CWS.
VOL, V.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS
THURSDAY, MAY 3, iyO(>.
NO. 24.
ft WEEK'S HEWS
TEBSELK OUTLINED
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An Epitome of the Most important
Events at Home and Abroad
the Past Week.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH.
A Glimpse at Wliat Congress i» I>»»
,ug Tojietlier With a Carefully
Digested a nil Condensed Compila
tion of Current Jie.vs Items, Uotli
Domestic uud Foreiiiu.
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
The house passed the emergency
bill carrying $170,000 for emergency
expenses at the San Francisco post
office and the employment of laborers
at the Mare Island navy yard.
The senate passed the bill making an
appropriation of $300,000 for the em
ployment of extra labor at the Mare
Island (California) navy yard.
Without debate the house concurred
in the senate amendments to the joint
resolution appropriating an additional
$1,500,000 for the relief of the San Fran
cisco sufferers, making $2,500,000 appro
priated in all.
The senate passed the bill providing
for the organization of a dental corps in
the army.
GENERAL NEW! ITEMS.
Mrs. Kate P. Raymond, wife of a
clerk in the interior department at
Washington, who asphyxiated her 14
year-old son at Hollywood, Cal., has
been committed to the asylum for the
insane at Highlands, Cal.
The Greeks were with difficulty en
abled to control their chagrin at the
successes of the American athletes
in the Olympic games at Athens, and
in some instances successful Amer
icans heard a few hisses.
Sheriff Bell and Treasurer Beney
of Washington county, Colorado, have
been arrested by federal officers
charged with frauds while they were
officials of the United States land of
fice at Akron. Col.
The Indiana Steel Co., a subsidiary
corporation of the United States Steel
corporation, has begun work on a
model city to house 100,000 people
in connection with a $10,500,000 steel
plant to be erected in Lake county,
Indiana, east of the mouth of the
Grand Calumet river.
The theatrical benefit held in the
Bernhardt tent on the Lake Front,
Chicago, for the San Francisco relief
fund, and which continued from noon
until evening, netted $15,500. Nearly
every company playing In the city
was represented.
Ex-Judge Abner Smith, ,president;
Jerome V. Pierce, cashier: G. F. Sor
row, vice-president, and F. E. Creel
man, a director of the defunct Bank
of America, have been indicted by the
grand jury in Chicago on charges of
fraud and conspiracy.
Erich Muenter, an instructor in
German at Harvard university, is
charged with the murder of his wife
by poison, and a warrant has been
issued for his arrest.
Chicago’s $5,000,000 city hall is
partly wrecked and in danger of col
lapse, due to excavating the site for
the new Cook county building.
The western women h'ave surprised
their eastern sisters in their profi
ciency at whist, as demonstrated at
the St. Louis congress.
Miss Luebkemann, who went from
Red Bud, 111., to St. Louis to engage
in domestic service, was asphyxiated
by illuminating gas on her first night.
Br. Charles A. Nichols, of Urbana,
Tvas fined $250 and costs in the fed
(lal court at Springfield, 111., on con
viction of using the mails to defraud.
Pretty actresses in St. Louis, selling
flowers for the benefit of the San
Ftancisco fund, took in lots of money.
Gne sold a carnation for a new $100
bill.
V\ illiam H. Hill, of Brookline, Mass.,
multimillionaire, aged 07, and Miss
Caroline Wright Rogers, who was
graduated from Wellesley in 1900, and
Was f°unfier of the famous
ellesley college inn, were married
at Dedham, Mass.
Che United Confederate Veterans’
reunion at New Orleans wound up
a monster parade. In which
utich enthusiasm was manifested,
commander Stephen D. Lee was tak
n seriously ill during the parade.
The area devastated in San Fran
c sco approximates 10,000 acres, or
a >out 15 square miles, which contained
,’J00 inhabitants beside 40,000 tran
sients and some of the finest buildings
n ie world, among which were nearly
100 banks.
Lite Polish nationalists von a ttom
l’e te victory at the primary elections
anj win form an independent party In
Parliament.
