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trust at 2 'u« Journal office.
A large portion of the business
section of Colliersville, Tenn., was
destroyed bv fire.
Senator Hanna states that Presi
dent Roosevelt will be renominated
practically without opposition.
A Chinese leper confined at quar
ters near St. Louis, caused consid
erable uneasiness by making his es
cape from the attendants.
Dr. Lorenz, the noted hand sur
geon of Vienna, was a guest of the
National Medical Society at the
annual meeting held in New Or
leans.
A company of American capital
ists has been organized for the
purpose of building and operating
extensive lines of railway in Cen
tral America.
Postmaster General Payne an
nounces that a sweeping investiga
tion will be made of the conduct of
all postoftiees throughout the coun
try of the first class.
The exiled Princess Louise of
Saxony recently gave birth to a
daughter. The child will be taken
to Dresden and placed in charge of
a member of the royal family.
An unofficial announe rnent has
been made that the German govern
ment will encourage the eombina
v»l • ll|4UU tuiu it'J lUUin'u Vi
what is termed trusts in order to
enable home manufacturers to com
pete with American institutions.
Before the St. l.< V- grand jury
evidence was given to the effect that
the hook trust spent over .fiO.OOO
in the form of boodle to prevent
the passage by the Missouri legis
lature of a bill providing for free
school books, to be printed by the
state.
The steamers Saginaw and Ham
ilton collided during a heavy fog
off the Virginia coast about four
teen miles out from Norfolk, Va.
The Saginaw went down a few
minutes after the collision and
twenty people lost their lives, four
teen of whom were women, who
had been placed in a life boat that
capsized.
The widow of Attorney Mar
cum. who was assisnated while
standing in the court house door at
Jackson, Kv„ went to the spot
where her husband fell and satur
ating a handkerchief with bis life’s
blood, declared it her intention to
preserve the soiled linen as a re
minder to her children that the
father’s death shall be aveng» d.
Walter Heyde, a mill man, met
a horrible death near Tionesta.
Pa. Forest fires spread to a mill,
and on all the surrounding coun
try was a burning mass. Heyde
took refuge in.a pond. An oil tank
on the banks of the stream explod
ed, the blazing oil spreading over
the water. As Heyde stood in the
stream, with only his head above
water, he was burned to death.
A bill has been passed by the Il
linois legislature permitting cities
to own and onerafe street railways,
water works and other public utili
ties. The passage of the bill is
considered a victory' for the Carter
Harrison faction of Chicago. The
street railway lranenises oi me
above citv will expire in a short j
time, ami the fight for municipal ;
owner-hip has been carried on for
several veers.
In answer to a suit filed under,
the Sherman anti-trust law, the In
diana and Illinois coal operators j
admitted that they had been acting
for a time under an agreement, but :
denied that there was any unlawful
combination to fix prices of tlmir
product. They declared that the
agreement was abandoned before |
the court proceedings were begun, i
and that even while it was in force!
they sold coal below the prevailing;
market price. There were ten com
panies and ten individuals ijahn d
in the government’s bill of-' com
plaint, and the answer wits filed on
behalf of all with two exceptions.
The annual convention of the
Southern Baptist A-~oeiation met
at Savannah. Ga.,*on the 8th inst.,
with lion. Jan>es 1’. Eagle, presi
dent, in the^iriair. About 800 dele
gates were i\ attendance.
Hon. J. Reynolds of Tennes
see lias lx*en appointed assistant at
torney general of the l nited States
to succeed ^fames M. Beck, who re
signed to Inter into partnership
with a h>'| corporation law firm of
New YorkV'itv.
D. A. A. Ames, ex-mayor of
Minneapolis, ]nd.. has been found
guilty by a jury of receiving a bribe
while in office.
Archbishop Kain, the venerable
prelate of the Catholic church, has
boon relieved of his duties at St.
Louis, owing to failing health. He
lias gone to Baltimore, to enter a
sanitarium. Bishop Glennon has
been appointed his successor.
San Miguel, a fanatical Filipino
insurgent chief, who has given the
Americans much trouble by carry
ing on a guerilla warfare, was re.
ccntlv slain in battle near Caloocan.
after being shot down, San Miguel
continued to fire at his foes until
life was extinct.
It is reported in foreign diplo
matic circles that Austria and Rus
sia have entered into a secret un
derstanding as to plans against the
sultan of Turkey. The Albanian
revolutionary purtv is growing
stronger and nothing but absolute
autonomy will satisfy the Alba
nians.
