The New York democracy, in re
cent primaries, instructed for Judge
Parker for the presidential nomina
tion.
To guard against yellow fever,
Gov. Lanham of Texas has issued a
proclamation declaring quarantine
in* effect along the Gulf coast.
The gunboat Nashville and a tor
pedo boat destroyer will go up the
Mississippi river to St. Louis some
time this month. It is expected
they will be at Memphis about the
18th.
Flood losses along the Ohio are
reported greater than in many
years, farmers being the heaviest
sufferers, the loss on the wheat crop
alone being over a quarter of a mil
lion dollars.
Iowa miners and operators fail
ed to agree on a scale for the next
twelve months and as a result all
the miners in the state are tempor
arily closed and 111,000 men are out
of employment.
Mrs. W. A. Phillips of Paint
Rock, Ala., publicly horsewhipped
Hr. Lowe, a justice of the peace,
because he performed the marriage
ceremony when her 14-year-old
da lighter was the bride.
1'he I nion Trust Company of
Boston and the Federal Trust Com
pany of Cleveland, have closed their
doors. A prominent official of the
latter company has disappeared and
it is reported he left a big shortage.
Adolph Miller, aged 10, was
foundguilty of murder in the fourth
degree fnr the killing of Joseph
Peppold in the juvenile criminal
court at St. Louis. The maximum
punishment is confinement in the
reform school until '„’l years of age.
The city of St. Louis has as
euniod charge of removing the city’s
garbage. For many years this work
has boon done under a contract hv
a company of which Edward Butler,
the alleged boodler, was at the head.
Colombia lias lost, the suit
brought in the courts of France
against the Panama canal company.
This decision has the effect of re
moving the legal obstacle in the
way of the transfer of the canal
concession from the company to the
United States.
* The endorsement of .fudge Par
ker for the presidency by the New
York democracy makes it more than
probable that he will be the party
nominee. There has ru>{ been much
discussion as to who the most avail
able man is for second place, but he
will likely be a westerner.
Should the bill now pending in
congress admitting Xew Mexico and
Arizona as a sft.tc, and Indian Ter
ritory and Oklahoma as a state, the
capital of the former will be Santa
Fe and the capital of the latter
Outline, an amendment having
been adopted to that effect.
It is reported that a number of
foreigners, mostly Americans and
Europeans, have been murdered in
a Chinese uprising in Shan Ting
and Shang Si provinces, on the
border. War has been made a pre
text for Chinese bandit operations,
and it is claimed the Russians are
also looting indiscriminately.
A passenger train on the Texas.
Sabine Pas sand Northern was
wrecked near Longview, Tex
as, and several passengers
were injured, four fatally.
The wreck is believed to
have been due to failure of a sec
tion crew to properly place a new
rail. The entire train was turned
over.
A bill has passed the French
chamber of deputies and will be
come a law, suppressing all forms
of teaching by religious orders. The
new law does not make any distinc
tion between authorized and unau
thorized congregations, but sweeps
away the whole fabric of teaching
by religious orders, thus in effect
substituting the system of state
schools for those heretofore con
ducted by the orders.
V
Jfipan is said to have over 100,
000 troops in northern Korea.
Hoii. Eiihu Hoot, former secreta
rv ot war, will likely be the next
republican nominee lor governor of
New York. In the event this pro
gramme is carried out and he car
ries the state bv a big majority, he
will be a formidable candidate of
his party for the presidency in 1008.
Richard Jenkins, a noted Ken
tucky feudist, was assassinated at
his home twenty miles from Pine
vilie by unknown parties. For a
number of years Jenkins had lived
a quiet life, but up to ten years ago
he was most active with his Win
chester, having killed no less than
eight men.
Col. William F. Cody declines to
discuss the divorce suit which is now
being tried in the west, and will say
nothing regarding his wife's allega
tions concerning his acquaintance
with women of the stage. “It is a
private matter,M says Col. Cody,
“and will all be settled in court. It
concerns no one but mvself.”
Sixteen more indictments have
been returned against prominent
citizens of Oregon, charging them
with defrauding the government
out of stone and timber lands. It
is alleged the accused are men of
wealth and employed homesteaders
to enter the lands which was deeded
to them after being proven up.
When, a little less than three
weeks hence, the \V orld's Fair gates
swing open, practically all of the
constructive work will have been ac
complished and virtually all of the
exhibits will be in their places. Ev
ery one of the great exhibition pal
aces is completed except in the mat
ter of painting, and this will be
finished long before April HO.
John j>. Alton and wife, aged
respectively f>8 and 17, years, com- !
m it ted suicide at their home in
St. Louis. The aged couple j
lifter swallowing morphine and sat
urated their clothing with chloro
form, turned on the gas in their
room and calmly lav down in bed.
Alton was formerly wealthy, but
reverses had reduced him to ex
treme poverty.
