The Woodruff County News.
o. W. KBAUIB, Editor.
McCRORY, . . ARKANSAS
NEWS OP THE WORLD.
Ex-Gov. Waite, of Colorado, fell
dead at his home in Aspen Novem
ber 29.
The husband of Mrs. Nation, of
saloon smashing fame, has been
granted a divorce.
President Roosevelt spent thanks
giving in a quiet manner with his
family in the White House.
The St. Louis exposition commis
sion has set April 30, 1903, as the
date of opening the big fair.
Terry McGovern was defeated for
the lightweight pugilistic champion
ship at Hartford, Conn., by Billy
Rothwell, of Denver.
Geo. M. Pullman, Jr., son of the
late millionaire car builder, died
last week in San Francisco of pneu
monia. He was 2G years old.
Secretary Hay received a dispatch
November 28, reporting a rumor
that Miss Stone, the American mis
sionary kidnapped by Bulgarians,
is dead.
A fierce battle between revolution
ists and government troops was
fought on the Isthmus of Panama
November 29, in which over 100
were killed.
Stewart R. Young, city treasurer
of Louisville, Ky., after reading an
article charging him with being
short in his accounts, suicided by
shooting himself.
Ur. J. Li. Liartrell, aged 67 years,
was convicted at Butler, Mo., of mur
der in the first degree for the killing
of a companion traveling with him
in a wagon, the motive being robbery.
It has been made public that 112
bars of silver bullion, valued at $20,
000, were stolen six months ago in
transit from a smelter at El Paso to
the east. It is believed the bullion
was thrown from the cars shortly
after leaving El Paso.
From 100 to 125 people were
killed in a wreck on the Wabash
railroad one mile from Seneca,
Mich., November 27. Several
coaches loaded with immigrants
were smashed to pieces and con
sumed by fire.
Eight officials of the company
owning the Baby mine at Pocahon
tas, Va., in which a number of men
were entombed by a gas explosion
entered the mine to search for the
bodiers of unfortunate miners and
were overcome by gas and perished.
The Virginia constitutional con
vention adopted amendments pro
viding for separate schools for white
and black and providing for the com
pulsory education of children be
tween 8 and 13 years of age, unless
excused by the local school authori
ties.
The official count of the votes cast
in Maryland at the recent election
has been completed. It shows that
the democrats will have seventeen
senators and fifty-one delegates in
the next legislature, while the re
publicans will lave nine senators and
forty-four delegates. The total vote
in the state for the heads of the re
spective ticket is: Hering (dent.),
for comptroller, 96,477; Platt
(rep.), 96,356; Hering's plurality,
121. Thomas Sparran (rep.) defeat,
ed J. Frank Turner (dent.) for
clerk of the court of appeals by a
plurality of 1,389.
The United States court of ap
peals, sitting at St. Louis, in revers
ing a decision of the United States
district court of the Indian Terri
tory, held common law marriages to
be valid. The court held that mar
riage is a civil contract, and may
be made by any persons of different
sexes competent to make such a con
tract. While commonly entered into
with some ceremony, either civil or
religious, it may be consummated
without any ceremony. If a man
and woman, in good faith, agree to
become husband and wife, and this
agreement is followed bv a consist
ent and notorious cohabitation, the
relation of husband and wife is law
fully esfablished.
A. J. Streeter, union labor candi
date for president in 1896, died at
his home in Chicago November 26.
The switchmen employed in the
yards of six railroads at Pittsburg
went on a strike November 26 for an
increase in wages.
Over 500,000 people in Yang Tse
Valley, China, will perish this win
ter for the want of food unless aid
is forthcoming from some outside
source.
Ex-President Kruger is still defi
ant and declares the struggle in
South Africa has only begun, so far
as the resources of her people arc
concerned.
Mrs. Emma Hooks, one of the
wealthiest women in Memphis, has
been indicted on the charge of caus
ing the death of her husband who
died recently by administering poi
son in his food.
Four masked men entered a gam
bling resort at Chic-kasha, I. T.,
compelling every one to hold up his
hands while they robbed the tables
of what money there was in sight.
The robbers got about $700 and
made good their escape.
Bills providing pensions of $5,000
annually for the widows of two pres
idents of the United States are ex
pected to be introduced in the sen
ate on the first day of congress.
