Woodrukk Emmty News.
VOL. VII.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1908.
NO. 51.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE latest news of the
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
north, east, south, west
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Na
tion. and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.
Ten million dollars, in round figures
out of a total of $18,000,000 put up by
investors for the bankrupt Chicago &
Milwaukee Electric Railway Co., has
gone into something else besides con
struction, according to reports of
certified accountants to the receivers
appointed by Federal Judge Grosscup.
The Boston Herald has announced
the abolition if its comic Sunday sup
plement, declaring that the •'funny
1 side" which delight the children have
outlived their day.
For the first time in history of the
wireless a steamer between San Fran
cisco and Honolulu has been in com
munication with both stations at the
same time. This took place aboard
the steamer Lurifie of the Matson
Navigation Co., which talked at the
same time to both ports when 1400
miles out of San Francisco bound for
Honolulu.
The abdication of Abdul Hamid,
Sultan of Turkey, either forced or
voluntary, is expected in the immedi
ate future by the Russian govern
ment.
David H. Andrews, president of the
Boston Bridge Works, and Charles N.
Fitz, head of the New England
Structural company, were fined $1000
each after pleading guilty to indict
ment of conspiracy by means of col
lusive bids to mulct the city of Boston
in securing contracts.
Wall street believes that Daniel J.
Sully, Jesse Livermore and Theodore
H. Price, who manipulated the great
cotton corner several years ago, are
leading a cotton pool and forcing up
the price of the commodity. Cotton
has advanced 9 points since the so
called pool is supposed to have been
formed.
One of the most important post
election events that official circles
in Washington are interested in is the
launching of North Dakota, the big
gest battleship in the United States
Navy, if not in the world. The vessel I
will be la”nched November 10 at |
Quincy, Mass.
Mrs. Cora Hinkle, who has been con
fined in the jail at Benton, Mo., since
February last, charged with giving
her husband poison with fatal results
has confessed the deed.
The motor of Wilbur Wright's re
cord-breaking aeroplane exploded
while he was making a short iliglit.
Wright was unhurt. The motor had
been acting badly for several days.
The Duluth Limited on the Chicago,
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha rail
road, was wrecked near Kempton,
Wis. The engine and all of the eight
cars, save the last two on the train,
were derailed and overturned. No
one was killed though 10 passengers
were more or less seriously injured.
William Randolph Hearst, father
of the Independence party, and five
of his lieutenants in the new political
movement, were made defendants in
a suit filed in the Marion (Ind.)
superior court, by Henry W. Bullock
of Indianapolis for $700 wages, Bul
lock sets forth that he performed
work for Hearst and his associates by
circulating petitions.
The last vestige of the Balkan war
cloud has disappeared as the result
of the yielding of Austria-Hungary
and Bulgaria to the proposals laid
down in the tentative program for the
international conference, announce
ments of which are expected to be re
ceived soon by the various Eureopean
chancelleries.
Charged - with conducting the most
extensive matrimonial agency swindle
ever unearthed in Pittsburg, Janies L.
Leclaire and Miss Lena Miller are
prisoners. More than 2000 letters
from men and women and about 500
photographs have been confiscated by
the police. The police say that close
to 5000 men and women, representing
every state in the Union, have each
paid $i after being promised to be in
troduced and wedded to an affinity.
While 0,000 feet iu tlie air the
Parseval dirigible balloon met with
an accident and dropped to the
ground, causing great damage to the
apparatus with which the balloon
was equipped. Maj. Perseval and his
assistant were badly shaken up by the
fall. The bursting of the compart
ment forming the tail of the ship,
caused the accident.
Silas C. McFarland, consul general
at large and inspector of consulates
for Europe, shot and killed himelf on
a railway train between Hamburg and
Berlin. The state deiartment was ad
vised of his death by Consul General
Thackeray, at Berlin.
The National Executive Board of
he United Mine Workers of America
ms removed from office ail the of
ficers of District 11, the Indiana dis
trict. However, the announcement of
he removal is held up pending the
•esult of a restraining order that the
officers of the district obtained
igainst the National board and which
will not be disposed of until Nov. 9.
