VOL. I.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUYRY 30, 1902.
NO. 43.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Natives of India are reported as
being in arms against the govern
ment.
January 22d was the first anni
versary of the death of Queen Vic
toria.
The Mississippi legilsaturc has
passed a bill providing for taxing in
heritances.
Richard Croker, the deposed Tam
many chief, sailed for Europe on
the 27th inst.
Geo. Dixon, the ex-champion light
weight pugilist, was knocked out at
Baltimore by Eddie Lennie.
John F. Dryden lias been elected
United States senator from New |
Jersey to succeed the late Gen. Sew-1
ell.
The national convention of coal
miners, at Indianapolis, re-elected
John Mitchell president without a
contest.
J. P. Morgan is organizing a gi
gantic eompajjy to control the steam
ships owned in this country and
England.
Diamonds that are said to be of
the first water have been found in
the northern part of Fergus county,
Montana.
Count Von Waldersee, in com
mand of the German troops during
the siege of Pekin, will shortly visit
this country
Secretary Hay received a telegram
from Mr. Buchanan, president of the
United States delegation at the Pan
American congress, confirming the
reports that a complete understand
ing has been reached on the subject
of arbitration before the congress.
This subject was the only one prom
ising serious difficulty in adjustment,
and the officials are now satisfied that
the congress will be a success.
The Pan-American congress, in
session at Mexico City, adopted the
following: “The republics assem
bled at the international conference
in Mexico applaud the purpose of
the United States government to
construct an inter-oceanic canal, and
acknowledge that this work will not
only be worthy of the greatness of
the American people, but also in the
highest sense a work of civilization
and to the highest degree beneficial
to the development of commerce be
tween the American states and to
the other countries of the world.”
The monthly statement of the col
lections of internal revenue show
that during December, 1901, the to
tal receipts were $22,812,915, a de
crease as compared with the corre
sponding month in 1900 of $2,399,
231. The receipts from the several
sources of revenue are given as fol
lows: Spirits $11,520,957, increase
$140,542; tobacco $4,403,496, de
crease $715,573; fermented liquors
$1,735,054, decrease $509,835; oleo
margarine $223,1 19, increase $13,
300; special taxes, not elsewhere
enumerated, $56,227, increase $28,
344; miscellaneous $1,974,059, de
crease $1,-362,017.
Reports of Germany’s foreign
trade in 1901 show that the total im
ports amounted to 44,304,857 tons,
compared with 45,911,799 and 44,
652,286 tons in 1899 and 1900, re
spectively. There was a decrease of
3.5 per cent in last year's imports,
compared with those of 1900. There
was a decrease of more than a mil
lion tons in the coal imports, and
-*jore than 500,000 tons in the iron
and timber imports. The imports of
wheat rose 1,125,000 tons. The to
tal exports amounted to 32,363,495
tons, compared with 32,681,747 in
1900. The increase in iron exports
was nearly 800,000 tons. The de
crease in the exports of ores and coal
is especially noticeable. The value
of the imports in 1901 was 5,967,
000.000 marks, compared with 6,
043,000,000 marks in the preceding
year, while the exports were valued
i* al 4,759,000 marks, as against 4,
y ' 753,000,000 marks in 1900.
:> Xheo Bramer, for twenty-five
years the trusted bookkeeper and
" ' financier of the Sehroth Packing
' Company, of Cincinnati, is alleged
to be short between $200,000 and
mm $300,000.
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S. E. Adams, cashier of the Com
mercial Bank at Fulton, Mo., is
missing and the hank is in charge of
a receiver.
President Roosevelt lias conferred
the rank of rear admiral upon Dr.
P. M. Rixev, chief medical inspector
of the navy.
Two distinct earthkuake shocks
were felt at St. Louis and surround
ing towns on the 21th inst. No
damage done.
As a result of a terrible explosion
in a coal mine near Oskaloosa, Iowa,
twenty-one men were killed and
eight wounded.
A. D. Cooper, a St. Louis million
aire, was murdered by a colored at
tendant while in a bath house, the
object being robbery.
Smallpox is raging in the Creek
Nation, and at Muskogee all the
schools have been closed to prevent
spread of the disease.
A butter trust is to be organized
with a capital of $18,000,000. The
new corporation will be incorporated
under the laws of New Jersey.
