Modmkk County News.
VOL. V.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1900
NO. 37.
• news of the week
AN EPITOME OF THE MOST IM
PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
north, east, west, south
a Carefully Digested and fondensed
Compilation of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
SITUATION IN RUSSIA.
"Strong^anded refoVm” is laid
down by M. Stolypin, the Russiar
premier, as the keynote of his admin
istration.
Premier Stolypin says that the rea
son the members of the late parlia
ment who signed the Viborg manifesto
were not arrested was because it
would have conferred a mild and
much-desired martydom on them.
The question of a general strike
hangs fire, from various causes. The
peasantry in the famine district, it is
asserted, would resent the tying up
of the railroads ,upon which they de
pend for grain to keep them from
starvation.
The police of St. Petersburg and
Moscow are becoming active in break
ing up meetings and making domicil
iary searches.
it is now said that the immediate
impelling cause of the dissolution of
the duma was the discovery of the ex
istence of a gigantic organization for
a genera] revolutionary strike in Oc
tober next, the plans for which have
been perfectly prepared.
The constitutional democrats appear
to be afraid of compromising them
selves, and one wing is said to have
been won over to the side of the min
istry against the programme of open
revolution.
The printing establishment of the
Echo, in St. Petersburg, where thou
sands of copies of the Viborg man
ifesto were being surreptitiously print
ed, has been closed by the police.
Cronstadt has been declared under
martial law and announcement made
that meetings and demonsfrations of
all descriptions will be disbursed by
armed force.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A special federal grand jury will
convene in Chicago August 6 to probe
the methods of the Standard Oil Co.
in the transportation of its products.
Frank Kern, who, with Miss Bertha
Bowlin (since dead), was murderous
ly assaulted in Kansas Oity, Mo., has
finally regained coesciousness^ and
definitely accuses Albert M. Crone
under arrest charged with the mur
der of Miss Bowlin, with having first
abused them and then assaulted them
with a lead pipe.
Spain is said to be irritated over
the action of the United States in
the affair of Guatemala and Salvador
The Madrid journals declare that
Spain was the proper arbitrator.
Judge Quarles, in the United States
district court in Milwaukee, released
Joseph Black, John C. Black and Au
gust Anderson, of Shawano, Wis., on
habeas corpus proceedings. The men
were indicted at Portland, Ore., in
connection with alleged land frauds,
but Judge Quarles did not consider the
evidence warranted sending them
there for trial.
The supreme court of Georgia de
nied the motion for a new trial for
Jesse and Milton Rawlings, convicted
of complicity in the murder of the
Carlis children, near Valdosta, over
a year ago.
John Black and William Reagin, ne
groes, charged with the murder of Ed
Granger, a write turpentine operator,
were lynched by a mob near Fort
Gardner, Fla.
Judge Landis, in the federal court
in Chicago, has placed Zion City in
the hands of a receiver and ordered
that an election be held September
18. when the people are to choose an
.overseer by ballot. Meanwhile Dowie
retains possession of Shiloh house and
its appurtenances.
Secretary of State Root was given
nn enthusiastic welcorhe on his ar
rival at Rio Janeiro. The historic
Abrantes palace was placed at the
disposal of himself and party. A .grand
reception in his honor w'as given by
President Alves. '
Russell Sage, in his will, bequeaths
all of his estate to his widow', Marga
01iv*a Sage, after the payment of
'-L.000 to each of Mr. Sage’s nephews
arul nieces, and $10,000 to his sister,
Mrs. Fanny Chapin, of Oneida, N. Y
“ow dead.
Henry C. Brockmeyer, a former lleu
enant governor of Missouri and one
0 the best-known business men, writ
ers aud politicians in the state, is
ead, after a long Illness. He was one
0 the founders of the Concord school
ot philosophy.
M hen shown a statement made by
r. Hamilton to the effect that Harry
■ "haw is insane, District Attorney
dome of New York remarked: “This
b probably another one of the ex
re mely numerous cases in which Dr.
■imilton will be afforded an oppor
U|ty to revise his opinions.”