One woman fatally hurt, one fire
nan with fractured limbs and internal
njuries, and 50 men and women burn
ad and maimed was the fearful toll
aken by a blast of fire in the 10-story
N'eave building at Fourth and Race
streets Cincinnati. The tragedies were
anacted in sight of a frenzied crowd
of thousands.
The finding of the headless body of
i white man in the hills back of Cov
ington, Ky., has resulted in the arrest
it Harrodsburg, Ky., of Farris Simp
3011, barber. The body had lain in a
forest for weeks, the head rolling into
a ravine. The dead man has been
identified as a mustered-out soldier
named Noble, who was in Covington
two months ago in company with
Simpson.
Fierce forest fires are raging in
Ballard, Hickman and Carlisle
Counties, Ky., and have spread across
the line into Obion County, Tenn. Al
ready three houses occupied by ten
ants on Dr. N. G. Morris’ place, near
Fulton, Ky., and other buildings have
been destroyed.
The wave of prohibition sweeping
over Ohio has already rendered thirty
seven out of the eighty-eight counties
in Ohio dry as a bone, according to
a statement issued by the Anti-Saloon
League.
Fire destroyed the general store
and warehouse of Saemann-Loebs
Knickle company at Campbellsport,
VVis., Loss, $60,000.
Bulgaria has sent an ultimatum to
Servia that the latter’s edict expelling
Bulgarians from Servia must be re
?arians already expelled must be al
lowed to return and must be indemni
fied for the treatment accorded them.
While me London suffragettes, as
they disappear behind the prison
walls, still stoutly declare that they
will resume the program of violence
as soon as they have served their sen
tences, their French sisters continue
riuietly to accomplish fresh stages of
their extensive scheme of a peaceful
revolution in woman's position. It
was due to a tranquil siege of several
members of the chamber of deputies
by their own wives that a bill was in
troduced in the chamber for
(he purpose of abolishing Article
213 of the civil code, which provides
that the husband must protect the
wife and the wife must obey the
husband.
William Montgomery, former cashier
of the Allegheny National Hank, of
Pittsburg, is guilty of abstracting ?4G‘J,
000 from the bank, according to the
verdict rendered by the jury in the
United States district court.
Joseph Ueiter, the millionaire Chi
cago grain plunger, returned from
Europe with his bride of four months,
traveling under the assumed name of
"Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Adlum.” He got
into a queer clash with the customs
ofticials a few minutes after he land
ed. Mrs. Leiter, who apparently was
ignorant of the customs laws, protest
ed against having her jewels inspected
and her husband vigorously backed her
up. The customs people won, how
ever, as usual.
Two masked night riders fired the
barn on the farm of Curtis Poag, near
Wanada, Madison county, 111., after
turning out ihe live stock in it, stole
some harness and left a mysterious
warning, according to a long distance
telephone message received from
Sheriff Jones. He said the suspects
were hearted toward St T.mtis via the
Ferry, and asked the police to look out
for them.
George Robertson, driving a 90
hdrse power American Locomobile,
w'on the Vanderbilt Cup and at the
same time broke all American track
records by averaging G4.3 miles an
hour for the eleven laps around the
23.4G miles track. Herbert Lytle,
driving a 50-horse power Italian
Isotta, was second, being less than
two minutes behind the winner, whoso
elapsed time was 4 hours 48 seconds
for the 258.OG miles.
Shippers believe the railways are
planning to increase freight charges
after election, and an organization has
been arranged that is expected to
give the roads the backing of 17,000,
000 persons.
New railway commission law in Ne
braska is said to have produced good
results, and a report is being prepar
ed by the commission suggesting cer
tain needed amendments to the
statute.
A movement is on foot to hold a
dummy presidential election on the
Isthmus of Panama. Booths will be
erected and a set of commissioners,
watchers, etc., will be appointed at
each of the big towns. The total
vote will be compiled and the result
to the successful candidate, Brvau or
Taft.
Pine Bluff Fears Work of River.
