VOL. II.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1902
NO. 1.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Civil war is threatened in Mace
donia.
A strike of cotton mill operators
involving ten thousand people is
threatened in Georgia.
The prospect of canal legislation
during the present session lias be
come exceedingly remote.
All hopes of passing the ship sub
sidy hill at this session of congress
have been abandoned by the friends
of the measure.
Fire at Atlantic City, N. J., de
stroyed twelve hotels and a number
of smaller buildings. The loss is
placed at $750,000.
James R. Goddard, the man who
located Booth, assassin of President
Lincoln, died at his home in Marl
borough, Mass., last week.
A. T. Patrick, convicted murder
er of Millionaire Rice, was married
in his cell in New York City on the
1st to Mrs. Addie Francis, his form
er landlady.
A passenger train on the Great
Northern was snow-bound from
March 28 to April 2 on the prairie
in North Dakota. There was much
suffering among the passengers
many of whom are seriously ill from
the exposure.
Chicago and Kansas City pack
ers have advanced the price of dress
ed beef 1 cent per pound. An ordina
ry steak now costs the consumer
about 30 cents, while enough choice
meat for a meal for a family of
four will cost 50 cents.
W, H, Lane, a negro, shot and
killed Mrs. E. J. Furbush and her
12-vear-old daughter at their home
in a fashionable suburb of Phila
delphia, Pa. Mrs. Furbush was
quite wealthy and maintained a mag
nificent residence. Lane was her
butler. He was caught stealing
from his employer and says he com
mitted the two crimes to escape ar
rest. Lane also attempted to mur
der Mrs. Furbush's 7-year-old
daughter.
Charles M. Dickinson, of New
York, United States diplomatic
agent at Solia, Bulgaria, has been
declared persona non grata by the
Bulgarian government on account
of his attitude in the case of Miss
Ellen M. Stone, the American mis
sionary, who was abducted by Mace
donian political and religious en
thusiasts. Mr. Dickinson is now in
Constantinople. In view of the
declaration of Bulgaria, this gov
ernment is obliged to consider his
position at Sofia as vacant.
An explosion of gas occurred in
the Nelson mine at Dayton, Tenn.,
igniting the dry coal dust in the
mine and causing a second explo
sion. Twenty-twe men are known
to have been killed and many more
injured. The bodies of the dead
miners were torn and mangled in a
terrible manner. The explosion was
caused by a defective fuse. In 1889
a similar explosion occurred in this
mine, four men being killed, and
in 1895 an explosion of mine dust
occurred in which twenty-eight men
perished. The last disaster occur
red after the men had quit work,
but all of them had not left the
mine.
Under the name of the allied peo
ple's party of the United States, a
new political organization was form
ed at Louisville last week, composed
of reform elements, opposed to the
democratic and republican parties.
The platform of the new organiza
tion embodies the platform adopted
at the conference held in Kansas
.City last September, when a call for
a convention was issued, “to unite
reform forces against plutocracy.”
It reaffirms the spirit of the decla
ration of principles adopted at the
national convention of the people’s
party in St. Louis, Omaha and Cin
cinnati, and the demand for the ini
tiative and referendum and the gov
ernment ownership of all public
utilities arc the principal planks.
Eire destroyed $:!50,000 in prop
erty at Guthrie, Okla., includ
ing the Capitol Printing plant, the
Hotel Capitol, St. James hotel, Cam
jneck livery barns and the Rechey
merchandise store..
The .state encampment of the G.
A. R. will be held at Siloam Spring
May 14.
An average of 70,000 deaths per
month are reported in India from
Bubonic plague.
James R. Garfield, son of the
late president, has accepted the po
sition of civil service commissioner.
Hon. J. M. Griggs, of Georgia,
has been chosen as chairman of the
national democratic congressional
committee.'
The handsome residence of Gabe
Meyer at Pine Bluff was destroyed
by fire. Loss $15,000, with $10,000
insurance.
Hon. C. F. Greenlee, of Brinkley,
has been appointed a member of the
state hoard of charities, vice Ed
Barton, resigned.
The magnificent CatholiG church
at Evansville, Ind., was struck by
lightning. The structure took fire
and was completely destroyed.
