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(!. W. KRAMER, Editor
M'CKOKY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1901.
VOL. I.—NO. 11.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AN1) I'OLITICAI*
United States Ambassador White,
at Berlin, attaches great importance
to the news that some of the princi
pal German states will drop their
double tariff, as he believes this will
make the negotiation of the commer
cial treaty between the United States
and Germany much more likely.
On the 7th it was semi-oflicially an
nounced, in Berlin, that it had been
decided that the selection of Count
Von Waldersee’s successor as com
mander of the international forces
should be left to the commanders of
the international forces in China.
On the 7Ih Chief Justice Melville W.
Fuller of the United States supreme
court arrived in Chicago from Wash
ington. lie declined to discuss for
publication any of tin' national affairs
now occupying public attention.
On the 7th Count Goluehowski, the
Austro-IIungarian minister of for
eign affairs, informed an Austrian
deputation, that the government
could not entertain a suggestion of
mediation between Great Britain and
the Boers, because “No serious gov
ernment. would care to undertake
mediation after the British govern
ment, had declared that it would not
acept mediation, and that, an offer to
mediate would be regarded by Great
Britain as an unfriendly act.”
On the 7tli Mr. Broderick, the Brit
ish war secretary, replying to a ques
tion in the house of commons, re
garding the probability of an eirly
conclusion of peace in South Africa,
reaffirmed that the government would
not consent to discuss the future in
dependence of tlie conquered states
with the Boers.
On the 7tli Andrew Carnegie signed
a deed, in London, transferring $t0,
000,000 in five-per-cent. United States
Steel Corporation bonds to trustees
for the benefit of the universities of
Scotland. The fund becomes imme
diately available. The next install
ment, of interest can be used for the
October term.
MISCELLANEOUS.
For the third time the ease of Ne
braska against the bondsmen of lo
sepli Hartley, former state treasurer,
is on trial in the district court at Om
aha. Suit is brought to recover the
amount of Bartley's defalcation of
over six hundred thousand dollars.
The case has been tried twice previ
ously in the same court, and bolh of
the verdicts were set aside by the su
preme court on errors of the trial
court.
1’resident .Tns. 1). Boss, of the Rail
way Porters' association, has issued a
call for a meding of the executive
committee in Chicago, on the 20th, to
complete arrangements for the estab
lishment of a private hospital for col
ored men in the railway service. The
question of calling a national conven
tion before or after the national con
tention of 1 lie olored People’s Na
tional Business association will also
be considered.
The lord chamberlain, censor of
plays in England, has forbidden the
production of “The First Visit,” art
English version of 1 lie younger Du
mas’ “Une Visite de Noccs,” in which
the American actress. Beverly Sil
greaves, was to have played the lead
ing role.
On the 7th the secretary of the
treasury bought short-term bonds
for the sinking fund as follows: $725,
000 fours at 113.806, $75,000 fours, de
liverable on the 81 h, at 113.81; $14,
000 threes, at 108.8531. The total
amount purchased to date was $11,
257,990.
Following the agitation by the
German Colonial society in favor of
some modifications of the law of 1870,
under which thousands of Germans
abroad were denationalized without
any desire on their part for such a
result, the German government an
nounces that a new law is beingdraft
cd, by the terms of which Germans
abroad w ill lose their nationality only
by their own volition.
On the 7th, Frank Rutledge and
Fred Lee Rice, convicted or robbing
the post office and a private bank at
Aurora, Ont., were sentenced, at To
ronto, to 21 years in the Kingston
penitentiary. Upon being returned to
jail, Rutledge broke from the office;*
and plunged headlong from the jail
gallery to the paved floor, 30 feet be
low, and died of his injuries soon
The stiltement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the $150,000,000 gold reserve in the di
vision of redemption, issued 0:1 the
7th, showed: Available cash balance,
$165,606,423; gold, $96,304,177.
On the 0th the, Pabst Brewing Co.,
of Milwaukee, suffered a loss by hire,
to the extent of between $150,000 and
$200,000; fully covered by insurance.
One man v.as killed during Ihe prog
ress of the lire.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
A committee representing the stu
dents of the Kansas Wesleyan univer
sity, who are a unit in defense of Dr.
Frank D. Tubbs, professor of natural
science, dismissed because of alleged
heresy, issued a manifesto, On the 9th,
denouncing the board of trustees for
“duplicity and unfairness.” The in
coming junior and senior classes seem
determined to carry out their threat
to leave the university if the trustees
do not accede to their demands.
