VOL. II.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1902.
NO. 5.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
The president has signed the Chi
nese exclusion bill.
A storm two weeks ago killed over
12,000 head of sheep in Wyoming.
Packers assert that consumption
of beef has fallen off one-third since
agitation against the trust began.
The Boers are expected to reach a
final decision on the subject of peace
negotiations some tiijie this month.
The executive committee of the
St. Louis world’s fair have
agreed to postpone the affair till
1904.
No rain of any consequence has
fallen in western Kansas since last
June, and very little wheat will be
raised in that section.
W. H. Moody, of Massachusetts,
entered upon the duties of secretary
of the navy on the 1st inst., succeed
ing Mr. Long, resigned.
Chicago street car men have form
ed a union, and it is claimed any
discrimination against the union
men will cause a big strike.
Congressman Amos J. Cummings
of New York died at Baltimore May
2. The cause of death was pneumo
nia, incident to an operation.
Morgan is said to have received
$12,000,000 of stock in the shipping
combine as compensation for organ
izing and financing the scheme.
Packers of St. Louis and Kansas
City will be- called upon to testify
before the Missouri supreme court
concerning the operations of the
beef trust.
Organized efforts are being made
in a number of towns throughout
the country to induce citizens to re
frain from eating meat until prices
are reduced.
Elias Leinbach, postmaster at the
town of Leichbachs, Pa., since 1853,
has resigned. He was the oldest
postmaster in point of service in the
United States.
In a tight with pitchforks and
clubs on Richard Williams’ farm in
Oklahoma Willard Wilson killed
Charles Parker after a prolonged
combat. Wilson and Parker are
farm hands. After knocking Par
ker down with the handle of a pitch
fork, it is alleged, Wilson plunged
the tines into his face.
The Newspaper Publishers’ Asso
ciation, embracing owners of all
the leading papers and publishing
houses of the country, and the print
ers’ and pressmen’s unions have
signed a five year agreement to sub
mit all questions of hours of labor
and wages to arbitration, no strike
to occur pending the settlement of
any question between employer and
employe.
An accident to an elevator boy in
a building in Philadelphia was indi
rectly responsible for the death of
eight girls. The boy was caught in
the elevator and when a companion
called for help some one cried fire.
The hundreds of girls rushed to She
windows and down the stairway,
stumbling over one another, and
when quiet was restored it was found
eight of them had been crushed to
death.
The oleomargarine bill has passed
both branches of congress. The bill
as passed provides that oleomarga
rine which has been colored to look
like butter shall be taxed 10 cents
a pound; that oleomargarine which
has not been colored to look like
butter of any shade of yellow shall
be taxed one-fourth of one cent per
pound ; manufacturers of process or
renovated butter shall pay a tax of
$50 a year; manufacturers of oleo
margarine or adulterated butter
shall pay a tax of $000 per year;
wholesale dealers in oleomargarine
or {Adulterated butter shall pay a
tax of $480 per year, and retail
dealers $48 per year; a tax of 10
cents a pound is levied upon adul
terated butter and a tax of one
fourth of a cent a pound upon pro
cess or renovated butter.
The transport fleet of the war de
partment is to be cut down by the
sale of several ships now maintain
ed at heavy cost and not required in
the movement of troops between the
Philippines and the United States.
The entire business section of
Herkimer, Kas., was destroyed by
tire.
Hon. J. Sterling Morton, of Ne
braska, former secretary of agricul
ture, is dead.
The new steamship combine is
meeting with opposition from the
British government.
W. M. Rodgers, aged 76, of John
son county, Tennessee, murdered his
30-year-old grand-daughter and kill"
ed himself.
Martin Lynch, a wife murderer,
committed suicide in jail at Cleve
land, 0., by hanging himself from
the doorknob.
Hon. H. Clay Evans will likely
be appointed consul general at Lon
don to succeed the late Consul Os
borne, who was a cousin to Presi
dent McKinley.
