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VOL. II.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1902.
jNO. 25.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Naval Constructor Hobson, whj
has been on sick leave for several
months, has reported for duty.
Early frosts have caused a big
loss to truck farmers of Missouri,
Illinois, Indiana and Kansas.
Justice Gray, who retired from
the supreme bench last spring, died
at his home in Lynn, Mass., of par
alysis.
King Edward of England has en
tirely recovered from the illness and
operation which caused much anx
iety throughout Europe.
It is reported that between 300
and 1,000 Chinese converts to the
Catholic faith have been killed the
past month by Boxers in the prov
ince of Sze Chuen.
President Koosevclt, on the 15th
inst., entertained between six and
seven thousand friends and neigh
hors at Oyster Bay. It was the
first reception of the kind ever giv
en by a president, and all classes,
white and black, rich and poor, were
in attendance.
Twenty lives have been reported
lost in fighting forest fires in Ore
gon and Washington, and it is esti
mated $2,000,000 worth of property
has been destroyed during the last
few weeks. Many more people are
missing, but it will not be known
how many are dead until report i
from remote districts come in. The
estimate of the property loss does not
include standing timber, but covers
sawmills, houses, barns, shops, eord
wood and farm implements.
An explosion in the Big Four mine
at North Fork, W. Va., caused; the
death of fifteen miners. The ex
plosion is said to have been caused
by an accumulation of gas catch
ing on fire from the lamp of a mi
ner who was going to work, and this
in turn fired six kegs of blasting
powder that had been stored hack
in the mines. The explosion knock
ed down all the brattices for a quar
ter of a mile back toward the mine
entrance, thus cutting out all of
the air from the men imprisoned be
hind the debris.
Corners in grain are forever ren
dered practically impossible by a
decision handed down by Judge Chy
traus, of Chicago, if sustained by
the higher court. The case was for
an injunction asked by Waite,'Thor
born & Co. against prominent com
mission houses in the recent July
oats corner. The most important
ruling is that the Chicago Board of
Trade loses the power to pass on
property rights where margins are
involved, and denying its authority
to discipline members for refusing
to put up all called margins.
China is on the verge of another
boxer uprising, which may equal
that of 1900, according to advices
received from Minister Conger. The
troubles appear to arise principally
from extortionate taxation, com
bined with resentment against the
presence of missionaries, thus jus
tifying the judgment of the depart
ment of state which pointed out to
the powers that the demand for ex
cessive indemnities would result in
serious internal troubles in China.
Mr. Conger’s first advice bears date
of August o, from Pekin, and he re
ports serious anti-foreign riots near
ChenTu, in the province of Szo
Chuan, in which a number of native
Christians had been massacred and
chapels destroyed.
It is feared the Mississippi river
will in a few years cut a new chant
nei above Memphis and leave that
city, unless something is done to
hold the stream in its present course.
Discussing the situation the Com
mercial Appeal says: “Should the
river do its worst it would mean that
Memphis will be without a water
highway. It will mean that-the
present bridge of the Frisco system
will be useless, and that a new one
will have to be built. In addition
to these great and almost incalcula
ble injuries to the prosperity and fu
ture of the city, and the annihila
tion of profits on the part of the rail
road, it would mean the devastation
of fertile plantations, and hund-redi
of other ills which would naturally
follow in the wake of such disaster.”
George Gould says the Missouri
Pacific will certainly bridge the
Mississippi at Memphis unless tolls
are reduced over the present bridge
at that point.
The democratic convention of
Massachusetts repudiated the Kan
sas City platform and nominated
Wm. A. Gaston, a gold standard
man, for governor.
Lieut. Peary and party, who in
1901 sailed on the steamer Wind
ward on an Arctic expedition, has re
turned. Lieut. Peary reports
important discoveries in natural his
tory.
The prize fight between Terry Mc
Govern and Young Corbett, sched
uled to take place at Louisville, did
not come off in that city, as an in
junction was granted against the
club promoting the battle.
In a fit of jealousy, Mrs. Emma
Poindexter shot and killed her hus
band at Kockford, la. The woman
crept into her husband’s room when
he was asleep and emptied the con
tents of a revolver into his body.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
says the scare’of a financial strieng
ency in the east, on account of the
necessity of large sums needed in
the south and west to move crops is
groundless. That there will be no
xurther drains on the eastern banas
is shown by the large sums being
sent to New York from the west for
investment in call loans and secur
ities.