A mob of four thousand people
took \Valter_Allen, an alleged negro
rapist from jail at Rome, Ga., and
hanged him to a telephone pole.
The civil service commission will
shortly institute a system of annual
examinations of its employes, which,
if proven practicable, is designed to
be extended to all branches of the
government service. These exami
nations will bo required of all, re
gardless of whether they are seeking
promotion or not, and the employes
will be reduced in grade and pay if
they fail to score 76 per cent in the
examination.
The packers of Kansas City an
nounce that hereafter the price of
beef to retailers in that city will
be 11 cents. Retailers say that
means 18 cents for round steak, 25
cents for sirloin and 35 cents for
porterhouse.
(’Inis. Woodward, white, convicted
of murder and granted a reprieve to
enable his attorney to take an appeal
to the supreme court, was taken
from jail at Casper, Wyo., by twen
ty-four masked men and hanged on
the scaffold erected for his legal exe
cution.
The Cnited States steel corpora
tion has completed the first twelve
months of its existence. The net
earnings of the corporation for the
twelve months were over $115,000,
000. which is ample to pay the divi
dends and pile up a substantial
surplus.
Efforts arc being made by the
(frinds of Estes G. Rathbonc to se
cure a pardon for him from the sen
tence of the Havana court. Senator
Hanna lias requested the president
to issue a pardon for Rathbone, but
this the latter has declined to do.
The president, however, has prom
ised to send for the papers in the
case, and have them thoroughly re
viewed. It is stated that unless he
finds something radically wrong he
will allow the verdict to stand.
W m. H. Lane, the negro servant,
who, on the 1st inst., murdered
Ella J. Jarden and her daughter,
Madeline, at Philadelphia, and so
badly wounded another daughter
that she died, was convicted of
murder in the first degree on the
5th after a trial lasting- less than
one and one-half hours. Lane
pleaded guilty. Because of his plea
of guilty no jury was drawn and
only three witnesses were called for
the purpose of determining the de
gree of murder.
Reports from all the national
banks of the country, received by
the comptroller of the currency,
show that on March 25 the total re
sources of these institutions—4,357
in number—amounted to $5,843,
048,720. The total deposits of in
dividuals in the banks are $2,982,
489,300, an increase of more than
$400,000,000 since February 5 of
last year and of more than $120,
900,000 since the reports of about
two months before the last call.
The capital stock of the hanks has
increased from $640,778,600 a year
ago to $667,381,231. Since Decem
ber the loans and discounts of the
banks have increased bv about $90,
900,000.
NEWS OF ARKANSAS.
The Lucky Candidates.
The results in the democratic pri
maries show a majority for Gov.
Clarke for United States senator of
ten votes on joint ballot. Gov. Da
vis carried sixty-nine counties. For
land commissioner, Hon. F. B. Con
way, of Pulaski, defeated Mr. Padg
ett.- The race for associate justice
will be settled in convention. Judge
Battle leads in the instructions,
Judge Martin second, Judge Wal
lace third. Hon. H. T. Bradford,
of Lonoke, defeated Col. McHenry
for commissioner of mines, etc.
For railroad commissioner, in the
northeast district Judge J. Wr. Phil
lips defeated Hon. F. M. Hanley, in
the southern district Hon. J. E.
Hampton defeated Hon. Abner
Gaines, and Judge B. B. Hudgins
defeated Hon. C. D. James in the
northwest district. The contest for
congress in the first district will
have to be settled in convention,
Messrs. Parrish, Macon and Taylor,
being the aspirants. In the second
district Congressman Brundidge de
feated Judge McCaleb and Thorn
berry Gray. Judge Little and Hon.
Chas. C. Reid had no opposition in
the fourth and fifth districts, re
spectively. In the sixth Hon. Joe
T. Robinson defeated Hon. S. M.
Taylor and Hon. R. M. W'allace will
be the nominee in the seventh.
Aside from associate justice, gov
ernor, land commissioner and com
missioner of agriculture and rail
road commissioner, there were no
opposing candidates for state ofii
cers.
Suspected Bank Robber Escapes.
