McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1902.
VOL. II.
NO. (>.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
The "Y aqui Indians of Mexico are
again on the warpath.
Five hundred people perished in
an earthquake in Guatamala.
Potter Palmer, the well known
Chicago millionaire, is dead.
Santos Domingo, capital of the
^ Dominican government, is in the
hands of revolutionists.
The Melart Pulley Company’s
plant at St. Louis was destroyed by
fire, caused from lightning. Loss,
$300,000.
The new state bill admitting Ok
lahoma, Arizon and New Mexico
has been passed by the lower house
of congress.
The American civic federation
has been unsuccessful in its efforts
to settle differences between employ
er and operator in anthracite coal
regions, and a strike may yet occur.
The president has summarily dis
missed John Grant, United States
marshal for the western district of
Texas. On April 1 last the attorney
general charged Grant with receiv
ing a fee of $2,000 for service, in
securing for a Beaumont national
bank a designation as a United
States government depository.
Grant is said to have admitted that
he received the $2,000.
Gen. Chaffee reports that on the
4th inst. troops attacked and cap
tured the principal port of Sultan
Bavan, one of the Moro chiefs, to
gether with eighty-four surviving
Moro survivors. Hundreds of the
insurgents were slain, while the
American losses were one officer and
seven enlisted men killed, four offi
cers and thirty-seven enlisted men
wounded. The Moros are said to be
the wildest tribe in the Philippine
archipelago.
The town of St. Piere, on the is
land of Martinique, was completely
wiped out by a volcanic eruption.
It is estimated 40,000 people on
the island perished. Martinique is
one of the West Indian islands be
longing to the chain of the Lesser
Antilles, lying thirty-three miles
south of Dominica and twenty-two
miles north of Saint Lucia. Its
greatest length is forty-three miles;
mean width, nineteen; surface com
prising 244,000 acres, or 380
square miles. A cluster of volcanic
mountains in the north, a similar
group in the south and line of low
er heights between them, form the
backbone of the island, which cul
minates in the northwest in Mont
Pelee (4,430 feet). The great mass
of the population consists of Creole
negroes and half castes of various
grades. Since the earthquake of
1849 nearly all the houses were of
wood, having only one story. St.
Pierre, the commercial center of the
island, stood on a bay on the west
coast.
Six lives were lost in a cloud
burst at the town of Foss, in Okla
homa, on the Choctaw road. Fif
teen houses were washed away and
a Choctaw train had a thrilling race
to escape the flood that followed.
Foss was a town of 800 people. It
was built mostly on high ground,
but extended into the valley. The
cloudburst struck Turkey creek
some distance from Foss, coming
with such suddenness that the peo
ple in the valley could not reach
high ground. From Elk City to
Foss the Choctaw railway follows
Turkey creek for a distance of six
teen miles. Below Foss the creek
crosses under the Choctaw track and
empties into the Washita, which
the Choctaw crosses further east.
The train crew saw the wall of wa
ter descending the creek and began
a race for the bridge across the
Washita. The train barely got into
Foss in time, or just ten minutes
before the bridge over Turkey creek
was swept away. A few minutes
later the bridge over the Washita
was washed out.
H. G. Squires, secretary of the
legation at Pekin, has been selected
by the president to be minister to
Cuba, and Gen. E. S. Bragg of
Wisconsin has been selected as con
sul general at Havana.
Alan-a-Dale captured the twenty
eighth Kentucky derby.
Irish • potatoes are retailing at
St. Louis for $1.20 per bushel.
Hon. H. Clay Evans has been
appointed consul general at London.
Disbursing Clerk Burrows, of the
census bureau, is short in his ac
counts $7,-400.
Frank Smith, a young while man,
died from injuries received in a prize
light at Allentown, Pa.
Twenty-four persons were badly
injured by an explosion of natural
gas in a rooming house at Marion,
Ind.
United States marshals.had a des
perate battle with moonshiners in
east Tennessee, in which one officer
was fatally injured.
Members of the crew of the battle
ship Chicago arrested in Venice for
engaging in a scrap with natives
have been pardoned by the king.
At the meeting held in Denver
of the National Association of Club
Women, the question of admitting
colored women’s clubs to the asso
ciation was defeated.