The Arkansas river is slowly carry
ing away valuable downtown property,
adjoining the business district of Pine
Bluff, and unless the revetments on
the river front there are repaired and
new dykes installed immediately some
of the most valuable business houses,
the Jefferson county court house, the
Hotel Jefferson, Pine Bluff’s largest
hotel, will go into the stream. Early
Wednesday moning the river bank at
the foot of Chestnut and Pine streets
gave way and more than 100 feet
of ground, including an entrance into
West Pullen street, disappeared. Part
of a large brick warehouse owned by
General R. M. Knox, just north of
Chestnut street, was carried away and
several thousand dollars’ worth of
hides belonging to A. F. Dreyfus,
stored there, were hurriedly removed
to another building in the eastern
part of the city. Persons living in
houses on Pullen steet, between Chest
nut and Walnut streets, and those
living in small cottages on Chestnut
street, are moving hurriedly. They
have rented cottages in other parts
of the city, and their household goods
are being moved for fear that the
river will continue to eat its way into
the very heart of the business section.
Mrs. Sarah Bluthenthal and family,
who have made their home in the old
Bluthenthal hotel property for more
than 20 years, have vacated the build
ing on Pullen street and neighbors are
also leaving. Already more than IDO
feet of ground in the rear of the R.
Barraque street has been carried away
and it is expected that the caving will
continue for several days.
The Arkansas river came to a stand
there Wednesday afternoon, but it is
feared that when it begins to recede
much more property at that point will
be damaged.
The Pine Bluff Storage Company is
moving all effects from a brick ware
house in anticipation of further trou
ble. The river bank at the foot of
Pine street is also caving and masses
of earth were seen to fall into the
river in the rear of the Hotel Jeffer
son and the Jefferson county
court house at intervals during Wed
nesday.
The street at the intersection of
Chestnut and Pullen streets has en
tirely disappeared and traffic there has
been suspended. The edge of the
river bank at that point now runs
along the sidewalk on the south side
of Pullen street.
During the June rise the river bank
from Beech to Tennessee streets, just
north of the business district, gave
evidences of weakness and there was
considerable caving at. that time. On
East Barrraque street owners of
houses were compelled to move them
into the street to save them. As a
result of this trouble an improvement
district was recently formed by the
property owners for the purpose of im
proving the river front. New revet
ments and dykes are needed and gov
ernment officials inspected the banks
and reported that the work would
cost about $32,000. The government
agreed to expend $20,000 if the proper
ty owners raised the additional $12,
000. It was for the purpose of defray
ing this part of the expense that the
impovement district was formed.
Loses $130 in Tenderloin.
Bright and early before breakfast j
Saturday morning, Justice of the
Peace L. Roberts and Deputy Consta- i
ble Will Scott of Argenta were j
aroused from their slumbers to hurry j
to the justice’s office to listen to a
tale of woe from the lips of W. C. j
i in ner, a prominent luiinei 01 mhiuhv
county, who, after disposing of 52 j
bales of cot'on at Lonoke Friday, had
drawn about $200 and took a party of
eight of his tenants and friends to |
Little Rock and Argenta and who, dur- j
ing the course of his trip through the
underworld, was relieved of the re- j
mainder of his roll, which at that time
contained about $130.
John D. Park Loses Barns.
Two large barns of Johs D. Parks,
four miles north of Lewisville, were
destroyed by fire, together with sever
al hundred bushels of corn, some cot
ton and tons of hay. The origin of
the fire is unknown.
Bank Caves at Pine Bluff.
The river at the foot of Chestnut
and Pine streets, which is just one
block from the main business portion
of Pine Bluff, has caved considerably
throughout Tuesday and large pieces
of earth are falling into the river
every few minutes. Fifteen feet of bank
has given away. A small cottage of
four rooms, unoccupied, which stood on
the Lank at the foot of Chestnut street
fell Into the river and another cottage
was carried down stream, after being
washed from, the north bank.
Jury Decides Frye Was Blown Up.
