VOL. I.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, 4ANUYRY 9, 1902.
NO . 40.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
The United States government
has withdrawn censorship on mes
sages to Manila.
hrank Peavey, one of the best
known grain men in the county,
died in Chicago last week, aged 52
years. His life was insured for $1,
376,000.
Conductor Charles King, who had
charge of a freight train, was blown
from his train into a deep gorge
by a fierce storm which was raging
near Missoula, Mont.
The Steamer Walla Walla, which
sailed from San Francisco on the
1st, collided with an unknown ves
sel at sea and went to the bottom.
Twenty of the passengers and crew
perished, among them Capt. Hall,
who heroically stayed by his ship to
arrist in saving the lives of those on
board.
At Keithville, La., one life was
lost, two persons were seriously in
jured and part of a car of valuable
race horses en route from the winter
meeting at New Orleans were de
stroyed in a disastrous collision be
tween Tqxas Pacific fast freight No.
67 and a Houston East and West
freight.
VV hue the civil service commission
ers are elaborating a set of regula
tions that have for their purpose the
dropping of a number of employes in
the different departments who, from
age or other reasons, are not capable
of performing the amount and char
acter of work required by the public
service, a number’ of congressmen
have been pressing a plan to place an
age limit on service in the depart
ments and to retire on pensions all
who have reached the ages prescribed
and to provide them with pensions.
The boiler of an engine of the
Georgia Central exploded in the
shops at Macon, killing five men out
right and injuring eleven others.
The dead are: John McDonald,
white, machinist; Thomas Hodges,
white, engineer; Uriah Cornelius,
colored, helper; -James O'Neill,
white; one unidentified. The explo
sion wrecked the round house. It
is supposed a negro helper, finding
the water in the boiler too low, sud
denly injected cold water on the red
hot crown sheet, which caused the
explosion.
January reports to II. G. Dun &
Co. show that failures for the year
1901 were 11,002 in number and
$113,092,376 in amount of liabil
ities, while of banking and other fi
duciary institutions, there were 74
insolvencies, involving $18,018,774,
a total of 11,076 defaults and $131,
111,150 liabilities. These figures
compare very favorably with the 10,
833 failures in 1900, with liabilities
of $174,113,236, of which 39 were
banks for $35,617,563. Manufactur
ing disasters in 1901 numbered
2,441, with an indebtedness of $44,
970,983, compared with 2,409 in the
previous year, owing $51,702,142,
while there were 7,965 suspensions of
trade of $52,060,640, against 7,844
in 1900, with liabilities of $59,415,
592.
The following shows the number
of employes in the several depart
ments of the government at Wash
ington January 1: State depart
ment, 109; treasury department,
5,547; war department, 2,711; navy
department, 3,077 ; post office depart
ment, 1,049; interior department,
7,672; department of justice, 212;
department of agriculture, 982; gov
ernment printing office, 3,691; exec
utive office, 28 ; department of labor.
84; fish commission, 67; interstate
commerce commission, 133; civil
service commission, 61 ; industrial
commission, 17 ; Smithsonian insti
tute, 359; bureau of American re
publics, 22; local post office in dis
trict, 628; senate officers and em
ployes, 385; house of representatives,
272; capital police, 65; library of
congress, 367 ; United States botani
cal garden, 28; supreme court of the
United States, 12; court of claims,
27.
Rec< nt floods caused the loss of
thousands of dollars in stock and
farm property along the route of the
Tennessee river. At Chattanooga
several factories had to close down
for several days.
A fatal accident occurred at shaft
No. 1 of the McAlcster coal com
pany at Hartshorne, I. T. While
the cage was ascending, with eight
men, and about eight feet from the
bottom of the shaft, it jumped its
guidings and six of the eight occu
pants were instantly killed. The
bodies were horribly mangled be
tween the cages and the buntings,
and were dropped to the bottom of
the shaft.
A dispatch says: Many Filipinos
who accept service under American
rule are visited with awful venge
ance by their fellow-countrymen.
Three native policemen who had
been sent from Laoag to San Nich
olas, Ilicos, north, for duty at the
latter point, were seized and bound
by an armed band of Fili
pino outlaws, taken before a priest
to be confessed, and then flung alive
into a well, after being hacked with
bolos. American officials report
many similar cases to the authorities
at Washington.
