Woodmfk County News(
VOL. VII.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1908.
NO. 45.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, ERST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Na>
tion, 2nd Particularly from the
Great Southwest.
Tin first break in the scheduled
Itinerary of the American fleet occur
red Thursday when it was founded in
advisable, owing to the delay in coal
ing, to set sail for Manila until Friday
morning. The leave-taking could have
taken place Thursday, but it was de
cided to spend one more night in
King George's Sound.
More than $1,000,000 has been left
by John Burnham Brown, a pioneer
business man of Chicago, who died
Thursday, for the founding of one of
the most unique schools in the
country. The institution will fit
young men and women to enter busi
ness careers. One of the peculiar
provisions imposed is that the bodies
of Mr. Brown and his wife, who died
suddenly Jan. 3, be buried under the
rotunda of the main building. Only
$90,000 of the estate goes to relatives.
If Count Bom ae Casteiiane will ac
cept an offer of $5000 a week for 10
weeks to appear in vaudeville, the
former husband of Anna Gould will be
seen on the stage in New York during
the winter.
The Michigan Central Railroad com
pany has closed a contract with the
American Car & Foundry company to
repair 5000 cars. This will keep one
plant busy until January 2, adding
1000 men to the pay-rolls.
A verdict of not guilty was return
ed by the jury trying Congressman
Jay F. Laning of the Fourteenth Ohio
district, charged with embezzling
from the Ohio Trust Co., of Norwalk,
O., of which he was an officer.
The United States will he rid of
Emma Goldman, champion of anarchy,
for a time. She is going to forsake
the shores of America for Australia,
where she will make a lecture tour.
The “standpatters" of Iowa have
selected as their candidate for the
United States senate nomination
against Gov. Cummins, ex-Congress
man John F. Lacy of Oskaloosa. turn
ing down E. E. Clarke, Roosevelt’s
appointee to the Interstate Commerce
Commission, on the theory that he is
not well enough known.
Six hundred persons were made
homeless, half a million dollars’ worth
of damage done, and 9,000,000 feet of
Diamond match lumber destroyed
when fire swept over Saco, Me., con
suming 85 tenement houses and
Ihreulening for a time the complete
destruction of the place. There were
many heroic rescues and narrow
escapes from death, and it was only
after a long, arduous struggle that the
firemen were able to subdue the
flames,
William Irvin, former Judge of the
criminal court, one of the oldest and
most prominent jurists in Indiana, fell
dead in court, while arguing a case.
Heart disease was the cause.
Determined to pry Col. Wm. F.
Stewart loose from the army, war de
partment officials will shortly call that
officer, who has been living in exile,
at Fort Giant, Ariz., before a retiring
board.
The Government is determined to
get out of the employers' liability law
all the potential power that Is in it.
W. R. Harr, of the solicitor general's
office, has been sent to San Francisco
to prepare a brief, and make argu
ment in a number of such cases be
fore the cricuit court of appeals. Harr
had bad charge of the employers’
liability cases before the supreme
court.
developments indicating that A.
1,001 h A: Co., who were placed in the
bands of a receiver last week, had not
ceased to operate as a trust and were
fixing the prices of fish and other pro
diKis throughout the United States,
are being made the subject of a rigid
investigation by the United States
district attorney’s offiiee. It may be
followed by the prosecution of direc
tors of the company.
Trials of participants in the Spring
field riots of one month ago begin in
ihe Sangamom circuit court before
■bulge James A. Creighton. They will
be preceded by the trial of Joe James,
i 1h- negro who killed Clergy Ballard,
and who may be said to have lighted
’lie first sparks of lawlessness in the
city.
Premier Asquith, who at the last
moment interfered in the great Cath
olic procession of the Blessed Sacra
nt and caused the parade to be rob
bed of all c.-remonv, may have to
answer to P*rliamtnt for nis action.
A "'eil-authenticated report, said to
bnve its orgin in the castle of the
kaiser. has it tnat it is the wish of
kmperor William that President
Roosevelt will visit Germany upon his
icturn from African hunting ex
pedition.