President Harper of the University
of Chicago announced, on the 9th,
that Hie university had begun to es
tablish affiliated preparatory schools
in different parts of Europe to give
opportunity to Ihe children of col
lege age whose parents arc traveling
abroad during the year to have the
benefits of foreign residence without
obstructing the progress of Ihe stud
ies.
Most elaborate arrangements have
been made for the twentieth inter
national convention of the Society of
Christian Endeavor in Cincinnati, on
July 6 to 10. As many were unable
to attend the convention in London
last year, a larger attendance than
usual is expected, especially since
these conventions hereafter will be
held only once in two years.
Oliver Crosier and Emil Bergdorf
were drowned in Summit lake, near
Akron, O., on the 9th. They, with
Michael Shay, were crossing the lake
in a boat, when Bergdorf began lo
rock it and the frail craft upset. Shay
crawled on top of the overturned
boat and made a desperate but fruit
less effort to save bis companions.
United States Senator Beveridge,
according to the St. Petersburg
correspondent of the London Daily
Mail, will not timl much difficulty in
securing from the llussian govern
ment a concession for a* steamship
line from the United States to \ ladi
vostock or Port Arthur.
The Chinese in Pekin express great
satisfaction at Hie announcement, of
ihe intention of the court to return
to Pekin in September. All tlie for
eign troops, with the exception of the
legation guards are expected to have
withdrawn by the middle of that
month.
Maj. W. 1L Daly surgeon general on
the staff of Lieut.-Gen. Miles in Porto
llico, committed suicide in Pitts
burgh, Pa., on the 9th, by shooting
himself in the right temple.
Tt is understood in Washington that
former President Kruger of the
Transvaal will not visit the United
States during the coining summer or
fall. At one time there was a pros
pect that Mr. Kruger might make
such a visit, but those having some
knowledge ot his intentions say the
visit will not he made, at least for
the present.
N. 1!. Carskadon, a prominent attor
ney of Kansas City, Mo., dropped dead
of heart disease on the 10th. lie was
horn at Kiser, \Y. ^ a., in 1860. At the
time of his death lie was acting as at
torney for Frank Rockefeller in his
ease against Frank Siegel, former
president of the defunct Siegel-San
ders Live Stock Co.
Judge Baker, in the district court
at Omaha.. Neb., on Ihe 10th, decided
that the statute known as the female
labor law of Nebraska, prohibiting
owners of manufacturing and me
chanical concerns, stores and shops
from working female employes more
than 60 hours a week, is constitution
al.
The United States gunboat Concord
left Yokohama, on the 10th, for Una
luska, where .she is to assist in en
forcing 1he liquor laws in that section
and otherwise take up the duties for
merly performed by the gunboat
Wheeling, which recently was put out
of commission.
Ur. August M. Unger and F. Way
land Ilrotvn, on trial in Chicago for
conspiracy to defraud insurance com
panies through the death of Miss
Marie Defenbach, were found guilty,
on the 10th, and sentenced to the
penitentiary under ihe indeterminate
act,
“Although the war drags its slow
length along,” says Consul-General
Stowe, at Cape Town, in a report to
the state department, “business has
been fairly good in the Uritish colon
ies, and the imports from the United
States have not fallen off in value.”
King Kdward appears to have de
cided to secure worthy pictorial illus
trations of the incidents of his reign,
lie lias commissioned Seymour Lucas
to paint a picture of the royal recep
tion of the Moorish embassy.
The state in the case of Lulu Prince
Kennedy, on trial at Kansas City, Mo.,
for murdering her husband, rested,
on tlie 10th, and court adjourned loi
the day.
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS,
The Cream I’lc tjnestlnn.
Edward Harrington, head waiter,
and Sam Peters, head cook of a prom*
incnt hotel in Texarkana, got into a
dispute as to the proper way to make
cream pie. The discussion got so
warm that the men used pistols, and
Peters was fatally wounded. Mean-j
while the great question remains uni
settled. There is no common ground
on which any two disputants can
stand in regard to the cream pie. It
always has been a wild, harum scarum
member of the culinary family, amen
able to no rules. Xo scientific formu
las can be applied to its creation.
There arc certain fixed, immutable
principles that serve as a basis for the
building of an apple pie, or a peach
or gooseberry, and even the mince
pie, some of which are teetotalers
and some are not; but the cream pie
is a law unto itself. In the first place,
there is no “cream” in it. It makes it3
way all the time under false pre
tenses. You can never tell the real
from the artificial in it. It is as
much a fraud, in its way, as the “lem
on pies” that were made by a cer
tain clever cook out of grated turnips
and citric acid. It is a matter of no
surprise that such an artificial career
as the cream pic has carried on should
eventually result, as deception so fre
quently results, in bloodshed. At the
next national convention of pastry
cooks the stains of the cream pie
should be clearly defined.