William J. Bryan has accepted an
invitation, recently extended, to at
tend a monster reception in his honor
to be given, on a date yet to be select
ed, in Louisville, Ky.
Willie Stewart accidentally dropped
a chisel he was showing to a cus
tomer in a La Grange (Ga.) hardware
store, into a case of dynamite. Stew
art was instantly killed, several per
sons in the store were hurt, and the
building and stock was badly wrecked.
James Richard De Remer, one of
the most, noted railroad builders in the
country, died at Denver, Col., of pa
ralysis, aged 59 years. He built the
famous swinging bridge on which the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad goes
through the Royal gorge.
A committee has been named by
President Jordan of the Southern Cot
ton association to investigate charges
that certain officials of the association
are owners of stock in a well-known
cotton brokerage firm.
Justice William Day, of the United
States supreme court, has accepted an
invitation to deliver the principal ad
dress upon the occasion of the unveil
ing of the monument in honor of Wil
liam McKinley at Columbus, O., Sep
tember 14.
In a battle betwen regular negro in
fantry and native constabulary on the
one hand and fanatic Pulajanes on the
other, in the island of Leyte, fifty of
the latter were killed and upwards of
sixty wounded. One sergeant of con
stabulary was wounded.
Reports from the City of Mexico say
that the sensational stories of plots
against Americans are largely based
on false reports or distorted versions
of a threatened strike among factory
operatives.
The superintendent of the Municipal
Cancer Research fund laboratory in
London says that, as the result of ex
periments with mice, the prospects of
discovering the mystery of the origin
of cancer are more hopeful than ever.
United States Consul Brittain, at
Hekl, Germany, in a report to the bu
reau of manufactures, shows that Ger
mans are as great offenders against
the laws for the prevention of adulter
ation of food products as Americans.
Miss Millie, L. C. Giltner and Wil
liam Augustine, Americans, who were
convicted in the Isle of Pines of con
structing a private telegraph line, in
violation of military orders, have been
pardoned by President Palma of Cuba,
on their promise not to offend again.
Sir Robert Hart, who has for so
many years administered the Chinese
customs, is winding up his affairs in
China, and will, in a few months, re
tire to England.
The Alabama Press Association
adopted a resolution inviting William
Jennings Bryan to deliver an address
“Editor's Day,” at the Alabama state
fair, to be held in Montgomery, Octo
ber 22-27. Mr. Bryan had already
promised to visit the fair.
Hiram G. Cook, of the engineering
department of the Northern Pacific
railroad, is believed to have been
drowned in the Yellowstone river, in
Montana, where he went fishing with a
party of friends.
United States Consular Agent. John
B. Breathitt, of Cananea, Mexico, em
phaticaly denies the rumor current cf
another uprising ;.t Cananea in which
Col. W. C. Greene was alleged to have
been shot.
p raUh. J. V^UUOLclUlliic:, nauicu \.u\.
murder of Mrs. Louis H. Gentry, in
Chicago, is under arrest and in jail at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he has been
identified by a young woman from Chi
cago.
The American Surety Co. has been
cited to appear before the Kansas state
superintendent of insurance and show
cause why its certificate should not be
revoked by reason of its operations
being in the nature of a trust.
It is alleged that the state of New
York ras been defrauded of $200,000 by
a clique of clerk.s, who have been ar
rested charged with selling mortgage
and bond transfer stamps from which
the cancellation marks have been re
moved by chemicals.
The Jackson Lumber Co., of Lock
hart, Ala., is charged by Germans who
escaped to Pensacola, Fla., and claim
ed protection of the German vice-con
sul, with having inveigled about 100
immigrants to their camp under prom
ise of good pay, and holding them vir
tually as slaves, subjecting them to all
sorts of indignities.
The Phoenix Royal Insurance Co., of
Vienna, which carried about $2,500,000
insurance in San Francisco, has decid
ed not to pay losses growing out of
the conflagration of last April. The
company's policies carried an earth
quake clause.
Premier Stolypin of Russia has is
sued telegraphic instructions to all
governors and prefects which is, in
effect, a declaration of war to the knife
and knife to the hilt against the dis
turbing elements.
