VOL. I.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1902.
NO. 50.
NEWS OF THE WORLD,
Prince Henry sailer! from New
York for home on (he 1 Ith inst.
It is reported that Congressman
Moodv, of Massachusetts, will suc
ceed Mr. Long as secretary of the
navy.
A wireless telegraph station of the
Marconi system is to be establish
ed at Annapolis fpv the benefit of
naval cadets. *
Unknown parties near Luling,
Tex., went-to the home of Nathan
Bird, a negro, and took him and his
son out and killed them.
President Roosevelt has accepted
the resignation of Secretary of the
Navy Long and appointed Hon. W.
II. Moody, of Massachusetts, as his
successor.
A strong flow of gas has been
struck in Kansas City, Ivan., where
the Wyandotte Coal and Oil com
pany has been drilling a prospect
shaft for the last two months. The
strike was made at a depth of 425
feet. It is believed that the yield
will be 200,000 or 300.000 feet per
day. Other wells will be sunk at
once.
Officers of the Choctaw, Oklahoma
and Gulf have decided to extend the
line from Amarillo, Tex., to Alher
querque, N. M. This extension is to
be provided for by an issue of $0,
500,000 5 per cent bonds under the
consolidation mortgage of 1902, is
suable at the rate of $15,000 a mile,
and by the issue of $0,500,000 com
mon stock.
Five persons were killed outright
and many more seriously injured at
the village of Montgomery, Miss.,
on the Illinois Central railroad by
a tornado. At Brookhaven, two resi
dences were demolished. A passen
ger train on the Illinois Central ran
into tlm tornado near Wesson, Miss.,
and almost every window in the
conches was broken by hail. Several
.passengers were badly cut bv glass.
The negroes of the Tuskegee in
stitution, who were engaged the lat
ter part of 1900 by the German
government to teach the natives of
Togoland, German West Africa,
how to grow cotton, have, according
to the report of the colonial commis
sion, succeeded in producing cotton
which is graded On the Berlin ex
change above the American mid
dling.
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At a meeting oi stocKtiouters <n
the Missouri Pacific system at St.
Louis, the following board of di
rectors, was elected for the Iron
Mountain: George J. Gould, Rus
sell Sage, John T. Terry, R. M.
Gallaway, Howard Gould, Frank Jay
Gould, G. C. W. Lowrey, Thos. T.
Eckart, Henry Marquand, New
York; Henry Wheelen, Jr., Phila
delphia: W. H. Tliompson, G. G.
Warner, Russell Harding, St. Louis.
The steamer Providence, plying
tht' Mississippi, was overturned dur
ing a squall at lola landing, -near
Vicksburg. Most of the crew and
passengers were asleep at the time of
the accident, which occurred about -
o’clock at night, and twenty-one lost
their lives. The dead: (’apt. Win.
Cassidy, Vicksburg, master; ('has.
Roup, of Vicksburg, chief engineer;
Clyde Scott, of Vicksburg, cotton
seed buyer; Dr. N. A. Lancaster, a
prominent physician and planter of
the Palymra neighborhood; sixteen
colored roustabouts and deck passen
Gen. Methuen and four guns
were captured" by Gen. Delarey on
the 7th. Gen. Methuen was wound
ed in the thigh. Three British olli
cers and thirty-eight men were kill
ed. Five British officers and sev
entv-two men were wounded. One
British officer and 200 men are
missing. The fight in which Gen.
Methuen was captured occurred be
tween Wimberg and Lychtenberg,
Orange River colony. The British
Boers captured all the British bag
gage and hold Gen. Methueft as a
prisoner.
William Waldorf Astor, who a
few years ago renounced his alle
giance, to the United States and
took up his residence in England,
Announces his candidacy for a seat
parliament.
Congress will adjourn about Juna
10.
(ten. Methuen, the British officer,
captured by the Boers, lias been re
leased.
Kansas farmers are said to hold
about, two-thirds of their last year's
wheat crop.
1 he stockholders of the American
Tobacco Company held their annual
meeting in Jersey City last week.
Costa liica and Nicaragua have
agreed on concessions to the United
States for building the Nicaraguan
canal.
A heavy wind and hail storm swept
over Omaha, Neb., demolishing about
fifty buildings. Fortunately no one
was fatally injured.