Joe Gibbs, said to be a western
desperado, was captured while en
gaged in what is thought to have
been an attempt to hold up and rob
the westbound mail and express train
on the Vicksburg, Shreveport and
Pacific railroad. Gibbs and two com
panions boarded the train at a small
station between Delhi and Rayville,
La. Passing through the smoker,
Gibbs fired a number of shots from
a Winchester through the car win
dows, effectually terrorizing the pas
sengers. From the smoker he en
tered the first-class coach and start
ed the same performance. The des
perado then returned to the combi
nation mail, express and baggage
car and demanded of Mesenger Pep
per to open the door. Upon the
messenger’s refusal Gibbs attempted
to batter the door down. While en
gaged in this Conductor Frank San
ders, having secured a pistol from a
passenger, appeared, and, getting the
drop on the desperado, disarmed
him, and, with the assistance of two
passengers, bound him hand and
foot.
Secretary Gage furnishes the fol
lowing brief review of the treasury
situation avdm jjosc of the year:'
■• For the e^tendar:
April 1 ^ 1 :V-1 '{hu**treasury has're
deemed and canceled United States’
bonds to the par value of $58,714,
500, which have been applied to the
sinking fund, and the disbursement
resulting therefrom was $72,226,
840. The available cash on hand is
about $30,000,000 larger- than the
amount held a year ago. On April
1, last year, the treasury held mon
ey of all kinds to the amount of
$250,873,000, including $100,000,
000 as a gold reserve, leaving, there
fore, $150,000,000 as a cash balance
Today, in money of all kinds, the
treasury holds $296,659,000, and if
we deduct the $150,000,000 now
held as a gold reserve the balance
stands at $146,000,000, or $4,000,
000 less than it was April 1, 1897.
The volume of money on March 1,
1897, outside the treasury was $1,
675,694,953, and the amount per
capita was $23.14. On the first of
December last the amount of money
outside the treasury was $2,250,
256,230, and the amount per capita
was $28.73. The increase in amount
was $574,561,277, and in per capita
$5.59. The amount of gold coin
and gold certificates in circulation
increased from $553,860,515, on
March 1, 1897, to $914,300,089 on
December 1, 1901. Every other
kind of money in circulation is
greater in amount now than on
March 1, 4897, with the single ex
ception of treasury notes of the act
ol‘ July 14, 1890. The amount of
these in circulation December 1,
1901, was only $40,012,622, as
against $85,546,621 on March 1,
1897. The increase in the amount
of national bank notes in circula
tion during the period in question
was $132,132,731. This increase is
mainly attributable to the act of
March 14. 1900.”
Tho battleship Missouri was
launched at Newport News, Ya., De
cember 28.
Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania,
whose health is fast failing, will
probably resign in a few weeks.
Georgia populists propose to re
organize and place a state ticket in
the field at the coming election.
A prominent member of Presi
dent Itoosevelt’s cabinet states that
there is an understanding between
Germany and this government as to
affairs in Venezuela.
Rudolf Grossman, editor of a
Hungarian paper in New York city,
has been arrested on evidence fur
nished by his wife to the effect that
he is an anarchist, and has repeated
ly threatened to assassinate Presi
dent Roosevelt.
Robert Hatfield, one of the fa
mous Kentucky feudists, was recent
ly shot and killed by an officer in
Arizona. After his family was al
most wiped out in Kentucky, Robert
moved to Arizona, where he met
the fate so many of his kinsmen had
met.
Thos. Estrada Palma has been
elected the first president of the
republic of Cuba. The adherents,
of General Maso, democratic candi
date, who recently withdrew from
the campaign, not only withdrew
their candidates, but refused to go to
the polls. A remarkable light vote
was polled throughout the island.
La Discussion ascribes this indiffer
ence to the certainty on the part of
the Palmaites of being voctorious,
and that consequently the majority
of them remained at home and did
not vote.
The London war office has issued
a list of the British casualties at
Zeefontein December 24, when Col.
Firmark's camp was successfully
rushed by a force of Boers under
Gen. De Wet. Six officers and fif
ty men were killed, eight officers
were wounded and four are missing.