One, which undoubtedly will be han
dled by Senator Mark A. Hanna,
provides for a pension for Mrs. Mc
Kinley. The other authorizes the
payment of a pension to Mrs. Benja
min Harrison. >■
Richard Croker, leader of Tam
many, asserts that during the recent
city campaign in New York he was
denounced as a thief and boodler by
his opponents, and now that they
are in power, he calls upon them to
prove their assertions. There seems
no legal way in which Mr. Crokers
connection with the administration
of New York City, through Tamma
ny, can be legally investigated. The
internal revenue department has de
cided that the Vanderbilt heirs must
pay into the United States treasury
the. sum of $360,000 as inheritance
tax. The heirs have already paid
on inheritance tax to the state of
New York of $520,995.
N. C. Rathbun, who attempted to
fraudulently collect life insurance
by substituting a corpse for that of
his own, has been indicted at Jef
fersonville, Ind., for murder in the
first degree for the killing of the
man supposed to be Chas. Goodman,
of Evansville. There are six counts
in the indictment, as follows:
That of administering a poison to
Chas. Goodman; giving laudanum to
a male person, unknown to the grand
jury; giving an unknown poison to
an unknown male person; adminis
tering an anaesthetic poison to
Chas. Goodman; administering an
anaesthetic poison to an unknown
person, in each case unlawfully.
Indian Commissioner Jones, in liis
annual report to the secretary of the
interior, gives a brief resume of the
educational work of the Indian Ter
ritory nations. In the Choctaw na
tion there are five academies and
160 day or neighborhood .schools.
The total attendance is 2,555 and
the cost $96,008.56 per annum. The
Chickasaw nation has an average at
tendance of 315 at its five principal
schools, which are maintained at a
cost of $14,025 a year. The Creek
nation has 9 boarding schools, 6 for
Indian children and 3 for children
of their freedmen. There are also
64 neighborhood schools, of which
41 are for Indians and 23 for negro
children. The average attendance is
1,401 and the total annual cost $68,
258.88. In the Cherokee nation
there are 30 full-blood, 80 mixed, 14
negro primary and 124 neighborhood
schools. There is an average attend
ance of 2,811. The total annual cost
of the schools is $82,735. The Semi
nole nation is the smallest of the
five civilized tribes. Its scholastic
population is about 900, divided as
follows: Indians, 400; negroes,
400; whites, 100. No reports of
work among these schools is made to
the department, as they are main
tained and controlled entirely by the
tribal authorities of the Seminole
nation
NEWS OF ARKANSAS.
Anti Saloon League Work.
Edward A. Tabor, state superin
tendenLof the Arkansas Anti-Saloon
League, has made his annual report,
iu the course of which says:
Legislation.—As a result of our
organized attitude and the work of
agitation carried on before and dur
ing the meeting of the general assem
bly of Arkansas, we were successful
in securing some very imporaant
laws at the hands of our legislators.
Your representatives were received
by most of the members of the legis
lature in both houses with uniform
welcome and show of appreciation,
not as lobbyists, but as the represent
atives of good citizenship; and as a
result we secured, among many oth
er laws, the following of special
value: .hirst, the Wilson, anti
gambling bill; second, the Park bill,
against soliciting orders; and, third,
the graduation of penalties. By
proper watchfulness on the part of
our local leaders throughout the
state in the selecting of our future
representatives, we hope to secure a
still stronger body of true and tried
men for our next legislature, all of
whom will live above the reach of the
saloon and gambling influences,
while in the legislature. To this
end, let us work, hope and pray.
Law Enforcement.—Of all the de
partments for practical results, this
is the most important, and yet it is
also the most difficult. There are
few communities that have men
strong enough and willing as leaders
to personally enter and lead the
fight. Especially is this true where
the local officers are seen to be in col
lusion with the lawless element.
However, in spite of all the odds
against us our success has been phe
nomenal. There are a dozen towns
in Arkansas today where law en
thronement has become a settled fact
that year ago was thought to be im
possible. One of the most encour
aging signs of our future victory is
the attitude of our courts and most
of our prosecuting officers. Thc-y al
most universally receive us as repre
sentatives of a good citizenship move
ment and as such give us a hearty
welcome. As a result our success in
the courts has been almost universal,
having lost only four cases out of
over five hundred prosecutions dur
ing the past two years. The courts
are. uniformly sustaining our tem
perance laws. Chancellor T. B.
