VOL. V.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1900.
NO 27.
THE WEEK NEWS
TERSELY OUTLINED
Ad Epitome of the Mo*t Important
Events at Home and Abroad
the Past Week.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH.
A Uliuipae at Wliat toagrcM l» Uo
,„g Together With a Carefully
Digeated anil Condensed Compila
tion of Current Nem Itema, Both
Uomeatic and Foreign.
CONGHESSUONAl, NOTES.
After 75 days of almost continuous
deliberation the senate by a vote of
71 to 3 passed the railroad rate bill,
which now goes back to the house
for concurrence in tne senate amend
ments. .
The house passed the bill, which
has been reported favorably in nine
congresses—six times by republicans
and three times by democrats— to
pay the estate of Samuel Lee, of
South Carolina, $10,482 for allowance
made by reason of the election of Lee,
a negro contestant for a seat in the
Forty-seventh congress. The minority
attempted to filibuster the bill down,
but were outgeneraled.
After two weeks’ discussion the
house finally passed the naval appropri
ation bill, carrying $99,764,000, and then
took up the so-called natura.iz&tion
bill.
Senator Bailey presented in the sen
ate documentary evidence in his pos
session tending to discredit the pub
lished statements that he had acted
treacherously to his party and had at
tempted to prevent effective railroad
rate legislation.
The consideration of the naval appro
priation bill, carrying $100,000,000, in
cluding a provision for the construction
of a battleship to rival the British
Dreadnaught, has been concluded.
The house committee on insular af
fairs has authorized a favorable report
on the hill extending United States cit
izenship to the inhabitants of Porto
Rico.
The house committee on military af
fairs has authorized a favorable report
on a bill for the purchase of 257 acres to
add to the Gettysburg reservation. It
will include the ground covered by
Pickett's famous charge.
The house, working on District of
Columbia legislation, completed the
bills reorganizing the Washington pub
lic school system.
REKICRAL NEW* ITEMS.
James Theodore Walker, a young
millionaire clubman, son of the late
David D. Walker the St. Louis whole
sale dry goods merchant, died at his
home “The Farm,” near Clarksville,
T.Io., as the result of burnsy received
In an explosion of gasoline in his
automobile garage.
The navy department at Washing
ton has been advised that 23 Ameri
can sailors were mobbed by natives
at Guantanamo, Cuba, and that all
were more or less severely ^wounded.
One was shot, the rest being clubbed,
stabbed or hacked with machetes.
Upwards of 100 dwellings and a doz
en business houses at Stanley, Wis..
were destroyed by a fire that at one
time threatened to sweep the entire
town. The loss is estimated at $300.
000.
The associatiqn of German metal
working establishments has voted to
lock out GO par cent, of the workmen,
June 2, in order to counteract the
strikes in various cities.
A platform on which over 500 Pres
byterian assemblymen were gathered
to be photographed, at Des Moines,
la., collapsed and a half dozen min
isters were injured. Geo. Wills, ot
Mendota, 111., was rendered uncon
scious, his back and legs being seri
ously hurt.
William H. Kuhn, aged 73, who
helped lay out the city of Denver, Col.,
died at his home near Council Bluffs
la.
It transpires Giat the records in
over 200,000 cases of citizenship were
destroyed by fire in San Francisco
the political importance of which can
hardly be overestimated.
Fierce forest fires are reported
front the upper peninsula cf Michigan
an] portions of Wisconsin. Several
villages, including Talbot, Mich., a |
Place of 300 inhabitants are said to
have been destoyed, and it is feared
there has been loss of human life.
At last accounts 200 square miles had
aecn swept over.
Uol F. M. Kerth, who organized
tee first company in Ohio to serve in
the civil war. died at Enid, Okla., aged
'' .' ears, following a succession of
strokes of apoplexy.
Complaint is made in San Francisco
that contractors in and about the city
are not treating their employes fairly,
a route cases placing their pay day so
tai ahead as to render their work val
t'cles:; to men with families unless the
la> hecks are discounted (by them
*elves) at extortionate rates.