A band of six men broke into the
Exchange bank in Minooka, 111.,
wrecked the safe with dynamite and
secured between $2,000 and $3,000
in cash.
Ex-Gov. Altgcld, of Illinois, died
at Joliet on the 12th inst. Mr. Alt
gold was stricken with paralysis and
heart trouble just after delivering a
pro-Boer speech at the Joliet opera
house, and died in a few hours.
A strike of 20,000 Boston team
sters and freight handlers, which put
almost a complete stop to the hand
ling of freight for several days, was
settled by arbitration, through state
and city officials.
The United States supreme court
has decided the Illinois anti-trust
statute to be unconstitutional be
cause of a provision of the law ex
emplifying agricultural products
and live stock from the operations
of the law.
Secretary Hay has refused pass
ports to Dr. and Mrs. Hiram W.
Thomas to visit the concentration
camps of South Africa on the ground
that it is their intention to deliver
funds to Boer prisoners.
Mrs. Soefel, wife of the Pittsburg,
Pa., jailer who aided the Biddle
brothers, murderers, to escape, has
been indicted and if convicted will
be sentenced to sixteen years in
prison. Tt will be remembered the
Biddles were killed by officers.
The bank of Newcastle, Kv., was
robbed of $4,500 cash, a lot of jew
elry belonging to Isaac W. Kelly, its
president, and $500 worth of stamps
deposited by the postmaster of the
town. Citizens were aroused, but
were held at bay until the six bur
glars made their escape.
Prominent Texas lawyers assert
that the recent Illinois anti-trust
law decision seriously affects the
statute of that state which bears on
the subject. Among those who
have publicly stated their views on
the subject is Attorney General Bell,
who says he believes the Texas law
is annulled.
At a recent cabinet meeting Pres
ident Koosevelt requested the mem
bers not to talk to newspaper corre
spondents about matters under dis
cussion at the semi-weekly meetings.
It was thought best for the presi
dent himself to make public such
matters as he deemed proper to be
given out. Hereafter the president
will do this.
Knight \V. Joles committed sui
cide at Perry, Okla., by holding a
stick of dynamite under his head
until it exploded, blowing off his
head and both hands, lie had been
arrested on the charge of burning
the mail which he was employed to
carry. He confessed, saying he had
only burned papers to keep from
delivering them.
C. F. Saylor, special agent in
charge of the beet-sugar investiga
tions of the department of agricul
ture, has given out his annual report.
He gave the following figures re
garding the industry during the past
year: The total production of beet
sugar duties in the season 1901-2
has aggregated 185,000 tons, an in
crease of 110 per cent from the 77,
000 tons produced during the sea
son 1900-1. There were 31 factories
in operation in 1900, according to
the census figures, and 11 more were
started in 1901.
Jesse Morrison, who was convict
ed at Topeka, Kas., of murdering
Clara Castle, wife of her former suit
or, has been granted a new trial.
The killing occurred at the Castle
home, the accused pleading self-de
fense.
A dispatch from Pekin says: A
prominent Maneliu censor has mem
orialized the throne for the removal
of Wu rl'ing Fang, the Chinese min
ister to the United States. The cen
sor asserts that Wu Ting Fang cor
ruptly retained, ostensibly for re
pairs to the Chinese legation in
Washington, $80,000 of the Tien
Tsin silver refunded by the Ameri
can government.
The census preliminary of statis
tics of flouring and grist mills of the
l nited States in 1900 shows a total
of 25,258 such institutions, with an
aggregate capital of $218,714,104;
wage earners averaging 37,03/,
drawing $17,703,418 in wage; mis
cellaneous expenses $10,325,588,
and cost of materials used $475,
826,345. The total value of the
products of these mills in 1900 was
$560,719,063.
A terrific storm swept over por
tions of Texas on the 11th inst. and
the extent of damage in both towns
and country was great. At DeSolo,
fourteen miles from Dallas, three
dwellings and two stores were de
molished and the 4-year-old daugh
ter of J. M. Johnson was killed.
At Queen City, a Dallas suburb,
six dwellings were blown to pieces
and Mrs. Geo. Bray received fatal
injuries.
