name and number and
rendezvoused at Corinth under tlen.
Johnsons and Beauregard and Col.
James F. Fagan was again chosen
colonel. Second Lieutenant Col
quitt of Company 1 was chosen ma
jor. This was but a short time be
fore the battle of .Shiloh, in which
the regiment participated and lost
nearly -100 men. Major Colquitt
was severely wounded late in t he ac
tion of the first da) and was given
a furlough and sent to his old home
in Georgia to recuperate. While en
route he was captured on the train
by tiie Federals and mad*: a prison
er at Huntsville, Ala. Though com
pelled to go on crutches Major Col
quitt escaped from prison and re
joined the regiment at Tupelo, Miss.
Col. Fagan having been promoted
to be brigadier general and Lieut.
Col. Thompson having been killed,
Major Colquitt vas promoted to
colonel of the regiment. He was
then hut 29 years of age. After
rejoining the regiment Col. Colquitt
commanded it in every battle, lif
tcen in number, from July 1, 18G2,
to the battle of Atlanta, July 22,
1864, when he was desperately
wounded, losing his right foot. Af
ter this he was out of the army for
two months. When he again report
ed for duty he was assigned to post
duty at West Point, .Miss., where he
remained until the surrender.
A Negro's Revenge.
A double tragedy occurred a few
days ago at the town of Boggy’, fif
teen miles south of Texarkana, on
the Texarkana, Shreveport and
Xatchez railroad, all the parties be
ing negroes. Henry Bailey and Sain
Branch on one side and Wesley Pow
dl on the other beeamo involved in
n difficulty, and the two first named
knocked Powell down and gave him
1 severe beating. Powell than wont
home, procured a Winchester, and,
returning, shot Bailey dead and
mortally wounded Brandi.
Excitment Causes Death.
Amos Toler, residing near New
port, died ol heart failure caused
bv excitement, induced by the par
tial destruction of his home by fire.
During the blaze 'holer, who was
about 55 years of age, ran out into
the yard and though several of the
family who were fighting the fire
heard him make a peculiar outcry
no attention was paid until the
(lames had been extinguished, when
he was found dead.
Muchly Married Man Arrested.
Dr. Samuel Johnson, wanted in
St. Louis for jumping a bond on a
charge of wife abandonment, was
rirtually kidnaped at Blytheville
and taken across the Missouri line,
where a warrant for his arrest was
served. According to evidence in
trodueed at Johnston's trial, some
time ago, the doctor has been mar
ried seven times. It was his sev
enth wife, Mrs. Annie Johnson,
who preferred the charge. The
case "as tried before Judge Moore
of the St. Louis court of criminal
correction and taken under advise
ment. While I)r. Johnston was
awaiting a decision in the case, it
is said that his sixth wife, from
whom he had been divorced, came
to him and induced him to accom
pany her to Blythesville. Through
the detective work of Attorney Sha
ner, Johnston was located there,
where he had opened up an office
and was practicing medicine. Sher
iff John A. Lovcwell of Mississippi
county came to the assistance of the
attorney and a deputy. lie ar
rested Johnston against the latter’s
protest, when told that he must re
turn to t>t. Louis. lie was finally
induced to board a train and was
rushed across the line into Mis
souri.
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Arkansas Presbytery.
The presbytery of Arkansas held
its annual meeting at Searcy last
week. Dr. Morrison presided as
moderator. The foreign missionary
committee reported total receipts
for the year of $131,000, an in
crease of $10,000 over last year.
The executive committee had a debt
of $4,500 at the close of the year,
but this has been paid. One hun
dred and ninety-two churches as
sumed the support of one mission
ary each, and promised $.2,000 per
year in addition. The assembly
asks that $250,000 be raised this
year to meet the increasing needs
of the work. The Presbytery rec
ommends that each congregation or
ganize a missionary society that
missionary information may be dis
seminated and oiferings be made
through this church, and also that
Sabbath schools during the month
of October be given the opportunity
of contributing to the foreign mis
sionary cause.
Condition ot Arkansas Banks.
The abstract of the condition of
the national banks of Arkansas at
close of business September 9,
shows:
Resources, loans and discounts,
$5,725,738.95. Total specie, $342,
840.50; legal tender notes, $222,
740.
Liabilities—Capital stock paid in
$1,405,840; surplus fund, $482,
945; undivided profits, less expenses
and taxes paid, $299,050.03; divi
dends unpaid, $440,000; individual
deposits, $5,808,597.29; percentage
to deposits of cash on hand, re
demption fund and due from re
serve agents, 24.01; percentage of
legal reserve to deposits, 19.07.
Death of Senator Jones’ Daughter.
Mrs. F. W. Plant, daughter of
e.\-Senator James K. Jones, died
suddenly of heart failure at Deer
River, Minn., September 22. Mrs.
Mary Jones Plant was the youngest
daughter of former Senator and
Mrs. James K. Jones, and was horn
near Washington, this state, about
2t> years ago. In April, ISfM). she
was married at the home of her
father in Washington City, to
Frank W. Plant, a prominent man
ufacturer of Minneapolis, Minn.
No children have been born to the
gouple. Her remains were interred
at Washington, P. C.
Carroll County Fair.
The first annual Carroll county
fair will be held at Berryville Oc
tober 21-24. The management of
fers an attractive list of prizes on
fine stock and all farm and garden
products and also present a nice
racing program for each day. Noted
speakers will be present and a num
ber of special interesting features
have been procured for each day.
The outlook is very’ promising for a
successful fair.
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