Mrs. Mary MnolMierson Dead.
Mrs. Mary ,T. MacPlierson Lauf, for
the last six years a resident of St.
Louis, died the other day of old age,
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Ida M. Moore, at Xo. 914 Xorth Grand
avenue, St. Louis. The remanis were
sent to Little Rock for burial. Mrs.
Lauf was 07 years old. She was a
widow. Iler husband was Col. Liiuf,
a well-known United States army offi
cer. Iler maiden name was MacPher
son, and she was born in Xorth Caro
lina, coining to Arkansas with her
family many years ago. She spent,
nearly all her life in or near Ti 1 tie
Rock. She was a strong believer in
Spiritualism, and her funeral serv
, ices were conducted by a member of
that sect.
1 seif n Knife in n Fight.
In ail altercation at Eureka Springs
Jack Bryant cut Charles Yrabaugh
with a knife, almost severing the car
otid artery. Twenty stitches were re
quired to close the wound, which ex
tended from ear to ear. The condition
of Yrabaugh, who is a son of a prom
inent citizen, is precarious. Bryant,
who is in jail, was recently released
after serving time for attempting to
cut another man’s throat.
George C. Christian Den«l.
George C. Christian, aged tit), died
at Eureka Springs, lie served two
years as mayor prior to April last,
and was attorney for the Citizens'
bank, street railway and electric
companies, lie was a prominent
member of the Knights of Pythias,
Freemasons and Eastern Star. He
had a national reputation as official
lecturer of then ational prohibitionist
party.
Kilgore Shot First,
Hardy Sherfield was shot and killed
at Hot. Spring's by George Kilgore.
Sherfield had sent Kilgore word that
he was coming down to his place ol
business and kill him on sight. Twc
hours later Sherfield entered Kil
gore's place of business, and com
menced to curse him. Kilgore dreM
a. revolver and fired three shots ni
close range.
“Coin” Harvey lla.s a Hod.
Says a dispatch from I.ittle Rock
to the St. Louis Republic: “Coin"
Harvey, who has become a citizen ol
Kenton county, is going to make the
lace for congress in the Third Ar
kansas district. Harvey has just conn
to the front also in a new role as pro
moter of an old-time fiddlers’ con
test to be given at Monte-A'e, on Jun«
20.
Two Weddings In Warren.
Two marriages took place in War.
ren the other day. In the morning J.
R. S. Week and Miss Mary Leia Wat
son were married at the Presbyterian
church, and in the evening D. W. Clem
ents and Miss Emma Denson were
married at the home of the bride.
The Wheat Yield.
Millers of soutliewestern Missour.
and northern Arkansas estimate thq
yield of the wheat crop, the harvest
of which is about to begin, at TO pel
cent, of a full crop.
Suicide of a Veteran.
(apt. S. E. Henson, a civil war vet-,
eran, who lived near Washington,
Hempstead county, committed sui*
cide by shooting through the head
with a pistol.
Killed by n Train.
James Hall, an employe of the Kan
sas City Southern railroad, was
struck and instantly killed by a. Fris
co train, just outside the Fort Smith
city limits.
lion ry-McFaden.
Miss Della McFadden and Frank
Be ary were married at the First Pres
byterian chureli, Pine Bluff, Dr. J. L
Caldwell officiating. Both well known.
A Published Report Regarding Queen
Wilhelmina’s Recent Visit
to Germany.
IN THE INTEREST OF PEACE IN AFRICA.
Ao Nctcii of n. MectliiK Between Gen.
Kitchener nnd Gen. Jlothn Ilc
ceived at the British War Office—
The Boer Lom«e» in May—Kruger
and I.eydM at The Ilaaue.
• Berlin. June 11.—The Kleines Jour
nal prints a dispatch from The Hague
saying that Queen Wilhelmina’s re
cent visit here was meant
to obtain Emperor William’s con
sent to end the South African war,
both the zweibund and the dreibund
being willing to do so, through The
Hague arbitration court, and that the
emperor consented and the court be
gan work thereon. The dispatch has
created a sensation here.
An Authorized Statement.
The following foreign office state
ment is authorized by Count Buelow,
the impelial chancellor:
•‘.Neither Great Britain, France, not
liussia ever approached Germany to
participate in any' action aiming at
ending the South African war. Ger
many' has all along distinguished be
tween offering her good offices and
intervention. To render her good of
fices would be possible if both par
ties to the war requested it; but it
will be remembered that Great Brit
ain only joined The Hague confer
ence on condition that the Boer states
were excluded. There is no doubt
that Mr. Kruger, who is a serious
statesmen, came to Europe to obtain
the good offices of several of the pow
ers to end the war; but there is also
no doubt that Great Britain docs not
want their good offices. At least, it
is true that since the South African
war began, Great Britain has never,
either verbally or in writing, confi
dentially or officially, broached such
i. an idea. It is quite possible that the.