John P. Dunn, charged with the
murder of Sheriff Powell and the
robbery of the bank at Clarksville,
escaped from the county hospital at
Wichita, Kas., on the 2d. Dunn
was confined in the hospital, suffer
ing from a bullet wound supposed
to have been received in battle with
Sheriff Powell. The authorities of
this state offered a reward of $1,000
for the arrest and conviction of each
of the bank robbers. Shortly after
the crime was committed Dunn was
received at the hospital in Wichita.
He refused at first to give his name,
and told conflicting stories as to
how lie received the wound. The
authorities investigated, and secur
ed sufficient evidence to connect him
with the crime committed at Clarks
ville. Gov. Davis made requisition
on the governor of Kansas for the
prisoner, who would have been re
turned to this state as soon as his
wound permitted of his travel
ing. It is believed the man suc
ceeded in bribing the guards, and
by the aid of a friend who secured
admission to the hospital, his es
cape was made easy. The governor
and attorney general of Kansas will
investigate and some officials of
Wichita may be held responsible for
allowing the man to gain his liber
ty. Gov. Stanley has offered an
additional reward for Dunn's cap
ture.
Hendrix Won.
The third annual Ouachita-Hen
drix college oratorical contest took
place at Conway on the night of
March 31, 250 Ouachita students
making the trip from Arkadelphia
in a special train. The subject of
the debate was: “Resolved, That
municipalities in the United States
should own and operate plants for
supplying light and water.” Hen
drix championed the affirmative
side of the question. The contest
ants were J. Bruce Cox and M. E.
Dunnaway for Hendrix, in the af
firmative, and J. E. Lawless and C.
E. Condrav for Ouic-hita, in the neg
ative. The judges, Hon. Jacob
Trieber. Col. J. M. Moore and Judge
John II. Rogers, decided iu favor
of Hendrix.
Wife’s Presence Betrayed Him.
M. X. Johnson, formerly a prom-*
inent business man of Anderson,
Ind., and who is wanted at the above
place on a charge of issuing forged
papers to the amount of $100,000,
was arrested at a hotel in Hot
Springs. Johnson was confined to
his room from a serious illness, and
his wife's presence to nurse him led
to his identity.
Our Zinc Mines.
In an interview with a Washing
ton. I). reporter Benjamin Kel
ler, of Lafayette, speaks enthusias
tically of the prospect for the devel
opment of the mineral resources of
this state. “The zinc mines of Ar
kansas,’’ said Mr. Keller, “have been
among the best paying industries of
the state of Arkansas for many
years past and the recent discover
ies of gold and copper will have the
effect of greatly increasing the value
of the mineral output of the state.
As 1 understand it, and 1 have re
ceived my information from one of
the mine owners, the ore that is be
ing mined will yield $10 per ton in
gold and about the same in copper.
Of course, this is not a great yield,
but as it will only cost about $1.25
per ton to mine the ore, it can read
ily be seen that the mines will pay.
It seems that the discovery of the
value of the ore was made in this
city. A quantity was sent to one of
the mine owners who resides here,
and for some reason or other he took
a piece of the rock to an assayer.
The discovery of gold was made
during the test, and since then fab
ulous prices have been offered for
some of the zinc mines. One man.
who paid $25,000 for a piece of
mining land only a few months ago,
was offered $250,000 for it just a
few days after. The mines are all
controlled by rich corporations, how
ever, and it is not probable that
there will be any rush to uncover
new Ivlondikes by penniless miners
and prospectors.”
Land Offices’ Business.
The quarterly report of State
Land Commissioner J. \Y. Colquitt
for the quarter ending March 31
has been tiled with the governor as
follows:
Fees, $2,170.40.
Swamp land sold, 1,437.45 acres,
$1,796.82.
Internal improvement land sold,
470.73 acres, $588.41.
Saline land sold, 200 acres, $250.
Heal Estate Bank land sold,
198.5 acres, $600.
Forfeited land sold, 9,823.26
acres, $12,279.10.
Forfeited land redeemed, 6,337.12
acres, $1,228.28.
Forfeited town lots sold, $114.75.
Forfeited land donated, 12,235.
75 acres.
Forfeited land deeded to actual
settlers, 11,383.77 acres.
Total, 42,586.58 acres, $19,027.
76.