The Russian naval commission, which
nas been investigating the naval battle
w ,, . Shima straits, in which the
t'sstan fleet was destroyed, recom
mend the court-martial of all the offl
jf'i " i'° trere on board the destroyer
* ovi, on which Vice-Admiral Rojest
^#nsky was captured.
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Mrs. Bowie, on learning that her hus
'&nd was seriously ill in Chicago, paid
him a visit at the Auditorium Annex,
remaining half an hour. She was ac
companied by her son,Gladstone Dowie,
hut the latter did not see his father.
The purpose of the visit has not trans
pired.
It transpires that on the day of the
earthquake in California 14 men were
killed at Loma Preta, ten miles from
santa Cruz, Cal., by the crushing of a
sawmille by a landslide following the
quake. The court house at Santa Cruz
was so badly shaken that it will have
to be razed.
Mrs. Abbie Adams, national president
af the Woman's Relief corps, has is
sued a circular letter to all departments
in the United States, calling upffn them
to adapt measures for the speedy relief
of San Francisco veterans and their
families.
The $75,000 tendered by the empress
dowager of China and $40,000 raised by
charity in Hcng Kong for the San
Francisco sufferers, has been courteous
ly declined by the state department at
Washington, and may be sent direct to
the Chinese in San Francisco.
King Peter of Servia was thrown
from his horse, injuring his ankle.
The battleship Missouri won first
prize for the best all-round shooting in
the recent target practice by the At
lantic fleet.
The British steamer Havana was
sunk in Halifax (N. S.) harbor by the
steamer Stratheona. The captain and
seven men on the Havana were saved.
The Suez canal authorities are pre
paring pockets wherein the dry dock
Dewey can lay up nights during her
passage through the canal, so as not to
sntirely obstruct the passage of other
shipping during the six days necessary
to traverse the canal.
The town of Bellevue, Tex., is re
ported to have been entirely destroyed
by a tornado, and at last account fire
was consuming the wreckage. Bellevue
was a town of 1,500 inhabitants. The
towns of Stoneburg, Hamilton and Hico
also suffered severely. The loss of life
was quite heivy.
A bill has been introduced in con
gress to apply $1,000,000 of the Chi
nese indemnity fund to the purchase
of ground whereon to erect buildings
for our consular offices in China, Korea
and Japan.
The mikado of Ja(5an has donated
$200,000 for the relief of .the San Fran
cisco sufferers, and the leading business
men of Tokio and Osaka have contrib
uted a like sum.
The distribution of food in the city
of San Franeisco has been formally
turned over to the United States army,
which will do the work along systemat
ic lines.
Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of the
treasury, paid his promised visit to St.
Louis and received a cordial welcome
He addressed a large audience in Music
hall on the tariff question and political
conditions in Missouri.
Thp next annual reunion of the Unit
ed Confederate veterans will be held in
Richmond. Va.
About 60,000 men who wore the gray
assembled at New Orleans and partici
pated in the sixteenth annual reunion of
the United Confederate Veterans.
Lieut.-Gen. Stephen D. Lee, the com
mander-in-chief, was given a great ova
tion. Gen. J. B. Gantt, of Missouri, was
the orator of the day. The adjutant
general’s report shows the organization
to be in good condition.
On the afternoon of the 25th ins:t., an
other earthquake shock, of nearly a
minute's duration, was experienced at
San Francisco. Many walls of burned
buildings were thrown down and frail
structures badly shaken up. The actual
damage is slight. One death is known
to have resulted.
Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco com
plains that some of the young national
guardsmen on duty there are altogether
too quickton the trigger.
Now that the citizens of San Fran
cisco have thoroughly organized,
President Roosevelt has modified his
previous proclamation, and advises that
relief contribution be forwarded to the
finance committees headed by former
Mayor James D. Phelan, of San Fran
cisco, instead of to the American Red
Cross. The latter organization will co
operate with the San Francisco com
mittee in relief work.
Involuntary proceedings in bank
ruptcy have been started in the federal
court, in Chicago, against John Alex
ander Bowie, which promise to present
some knotty legal points for untangle
ment.
