The Woodruff County News.
G. W. KRAMER, Editor.
McCR^RY, - - ARKANSAS
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Seth Abbott, father of the fa
mous prima donna, is dead.
The British war office has issued
an urgent call for volunteers to go
to South Africa.
An average of 1,500 cases of bu
bonic plague is reported daily at
Few Chow, China.
The Boers recently purchased a
large number of guns in South
American republics.
The Pan-American Exposition
board of directors report a loss of
$4,000,000 over receipts.
Milton Garrigren, aged 70 years,
and Marie Thomas, aged 17, were
married at Kokomo, Ind., last week.
Bill Morris, a colored rapist, met
the horrible fate of being burned
at the stake by a mob at Balltown,
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The Scottish Rite Masons un
veiled the heroic bronze statue at
Washington of Gen. Albert Pike
last week.
Gen. Chaffee, military governor
of the Philippines, now has a force
of 40,000 men and officers under
his command.
A movement is on foot by New
York capitalists to form a combine
of all the hardware jobbing houses
of the country.
During the year 1900 Americans
consumed 2,219,847 tons of sugar,
according to statistics furnished by
the government.
Six men working in the rapid
transit tunnel in New York were
crushed to death by the caving in of
118 feet of the tunnel.
Golden Rule Jones, of Toledo,
who is interested in the Beaumont
oil field, is endeavoring to effect a
combine of small producers.
A convention of advocates for sin
gle statehood for Oklahoma and the
Indian Territory will be held at
Oklahoma City next month.
The safe in an express car on the
Southern Pacific railroad was torn
to pieces by robbers near Eugene,
Ore., but no booty was secured.
President Roosevelt has appoint
ed lion. Geo. E. Koester, a gold
democrat, collector of internal reve
nue of the district of South Carolina.
W. T. Harris and his son were
killed at Waco in a street duel
by Dr. Z. T. Lovelace. Bad feeling
over family affairs led to the tragedy.
Judge John R. Reagan, of Texas,
who was postmaster general of the
Confederate states, is reported dan
gerously ill at his home near Pales
tine.
Gen. Buller lias been relieved as
commander of the third army corps
in consequence of a speech in which
he criticised the British war depart
ment.
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’ Davis Farmer, a 13-year-old St.
Louis lad arrested for stealing, says
he was induced to commit the crimes
through hypnotic influence of an ac
quaintance.
L. C. Chisholm, who it is claimed
has operated extensively over the
south in passing raised dollar bills,
was arrested by secret service offi
cers at Poplar Bluff, Mo.
The amendments to the charter of
the city of St. Louis, providing
means to raise funds for public im
provements, were approved by a
large majority of the voters.
Frank Parsons, Jr., aged 12, was
accidentally shot and killed near
Swifton by James Furnather, a
companion his own age, as they
were returning home from a hunt.
W. H. Measley, an American im
prisoned at Perfirio Diaz, Mexiea,
alleges he was refused a trial within
a reasonable time, and has appealed
to the authorities at Washington for
the appointment of a commission
whose duties it shall be to make a
thorough investigation of the perse
cution of American prisoners at the
hands of Mexican authorities.
Secretary'Gage has accepted the
treasurership of the McKinley Me
morial Association.
It is rumored the Italian govern
ment will request Don Carlos, the
pretender, to quit Italy.
Lorenzo Snow, late president of
the Mormon church, left two living
wives and twenty-five children.
Col. H. Watterson is an avowed
candidate for the Democratic nomi
nation for governor of Kentucky.
Plans for sending reinforcements
to the Philippines are now under
consideration by the war depart
ment.
The goverment of Colombia has
doubled all import duties, in order
to raise funds to carry on the can
flict with the rebels.
Santos Dumont, the French in
ventor, has completed an air ship
with which he encircled the famous
Eifel tower in Paris.
Between 20 and 30 people, mostly
girls, perished in a fire which de
stroyed Hunt, Wilkinson & Co.’s big
upholstering establishment in Phila
delphia.
A number of the star players of
the St, Louis National Baseball club
have deserted and signed with the
American association team to play
in the above city.
John H. Choate, ambassador to the
court of St. James, arrived at Wash
ington on the 21st to confer with
the President about pending inter
national questions.
The annual report of Major Gen.