Because Tom Longboat, the Indian,
was allowed to complete In the
Olympic Marathon race, officials of tho
A. A. U. are considering severing
athletic relations with the A. A. U. of
England. Longboat had been declared
a professional by the A. A. U. of this
country, but the English A. A. U. paid
no attention to the ruling. The matter
will be considered at a meeting of the
board of governors to be held in
November.
Attempts to settle the estate of John
F. Wollensak, formerly a wealthy
hardware merchant of Chicago, but
for years believed to be dead resulted
in the discovery that he is alive and
has amassed another fortune in a
small town in California, where he has
lived, keeping liis identity secret from
his relatives and friends.
Invitations were sent out to labor
organizations all over the country to
participate in the second national
convention of the unemployed to be
held in New York city, beginning on
Sept. 25, and continuing until Oct.
2. Behind the movement are J. Eads
How of St. Louis, chairman, and
Alexander Law, secretary.
While a guest of Col. Chas. Edward
Warde, M. P., at Teston, Eng., MaJ.
Gen. Edward Luard, retired, whose
wife was shot and killed mysterously
near London, Aug. 24, died by throw
ing himself beneath the wheels of a
moving train.
aooui 4U men were overcome vy
smoke at a fire which rafted all night
in Swift & Co's., packing plant in
Soutli St. Joseph. All will recover ex
cept Alex Mason, foreman of the
South St. Joseph hose company, and
George A. Heaston, a lioseman. Their
condition is critical. Among those
overcome were General Manager Wal
ler of the plant, and Fire Chief Pat
Kane.
When negroes attempted to lynch
Isaac Young, a member of their race,
at Hattiesburg, Miss., for attempting
to attack a negro girl, white men in
terfered and saved Young's life.
Tv\ M. Parker, Jackson county,
charged with assault to kill and sent
enced to the penitentiary for one year
went to Little Rock, unattended by an
officer taking a petition for pardon
and a commitment to prison. Gov.
Pindall granted a 40 days' reprieve
and Parker returned home. Parker
shot Grif Gay, but claims he was pro
tecting his family.
Rev. John Tomaszewski, priest of
All Saint's Polish Catholic (Indepen
dent) Cathedral, Chicago, was beaten
and slabbed by an unidentified man.
The attack was made while the priest
sat studying his Bible in the quiet ot
his study in the parish house, adjoin
ing the cathedral.
The restoration of corporal punish
ment is the cure for the "frat" evil as
it exists in public high schools, ac
cording to President Schneider of the
Chicago school board. Schneider says
the school board could restore punish
ment, as there is no state law forbid
ding it. but he does not believe it will
be done.
The department of- justice is ad
vised of the capture of between thirty
and forty seal poaching Japanese
boats and tw-o schooners, the Sakaii
and the Pinzai Maru, within the three
Claiming that the evidence before
the grand jury, which indicted their
clients for subornation of perjury in
connection with the Frank J. Gould
divorce, was fraudulent, counsel for
Mrs. Ben Teal. Harry L. Mousely and
Miss Margaret Fleming obtained an
order from Judge Grain of the court
of general sessions for leave to in
spect the minutes of the grand jury
A great new nation is formed in
Siberia. One et the most gigantic
migrations in history has been pro
ceeding so quickly that the world gen
erally has not noticed it. During the
past twelve months over 500,000 Rus
sians have gone to Sibera or equally
half the number of inhabitants of the
United States received during tl«J
period from the w'hole earth.
An attempt to taae me me 01
Governor Fort, of New Jersey by
means of an infernal machine has been
frustrated by the postal authorities.
The machine, loaded with deadly ex
plosives, was mailed to the New Jersey
executive, but was intercepted by thf
postal inspectors, who opened it and
prevented what might have been >
tragedy.
By the will of tae late Miss rClizabett
uould who was a first cousin of Jay
Gould, the old Gould homestead at
Fairfield, Conn, will become a resting
place for self-supporting women. With
the homestead which is valued at $15,
000 there is an endowment of $100,000
to $2.u,tni0 for maintenance. Miss
Gould died a few weeks ago at her
home in Fairfield.