William A. Harris, of Lindon, for
governor, and a full state ticket was
nominated by the democrats of Kansas
in contention at Topeka. Harris, who
was a confederate soldier in the civil
war, was formerly United States sen
ator.
Twenty-one anti-trust suits have been
filed in the twenty-sixth district court
of Texas by the state, as a result of re
cent investigation, involving penalties
aggregating $17,000,000.
The first division of Gen. French’s
army corps, in cantonment at Aider
shot, England, has been instructed to
prepare to mobilize in view of serious
developments in South Africa.
Miss Mary McKenna, daughter of
Justice McKenna, of the supreme court
of the United States, and Davenport
Brown, of Boston, were married in
Washington.
RKANSAS
STATE NEWS
Schools Wanted.
It is rumored that the meeting of
the State Farmers.' Union, Aug. 5-7,
will adopt a resolution framing a
petition to be presented to the next
legislature, asking the law makers to
provide a demonstration farm and
agricultural school in each congres
sional district in the state. The plan
as outlined is to have the legislature
appropriate certain state lands in
each congressional district to be used
for the farms. The legislature will
also be asked to provide sufficient
funds to purchase the stock required
and to erecjL. barns and houses to
accommodate the students. It will be
the purpose to make the farms self
sustaining so that the tuition will
amount to very little.
The city council of Yellville has
granted C. L. Morgan of Detroit a
franchise to build an electric rail
road through the town. Mr. Morgan
secured the franchise in the interest
of Detroit capitalists, who are heavy
property owners in Marion county,
and have lately taken a number of
zinc mining leases in the Rush and
Jimmy creek • districts. The plan is
to build from Yelleville south into
the Rush creek country and north in
to the Jimmy creek district, connect
ing with the White River line at the
Yellville depot.
The Department of Agriculture at
Washington recently made public a
report on the public roads of Arkan
sas for the year 1904. This report
shows that Arkansas had 36,445 miles
of public roads during that year, and
that 181 miles had a surface of grav
el, and 55 miles was surfaced with
stone. According to this report bare
ly one per cent of the roads of the
State of Arkansas had been improved
at that time. This would allow about
one mile of improved road to every
5,555 inhabitants.
Pierce Skinner and Wes Short of
Faulkner county were arraignel be
fore Commissioner Allen at Little
Rock recently on a charge! of white
capping, but after the preliminary
hearing U. S. District Attorney Whip
ple dismissed the cases, holding that
there was not sufficient evidence to
warrant his pushing the prosecution.
The men tvere charged with posting
notices warning negroes to leave
their homes. ,
At a meeting ofr stockholders of the
Rock Creek Oil and Mining Company
held at Little Sock recently, it was de
cided to raise more money and con
tinue the work on the well which is
being drilled east of that city. It w'as
decided to purchase new casing and
new drills and continue the work as it
is believed the prospect for striking
gas or oil is good. The well has now
been drilled to a depth of about 950
feet.
Franchise Granted
Arkansas Roads.
Cases Dismissed.
Still Hopeful.
Prisoner Escapes.
F. Beaty of Orton, who was con
victed at the Circuit Court at Ash
down on several charges for illicit
sale of whiskey and fined $800, escap
ed from jail at that place a few days
ago. Beaty had been hoping for a
pardon but on learning that there was
no hope of obtaining one, became rest
less and finally made his escape.
Movement Indorsed.
At a recent meeting of the Farmers’
Union of Ashley county the following
was adopted:^ “That we, the Ashley
County Farmers’ Union, indorse the
action of the National Union in recom
mending the warehouse system; that j
whenever it is consistent, the union
build its own gins and patronize
them.”
Masons Respond.
The Grand Lodge of Masons of Ar
kansas. with the help of the different
subordinate Masonic Lodges of the;
state are sending liberal donations to
suffering Masons in San Francisco.
The Knights Templar of Arkansas,
are also aiding their unfortunate
brethren in the earthquake district.
Store Destroyed.
Fire supposed to be of incendiary
origin completely destroyed the mer
cantile establishment of J. E. Dicker
son at Lapile a few days ago.
A Ten Year Sentence.