It is presumed that the missing of
ficers were taken along with the cap
tured guns. The number of non
commissioned officers and men
wounded is placed at 150. Kitche
ner reports that the Boers behaved
well, leaving men behind to look
after the British wounded.
The monthly statement of the di
rector of the mint shows the coinage
executed at the mints of the United
States during December, 1901, to
have been $i4,G49$21, as follows:
Gold, $12,309,32? * silver, $1,966,
514; minor coins, $373,400. The
total coinage for the calendar year
ended December 31,T901q was $134,
693,770, of which $101,735,187 was
gold, $30,838,460 was silver and $2,
120,122 was minor coins. Of the
year’s coinage $34,150,520 was in
double agios, $46,036,160 in eagles,
$21,320,200 in half eagles and $228,
307 in quarter eagles. Of the silver
coined $22,566,813 was in standard
dollars, $3,119,928 in half dollars,
$2,648,306 in quarters and $2,507,
350 in dimes. There were also coined
$1,324,010 in nickels and $796,711
in pennies.
The monthly comparative state
ment of the government receipts and
expenditures show that for the month
of December, 1901, the total receipts
were $47,061,964, which is an in
crease, as compared with December,
1900, of $215,456. The expendi
tures for the month amounted to
$37,318,998, which leaves a surplus
for the month of $9,742,966.
The expenditures for the month were
nearly $3,000,000 less than for
December 1900. The surplus
for the first six months of
the present fiscal year is ap
proximately $18,000,000. The re
ceipts from customs during the last
month amounted to $21,039,827, as
against $18,496,634 for the corre
sponding month last year; from in
ternal revenue $23,194,575, as
against $25,260,693 for December,
1900, and from miscellaneous sources
$2,827,561, as against $3,089,179 for
December, 1900. The' expenditures
charged to the war department last
month show a decrease of $2,200,000
and in the amount charged to the
navy an increase of $797,000 is
shown. An increase of $15,000 is
shown in the amount of pensions
paid.
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NEWS OF ARKANSAS.
Co-Operatioa Solicited.
Hon. Thos. W. Milan, manager
of the Arkansas exhibit at the com
ing St. Louis world's fair, has issued
the following address:
To the Citizens of. Arkansas:
“In assuming the duties of the pre
paratory work of the Arkansas ex
hibit of the world’s fair, I entertain
no fears that the same can be made
both creditable and profitable to our
citizens.
“I desire to earnestly solicit the
hearty co-operation of all our citi
zens regardless of rank and station
in life in making the display one
that will demonstrate to every vis
itor at the coming exposition that
we make no vain boast, that we have
within our boundary lines resources
that would enable us to more com
pletely live within ourselves with
larger export possibilities than any
other state in the purchase, if not in
the union.
JNo section of tne JLouisiana pur
chase is more richly endowed with
building material than Arkansas.
Therefore, those to whom this great
work has been intrusted contemplate
a building constructed entirely from
Arkansas resources worked out at
home by our own Arkansas artisans
and mechanics, shipped to St. Louis
ready to set up.
“By following this plan we will
avoid the rush at St. Louis, at the
same time give employment to home
labor, and by using tho-utmost econ
omy with our limited means, togeth
er with the liberal assistance of those
who have the material, the Arkansas
building can be made second to none
in point of interest, regardless of the
fact That some of our sister states are
preparing to spend large sums in the
erection of their state buildings.
“The exhibit from our several
counties can be comprehensive be
sides being historic, fully represent
the industrial,'social, financial, com
mercial, educational, religious and
climatic conditions, our inestimat
able wealth of minerel and forest
lands, agricultural advantages in its
various branches and our transpor
tation facilities.
“Proper provision will be made
for all perishable products as well as
vigilant care taken to protect all
those who wish their exhibits re
turned.
“In reference to the schools, the
incontestable progress which the
cause of popAdl|wrti$n is mak
ing in Arkan$&g sid ■ .g >•''
hearty eongratui^ siapig our cit
izen- and for devout • irra'ittnle i*>
hgaverr. Ohr puhfm. private and de
nominational schools throwing wide
their doors to five hundred thousand
children—one-third the total popu
lation of the state—are the true
mints of wealth, and from these in
stitutions will come demonstrations
of the indispensableness of education
to worldly or maternal prosperity.