One of the most important steps re
cently taken in the development ot
practical navigation of the air will
come with the announcement, in a few
days that the Morris Park race course
has been leased for a period cf years
by the Aernautical Society of New
York, to be useu as a testing grounc
and experimental station for flyltifc
machines.
To Teach Plan of Cotton Financing.
Money has been appropriated by
the Arkansas Farmers’ Union to push
the movement to hold cotton In Ar
kansas for the minimum price fixed
by the union, according to an an
nouncement made Thursday by R. H.
McCulloch of Beebe, chairman of the
executive committee of the Arkansas
Farmers’ Union and secretary of the
national organization of the union.
Mr. McCulloch stated that at the
meeting of the executive committee
of the Arkansas union, held Wednes
day at Conway, that committee con
ferred with the Cotton Bureau of the
Arkansas union in regard to the move
ment to hold cotton in this state, and
that the result of the conference was
the appropriation of money to be used
by the bureau.
“The money appropriated will be
used by the bureau in going out over
the state and advising the farmers how
to handle their cotton," explained Mr.
McCulloch. “They will be told how
to finance 'distressed' cotton.’’
The minimum price set by the union
for cotton has never been officially
announced. The price was fixed at
the annual meeting of the national or
ganization recently at Fort Worth,
Tex., but was kept a secret. It has
been rumored that the price is 11
cents, but no authentic information
has ever been secured to that effect.
The union held its cotton for a
minimum price of 15 cents last year.
Instead of advancing, however, the
price of cotton went down, never
reaching 15 cents. There was con
mueiauie uisuess among union men
after the cotton had been held for
ntonths, as many of them, being un
able to sell their cotton. needed
money badly. The financing of •'dis
tressed" cotton was then started.
Banking institutions advanced about
$40 per bale. The scheme was not
very well understood, however, in
many districts, and the movement, it
is reported, was not entirely satis
factory to leaders in the movement.
As the result, it is understood, the
leaders intend to explain the idea to
the members.
Concerning the appropriation of
money by the executive committee,
Ben L. Griffin of Conway, former state
secretary of the union, Thursday night
said:
"The state executive committee of
the Arkansas Farmers’ Union, in exec
utive session at Conway, had under
consideration some very important
business matters pertaining to the
business future of the union in Ar
kansas, and especially so with the
cotton question. The committee ap
propriated $250 to the Farmers' Un
ion Warehouse Association to be used
in an educational campaign acquaint
ing and drilling our various union
warehouses in connection with what
is expected of them in support of the
cotton bureau.
"A cotton bureau was established at
the last state meeting, out of which
has grown the Farmers’ Union Ware
house Association. It is the business
of this association to systematize in
one chain of direct business operation
with the Memphis Farmers' Union
Cotton Company. The Memphis
Farmers’ Union Warehouse Company
is supported by the Farmers’ Union
cotton committee and the warehouse
association. The $250 referred to is
to assist in perfecting a business ar
rangement whereby the cotton com
mittee may render direct assistance
to all the members of the Farmers’
XTnion throughout the state; and with
this money the warehouse association
will send its workers to acquaint the
warehouse management in each dis
trict with the arrangements under
way.”
L. W. Wods to be Editor.
I,, w. (Buck) Woods, a well-known
Arkansas newspaper man, at present
owner and editor of a weekly at
Beebe, will be the editor and general
manager of the new Argenta morning
publication which will shortly make
its appearance. The plans for in
corporating and financing the com
pany that will back this journalistic
venture are rapidly being brought to
a focus and papers will be taken out
next week and the stock, already sub
scribed, will be converted into cash.
Miss Lelia Drake Drops Dead at
Home.
Miss Lelia Drake, a daughter of
Professor George W. Drake of the
University of Arkansas, dropped dead
at her home in Fayetteville Thursday
morning. Miss Drake held both a
B. A. and an M. A. degree from the i
University, and was recently re
elected to a position on the faculty of
the Little llock High School. Miss
Drake lias been sick several days, but
her condition was not considered seri
ous.
Union Will Not Allow Night Biding.
Protests against the action of the
night riders in Craighead county
were made Tuesday by both R. H.
