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Teachers’ Institutes.
State Suptrintondent of Public
Instruction Hineinon is sending
out the following leth r of instruc
tions to county examiners and
teachers interested regarding the
holding of teachers’ institutes this
summer. Teachers’ institutes of
ten days’ duration will be held at
Jonesboro, Arkadelphia, Morrilton,
Monticello and Mena, beginning at
9 o'clock a. m. Wednesday, June 3.
Hie institute will hold sessions each
week day. As the time is short, all
who expect to attend arc requested
to come prepared to do a full day's
work on the opening day.
Immediately after the close of
the institutes examinations will lie
hold for state and professional li
censes. These institutes will be
paid for out of funds allowed by
tlie l’eabody board for this work,
l'he bill appropriating a small sup
plementary fund, which passed both
houses by almost unanimous vote,
was destroyed by the governor's
veto, along with the other eighty
two bills, and hence other institutes
which had been planned must be
abandoned. Professional license
are good in all parts of the state
for a period of ?ix years. Candi
dates for this license are examined
in the studies required for a first
grade certificate, and also in alge
bra, plane geometry, rhetoric and
general history. An institute for
colored teachers will be held at
Pine Bluff at the same time as the
others. William Townsend of the
Pine Bluff col >red schools will
have charge of arrangements for
this institute.
There will also be an institute
for white teachers at Fayetteville
beginning Monday morning June
and continuing ten days. This
will also be followed by examina
tions for professional and state li
censes. The institute will be con
ducted by Profs. Kuykendall and
Reynolds of the State* University.
Attempted Assassination.
A cowardly attempt was made by
some unknown party to assassinate
Prosecuting Attorney B. L. Rogers
as he was driving from Van Buren
to his home in the suburbs. The
would-be murderer fired several
shots at Mr. Rogers at close range.
The horse lie was driving broke into
i run at the first shot and soon car
ried Mr. Rogers out of range. The
news of the attempt to take Mr.
Rogers’ life caused much indigna
tion among citizens of Van Buren.
Recently Mr. Rogers has been mak
ing a vigorous fight on a gang of
worthless negroes and has succeeded
in sending a number of them to the
farm, and it is thought the party
who attempted to take his life is a
friend of the convicted negroes.
New Railroad Incorporated.
A charter ha- been granted to the
Batesville and Jaeksonport Railroad
Company for a road to run from
Batesville to Jaeksonport, connect
ing with the R >ck Island at the
latter place. The road will be
twenty-two miles in length. The
capital stock of the company is
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It is stated that work will begin
it cnee on the new road.
Jumped From Moving Train.
Bud Wilson, a negro charged
with raising a $1 bill to a $10, made
a sensational escape from a Cotton
Belt train near Texarkana. Wilson
was securely handcuffed, but when
the train was going at a speed of
thirty miles an hour he suddenly
jumped through a window and es
caped.
Alleged Whitecappers Bound Over.
Twelve alleged whitecappers, ar
rested in Cross county and turned
over to federal authorities for trial
have been bound over to the October
term of the Helena district. Four
of the accused have been released
on $1,000 bond.
Planter’s Heavy Loss.
Fire destroyed in the neighbor
hood of $10,000 worth of property
on the farm of Col. Hefferman, near
Brinkley. A largm/barn, containing
about 5,000 bu.-lffels of corn, eight
een head of mulVs, eight wagons and
farm implements, \w.is burned.
Idella Johnson^) the 14-year-old
daughter of a tufominent contractor
of Newport, djtowned herself by
jumping off a I;ridge into the river,
Bills Slaughtered.
The vetoing by Gov. Davis at
the eleventh hour of ninety bills
passed by the general assembly is
calling forth more discussion than
: any act ever performed by a chief
executive of this state. In a proc
lamation Gov. Davis gives as bis
reason fur vetoing these bills that
they were not presented to him in
proper shape within twenty days
following adjournment of the legis
lature. Among the hills presented
to the governor, however, was three,
which he approved, as follows: The
St. Francis levee bond bill, the
deaf-mute and Fine Bluff Normal
appropriation bills. Some of the
best lawyers in the slate differ with
the governor in bis contention that
the time limit bad expired. Those
attorneys hold that the twenty-days
allowed for enrolling bills, after the
j legislature adjourns does not in
<hide Sundays. ]f this view is cor
rect, all the bills were delivered
J within tin' required time. Among
I the list of hills vetoed are many of
'■ the most important general acts
i passed. Another interesting ques
tion involved is the governor’s right
j to approve the three hills which he
signed if the twenty day limit had
really expired. There is no doubt
; nut inHi uie courts win ne caned
! upon to decide the matter. This
| action of the governor, if it stands,
j will annul a large part of the work
of the legislature.