Boer side has now formally' asked
The Hague arbitration court to lend
its aid to end the war somehow, and
that the court has held a session re
garding the matter; but that, of
course, is entirely different from any
serious steps to end the war.”
KITCHENER A\D BOTIIA.
No \nvs of Their Having Met, m
Reported, ut Standerton.
New York, June 11.—A dispatch to
the Tribune from London says:
The war office authorities say they
have received no news of a meeting
between Gen. Kitchener and Gen. Bo
tha near Standerton, last Wednesday,
and the report of a tentative settle
ment between the British and Boer
commanders is consequently discred
ited in official quarters. Mrs. Botha’s
arrival in London has, nevertheless,
revived peace rumors to which pub
licity lias been given on several occa
sions recently. It is impossible to
say exactly what is gonig on, but the
general opinion is that there must be
some foundation for the rumors. Mrs.
Botha's visit is still shrouded in se
crecy, and although, it is frequently
said that she is on a peace mission,
no definite information on this point
is obtainable at present.
Consensus of Opinion.
On the whole, the opinion of the
newspapers is that Mrs. Botha’s visit
to Mr. Kruger can at best exercise
but an indirect influence upon future
peace negotiations so long as the
Boers persist in holding out for bet
ter terms than were offered at Mid
dleburg. There does not seem the
slightest ground for the statement
vhieh appeared in the Weekly Dis
patch that Mrs. Botha was received
on Saturday at the colonial office,
then by Lord Robeits, at the war of
fice. and afterward by Mr. Broderick.
Meanwhile, the war news continues
inconclusive.
Gen. Blood’s operations in the east
ern Transvaal have apparently come
to an end, and can not be called de
cisive.
REPORT OF BOER LOSSES.
They Are tlradually Being Despoiled
of Men nml Material.
London, June 11.—Lord Kitchener,
in a dispatch from Pretoria, under
Monday’s date, says the number of
Boers killed, imprisoned or surren
dered the last month totaled 2,040.
From June 1 to June 9, 26 Boers were
killed, four wounded, 409 were made
prisoners and 33 surrendered, and 051
rifles, 115,550 rounds of ammunition,
120 wagons and 4,000 horses were cap
tured. ,•
Krnger and Loyds at The Hague.
The Hague, June 11.—Mr. Kruger
and Dr. Leyds have arrived here.
They drove from the railroad station
at Ililversum junction in a closed car
riage, and are staying at the resi
dence of Air. Wolmarans, one of the
Boer peace envoys.
SUPREME COURT’S DECISION
It Is a Complete Straddle from the
View of the Ordinary
Layman.
to a layman the decision of the
supreme court in the Porto Rican
cases is rather wobbly and presents
some rather curious anomalies. The
constitution does follow the flag, and
then again it does not stay with it.
The island is territory of the United
States, and yet the people there have
no free trade with the country to
which they belong. Then again they
decide that vessels trading with the
island are in the coastwise trade of
the United States, and yet when they
ship any goods by these coastwise
vessels they cannot land them in any
of our ports without paying a tariff
duty on the same. Vet the goods they
shipped here prior to the passage of
the Foraker act should not have paid
duty, and it must be refunded to
those who paid it.
There is only one clear matter
about the decisions—that congress
has the sole right to legislate as it
pleases for these territories. Other
wise, if President McKinley had him
self written the decisions they could
not have been a more complete strad
dle, from the view of an ordinary lay
man. No doubt the lawyers will un
derstand the exact status in time.
That the court itself was not very
clear about some of the points at
issue can be seen by the remarks of
one of the justices, who taunts his
brother judges with reversing them
selves on one of the nine cases. Jus
tice Harlan, one of the four minority
SOVEREIGNTY OF PRESIDENT,
Probable Coarse of McKinley Re
garding file Philippines Since
the Supreme Conrt Decision.
The supreme court decision on the
Porto ltico cases made consilerable
flutter on the president’s train, ac
cording to the correspondent of the
Washington Post, who accompanied
the party on the trip. He forecasts
the action of the administration to
meet t lie new conditions in the Phil
ippines brought about by the decision
as follows:
“The president will probably issue
an order applying solely to the Phil
ippines, imposing upon goods export
ed from these islands to the United
States a rate of duty equal to the
tariff imposed by the llingley law
upon the same articles entering the
United States. This, it is believed,
will close the door by a method cer
tain to be sustained by the supreme,
court if a lest ease should be brought
before that tribunal for decision.”