McCulloch of Beebe, chairman of the
executive committee of the Arkansas
Farmers’ Union and secretary of the
national organization of the union,
and Ben L. Griffin of Conway, former
secretary of the Arkansas union.
Both said that they were investigat
ing the appearance of night riders
in Arkansas, and both declared that
the union would take every possible
step to stop any such action on the
part of union members.
Both Messrs. McCulloch and Griffin
refuse to attach much weight to the
rumor that the night riders were
members of the Farmers’ Union. They
started an investigation Tuesday, but.
have received no information from
authentic sources.
In speaking of the appearance of
night riders in Arkansas, Mr. Griffin
said: "I desire to say right here mat
the Farmers’ Union will not stand
for any such action on the part of
union members. If there is anything
of the kind done, and the union
secures proof, that man or those men
implicated in the act will be fired
bodily from the union.” Mr. Griffin
was supported by Mr. McCulloch.
The executive committee of the
Arkansas Farmers’ Union met
Wednesday at Conway for the pur
pose of deciding upon a location for
state headquarters and it is thought,
probable that the night-riding matter
will be taken up at the meeting and
a thorough investigation started.
Mr. McCulloch will also go to
Memphis Saturday to attend a called
meeting oi the National Cotton Union,
at which the appearance of the night
riders in Arkansas and Mississippi
may be taken up and action taken.
Mr. McCulloch, in talking of cotton
crop conditions, prophesied that Com
missioner Tucker's next cotton report
would show a deterioration of 30 per
cent in the cotton crop.
In talking of the cotton crop about
his own home Mr. McCulloch declared
that the crop was being destroyed by
an insect thought to be the boll
weevil. It is not knovrn whether the
insect is the boll weevil, but it is be
lieved by many that it is.
Complete Returns Show Big Increase.
i Complete returns from Monday's
election which have been received up
to the present time confirm the early
prediction that the total vote cast in
Monday’s election was larger than
that cast two years ago, and that
the Democratic majority would be at
least as large as that received by
Governor l.ittle.
Complete returns from sixteen coun
! ties, official and unofficial, give Dou
| aghey 25,713 and Worthington 10.144,
a plurality of 15,569 for Donaghey.
These same counties in 1906 gave
Little 22,779 and Worthington 9,468,
a plurality of 13,311 for Little.
If the remainder of the returns
show the same gains, the total vote
cast in Monday’s election will be found
io be approximately 175,000. as com
pared with 151,848 in 1906, and Don
aghey’s plurality over Worthington
will be nearly 75,000. Complete re
turns may decrease these figures, but
the indications are ihat both the total
vote cast and the Democratic majority
will break all previous records.
The full returns which have been re
ceived show a marked increase in the
vote for the Socialist candidate for
governor over that of two years ago.
If the present gain is maintained in
the counties which have not yet re- j
ported, the indications are that the
Socialist vote will be increased from
2.1S5, the number of votes cast for
Dan Hogan for governor in 1906, to
more than 10,000.
Thirteen counties from which the
Socialist vote has been reported give
Jones, the nominee of that party for
governor, a total of 1,249 votes. The
same counties, in 1906, gave Hogan
349 votes. The Socialists have made
big gains in several counties. In Polk
county their vote jumped from 34 in
1906 to 222. In Independence county
it was increased from 34 to 174.
Texarkana Has Two Chiefs of Police.
A sensation was caused on the Ar
kansas side of Texarkana Thursday
by ihe suspension from office of Chief
of Police Towery by Mayor Beding
field, who appointed Policeman Walter
Crowell in his place, pending trial be
fore the city council. The charges
against the chief are inefficiency and
a persistent and long-continued fail
ure to perform the duties of his office.
Towery ignored the mayor’s order
for his suspension and is continuing
to perform the functions of his posi
tion, with the result that Texarkana,
Ark., now has two chiefs of police,
both claiming exclusive authority.
The city council met in special ses
sion Thursday night to hear the
charges against Towery, but the hear
ing was not completed.
Feeling is strong over the matter.
Towery is an old Confederate soldier,
and has many strong partisans. Both
sides are represented by several able
attorneys.