G. A. R. Encampment.
The annual encampment of the
(!. A. B. came to a close at Eureka
Springs on the 21st. The session
was attended by delegates from all
the posts in the state and the vete
rans were royally entertained. J.
II. Avery of Hot Springs was re
elected department commander. A.
L. Cooper of Mammoth Springs,
-onior vice commander; J. 15. Tor
rence of Little Rock, junior vice
commander; W. W. Bailey of Fort
Smith, medical director, and W. S.
Bartholomew of Man-field, depart
ment chaplain. The next encamp
ment will be held at Little Rock.
Gov. Saya Bills Are Dead.
According to (lev. Davis’ views,
about 100 bills passed hv the legis
lature during the last few days of
the session are dead. The governor
takes the point that every bill is
dead that was not presented to him
within twenty days following the
adjournment. Mr. A. S. Hays,
clerk of the house, states that all
bills passed by the house were placed
in possession of the governor imme
diately following adjournment.
Wreck on Iron Mountain.
A wreck occurred on the Iron
Mountain at Ward Station, about
thirty miles north of Little Rock.
The third section of a fast freight
ran 'into the second section, injur
ing Conductor Quinn and Brake
. man Wooten. The caboose and
I four cars of merchandise of the soe
; ond section was destroyed by fire.
The trains were badly wrecked and
| traffic was suspended for several
! hours.
Destructive Storm at Eureka Springs.
A destructive storm visited Eure
I ka Springs and vicinity on the
19th. A number of buidings at
Eureka Springs were struck by
i lightning and the cottage of J. W.
i Philson, recently completed and
; furnished, was set on fire and totally
destroyed. The Emanuel Baptist
church, in course of construction,
was badly damaged.
Car Repairer Killed.
Monroe M. Williams, an employe
in the Iron Mountain shops at Lit
tle Bock, was run down by a string
of box cars and instantly killed. IK
was underneath a car making souk
repairs when a switch engine “kick
ed" a train of ears onto the track
llis body was severed into two parts
Had the Wrong Man.
A Georgia detective made the trij
all the way to Clarksville with t
man under arrest whom he suspect
ed of being .7. 1’. Dunn, wanted ii
connection with the bank robber;
and murder of Sheriff Powers, onl;
to find that he hud the wrong man
W. P. White, owner of a sawmil
near Texarkana, was caught in th
i belting of some machinery and kill
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K. P. Grand Lodge.
The Knights of Pythias grand
lodge session closed at Pine Bluff
on the 21st, after a most success
ful ami enjoyable session. The re
ports of officers show the order to
be in a flourishing condition. The
officers elected for the ensuing
year were: .T. J. Dovne, Little Hock,
supreme representative; J. II. Hine
mon, Little Hock, grand chancellor;
Frank K. May, Fayetteville, grand
vice chancellor; A. M. Ponder, Wal
nut Bulge, grand prelate; Moses G.
May, 1’ine Bluff, grand master at
arms; P. J. Hobinson, Warren,
grand inner guard; John llall,
grand outer guard; F. S. Horner,
Helena, grand trustee; Ben W.
Bartlett, Little Hock, grand k vper
of records and seal; F. W. Iloyler,
Pine Bluff, grand master cf ex
chequer.
Badly Hurt By Negro.
Cleveland Parker, a well known
young man of Monticello, was struck
on the head with a pole and badly
hurt by a negro named Asa Brooks.
Parker, in company with two com
panions, was crossing a fluid on the
MeCloy plantation and were accost
ed by the negro who thought they
were going on a fishing expedition
on tin- plantation. A war of words
ensued, which ended in Brooks
MriKm^r i aiKiT oil nil1 in*au wuii a
pole, The latter is badly injured.
Brooks was arrested and is in jail.
Killed in Runaway.
Harrison Willey, a farmer living
near Jonesboro, met a horrible
death. He was driving a team of
four, hauling brick, and riding one
of the animals. II ■ attempted to
lift a small boy to the back of one
of the animals when the team be
came frightened and ran away. He
was thrown across the double tree
and the mules kicked his brains out.
The hoy escaped injury.
The Money Is Up.
