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McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1902.
NO. 26.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Hard coal is selling in New York i
City at $20 per ton.
Over 700 people were killed by an t
earthquake in Eastern Turkestan 1
August 25. 1
Connecticut democrats, in theii
state platform, ignored the Kansas i
City platform. i
The republican state convention :
of Michigan indorsed Hon. R. A.
Alger for the United States senate
Congressman Cannon, of Illinois,
will probably succeed Col. D. B.
Henderson as speaker of the house.
Stanly Spencer, a London invent
or, recently sailed in an airship of
his own construction a distance of
thirty miles.
It is announced the Pacific cable
between San Francisco and Hono
lulu will be in operation within
ninety days.
Queen Henrietta, of Belgium,
died suddenly at Spa. She was sit
ting at a table eating dinner when
stricken, and died in a few moments.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Hon. Charlemagne Tower, present
ambassador to Russia, to succeed
Mr. White as ambassador to Ger
—J •
The Boer generals have issued an
appeal to Europe and America for
aid to assist in restoring their de
vastated country to its former con
dition.
The railroads will probably estab
lish a central bureau in St. Louis tc
advertise the southwestern section
of the country during the Louisiana
purchase exposition.
The state republican convention
of New York renominated Gov.
Odell, and adopted resolutions in
dorsing President Roosevelt as the
party nominee in 1904.
Three hundred miners employed
near Birmingham have refused to
work because one of their number
failed to pay the $1 per week assess
ment for the anthracite strikers.
For the first time in several years
what appears to be a case of leprosy
has been discovered in a patient at
Belleville hospital, New York City.
The victim is a Chinaman, who has
been iji the United States seven
years.
The war department has been in
formed that Gen. Chaffee will sail
from Manilla for San Francisco on
the transport Sumner in about eight
days. The command of the Philip
pines is to be turned over to Gen.
Davis.
President Roosevelt recently un
derwent a successful operation on
one of his knees for an abscess,
caused by a bruise sustained in the
trolley car accident at Pittsfield sev
eral weeks ago. The trouble is not
serious, but necessitated President
Roosevelt abandoning his western
tour.
Six of the eighteen members and ,
ex-members of the St. Louis house ,
of delegates, under indictment for ,
boodling, have not been captured. ,
oome oi tne men at large, it is al- i
leged distributed the boodle fund
and officers believe they are being ,
protected by givers of the bribe, who ,
fear punishment.
The report of the surgeon general ;
of the army for the year ending :
June 30 last, shows a gradual im
provement in the condition of the 1
health of the troops, notwithstand
ing many were subject to exposures
of the tropical service in the Phil
ippines. The date of discharge for
disability was 19.95 in 1901, as com
pared with 22.60 in 1900 and 16.69
for the decade, and the death rate
from all causes was 19.94 per 1,000
men, as compared with 22.74 and
11.91 respectively. Deaths from 1
disease constituted 9.58 per 1,000 of I
the mean strength, as compared with
15.79 in 1900, and deaths from in- 1
jury 4.36, as compared with 6.95.
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They Do.
“They say the Porto Ricans are very
patriotic Americans now,” remarked
Smithers.
“They must be,” replied Smothers,
“even their cigarettes smell like fire
crackers!”—Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
E. B. Jett has been continued aa
eceivor of the Arkansas live stock
nsurance company,
Jim Poor, a carpenter, was in
tantly killed at Fayetteville by a
leavy door he was attempting to
lang falling on him.
Several St. Louis butchers have
■ecently died from anthroax, becom
ng infected with the dread disease
irom handling afflicted cattle.
The season of the Southern Base
ball Association has closed. Nash
ville won the penant, with Little
Rock in second and New Orleans
third place.
J. J. Hannehan has been elected
chief of the order of Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen, to succeed F.
B. Sergeant, recently appointed
commissioner of immigration.
President Palma says the Cuban
republic is firmly established. He
insists on the early withdrawal of
all American troops, declaring their
presence on the island has a bad
moral effect on a certain class.