At 6 o’clock Monday night, at Mena
the case of the New York Life In
surance Company against J. P. Logan,
curator, involving the question of the
blowing up of Gus Frye in a well at
Grannis, Ark., about a year ago, was
given to the jury after three days’
trial and at noon Tuesday the jury re
turned a verdict for the defendants,
holding that the body then blown up
was the body of Gus Frye, and the in
surance company is liable for the
same.
The only question submitted to the
jury in the instructions of the court,
was the fact whether or not that was
the body of Frye which was blown up
on the occasion of the explosion last
August a year ago.
The contention of the plaintiff com
pany was that Frye had placed a dead
body, or part of one, in the well he
was digging and had exploded 14
sticks of dynamite in it, himself leav
ing the country. Shortly before he
had taken out a life policy for $10,000
in plaintiff's company, borrowing $350
from a local bank with which to pay
the premium. After the policy had
been paid the company brought suit
to recover the amount from Frye’s
estate, following rumors that Frye
was not dead.
Shot His Personal Friend.
Because Rufus Stewart, aged 25
years, his neighbor and close personal
friend, refused to go hunting with him
Monday, Bert Davis, about the same
age, shot and fatally wounded Stewart
at the latter’s home in the western
part of Columbia county. Stewart
died within five hours after the shoot
ing. It is believed that Davis was
temporarily insane at the time of the
shooting. It is alleged that he has
suffered with attacks of temporary in
sanity recently.
Stewart and Davis were warm
friends, and only last Saturday were
out hunting together.
About 6:30 o'clock Monday moring
Davis went to Stewart’s home and
asked him to go hunting. Stewar. re
plied that he would be unable to go on
account of work. Without further
talk, it is alleged, Davis shot Stewart
through the bowels. Stewart died
about 12 o’clock. The shooting occur
red in the presence of several wit
nesses. Immediately after Davis ran
toward his home. He did not attempt
to resist arrest shortly aferward, how
ever. He is now in jail at Magnolia.
Both Davis and Stewart are of good
families.
Convicted of Murder.
Joe Thompson, the negro who assas
sinated Miller Brown, an old negro,
near Dorey’s Ferry Friday night, Octo
ber 16, will have to forfeit his life for
the deed Friday, December 4. accord
ing to the verdict of the jury which
heard the case Monday in the Circuit
Court at Washington. The verdict was
that he committed a first-degree mur
der.
Lucy Simms, the negress who was
charged with being an accomplice,
pleaded guilty to murder in the second
degree and was sentenced to 21 years
in the penitentiary. In addition, she
received a five-year sentence on a plea
of guilty of assault with intent to kill.
Her daughter. Penella Simms, on a
similar charge, was sentenced to serve
a year in the penitentiary.
Blind School Crowded.
The Arkansas Blind School now has
the largest attendance in its history.
Heretofore the greatest number of pu
pils in attendance at the institution
was 130. It now has 160, and Super
intendent S. D. Lucas says that much
inconvenience results in his efforts
to comfortable provide for the extra
number. Heretofore not more than
four pupils were placed in some of
the rooms, but now it becomes neces
sary to put five in some rooms. The
institution is provided with ample ac
commodations in all its departments
except in its dormitory.
Rob Washington Postoff>;e.
The postoffice at Washington, 10
miles from Hope, was broken into
and robbed Monday night of $50 gov
ernment funds, and about $35 which
belonged to a church at Washington.
The commission of the postmistress
was also stolen. There is no clue to
the identity of the robbers.
Receives Elk Horns.
Joe P. Eagle of I.onoke received a
pair of elk. horns from a friend in
Montana Wednesday. The horns
measure six feet from tip to tip.
Veteran Engineer Paralyzed.
Charles Coffman, a veteran Iron
Mountain passenger engineer running
between Van Buren and Coffeyville,
was stricken with paralysis late Mon
day morning while en route from his
home at Van Buren to the railroad
yards to take his engine out on its
regular run.
Only his right side was affected,
and it is believed that he will ulti
mately recover. He is still unable to
talk, but had partially regained the
use of his right arm Tuesday morning.
Unknown White Man Found Murdered.