St. Louis and Kansas City butch
ers have given some strong testimo
ny against the beef trust in the in
vestigation being made by the Mis
souri supreme court.
A company composed of retailers
of meat has been formed, with a
capital of $1,000,000, and will erect
independent' packing plants at
Omaha and other points.
Russell Sage, who celebrated his
85th birthday a few days ago, says
he has not taken a vacation in fifteen
years. He now works longer hours
each day than any of his clerks.
Hetty Green, the woman million
aire, has been granted a permit to
carry a revolver in New York. She
says the weapon is carried to defend
herself from probable highway rob
rey.
The officials of the war depart
ment fear that the recent outbreak
of cholera in the Philippines will
continue for several weeks, owing
to the climatic conditions at this
time. There is some alarm that it
has spread to the soldiers, and every
effort is to be made to keep it from
becoming epidemic among the
troops. Gen. Chaffee has issued
special instructions to the army for
tlie prevention of the disease, cau
tioning officers and men against
drinking unboiled water and eating
fruits and vegetables without being
cooked.
I he betrayal of the plans of ex
isting Russian fortresses on the
German and Austrian frontiers has
cost the Russian government 4,201),
rubles, or about $3,150,000. The
government has decided to rebuild
the fortifications at once. Col.
Grimm, the man who betrayed his
country’s military secrets, was re
cently tried and convicted. He act
ed the part of a traitor for many
years, according to disclosures made
during the trial in Warsaw, and
many arrests have been made as a
result of these disclosures.
The department of agriculture is
preparing to fight the ravages of
the San Jose scale throughout the
country with its natural enemy, the
ladybug, brought from the interior
of China. Assistant Botanist Mar
latt has just reutrned from the
Orient, where he sought the original
home of the dreaded scale. Far in
the interior of the latter country,
where European plants had not pen
etrated, he found the scale and also
the ladybugs, which kept the scale in
subjection and permitted the native
plants to flourish.
In order to prevent a recurrence
of the boxer outrages of 11)00 the
powers will insist upon severe punish
ment of the men engaged in the re
volt which has broken out in the
southern portion of the province of
Chi-Li. The rebellion in Southern
China and the outbreak in Chi-Li
show that the whole of the empire is
in a state of ferment, and diplomats
in Washington who are well in
formed regarding conditions in the
far east say they would not be sur
prised should the situation become
far more serious.
NEWS OF ARKANSAS.
Detective Murdered.
Samuel Childress, of Yell coun
ty, was found dead near Aplin, hav
ing been assassinated, the murderer
using a shotgun. James A. Hud
dleston, alias Alexander, is charged
with the crime. Childress was re
garded as a sort of secret detective.
Not long ago he made a trip to Tex
as and shortly after his return a
merchant of Casa named Alexander
was arrested on the charge of coun
terfeiting money in Texas some
twelve years ago. It developed that
Alexander’s real name was Hud
dleston, and that he escaped from
the Paris, Texas, jail the night be
fore a verdict sentencing him to
ten years in the penitentiary was
delivered to the court. Nothing was
heard of him until the occurrence
mentioned above. The evidence
against him leading to his discovery
was worked up and furnished to the
Texas authorities by Childress.
Huddleston was taken back to Paris
and is reported to have been sen
tenced to five years in the peniten
tiary, but was released about three
weeks ago. He immediately re
turned to Casa and instituted a suit
for libel against Childress. On the
day of the killing it is alleged
Huddleston secured a shotgun and
went hunting in the direction where
the dead man was found.
Killed With a Hoe.
Robert Crane, aged 19, killed
Cleve Gaffert, aged 17, with a
hoe in a corn field near Fort
Smith. Crane became enraged at
Gafferth because he refused to give
him a chew of tobacco and struck
his victim a vicious blow over the
head. A brother of the murdered
lad, Boston Gafferth, was the only
witness of the tragedy. Boston ran
to his brother, the blood frightened
him and he began to cry. Crane
told him to get away from there or
he would kill him also. After the
killing Crane coolly walked home
and told his parents of the killing.
Fight to the Death.
John Harrison and Fred Wright,
prominent business men of Fordyce*
engaged in a duel which resulted
in the instant death of Harrison
and the fatal wounding of Wright.