Henry C. Corbin, adjutant general
of the army, reviews the work, con
dition and needs of the military.
Gen. Corbin submits a table to show
that the army in the Philippines
is to be reduced by expired terms
at the rate of about 2,000 a month
from now until June, 1902. The
question whether the regiments thus
depleted in strength are to remain
so or to be recruited to their full
roster, will receive his earliest at
tention. It is already time to be
gin special recruiting he says. The
losses from all causes in the regular
army and the volunteers from July
1, 1900, to June 30, 1901, totaled
16,924 officers and men in the form
er, and 8,191 in the latter. The
casualties to the troops in the Phil
ippines since the date of the first ar
rival, June 30, 1898, to June 30,
1901, were 117 officers and 3,378
men killed, and 182 officers and 2,
646 men wounded. Gen. Corbin
recommends that cadets of each grad
uating class be sent to Fort Monroe
for target practice and instruction
in seacoast gunnery. The general
says it has been reported to him
that retired army officers detailed at
full pay as military instructors, in
some instances do not even live at
the colleges and only occasionally
visit them. This state of affairs, he
says, should be corrected. An equal
ly important need of the service, Gen.
Corbin says, is a domestic cable
from the Pacific coast to the Phil
ippines. He urges that more com
fortable quarters for the troops in
the Philippines be provided as soon
as possible, and that an appropri
ation be made for the erection of
storehouses in and about Manila;
that farriers, teamsters and the like
should have uniforms different from
the regularly enlisted soldier. He
also says that officers in active ser
vice should be provided servants en
listed as such, and with uniforms to
distinguish them from the rank and
file. Gen. Corbin strongly recom
mends that congress shall authorize
the retirement of not to exceed two
major generals in the active and one
on the retired list, with the rank of
lieutenant general. Justice has al
ready been too long delayed, Gen.
Corbin says, in the matter of medals
for exceptional war service recom
mended by the late President Mc
Kinley. He also approves a move
ment to give service medals to all
officers and men of the regular and
volunteer troops who honorably
served in the war with Spain, in the
Philippines and in China.
Lord Lipton announces that he
will build a new boat to race for the
cup in 1903.
Little Boy'lowered the world’s
trotting record at Memphis, making
a mile in 2 :01 3-4.
Joseph F. Smith has been elected
president of the Mormon church to
succeed the late Lorenzo Snow.
The Carpenter Paper Company’s
plant, wholesale paper dealers of
Omaha, was burned on the 19th.
Gen. Walter Payne, for a number
of years commander of the Sons of
Veterans, died last week in Chicago.
President Pritchet, of the Boston
Institute of Technology, is being se
verely criticised for advocating the
use of beer and tobacco by students.
F. D. Lyons, a socialist, who ex
pressed anarchistic sentiments, was
taken from jail at Beaumont, Tex.,
by a crowd, and given a severe beat
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A plot to murder the shah of Per
sia has been frustrated by the arrest
of the conspirators. Two of the
shah’s brothers were in the plot,
and they have been banished for life.
Mr. John B. Harlow, of the United
States civil service commission and
former postmaster of St. Louis, has
resigned his place on the commis
sion. Mr. Wm. Dudley Foulke, of
Richmond, Ind., is to succeed him.
One of the greatest natural gas
wells that has ever been discovered
in the United States was struck
about three miles northeast of Law
ton by M. P. McDaniel, while drill
ing for oil. When down about 265
feet in a stone formation the drill
and casing was blown out with a
loud report, to a height of 200 feet.
A rigging was devised to inclose the
well. When tested it showed a pres
sure of 300 pounds.
The most important feature of the
annual report of Col. A. L. Mills,
superintendent of West oPint milita
ry academy, relates to the measures
taken for the suppression of hazing.
Treating of discipline, he says:
“Throughout the past summer’s en
campment, which is the time when
new cadets are being initiated into
their new life, and when hazing is
ordinarily practiced, it is a fact that
the great majority of cadets have
obeyed the new order of affairs and
the regulations loyally and will
ingly.”
The monthly statement of the col
lections of internal revenue issued
by the commissioner of internal rev
enue shows that the total receipts
for September, 1901, were $21,604,
447, a decrease as compared with
September, 1900, of $1,849,366.