Julius Kahn, president of the Cash
Buyers’ National Co-Operative soci
ety, which failed last winter, was ar
rested in Chicago, on an indictment
found by the federal grand jury
charging him with having used the
mails to defraud .
Marathon, Wis., had a big lumber
fire that destroyed aboutj 3,000,1)00
feet, and owing to the extreme dry
ness and surrounding forest fires the
town was placed in imminent peril.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Boone
(la.) Cereal Co., owned by Fred Fear
& Co., of New York city. The loss is
placed at $105,000; insurance, $43,250.
Dan Weston, an employe, was injured.
Six steel rail-producing corporations
in the Pittsburg district have booked,
within two weeks, orders for 1,000,000
tons of rails for delivery in 1907.
A, J. Cassatt, president of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Co,, on his arrival in
London, declined to dissuss the report
cabled from Philadelphia that he was
considering retiring from his position.
The general assembly of the South
ern Presbyterian church is in session at
Greenville, S. C., with 210 commission
ers, representing every one of the 83
presbyteries of the south, in attend
ance.
George W. Jiminez, the New York
policeman who went to Panama to re
organize the police department of that
republic, has given up the job, declar- j
ing that political considerations render
the t3sk impossible.
The last imperial garrison in Cana
da, that of Esquimau, has been re
placed by Canadian troops and the Brit
ish troops have started for home.
United States Marshal Darrough is
confident that it is only a question of
a short time now until the three Wick
liffe brothers, the Cherokee outlaws, are
either killed or captured.
Fourteen men were injured, three fa
tally in the National tube works at
Benwood, W. Va., by the collapse of a
scaffold, on which they were at work,
under the weight of a huge casting.
Miss Harlan Child, granddaughter of
Associate Justice Harlan, of the su
preme court of the United States, and
Erastus Corning, Jr., of Albany, N. Y.,
were married in Washington, D. C.
Business was practically suspended in
the interior department for half the
day on the occasion of the funeral of
Carl Schurz, former secretary of the in
terior.
Prof. Paul S. Reinsch, of Madison,
Wis., has been appointed one of the
American delegates to the Pan Ameri
can conference at Rio Janeiro, ir. place
of James S. Harlan, who has been
obliged to decline, owing to an accident
President Roosevelt, speaking to a
delegation of the Merchant Marine.
league who called upon him at ths
White House, expressed himself as
heartily in favor- of the ship subsidy
bill now pending in congress.
President Castro of Venezuela, it is
said, will resume the reins of govern
ment May 25.
Rev. Dr. Hunter Corbett, a distin
guished missionary to China for many
years, was chosen moderator of the
Presbyterian general assembly at Des
Moines. Ia., after a spirited contest, on
the third ballot.
It is expected that every necessary
building of the Leland Stanford uni
versity at Palo Alto, Cal., necessary
for the welfare of the college will be in
perfect condition by September next.
Rev. Dr. J. J. Tigert, secretary of the
general conference; Rev. Dr. Seth
Ward, of Texas, and Rev. Dr. Joseph
Atkins, Sunday-school editor, were
elected bishops by the general confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal church
south at Birmingham, Ala.
Two men, belonging to a construc
tion gang, were killed" and five others
injured, one fatally, by a premature
explosion of dynamite near Blooming
ton, Ind., on the line of the Indianap
olis Southern railroad.
Michael Davitt. the well-know-n Irish i
nationalist, has had to submit to a sec
ond operation for blood poisoning, and
though in a very enfeebled condition,
may have to submit to a third, to save
his life
The Standard Oil Co. has issued a
statement to its shareholders in which
it denies positively the charges that
the company benefitted by secret rates
for the transportation of its products,
and declaring that whatever of pros
perity it has enjoyed has been due to
its elaborate economical and industrial
organization.
The National Society of Daughters of
Founders and Patriots held its eighth
annual meeting in Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Henry V. Boynton was elected
president and Mrs. Luoy M. O. Marsh
secretary.