It is asserted eastern capitalists
are planning to get control of all
the coal lands in the Choctaw' na
tion. li. 0. Frick and John W.
Gates arc supposed to bo at the
head of the syndicate. There are
440,000 acres in the Choctaw na
tion, winch will bo sold ut public
auction, and the proceeds divided
among the Choctaws in accordance
with an act of congress. The price
agreed upon by the Friek-Uates
syndicate is $25 per acre.
While standing in the court house
at Jackson, Ky., Hon. James B.
liarcrum was shot down by an as
sassin from the rear, and died be
fore any one reached him. The
murdered man was just in the act
of leaving the court house after fil
ing papers in an election contest
for the fusionists for the offices of
county judge, sheriff, etc. For over
a year reporta of plots to assassinate
Marcrum were circulated, and since
that time he was generally accom
panied when he left his residence
either by some of his children or a
member of the family. He stood
high as an attorney, and was a
trustee of the state university and
a United States commissioner.
Tom Morris, who, with Bob Brv
ant, both colored, was hanged from
a railroad bridge by a mob near
Vicksburg, Miss., for the assassina
tion of a prominent planter, escap
ed death in a miraculous manner.
When .Morris was pushed off the
bridge the rope about his neck
broke and he dropped sixty feet to
the water below, which is only a
few feet deep. Thinking that if
the fall had not killed him he
would drown, the mob paid no fur
ther attention to him. His shoes
and the noose in the rope end were
found on the bank a hundred yards
below the' bridge the following
morning, and prints of his bare
feet lending into a swamp gave con
clusive evidence of his escape.
The census bureau has made
public the final figures of cotton
production obtained from the re
ports of cotton ginners. The quan
tity of cotton ginned from the
1 flAO 1.. . ... f x
ers. amounted to 11,078,882 run
ning bales. Balt's pressed at tho
gins are equal to 10,000,9 Id bales
of a 500-pound standard, or, count
ing round bales as half bales, 10,
588,528. During the four years
covered by the ginning reports of
the census'-office the average crop,
exclusive of linters, has been 9,
902,277 bales of 500 pounds. The
crop of 1902 shows an increase of
728,608 bale's over the average,
while the crops of 1899 and 1901
show a decrease of 356 886 and
393,532 bales respectively. For tin
■•op of 1902 there has been a gen
eral increase in all the states both
east and west of the Mississippi
river with the exception of Ala
bama and Texas.
Edward Page, a millionaire bro
ker of Xew York City, has wedded
Miss Alga Bendler, a trained nurse,
whom he met at the home of a
friend, when she was attending a
sick child.
A fast passenger ploughed
through a mass of excursionists
that had assembled on the track of
the Grand Trunk railroad at De
troit and forty people were instant
ly killed, besides a large number
were injured.
Hon. ,T. C. W. Beckham lias boon
renominated by tlio democrats for
governor of Kentucky.
Grover Cleveland says he has no
desire to again make the race for
president as the democratic nomi
nee.
Admiral Cervcra, who command
ed the Spanish fleet at Santiago,
has been honored by being made a
senator for life.
A triple alliance has been pro
posed between Great Britain, Japan
and the United States to check
Russia’s plans to seize Manchuria.
An extra * -don of the Colom
bian congress has been called to
convene June 20 for the purpose
of considering the Isthmian canal
treaty.
A representative of Great Brit
ain has arrived in St. Louis to per
sonally supervise the erection of
buildings for that country’s exhib
it at the big fair.
The investigation of the affairs
of the posto*iee department has
resulted in the dismissal of A. W.
Machin, general superintendent of
the free delivery system.
The existence of bubonic plague
has been discovered in the suburbs
of Callao, a port in Peru. The
port has been closed and a strict
quarantine put in force.
Francisco Bianco, formerly edit
or of nn Italian paper m St. Lotus,
became suddenly insane, and when
officers attempted to take him into
custody he placed a revolver in his
mouth and tired, the bullet tearing
off the top of his head.
All union conductors, brakeincn
and switchmen employed on the
Mobile and Ohio railroad hot wee
Meridian, Miss., and New Orleans
went on strike last week, after
being refused an increase in wages
of from 12 to 15 per cent.
B. F. Fwen, who was standing
beside J. 1>. Marcum when he was
shot down in the court house door
at Jackson, l\y., and who it is said
recognized the murderer, was him
self shot bv an assassin, who was
concealed behind some shrubbery Ln
Ewen’s yard.