Harrison was standing at the post
office door when approached by
Wright. Wright carried a heavy
cane, and with it attacked Harri
son, who drew a revolver and fired,
the ball entering Wright’s abdomen
Thereupon Wright drew a revolver,
and succeeded in firing three balls
into Harrison.
Urging a State Fair
The Arkansas Democrat is urging
the necessity of a state fair, and
says: “A fair in our state means
more than a celebration. Unless a
state fair association is organized
it means that the state is going back
ward. If we are content, then there
will be no fair. The progress of the
state and the improvement of our
people, the success of the efforts to
bring desirable people and capital,
all these, and many other considera
tions cry out for the fair.”
Conditional Pardon.
Andrew Thompson, a young ne
gro convict, has been granted a par
don by Gov. Davis with an unus
ual condition attached thereto. The
governor stipulates that Thompson
shall become a citizen of the state
of Massachusetts within thirty days.
This is the first instance on record
where a pardon was granted on con
ditions that the prisoner*become a
citizen of anv particular state or
country, and it is questionable
whether (he decree could be legally
enforced.
Frightful Accident.
At Kendall's mill in Jefferson
county, Duncan Andrews, an em
plove, met with a frightful acci
dent. Andrews was operating a
planer. A plank four inches wide,
one inch thick and three feet long,
running from the planer, penetrat
ed his body and went entirely
through him, coming out of his back
two inches.
New Industries
Below is given a list of new in
dustries recently established in this
state:
The work of building the pro
posed new railroad from Skinner's
Ferry, on the Pocahontas & Poplar
Bluff road, to Maynard, will it is
understood begin not later than Mav
15.
The American Land and Lumber
Company of Avenue, has been char
tered, with a capital stock of $20,
000. The incorporators are W. D.
Lewis, president; I. S. Bowers, 1. R.
Studdard, D. D. Solomon and
others.
Cooper Mercantile Company, with
capital of $3,000, has been incorpo
rated by Hugh U. McCorkle and
others of Blytheville.
Block Queensware Company has
been incorporated, with capital
stock of $40,000, and Abe Block,
president, Ike Block, secretary, at
Fort Smith.
At Star City the Star City Tele
phone Company, capital $10,000, has
been chartered, with II. D. Palmer,
president, and Isaac Bankston, sec
retary.
Rusk—Zinc Mines, etc.—Capitol
City Lead and Zinc Company, office
219-220 Bond building, Washing
ton, D. C., owning and developing
437 acres of zinc lands in Rusk,
Ark., has recently discovered gold
and copper, and will erect a large
plant; F. S. Coburn, general man
ager.
Yellville—Mining, etc.—Incorpo
rated: Puritan Mining and Mill
ing Company, capitalized at $25,000,
with C. H. Washburn, of Cedar
Rapids, la., president; Charles A.
Moore, vice president: B. II.
O’Meara, secretary, and Edward B.
Edes,. treasurer.
A dispatch from Texarkana re
ports that four syndicates from New
York, Kansas City and other cities
are endeavoring to secure a street
railway franchise there for an elec
tric line. Horse cars are now used.
The Louisiana & Arkansas rail
road proposes to build extensions
from Stamps to Hope, Arfc., a dis
tance of twenty-three miles north
ward, and from Winfield to Alexan
dria, La., forty miles southward.
It is also proposed to build from
Winfield eastward to Natchez, Miss.,
a distance of eighty-nine miles.
The Ashdown Cotton Oil Com
pany, capital $60,000,- has been or
ganized by A. N. Ward, A. Gold
smith and others.
The city of DeQueen will put in
a system of waterworks.
F. C. Huten will add new machin
ery to his flouring mill at Pocahon
tas.
Dr. J. W. Parsons and others will
establish a $60,000 cotton oil mill
at F’oreman.
W. T. Phillips & Co. will add
new machinery to their flouring mill
at Middle Brook.
A system of waterworks will prob
ably be established at Gravette.
James Graham and others are in
terested.
James Case has sold his manga
nese property near Hatfield to Ivan
sis City capitalists. The- consider
ation was $70,000.
A construction company, with a
capital of $100,000, has been organ
ized to do business at Mena. R. M.
Quigley and others are interested.
The Conway Cotton Oil and Gin
Company, of Conway, has declared
a dividend of 4,5 per cent and will
put in new machinery at a cost of
about $10,000.