The world's conference of the Young
Women's Christian association held a
week’s session in Paris, France. A
large American delegation, including
three national secretaries, was present
Ben Hungry and Ned Carselute, al
leged assomplices of the Wickliffe
brothers, the Cherokee outlaws, were
captured in the Spavinaw hills. Hun
gry is said to have confessed being with
the Wickliffes when Deputy Gilstrap
was killed.
The Illinois legislature, in special
session, has finally passed a primary
election bill, by a close margin. Lieut.
Gov. Sherman, in announcing the final
vote carrying the measure in the sen-,
ate, indulged in some vitriolic comment.
The legislature qdjourned sine die.
RKANSAS
STATE NEWS
To Abolish Preparatory Branch.
It is said that a sentiment is grow
ing among the educators and legisla
tors of Arkansas to abolish the pre
paratory department of the State
University at Fayetteville. This de
partment has existed since the estab
lishment of the institution. It is al
leged that the abolishment of the pre
paratory department of the universi
ty, in which is now taught the high
school branches, will result in the
raising of the standard of the public
schools of the State and at the same
time raise the university to its right
ful place as the head of the educa
tional interests of the State.
The Jonesboro School Board is
trying to solve a difficult financial
problem. The Board desires to erect
a school house at a cost of $25,000.
The income of the Jonesboro School
Board from taxes and other sources
is in the neighborhood of $15,000.
All of this amount is required to op
erate the schools. The board is in
hopes that the school tax amendment
to the constitution, which will be
voted on at the general election in
September, will be adopted. With
the amendment in force the school
revenues of Jonesboro will be in
creased about $2,000.
James Gould, sheriff of Jefferson
county, received recently $200,000
from a New York capitalist. Ac
companying the check was a request
from the gentleman that Mr. Gould
invest the money in the purchase of
Arkansas river bottom lands. The
capitalist who has commisioned Mr.
Gould to make this investment for
him is an old acquaintance of that
gentleman, who made his fortune in
the Klondike, and having money to
invest in good things wants to place
some of it in the territory contiguous
to Pine Bluff.
Up Against a Problem.
Investing in Arkansas.
Subject to Taxation.
The federal land office at Camden
has certified to the clerk of Howard
county that 16,420 acres of land in
that county have been proved up and
will be subject to taxation next year.
This will have to be assessed by the
clerk, as this is not the year for
assessing real estate, and it will be
valued for about two dollars an acre,
which will increase the taxes to be
collected something over $600.
A Narrow Escape.
Mrs. Anna Westbrook had a narrow
escape from a horrible death at Pine
Bluff recently. While burning some
trash in her yard, her dress accident
ally caught fire and before the flames
could be extinguished they had burn
ed her badly about the back. She
is expected to recover.
A Criminal Delegation.
The latest acquisition at the state
prison is a bunch of fourteen convicts
from Phillips county. The prisoners
were brought in by Deputy Sher
iff John Rabb and were turn
ed over to the superintendent. The
prisoners are mostly negroes, sent
up for short terms.
While one of the attaches of the
carnival company that has been ex
hibiting at Fayetteville during the
week was picking a railroad torpedo
to see how it was constructed and
what it was madp of, the little thing
exploded and blew off the end of his
right thumb.
Mayor W. E. Ogletree of De Queen
has discovered that neither the ele
tric light plant nor the telephone
company of De Queen has a legal
franchise from that city, and that in
neither case has the records been
perfected, the signatures of the pre
siding officers being unattached and
the ordinance granting the franchise
having never been recorded.
The Benton Telephone Exchange
will build a line to Detoni, and James
Carson will then build a line from
there to Corwin, Nuna, Shaw, Dr.
Cole's, Tull postoffice and also to Bel
fast and will later on extend to
Sheridan. The Benton Telephone
Company will put in a switch board at
Detoni, which will be the central of
fice for all these connections.
Postoffice Robbed.
Recently the postofflce at Big Flat
was robbed of about $225. Entrance
was effected by the robbers through
the use of skeleton keys.
Pulaski County scrip to the amount
of $81,360, which had been redeemed
during the past year, was canceled
recently in the office of the coun
ty clerk. Another quantity of re
deemed scrip will probably be can
celed within the next few weeks. The
scrip when canceled is stored away,
and after the county commissioners
of accounts meet in September it is
burned.