The public building bill pending
in congress contains the following
items: For postoffice, at Fort
Smith, $100,000; and for postoffice
at Batesville, $30,000.
Alanson Wood, of Toledo, O., has
invented an air ship and will enter
the contest of the St. Louis fair for
the $200,000 prize for the best in
vention of the kind in operation.
When the new department of com
merce is established it is probable
that George B. Cortelyou, now sec
retary to the president, will enter
the cabinet as secretary of com
merce.
Admiral Schley arrived in Mem
phis April 28, and on Monday was
presented with a magnificent silver
service, purchased with money do
nated by citizens of the entire
south.
Berry Howard, the man who was
alleged to have fired the shot that
killed Senator Goebel, has been ac
quitted. Three others are serving
life sentences for complicity in this
crime.
A tornado struck Joplin, Mo.,
April 27, causing the loss of two
lives and the destruction of $150,
000 in property. The storm also
did considerable damage in Kansas,
Nebraska and Illinois.
The Osage and Ponca Indians
have determined that the beef trust
shall not do business within their
reservations, and to this end they
have decided to cancel and withhold
all further leases of grazing land.
About 30,000 acres of grazing land
remain under this order in the Pon
ca reservation, and 100,000 in the
Osage reservation.
Senator Hanna, in an interview,
declares that he is not a candidate
for president, and desires his friends
to so understand. He says that fre
quent mention of his name in con
nection with the office handicaps his
labors as head of the civic federa
tion, whereby he hopes to bring
about a better understanding be
tween wage earners and employers.
The first regular contract ever
made in the world to pick cotton by
machinery was closed in Greenville,
Miss., a few days since, and the first
experiment with the machine will be
made next fall. A Pittsburg man
named Thomas"It. Morris is the in
ventor of the device, and for the
past ten years he has been conduct
ing experiments.
An unsuccessful attempt was
made to hold up a Frisco passenger
train between Seligman and Wash
burn, Mo., by two men. The rob
bers boarded the train at Seligman.
and just after the train pulled out
climbed over the tender into the cab
and covered the engineer and fire
man with revolvers. They ordered
the engineer to increase speed, but to
stop when they gave the signal.
Two miles beyond Seligman they or
dered him to stop. Seven or eight
men appeared at the spot designated
as the train approached. Mean
while the engineer had pulled his
throttle wide open and when order
ed to stop was making more than
a mile a minute down grade. It was
impossible to stop within half a
mile. After leaving the confeder
ates out of sight the robbers abused
the engineer for not stopping and
alighted from the engine when it
reached Washburn.
Cotton is now worth nearly $5 a
bale more than on June 1.
Sol Smith Russell, the actor, is
dead. He was born in 1818, and
had followed the calling of an actor
since 1862.
Ex-Couneilman Kratz, under in
dictment at St. Louis for bribery,
and who forfeited a $20,000 bond,
has been located in Mexico.
G. H. Goodnow, general manager
of the Rock Island, announces the
appointment of Hiram S. Cable to
be superintendent of the lines west
of the Missouri river. The changes
to follow this appointment, it is
said, are to be far reaching. Mr.
Cable is a son of R. R. Cable, chair
man of the board of directors oF the
Rock Island.
Col. J. P. Morgan is said to have
received the following fees for pro
moting combines: United States
Steel corporation, $100,000,000;
Metropolitan Securities Company,
$30,000,000; American Bridge
Company, $15,000,000; ship com
bine, $12,500,000; Northern Securi
ties Company, $15,000,000; total,
$172,500,000.
Following the precedent set in
the case of Gen. Smith, the presi
dent has ordered the trial by court
martial of Maj. Edwin F. Glenn,
Fifth infantry, one of the officers re
ferred to as a participant in the
administration of the “water cure”
in the testimony developed before
the senate Philippine committee re
cently.
