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The Chicago street car strike has
been settled by both sides making
concessions.
It is announced that if Turkey
does not at once comply with the
Austro-ltussian demands for reform
in Macedonia, the two powers will
proceed with their own forces to es
tablish order.
I he grand jury of Montgomery
county, Illinois, sprung a big sen
sation by indicting a number of
wealthy citizens on the charge of
falsely swearing to the taxable
value of their property.
Senator Quay of Pennsylvania is
one of the notables that will retire
irom the senate next year. Mr.
Quay could secure a re-election, but
he prefers to spend his remaining
years free from public care.
Believing that he was about to be
attacked by a highway robber, El
mer Jennings, IT years old, shot
his friend, Walter Brewer, on a
plantation near Millington, Tcnn.
The shooting was the result of a
practical joke, Brewer rushing at
Jennings in the dark, and was shot
in the mouth.
Thpoe hundred Moros are known
to have been killed and many oth
ers were carried off dead or wound
ed as a result of five days’ severe
fighting recently in Join between
the American troops under Gen.
Leonard Wood and the insurgents.
Maj. H. L. Scott of the 14th cav
alry and five American privates
were wounded.
The eases against \\\ A. Morrow,
confidential clerk to Gov. Dockery,
and F. F. Barrett, former marshal
of the St. Louis court of appeals,
charging them with fraudulently
securing naturalization papers for
foreigners, have been dismiss d by
the presiding judge on the grounds
of lack of evidence of guilt.
The mystery surrounding the
hold-up of the cashier’s offices of
the Chicago City Railway last Au
gust, during which two of the em
ployes of the offices were shot and
killed, has been cleared up by the
confession of Gustave Marks, who
was ai're.'ted for the murder of De
tective John Quinn. Harvey Van
Dine and Peter Neulemoier are
namd by Marks as his accomplice9
in the car barn murders.
Football has claimed its usual list
of victims this year, not fewer than
seventeen fatalities being recorded
to date. If it were possible to se
cure the entire number of deaths
from the national fall sport the
total would possibly far exceed this
number. Last season the list was
not as large up to Thanksgiving
day, but several deaths were record
ed after that date. Minor injuries,
such as broken arms, legs, ribs, no
ses, collar bones, etc., do not show
tiny decrease this year.
In a twenty-round battle at San
Francisco Robert Fitzsimmons was
given the decision over George
Gardner. Both men weighed 108
pounds, and Gardner is twenty
years younger than his opponent,
who had the best of the fight from
start to finish. Fitzsimmons claim
ed that his knuckles were in bad
shape when ho entered the ring,
and says that the reason the fight
was prolonged to twenty rounds
was on account of the fact that he
injured his weapons early in the
light.
Ji. J. Hale, a printer in the gov
ernment printing office at Washing
ton, killed his wife and then sui
cided Thanksgiving day. He had
just been discharged from his posi
tion for immoral conduct toward a
young lady employe of the govern
ment.
The appraisal of the estate of
Collis P. Huntington, who died on
August 13, 1900, shows that he left
a net real and personal estate valued
at $28,301,105.
Ex-President Cleveland lias re
quested his friends to refrain from
discussing him as the probable
nominee of his party for president.
The San Domingo government
has capitulated to the insurgents,
after six weeks fighting. Foreign
powers have landed marines at
San Domingo city to protect their
subjects.
Gen. Reyes, the special envoy of
Colombia to Washington has sprung
a surprise by offering to the Unit
ed States the right to build the ca
nal across the isthmus absolutely
without the payment of a cent, and
also assures the granting of all the
concessions provided for in the
Hay-Herran treaty. Gen. Reyes de
clares the defeat of the latter treaty
by the Colombian senate was due
entirely to politics.
The efforts of Alfred Dreyfus,
the French army officer, to secure a
judicial examination of his case
have at last been crowned with suc
cess. After examining the dossier
in the case submitted to him by
Gen. Andre, the minister of war,
.Minister of Justice Valle has trans
mitted that document, together
with the petition of M. Dreyfus, for
a revision of his sentence to M.
Durand, the president of a commis
sion instituted by the ministry of
justice. This commission will pro
nounce upon the admissibility of
the request for a revision of sen
tence.
A bill of general interest to dwell
ers behind levees was introduced in
congress recently by Represent itirc
Macon, who attended the recent
levee convention held at Xcvv Or
leans as a delegate at large from
the St. Francis levee district. That
convention adopted a resolution
looking to government control of
the levees as well as to their main
te-nance by the federal authorities.
The Macon bill has been very care
fully drawn and is entitled ‘“A bill
to provide for the construction and
maintenance of levees along the
Mississippi river from the hills
above Cairo to the head of the pass
es by the government of the United
States.