Influential Filipino priests are at
the head of a movement to found a
church independent of Borne. To
bead off this movement the Pope
lias instructed Mgr. Guidi, apostolic
ielegate to the Philippines, to con
ciliate with the natives.
Cl L T)1 . ti XT
and Gov. Odell clashed as to who
should be the nominee for lieuten
ant governor, and the latter came
out first best. Gov. Odell refused
to be a candidate for re-election
with Mr. Sheldon, Senator Platt’s
choice for second place, and Sheldon
withdrew before the convention.
Speaker Henderson has refused to
reconsider his determination to re
tire from congress after his present
term expires, although the most in
fluential members of his party pre
vailed upon him to remain in the
public service. Mr. Henderson says
liis views ditfer from his state’s
party platform, which declare vir
tually in favor of a revision of the
tariff.
Frank Mekie, a department
clerk, wrecked the Golden Eagle
hotel at Washington with dynamite
and suicided. Mekie was stopping
at the hotel, and, becoming too per
sistent in his attentions to Mrs.
Brant, wife of the proprietor, he
was warned to desist. Declaring he
would be revenged, Mekie procured
some dynamite, and when all the
quests had retired, exploded it in a
room above that occupied by Brant
and his wife, who were both badly
injured. The guests escaped with
mly slight injuries.
Abolishment of the army canteen
is responsible for a “deplorable in
crease of offenses in general and de
sertions in particular,” according to
he annual report of Brig. Gen.
Funston, department of the Colo
■udo. Gen. Funston declares that
:lie ousting of the canteen by act of
congress has lowered the discipline
>f the army, ruined scores of good
soldiers and enriched saloon keep
ers, gamblers and dissolute women.
i)n the other hand, those oposed to
he canteen system claim the results
)f its abolishment has been benefi
:ial to the army.
Official telegraphic advices an
lounce that the supplemental agree
nent negotiated between the govern
nent and the Choctaw and Cliicka
;aw Indian tribes- has been ratified
jy an overwhelming majority by
hose nations. The suplemenlal
:reaty makes modifications and act
litions to the original agreements
n a number of important matters,
it provides for the sale of the coal
auds, which aggregate half a mil
ion acres, at public auction. There
viil be no leases of coal or asphalt
and6. It also segregates not over
540 acres for sulphur springs under
government control; establishes citi
zenship courts to re-try citizenship
:ases tried iu 1896; provides for the
mrollment of all Mississippi full
dood Choctaws and of the deseend
ints of all Mississippi Choctaws
vho have received patented lands,
md authorizes the Chickasaw freed
ncn to institute proceedings in the
>ourt of claims to determine their
rigjhta.
NEWS OE ARKANSAS
Total Taxes Paid by Whites and Blacks. 1
The following table, prepared in
the state auditor’s office, shows the
total amount of taxes paid by the ;
white and colored race, respectively, '
in Arkansas during the year 1901:
Total Taxes Poll Taxes
Collected. Collected.
Counties.
A
£
O
V
X
03
tf —,
O O
hCU
Arkansas
Ashley .
Baxter .
Benton .
Boone ..
Bradley
Calhoun
Carroll .
Chicot .
Clark ...
Clay ...
Cleburne
Cleveland
Columbia
Conway
Craighead
Craword .
Crittenden
Cross .
Dallas ....
Desha ....
Drew .
Faulkner
Franklin .
Fulton ...
Garland .
Grant ....
Greene ...
Hempstead
Hot Spring
Howard ..
Jndepen’ce
Izard .
Jackson ..
Jefferson .
Johnson ..