A settlement of the Pennsylvania
miners’ strike seems to be as remote
as at the beginning of the trouble.
The operators say the only way to
settle affairs is for the men to return
to work, while the officials of the
miners’ union declare they will hold
out indefinitely. In the meantime
the price of fuel is soaring skyward,
and at many points is beyond the
reach of a large class of people.
Speaker Henderson has declined
to accpet a renomination for con
gress from the third district of Iowa.
This action of Mr. Henderson was
a great surprise to politicians all
over the country, as well as to those
in his district, especially since a re
nomination was tendered unani
mously. Mr. Henderson gives as
his reason for the course he pursued
that his views on treatment of trusts
are not in accord with the views of
his party in command in Iowa.
Two women, disguised as negroes
and in the act of robbing a neighbor,
after murdering his wife, were them
selves killed near Ashland, La. It
seems the husbands of the two wom
en burglars enticed the husband of
the murdered woman from home at
night, and his dead body was found
the next day in the woods. The
women, disguised in men’s attire,
were ransarkinc t.b p Jinnap wliAn «
peddler, who was sleeping in an ad
joining room awoke and opened lire,
killing both of them. When he
aroused the neighborhood and an
investigation was made the two bur
glars proved to be the wives of the
white men who had persuaded the
husband of the murdered wife to go
hunting. The wives killed the wo
man to secure $300 pension money
in the house.
The mystery surrounding the dis
appearance about ten years ago of
George Nipper, a wealthy cattleman
of Claremore, I. T., has at last been
cleared up. Nipper left home for
Texas with a large sum of money,
and as his people could find no
trace of him it was concluded that
he had been murdered and robbed.
His wife collected a portion of his
life insurance, and in a few years
married again. A few weeks ago
a man who had known Nipper well
at his old home recognized him on
the streets of Denver in the person
of a cripple mendicant. An inves
tigation brought to light the fact
that Nipper, shortly after leaving
home, was stricken with paralysis,
and fot seven years was a public
chargo on a poor farm, being unable
to make known his name. When
discharged from the hospital he be
came a wanderer, stfli ‘ a mental
wreck, ekin<jj out a miserable exist
ence. He has been taken back to
his home, and with the proper care
and treatment it is believed M ill re
cover
Pleasant Poster, governor of thf
Creek Indian nation, has called f
meeting of the governors of the five
civilized tribes, to be held at South
McAlester on September 2G, for the
purpose of formulating a general
plan for bringing Indian Territory
into statehood- art the expiration of
tribal government in 190G. Gov.
Porter says the Indians are opposed
to statehood with Oklahoma.
A tight over a seat in the Nation
al Convention of Colored Baptists
at Birmingham, Ala., resulted in the
death of nearly a hundred delegates
and members of the audience, and
many others were injured. Art the
conclusion of an address by Booker
T. Washington, Judge Billou, a ne
gro lawyer from Baltimore, engaged
in an altercation with the choir
leader concerning an unoccupied
seat, and it is said a blow was struck.
Some one in the choir cried, “They’re
fighting.” Mistaking the word
“fighting” for “fire,” the congrega
tion arose tn masse and started for
the door. One of the ministers
quickly mounted the rostrum and
admonished the people to keep quiet.