Employes of the window-glass
manufactories controlled by the
trust have been granted an increase
of wages averaging 12 per cent.
Street car traffic at Terre Haute,
Ind., was completely stopped for sev
eral days last week, on account of a
strike of motormen and conductors.
A lumber camp near Hambleton,
W. Va., caught lire and burned so
rapidly seven men failed to get
out of the building and were burned
to death.
Banker Morgan, of New York,
after reading reports of Schwab’s
heavy betting at Monte Carlo, wired
the president of the steel corporation
to stop gambling at once.
Otto Bola, elevator boy, saved the
lives £f sixty women and children by
making several trips with his ele
vator from the seventh floor of a Chi
cago hotel. Fire broke out on the
second floor and the building was
consumed, but the boy remained at
his post until all were safe.
A. T. Patrick, the New York law
yer, is now undergoing trial for the
murder of Millionaire Rice. The
dead man’s valet, Jones, confessed
that Patrick and himself entered into
a plot to murder him and secure the
bulk of his estate by means of a
forged will. The trial will last over
a month.
Mr- Hitchcock, secretary of the in
terior, and Mr. Jones, commissioner
of Indian affairs, have decided upon
another step toward the civilization
of the Indian. This is in the form
of a decree that Indians of both sexes
shall hereafter be prohibited from
painting their faces and that the
men must begin patronizing barber
shops. Dances are also prohibited in
connection with funerals and other
ceremonies.
The census report on cotton seed
manufacture in 1900 shows that
there were 357 establishments for
the extraction of cotton seed oil in
the United States, using 2,497.380
tons of cotton seed, costing $28,
632,016, an average cost of $11-55
per ton. The total value of the
products was $42,411,835. The out
put of Arkansas was 190,105 tons,
valued at $3,188,812.
One of the most disastrous min
ing accidents of the Joplin district
occurred near Cartersville, Mo., on
the 18th by a cave-in. The Aida mine
Xo. 2, was the scene of the catras
trophe, and as a result four men are
now dead. The dead are: Arthur
Roberts, aged 30, Webb City, Mo.;
John Simons, age 32, Carterville,
Mo.: Bruce Westfall, age 29, Webb
City, Mo.; Dan Onstott, age 20,
Webb City, Mo.
A naval battle took place in the
harbor of Panama between insur
gent and Colombian vessels. Gen.
Carlos Albon, military commander
and governor of Panama, was among
the killed. One of the government
ships took fire and went to the bot
tom, and one insurgent vessel was
sunk. The insurgent fleet was com
posed of three vessels, two of them
being able to withdraw before ar
rival of reinforcements for the gov
ernment fleet. A large number were
killed on both sides.
A naval retiring board has de
clined to recommend the retirement
of Capt. Richmond P. Hobson.
Sharkey and Mayer engaged in a
three-round fake fight, at Phila
delphia, which was decided a draw.
The senate committee on com
merce has made a favorable report
on Senator Frye's ship subsidy bill.
The value of the products of
southern factories in 1900, accord
ingto preliminary figures of the
twelfth census, was $1,466,669,495,
which was greater by nearly $450,
000,000. than the value of products
of manufacturers in the United
States in 1850. The total for 1900
shows an increase of $549,440,468
over the total of 1890 in the value
of products and of $404,874,237 in
the amount of capital invested, which
in 1900 amounted to 1,153,670,097,
against $658,795,860 in 1890.
Having failed, after two years’
strife, in subduing the insurrection
in Batangas province, P. 1., which
lies just south of Manila, and having
satisfied himself that lenient treat
ment to the insurgents is productive
of no good results, Gen. J. Franklin
Bell, the military commander in
that province, has determined on the
enforcement of the war in the most
vigorous and determined fashion, in
volving reconcentration in a modified
Jorm, the application of martial law
in all directions and the unsparing
pursuit and punishment of the na
tives who act as spies and traitors to
the United States.
Lhe census report snows that the
large cities takep collectively are
growing nearly twice as rapidly as
the rest of the country. The per
cent of the population of northern
states living in large cities in nearly
three times as great as the corre
sponding per cent in the south; the
north has a rate of increase no
greater than that, of the south. The
cities in the north are growing much
faster than those of the same size in
the south, but this difference is bal
anced by an extremely rapid growth
of small towns and cities in the
south, and especially by the high
rate of increase of southern rural
population.