The cash bonus of $10,000 re
quired of Yellville by the Missouri
Pacific railroad for the depot at
Yellville has been raised and has
been transmitted by J. C. Floyd,
trustee, to National Bank of Com
merce, St. I.ouis, to be paid to the
railroad company upon fulfillment
of the terms of their agreement
with tile citizens of Yellville.
State Rewards.
Gov. Davis has offered the fol
lowing rewards for men charged
with murder: Fifty dollars for
Charley Bord of Chicot county, $100
for Charley Goff, who killed Rob
ert Snow in Polk county; $100
for John T. Hawkins, who killed
Ada Cassidy, in Columbia county.
Negro Shot By Officer.
Geo. Morris, colored, was fatally
shot at Little Bock by a deputy
constable. Morris was out driving
late at night with a woman and the
couple amused themselves by firing
off a revolver. When the officer at
tempted to arrest Morris he resist
ed with the above result.
BRIEF MENTION.
Mrs. Martha Adams died at
Cabot at the age of TO years. She
was the widow of the late Capt. J.
G. Adams and had been a member
j of the Methodist church for over
. fnrtv voiirc
Quito a disastrous firo occurred
at Helena, resulting iu serious losses
to the following firms: B. II. Is
aacs, dry goods; Dr. Grauman, den
tal fixtures; Dr. Ellis, office furni
ture and fixtures; H. It. Turner,
photo studio; Dr. Price, furniture
and fixtures; Dr. Bevins, drv goods
j store. The losses are only partially
covered by insurance. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
Henry Cook was shot and serious
ly wounded by Robert Props, at
Green Plains church, near Center
Point. It seems that Cook became
incensed at Props for procuring evi
dence against him for the illegal
sale of whisky and threatened to
whip him. On meeting Props, it is
alleged, he advanced on him with a
knife, threatening to kill him, and
received a pistol ball in the groin.
Charity Sheppard, a negro—, was
shot and fatally wounded bv anoth
er woman at El Dorado. A dispute
over a pair of shoes caused thv
shooting.
The Hock Island has issued a
circular, abolishing the office of at
torney general, held by Col. J. W
MeLoud, resigned, and appointing
[ E. It. Pierce of Little Rock attor
; ney for Arkansas, with headquar
. ters in Little Rock, reporting U
Chicago.
News of the World
Miss Minnie Summers, aged 83
years, died at her home in New
York as the result of laughing.
John Dixon was driven from the
town of Toledo, 0., by a mob be
cause he refused to join a party o
strikers.
Two thousand houses in a sub
urb of Manila were destroyed by fire,
rendering homeless about 8,000 peo
ple.
K. E. Clark has been re-elected
grand chief of the Order of Railway
Conductors, at a salary of $0,000 a
year.
Albert Wall, a white boy', 5 years
old, was brutally murdered near
Elleville, (la., by two negro boys,
aged 10 and 12 years.
Amos Randall, white, and Dun
Kenedy and Henry Golden, colored,
were killed by a mob at Mulberry,
Polk county, Florida, for the mur
der of a prominent white planter.
Nathan Levin, president of a
Jewish political club at St. Louis,
has been sentenced to serve five
years in the penitentiary for aiding
in fraudulently securing naturali
zation papers.
The monitor Arkansas, which
was tied up several days at >Ste.
Genevia, Mo., on account of low
water, passed down as far as Cairn
on the l!Hh and it is believed will
be able to reach the gulf waters.
The supreme court of Missouri
has set aside the verdicts of the
lower court in the cases of Julius
Lehman and If. A. Faulkner, con
victed of perjury in connection with
municipal boodling at St. Louis,
and order new trials.
One woman was killed and two
persons severely injured by the col
lapse of a veranda on the third
story of a house at Fall .River, Mass.
Five others who were on the veran
da at the time had miraculous es
capes from injury or death.
It is estimated over 100,000 vis
itors attended the Confederate, re
union held at New Orleans. Judge
John H. Rogers of Fort Smith was
the orator for the opening day, and
his address was a gem in rhetoric
and replete with statistics of- the
Confederate cause.
The town of Carmen, Ok., is re
ported to have been wiped out by a
cyclone. The town had a popula
tion of 500. During a period oi
seven days, an average of one cy
clone a day was reported in Okla
homa. At Watonger the homes of J
P. Aterbery and Robert Pv»vne were
demolished. Much damage to crop;
and orchards is reported.
Under the designation ‘‘House
hold Effects,” J. Pierpont Morgar
will be able to bring into this coun
try most of his art treasures that art
now scattered through the museums
of Europe or are in his London
house. These objects of art are ap
praised at not less than $’2,000,OO0
and had Mr. Morgan imported a
vear ago he would have been obliged
to pay almost $300,000 as duty.