Ho repeated the word “quiet” several
time, and motioned to bis hearers
to be seated. Again the excited con
gregation mistook the word “quiet”
for “fire,” and rushed pellmell for
the door. Men and women crawled
over benches, fought their way into
the aisles, and those who had fallen
were trampled on like cattle. Tha
ministers tried again to stop tha
stampede, but no power on earth
could stay the struggling, fighting
mass of humanity. The screams of
women and children added to the
horror of the scene, and through
mere fright many persons fainted,
and as they fell to the floor were
crushed to death. The level of the
floor is about fifteen feet from the
ground, and long steps lead to the
sidewalk from the lobby, just out
side the main auditorium. Brick
walls extend on each side of these
steps for six or seven feet and this
proved a veritable death trap. Ne
groes who had reached the top of the
steps were pushed violently forward,
and many fell. Before they could
move others fell upon them, and in
fifteen minutes persons were piled
upon each other to a height of ten
feet. This wall of struggling mass
of humanity blocked the entrance,
and the weight of fifteen hundred
persons was pushed against it. More
•than twenty persons lying on the
steps underneath the heap of bodies
died from suffocation. The dead
bodies were quickly moved and the
crowd inside, finding an outlet came
pouring out. Scores of them lost
meir luuung ana roiiea aown me
long steps to the pavement, sustain
ing broken limbs and internal in
juries. In an hour the church had
been practically cleared and the
sight which greeted the eyes of those
who had come to aid the injured
was sickening. Down the aisles and
along the outside of the pews the
dead bodies of men and women were
strewed, and the cries of the maimed
and crippled were heartrending.
Thrones Sold by Auction.
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In London recently two ancient
Ashanti coronation thrones, uphol
stered in human skin, were offered for
sale. They are said to have been i
brought from West Africa by a mili- 1
tary officer. The thrones are em- i
blems of Ashanti royalty, and with
out them the successors of N’Kwanta 1
and OTinsu cannot be crowned. The (
purchaser incurs a certain responsi
bility in their safe custody, and might I
well become the victim of one of 1
those amazing intrigues which nov
elists have woven around the stolen
sacred stones of the east.
Foes of the Memory.
Scientists have discovered that the 1
memory is stronger in summer than 1
in winter. Among the worst foes of (
the memory are too much ijood, too 1
much physical exercise, and, strange- 1
y enough, too much education. <
NEWS OE ARKANSAS.
Fatal Collision on Choctaw.
A Choctaw special passenger train
oaded with member of companies
J and B, twenty-second infantry,
from Fort Logan H. Itoots, collided
tvith a freight train on a curve of
the Choctaw belt line at Lit
tle Bock. The soldiers from
Fort Roots numbered over a
aundred men and officers, who
sverc en route to Fort Riley to
participate in the army maneuvers.
Fireman Doughtry of the freight,
ind a colored brakeman named
Wyatt were instantly killed, and pri
rates Anderson, Breem, Goldman
»nd Hill received serious injuries.
Both trains were going at a rate of
about eighteen miles an hour, and
that others were not instantly killed
is a miracle. The engineer and
fireman of the special, as well a?
Engineer Ainsworth, of the incom
ing freight, escaped death by jump
ing, but not until their engines had
been reversed. A misunderstanu
ing of orders appears to have been
the cause of the collision, as the
freight should have stopped at tlu
junction to allow the special to pass
onto the main line.
Amendment No. 7.
It is contended by several state
officials that amendment No. 7, au
thorizing the legislature to place
members thereof on a stipulated sal
ary per term, was not defeated at the
recent election. The general im
pression prevails that to aelopt ar
amendment a two-thirds vote is nec
essary, but those high in authority
claim that the law requires only t
majority of those voting on the ques
tion to carry. The amendment re
ferred to received a majority oJ
1,616."
Fighting Slot Machines.
Several business men of Ho
Springs have gone into court witl
the object of banishing slot machine:
from that city. A temporary in
junction has been granted in chan
eery court against the operation 0:
these machines, and the final out
come of the fight will be watchei
with interest, as the decision of tin
courts will no doubt affect othei
cities where these devices are in op
eration.
Doctors to Meet.
Dr. J. P. Runyan, president o:
the state medical society, has issuer
a call for the first meeting of tin
councilors of the association for Lit
tle Rock October 20. The purport
of the meeting will be to devise ways
and means of perfecting the re
organization of the society througl:
the county societies in conformity
with the new constitution adopted
at the recent meeting at Little
Rock.
Alleged Train Robber.
James Sanderson, an alleged train
robber, was taken into custody at
Hot Springs. Sanderson is accused
jf ti'ain robbery, and was under bond
for his appearance in court at Platte
City upon this charge when he left
Missouri. When the warrant was
read to him he was being tried in a
justice’s court on the charge of s'teal
ng a pistol from his uncle, who rc
lides near Hot Springs.
Killed by Stray Bullet.