The interstate commerce commis
sion last week transmitted to con
gress its fifteenth annual report.
The commission renews its recom
mendations for increased powers.
Referring to recent investigations
made into the movement of packing
house products and the movement
of grain and grain products, the
commission says: “That the lead
ing traffic officials of many of the
principal railway lines, men occupy
ing high positions and charged with
the most important duties, should
deliberately violate the statute law
of the land, and, in some cases, agree
with each other to do so; that it
should be thought by them neces
sary to destroy vouchers and to so
manipulate bookeeping as to obliter
ate evidence of the transactions;
that hundreds of thousands of dol
lars should be paid in lawful re
bates to a few great packing houses;
that the business of railroad trans
portation, the most important, but
one, in the country today, paying the
highest salaries and holding out to
young men the greatest induce
ments, should to such an extent be
conducted in open disregard of law,
must be surprising and offensive to
all right-minded persons. A prelim
inary report of railways operating
probably 99 per cent of the mileage
that will be covered by the final re
port for the year, shows the passen
ger earnings were $426,909,210 and
the freight earnings $1,114,740,SAC),
The total earnings were $1,578,164,
205, or $8,211 per mile. The gross
earnings for 1900, as shown in the
final report for that year, were $1,
487,044,814. The operating ex
penses for 1901 amounted to $1,023,
281, or $5,323 per mile of line, the
net earnings of the roads included
in this advance report being $555,
007,924, or $35,557,218 in excess of
their earnings during the fiscal year
1900. The total income of these
roads, including $05,271,244 re
ceived from investments and other
sources, was $620,279,168. The
amount of dividends declared dur
ing the year was $121,108,637.
NEWS OF ARKANSAS.
Gloomy Prospect.
In a letter sent to eastern and for
eign correspondents, S. Alexan
der & Co., prominent cotton factors
of Helena, who operate in Arkansas
and Louisiana, forecast a most
gloomy outlook for present year's
crop prospects. A synopsis of their
letter follows: The cotton season
here is practically closed, and the
crop has practically passed out of
farmers' hands. Less cotton is on
plantations and at railway stations
than we have ever known before at
this time of the year. The stock in
Pine Bluff is about the same as last
)-ear at similar period. 17.000 bales.
Less than 7,000 of this is in the
hands of factory- The remainder is
owned by buyers and most of it sold
and awaiting shipment. The situa
tion is becoming alarming to those
pinning faith to a 10,500,000 crop.
At this time last year money was
plentiful, cotton $45 to $50 per bale,
credit cheap and merchants ready
and anxious to furnish all who de
sired to make a cotton crop. Today
the reverse is true. At the court
house door the scene is now a com
mon one where farmers are closed
out and mules sold at $55 to $100 to
satisfy mortgages given last January
to make the present crop. Short
crops and low-priced cotton are hav
ing their effect, and the outlook is
not flattering. Everything in the
provision line is high, and it will be
exceedingly hard for those who have
to rent land to get supplies. This
will affect the acreage, and unless
something unforeseen happens there
will be a material reduction.
Gamblers Mot Indicted.
The Pulaski county grand jury,
in its report under t lie head of gam
bling and Sabbath-breaking, says:
“We regret to say that we have not
returned any indictments for the
above-named offenses. Your grand
jury feels almost morally certain
that gambling is being carried on
and that nearly every saloon in Lit
tle Pock is open on the Sabbath. But
it is very hard to get the evidence
necessary for a conviction. The very
source where one would expect to get
information and assistance acts and
testifies like they were trying to keep
from giving any testimony that
would warrant conviction.”
Bridges to be Constructed.
Bills have been passed by the sen
ate authorizing the construction of
the following bridges: Over the
Arkansas river in Arkansas by the
Memphis, Helena & Louisiana Kail
wav Company; over the White river
in Arkansas by the same company;
granting to the White River Rail
road Company the right to construct
a single railway track across United
States land in Independence coun
ty. Ark.; extending the time for tlu
construction of a bridge across
Bayou Bartholomew in Arkansas by
the Mississippi River, Hamburg &
Western Railway Company.