The Arkansas Roundlap Cotton
Company, of Little Rock, has in
creased its capital from $200,000
to $300,000. Paul Jones is presi
dent of the company.
A new pearl-botton factory is to
be erected at Newport by the Val
ley Button Company. The contract
for the building has been awarded
to 0. 1. Hubert.
C. Voss, William Nichol and
others have chartered the Voss-Xich
ol Company, capital $30,000, to
manufacture harness, saddles, etc.,
at Pine Bluff.
The appointments of Col. A. S.
Fowler as marshal of the eastern
district and Hon. J. Iv. Barnes as
attorney of the western district have
been confirmed in the senate.
Compress Deal.
The St Louis Cotton Compress
Company, at a meeting of its direc
tors, hold last week in St. Louis,
voted to call a meeting of the stock
holders to increase the capital stock
from $625,000 to $1,500,000. The
purpose in view is the purchase of
all the •ompresses and propertv of
the Lnion Compress Company of
Little Rock. The contemplated
deal is one of immense importance
in the cotton trade. The Union
Compress Company owns a press at
Little Rock, two at Argenta (North
Little Rock) and two at Newport.
The Union Compress Company is
controlled by Julius Lesser and J.
D. Goldman, of the Lesser Cotton
Company, and Joseph Taylor, of the
George Taylor Commission Com
pany. These gentlemen have no in
tention of withdrawing from the bus
iness of buying cotton, notwithstand
ing these sales. They will acquire
interests in the St. Louis Cotton
Compress Company, as stockholders,
and the transaction is in reality
more of a consolidation than a trans
fer. The deal has been financed by
the Mississippi Valley Trust Com
pany, acting through Mr. Breckin
ridge Jones. The St. Louis Cotton
Company is about to build in East
St. Louis the largest compress estab
lishment and warehouse in the
United States, the plan being to
compress the cotton in Arkansas and
store it in St. Louis. At the meet
ing it was also announced that the
company would soon purchase the
Hope compress and warehouse prop
erties at Hope.
Big Fire at Gravette.
One-half of the business portion
of Gravett was destroyed by fire on
the 3d. The loss is estimated at
$20,000; insurance, $0,000. The
principal losers are: Odd Fellows,
$2,750 ; post-office, $250 ; News of
fice, $2,500; H. M. Pyle’s second
hand store, $500; telephone ex
change, $400; Simon Good, $2,000,
Keet Roundtree Shoe Company, $1,
500; J. P. Paul, hotel and residence,
$2,300; Dorsett & Fudge, produce,
$1,500; Mills’ meat market, $2,000;
H. P. Lewis, photographer and jew
eler, $800; T. PL Leonard, $600.
It is the fifth fire in five years. The
Odd Fellows’ hall was burned last
fall, and had just been rebuilt.
Dastardly Act.
Some unscrupulous person made
an attempt to blow up the home of
Jack Williams, an engineer, in
North Little Rock. Two sticks of
dynamite were placed underneath
the house with a regular dynamite
cap attached to a fuse. The fuse
burned up to the cap, but fortunate
ly there was a defect in the cap.
Had an explosion taken place Mr.
Williams, who was the only occu
pant of the building, would have
been instantly killed.
BRIEF MENTION.
Elijah Lefoas lias been appoint
ed postmaster at Bentonville.
Col. L. C. Demorse, a pioneer
citizen of Texarkana, died last
week.
The .State Bar Association will
meet in annual session at Little
Rook on the 27th inst.
Capt. F. W. Tucker has been ap
pointed internal revenue collector to
succeed Hon. II. L. Rommel.
W. H. Bushart, a well known
Franklin county farmer, was found
dead in bed. Apoplexy was the cause
of death.
At the annual meeting of the
Southern Baptist convention, a dis
tinguished citizen of this state, Hon.
James P. Eagle, was chosen presi
dent.
Berry Mathis, of Fulton county,
and his wife are now in the fifty
seventh year of their married life.
They have seventy-five grandchil
dren and sixty-two great grandchil
dren.
Secretary Page, of the state char
itable board, reports expenses of
maintaining state institutions the
past twelve months as follows: Deaf
mute, $18,489 ; insane asylum, $66,
942.19; blind school, $16,271.87.