Harvey Van Dine, Gustavo "Max,
Peter Noidemcyer and Emil Itose
ki young bandits captured near
Chicago after a desperate battle in
which two men were killed, have
confessed to no less than half a
dozen cold-blooded murders, com
mitted in Chicago for the purpose
of robbery. Following are the
crimes for which indictments have
been found against the men: Van
Dine, lioseki and Marx for the
murder of Otto Bauder on July 9.
Xeidermier, Van Dine and Marx
for tlic murder of Frank S. Stew
art during the car barn robbery on
August JO. Van Dine, Xeidermier
and Marx for the murder of John
B. Johnson at the car barns at the
time Stewart was slain. Marx for
the murder of Detective John Quinn
on November 21. Van Dine and
Xeidermier for the murder of
Adolph Johnson, August 1, at
North Seventy-eighth and West
North avenues, in the saloon of B.
C. Lagrosse, also for the murder of
Lagrosse at the same time.
Mrs. W. 11. Warren and her sis
ter, Miss Morris, were burned to
death at Centralia City, lvas., by
the overturning of a lamp, which
set their clothing on tire. A 0
year-old boy saved his bay sister's
life by wrapping her in a shawl and
carrying her from the house.
Speaker Cannon of the house
and Senator Fairbanks of Indiana
deny that they arc receptive candi
dates for the republican vice presi*
dential nomination.
Postal Changes.
The postal department announces
the following changes in Arkansas:
llailway mail service is establish
ed from Lake Village to Lake Prov
idence, La., by Euroda, 41 miles,
on the Iron Mountain, after De
cember 7.
The following postmasters have
been appointed: Joseph E. El
dridge, Eglantine; Robt. B. Kirk,
Ultima Thule; Willie M. Wells,
Junet; James R. Boon, Oark; Ho
mer E. Norrow, Slatington; Win.
A. Crisenberry, Crockett; Willie
Slaughter, ilabberton.
The following new offices have
been established: Ponca, Newton
county, five miles southwest of Box
ley, Arthur F. Bickel postmaster;
Justice, Faulkner county, four
miles west of Holland, Mary E.
Berry, postmaster.
The following star routes ar»> es
tablished: Wild Cherry to Calico
Rock, 13 miles, James W. Perry
man, Wild Cherry, carrier; Wide
man to Creswell, 19 miles, Thus.
J. and Felix J. Whittaker, New
burg, carriers, $597; Iuka to Deve
ro, Andy B. Whitfield, Iuka, $300;
Bamboo to Strickler, four miles,
John L. Vance, Strickler, $75;
Scipio to Lacey, six miles, Benj. A.
Donaldson, $240.
Fatal Mine Explosion.
Thirteen miners lost their live.
from an explosion in a coal mine
at Bonanza, Sebastian county.
When the explosion occurred about
1 To men were in the various shafts
of the mine. The force of the ex
plosion was terrific and the timbers
were torn from the walls of the
passage for several hundred yards
at the mouth of entry “K.” The
passages were so completely ob
structed that the work of rescuing
the entombed men was tedious iu
the extreme and several hours were
consumed before the first body wa
found. It is thought that the gas
was accidentally ignited by a mi
ner's lamp.
Creditors Get Small Sum.
John G. Lonsdale, receiver of the
old Lott road, has filed his final re
pore in federal court at Little lioek,
and the same has been ap
proved. He showed the collection
of $5,S00, which is to be distributed
among creditors holding claims
amounting to $(ifi,000, which will
give them about fi per cent.
Freight Engines Demolished.
Two engines and a number of
freight cars on the Iron Mountain
were almost completely demolished
about twenty miles south of Little
Bock in a head-on collision. The
collision was due to a dense fog,
which prevented the engineer of one
train seeing the switch in time to
back up and take the siding. No
one was injured.
BRIEF MENTION.
Will Wood, a young farmer, re
siding near Rogers, attempted sui
cide by cutting iiis throat with a
razor.
Owing to the extreme dry weath
er this fall, forest tires in different
parts of the state have destroyed a
great deal of valuable timber.
At a meeting of the Arkansas
world’s fair commission held in St.
Louis last week, the Arkansas build
ing was accepted from the contract
ors.
J. Ik Morley, an Iron Mountain
machinist, was •frightfully, scalded
at a small station near Little Rock
by the bursting of a feed pipe while
repairing an engine.
Henry Compton died rd Ilot
Springs from a pistol styut wound
inflicted by Hugh Wood< who was
held to the grand jury the charge
of unjustifiable homidfile.
The comptroller of the currency
has approved the Organization of
the National bank Jbf LI Dorado,
with a capital stockTof $25,000. Ik
W. Reeves is president.
Rev. James Thomas has increas
ed the membership of the M. E.
Church, South, ?t Texarkana from
47 to 27G in aiVear, and has raised
$18,000 to on the new $30,000
church. §
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