The meeting of the State Horti
cultural Society held at Fayetteville
last week was more largely attended
than any former meeting, and the
proceedings of much interest. The
following officers were elected: John
P. • Logan, president. Si loam
Springs; S. II. Nowlin, first vice
president, Little Rock; T. F. Haw
ley, second vice president, Eureka
Springs; A. W. St. John, third vice
president, Mena; E. Walker, secre
tary, Fayetteville; executive commit
tee, F. II. Smelzer, Van Buren; Dr.
A. C. Smith, Springdale; J. llen
thorne, Bentonville; W. K. Tipton,
Little Rock; L. S. Shibley, Green
Forest.
Interstate Association of Elks
The Interstate and Terriiorial
Association of Elks, in session at
Jlot Springs last week, elected the
following officers: President, R. T.
Edward, Oklahoma City; vice presi
dents, Charles H. Weaver, Hot
Springs, and Sam Solensky, Texar
kana; secretary and treasurer, 0. P.
M. Wiley, Joplin, Mo. The next
meeting will be held at Galena, Kan.
State Horticulturists.
Robber Killed.
A white man entered the saloon
of Stephen Rafaelli, at Texarkana,
and finding the proprietor alone
pushed a revolver in his face and
ordered him to give up his money
and watch or he would kill him.
Rafaelli without a moment’s hesita
tion threw himself upon the would
be robber, shouting and yelling with
all his might for help. The robber
disengaged himself from the other's
grasp and ran, firing an ineffectual
shot at Watchman Raymer, who had
been attracted to the scene by Raf
aelli ’s cries. Raymer drew his pis
tol and gave chase to the robber, who
fired another shot at the watchman,
whereupon the latter fired, shooting
the robber through the heart and
killing him instantly.
Charged with Killing His Own Father.
Ero Harvey has been placed in jail
at Yellvilie to await the action of
the grand jury on the charge of kill
ing his own father. It seems Har
vey and his son while intoxicated en
gaged in a struggle for the posses
sion of a bottle of whisky when Har
ver junior pulled out a dirk and
plunged it into his father’s heart.
BRIEF MENTION.
Tracklaying was begun on the
first twenty miles of the White River
railroad on the 21st inst.
It is estimated fully 100,000 new
peach trees have been set out in the
vicinity of Van Buren this winter.
Lawrence, the 4-year-old son of
Ike Rosen, a Little Rock merchant,
was fatally burned while playing
with matches.
A 40-gallon illicit still located in
Cleburne county was destroyed by
revenue officials last week. No ar
rests were made.
The democratic convention for the
new Fourth congressional district
has been called to meet at Mena July
17, to nominate a candidate for con
gress.
Clinton Owens and Clark McMil
lan. boys about 17 years old, were
arrested at Pine Bluff on the charge
of attempting to rob a farmer near
the city.
The state of Arkansas is credited
with having but two millionaires
within her borders—Col. J. T. W.
Tillar and the estate of Capt. W. J.
Thompson.
Four men have been arrested,
charged with being in a whitecap
pers’ raid in the vicinity of Glenn
wood, Monroe county, where it is
alleged several negroes were severely
whipped.
E(1 Car and Ananias Branch, the
vcmng negroes who turned highway
men and held up a number of peo
ple on a public road in Pulaski
county, have been sentenced to six
years each.
Tom Bush, colored, aged 20 years,
was -hot and killed at Little Hock
by a negro barber named George
Richardson. The killing was caus
ed by jealousy over attentions paid
by Bush to a woman.
W. T{. Kendrick, of Melbourne,
who was captain of Company M,
Second Arkansas, in the Spanish
American war, has been commission
ed a second lieutenant in the T nited
States regular army.
A son of Mr. Way man, of Boone
county, met a horrible death. He
was playing out where Mr. May
man was killing some hogs, when he
stumbled and fell headforemost into
a kettle of boiling water.
State World's Fair Manager Mi
lan announces that he has received
favorable response to his recent proc
lamation from over forty of the fifty
eight counties in the tatc that have
world's fair organizations.
It is now recognized that the
chief supporters of the Boer cause in
England are the Germans, who are
contributing to the s\ipport of the
burgher troops and their wives and
children in the concentration camps
G,00t) marks ($1,428) a day.
The plant of the Witter Manufac
turing Company at Memphis, one of
the largest stove manufacturers in
the south, was destroyed by fire on
the 20th. Loss, $250,000, with
$200,000 insurance.