When the body of Russell Sage is
finally interred at Troy, N. Y., It will
rest in a heavy steel casket which in
turn will be encased in concrete. The
remains will be carefully guarded in
its temporary sepulcher.
According to Minister Combs, in
Guatemala, the government of that
republic has issued a decree directing
that the terms of peace signed aboard
the Marblehead be faithfully-'Carried
out.
A
RKANSAS
STATE NEWS
The World Grows as It Gets Older.
While a firm of diggers was engaged
in putting down a well in Paragould, a
cypress log at a depth of 30 feet was
struck. The place is not near any
creek bed or '-dough, and* is about a
mile from the business part of the city.
The wood is in a fairly good state of
preservation, and had clinging about
it when brought to the surface a large
number of small shells, something like
the common periwinkle shells. Before
reaching the log as many as a dozen
different kinds of earth had been pass
ed through, and the formation of the
earth shows that it had been built up
by the action of water, from the shells
and ether materials composing the
stratum in which the log was found.
Cypress is known to be almost inde
structible to the usual methods of de
cay, but it requires a violent stretch
of credulity to believe that a cypress
log has lain where it. was found since
the time the Mississippi valley was 40
feet lower than it now is.
Kiss and Make Up.
Trouble has developed in Cherokee
Tent, Knights of the Maccabees at
Fort Smith, which has already result
ed in a split. The tent is the largest
in the state, and within the past six
months, through class organizations,
the membership has been raised from
350 to 400. Some of the older mem
bers became dissatisfied with the con
duct of the tent and have seceded to
the number of 31, and will organize an
opposition tent. About two years ago
there was a split, and for a year or
more there were two tents, but a com
promise was effected, whereby there
was a consolidation, and the members
got along harmoniously until within
a day or two ago, when the split oc
curred.
In Honor of a Great and Good Man.
At the recent meeting of the district
conference at Evening Shade the sum
of $10 was contributed to the fund be
ing raised in the state to erect a monu
ment to the memory of the late Rev.
Dr. Andrew Hunter. Dr. Hunter was
received into the conference of the
Methodist church at a meeting held in
Batesville in the year 1836, just about
the time President Jackson signed the
bill admitting the state into the Un
ion. The conference met in the second
story of the building now used by
Geo. Phillips for a blacksmith shop.
For more than half a century it stood
on the corner of Main and Broad
streets and was known as the “Red
Store.”
In Quest of the Lost.
Sheriff Kavanaugh of Pulaski coun
ty has received a letter from Jennie
Ensey, inquiring the whereabouts of
Jim Ensey. He is said to be 19 years
of age and has dark hair and blue
eyes. He has also received a letter
from Mrs. Gussie Yates of 481 Fourth
avenue, Dallas, Tex., asking informa
tion as to a middle-aged man by the
name of Yates, which is the only in
formation furnished. She says that
her husband is the adopted son of
Yates.
Hope He Will Invest it'in Arkansas.
W. F. Barnes of Corning has gone
to Sumner, 111., where he is to meet his
aunt. Mr. Barnes recently received a
letter from his aunt stating that an
uncle had died leaving him heir to a
fortune which is estimated at
?3.500,000. Mr. Barnes is the senior
member of the well-known mercantile
firm of Urmey & Barnes, in Corning,
und is also the owner of some excel
lent farm lands.
Mountain View Progresses.
The City Council at Mountain Home
has boughta grader and the road com
missioner is now putting the streets
into first-class shape.
Refrigerator Car and New Railroad.
The Wells-Fargo Express Company
has put on a through refrigerator ex
press car from Siloam Springs to New
Orleans to handle fruit, eggs and other
produce and place it on the Southern
market promptly and in good condi
tion. The car will run each week, and
will be of decided advantage to ship
pers. The Rogers Southwestern Rail
road will have trains running into
Springtown, nine miles northeast of
Siloam Springs, by August 15, and the
event will be the occasion of a monster
celebration August 24.
Will Soon Be United.
The Fort Smith Light and Traction
Company have begun the work of lay
ing a cable across the Arkansas river
below the Frisco bridge at Van Buren.
The company expects to finish the
work and have the two cities connect
ed by August 1.