The receipts of the several sources
of revenue are given as follows:
Spirits, $9,402,002, an increase of
$697,973; tobacco, $4,350,097, a de
crease of $218,138; fermented liq
uors, $5,901,485, a decrease of $920,
034; oleomargarine, $203,766, an
increase of $15,884; special taxes
not elsewhere enumerated, $97,423,
an increase of $13,158; miscella
neous, $1,649,673, a decrease of $1,
438,209. For the three months
ending September 30, 1901, the to
tal receipts show a falling off of
$4,417,052 from the figures for the
corresponding period last year.
George G. Davis, judge advocate
general of the army, has submitted
to the secretary of war his annual
report for the year ended June 30,
1901. It shows that during the year
there were 6,065 trials by general
courtmartial, being 600 less than
during the preceding year. Of
these, sixteen were trials of com
missioned officers, of whom ten were
convicted. Gen. Davis says the
death sentences were imposed by
military commissions in about 242
cases, nearly all natives of the Phil
ippine islands, on conviction of more
serious crimes, and sentences were
executed in about 101 cases. In
most of the remaining cases sen
tences were commuted to imprison
ment for terms varying from fifteen
years to life imprisonment, while in
few instances sentences were com
muted to imprisonment for from five
to ten years, and in a few other cases
the sentences were disapproved or set
aside.
NEWS OF ARKANSAS.
Disastrous Fire at Lamar.
The town of Lamar was almost
completely wiped out by tire Octo
ber 23d. The total loss is estimated
at $100,000. The following is an
estimate of the losses: Mrs. Boback,
building and store, $3,000; JaYnin
gen Bros., merchandise, $250; Mrs.
Blakely, store building and postof
fice building, $1,500; R. A. More
land, stock of drugs, $500; Mrs.
Mattie Payne, store building, $600;
G. W. Odom, stock of groceries,
$500; J. A. Nourse, store building,
$750; Dr. G. D. Huddleston, drug
store, $3,000; Thiemer restaurant,
$500; William Webb, store house,
$750; Mrs. Thompson, store and
warehouse, $2,000; Max Lamb,
blacksmith shop and tools, $500;
Birnbaum, dwelling and shoe shop,
$800; Tom Howard, household
goods, $200. All of the above are
supposed to be uninsured. J. C.
Blair, dwelling and livery stable,
lost $3,000, partly insured; W. A.
Cazort, two store buildings, $4,500,
partly insured; Cazort Bros. & Mc
Gehee, merchandise stock, $30,000;
partly insured and part of stock
saved; sundry parties, 130 bales of
cotton, no insurance.
Christian Endeavorers.
The State Christian Endeavor
convention, held at Little Rock last
week, was attended by a large num
ber of delegates. The secretary’s re
port showed a large increase in
membership during the past year
ahd 'much good accomplished
through the efforts of the members.
Officials were elected, as fol
lows: President, E. J. Lee, Siloam
Springs (re-elected) ; vice president,
Rev. J. R. George, Clarksville; sec
retary, Rev. W. IT. Bohn, Siloam
Springs; treasurer, Mr. Surrey
Wood, Little Rock; junior superin
tendent, Miss Ella Browning, Little
Rock (re-elected) ; missionary su
perintendent, Miss Olive Matthews,
Pine Bluff; citizenship superintend
ent, Walter "Bates, Little Rock (re
elected), chairman press committee,
Frank Hulse, Clarksville.
Grand Lodge, I. 0. 0. F.
The grand lodge of Arkansas, T.
0. 0. F., closed its annual meeting
in Eureka Springs, after electing
the following officers: Grand mas
ter, R. G. Floyd, Eureka Springs;
deputy grand master, George Rob
bins, Salem; grand warden,
C. V. Beloat, Corning; grand
secretary, John P. Paul, Gravitt,
grand treasurer, L. S. O’Neal,
Fort Smith; grand representa
tive, A. C. Jones, Hot Springs,
grand chief patriarch, Z. P.
Freeman, Eureka Springs; grand
high priest, I)r. Parker, Paragould;
grand senior warden, J. A. Dickson,
Van Buren; grand junior warden,
W. D. Hunt, Coal Hill; grand
scribe, John P. Paul, Gravett;
grand representative, M. M. Stucky’
Newport.
Wholesale Arrests.