The government crop report es
timates the amount of corn in the
farmers’ hands at about 29 per cent
of last year’s crop, against 36.9 per
cent (776,200,000 bushels) of the
crop of 1900 on hand March 1,
1901, and 37.2 per cent (773,700,
000 bushels) of the crop of 1899
on hand March 1, 1900. Of oats
there is reported to be about 30 per
cent of last year's crop still in farm
ers’ hands, as compared with 36.2
per cent (292,800,000 bushels) of
the crop of 1900 on hand March 1,
1901, and 36.5 per cent (290,900,
000 bushels) of the crop of 1899 on
hand March 1, 1900.
John Scullin, of St. Louis, says
of the extensions of the Arkansas
& Choctaw railroad: “Everything
moving along nicely on the Ark
ansas and Choctaw. We have sev
enty miles of the steel laid, and
work is being pushed rapidly all
along the line. We expect to have
the road completed this fall. The
road is not definitely located west
of Ardmore yet, but we have not
given up the original plan of build
ing into Texas at a point that is yet
indefinite. It has not been defi
nitely decided whether the road will
be built into the Kiowa and Co
manche country or not. The new
road runs through a tine country,
and I feel confident that it is going
to be a good line.”
1 ho census bureau has issued a
preliminary report on sawmills,
planing mills (operating in connec
tion with sawmills) and timber
camps of the United States in 1900.
It shows a total of 33,035 such es
tablishments, with an aggregate cap
ital of $611,611,524, with 43,322
proprietors and firm members.
These plants have a total of 12,
330 salaried officers, clerks, etc.,
drawing $11,260,608 in salaries, and
an average of 283,260 wage earners,
drawing wages of $104,640,591. The
miscellaneous expenses of these es
tablishments aggregated $17,731,
519, and the materials used cost
$317,923,548. The value of prod
ucts aggregated $566,852,984, which
includes $422,812,061 for sawmills,
$107,622,519 for planing mills and
$36,398,404 for timber camps. The
capital and value of products of the
industry, respectively, by states in
cludes the following, in part: Ar
kansas—Capital, $21,727,710; prod
ucts, $23,959,983. Indian Territo
ry—Capital, $104,003; products,
$199,879. Kansas—Capital, $85,
194; products, $104,182. Missouri
—Capital, $11,089,799; products,
$11,177,529. Oklahoma—Capital,
$136,361; products, $63,569. Tex
as—Capital, $19,161,265; products,
$16,296,473.
NEWS OF ARKANSAS.
State Y M. C. A. Committee.
The slate committee of the Young
Men s Christion association met at
Little I took last week for the pur
pose of considering state Work.
Those present were: Messrs. Fred
Fox, chairman, Fine Bluff; Prof.
J. S. Hawkins, M. J. Rhodes, Ark
adelphia ; H. P. Edmondson, P. Iv.
Roots, S. ('. Bossinger, ,1. F. Hol
den. R. E. Wait, of Little Rock;
R. \\ Porter, secretary and treas
urer, Little Rock. As a result of
the meeting it was decided that the
policy of the state work should he:
(If To assist the Little Rock asso
ciation in every way possible to se
cure the $50,000 for which subscrip
tions are now being raised; (2) to
strengthen existing associations;
(3) to assist the international com
mittee in the railroad work of the
state: (4) to organize college asso
ciations wherever practicable; (5)
to assist city associations in organiz
ing. Mr. Scofield was elected sec
retary.
Young Lady Suicides.
Miss Annie Hankins, of Brinkley,
committed suicide at a hotel in
Memphis by swallowing carbolic
acid. The young woman went to
Memphis upon invitation of .7. V.
Duval, a railroad man, and the cou
ple registered at the hotel under an
assumed name. It was understood
by relatives and friends that Du
val and Miss Hankins were to be
married shortly. Duval admits pur
chasing the poison Miss Hankins
took, but says he was not aware of
her intention to end her life. Miss
Hankins was well connected and
highly respected at Brinkley, and it
is believed grief over Duval's fail
ure to keep his promise of marriage
led to her sad ending. Duval was
taken into custody and a thorough
investigation of the affair is being
made.
Fatal Shooting.