Spirit Lake is to Be Restocked.
Henry Moore, Jr., president of Red
river levee district No. 1, has received
notice from the war department that
the contract^ will at once be let to
“bulkhead” Spirit Lake in Lafayette
county. This lake was nearly destroy
ed during the overflow, which devas
tated the Red river hoi toms last
spring. The end of the lake was near
the river and the rise caused the
bank to cave until it reached the end
of the lake and when the waters
receded a great deal of the water of
the lake flowed out.
This caused much distress among
the sportsmen of southwest Arkansas,
as Spirit. Lake was the most noted
fishing place in this part of the state.
Mr. More at once took the matter up
with the war department .with the
view of having the damage repaired, i
and after much careful examination
and deliberation the department has
concluded to repair the damage. A
bulkhead will be built and the levee
line will be strong enough to resist
any flood of the Red river.
The government fishery at Mam
moth Spring has agreed to send 20,
000 black bass for Spirit Lake early
in November.
Falls From Train and Drowns.
Clint Ruff, a young business man
living at Walnut Lake, fell from the
caboose of an Iron Mountain freight
train while crossing Walnut lake Sat
urday night and was drowned. The
body was recovered several hours
later.
Ruff was subject to epilepsy and
had had an attack early that morn
ing.
Saturday night he and a number of
companions boarded the freight, Ruff
getting into the caboose from a side
entrance, while the others climbed on
top. They rode only beyond the tres
tle and got off, when they heard a
splash in the water, but heard no cry.
The presumption is that as Ruff was
entering the car while it was on the
trestle a recurrence of the attack
made him lose his grip and that he
fell backward into the water.
The young man was a nephew of
the Roberson brothers and tnanged
their store at Walnut Lake.
Preaches “Gift of Tongues.”
Rev. Mr. Kinne, a traveling evan
gelist from St. Louis, has opened a
revival meeting at Texarkana to con
tinue for a week or 10 days.
Mr. Kinne is a “Pentecostal preach
er,” aud preaches the Baptism of the
Holy Ghost and the “Gift of Tonges”
ideas in the ancient apostolic way.
Men and women at the meetings of
this sect are supposed to receive such
a baptism as to enable them at times
to speak with other tongues, and to
use languages other than those they
are acquainted with, while “the pow
er” is upon them, in the same wray as
took place on the Day of Pentecost,
as recorded in the Acts of the Apo^
ties.
They also teach the doctrine of en
tire sanctification and lioline ...
Farmer’s Body in River.
The body of Wal Herron, a farm
er, who lived four miles east of Dan
ville, was iound Friday in Petit Jean
river. Herron was last seen alive !
Moniady of last week and was with ;
his son-in-lay, Adam Cook. A club;
was found on the bank of the stream '
and bruises on the face and head of
Herron indicated he had been struck, j
The coroner’s jury has rendered a ver- ■
diet alleging that Herron met death j
at the hands of Adam Cook.
On Monday night Cook reported to
Herron’s family that Herron had gone I
to Waveland and would not be home i
for a day or two. Shortly afterward I
Cook took his departure and has not '
been seen in the community since.
To Plan State Encampment.
At a meeting of Omer R. Weaver
Camp. United Confederate Veterans, a
committee of 12 was appointed to ar
range the entertainment plans for the
state convention, which will be held
at Little Rock October 14 and 15.
On this committee are B. W. Green,
James Collins, W. M. Watkins, Dr.
J. H. Lenow, J. F. Smith, Dan W.
Jones, George L. Basham, J. M. Stew
art, W. C. Rateliffe, A. J. Snodgrass
Theo Hartmau and R. B. Christian.
Second Victim of Open Shaft.
J. Rigg, proprietor of the Palace
bath house and cafe, at Eurek?
Springs, fell through the elevator
shaft from the second story to the
basement Tuesday, breaking his left
leg and sustaining serious internal
injuries.
Although the elevator had been
moved the shaft was left open. Some
time ago an employe had both legs
crushed in the same manner.
Negress Dies in Street.
Beulah Jones, a negro woman living
at Dermott, died suddenly on the
street at Monticello Monday evening.