For the murder of William Scott,
which occurred near Jefferson
Springs, Jefferson county, seven peo
ple have been arrested. They are
all negroes. Scott was called to the
door and no sooner did he make his
appearance than he was shot dead,
ten buckshot entering his left breast.
The assassin fired from ambush. It
is thought that all the negroes ar
rested are parties to the murder.
Sherman, Charley, John and Young
Stokes, brothers; Mattie Brady, the
murdered man’s mother-in-law, Flora
Scott, his wife, and Gus Williams
are the arrested negroes.
Negro Murderer to Hang.
At a special term of court held
at Danville, Bud Wilson, colored,
who killed Robert Naylor, a guard
from the penitentiary, was convict
ed of murder in the first degree and
sentenced to be hanged. Naylor was
en route to a camp in Yell county
with Wilson when the negro took
advantage of an -opportunity and
crushed his skull with a piece of
iron.
Searcy College Case.
Special Chancellor Cantrell,, of
Little Rock, handed down his opin
ion last week in the case of P. \
Robertson et ah, trustees of Searcy
College, lately destroyed by fire,
plaintiffs, against W. H. Lankford
et ah, defendants. The plaintiffs
sought to hold defendants as con
structive trustees for the benefit of
the college and certain citizens of
Searcy. The plaintiffs, as trustees,
some years ago sold the then Searcy
College to the defendants, the con
sideration being, as alleged by plain
tiff's, $8,000 in money and the fur
ther consideration that defendants
would maintain the college there as
memorial and in the name of Mag
Speers, of Pine Bluff. The college
equipments cost the citizens of Sear
cy about $50,000, but were sold to
the defendants for the price and
purpose above named. The defend
ants insured the building and furni
ture for some $20,000. The college
and contents were destroyed by fire
last February, and the defendants
collected the insurance money and
refused to rebuild. The suit was
brought to hold the defendants
trustees for the college and
Searcy citizens. The decree gives
plaintiffs judgment for $17,500 in
surance money, annuls ,the deed to
the defendants for the property, re
moves the defendants for the2345
moves the defendants as trustees and
appoints others in their stead.
AY. H. Lankford, the main de
fendant, is a prominent banker and
capitalist of Pine Bluff, and the oth
er defendants are his wife and moth
er-in-law. Attorneys for the de
fendants prayed and obtained an ap
peal to the supreme court.
Carl Stubblefield Killed.
Carl Stubblefield, an old citizen
of Pine Bluff, was shot and killed in
the above city by Meyer Solomon
son, a newspaper man. The trouble
was caused by an article which Sol
spn had written about Stubblefield.
The two men met at a grocery
store, engaged in a small fisticuff,
with very little damage to either.
Stubblefield was arrested, but later
on was released on his own recogni
zance. He then went to Solomon
son’s place of business with the in
tention of killing him, it is alleged,
but was not quick enough and Solo
monson did the killing.
Turned off the Gas.
A special dispatch to the Little
Rock Gazette from Fort Smith
says: “At the circuit court room
Mr. E. A. Tabor attempted to hold
a meeting to organize a branch of
the Anti-Saloon League, which was
attended by about fifty persons.
During the course of his talk the gas
in the building was suddenly turned
off, and the janitor claimed ignor
ance of the location of the cut-off.
Ida Pearson, aged 22, suicided at
Eureka Springs by taking carbolic
acid.
Shot by a Showman.
Erastus Smalley, a student of
Mount Vernon school at Trenton,
Phillips county, was shot by a trav
eling showman at Helena. The
showman cursed Smalley over some
trivial matter, whereupon the young
man knocked him down. A second
attache of the show came to the re
lief of his friend and he too was
knocked down. The first of the men
got hold of a pistol and fired three
shots at Smalley, one of them lodg
ing in his thigh.
Robert Campbell, a white man,
formerly of Little Rock, made an at
tempt at suicide in a house of ill
repute at Pine Bluff.
Nashville Gets Pennant.
At a meeting of the board of
directors of the Southern Baseball
Association, held at Chattanooga,
the question of awarding the pen
ant was decided in favor of Nash
ville against Little Rock. While
Little Rock won the greatest num
ber of games played, Nashville
claimed the championship on games
contested which were awarded to
her by the board. In the series be
tween the two clubs Little Rock won
two-thirds of the games played.