Secretary M. N. Gaines of the Ar
kasas division of the Southern Cot
ton Association is busy compiling the
acreage reports from over the state.
Transcript Filed.
The transcript in the case of Malln
da Moody against the Jon«sboro,
Lake City and Eastern Railroad
Company was filed in the Supreme
Court yesterday on appeal from the
Mississippi county Circuit Court of
the Oceola district. In the lower
court damages amounting to $12,000
were awarded against the railroad
for injuries sustained by the plaintiff
in crossing the tracks of the railroad.
A train was backed on a sidetrack,
striking the plaintiff and causing the
loss of a leg and inflicting other in
juries.
Result of Heavy Rains.
The strawberry growers in the vi
cinity of Grannis have lost fully $1,
500 on account of the recent hard
rains, which caused the berries to get
ripe before the pickers could get to
them. Since it has cleared up, it is
not unusual to see children from the
age of 8 years and upwards to adults,
male and female, by the wagon loads
going to and from the berry fields.
After the berries, will come the peach
season, and there was never better
prospect in this line. Every tree Is
well laden.
Arkansas Postal News.
The site of the postoffice at Sayre,
Ouachita county, has been changed
one-twelfth of a mile west.
James U. Brown has been commis
sioned postmaster at Huttig, Ark.
James M. Jenkins has been com
missioned postmaster at Grassy Lake.
Grassy Lake is not a money orde;
office.
Sent Five to the Pen.
The following prisoners have been
sent to the penitentiary from Monroe
county recently: Wm. Mitchell, mur
der in the second degree: seven
years. Bud Calloway, murder first de
gree; ten years. Tine Johnson, mur
der first degree; three years. Bedie
Wright, grand larceny; one year.
Robert Givens, forgery, two cases;
two years in each case.
Betrothed.
The engagement of Miss K. Clayton
youngest daughter of Ex-Governor
Powell Clayton, now of Washington
City, to Grant Euff, who has been
British acting charge d'affairs at
Darmstad, Germany, has just been an
nounced. The marriage will take
place in this country sometime in
September.
Formerly Resident of Arkansas.
Mrs. Albert A. Dabney-Storrs, the
Washington woman held in custody
by Los Angeles officials on the charge
of killing her husband, spent her girl
hood in Searcy, Ark., where her fath
er, Capt. Albert J. Dabney of the
United States army, was stationed
as instructor in military tactics at
one of the schools.
Cotton Belt Digging Ditch.
The Cotton Belt is at work on a
deep ditch that will extend along its
Altheimer branch form Altheimer to
Little Rock. The work is being done
by a steam plow, and both sides of
the track are being ditched. It will
be a great benefit to the country on
both sides of the railroad track, as
well as the roadbed.
Sebastian Republicans.
The Republicans met last Saturday
night and elected delegates to the
county convention to be held in
Greenwood May 21 and placed a full
township ticket, consisting of two
trial and four quorum justices and a
constable, in the field.
James Rhodes Acquitted.
•Tames Rhodes of Warren was tried
Saturday in the United States Dis
trict Court for selling whiskey with
out paying the government tax. The
evidence showed that he wras repre
senting a licensed liquor dealer and
he was acquitted.
Sixth Street Fair.
The Sixth Annual Street fair at
Texarkana began Monday morning.
Educator Returning.
Prof J. R. Trett, an Arkansan who
is at present teaching in Missouri,
has accepted the principalship of the
Arkansas City public school for next
session. He will be assisted by Miss
Kate Sharp.
For Apprehension of Firebugs.
Citizens of El Dorado have raised
a fund of $400 as a reward for the
apprehension of persons guilty of in
cendiarism. It is supposed that a
recent fire in El Dorado, causing a
loss of about $10,000, was the work
of firebugs.
Declined.
Rev. Chas. H. Little of New Madrid,
Mo., who was recently called to the
Presbyterian pastorate at Dardanelle,
has declined the call on account of
continued ill health.
Commissions.