She had just gotten off the train and
started uptown when she was seized
by a hemorrhage and died in a few
minutes.
Public Schools Are Transfomred Int«
Hospitals and War Department
Is Feeding the Needy.
St. Petersburg.—St. Petersburg Is
in the grasp of the Asiatic cholera,
which already has exceeded in sever
ity and numbers the visitation of 1903.
The disease is increasing daily at an
alarming rate, and unless the authori
ties show in the future a much great
er degree of ability to cope with the
situation than they have -in the past,
there is every reason to fear that it
will get out of hand
The government has threatened to
apply the provisions of martial law
and this threat has driven the munici
pality officials to bend all their ener
gies to the campaign of clearing the
city of the scourge. The aldermanic
council Sunday voted a preliminary
sum amounting to $250,000 to enlarge
the hospital space, to purchase and
distribute disinfectants, the supply of
which in St. Petersburg is well nigh
exhausted, and to expedite the in
terment of bodies which has been no
toriously slow. The dead houses are
overcrowded and many corpses lie un
buried.
Under his authority as prefect of
St. Petersburg. Gen. Dracheffsky, on
Saturday, prohibited the sale of liquor
throughout the city, including the
government vodka shops, until Sep
tember 22, and he further ordered
that after that the sale of liquor shall
be suspended after 2 p. m. on Satur
day until 10 a. m. Monday. This ac
tion has been taken in order to dimin
ish alcoholic excesses, which ma
terially increases the liability of
cholera infection and the general
spread of the disease.
as announced uy me omciai nuue
tins, the cases numbered 349 and the
deaths 128 during the twenty-four
hours between Friday noon and Satur
day noon. This was a considerable
decrease from the preceding day, but
there is doubt of the accuracy of the
official statement. The record for
the same twenty-four hours ascer
tained from unofficial but reliable
sources shows the actual number to
have been far in excess of that.
Whether or not, however, there was
an actual decrease, the disease re
sumed its march on Saturday, the
statistics showing that from Saturday
noon until Sunday noon, there were
398 cases and 141 deaths, this being
the largest number so far officially
announced.
It is feared that the cholera will
make further gains for at least an
other fortnight, this being figured on
the basis of former epidemics. All
varieties of Asiatic cholera have now
developed here, there being numer
ous cases of Algid type, w'hich is ac
companied by the greatest suffering.
Use a Barrel Stave.
Chicago.—A war which Chicago
high school pupils have been waging
against the board of education’s at
tempted abolition of school secret
societies and fraternities was en
livened Saturday night when the Rev.
Frank G. Smith, speaking in a Con
gregation*! church, charged the
parents with being too lenient and
recommended the use of the barrel
stave. "It should be a good elastic
barrel stave, too,” said Rev Smith.
‘ If parents side with pupils in the
defiance of school regulation, how
can we expect other than that our
future citizens will become habitual
defiers of the law?”
The board of education recently
threatened to dismiss high school
pupils who did not withdraw from
secret societies, and the pupils re
plied by seeking a court order re
straining the enforcement of the reg
ulation.
Deputy Marshal Killed.
Barnesville, Ga.—Ben F. Perdue, a
farmer living near here, shot Deputy
Marshal Ben Porch early Sunday, in
flicting wounds from which the officer
later died.
Porch earlier in the night locked
up Perdue for being drunk auiL dis
orderly. Friends appeared for *Per
due’s release and Porch turned him
out. Afterwards Perdue, it is said,
secured a gun and waited on Market
street for Porch's regular round,
when, without warning, according to
the officer’s dying words, he opened
fire.
Indignation is high and efforts are
being made to locate Perdue, who
thus far made good his escape.
Negro Confesses Murder.
Walter Ledbetter, a negro tramp,
was arrested early Sunday by Sheriff
Bowden, in the settlement of Marietta
and confessed to killing Mrs. Norman
and hei* daughter there Saturday. As
soon as the residents of the settle
ment learned that the negro ha'd been
captured, there were threats of lynch
ing, but the negro was safely lodged
in the Duval county jail, where he ia
under ’guard. A speedy trial is now
being arranged for the negro.