“Your generous support of these
institutions, annually amounting to
$1,300,000 bears strong testimony
that the citizenship of this state is
alert to the fact that an ignorant
people not only is, but must be, a
poor people. Our richness of soil
and climate, mine and factory, forest
and stream logically belong to our
selves and our children who must
learn to use those great resources in
telligibly, for let whoever will sow
the seed and reap the harvest, intel
ligence will commune the banquet.
“O' r schools contain the best of
A i!.,lisas—the children, the hoys and
girls—then shall we not with your
and their assistance combined with
that of the seven thousand loyal
teachers make at St. Louis in 1003
such an educational exhibit as shall
reflect credit upon the state and the
great cause it represents?"
Cotton Fire at Hope.
A fire at Hope which started on
tire Iron Mountain railroad plat
form resulted in the destruction of
between 1,000 and 1,200 bales of
cotton. The flames are supposed to
have started from the spark of a
passing engine. The cotton belonged
to local buyers and it is thought was
all covered by insurance. The loss,
is estimated at from $50,000 to $G0,
000.
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The Sheriffs.
A meeting of the State Sheriff As
sociation was held at Little ltock
last week, with the following mem
bers in attendance: J. H. Abra
hams, Clark oounty, president; Geo.
R. Kelley, Saline county, vice pres
ident; Fred Sehader, Pulaski coun
ty, secretary; H. A. McCoy, Jeffer
son county, treasurer; R. L. Wil
liams, Garland county; E. B. Mil
ton, Frankln county; J. L. White,
Hempstead county; A. S. Reinhardt,
Prairie county; J. A. Hinkle, Inde
pendence county; H. C. Norris,
LTnion county. A resolution was
adopted urging the next general
assembly to make an appropriation
to build an annex to the state insane
asylum. After an informal dis
cussion of the subject the associa
tion was of the opinion that the act
requiring sheriffs to abstain from
dealing in scrip was a meritorious
law and should be observed in the
interest of holding scrip up and pre
venting it from deteriorating in
value. President Abrahams was re
elected as were also all the old of
ficers.
Old Firm Dissolved.
Probably the oldest business firm
in the state, composed l’rom its
formation of but two men, was dis
solved by mutual consent January
1st. It was that of Fletcher &
Hotze. These two gentlemen en
tered the Confederate army in the
same company .when the war broke
out, and fought side by side until
the surrender. They then returned
I if 1 ,ftlc Rock and established them
I selves in the mercantile business.
In 1873 they abandoned the mer
cantile business, Mr. llotze remov
J ing to New York and opening an
j office for the handling of cotton,
i Mr. Fletcher looking after the buy
I ing of the staple at Little Rock.
1 About a year ago Mr. Hotze, hav
i ing acquired a large fortune, as also
! his partner, closed the New York
| office in order that he might retire
! and spend the remainder of his days
: at his home in Little Rock. Mr.
! Fletcher is president of a leading
Little Rock bank, and will still re
! main active in business.
Town Almost Wiped Out,
On the morning of the 1st inst.
I tire came near wiping out the town
of Foreman, in Little River county.
The following business houses were
destroyed: A. S. Anderson, mer
chandise, loss $8,000; Hobson &
; Co., merchandise, loss $5,000;
! Shackleh i d Brm. 4rugs, loss $3,
j 000; Reed A Cm, merclnjudisc, loss
$8,000; . K '' ’ay, store loss $3,
500; Judge Arnett, library loss $2,
000; Anderson Smith, k»s $>00;!
John Sanderson, los's $2,500.
of the losers were insured. 'The fire
originated in Sande;«on’s store and
was of incendiary origin.
Inmates State Institutions.
The number of inmates and em
ployes at present in three eleemosy
nary institutions of Arkansas is
1,295, divided as follows:
Blind School—Number of em
ployes, 56; number of pupils, 179;
total 235.
Deaf Mute—Number of emploves,
70; number of pupils, 224; total,
294.
Insane Asylum—Number of em
ployes, 117; number of patients,
049; total, 706.
Jewelry Thief Captured.