A long pending deal between the
Rock Island anil Frisco systems has
been consummated. President
Yoakum of the Frisco is now one
of the directors of the Rock Island
system. The Rock Island will take
over tiro Frisco and the two systems
will hi1 operated under one man
agement.
Internal revenue receipts during
ten months of the fiscal Year have
averaged $19,000,000 a month,
against $22,500,000 the previous
year. It is estimated that the re
peal of the war taxes would cut in
ternal revenue receipts for this fis
cal year $75,000,000, but the re
duction will hardly exceed $42,000,
000.
The Yew York Jewish Relief
Society lias received details of
shocking atrocities in Kishincfif,
the capita! of Bessarabia, where,
within a week, hundreds of Jews
were put to death by Russian offi
cers. Starvation has been added to
the horror of the massacre, and
many men, women ami children,
robbed of their means, their homes
burned, are dying in the streets.
The police of Yew York City
discovered a dastardly plot to blow
up the English line steamer Unit
ria, which was to sail a few min
utes before the scheme was discov
ered \n infernal machine secnr
ly boxed, together with about a
hundred pound- of dynamite, was
loaded on to the steamer by some
unknown parties. It was found
that flu' machine had been set to
explode the dynamite in thirty-six
hours, giving the vessel time to
reach mid ocean. The police were
notified of the plot through an
anonymous letter, which stated
that it was the work of the Mafia
for revenge against the English
liner.
At the Southern Baptist conven
tion, in si ssion at Savannah, Oa.,
the sum of $^80,000 was pledged
bv the various state- to carry on
foreign missionary work the com
ing year.
Henry Wilson and Sampson
Gray, negro murderers, were hang
ed from the same scaffold at St.
Louis. When asked if he had any
thing to say. Gray answered, “No;
hurry up and get it over, and don't
make a bungle.”
The government has just pub
lished a volume containing all the
state papers and correspondence^of
the Louisiana territory. The edi
tion is limited to G,000 copies, to
distributed by members of congress
Rrotest Against Rates.
The merchants freight bureau of
Little llock has filed with the in- ;
terstato commerce commission a
complaint against the St. Louis.
Iron Mountain and Southern, the ]
Cotton Belt and the Choctaw, al-j
leging tlmt carload rates on rrm- 1
chinerv to and from Little Rock
recently agreed on bv the above |
roads, effective May 15, arc unjust '
and unreasonable. The commis- j
sion is asked to restrain the de- j
fendant lines from putting into ef- j
feet the prosj>eetiTe tariff. The
commission has issued notice to
the defendants to file answer to the
complaint within twenty days.
Fatally Wounded.
Dispatches report that Samuel
Lewis, a barber, whose home is at
Kureka Springs, shot his wife and
fatally injured Clay Spell, at Jop
lin, Mo. Mrs. Lewis had separat
ed from her husband, going to Jop
lin, where she scoured employment
in a hotel. Lewis went to the hotel,
and, upon l>eing refused the privi- !
lege of an interview with his wife,
pulled a pistol and fired at the land- !
lady. Spell, a hoarder, attempted
to protect the women, when he re
ceived a fata! wound. Mrs. Lewis
received only a slight wound.
Changed Their Names.
Judge K. W. Winfield of the Pu
lilJ* IV l « III 11 I L
petition for ill'1 change of the name
of the mayor of Baring Cross and
his brothers. Their family name
is Smith, hut since they came to
Arkansas they have been known as
Cummoeh. the change being due to
the blacklist that was declared bv
the railroads against those* who par
ticipated in the A. I?, U. strike of
1$f>4. One of them was in the
strike in another state, and they
decided to change their name to
protect him, and now the change i3
ratified bv the court.
Innocent Party Shot.
Tra Jones, a hrakeman on the
Iron Mountain, was shot and fatal
ly wounded at Gurdon hv Ed Tay
lor, a carpenter. The shooting of
Jones was accidental, he being
struck by a stray bullet during a
difficulty between Taylor and Mon
roe Conn. Taylor was on his way
to an entertainment when he met
Conn, who objected to his keeping
company with a young lady he was
with. Conn started the fight, when
Taylor drew a pistol and fired, the
bullet missing Conn and striking
Joni < in the stomach.
W C T. U
At the state convention of the
Women’s Christian Temperance
Union, held at Camden, officers for
the ensuing year w re elected, as
follows: Mrs. Lula Markwell, Lit
tle Hock, president; Mrs. Sewell
Robertson, Searcy, vice president;
Mrs. Jennie Carr Pittman, Pres
cott, recording secretary; Mrs. Wil
lie Iveehum, Morrilton, correspond
ing secretary; Mrs. Eliza Furrv,
Van Buren, treasurer. Fort Smith
was selected for the next state con
vention.