Some consideration was given to
the question whether the president
had the power under the Spooner
act to impose a duty in this country
upon articles imported from the Phil
ippines. The general opinion was
that grave doubt existed as to wheth
er he possessed the power, and it
seemed to be accepted that the ex
port duty plan offered the most feasi
ble solution. The importance of
speedy action was emphasized, in
view of the fact that if the matter
is left unsettled until congress meets
next December there will be very
large importations from the Philip
The Constitution Doesn’t Follow the Flag—It Belongs to Congress.
judges, said: “I reject altogether the
theory that congress, in its discre- !
tion, can exclude the constitution
from a territory which we have held [
to be a ‘domestic territory of the j
United States,’ acquired, and which
could only have been acquired, in
virtue of the constitution. I cannot
agree that it is a domestic territory
of the United States for the purpose
of preventing the application of the
Dingley tariff act imposing duties up
on imports from foreign countries,
but not a domestic territory and part
of the United States for the purpose
of enforcing the constitutional re
quirement that ‘all duties, imposts
and excises’ imposed by congress
‘shall be uniform throughout the
United States.’ 1 do not understand
how Porto Rico can be a domestic
territory of the United States, as
we have distinctly held in De Lima vs.
Bid well, and yet that it is not, as is
now held, embraced by the words
‘throughout the United States.’ The
‘expanding future of our country,’ jus
tifying the belief that the United
States is to become what is called a
‘world power’—of which so much was
heard at the argument—does not jus
tify any such juggling with the words
of the constitution as would author
lire the courts to hold that the words
‘throughout the United States,’ in the
taxing clause of the constitution, do
not embrace a ‘territory of the Unit
ed States.’ This is a distinction which
1 am unable to make, and which 1 do
not think ought to be made when
we are endeavoring to ascertain the
meaning of a great instrument of
government.”
POINTS AND OPINIONS.
-The trusts declare that free
trade will have little or no effect
upon them, but they do not want the
tariffs abolished just the same.—In
dianapolis News (Ind.).
-Sooner or later there in sure to
be. a reaction toward the safe and
conservative construction of the con
stitution which was voiced by the
tirst supreme court bench and which
has been believed in by the people
down to the era of McKinley and
Hanna.—Buffalo Times.
-The short of the matter is that
under free trade and free navigation
on the great lakes American trade
follows the American flag, while un
der a tariff-taxed and red-tape trade
and navigation on the high seas
American trade follows the rag of
any oil foreign country.—St. Paul
Globe.
pines without the payment of duty.
In addition to this, it was realized
that the exporters of Chinese tea,
which pays ten cents a pound duty,
and Chinese silks, which are also sub
jected to a high tariff, wrould send
their goods to the Philippines, pay
ing the slight duty exacted there, and
then have them forwarded to the
United States, where they would be
entered without additional cost. Jap
anese and oriental goods of all de
scriptions could also enter the Unit
ed States by the roundabout but eco
nomical route.
From Ibis it will be seen that the
triumph of imperialism also has its
trials and tribulations, and the end
is not yet.
POOR PORTO RICO.
Dejection of the Islninlers Under
the Oppression of Im
perialism.
The news from Porto liico says
that the merchants there are de
jected since they heard that they
have no rig’hts under the constitution
and can be taxed to suit the pleasure
of an American republican congress.
One of them says when the Hollander
bill comes into full force July 1 we
will be under practically double tax
ation. The cheerful news, however, is
given in the same Associated Press
dispatch that “Ciov. Allen is giving his
earnest consideration to the practica
bility of securing at an early date
free trade relations between Porto
Rico and Germany.” Is that to be
the end of our colonial system, free
trade with all Hie world but the
United States? But perhaps this is
necessary to protect the sugar and
tobacco trusts. No wonder the is
landers are dejected, but they must
cheer up. When the democrats con
trol congress they will deal with them
more righteously, and the day is not
far distant, or all political signs fail.
-Not William of Germany, Nich
olas of Russia nor Kdward of England
has a freer hand in.the ruling of sub
ject colonies than has Air. McKinley.
As long as a president can control
congress with patronage he can be a
dictator in the colonies. The conse
quent peril is far greater to us than
to the Porto Ricans or to the Fili
pinos. When we deny equal rights to
any American citizen of the present
we lay the foundation for the denial
of rights to all American citizens of
the future if such denial shall be to
the interest of a dominant and des
perate party.—St. Louis KepOiic.