IMPURE BAKING POWDER
SEIZED.
The Sew York Board of Health Find
It Contains Alum and Rock,
Declare It Dangerous to
lieulth and Dump It In
to tlie River.
The New York papers report that
the Health Department of that city
has seized as dangerous to health
nearly two tons of cheap mixtures sold
for baking powder, and dumped them
into the offal scow to be destroyed.
More of the powder was found in a
Sixth ave. department store. The
report of the analysis of the Health
Department stated that it was “an
alum baking powder” containing alum
and pulverized rock.
The different Health Authorities
seem to have different ways of repress
ing the sale of bad baking powders.
In England they have prosecuted the
grocers tinder the general law and
broken up the traffic. In Missouri the
sale of alum baking powder is actually
prohibited by law. In New Y’ork they
seize the unwholesome stuff and cast
it into the river, without any discus
sion. The latter way is certainly ef
fective.
The alum baking powders are usual
ly offered at a low price, ten to twenty
cents a pound, or with some prize, as
a temptation to the housewife.
Consumers can protect themselves
by buying only high-grade baking pow
der of established name and reputa
tion. Do not be tempted by the grocer
to take something else as “just as
good” or “our own brand,” for the
trials show that the grocer himself Is
often deceived by unscrupulous mak
ers and is .selling an alum powder with
out knowing it.
There are several good powders on
the market; let the housekeeper insist
on having what she knows is right, and
not be induced to risk the life of the
family for an imaginary saving of a
few cents.
SCIENTIFIC MARCHING.
Grailnnl Trainings XecPHHury to In
ure the Soldier to Making
tons' Murcliea.
Some of the hardest work ever done
by troops is in route marching. Our
soldiers on the spacious veldt have
known much of it. Two well-known
German savants, Prof. Zuntz, of Ber
lin, and Dr. Schumburg, of Hanover
have just made public the results ol
systematic inquiries on this subject,
which seems to deserve the attention
of all army authorities. The profes
sors conducted experiments with live
volunteer students, to determine "the
limit of weight which the soldier can
carry without interference with his
capacity for striking, and striking
hard, at the end of the day’s march.’
The young men walked 24% kilome
ters—say 11 Va miles—and bore knap
sacks with loads of 22, 27 and 31 ki
los—about 48, 39 and G8 pounds, re
spectively—keeping up the same pace,
and with only short intervals for rest.
The effect on the heart was undoubt
ed. and the authors consider that ii
the load is raised beyond 31 kilos
permanent damage to the heart may
result. Graduated training increased
the soldier’s vital capacity “up to a
certain point,” but a marked diminu
tion occurred with the heaviest loads,
this serious effect “being associated
with dilatation of the heart and liver
and veious stagnation.” The conse
quence of continuous heavy marching
on the waste of the system was what
would be expected; “the carbo hy
drates consumed in the rations are
not sufficient to replace the waste,
and a day’s rest is required after ev
ery three day’s marching fo enable
the body to recover itTi normal pow
er." In Germany they believe in sci
ence. and so. nature says, the con
clusions now published are accepted
as authoritative, and the regulations
bearing upon marching and physical
training in the army are based upon
these researches.—London Telegraph.
St. Anne*’ Body Found.
Some excavations carried" out it»
the catacombs at the expense of Car
dinal Koop, bishop of Breslau, and e»
pecially under the high altar and
choir of the church of St. Agnes
without the walls, from which his
eminence takes his title, have result
ed in the discovery of the body of St.
Agnes, one of the most, interesting
figures among the primitive Chris
tians of Borne. According to tradi
tions, she was a young girl who suf
fered martyrdom rather than sacri
fice to the gods or accept a husband
in one of the persecutions of the
fourth century—probably that of
Diocletian. About the year 1600 the
casket containing her body was found
on a marble slab in a subterranean
vault under the church, and was re
indosed by Pope Paul V. in a silver
case. This case, with its contents,
after being missing for nearly four
centuries, has again been brought to
light. British readers familiar with
the writings of the late Cardinal
Wiseman will remember that Agnes is
one of the leading personages in his
story entitled “Fabiola,” which illus
trates the life of the early Roman
Christians.—Rome Cor. Pall Mall Ga
lette.