As the result of a shooting scrape
lear Grand Lake, Chicot county,
Mary Cook, colored, is dead and a
legro boy received a slight wound,
lenry Johnson and Hense Phillips
lad a row and both drew guns and
ipened fire, each missing their mark,
but a bullet instantly killed the
look woman and struck a boy in
he leg.
Farmer Drowned.
W. P. Addis, a Pulaski county
armer, met death by drowning in
. peculiar manner. Addis was
unning a trot line in a lake near his
lome, when a large fishhook became
ntangled in his clothing and he was
hrown from his boat and held under
he water, where he was found sev
iral hours later.
world’s Fair Emblem.
Tho official emblem of Arkansas
for the S't. Louis world’s fair has
been adopted, the official announce
ment having been made by President
George Belding of the state commis
sion. The ’design, chosen from
among the dozen submitted in com
petition was that drawn by Fitzbur
ton of Hot Springs, who wins the
gold medal offered by the board for
the best design. It has been copy
righted and will be the only official
emblem of the state at the fair. It
will be used for buttons, stick pins
and other articles of jewelry, and
will prove to be a most attractive
souvenir. They will be sold by the
directory for the benefit of the ex
position fund. The design repre
sents a large red apple, and shows
at a glance the material advancement
of the state. The designs are on
the inside of the apple outline. At
the top is a picture of the state
building as designed by Architect
Hart. To the left of this are two
pine 'trees, at the base >f which is a
heap of agricultural products, as
though poured from the horn of
plenty, there being corn, grapes, cot
ton bales, wheat, melons, etc. On
the right of the picture is the train
of progress bearing a load of miner
als, the number of the engine being
1904. Above the picture of the
is tut; uiu. ivriii>a3 ciii.u
below “Louisiana Purcha-t Lxposi
tiori.” The whole design will be
tinted red, the color of the famous
big apples of the southwest, shad
ing off into the picture.
New Road Assured.
A. M. Hoxie of Boston announces
that the immediate construction of
, the Arkansas, Missouri & Kansas
railroad is assured. The new road
is. to run from Memphis west to
Ohanute, Ivan. It will open un
developed mineral territory in the
' northern portion of this state, and
1 will connect the zinc fields with the
gas and oil fields of Kansas. The
survey is almost completed.
Killed By Switch Engine.
Mrs. Mary Hill, a resident of Ha
, zen, was fatally injured by a switch
. engine in the Iron Mountain yards
at Little Rock. Mrs. Hill was vis
iting relatives at Little Rock and
while walking along the track she
stumbled and fell. She was slight
. ly stunned by the fall and was unable
to get off the track in time to prevent
' being run over by a s a itch engine.
Merchant Accidentally Killed.
I
John Redmond, a Hot Springs
shoe dealer, accidently shot and kill
ed himself with a revolver. Red
mond was in the habit of wearing
a revolver in a belt about his waist.
When removing his clothes prepar
atory to retiring, the pistol fell from
the belt to the floor and was dis
charged with the result stated.
BRIEF MENTION.
The law department of the state
i university opened at Little Eock on
the lGth, with fifty siudents pres
ent.
The Masonic and Knights of
Pythias lodges of Pine Bluff pro
pose to erect a building to cost $G0,
000.
Carpenters working on a new
hotel at Hot Springs struck because
the contractor refused to discharge
a colored plasterer.
Joe Troupe, aged G3, and Miss
Lena Davis, aged 17, were recently
married at Fayetteville.
J. T. Dillard, sheriff-elect of Mil
ler county, has been appointed to
fill out the unexpired term of I. A.
Bickham, resigned.
S. J. Cramer, an Iron Mountain
brakeman, was instantly killed in
the Iron Mountain yards at Poplar
Bluff, Mo., by being cut in two while
asleep on the track.
Wolves have recently devoured a
large number of hogs in portions of
Clay county. To protect their ani
mals, the farmers are making fre
quent drives in order to exterminate
the pests.
Federal Grand and Petit Jurors.
Below is a list of the grand an4
petit jurors for the term of United
States court which meets at Little
Eock October 20:
R. M. Brown, Springfield, Con
way county; W. G. Senate, Corner
stone, Jefferson county; W. II. Gray,
Baxter, Drew county; J. W. Sheron,
Holly Springs, Dallas county;
James B. Gabe, Wilmot, Ashley
county; J. T. Ashcraft, Sheridan,
Grand county; J. Ik Bradley, Jack
sonville, Pulaski county; W. D.