Awarded Big Damages.
In Pulaski circuit court J. IT
Grant, a ear checker employed by
tlio I ’IcAottnr irna irr*intii<l u rnnl inf
of $7,000 against the Iron Moun
tain. Grant was sotit to tin? yards
of tho Iron Mountain to chock up
the Choctaw cars, when he was as
saulted by a detective named Burke,
who was in the employ of the Iron
Mountain. The plaintiff alleged
that Re was badly beaten by Burke
and permanently injured.
Paid Penalty With His Life.
At a small town west of Texar
kana Thos. Perry, a prominent
county cflieial, shot, and killed his
brother, Wt.-ie; Perry. During
Thomas’ absence from home Wes
ley criminally assaulted his broth
er's wife. When the husband heard
of the deed he procured a shotgun
and, hunting up his brother, shot
him dead in his tracks.
Perfected An Organization.
The St Francis Diver Improve
ment Association held a meeting at
Jonesboro and perfected a perma
nent organization. The object is
to improve the St. Francis river
and its tributaries with the view of
redeeming swamp and overflowed
lands and the members will urge
upon congress the necessity of lib
keral appropriations to aid in th
work.
Jury Failed to Agree.
Th(> first damage suit growing
out of tlie explosion of a tank of
gasoline located in a turf exchange
at Hot Springs, was taken up in
federal court at Little Kook last
week. The plaintiffs, Johan Van
Klderen and W. II. Galskin, who
were injured by the explosion, sued
for $10,000 and $.‘>0,000 respect
ively, tin' Wators-Pierco Oil Com
pany and the proprietors of the
pool room being defendants. The
case occupied the attention of the
court four days, and resulted in
a hung jury.
Cut By a Negro.
Hock Taylor, a white man, 21
years of age, was seriously cut in a
difficulty with a negro named Hid
Traynor near Hope. The men had
been enemies for a long time. Tay
lor was driving toward his home in
a buggy when Traynor rode up and
liegan to abuse him. Taylor jump
ed out of his buggy and Traynor
dismounted. The men clinched and
a fierce struggle followed, in which
Taylor was cut several times about
the head and neck.
Suicide at Hot Springs.
The body of an unknown man was
Springs. A bullet wound in the
head and a revolver grasped in the
right hand were indications of sui
cide. The man was well dressed,
but no means of identification could
be found on the body.
BRIEF MENTION.
A colored business men’s league
has been organized at l'ine Bluff.
Tax collectors throughout the
state report collections better than
for years.
The Arkansas and Choctaw ex
tension from Ashdown has been
completed to Ardmore, a distance
of 300 miles.
During a drunken row over wo
men at Clarksville Monroe Itay
was beaten to death by W. M.
Wise, who used a club.
Mack Duke, a Jefferson county
farmer, despondent because his
wife had deserted him, suicided by
blowing off the top of his head.
The monitor Arkansas, on her
return trip from St. Louis to the
gulf, was compelled to drop anchor
at St. tleneiver, Mo., on account of
low water.
At Wabbascka, Jefferson county,
Dr. Ike Cummings shot and killed
J. C. O’Kclley. The killing grew
out of a remark made by O'Kellcy
about a young woman.
Mr. Julia Morris was badly in
jured by a ferocious horse at Hot
Springs. The animal became un
manageable, and after dismounting
the lady attacked her with his front
feet.
Monroe Cook, a white county
farmer, committed suicide bv tak
ing morphine. It is believed worry
over a charge of violating the age
of consent law led him to take hi»
life.
Eaton Smith, a merchant of Mal
vern, shot and seriously wounded a
negro tough by the name of Bill
Jones. The shooting resulted over
an (‘nori to collect a ueut aue omitn
hy Join's.
Two children of George role
man, colored, were Irurned to death
in a fire which destroyed Coleman’s
homo near Weldon. Coleman and
his wife sustained serious burns in
an effort to rescue the children.
James Hightower, colored, wa
-hot and killed near Texarkana by
Henry Hates, also colored, li
seems the dead man was wanted
by oflieers, and when he learned that
Hates had told of his whereabouts,
went on the warpath, vowing ven
geance. As lie approached Hates’
home, armed with a shotgun. Bates
emptied a load of buckshot into his
body.