Bud Calloway, a negro who killed
his wife at Clarendon a year ago be
cause she received attentions from
another man, entered a plea of guilty
of murder in the second,, degree last
week and was sentenced to ten years
in the penitentiary.
Aged Man Suicides.
Thomas Chappie, an aged farmer
residing near Ola, committed suicide
by cutting his throat with a pocket
knife. It is said that no cause for
the act is known by any of the dead
man's friends.
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Declared Void.
The third amendment to th-3 State
constitution, which gives the gov
ernor the power to fill by appoint
ment any vacancy that may occur in
State, county or township offices, has
been declared invalid by the supreme
court of Arkansas. The decision of
the court is based upon the fact that
l the amendment in question, while it
received a majority of the votes cast
on that question, did not receive a
majority of the total number of votes
cast in the general election at which
it was submitted. The court holds
that it is perfectly clear that the con
stitution provides expressly that a
majority of the electors voting in the
election is necessary for the adoption
of a constitutional amendment. Other
amendments, which are in the same
class, not having received a majority
of the votes cast and which will
probably suffer the same fate are:
Amendment No. 2, making it neces
sary for a voter to have a poll tax
receipt, and amendment No. 7 provid
I ing that all the members of the Gen
eral Assembly shall receive such pay
and mileage as may be fixed by law.
Extension Planned.
W. E. Lasswell, of Campbell, presi
dent of the Kennett, St. Louis and
Southeastern Railroad, says that the
company is preparing to extend the
road to Kennett and make it a stand
ard-gauge line. The road now runs
from Campbell, Mo., to Nimmons,
Ark., a distance of 24 miles, and is
known as the Lasswell road. The
company owns three locomotives and
about one hundred cars and several
valuable mill sites, the road formerly
having been used to haul logs to the
Lasswell mills. Mr. Lasswell says the
newly-organized company, which is
capitalized at $300,000, will take over
the property of the old mill company,
and will install motor cars for use
in passenger service.
Arranging Tour.
President Burnett of the Arkansas
division of the Southern Cotton Asso
ciation is arranging the dates for his
tour of the First and Second con
gressional districts. Some time ago
he wrote to the district organizers ask
ing them to give him a list of towns
which they wished him to visit, and
he will make out his itinerary from
these lists. He expects to make
speeches at each townjn the interest
of the organization. The list will be
announced in a short time.
Will Protect Birds.
At a recent meeting of the Benton
County Horticultural Society at Ben
tonville a committee was appointed
to wait upon the circuit judge and re
quest him to instruct all grand juries
in the district to find bills against
any person who maliciously or wan
tonly kills any birds protected by
law. It was also voted by the society
to report to the grand jury the names
of persons known to break these laws.
Injured by a Train.
While attempting to cross the Rock
Island tracks near the depot at Hazen
recently, Homer McKenzie, a prom
inent young man of that place, was
struck by passenger train No. 2, j
completely demolishing the wagon in j
which he was driving and killing
one of the mules outright. McKenzie
was thrown from the vehicle, sus
taining injuries that will cause the
amputation of one arm.
A Serious Loss.
W. L. McPherson had the misfor- ;
tune to lose his fine residence at ;
Jasper by fire recently. Most of the ;
household goods were saved. The
house was worth $3,000 with $1,700
insurance on it.
An Ax Handle Used.
William Muse and Naman Cunning
ham had an altercation in Berryvillq
a few days ago. Cunningham used an
axe handle as a weapon, breaking
an arm, and a rib and making an ugly j
gash on Muse’s head. Cunningham
was not hurt.
Temporary Relief.
Chancellor Humphreys has granted
a decree of divorce in the suit of
Victoria Bias vs. Sylvester Bias, at
Fayetteville, the decree to be void
if the plaintiff marries again within
six months.
Will Hold Street Fair.
. Fayetteville is to have a street fair
May 7 to 12, under the auspices of the
fire department.
Hold Meeting.
Rider H. S. Mobley of Prairie
Grove is conducting a protracted
meeting at the Christian church at
that place.
Knife Used Fatally.
Charley Evans, a Hot Springs ne
gro,' has been arrested at that place,
charged with having killed another
negro with a knife at a recent church
meeting at Buckville.