Lafayette
57,988.86
34,855.08
18,604.54
76.609.76
29,965.03
27.591.77
20,827.24
57.970.45
42,947.70
64,972.44
55,878.95
17,004.17
22,676.84
41,859.00
44,961.98
97,630.19
60,385.40
1,972.58!1,
6,971.0011
7.2211,
45.30 j 5,
6.20
1,839.45
1,893.38
3.11
4,703.94
4,427.00
1.87
42,719.14
24.679.00
31.329.84
47.250.00
49,598.68
49,870.96
•26,120.64
120,540.05
18,139.98
63,903.32
54.248.84
33.331.00
25,926.36
64,147.44
18,353.64
o 77,723.34
. 150,169.63
47.711.01
31,656.91
1,291.95
4,985.77
2,471.6^:2,
367.9813,
4,202.29(3,
5,000.140(1
700.00(1,
7,821.03[
6,336.6411,
3,311.14(2,
33S.57|3,
12.00|1,
5,130.1013,
603.68:1,
71.32(2,
4,367.8212,
926.00(2,
1,986.27(2,
563.20(3,
130.00(2,
3,372.5012,
23,036.88(2,
294.97(2,
2,606.10(1.
660
1,293
8
6
450
490
2
1,718
1,147
Ziai
210|
504
1.43S
1,052
110
325
1.552
250
819
51
717
946
.222
71"
013
290
722
,551
114
,260
,594
,04;
,110
334
091
,037
1,198
1,550
669
81
9
445
143
4
1,863
260
489
156
36
6S0
4,190
85
693
2.521
2,897
1,298
5,424
2,401
1,795
1,477
2.709
2,107
3,900
3,004
1,588
1,957
3,701
3,701
3,411
3.747
2,359
1,525
2,029
1,715
3,397
3,555
3,303
1.710
3,458
1,133
2,726
4,414
2,404
2.749
3.750
2,079
2,790
6,534
3,076
1,730
Lee .
Lincoln
Little Rive
Logan ...
Lonoke ..
Madison
Marion ..
Miller ....
Mississippi
Monroe ..
Montgom’y
Nevada
Newton .
Ouachita
Perry .-.
Phillips .
Pike ....
Poinsett
Polk .
Pope _
Prairie ..
Pulaski .
Randolph
Saline ..
Scott _
Searcy ..
Sebastian
Sevier ...
Sharp _
St. Francis
Stone
Union ..
Van Ruren
Wasligton
White _
Woodruff
Yell .
47.233.14
25.424.14
28,393.78
59,925.00
.226.16,1,306 2
,259.3.31 943 jl
,243.38|1,413]1
476.32 3,709
,04813,390
19812,141
009 2,422
29,072.28
27,430.30
72.263.69
58.119.48
52,292.61
12.250.84
33.111.48
15.291.70
53,886.11
25,350.001
91,243.86113
17.214.68
39,721.09
45.855.85
55,000.02
48,118.32
457,800.33
36,139.63
38,617.53
30,026.42
16,763.07
3,145
26.4613,220
4.0011,806
,967.72)1,956
,416.24 1,260
,480.16|1,269
128.0011,765
,826.8212,149'
2.0011,920
,571.38:1,766
543.00:1,1801
,171.5511,216
241.7911,858
271.0011,265
75.00|2,634
711.00:3,540
,714.13)1,358
,188.10(5,937
283.00:2,835
,541.62 2,017
26.62 2,366
7.29 1,860
36,488.26
24,055.51
57,646.29f 4
10,871.45
43,925.65
12.S95.S6
95,070.23
77,658.32
45,346.15
67,073.091
•I
374.00 2,
45.44 j 1,
,328.18)1,
28.20,1,
,875.00:2,
98.0711,
183.90(5,
263.0713,
,403.8511,
853.89:3,
3.814
4,310
3,226
1.810
2,797
1,993
2,429
1,816
2,901
1,921
3,454 .
1,305
4,088
1,943
1,492 I
2,649
245,3,7S5
459'1,817
,206 8,143
50
248
7
2
317
24
2,875
2.2S5
2,373
1,862
5,251
2,485
1,977
,361 2,557
3:1,318
,42113,838
36,1,860
75:5,663
28314,191
988:3,025
31314,151
Military Prisoner Escapes.
Frank Dellervoy, military convict
imprisoned at Fort Root, near Little .
Rock, made liis escape. Private Wil
bur Austin, of Company B, Twenty
second infantry, accompanied him.