W. II. Barnes, alias E. N. Sher
man, charged with having operated
extensively in this state as a jewelry
thief, and who was arrested in Mem
phis about two weeks ago, has been
taken to Batesville. Burnes is
charged with stealing a large assort
ment of jewelry and trinkets valued
at considerably over $1,000. lie
pawned the greater portion of his
swag in Memphis.
Condition of State Treasury.
The receipts for the state treasury
for the quarter ending December 31,
1901, were $65,190.98, which, added
to the balance on hand at the begin
ning of the quarter, $778,130.83,
make a total of $843,327.81. The
disbursements for this quarter were
$336,075.02, leaving a cash balance
on hand January 1, 1902, of $477,
252.19, nearly half a million dollars.
Dun’s Financial Review.
Dun's commercial agency reports
the number of business failures in
Arkansas for 1901 to have been 222,
against 201 for 1900, with liabilities
of $1,044,898, compared with liabil
ities of $758,641 for 1900. In a
general way, speaking of the year’s
record, Dun’s Review says: “The
increase in number of insolvencies is
by no means evidence of poor busi
ness conditions, but, on the contrary,
may be the direct result of excep
tional prosperity. A greater num
ber of new firms were organized than
in any previous year, owing to the
larger earnings by men in salaried
positions, and the better returns from
small investments. This great in
crease in competition naturally af
fected old established concerns, while
numerous new ventures, backed by
insufficient capital and sadly defi
cient in experienced managers, were
soon driven to the wall. In this
way the number of small defaults
was swelled, but these insignificant
disasters were not extensive in influ
ence, involving but a few hundred
dollars each.”
Incendiaries in Lincoln County.
On the night of December 31 last
the homes of a number of citizens of
Cleveland and Lincoln counties were
burned, the work of incendiaries, all
the property being within a radius of
six miles. The houses burned be
longed to Bob Atkinson, Lee Brew
ster, Tip Saunders, “Aunt” Nancy
Saunders, Messrs. Petty and Bidg
way. At most of the places the oc
cupants were absent at the tme, and
returned to find their property in
ashes. The work is thought to have
been accomplished by two men who
rode horses. The horses were un
shod, and the tracks were quite ap
parent, leading from place to place.
It is thought the motive of the deed
was revenge and the people- so out
rageously wronged feel confident that
they know the identity of the crim
inals.
B. K. Anderson Caught.
A dispatch tolls of the arrest at
Hamilton, Mont., of B. K. Anderson,
alias B. A. Keith, said to be wanted
in this state. It is alleged that An
derson while telegraph operator and
express agent at Stuttgart, about Oc
tober 1, 1900, absconded with a pack
age of currency containing $8,000,
deserting his wife and two children.
Andersqn, it is alleged, went to Car
vallis, Mont., and invested $G,
000 in sheep, passing under the name
of B. A. Keith, lie bought an in
terest in a store and became promi
nent in social circles, and was en
gaged to tuarry a highly respected
voting lady.
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flew Bank
Articles were 11
of sfiifVs office 1
ing the Warren h
stock is $'15,000,
been subscribed.
W. T. Thompson, president; S. B.
Meek, vice president; John F. For
syth, secretary; H. G. Martin, cash
ier.
all
The officers' nr*
Wronged a Girl.
In circuit court at Van Buren
Chas. McLaughlin was convicted of
persuading a 1 (1-year-old girl to
elope with him and sentenced to
eighteen months in the peniten
tiary. It is claimed McLaughlin led
the girl to believe she was his legal
wife by having performed a mock
marriage.
Somewhat Sarcastic.
John Siegel, white, who escaped
from jail at Little Ilock about two
weeks ago, telegraphed the chief of
police of the above city from some
point in Mississippi that if he is
wanted when his trial comes up lie
will be in Alabama. He failed
to state at wluit place. Siegel was
charged with grand larceny.
Pete Ingram Found Dead.
Pete Ingram, a farmer, was found
dead in the calaboose at Plumcrv We.
The coroner’s jury decided that his”
death was due to overindulgence in
whisky. Ingrain about three years
ago, shot and killed John I. Hoss, a
well known traveling man, at Con
way. He was acquitted of t|le
charge of murder.
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