As a result of a mysterious shoot
ing at Texarkana two men are dead
and two are in jail. The dead men
are H. A. Xester, of Marshal, Tex.,
and Hevwood Darnell. One of the
men in jail is named Perry. The
father of Xester says his sou was
-under indictment at Marshal for
theft. It seems that Perry and Dar
nell were wanted bv Xester as wit
nesses, and he went to Texarkana
to induce them to appear at his
trial. It is probable the men quar
reled. as neither Darnell nor Pern
wanted to return to Marshall, and
the shooting followed. Officers be
lieve Xester was killed by Darnell,
and that the latter was killed by a
third party.
Acquitted of An Old Charge.
Louis Stephen Mears, for twenty
years a citizen of Pope county, was
last week acquitted at Bonham, Tex.,
of the charge of murder, the killing
occurring in 1882. Mears removed
to this state shortly after the killing
adopting the name of Stephens.
There was only one witness to the
affair, and the victim, Wm. Simon-,
before his death stated that when
he was stabbed his hands were tied
and he could not defend himself.
Mr. Mears states that his reason for
not standing trial at the time was
that the people were prejudiced
against him, and he would not have
been given a fair deal. Last year he
voluntarily surrendered, after learn
ing that a witness to the affair was
still alive, gave bond and returned
last week for trial.
Gen. Reynolds Dead.
(Ion. 1). H. Reynolds, one of the
oldest and best known citizens of
the state, died at his home in Luke
Village on the 14th. Gen. Daniel
H. Reynolds settled in Chicot coun
ty in 1858. He was born near Cen
terburg, in Knox county, 0., on De
cember 14, 1832. On the breaking
out of the war he raised a company
of calvary and at once enlisted. By
the end of the war he had risen to
be brigadier general. He was
wounded in the battle of Bcntonville,
March 19, 1865, losing his leg. At
the close of the war he resumed the
practice of law in Chicot, and for
years had been at the head of the bar
in that county.
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Railroad Company Wins.
Tn the United States circuit
Court of appeals at St. Louis in live
case of the Lesser Cotton Company
against the St. Louis. Iron Moun
tain & Southern railroad, the de
cision in the United States court at
Little Hock was sustained hv Judge
Sanborn. The suit involved about
$200,000, being the estimated
amount of damage accruing from
the burning of a large amount of
cotton at Newport. It was alleged
that the tiro was caused by sparks
from a passing Iron Mountain en
gine. The railroad company fought
this contention in the United States
court at Little Hock and won in
that tribunal.
New Rule Promulgated.
Judge Jacob Tricber. of federal
court, lias promulgated a new rule
to supersede rule d, relative to sub
poena of witnesses, as follows:
‘'Rule XIII. Subpoenas issued
for witneses to appear before the
grand jury, or to testify in cases
wherein the United States is plain
tiff, the clerk shall insert in each
subpoena the names of as many wit
nescs as convenience will permit
and make a duly certified copy there
of, under the seal of the court for
the marshal shall serve such subpoe
na by delivering a eTVpy thereof to
each witness and informing him of
the contents thereof.”
Given Five Years.
A telegram from Paris, Texas, says
James Huddleston, known as J. A
Alexander at Casa, for the past elev
en years, lias been sentenced to five
i years in the penitentiary on a con
viction of counterfeiting returned
on May 14, 1890. It will be remem
bered that he was arrested at Casa
on March fi as a fugitive from jus
tice, and taken hack to Paris to
answer to the charge, having jumped
his bond on the night the verdict of
guilty was returned.
Assaulted on'Train.
Mr. Herman Segal, wife of a
Mena merchant, was assaulted by a
brutal negro on a train near Texar
kana. The plucky woman fought
desperately with the brute, and was
saved by the entrance to the car of
one of the train crew. The negro
made his escape from the car, but
was later captured at Texarkana.
Mrs. Segal and her little girl were
the only occupants of the car, the
negro boarding the train at a water
tank.
New Invention.
Joseph Rice, of Hot Springs, has
invented what is said to be the first
improvement ever made on the orig
inal type- of trolley used on electric
cars. It is called a double inter
changeable trolley and the device
does away with the necessity of the
wheel being taken from the wire hv
means of a rope1 and carried to th.
opposite end of a oar when it is de
sired to run the ear in the opposite
direction.
A Good Move.