A Forlorn Hope?
The Craighead county Republicans
have nominated H. H. Houghton for
representative to make the race against
Speaker W. W. Cate, who is the Demo
cratic nominee for re-election as rep
resentative.
Arkansas Postal News.
The following changes in postofflce
sites have been made: Omega, Car
roll county; Pastelle, Phillips conuty;
Rogers, Benton county. Service from
Wedington to Pedro, Washington coun
ty, will be changed August. 1, supply
to Rhea. Service has been established
between Park Place and Marianna, six
times a week. Service has been
changed, Iuka to Devero, supply Iuka;
Wake to Iuka, supply Iuka. The fol
lowing schedule changes have been
made: Trafalgar to Snyder, three
times a week; Willow to Lono, six
times a week; Junet to Sheridan, three
times a week; Redbird to Migfork,
three times a week. Service has been
established from Tip by way of De
View to McCrory and back, six times
a week. Service six times a week
has been established between the fol
lowing points: Widener’s to Klinton,
Lakehall to Lake Village, Noble Lake
to Ladd, Optimus to Hoyden, St. James
to O'Neal, Jumbo to Mt. Olive, Juka
to Devero, Center to Hardy, South
Fork to Mammoth Spring, Culp to
Vero. Black is now supplied on the
route between Cleveland and Solgo
hachia.
President Burnett Makes the Call.
President B. H. Burnett of the Ar
kansas Division, Southern Cotton As
sociation, has issued the following
call: “The membership of the
Southern Cotton Association and all
who are friends to the cause of the
people in their efforts to free them
selves from the dictates of Wall Street
cotton gamblers, and thereby secure
fair prices for the South's great mono
poly, are hereby called to meet at
their respective county sites or such
other places as they may choose, on
Saturday, August 4, 1906, at 2 p. m.,
for the purpose of passing strong reso
lutions condemning ‘future dealing’ in
all its forms, and renewing their
pledge to support the Southern Cot
ton Association, and also perfecting
stronger organizations in our State.
All county presidents and secretaries
are required to call meetings in their
respective counties on the above date,
and to send notice of the result of said
meetings to this office, that I may
have same published in that valuable
paper, the Cotton Journal.”
New Court House for Boone.
A movement is on foot to secure for
Boone county a new court house. It
is urged by those favoring the move
ment that the county needs a new
court house and a modern jail, both
to be a credit to the county. The
present offices of the court house are
not sufficiently large for the officers.
The vaults, used to hold records which
are priceless, are unsafe. The vault in
the circuit clerk's office is not fire
proof in any sense. The vault in the
county clerk's office is better and more
modern, but is very doubtful as to its
security. Both vaults are too small
for the present records. In the county
clerk's office the vault is just sufficient
to hold the tax books, all valuable
papers being outside the vault in
small wooden boxes, alike vulnerable
to fire and theft.
The Pigeons Are Coming.
It is most welcome news, if the re
ports be true, that the wild pigeon has
been seen in some parts of the West
ern country. It is many years since
those immense flocks which were a
wonder to the beholder disappeared
all of a sudden, and no man could
tell the cause of their disappearance
nor the place to which they had flown.
One year- during the Civil war they
were numerous in the South, the
heavens often being darkened as they
flew in armies Of tens of thousand.
Let them come again to Arkansas.
There is, even now an odor of pot
pie in the air.
Hard Hit.
Lightning struck the electric light
plant at Malvern and it was set on
fire and destroyed. The plant was
owned by B. W. Turner and cost about
$3,000.
A New Button Factory.
A corporation is being organized
for the purpose of locating a button
factory at DeVall’s Bluff. Almost all
the capital stock has been taken, some
of which has been sold to capitalists
in the East. The plans of the organ
ization will be completed within the
next ten days, and it is assured that
the factory will be in operation with
in the next sixty days. At first not
Ic-ss than fifty machines will be install
ed, and this number will be increased
from time to time, according as the
demands require.
A Sudden Death.
Hon. Reid Gantt, representative of
Garland county in the lower house of
the last legislature, was found dead in
his offices at Hot Springs. The dis
covery was made by Robert Bum
pass, a young attorney, who has an
office in the same building.