Dellervoy is a desperate character,
who previously escaped at Fort Riley
by attacking a sentry. His term of
confinement would have expired
next January. Little is known of
the other man. He was serving a
sentence of several months for de
sertion, committed at Fort Niobrara,
Neb. ,
Killed at El Dorado.
A man named Mullens was shot
and killed at El Dorado by Consta
ble Dearingv--It seems that Mullens
endeavored to prevent the marriage
of a Mr. Puckett, of Texarkana, to
Miss Stevenson, who was a pupil of
Mullens, Puckett arrived at El Do
rado to claim his., bride but was >
In oaaI/ AnAfQAfiAlV*:£».Arn ill.,
offieera. The couple were married
and left the eity, Mullens followed, |
vowing he would kill hie successful
rival. The discarded lover was in
tercepted by- officers and taken back
to El Dorado. When released he at
tacked Dearing for arresting him,
and it is said the officer shot in self
defense.
Cat Nurses ^quirrels.
A household cat bf a Pine Bluff
family gave birth to a litter of kit
tens, all of which ■■were destroyed,
save one. On the same day the kit
tens perished a nest of young squir
rels was found, and the young squir
rels were given to the mother cat for
food. Instead of eating them she
nursed them as she did her own kit
ten. Now four young squirrels, one
kitten and the mother cat compose
a happy family.
Several parties were injured in a
collision on the Choctaw near Ger
mania. The collision was a rear
end one, due to one of the cars of a
mixed freight jumping the track. It
seems that no flag was put out, and
a work train backed into the freight.
Annual Encampment, U. C. V.
The annual state encampment,
Confederate Veterans, was held at
lot Springs September 23-24. Gen.
3ach, state commander, called the
isscmblage together, and introduced
jten. Cabell (Old Tige), of Dallas,
rex., department commander, and
;o the tune of Dixie the old veterans
ningled-tears with greetings between
faithful comrades in one of the
greatest civil struggles known to his
:ory. The address of welcome by
Judge Curl was responded to by
State Senator J. E. Woods in words
that visibly affected all in hearing.
Kidnaper Captured.
Walter Neill, charged with kid
naping Floyd Hollinger, the 8-year
ald son of J. I. Hollinger, is in jail
at Pine Bluff. Neill went to the
farm of Mr. Hollinger and secured
work, remaining several weeks, when
he disappeared with Hollinger’s
son. The couple were captured near
Plummerville, where both were en
gaged in cotton picking. It is be
lieved Neill is an all-round crook
and kidnaped the boy for the pur
pose of learning him to assist in
opening transoms and otherwise aid
ing in house burglary.
Sentenced to Be Hanged.
John Lancaster, a young white
man arrested two weeks ago in Jef
ferson county for the murder of W.
W. Edwards, near Clinton, has been
convicted of murder in- the second
degree and sentenced to be hanged
December 3. Lancaster admitted
killing Edwards, and went on the
stand and told all about how they
had been enemies and the causes
why he killed him; how he went to
where Edwards was at work and lay
in wait, his reason being that Ed
wards had talked about his mother.
“Lord” Sanborn Skipped.
Robert Sanburn, known in some
sections as “Lord’’ Sanburn, and
who was captured in Boston and re
turned to Hot Springs about a year
ago to answer several charges of
forgery, has skipped again, after
uttering other forged papers. San
burn succeeded in securing a con
tinuance of his trial from term tc
term. It is said he has served a
term in the Georgia penitentiary for
a similar crime to those committed
at Hot Springs.
To Remove Confederate Dead.
David 0. Dodd chapter, Daugh
ters of the Confederacy, Pine Bluff,
will purchase a large lot in Bell
wood cemetery, in which will be re
interred all the bodies of Confeder
ate soldiers who were buried at Sul
phur Springs, Jefferson county
years ago. In all there are over two
hundred old soldiers buried at the
Springs. It is the intention of thu
ladies to erect a monument over
their graves.
Gen. Green Chosen Commander.