Raise $1,000.
The Texas side of Texarkana has
raised about $1,000 for San Francisco
sufferers, exclusive of amounts raised
by brotherhoods, fraternities and se- j
cret orders.
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ARKANSAS BRIEFS
A spoke factory has bean establish
ed at Brinkley.
A $20,000 mill and supply company
has been established at Fort Smith.
May 11th. will be commencement
day at the Prescott public school.
Two fiee delivery routes have re
cently been established out of Harris
on.
A post of the Travelers' Protective
Association has been organized at
Hot Springs.
The sixteenth annual singing con
vention in Greene county will be held
at Paragould May 12.
The Northeast Arkansas Teachers’
Association will meet in Paragould
May 31 and June 1 and 2.
Mrs. Mollie Wear was burned to
death at her home several miles out
of Little Rock a few days ago.
Service on four new rural free de
livery routes out of paragould will
commence on the first of June.
The 3-year-old child of Albert
Evans, near Aurora, was fatally burn
ed a few days ago. Her clothing
caught fire from a fireplace.
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Mrs. Nancy Aldridge, an aged wom
an, was fatally burned a few days ago
at her home near Quitman. Her
clothes caught fire while she was sit
ting near a fireplace.
A negro made an attempt on the
life of Lafayette Deloney near Ash
down last week. The negro was too
slow, however and was killed by De
loney.
Hugh McCain was given judge
ment recently for $500, against the
Western Union Telegraph Company
in the United States Circuit Court
at Little Rock. The judgement was
given on account of a delayed tele
gram to McCain, announcing the crit
ical illlness of his father.
The Pan Long Distance Telephone
Company of Fort Smith has filed art
icles of incorporation with the secre
tary of state. The company has a
capital stock of $1,000,000 and intends
to establish a long distance telephone
plant in connection with one of the
systems now doing business at Ft.
Smith.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state by
the Dr. Thomas Company. The com
pany will establish and operate medi
cal offices, hospitals, sanitariums or
retreats for the sick.
A new high school building will be
erected at Pine Bluff in a short time.
The money to erect this building was
secured by the sale of school bonds
to that amount, to the Simmons Na
tional Bank a few days ago.
The meeting of the International
Training School for Sunday-school
workers will open at Searcy on July
1. The meeting will last for a week
and the Searcy Cliatauqua will meet
on the same date.
The Weiner Development Company
has been formed at Weiner and will
do a general land business. The com
pany will in a short time lay off 103
acres of land as an addition to that
town.
A recent ruling by the Railroad
Commission prohibits railway compa
nies Prom confining live stock in cars
for over 2S consecutive hours, with
out unloading and caring for the
animals.
F. P. Stout of Rogers recently se
cured some dirt from the Kruse mine
at that place, and washing it out
found sevejal small specks that are
pronounced to be pure native gold by
old gold miners. Stout says that
there was considerable more, but as
the pan for washing was ill contrived
much of it was lost. He made his
test from four ounces of dirt and the
result satisfies him that there is-native
gold in the mine.
Thf? Wesern Union Telegraph Co.
was fined $2,500 in the Pulaski
County Circuit Court at Little Rock
Rock recently. The fine was impos
ed for failure to file with the secre
tary of state a copy of its articles of
incorporation. The case has been ap
pealed to the State Supreme Count.
An attempt is being made at Little
Rock by the Business Mens' League
of that city, to organize a permanent
State Fair Association. It is hoped
that the organization will have a
capital of $50,000 when it commences
business.
At the residence of W. C. Rice, at
Oconee, recently, Win. Martin, 77
years of age, and Mrs. Louisa Blair,
aged 07 years, were married. The
groom was a Federal soldier in the
Civil War and has been a resident of
Randolph county for about 40 years.
The bride was born in Randolph
county and has lived there all of her
life.
Fire at Wilton recently destroyed
several houses in the business part of
town, including the establishment of
Newton Cooper and of Marshall Pip
kins.
EASILY CROWN FLOWERS.
Hiere Is a Wealth to Choose From
and a List of Those That
Richly Repay.