The contract for the erection of the
new city hall has been awarded to
Stanton & Collamore and it is under
stood that the terins of the bid were
$237,000. There is talk of an injunc
tion by citizens who oppose the mea»
ure,
ARKANSAS BRIEFS
H. T. Bradford, commssioner of
mines, manufactures and agriculture,
has announced that he proposes to re
new the collection of fruits, vegeta
bles and other crops, and wishes that
all who have good specimens of any
nature to forward them to the depart
ment. He expects to refill all the
glass jars with fruit, vegetables and
the like of this year’s growing and
hopes to turn the office over to his
successor with every exhibit new.
He announces that all who may have
anything of this nature may forward
to the department by express and the
express will be paid at that end by
the department.
The following changes in postal ser
vice have been made: Bigfork to
Mena, supply Bigfork: Bifork to Black
Springs, supply Bigfork; Redbird
to Bigfork, supply Bigfork. The fol
lowing star service schedules have
been announced: Pecan Point to
Joiner, six times a week; Claunch to
Lake City, six times a week; Yar
delle to Everton, six times a week;
Push to Gilbert, six times a week;
Una to Nogo, three times a week;
Wallaceburg to Blevins, six times a
week; Jethro to Watalula, six times
a week; Tip to McCrory, six times a
week.
Capt. Hughes of the United States
recruiting station at Jonesboro is
anxious to ascertain the whereabouts
of Charles H. Smith, a railroad man,
who served in the Second Texas in
fantry during the Spanish-American
war. Smith also served in Company
El, Second Infantry, being discharged
in November, 1902. His parents are
residents of Memphis. Capt. Hughes
has the two discharges of Smith,
which he wishes to deliver to him,
and also the papers left by Smith at.
the Jonesboro, Ark., recruiting station
in April, 1905.
The Socialists of Benton county in
convention at Boulder Springs, near
Gravette, nominated the following
ticket: State senator, A. F. Stevens
Df Gravette; representatives, G. W.'
Derryberry of Siloam Springs and F.
B. Doud of Rogers; county judge, J.
M. Burfield, Bentonville; sheriff, Ern
est Ostrom, Siloam Springs; circuit
clerk, E. A. Quick, Bentonville; as
sessor, John McGuire, Rogers; treas
urer, Wm. Anderson, Rogers.
Bates is taking on new life and it
is confidently believed the population
will soon go to one thousand. The Bates
Coal Company is opening one mine
and the Seymour Coal Company an
other. Together they will employ
about two hundred miners. The Ing
ham Lumber Company and the Star
Lumber Company keep at work an
average of 125 teams daily hauling
lumber to town. The opening of the
coal mines has given a new impetus
to the town.
The work of oiling Arkansas street
in Helena has proven so successful
that it has been decided that some
oil should be put on other streets,
and Perry street was the one selected.
The portion of Arkansas street that
was oiled has about a 6 per cent
grade, and the fact that it did not
wash during recent heavy rains is
sufficient proof to the city council that
oiling is a good thing, and other
streets are likely to be oiled.
J. E. Sowards, a successful farmer,
living about four and a half miles
northeast of Texarkana, has made
a specialty of growing cabbages. He
has just produced a cabbage which
he has raised this year that is a
wonder. It weighs 141-4 pounds, is
perfectly formed and :-.olid through
out.
The new city directory of Helena
has been printed and is being circu
lated. The facts contained in the
book are varied and of interest both
to the resident and stranger. It
shows that Helena has a population
of about 10,000.
The Supreme Court has instructed
Supreme Court Clerk P. D. English to
refuse to file transcripts from the low
er courts henceforth unless the tran
scripts are in proper form and in ac
cordance with the printed rules of the
Supreme Court, which have been for
warded to every court clerk in the
state.
A Democratic primary election will
be held in Ouachita county Tuesday,
August 14, to select a candidate for
representative to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Prof. C. T.
Gordon.
The third bank in Argenta will be
opened in a day or two, when the
R. L. Freeland Realty and Loan Com
pany open their doors for a general
banking business. They have in
stalled the fixtures.