An unknown white man was found
dead at Rusellville Sunday morning
by an employe of the St. Louis Iron
Mountain and Southern railway. The
body was lying on the third track,
about 30 feet from the depot, in a
pool of blood. The man had evidently
been murdered, as there was a deep
and long stab in the chest, just below
the heart, and another in the back;
there was also a slight cut on the
throat.
The body was found about 6 o'clock
Sunday morning by an employe, but
death had evidently occurred some
time before the body was was found,
as it was stiff and cold. The pockets
were searched, and besides several
smaller articles a painters’ union card
was found, which had on it the name
of Edward Bell, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Over $7 in cash was also found in the
pockets.
The man looked as though he was
50 years old, was grayheaded and very
dirty and bloody. Blod was all over
his clothing and face, as well as his
hands. In the right hand he clenched
some paper and grass, as though he
had made a desperate struggle to rise.
There was a fish tattooed on both his
arms.
The body was taken to the H. V.
Williamson undertaking establishment,
where hundreds of persons attempted
to identify it.
The officers are busy, and as there
were several suspicious characters
around the depot Saturday night,
many arrests will probably follow.
The coroner’s jury returned the fol
lowing verdict after the inquest Sun
day afternoon: “The diseased came to
has death by the hands of parties un
known to the jury.” The man fell
face downward, his nose striking a
lump of coal and his left arm stretched
across the third track. His moustache,
which was gray, was saturated with
blood. He was about five feet and
nine inches in height.
Shooting Affray at Walnut Ridge.
As the result, it is said, of ill-feel
iug, which has existed for several
years, Contractor Lee Ridgeway was
shot and probably fatally wounded at
93:0 o’clock Saturday night at Wal
nut Ridge by Alf Bagley, brother of
the late Ed Bagley, whom Ridgeway
shot and killed several years ago.
The charge passed through Ridge
way’s intestines and there is little
hope for his recovery.
Bagley has been arrested and is now
held in the jail at Powhatan. He is
a son of a wealthy planter.
Ridgeway shot Ed Bagley while the
former was acting marshal of the town
and while he was attempting to ar
rest Bagley. Ridgeway was acquitted
on the plea of self-defense. Ever
since then, it is said, a feud has ex
isted between the Ridgeway and Bag
ley families.
White Man Shoots Negro.
Frank Huntley, a planter living near
Kendall’s mill, six miles north of Ri
son, shot and probably fatally injured
a negro Saturday afternoon. The name
of the negro has not been learned
and Huntley has not been arrested.
According to the best information
received, the negro was in the employ
of Huntley, but had refused to work
for several days. It is understood
Huntley and the laborer quarreled Sat
urday afternoon when the negro start
ed to work, and that Huntley finally
poured the contents of a shotgun into
the negro. It is alleged that Huntley
and the negro had been on bad terms
for several weeks, due, it is said, to
the negro’s erratic ways of working.
Bailey Dead After Vi sit by Regulators.
John Bailey, a farmer, who lived
two miles from Waldron, is dead from
gunshot wounds, alleged to have been
indicted by a member of a partv of
12 men who visited his home recently.
Five men are now held in connection
with the shooting.
Hebert Self, Wyatt Lee, Robert Am
mons, James Ammons and his younger
son have been arrested in connection
with the shooting.
Negro Shat; Will Lose Eye.
Said to be proptecting his wife,
Henry Hutchinson fired a loaded shot
gun into the face of Abadiah Bennett,
her alleged assailant, at New Eding
burgh, the shot piercing Bennett's
eye. All the parties are negroes.
Hutchinson has been bound over to
await the action of the- Grand Jury and
was committed to jail. Bennett will
lose the sight of one eye.
Another Nervy Gin Owner.
A report was received at Magazine
Saturday that night riders have or
dered the gin closed at Briggs. Two
men. according to the report, went
Friday morning to (he gin and ordered
Mr. Jones, the owner, to close down
and told him that if he did not “he
would be sorry for it.” They were un
masked and it is said that Mr. Jones
recognized them. The gin is still in
operation and Mr. Jones says he will
not close down until it comes to a
“show down.”