Martin and Circuit Judge Chapline
have each sustained our law against
the whisky drummer soliciting or
ders, and the supreme court has sus
tained the Baines seizure law, which
is now becoming our strongest legal
weapon against the liquor seller. Our
greatest difficulty in this phase of
the work is the lack of funds to keep
a properly equipped detective force
at our command to meet all of the de
mands of the public. However, we
are systematically striking at the
strategic points of the state, and
there is rapidly being built a strong
sentiment in favor of law enforce
ment. Another and far-reaching re
sult of our work has been accom
plished in our capital city, Little
Bock, namely, the closing of all
pool rooms and gambling hells. One
year ago we would have been proud
to know that such results could be
assured within three years.
Wanted for Murder.
James Hydric-k, now serving a
term in the Kansas penitentiary as
one of the three train robbers im
plicated in the hold-up of a passen
ger train and the killing of Express
Messenger Chapman, near Mound
Valley, Kan., in 1892, may be par
doned and taken back to Pine Blufi
to answer an indictment of murder
in the first degree for killing Clem
Ingraham.
State Democratic Central Committee.
Chairman Carroll Armstrong, of
the democratic state central commit
tee, and Secretary Gray Carroll
have called a meeting of the commit
tee at Little Rock on December 18
next for the purpose of fixing the
basis of representation in the state
convention and the transaction ol
such other business as may properly
come before the committee.
A Fine Truck Country.
Prof. W. S. Thomas, who resides
on a mode] farm at Alexander, on
the Iron Mountain, makes a very im
portant and interesting report to the
Little Lock board of trade, showing
that three crops of potatoes per year
is now undertaken by the farmers
of his section of Arkansas: In his
report Prof. Thomas says: “The
second crop of Irish potatoes, plant
ed in August from the seed of the
first crop, which was planted in
March and harvested in June, has
become a very important industry.
In this immediate vicinity about
four thousand bushels have been har
vested, and the quality is superior to
the first crop, and much better than
northern, both for seed and eating.
A number of our farmers have plant
ed the third crop, which will be har
vested in March, and of this crop
the mode of culture differs material
ly from that of the first and second
crops. It is but a short time since
the exportation of potatoes was
thought of. Now it is a lucrative
business. Think of it; three crops
in a year. The future will show
central Arkansas to be the finest
truck farm in the world.”
Killed in a Runaway.
Jack Friedly, aged about 45, a
Swede, met death in an unusual
manner at Fine Bluff. Friedly was
driving a pair of horses hitched to
a wagon. The animals became
frightened and ran into a tree. The
jar threw him violently forward.
His neck was dislocated and death
was instantaneous.
Scottish Rite Masons.
The fall reunion of Scottish Kite
Masons began at Little Rock Novem
ber 25, and at the session a class of
thirty-eight received the degree from
the fourth to the thirty-second. On
j thanksgiving morning the corner
stone of the new home of Scottish
Kite Masons of the state was laid.
White River M. E. Conference.
The thirty-second session of White
River conference of the M. E.
Church, South, convened at Bates
ville November 30. The first con
ference ever held in Arkansas con
vened in Batesville in the month of
November, 1836, the year that Ar
kansas was admitted into the Union.
Milling Company Incorporated.
Articles of association of the
Searcy Mill Company, of Searcy,
have been filed with the secretary of
state. The capital stock is $25,000.
J. C. Baugh is president and the oth
er stockholders are J. T. Pinkington,
J. A. Ford, E. A. Robbins and J. S.
Sanford.
BRIEF MENTION.
Frank Jameson, a colored brake
man, was killed by a train at El
Dorado.
The postoffice and store of G. F.
Chamberlain at Magnet, were de
stroyed by fire last week, the work
of an incendiary.
Gov. Davis has reduced to $50 a
line of $500 and one year’s jail sen
tence assessed against Mrs. Emma
McCall, of Faulkner county.
Gov. Davis will probably go to
Washington, to look after funds
from the government to equip the
i state guard.
Marshall and Will Griffith, color
ed, were lodged in jail at Helena,
charged with assaulting and fatally
injuring their aged father with an
ax.