At the Confederate reunion, held
at Hot |-'rmi,i' B. W. Green,'
of LifMerfFock, was elected com
mander of this division. The fol
lowing brigadier generals were also
elected: James M. Stewart, of Lit
tle Rock, for the first brigade; John
\V. Tucker, of Pine Bluff* for • the
second; Perry R. Davidson, of Fay
etteville, for the third, and J. H.
Black, of Hope, for the fourth brig
ade.
Will Raise Angoras.
Articles of incorporation have
been filed with the secretary of state
by the Arkansas Angora Stock Com
pany of Eureka Springs, with a cap
ital stock of $25-,000. The object of
the company is to raise Angora
joats, poultry and other stock. The
ifficers are: Charles Lee Requa,
president; A. S. Bobo, vice presi
dent; E. M. Bare, secretary; D. J.
tVest, treasurer.
Conductor Killed.
Conductor Will S. Johnson was
fatally injured in the yards of the
Choctaw at Booneville. Johnson,
who was one of the oldest conduc
tors in the Choctaw service, was
making up his train, when he was
thrown from the caboose, the cars
passing over his body.
BRIEF MENTION.
It is claimed graphite in paying 1
quantities has been discovered in
Montgomery county. j
Wallace Grant, colored, was hang- '
ed at Newport September 86, for 1
the murder of Essex Powers.
There was only one bale of cotton (
raised in Benton county this year,
yet the farmers of this county are ,
among the most prosperous in the
state.
Elijah Goldman, an aged negro
absent-mindedly stepped off a
street car at Fort Smith when it
was going at full speed and was fa
tally injured.
The residence of Col. E. W. Rec
ten, of Hot Springs, was destroyed
by fire last week. Col. Rector lost
all his furniture, a valuable library
and many family heirlooms.
Major W. E. Estes, a pioneer of
Texarkana, is dead. Major Estes
was a veteran of the Mexican and
civil wars, and a member of one of
the South's most distinguished
families.
Bat Wilson, a negro confined in
thp Afillpr poiinfv iaif and a. whitp
prisoner named Wilkerson, engaged
in a desperate fight, and before the
officers conld interfere the latter wafi
fatally injured.
A man named Cummings was
found dead beside the Cotton Belt
track a few miles from Brinkley.
The deceased had three wounds in
the back of his head and his left
arm was broken near the shoulder.
The new buildings at the deaf
mute institute have been completed,
and the contractor announces that
they will be ready to turn over to the
board at its next meeting. The total
cost of the additions made is $78,
000 and exactly one year was con
sumed in doing the work.
The bank deposits of the people
of the United States aggregate $8,
500,000,000, an average of $108
per capita. Ten years ago they ag
gregated $4,232,000,000, or just
half the amount of to-day, and
twenty years ago they were $2,600,
000,000, or a little more than one
quarter of those of to-day. Of these
deposits the national banks hold
$2,937,755,230; savings banks, $2,
597,094,580, while there is on de
posit with other institutions the
sum of $3,000,205,322.
William Hooper Young, a nephew
of the famous Brigham Young, is
• under arrest in New York City for
the murder of Mrs. Annie Pulitzer,
whose body was found in a canal in
Hoboken. It has been discovered
that the woman was enticed to an
apartment house and murdered by
Young in a most brutal manner.
Her bodv was taken from the room
where the crime was committed and
thrown into the canal with a heavy
weight fastened about the body.
In Young's trunk, which was seized
by the police, was found the blood
stained clothing worn by the woman,
also clothing belonging to the mur
derer. The motive for the crime is
not known.
Peter Ilarnie was hanged in jail
at Hackensack, X. J., for murder,
but not until an exciting experience.