A terrible storm swept over the
town of Glen Rose, Tex., demolish
ing buildings in which eight persons
were killed outright and several fa
tally injured. The tornado literally
devastated farm property and crops
for a distance of five miles north oP
Glen Rose and several miles south,
and more than 100 families were
rendered homeless.
l)r. J. vv. Taylor, grand high
priest of the grand chapter of tha
Masonic order in the United States,
has granted a dispensation for a Ma
sonic lodge in San Juan, P. R„ and
will soon grant another for a lodge
in Manila. These will he the first
lodges to be instituted in the new
insular possessions. I)r. Taylor has
also called the meeting oT -fie next
grand chapter at Little Rock, in
1903.
Rioting by peasants are of daily
occurrence in Russia, and in several
instances troops of the czar have
refused to lire on mobs with loaded
shells. Government ministers are
being threatened with assassination
and a strict guard is being main
tained in all government buildings.
So serious is the agitation at Mos
cow that the czar lias abandoned his
intention of spending the Russian
Easter there.
Gen. Powell Clayton, who is now
in Washington, expects to return to
his post in Mexico about May 20.
He will visit Little Rock, Hot
Springs and Eureka Springs before
his return.
Frank Moore, a negro, was caught
in the act of opening a safe in a
store at Pine Bluff and placed un
der arrest. Moore confessed to hav
ing committed a number of burglar
ies.
Fulton county drouth sufferers
have appealed to Kansas City busi
ness men for aid.
Clarendon has a curfew law that
will send the youth of that town
home by 7 o’clock in the evening if it
is enforced.
Major Waller and Lieutenant Day
of the marine corps, who were tried
by court-martial at Manila on the
charge of executing natives of the
Island of Samar without trial, have
been acquitted.
A Santa Fe passenger train was
derailed five miles from Medil, Mo.,
while going at a fast rate of speed.
The mail ear, dining car and two
forward sleepers went into the ditch.
Five people were killed and twenty
three injured.
Forty male students at Baker
university, Kansas City, have been
suspended for breaking into the col
lege gymnasium and watching a
game of basket ball between girls
dressed in bloomers.
NEWS OF ARKANSAS,
First in Fifteen Years.
judge of Carroll county, residing at
Berryville, was seriously injured.
This is the first accident to occur
ou this line in fifteen years.
A freight caboose was overturned
at the east entrance of the tunnel
on the St. Louis & North Arkansas
road, just north of Eureka Springs,
caused by the breaking of an axle.
Of ten passengers and employes rid
ing in the caboose, which was over
turned, nine were more or less hurt,
and Hon. H. N. Pittman, probate
Woman Defends Herself.
News comes from Phillips coun
ty of the probable fatal wounding
of a negro storekeeper at Modoc by
a white woman whose name is un
known. It appears that two white
women, strangers to the neighbor
hood, were living in a shanty-boat
tied up near Modoc, with their hus
bands. They went to the store of
Council Allen, a negro, and after
making some purchases started to
return, when they were followed by
Allen and another negro. On the
way to the boat the negroes grossly
insulted the women, who ran. The
negroes pursued them and attempt
ed to go to the boat, when one of
the women got a Winchester rifle
and fired, shooting Allen through
the lungs. The negroes then made
eff.
Father of Twenty-Five Children Dead.
Dave Worley, aged 85, grandfath
er and groat grandsire to more than
a hundred living persons, died at
his home near Eureka Springs re
cently. He had fifteen children by
his first wife and nine by his sec
ond. In the funeral train was a
wagon in which rode one of his
granddaughters with ten of her
children, ranging from one to twelve
years. Fifteen years before the war
Uncle Dave was a slayer of bears
and trapper of wide renown through
out north Arkansas.
Cloudburst Near Harrison.
A cloudburst along the course of
Crooked creek near Harrison raise.d
that sream out of the banks and
caused serious damage. A construc
tion camp of the St. L & N. A. rail
way was carried away, crops were
washed away and considerable prop
erty destroyed. The flood was ac
companied by high wind aad very
destructive hail.