A commission as notary public has
been granted to E. M. Perfect of
Marianna. M. P. Burns of Russell
ville has been commissioned as a
constable and J. T. Thompson of Rus
sellville was commissioned as a jus
tice of the peace.
ARKANSAS BRIEFS
Coroner Davis of Hot Springs held
an inruest on the body of Mrs. Brid
get Pendergrast, an aged woman of
Union township. Garland county. The
verdict of the jury was that Mrs. Pen
dergrast came to her death by carbolic
acid taken with suicidal intent. The
cause of her act was not ascertained.
The White County Oil Company of
Bald Knob has the machinery on the
ground to put down a well. It is ex
pected the company will begin boring
at once. Experts say every indication
is that oil will be found.
At. Hot Springs, the Arkansas State
Fair Association of that city has op
ened its permanent headquarters.
More than sufficient stock has been
subscribed to guarantee the success of
the fair and to insure every premium
feature, etc., even if there were no re
ceipts. Oaklawn Park, the site on
which the fair will be held October
1 to 10, has been thoroughly resur
veyed for the state fair and a system
of landscape gardening almost com
pleted. The program nad premium list
will be issued in a short time.
The Fruit Growers' Association at
Judsonia has loaded 63 cars this year
up to May 14, which average 480
crate each, making in all 30,240
crates. At 48 cents per crate the asso
ciation members have alreadly paid
out for picking $9,467.20. Besides, at
least 5,000 crates have gone out by
local express, making $10,867.20 paid
out there for picking alone. That
would make $5,462.20 paid out for box
es in the flat (to be made up by the
growers). The season will last a week
or two longer, but the plants now
need rain.
James B. McDonough, attorney for
the Kansas City Southern Railroad at
Fort Smith, went to Siloam Springs
recently, met the other corporators
of the Siloam Springs Hotel Company,
and the organization was perfected.
The stockholders held a meeting and
elected Connelly Harrington chairman
for the first meeting, Walter Axtell,
secretary, Jas B. McDonough, treasur
er and a board of directors. Now that
the company is organized and every
thing cleared up, contracts may be let
and building operations begun within
a short time.
About 200 citizens in Marshall and
other portions of Searcy county have
resolved to put a stop to the destruc
tion of fish by the use of dynamite
in the streams of that county. They
propose to furnish the authorities
and members of the Grand Jury with
names of w-itnesses that will supply
evidence that will lead to the conviction
of persons who are in the habit of
violating the law- by the use of this
explosive.
A contract for the construction of
a new $25,000 public school building
has been let by the board of directors
of the Hope public schools. The build
ing will be one of the handsomest in
that section of the state. A contract
for the erection of a new $20,000 public
school building at Osceola will also be
let in a short while. There is at
present a steady grow-th of public
school buildings over the entire state,
a number of handsome structures be
ing now in course of erection.
During an electric storm at Ozan,
lightning struck and killo^l a valuable
mare belonging to Dr. ,1. M. Armfield.
The animal was feeding in a stall at
the time it w-as struck. The bolt first
struck the mare on the head and ran
dow-n her neck to her shoulder and
then dow-n one of her front legs tc
the ground. The mare’s neck was
broken and the mane was burned from
her neck.
Richard Henry, a negro boilermak
ers’ helper at the Iron Mountain
shops in Argenta, fell from the top
of an engine at the shops where he
was working and sustained the frac
ture of several ribs, in addition to
suffering internal injuries.
Mr. J. W. Burks of Clarksville,
Tenn., formerly of Nashville, Tenn..
has accepted the position of permanent
secretary of the Young Men’s Busi
ness League, and will arrive in Hel
ena on June the first to assume his
duties. He is one of the most efficient
men for the place in the country, and
comes well recommended.
ment was not legally adopted.
S. S. Rivett, 60 years of age, who
lived on Pension mountain, fell from
a wagon loaded with shingle blocks
recently, sustaining injuries from
which he died.
The Hempstead County Circuit
Court in session at Washington, dis
posed of more cases than was ever
before stricken from the docket of
that court in one day. Judge J. D.