C. F. Fry, a Choctaw conductor
who was injured by an accident at
| Forrest City November 7th, died
| November in a hospital at Little
: Rock.
The culprits who stole money and
pearls from the Bank of Black Rock
several weeks ago equal to the
amount of $10,000 have not been
captured.
A negro named Albert Shelbey
was caught in the act or robbing the
post office at Douglass, Jefferson
county, by two citizens who were
passing the building.
The towns of Huntsville and
Hindsville have raised bonuses of
$15,000 and $10,000 respectively to
induce a ra rli atodohipsr sAdh“d
induce a railroad to enter that ter
ritory.
Church Statistics.
The secretary of Little Rock con
ference, M. E. Church, South, fur
nishes the following statistics: Num
ber of local preachers, .110; number
of members, 32,477; infants bap
tized, 654; adults baptized, 1,632;
number of Epworth leagues, 43;
members, 1,464; number of Sunday
schools, 346; teachers and officers,
2,150; scholars, 18,042. Amount
paid American Bible Society, $181;
paid presiding elders, $0,183.93;
paid preachers, $54,577.44; paid
bishops, $1,008.50. Number of so
cieties, 497; houses of worship, 399;
value of churches, $397,366.91, on
which is indebtedness of $7,007.39.
Pastoral charges, 111; parsonages,
96, valued at $31,900, on which is
indebtedness of $S,428.40.
Hon. George T. Locke, who was
shot at DeQueen by Prof Kolb, died
from the wounds November 27.
The edict has gone forth that sa
loons at Pine Bluff must shut up
shop Sundays.
A. K. Pfole, a tailor, threw him
self in front of a passenger train at
Texarkana and was literally ground
to pieces.
The town of Menefee, on the Lit
tle Rock and Fort Smith railroad,
was almost wiped out by fire No
vember 28.
A three and a half foot vein of
coal was struck at a depth of 275
feet by well-borers at Fayetteville,
and 30 feet deeper a 7-foot vein was
penetrated.
Hon. R. R. Hogins of Russellville
entered upon his duties as superin
tendent of the penitentiary on the
1st, inst., succeeding Hon. “Bud”
McConnell, resigned.
At Texarkana there are now five
negroes in jail charged with the kill
ing of Planter Ed Rochelle. Hoff
Scott is named as principal. Two
others a-rc Newt Hooks and J. Jat
ton.
Bob Perry, colored, body servant
of General Joe Shelby during the
war of the rebellion, was accidentally
killed at Bentonville by jumping off
a moving ’Frisco train. Citizens
provided a fine casket, and the faith
ful old servant’s remains were fol
owed to the grave by a large portion
of the white citizens of the commu
nity. _
Four sisters named Miller were
burned to death intheir home in
Pittsburg, the fire starting from an
explosion of a coal oil can while
one of the victims was lighting a fire.
Leading London papers, in referr
ing to the attitude of the United
States, in the Isthmus tangle, declare
that no single power will oppose this
“great power.”
Maryland republicans declare
they will support any democrat in
the state if enough votes can be
secured from the majority to defeat
ex-Senator Gorman. The Demo
crats have a majority of votes on
joint ballot, but the scheme is to
induce Mr. Raynor, counsel for Ad
miral Schley, who is a democrat, to
enter the race.
An Associated Press dispatch,
from Kansas City of the 24th says:
Carl Atheno, the hypontist who
was buried on a vacant lot last
Monday night, was disinterred to
night in the presence of several
thousand spectators. The coffin in
which he took his long sleep was
placed on a platform, and six men
lifted his body out and let it rest
on blankets. An alarm clock was set
off close to his ear, and before the
bell had stopped ringing Atheno be
gan to move. Finally he opened his
eyes, and the six men lifted him
to his feet. The crisp night air re
vived him rapidly, and he tried to
talk to the crowd, but it was so noisy
that he was compelled to give it up,
and asked to be taken to the Balti
more hotel. A doctor took Atheno’s
pulse and found it registered at 50.
When he was interred last Monday
his pulse was 78. At the hotel his
temperature showed 100. His upper
lip was split in the center from the
dryness of the earth, and he had lost
probably 20 pounds. Atheno was
given a bath at the hotel, after which
he sat down to a lunch consisting of
three spoonfuls of milk and one-half
of a cracker.