An unsuccessful attempt was
made to poison Curtis Jett, undet
arrest for the assassination of J. Ji.
Marcum at Jackson, Ky. A part)
visited Jett in jail and left a botth
A f «t>]< i el'if W.iTAro 1r\n ■ a n (it
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could drink any of the liquor it vvu;
taken away bv the jailer. A chem
ical analysis showed that the whis
ky contained sufficient strychnine tc
kill a dozen men.
\ terrible snow storm fell from
the 17th to 19th inst throughout the
cattle range belt of Montana. In
some sections fully 90 per cent ol
the sheep on the ranges perished.
Three herders wandered away in the
blinding snow- and were frozen tc
death. Nothing like the fury of this
storm has ever before boon witness
ed in northern Montana. Of a con
signment of GOO cattle bound from
Havre, ail but five were frozen stiff
Losses are reported on every hand
and this district will feel the effects
of the loss for years.
Dr. VV. 15. Fletcher, an alienist ol
some note, has caused something ol
a sensation by addressing a letter t<:
the Michigan legislature, favoring
the putting to death by the statt
of all hopelessly incurable insane.
The strike of trainmen am
switchmen of the Mobile and 01ii<
railroad was declared off on thi
20th. It is understood the men wen
^granted an increase of 7 1-2 pei
Vnt. The demand was for a 11
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E. A. Ilarriman, the millionaire
ralroad main, has been operated on
for appendicitis.
A general strike of all railway
freight handlers at St. Louis block
ed freight traffic for several days.
Three lives were lost and several
persons injured at a fire which de
stroyed the graded school building
at Carlisle, Kv.
Four persons were killed and fivo
badly injured by the falling of an
elevator from the fifth floor »f a
dancing •academy at Philadelphia.
It. N. Franklin, an Alabama
planter, has been indicted in fed
eral court on the charge of detain
ing a negro as a slave for over a,
year.
In a trial trip between the old
yacht Columbia and the Reliance,
the new boat built to defend the
cup against Lord Tipton’s Sham
rock 111, the Reliance defeated the
old champion with ease.
The big packers of Chicago have
refused to grant an increase in
wages to employes, and declare that
in yaso of a strike they will shut
down their plants and supply the
trade from other cities.
The attorney general of Texas
has filed suits against a number of
wholesale grocer dealers of San An
tomo, alleging that they have form
ed a combination or trust in viola
tion of the state anti-trust act.
Running at a high rate of speed,
a Grand Trunk passenger train
crashed into an electric car where
the two tracks cross at Forty-ninth
street, Chicago, seriously injuring
five passengers on the trolley car.
Paper box manufacturers com
plain that the Strawboard trust has
recently increased the cost of raw
material $8 per ton, which will in
crease the cost of paper boxes to
such an Qxtent that these articles
will be disposed with in many
cases.
The war department has direct
ed Gen. Funston to begin court
martial proceedings against Lieut.
L. N. Rushfield, Seventeenth in
fantry, wlvo is charged with being
short in his accounts while acting
quartermaster and commissary at
Fort Lawton.
The strike of boiler makers on
the Union Pacific, which was be
gun in June, 1902, has been settle®
by the granting of an increase in
wages demanded by the strikers.
The ordering of a sympathetic
strike on the Southern Pacific
brought al>out a conference at
which the trouble was settled.
Chicago health officers have dis
covered that hundreds of infants
are dying daily from being fed im
pure milk. Investigations by the
tails of uncleanliness and disease
I pure milk commission reveals de
- eeding conditions almost unUv
Lovable. Physicians, eh-mists and
bacteriologists agree that dirty and
adulterated milk are claiming their
victims by the hundreds.
( apt. W. F. Norton, an eccentric
millionaire of Ixniisville, Ky., who
died recently, left the bulk of his
fortune to orphan asylums. In
■ his will it was provided that while
his remains were being cremated an
| orchestra should play popular airs
and his friends should drink and
make merry on the occasion. lie
i belonged to no church, but during
bis life time gave freely of his
means to the deserving poor.
Suit has been filed in the federal
j court at Texarkana by Charles It.
Brown against the Texas and Pa
! cific Railway Company on a claim
"f $1,900,000, which plaintiff
claims to be due on a bond issue
made thirty-five years ago bv the
Memphis, El Paso and Pacific
Railway Company, which was sub
sequently merged into and became
a part of the Texas and Pacific.