The beginner should try to grow a
few varieties of flowers and learn their
habits thoroughly, for in thoroughness
lies success. He should not construct
a garden in fancy out of the highly
colored plates in a seed catalogue and
expect to produce it in reality. But
he should choose his plants with re
gard to the place he will grow them
and study their needs carefully.
There is a wealth to choose from.
For early spring flowers, for instance,
there are the bulbs of tulips, jonquils,
narcissi, hyacinths, crocuses, snow
drops and squills. It is best to plant
them in the fall; then as soon as
spring begins they begin to bloom,
and produce a surprising amount of
color. The crocuses, snowdrops and
squills may be planted in the lawn,
and mowed down, for they flower very
early, and will continue to bloom for
several years. Jonquils and narcissi
r may also be left in shrubbery, or in
grass, where they are not cut, and they
will bloom many years. The bulbs
may also be planted in the early spring
—any dealer will tell how.
Sweeet peas are deservedly popular,
because of their ease of culture, profu
sion of bloom, daiaty colors and de
lightful fragrance. Plant them in any
good garden soil, fertilize well with
rich cow manure, in rows preferably
running east and west. Keep the flow
ers well picked each day to prevent
seed pods forming, for, like pansies,
the vitality of the plant is impaired
by the production of seeds. The seed
should be planted very early in the
spring, in trenches three or four
inches deep, being covered over a lit
tle at first and the trenches gradually
filled as the plants grow.
Few persons are acquainted with
the merits of the gaillardia, or blanket
flower, which is a hardy perennial and
blooms in the summer in great pro
fusion. It is about a foot high and
has good stems for cutting. For an
old-fashioned garden the new hybrids
of French marigolds and zinnias,
larkspur and fringed petunias are ex
ceedingly beautiful and furnish a
wealth of bloom for cutting,—Brook
lyn Eag-'e.
NEEDLEWORK NOTES.
Where a very accurate straight lin*
is required the material should not
be torn or cut, but a thread must be
drawn first to act as a guide before
cutting.
If a material has a pattern running
one way only care must be taken
when cutting out a blouse that the
two fronts do not have the pattern
■going in different directions.
As a rule the warp threads which
run the length of the material are
stronger and more firmly woven than
the woof threads, which run from
selvedge to selvedge. Remembering
this, all parts of a bodice which are
likely to stretch, such as sleeves, col
lars and yokes, should bs cut the
length of the stuff.
Sleeves which are full at the top
or are fashioned with a puff should
always be made over a lining for a
good fit to be insured and the fullness
to be kept in a proper position.
If a sleeve is made with a long cuff
of lace it is best to mount it over a
lining of white satin, but if a trans
parent effect is wanted chiffon should
be used for the lining, as it makes the
arm look much whiter underneath.
The same rule applies to a lace yoke.
Loosely woven materials or those
which are likely to fray easily are
often a source of trouble to the inex
perienced dresssmaker, for however
much is allowed for seams the threads
are apt to become unraveled almost
down to the seam stitches. To rem
edy this the raw edge should be over
cast directly the garment is cut out
before any seam is sewed up. By this
means the necessity for wide turnings
is avoided.—Chicago Daily News.
Getting' It Down Fine.
The two hundred and fiftieth part of
an inch is a millimeter. The two mil
lionth part of a millimeter is what Dr.
P. E. Shaw, of England, is measuring.
The unaided eye cannot perceive much
less than one-tenth of a millimeter.
With the help of a microscope the eye
can see as little as 1-5,000 millimeter.
The measuring medium used for en
gineering gauges will detect differences
of l-S.OOO millimeter. By using inter
ference bands of light we can perceive
movement of 1-100,000 millimeter.—
Scientific American.
Planted in Cans.
Mr. Gardner—Well, dear, how are
the tomatoes you planted?
Mrs. Gardner—Oh, John! I’m afraid
we'll have to buy what we need, this •
year.
.“Why how’s that, Mary?”
"I recollected to-day that when I did
the planting I forgot to open the
cans!”—Puck.
Improves Stove Polish.
I always put laundry bluing in my
stove polish.