Recapitulation—Currency, $16,
118.91; county scrip, $2,908.85; to
tal funds, $19,'027.76.
The Oldest Citizen.
Independence county claims to
have the oldest citizen in
the state. His name is Uncle Billy
Hooper, who was born January 16,
1804, and is now in his 99th year, lie
has been in Independence county
longer than the oldest settler can
remember. He was a chain carrier
when that country was being sec
tion i zed. He was a resident of Bates
vi lie in 1844, when, in that year,
lie made a trip to Little Rock on
horseback, taking a large sum of
money with him from the land office
at Batesville to Little Rock, wear
ing his coon-skin cap and coat and
taking along his long range, flint
lock rifle. At that time there were
only three houses between Batesville
and Little Rock.
Discharged the Boss.
J. H. Farmer, night foreman of
the Iron Mountain shops at Little
Rock for two weeks, was summarily
dismissed by the men under him
who objected to the treatment lie
gave them. The employes went to
Farmer in a body, led him from the
shbps and told him never to return.
He took them at their word and
left the city on the first train. It
is j claimed he used very abusive
language to the men in giving his
orders.
Change in State Guard.
Col. L. Minor, of Newport, has
resigned as brigadier general of the
Arkansas state guard and reserve
militia for the northern division of
Arkansas, and J. R. Mayhan, of
Xawport, has been appointed in his
shjad.
State Treasurer’ll Report.
Below is the quarterly statement
nf balances in the state treasury:
Currency .$ 479,255 45
County scrip . 11,864 47
City scrip . 65 73
Auditor's certificates. 549 50
Cow .lories' notes .. 103.915 95
3 per cent bonds .... 1,21.8,500 00
3 per cent bond cou
pons . 1,023,540 00
Total .$2,837,691 10
The state university has an in
vestment of $100,000 in 3 per cent
bonds. There is now in the state
capitol fund $126,782.02.
Gen. Clayton in Washington.
Gen. Powell Clayton passed
through Little Rock on the 1st inst.
en route to Washington to answer
charges preferred against his ofii
eial conduct as ambassador to Mex
ico. Gen. Clayton's friends claim
that he will have no trouble in con
vincing the administration that the
charges are not well founded. A
matter that has lent color to rumors
that Gen. Clayton is to lie removed
is a statement sent out from Wash
ington to the effect that Hon. Clay
Evans is to he tendered the Mexican
diplomatic post.
Masked Robbers.
An attempt was made by masked
men on the night of the 3d to rob
the Cotton Belt depot at Claren
don. The robbers fired six shots
at the agent, who ran to the "phone
in his office and notified the officers.
The robbers succeeded in making
thear escape, ^
BRIEF MENTION.
Ed Barton, of Searcy, member of
tiie state board of charitable insti
tutions from the sixth district, has
resigned.
W. W. Meacham, manager of a
plantation near Laconia, killed a ne
gro tenant named Ade Burden and
was hitnself badly wounded in the
fight.
At Tomberlin, Lonoke county,
Tom Belcher struck Ben Hickman
with a stick of stove wood, from the
effects of which Hickman died.
A political quarrel led to the trag
edy.
C. C. Nelson, the bigamist, who
confesses to having three living
wives, one in this state, was con
victed on one charge at St. Joseph,
Mo., and sentenced to three years
in the penitentiary.
Bud Mitchell, colored, was shot
and fatally wounded at Morrilton by
J. E. Gordon, an officer. Gordon
attempted to arrest Mitchell, who
resisted and was getting the best of
the officer when he tired.
W. J. Ashworth surrendered to
the sheriff at Clarendon, stating that
he had killed Ace Willbanks. Both
men were camped on White river, a
few miles below Clarendon. Ash
worth says lie acted in self-defense.
The late John P. Altgeld, of Ill
inois, is said to have left practic
ally no estate at all, even his home
being heavily mortgaged. Friends
have started a subscription for his
widow. Altgeld. before entering
politics, was quite wealthy.
Physician Not a Bit Disconcerted by th«
Lawyer’s Questions.
There is a certain brilliant young
lawyer in Brooklyn, with a reputation
for ability in “rattling-’ witnesses,
who had the tables neatly turned on
him in a damage suit the other day.