Will Not Be Reappointed.
An Associated Press dispatch
from Washington say* that Presi
dent Roosevelt has informed the re
publican leaders of Arkansas that,
he will not reappoint Hon. H. L.
Rommel collector of internal revenue
and Col. Henry M. Cooper marshal
for the eastern district. The state
organization has recommended Col.
A. S. Fowler for marshal and Hr. F.
W. Tucker of Clover Bend for col
lector.
Narrow Escape.
A disastrous accident was mirac
ulously prevented at the white river
railroad bridge near Newport. The
bridge keeper started to open the
bridge to allow a steamer to pass |
through and Engineer Blakely, who
was crossing on the railroad track
with an engine, failed to see tluj
signal. When he saw the draw was
opening ho jumped, narrowly es
eaping instant death. The engine
rolled to the edge of the opening
and was left hanging over the edge
of the bridge.
New Line Gpen.
The extension of the New Or
leans and Northwestern railway,
part of the Gould system, from Bas
trop, La., to the Arkansas state line,
a distance of seventeen miles, was
opened on the 1st inst. The stations
on this extension are Wardville,
Vaughan’s, Stevenson’s and
White's. The system is now con
structing a connecting line between
the state line and El Dorado, a dis
tance of forty-five miles. When
this connection is made the line will
be open to Camden, where connec
tion will be made with the St. Louis,
Iron Mountain and Southern
Col. Wood’s Views.
Col. Henry Wood, discussing the
sale of the Choctaw, said: “In my
judgment the sale of the Choctaw
property to the Rock Island inter
ests will be of great advantage to
the state of Arkansas and to the city
of Little Rock. Conditions were
such that it was practically impos
sible for the Choctaw to maintain
itself as an independent corporation,
without the expenditure of large
sums of money, which might or
might not have been remunerative
to its stock-holders; whereas, the
property has now passed under the
control of a corporation strong
enough to hold it and to identify it
sell permanently with the country.
For some time I have seen that the
change was imminent. This brings
the Rock Island system into a part
of the country which has heretofore
been entirely outside of their inter
ests. But I believe they will find
after making a careful investigation
that the further development of
their newly-acquired property in Ar
kansas will not only add largely to
its value but also to the traffic of the
parent system. Probably the con
trolling reason for the purchase of
the property bv the Rock Island was
to obtain control of the Choctaw coal
interests in the Indian Territory
and to secure access to the coal
fields in the Indian Territory and
Arkansas.
Killing in St. Francis.
A fatal shooting affray occurred
at a sawmill in St. Francis county
in which a man named Yarborough
shot and killed a man named Taylor.
He shot him several times with a
shotgun and the wounded man lived
only a short time. Yarborough made
his escape. Yarborough was Tay
lor’s son-in-law. .
Board Reorganized.
At Little Rock last week the new
Arkansas world's fair board, com
posed of Mayor Geo. R. Belding,
of Hot Springs; James C. Rembert,
of Helena, and Geo. T. Lake, o{
Fayetteville, held th# first meeting
since reorganised. Mayor Belding was
selected for president, and Mr. Rem
bert secretary. The president was
directed to communicate with Presi
dent David R. Francis to learn posi
tively whether the exposition will be
postponed or not. The board spent
much time discussing the progress
made by its predecessors and out
lined a plan for collecting exhibits,
etc.
Col. Fowler Appointed.
Col. A. S. Fowler has been ap
pointed marshal of the Eastern dis
trict to succeed Col. Henry M. Coop
er. Col. Fowler was the unanimous
choice of the republican state cen
tral committee, and in addition to
this endorsement he was recom
mended by a large number of busi
ness and professional men, irrespect
ive of politics.
Two Rewards.
Acting Governor Huddleston has
offered the following rewards: $100
for the arrest of Tom Yarbrough,
who shot and killed W. L. Taylor in
St. Francis c-ounty, April 24. 1002;
$100 for the arrest and conviction
of one IfcAdams, who waylaid and
shot Alex Dunavant in Craighead
county April 10, 1002.