Some of the most eminent lawyers
in Texas have been retained by the
plaintiffs.
The Jewish citizens of every' city
end town in the United States are
contributing to the relief of their
suffering brothers in Russia.
Several Kansas towns were swept
by a tornado on the 20th. At Ash
land the best residence portion was
i wrecked, and several persons in
> jured. In Salina county William
■ and Peter Olsen were killed and a
• dozen or more injured, and at Kin3
t ley afyoung girl by the name of
Tuttle was crushed to death.
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WILD LIFE IN THE CITY.
Bird Visitors Attracted by Captive*
in New York Zoological Park.
The zoological park not only af
fords good opportunities for study
ing tho habits of rareand curious for
eign birds, but, considering its small
area, such a place is almost un
equalled for watching our wild native
birds at close range.
The sight of so many birds in close
proximity to mankind, flying un
harmed in the flying cages or walk
ing about their ranges and swimming
on the various ponds, is fraught with
significance to the quick perceptions
of wild birds, large and small. Their
keen intuitions, says the New York
Tribune, and superior powers of in
telligence tell them that such un
wonted altruistic conditions cannot
fail to offer advantages.
The almost immediate recognition
of their security in the park is re
markable, and birds which seldom
show themselves within sight of civ
ilization have come again and again,
and exhibited a tameness whiehleads
many persons to think them escaped
birds.
A visit of Canada geese ha~-%oc
curred only once, but grebesare more
regular visitors, and at each migra
tion one or more species of these
feathered vanishing points are seen
swimming on the ponds. You see
a small bird with pointed beak.aad,
on attempting to take a closer Iook,
you suddenly perceive—no bird at
all. It has not dived or flown away,
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Din jii'i apparently neon ausorueu uy
the water. It is a wonderful trick—so
imperceptibly submerging itself that
not a ripple marks the place—and far
away, perhaps near the shore, where
it blends well with the reeds and
ru-hos, the little bird emerges a3
quietly as it disappeared.
A storm once dashed a queer little
sea bird against the boundary fence
of the park and stunned it for a
while, but it soon recovered and lived
and dived happily in the pool of the
birdhou-e. This little stranger was
a Brunnich’s murre, one of those
birds which live sueh strange lives,
spending the winter, as nearly as we
know, on the high seas, and in sum
mer going Tu,’ <uiW
egg on the bare rock of some solitary
cliff.
Wild seagulls will often drop from
their loose flocks passing overhead
and consort with their wing-clipped
kindred. When they go way the
young gulls which have been hatched
in the park usually accompany them,
but return in a few hours to their
home and flock.
At least four species of wild ducks
frequent the ponds in the park, at
tracted, probably, by those of their
kind in the collections—widgeons,
mallards, redheads and wood ducks.
Three redhead ducks madethe ponds
their home one entire fall, and as
many as 1G wild wood ducks havo
been seen at once associating with
those which breed in the park each,
year. A number of these wild wood
ducks are trapped every fall, so the
flocks of this species in the collection
are of the finest. _
EGG OF AN EXTINCT BIRD.
Is Fifty Times tte Sizs of an Ordi
nary Hen’s Egg.
A rare and remarkable curiosity in
the shape of the largest egg in the
world is now on exhibition in bird
hall of the American Museum of Na
tural History, says the New York
MHiinn reiai Auvtmsei.
loDgod to a gigantic extinct bird
called the aepyornis, formerly inhab
iting the wilds of the island of Mada
gascar. This huge member of the
bird kingdom, for some unknown
reason, was exterminated in compar
atively recent times, and nothing but
its fossil eirgs and fragmentary re
mains of the skeleton can be found.
From the length and size of the limbs
and feet the birds are said by scien
tists to have been probably two or
three times the height of an ostrich,
of which they are supposed to be a
distinct group. They were powerful
and even dangerous creatures to hu
man life. It is related that they car
ried off cattle and sheep, and the
white inhabitants had to walkabout
with tame tigers to guard and pro
tect themselves from their attack.
The extraordinary size of the egg,
which is nearly a foot long by tea
inches in diameter, is vividly shown
by comparison with a hen’s egg,
which seems nothing but a mere
6peck in comparison. Nearly half a
hundred hen eggs could be packed
inside. They command a high price,
owing to their scarcity, averaging
from $100 to $500 apiece.
Lore and Poverty,
When poverty comes in at the door
it is up to love to get out and hustla.
—Chicago Daily News.
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