Conway presided and more than 100
:ases were acted upon, the aggregate
3nes amounting to about $4,000. Near
ly all the offenders had been indicted
’or operating blind tigers, and entered
ideas of guilty.
Rev. F. R. Noe, formerly chaplain
a£ the House of Representatives will
be a candidate for the same position
in the next legislature.
TO THE CONSUMER.
FACTS FOR HIS CONSIDERATION
REGARDING HOME TRADE.
Patronage of Local Merchants on.
Important Factor in Build
ing Up a Commu
nity.
Dear Mr. Consumer: The retail
merchant in your community very
often has much less at stake there
than you have.
The prosperity or lack of prosperity
of the community may mean much
less to him than it does to you.
His investment in your community
may be represented entirely by the
stock of goods he is carrying.
If your particular community does
not afford him prosperity according
to his necessities it is a comparative
ly simple matter for him to close out
his stock and go elsewhere, taking
with him that part of the prosperity
of your community which his capi
tal added to it.
If you are a farmer, let us say—
since we are writing of mail order
house patronage, and agriculturists
are very large patrons of the mail or
der institutions—your holdings in
your community represent many thou
sands of dollars, so that its continued
prosperity is vital—most vital—to
your own prosperity.
It is true that many retail mer
chants have property interests in the
communities in which they live in ad
dition to their mercantile interests.
It is true also that many mail order
house patrons have small financial in
terests of any kind.
It may be safely stated, however,
that the interests of the average
farmer, who is the great catalogue
house patron, are more closely bound
up in the welfare of his community
than are the interests of the average
retail merchant.
It must be plain, then, that you who
have much at stake in your communi
ties are placing responsibility on the
wrong shoulders when you demand
that in order to retain your patron
age merchants who have comparative
ly little at stake shall compete in the
assortment of stocks, and to the ex
act dollar and cent in prices, with
some millionaire merchant in a dis
tant city.
If your local merchant be honest,
and if he be making an effort, fairly,
to supply your needs as far as it lies
within his power, it is to your inter
est that you should encourage him by
every means you possess, not only to
remain in you community, but to ex
pand his business to further meet the
requirements of your community—in
stead of placing upon him the burden
of gratifying your every whim that
you may be induced to keep at home
the portion of your money that be
ings there in any event.
We say to you. therefore, that it is
your duty to yourself to purchase
within your own community every
dollar’s worth of goods that it is pos
sible for you to buy there at a price
within reason; that it is your duty
to yourself to give your home mer
chant an opportunity to order goods
for you that he may not have ip
stock; that it is your duty to your
self to help your home merchant en
large and widen the scope of his busi
ness as rapidly as possible.
If you cannot buy a certain kind of
goods in your own community, it is
your duty to yourself to join witji
your neighbors in a search for an en
terprising merchant who will come
into your community with his capital
and handle that particular line of
goods.
At one time or another you may
have contributed a bonus to bring a
manufacturing establishment to your
community. The retail merchant, in
a smaller way, is as important a fac
tor in the prosperity of your com
munity as the manufacturer—some
times a more stable one; he is a nec
essary part of the whole.
And he asks no bonus but your en
couragement and the share of your
trade which it legitimately belongs to
you to give to him.
Walking a Lost Art.
Time was when everybody walked
and thought it no disgrace. For then
walking was only a degree Mower
than the quickest means of locomo
tion, and by that token respectable.
But who thinks of walking now? If
you go into a shoeshop where 50 styles
of fine footgear are offered, you v/on’t
find a shoe you could walk e. mile in
without being crippled, and though
you call for the best grade of stock
ings, they are wqrn through the first
time you put them on if you go afoot.
Nobody who is anybody is expected to
walk any more. The trolleys and the
devil wagons have made walking in
tolerably slow, and the airships, when
they come, w'ill doubtless abolish it
for good and all. And that is prog
ress. The voice which clamors for
stockings that will wear or shoe^that
are easy it a voice out of the past,
the echo of dead traditions.—Life.
King Defies Augury.
King Alfonso defies augury. Ha
will be married on a Friday.