General Exodus of Government Em
ployes From Washington Is Noted
—Roosevelt to Oyster Bay.
Washington.—Not since 1896 has
there been such an exodus of voters
from the National capital entitled to
the right of franchise as has taken
place this year. A careful canvass of
the several executive departments
showed up to noon Saturday that ap
proximately 3.700 voters had already
gone to their homes and many hun
dreds more left Washington Saturday
night and Sunday. It is estimated
that 1,500 more will leave for nearby
states Sunday and Monday, as hun
dreds of bureau and division chiefs
and cerks reside in Virginia, Mary
land, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsyl
vania and New York.
President Roosevelt, Secretary Loeb
and several White House attaches
who hold voting residences at Oyster
Bay and other places in &ew York,
will leave Washington Monday night.
All members of the cabinet are now
in their respective states, except Sec
retaries Wright and Metcalf. The
former failed to register in Tennessee,
and the latter is confined to his resi
dence by a serious illness.
The unusual number of government
employes who, this year, are embrac
ing the opportunity to cast their bal
lots indicates the intensity of interest
taken in Washington in the result of
Tuesday's election.
Dead Man Found in Coal Car.
Memphis, Tenn.—Killed, then thrown
in a caol car of a passing freight
train, was the fate of Lee Marshall, a
traveline- salesman whose cornse was
taken from an Illinois Central car Sun
day.
His identity was established by pa
pers on the person. His family resides
in Bardwell, Ky., and he is believed
to have represented an Indianapolis
drug house. Two bullet wounds were
found in the body.
The train was made up at Fulton,
Ky. Stops were made at several Ten
nessee towns enroute here before Con
ductor Strickland discovered the body.
Relatives from Mayfield, Ky., are en
route here to take charge of the
body.
Fireman Kills Himself.
Chattanooga, Tenn.—With a bullet
hole in his head, the dead body of
Jno. G. Jones, a locomotive fireman
of No. 70 Strong street, Atlanta, Ga.,
was found in a vacant lot south of
Eleventh street at 5 o'clock Sunday
afternoon. Jones had taken his own
life. He has been here for about a
week seeking employment. The fol
lowing letter was found in his posses
sion:
“Chattanooga, Tenn.
“My Little Darling Wife—I am
ashamed to tell you what I am going
to do. I am going to kill myself.
“Dear, I am crazy. I cannot come
to see you. May God bless you all.
“Your loving husband,
“John G. Jones.’’
Jackies Get Shore Leave.
Amoy.—Two thousand men of the
second squadron of the American fleet
were allowed to land Sunday and were
served at the reception grounds with
a luncheon and a Chinese dinner.
Admiral Salt of the Chinese navy
Sunday gave a luncheon in honor of
Rear Admiral Emory and the fleet
commanders. Toasts were given to
the emperor, the president, the dowa
ger empress and Prince Yulang, who
represents the Pekin administration.
One of the features of the day was a
tea served in the temple at 4 o.’clock
in the afternoon.
Charged With Smuggling.
Pensacola, Fla.—Suspected of hav
ing smuggled Chinese from Mexico to
the United States, the American
schooner Freddie W. Alton of Boston
is detainedis detained here by custom
is detained here by custom officials.
The master, Capt. Dailey, disappear
ed when the investigation begun. The
Alton sailed from Boston, Septem
ber 1, steering straight for the Mexi
can coast, remaining off Vera Cruz
for about 15 days and then proceeding
to Pensacola. The vessel carries a
crew of 12.
Foul Play Is Suspected.
Pitts, Ga.—The body of Pleas Hall
was found Sunday on the Seaboard
Ai' Line tracks, near the Gulf Line
Junction, with the head completely
severed ar.d with an ugly knife wound
in his side. The general theory is that
his body was placed on the track with
a view to making his death appear
accidental.
Lfcxingtom, Ky.—A double tragedy
occurred at Heidelberg, in Lee county,
Sunday. Ephraim Angel and Harvey
Ross engaged in a fight, and as a re
sult Angel wras shot and killed and
Ross was so badly injured that he is
not expected to recover.
The cause of the melee is not
known.