County Judge Nichols, of Phillips
county, has sent notice to county
judges of the various counties, with
a view of ascertaining the number
of insane confined in county jails of
the state in order that the next leg
islature may have information to
guide them when the question of
making additions to the present asy
lum at Little Hock or the building
of a branch asylum elsewhere comes
on.
Shot By Brother-in-Law.
Henry Hough, colored, was shot
and killed at Little Rock by Henry
lludley, his brother-in-law. The
circumstances leading up to the
trouble originated in a family quar
rel. Roth worked in the Iron Moun
tain shops, where the killing occur
red. Witnesses allege lludley shot
his victim in cold blood, and he was
held for murder in the first degree.
New Road Incorporated.
The Jonesboro, Newport and
Western railroad has been incorpor
ated under the laws of the state,
with a capital stock of $‘.200,000.
The incorporators propose building
a road from Jonesboro in a wester
ly direction through the counties of
Craighead, Poinsett and Jackson to
Newport.
Urged to Hold Institutes.
State Superintendent Doync ad
dresses die following letter to the
county examiners of the various
counties:
“As you are aware, the Peabody
fund for normal and institute pur
poses, amounting to about $2,000
annually, has been withdrawn from
our state, owing to the failure of our
legislature to make any appropria
tion for these purposes. You will
note from section 7022 and section
7073, as amended, that examiners
are required to hold at least one in
stitute annually. Last year many
examiners were enabled, through the
co-operation of the teachers, to pro
vide for institutes, which the exam
iners themselves conducted. In some
instances nn instructor was employ
ed, each teacher paying the small
amount to defray the expense of
this. I trust that arrangements will
be made by you at an early date for
an institute in your county at such
time a- may seem to you most con
venient. 1 shall be glad indeed to
hear from you as early as conven
ient as to time and place selected.”
Building Collapsed.
A two-story brick building at Tex
arkana belonging to F. M. Henry
collapsed, owing to an excavation be
ing made for a four-storv building
adjoining. Judge J. F. Jones was se
riously injured and the force of the
Morning Courier had a narrow es
cape. Congressman Sheppard’s li
brary was destroyed; loss $8,000.
Several occupants of the wrecked
building suffered heavy losses, the
total aggregate being placed at $25,
000.
Pensions Granted Arkansans.
The following pensions have been
allowed Arkansans:
Original (war with Spain)—
Thomas D. McMullin, Rogers, $(>.
Increase, restoration, reissue, etc.
—Samuel White, Van Ruren, $17.
Original—Joseph Blankinship,
Isabel, $8.
Increase, restoration, reissue, etc.
—George W. Graver, Springdale,
$8; .Tames Clark, Brightwater, $10.
Original, widows, etc.—Elizabeth
Reeves, Salem, $8.
Insurance Rates Raised.
The 25 per cent raise in insurance
rates, which was recently agreed
upon at a meeting of companies in
New York, will go into general ef
fect throughout Arkansas within
thirty days. Some companies have
already ordered their agents to make
the raise and others are receiving no
tifications gradually.
Negro Mobbed at Foreman.
A negro named Ilorid McCoy was
taken from jail at Foreman by a
mob ami hanged. McCoy assaulted
two women in one day, a negress
and the wife of a white farmer. The
latter was seriously cut about t lie
head and shoulder. He was taken
before his victims, both of whom
identified him.
BRIEF MENTION.
Everett F. Pilkington has been
appointed postmaster at Searcy.
C. H. Briscoe was killed in the
Frisco yards at Jonesboro while at
tempting to cross the track over a
moving train.
Congressman II. A. Dinsmore’s
bill establishing a federal court at
Harrison, Boone count}', has passed
both houses of congress.
Ethel Morris shot and killed her
husband at Conway. The woman
claims the shooting was accidental,
but a warrant was issued charging
her with murder.
The one-month old child of Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Hollerd, of Little
Rock, has two teeth, the first one
being noticed when the child was
but three weeks old.
Chas. Call shot and killed lu3
brother, George Call, in a fight over
a game of cards at Princeton, Mo.
Mrs. Clifton Breckinridge, wife of
ex-Congressman Breckinridge, of
Pine Bluff, falls heir to an estate
valued at $150,000 by the death of
an aunt in New York. •«