Officer Slain.
City Marshal Sam Weaver, of
England, was shot and killed by W.
E. Allen. Arthur Young, a by
stander, was struck in the arm by a
stray bullet. The killing was the
outcome of Weaver arresting Allen
and keeping him locked up for sev
eral days. After receiving mortal
wounds Weaver drew his pistol and
shot Allen in the hip.
Appointments Conferred.
The following appointments have
been confirmed by the senate: Re- j
ceivOrs of Land Otlices—J. E. Bush
of Little Rock, C. M. Greene, Har
rison; J. G. Chitwood, Dardanelle; i
E. A. Schicker, Camden. Reg- 1
isters of Land Otlices—J. I. Worth
ington, Harrison; J. H. Battenfield,
Dardanelle.
Editor Sued.
Norman E. Mack, editor and pro*
prietor of the Buffalo Times, and
manager of the national democratic
committee, from New York, had a
damage suit filed against him at
Hot Springs last week. The suit
was filed by a maid at the Park ho
tel, where Mr. Mack has been with
his wife during the season. Tha
circumstances ore as follows: Mr.
Mack went to his room to dress for
a dance to be given in the pavillion
in honor of the visiting editors of
the national association. He had a
roll containing $140, which he re
moved from his business suit to his
evening suit. He went to the ball,
but on his return he found the mon
ey was missing from his pocket. In
vestigation revealed that Libby Law,
a maid, was the only one who was in
the room while he was absent. Mr.
Mack was excited over his loss and
frank to make allegations against
Miss Law. The hotel management
refused to have Miss Law arrested
without further evidence than
Mack’s suspicions, and he grew in
dignant at what he considered their
carelessness for the welfare of a
guest. On the evening following
two couples repaired quietly to the
dancing pavillion to try a new figure
in a cotillion, and while raising the
windows to air the room one of the
gentlemen found a roll of money.
It was taken to the office and proved
to be the sum that Mack lost. He
admitted the denomination of the
bills as the same, and was glad to re
cover it. The next day Miss Law
called on local attorneys, authorizing
a suit for $^b,000 for defamation of
character.
Jail Delivery Prevented.
Several desperate long terra pris
oners confined in the Pulaski county
jail made an unsuccessful attempt
to escape by using a file made from
a shoespring. The men were dis
covered at work on the cell bars
about midnight by the jailer who
soon had them confined in separate
quarters.
No More Races.
Owners of the Little Rock Jockey
Club threaten that if pool rooms
are not allowed to run the annual
I race meet in the above city will be
abandoned. The city council has
positively refused to permit pool
rooms to run. The officials declare
the racing park can bettOT afford to
be abandoned than to allow pool
room privileges.
Shooting At Texarkana.
J. E. Shutt shot and seriously
wounded Capt. J. C. Whitener at
Texarkana. Both parties are prom
inent business men and old citizens
of Texarkana. For many years
Shutt was in charge of an undertak
ing establishment belonging to
Whitener, who runs a livery stable.
The men have been at outs for soma
time. ■ y ,
Henry Mitchell, aged 20, was
killed by a falling tree near Ozark.
Hon. W. J. Bryan lectured at Lit
tle Rock April 29 on “The Conquer
ing Nation.”
It is estimated that Benton coun
ty realized $1,156,250 last year from
her apple crop alone.
Veterans who attended the Dallas
reunion say the visitors were well
cared for by the citizens.
Gov. Davis returned to Little
Rock on the 1st inst. from his out
ing in the west.
Thos. Appleby, a switchman, was
crushed to death beneath a locomo
:ive at Fort Smith.
Burglars blew open the safe of
he Hicks grocery store at Texar
kana, securing $150.
Charbon is causing the death of
many horses and mules in Drew
county. i
Geo. Fitch, white, shot and killed
Erastus Baker, colored, in a saloon
at DeValls Bluff.