Tier. Dr. Dewing, a worker among
the slum population of Chicago, ar
raigned on the charge of robbing
railroads by procuring mileage 1
hooks at the rales given ministers
and selling the same to scalpers,
pleaded guilty, claiming that he re- ;
sorted to this method of raising ;
money to help the poor. As his
story was believed the railroad com- |
panics he defrauded expressed satis
faction with a small fine.
1 he secretary of the interior es
timates the recent order of Presi
dent Roosevelt, placing all Pnion
soldiers who have* reached a certain
age limit on the pension list, will
increase the pension appropriation
$-l,oU0,000. There are supposed to
be living today about 875,000 e.x
1 nion soldiers of the civil war. Of
these arc pensioned under the act of
duly 14, 18(i^, known as the gener
al law, about 2(>5,000, and under
the act of dune 27, 1890, about
■128,000, aggregating 093,000,
which, deducted from the whole
number of survivors, leaves 182,000
who have not applied foy pensions.
A correspondent of the Globo
Democrat, speaking of the convic
tion in federal court of Senator
Burton of using his influence in
favortof a fraudulent concern, says:
“The downfall of Senator Joseph B.
Burton removes froi$ otlieial life a
character which, in many of its
phases, defies analysis. Through
out his career in Kansas Burton
roamed with indiscretion and
“neighbored” with folly. From the
beginning friendship with Burton
was a thing no follower pointed to
with pride or contemplated with ex
ultation. It was rather a thing to
be explained or defended. And the
most'kindlv criticism that is passed
upon Burton in Kansas that he had
no moral sense.’’
Was It Accidental.
Mrs. Joe White, residing about
four miles from Dermott, Chicot
county, was shot to death under
mysterious circumstances. Joe
White was playing with a revolver
in the room where his wife, Mr.
and Mrs. Adams and a little girl,
were sitting. It is alleged White
began tiring the pistol at the ceil
ing when Mr. and Mrs. Adams
and the little girl hastily left the
room. A moment later they hoard
Mrs. White scream and when they
reached her she was dying from a
bullet hole in her breast. White
says ho did not shoot his wife, but
that the bullet which killed her
came from outside.
Storm Damage at Mammoth Springs.
March 31st a severe windstorm
swept over portions of Fulton coun
ty. The farm house of John Boll
was demolished hut fortunately the
family was not at home. At Mam
moth Spring several buildings were
wrecked. The biggest loss was at
the flouring mill, the roof of which
was blown off, causing a heavy loss
on stock from water.
BRIEF MENTION.
The two telephone companies at
Hot Springs are engaged in a cut
rate war.
The high waters in the White
and Black rivers reached the danger
line several days ago.
W. I). Cameron, a shipping clerk,
fell from the top of a car while
switching at Warren ami instantly
killed.
It is reported that the Cotton
Belt will withdraw from all Mem
phis business, both freight and pas
senger.
James Grover’s residence at Hot
Springs was totally destroyed by
tire. His household goods were also
consumed.
The former Choctaw, Oklahoma
and Gulf railroad will henceforth be
known as the Choctaw division of
the Kook Island system.
George Rough, who was shot
March 8, while in a quarrel with
Ben Griffey at Fayetteville, died in
great agony from his wounds, lock
jaw having set in.
George Me El rath, aged 38, while
assisting in removing a smokestack
at a sawmill near Hot Springs, was
hit in the head by a falling scant
ling and instantly killed.
Charley Maddox, a coal miner at
Russellville, is out on bond await
ing the action of the next grand
jury on a charge of assisting pris
oners to escape from jail.
A young white man by the name
of Thomas Nix was arrested at
Monticello charged with arson. It
is alleged he set fire to the ware
house of Harris & Jarnigan.
The large warehouse of Harris &
daggers at Monticello and two small
cabbins were destroyed by fire. The
loss on goods and building is placed
ut $9,000, with $3,000 insurance.
The annual meeting of the state
Christian Woman’s Board of Mis
sions of the Christian church will
be held at the state capitol May 6.
An interesting program Has been
prepared and a good attendance is
looked for.
Joe Ehrlich, a prominent and
wealthy citizen of Texarkana, died
suddenly of heart failure in the
opera house at Shreveport, La. He
leaves his wife and daughter, for
whose favor he carried $22,000 of
life insurance.
City Marshal T. S. Stephens of
Newport shot in self-defense V. G.
Richardson of Alicia, who was dis
turbing the peace. Richardson, it is
alleged, attempted to seize the offi
cer's revolver and was resisting ar
rest when shot. <*.
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John Ik Gant was killed in a boil
er explopon at Harrison. The boil
er was^ii a sawmill in which Mr.
Gant was interested. He was about
40 years old and loaves a wife and
one child. He served as sheriff of
Poinsett county. |
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