Vote of Counties.
Below is given the list of counties
with the vote of each from which
railroad commissioners arc selected:
Southwest District—Benton, 17;
Boone, 7; Crawford, 11; Carroll, 7;
Conway, h; Franklin, 5; Faulkner,
8 : Johnson, 8 ; Logan, 10 ; Madison,
10 ; Newton, 4; Pope, 11 ; Perry, 3;
Pulaski, 15; Searcy, 4: Van Buren,
5; Washington, 15; Yell, 9; total,
157. Commissioner J. G. Wallace,
of Russellville.
Northeast District—Arkansas, 5;
Baxter, 4 ; Clay, 8; Craighead, 9;
Cleburne, 4; Cross, 5; Crittenden,
4; Fulton, 5; Greene, 7; Izard, 7;
Independence, 9; Jackson, 6; Law
rence, 6 ; Lonoke, 9; Lee, 8 ; Marion,
5; Mississippi, 0; Monroe, 6; Poin
sett, 4; Phillips, 9 ; Prairie, 5; Ran
dolph, 11; Sharp, 6; Stone, 4; St.
Francis, 4; White, 12; Woodruff, 7;
total, 175. Commissioner F. M.
Hanley, of Melbourne.
Southern District—Ashley, 6 ;
Bradley, 3; Clark, 8 ; Columbia, 7;
Calhoun, 3; Cleveland, 4; Chicot, 4;
Desha, 2; Dallas, 4; Drew, #; Grant,
1: Hot Springs, 5; Howard, 5;
Hempstead, 10; Jefferson, 8; Gar
land, 9; Lincoln, 5; Lafayette, 3;
Little River, C>; Montgomery, 4;
Miller, 5; Nevada, 6; Ouachita, 6;
Polk, 7; Pike, 4; Sebastian, 10 ;
Scott, 4; Saline, 7; Sevier, 5; Un
ion, 8; total, 1G8. Commissioner
Abner Gaines, of Lake Village.
Candidates Set Dates.
Gov. Jeff Davis and Col. E. W
Rector, of Hot Springs, candidates
for the democratic gubernatorial
nomination, held a conference at
Little Rock and agreed upon ten ap
pointments for joint debates. The
dates agreed upon are as follows;
Hot Springs, January 28, 2 p. m.;
Russellville, February 1, 1 p. m.;
Little Rock, February 3, 3 p. m.
According to the agreement, three
of the other appointments were left
for Gov. Davis to select, and he de
cided upon Helena, Marianna and
Forrest City.
Nichols Awarded Damages.
In the suit of Wolf Xiehols, ad
ministrator, against the steamer M.
K. Riggs, owned by the Consumers’
Oil Company, of Little Rook, a de
cree for $1,954 was rendered by the
United States court against the boat.
The action grew out of the death of
Jacob and Joseph Dante on July 4,
1897, during the celebration of the
free bridge opening when the Dantes
and two young ladies were drowned
as a result of the skiff in which they
were seated being struck by the
steamer.
Landlord and Tenant Fight.
A desperate fight- occurred be
tween W. B. Powell, a Jefferson
county planter, and a negro tenant.
The two fell out over a contract, tho
negro firing at Powell with a shot
gun but without effect. Powell then
shot the negro in the head with a
revolver. Thereupon the negro
sprang upon him like a madman,
grappled with him, and in a dying
condition battered Powell over the
head with the revolver that Powell
himself used.
New Railroad.
The Mississippi, Arkansas & West
ern Railroad Company has been
granted a charter by the state board
of railroad commissioners and filed
articles of incorporation with the sec
retary of state. The proposed rail
road is to begin at a point in Drew
county on the bank of the Bayou
Bartholomew, directly west of Bliss
ville, and run thence to Gaines Land
ing on the Mississippi river in Chi
cot county, a distance of twenty-two
miles.
Stole a Bale of Cotton.
Jesse Williams, colored, wanted at
the England convict farm, to com
plete a sentence, attempted a bold
robbery at Pine Bluff. Wright
Rouse, a negro, went to town with a
bale of cotton and went into a store
to dispose of it. When he returned
his wagon was gone. Investigation
revealed that Williams had driven
the team to the city scales and dis
posed of the cotton as his own. H®
was captured before the chock given
for the cotton was cashed.