Tucker, Tip, Woodruff county; L.
West, Murillo, Van Buren county;
F. L. Weldon, Judsonia, White
county; C. B. Leigh, Lonoke, Lo
noke county; J. L. Wacaster, Ma
zarn, Montgomery county; T. J.
Powell, Alpine, Clark county;
Charles D. Bryan, Tarval, Pope
county; M. Collins, Monticello, Drew
county; R. H. Featherstone, Arka
delphia, Clark county; Miles Leach,
Dumas, Desha county; T. M. Hors
fall, Hazen, Prairie county; T. C.
Hardy, Grady, Lincoln county;
James Baughman, W. J. Craig, Pine
Bluff, Jefferson county; J. H. Dem
by, Hot Springs, Garland county;
Wm. Freeman, Chopin, Pope couu
4
The alternates are as follows: B.
A. Garrett, Fairplay, Saline coun
ty; L. C. Paschal, Selma, Drew
county; J. H. Stiles, Clear Springs,
n/Miniir • T WT TI n iri nt' XX A Tirrvo
Garland county; E. A. Whitmore,
Gurdon, Clark county; E. A. Ander
son, Jr., Bismarck, Hot Spring coun
ty
The petit jury is as follows: N.
E, Edwards, Grand Lake, Chicot
county; J. G. Clark, Bierne, Clark
county; C. A. Bayles, Hot Springs,
Garland county; A. J. Screetou
Ilazen, Prairie county; T. B. Drake,
Judsonia, White county; H. H.
Mathews, Enola, Faulkner county;
D. I. Brooks, Trippe, Desha coun
ty; S. P. Moore, Magnet, Hot Spring
county; W. C. Lee, Yorktown, Lin
coln county; Perry C. Hooper, D.
Reeve, George W. Robertson, E. G.
Holtzman, S. H. Nowlin, W. L,
Yick, J. Kellogg, L. E. Anderson.
Little Rock, Pulaski county; G. B.
Meyers, Gip, Pope county; Louis
Womax, Toltec, Lonoke county; J.
Q. Skipper, St. Vincent, Conway
county; John Prince, May, Garland
county; G. L. Mathis, Tulip, Dallas
county; L. R. Crittenden, Ashvale,
Pulaski county; Edgar Oliver, Sear
cy, White county; Frank Pease, Sil
ver, Montgomery county; J. H. Van
Duyn, Carlisle, Lonoke county; J.
A. Alabacker, Gurdon, Clark coun
ty; S. D. Smith, Tulip, Dallas coun
ty ; D. C. Hays, Benton, Saline coun
ty ; M. E. Dunaway, Conway, Faulk
ner county; eJsse Hughes, Cinton,
Van Buren county; S. W. Roup,
Mist, Ashley county; David
Neal, Warren, Bradley county;
S. F. Halley, Halley, Desha
county; T. D. Tipton, New Ed
inburg, Cleveland county; Ar
thur Walls,'Keo, Lonoke county;
Richard Rison, Perryville, Perry
county; D. F. Peters, Warsaw, Pu
laski county; W. B. Payne, Bee
Branch, Van Buren county; J. E.
Daugherty, Russellville, Pope coun
ty.
Accidental Killing.
J. W. Allen, a prominent mill
man of Portland, accidentally shot
and killed himself. In company
with a small boy, Allen was out deer
hunting and in crossing a log stum
bled and fell. In some manner his
rifle was discharged, the ball pass
ing through his body.
Growing Rice.
George Sibley, of Lonoke, has sent
to the commissioner of agriculture
some samples of rice grown on land
in Lonoke county. As an experi
ment about one-eighth of an acre
was planted, and it is estimated that
it will produce about 25 bushels of
rice.
Alleged Shortage.
A. J. Davis, county treasurer, and
Judge Anderson, of Polk county,
have been indicted by the grand jury,
the former for embezzlement and
the latter for malfeasance in office.'
It is alleged Treasurer Davis is short
about $17,000.