Tirs. O. H. Sumpter, wife of
Col. Sumpter, county judge of Gar
land county, who was bitten by a
mad dog, went to St. Louis for
treatment in the l’asteur institute.
There is some talk of criminal
prosecution in connection with the
Alphin-Lake failure. In bankrupt
cy proceedings before Beferee Doo
ly at Little Rock, evidence was pro
duced showing that a shortage ol
over $300,000 exists in the fir mb
accounts.
FORESTS IN THE ROCKIES.
Thickets of Spruce and Aspen Found
at Great Elevations.
To know the mid-continental
mountain country it is not enough to
go hurriedly through the ranges by
rail in midsummer, when flowers are
abundant and the emerald hue char
acterizes every peak and park. One
must see the country where ice and
snow abound, and the contrasts are
most decided. With from one t«
many feet depth of snow upon the
surface, spruce and aspen thickets of
the higher elevations and the pinon
and cedar on the lower slopes attest
the majesty of nature. These moun
tains have been stripped of all larger
trees by the ax of man and fire has
raxaged the forests on every hand,
yet nature makes extraordinary ef
forts tocover i ho bare spots with ver
dure.
Among thefnllen and leafless trunk*
still upright, says Arboriculture,
remnants of former conflagrations,
she has scattered the fine seeds of the
aspen on the wings of the wind, as
this is almost the only deciduous tree
which will grow in the higher moun
tains, and here amid the ruins of *
past forest dense thickets of this rap
id growing popuplus tremuloidea
have established themselves and are
fust preparing a soil in which the
more valuable conifers will, if thwjc^,
have opportunity, again recover these
mountain siacs. t ne steepest slopes
and most precipitous mountain?,
above 8,000 or 9,000 feet elevation,
arc being planted by nature with;
these most important pioneers of af
forestation.
Birds, animals and the wind are do
ing their part in distributing among
these aspen thickets seeds of Doug
las (red) spruce, silver spruce and
other trees of greater value and per
manence, which, hidden by the fallen
leaves, take root, and protected by
their deciduous friends grow into
timber. The aspens when dead and
dry are very inflammable, and fire
spreads with rapidity, destroying the
coniferous forests as well.
NEW AND NOVEL FRUITS.
Brought from South ^ America tot
New Vofk’'SwelldomT
The great desideratum in New
York swelldom is to secure some
thing new in the way of entertain
ment. When it cannot be a novelty
in the line of amusement it may be
a surprise in the way of eating. The
Philadelphia Record tells of one of
ttic fads just now prevailing: The
wives of millionaires when they give
luncheons surprise their friends with
unknown tropical fruits. It has of
late become the fashion to import
from South America the rarest,
strangest fruits that can be found.
These upon the table make a pleasant
subject of conversation and give also
a great impression of opulence. A.
foreign fruit served at a recent
luncheon was the chirimoya of Peru
—a pale green thing shaped like a.
white potato, with n yellow, custaru
like interior and a very sweet taste.
This fruit was served cut in half on
a bed of ice. At another luncheon
the foreign fruit was still stranger. It
was mingau flavored with uiki—a
crimson substance served in little
bamboo basket., Mingau is a por
ridge made of banana flour, and
taste is really exquisite. Uiki is an
oblong fruit with a green rind. The
pulp within is crimson. This pulp is
mixed with the banana porridge, and
gives to the entire dish a charming
crimson hue. Mingau with uiki
v.vim.7 uviii immiui iiuaiiiu uuu uuo a
rich aril creamy taste. To serve suck
unknown fruits as these requires
money. Peruvian chilimoyas cost $3
or $1 apiece to import and the min
gau ami uiki are equally expensive.”
That a polished metallic surface is
always positively electrified with re
gard to an unpolished surface of tbs
same substance has been shown by
llesehus, a Russian experimenter,ac
cording to the Revue Sciontifique*
(December 13). ‘'The same rub',”
it says, “applies to other sbstanecs;
for instance, of two slabs of wood cut
from the same piece, one cut parallel
to the fibres is always positive taone
cut crosswise. Of two plates of vari
ous metals the softest is positive,
while nonmetallie bodies are more
positive as they become harder.
Sticky substances and .those thatgiv*
otl dust are always positive. . . .
Generally speaking, positive electri
fication appears to increase directly
as superficial density.” It is hoped
that these results may lead to a ra
tional theory of contact-electricity.
Men love to hear of their power
but dislike to be reminded el tkei*
duty.—Chicago Daily News.
Polished Surfaces.
Power and Duty.