A prominent Heights physician testi
fied as to the character of the injuries
sustained, by the plaintiff, and the
young lawyer was seeking to ridicule
his testimony. The physician had
said that the plaintiff’s brain and
spinal cord had been injured and that,
the injury to the brain was manifested
by an increased knee jerk.
“Now, see here, doctor,” said the
lawyer, going through a series of phy
sical contortions, chiefly with hia
knees, “what does this increased knee
jerk of mine show?”
“Well,” said the doctor, slowly,
“taking your exhibition of yourself
before the jury and this knee jerk,
I should say that you were suffering
from serious brain trouble.”—N. Y.
Times.
NEVER HAD A CHANCE.
At Least Most Victims of Misfortune*
Think They Never Have.
Probably nine out of ten men past
middle life, if asked how it happens
that they are to-day only barely earn
ing their living, would tell you that
they "never had a chance,” says 0. IS.
Marden, in Success, that they were
kept back, that circumstances were
against them, that they had no op
portunities. such as other boys around
them had, or that they did not have
the proper schooling, or else plead
some similar excuse.
The probabilities are that oppor
tunity did visit every one of these men
more than once in their youth or early
manhood, but that they did not.see
that all good chances consisted in do
ing everything they undertook cheer
fully. promptly and just as well as it
could be done.
As boys they did not look upon ev
ery errand as a chance to be polite,
prompt, energetic; on every lesson in
school as a foundation stone in their
success-structure. They did not
not think that the demoralizinghours
of indolence and shiftlessness which
they were weaving into the web of
their lives would mar the fabric for
ever. and reproach them through all
time. They did not realize that the
impudent reply to their employer,
the carelessness >and indifference
which they slipped into their tasks,
would come out as ghosts, in the fu
ture, to mar their happiness and suc
cess. They looked upon every duty
shirked, the minutes they cut off front
each end of a day. as so much gain.
t They did nor realize that these things,
which seemed so innocent, would grow
into giant defects which would mar
their future success.
1 They did not think that their slip
shod nifrtlibds, their careless attife,'
and their aggressive manners, would
lie as great bars across the path of
their future success, and keep them
back from the goal of their ambitions.
They do not think that all these
things were the real causes of their
being fixtures at salaries of $10 or$15
a week.
They did not think that these seem
ing trifles in youth would doom, them
to be perpetual janitors, clerks, or
farm hands, and that it would be al
most impossible in maturity to out
grow the defects of their youth.
INSANITY IN ANCIENT TIMES.
Early References to Abnormal Mental
Conditions—Music as a Cure.
The earliest known historical ref
erence to insanity, says the Popular
Science Monthly, occurs in Egypt
papyri of the fifteenth century B. C.
In one of these, according to Mahaffy,
music is spoken of as employed in the
treatment of insanity, and many for
mulae are given for the cure of dis
eases caused by an evil spirit dwelling
within the body. Probably the next
earliest record is that found in He
brew history, referring to the same
therapeutic agent, this time used to
calm the troubled spirit of Saul (1055
B. C.). In the first book of Samuel
we read: "When the evil spirit was
upon Saul, that David took a harp
and played with his hand; so Saul
was refreshed and was well and the
evil spirit departed from him.” The
legendary history of Greece affords
numerous instances of madness, but
as to the treatment in these early,
times there is only eloquent silence.
The belief in demoniacal possession
was prevalent amongall primitive peo
ples. furnishing a clew for such treat
ment as was anywhere attempted, and
this belief, giving way a few centuries
later to a partial realization of the
physical basis of insanity in the best
medical minds, recurs again in the
darkness and decadence of the middle
ages, but magnified and rendered ter
rible by the ignorance and gross super
stitions of the time. In ancient Egypt,
demons were exorcised and lunatics
purified in temples dedicated to Sat
urn. The god Khons is said to have
answered prayers for the cure of an
Asiatic princess. The priests of
Egypt, who were also physicians of
the day, were not unmindfuTof the
benefit of hygienic measures, and com
bined with them the charm of music
and the influence of the beautiful in
nature and in art.
Come Singly If at All.
Great thoughts seldom come is
bunches.—Chicago Daily News.