At Van Buren, in well No. 4, a
stratum of gas sand 120 feet thick
was struck at a depth of 604 feet, 80
feet nearer the surface than in the
three previous wells. Besides the
nearness to the surface, the flow is
unusually strong, and the well prom
ises to furnish more gas than all thiee
of the wells already down.
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HIS ONE WEAK SPOT.
Prominent Minnesota Merchant Cured
to Stay Cured by Doan’,; Kid
ney Pills.
O. C. Hayden, of O. C. Hayden &
Co., dry goods merchants, of Albert
Lea, Minn., says; “I was so lame that
I could hardly walk.
There was an unac
countable weakness
of the back, and
constant pain and
aching. I could find
no rest and was
very uncomfortable
at night. As my
health was good in
every other way, I
could not understand
this trouble. It was just as if all the
strength had gone from my back.
After suffering for some time I began
using Doan's Kidney Pills. The rem
edy acted at once upon the kidneys,
and when normal action was restored,
the trouble with my back disappeared.
I have not had any return of it."
For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a
box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
SENTENCE SEBMONS. 7^
Fear and fret makes life’s friction
Heaven helps those who help oth
®rs.
Heaven despairs of the man whc
despises men.
True religion nourishes the roots
of right doing.
The church that courts the rich
loses its riches.
Sometimes hiding another’s faults
heals our own.
The man who is too previous Is
sure to get procrastinated.
The hardest work some folks do is
telling how bur.*- they are.
You cannot keep your eyes on your
watch and your heart on your work.
CONFESSIONS OF DODD GASTON.
I have noticed that about the only
place ‘‘silver threads among the gold”
are really popular is in a song.
I fee! reasonably sure of one thing:
When I die nobody is going to claim
that it Vfias the result of overwork.
I do not much mind playing against
a visiting man, but I do hate to be
booked in competition with a baby.
Nothing would so completely recon
cile me to death as the appearance, at
my bedside, of some of my relatives.
I would really like to be fatter, but
realize that I cannot afford it. Being
fatter would mean a new dress suit.
I find that every young girl has a
wild desire to wear her !Lair “up” and
every old girl has the same desire to
appear with “down.’’
I have noticed that the only time the
banana does much business is at a
season of the year when it has no
competition.
I find that one of the hardest duties
of the dramatic critic is to reconcile
the average society play with the aver
age stage furniture.
About all the ambition I have left i«
to grow rich enough to have a hack
waiting for me while I lounge around
inside smoking and “gassing.”—To
peka Capital.
The quest of happiness requires no
search warrant.
DIDN’T BELIEVE
That Coffee Was the Reai Trouble.
Some people flounder around and
take everything that’s recommended
but finally find that coffee is the real
cause of their troubles. An Oregon
man says:
“For 25 years I was troubled with
my stomach. I was a steady coffee
drinker, but didn’t suspect that as
the cause. I took almost anything
which someone else had been cured
with but to no good. I was very bad
last summer and could not work at
times.
“On Dec. 2, 1902, I was taken so
bad the doctor said I could not live
over 24 hours at the most, and l
made all preparations to die. I could
hardly eat anything, everything dis
tressed me, and I was weak and sick
all over. When in that condition cof
fee was abandoned and I was put on
Postum, the change in my feelings
came quickly after the drink that was
poisoning me was removed.
“The pain and sickness fell away
from me and I began to get well day
by day, so I stuck to it until now I
am well and strong again, can eat
heartily, with no headache, heart
trouble or the awful sickness of the
old coffee days. I drink all I wish of
Postum without any harm and enjoy
It immensely.
“This seems like a strong story,
but I would refer you to the First
Nat’l Bank, the Trust Banking Com
pany, or any merchant of Grant’s
Pass, Ore., In regard to my standing,
and I will send a sworn statement
of this if you wish. You can also use
my name.” Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Still there are many who persist
ently fool themselves by saving “Cof
fee don’t hurt me.” A ten days’ trial
of Postum in its place will tell the
truth and many times save lifa
“There’s a reason.”
Look for the little book, “The Road
to Wellvllle," in pkga.