When two deputy sheriffs approach
ed him to strap his arms, he sudden
ly tore off two brass brackets on the
side of his cell and getting into the
corridor, leaped over a partition. He
then tore off a piece of lead pipe and
crouching in a corner shouted that
he would brain any one that came
near him. By this time the jail was
is an uproar. The sheriff and his
deputies were at first puzzled as to
how to deal with the murderer and
disarm him. It was finally decided
to turn a hose on him. This was
done and as Hernia put up his hands
to ward off the water from striking
him in the face a deputy sheriff leap
ed over and grabbed the hand in
which was the lead pipe. Other dep
uties quickly rushed in. Hernia was
finally overpowered and securely
strapped. He was then placed in a
chair and carried to the gallows, his
clothing dripping wet.
IMMUNE FROM TYPHOID.
irabs Are Practically Free from This
Disease.
Some Frenchman or other read a
>aper before the Paris Society of Bi
ilogy recently which makes thestate
nent that Arabs are practically im
nune from typhoid fever. That is
o say, an Arab can bear any kind of
exposure to typhoid fever without
aking it. They account for this pe
culiar bodily condition of the Arab,
>ays Medical Talk, from the fact that
;ver since his early infancy he has
been reared on impure drinking
vat or, which, in the countries where
;he Arabs abound, is notably bad.
It is saturated with all sorts of con
lamination.
This had the effect of weeding out
the weaker ones and leaving only
those who can stand typhoid fever
sperms. The grown Arab, therefore,
is able to bear exposure that would
give a European typhoid fever at
once. This, however, is not intend
ed as any argument for the use of
impure drinking water. It only
shows that the human system is capa
ble of adjusting itself to unfavorable
conditions.
But, while the Arab is immune
4- x t t'x li A i /I -PriTor l-\o i ncnnomllv
susceptible to consumption. This
fact is accounted for by the reason
that lie has been accustomed to the
very pure air of the mountains, and
when exposed to the climate of
Europe he quickly succumbs to con
sumption. He can stand our drink
ing water, hut he cannot stand our
climate.
The whole subject of national sus
ceptibility and unsusceptibility to
disease is a very interesting one. It
may he after all that our climate,
which is so peculiarly provocative of
catarrh, will at last produce a race of
people that will he practically im
mune from catarrh. We hope so, at
least. At present it is a national
disease, and nearly every one has it.
The very best authorities on chron
ic catarrh state that there is such a
thing as immunity from this disease.
The cold hath every morning, gar
gling the throat with cold water,
splashing the neck and chest with
cold water—if this is practiced thor
oughly every morning, it will prac
tically render any one immune from
catarrh.
Paddling the feet every evening in
cold water might also he added to
this regime. This practically hard
ens the nervous system against the
vicissitudes of the weather, and will
soon produce a condition of the sys
tem in which the subject need have
no fear of catarrh.
CENSUS OF QUEENSLAND.
Shows That Community to Hava the
Race Problem to Solve.
Queensland was the smartest of
the commonwealth states in getting
the results of the census into print.
Its total population is now 533,266,
not including 1,227 serving the em
piru in ouuui nim-a, most 01 wiiom
are expected to “return for perma
nent residence.” For the first time
an effort was made to ascertain the
number of the blacks. Six thousand
six hundred and seventy of them in
cluding 1,533 half-castes, were re
turned as following settled occupa
tions, attending schools, or having
abandoned migratory habits. Ac
cording to the reports of the protec
tors of aborigines, some 20,000 more
prefer the old natural life of roaming,
hunting and fishing as far away from
the white invaders as they can get.
At the last census there were only
49 Japanese in Queensland; now
there are 2,260. During the decen
nial period the Chinese decreased by
739, and the Kanakas by 101. The
latter now number 9,327, and if the
present commonwealth government
succeeds in placing its “white Aus
tralia” policy on the statute books
there will be few, if any, of them/to
be recorded in the next Queensland
census.—London Chronicle.
The Thritty Chinee.
The Chinese are very thrifty peo
ple. The Hev. Mr. Sears, a Baptist
missionary to China, in a letter to
friends in Mexico, Mo., relates that
the body of the head of a family of his
acquaintance was kept by his econom
ical children until their mother died,
so that both could be buried togeth
er. In this way, the needless ex
pense of providing two grave* wae
avoided.