DAMde CLEIUMY News.
VOL. V.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1900
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NO. 16
THE WEEK’S HEWS
TEfiSELV OUTLINED
An Epitome of the Most Important
Events at Home and Abroad
the Past Week.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH.
—
A Cilijuj.se tit WJiat Congress is U»
ing mill an Epitome of (lie Slorc
inil.orf ant EventM Occurring
Throughout the Week, llotli Du
lnestlc anil Foreign.
i OMiUESSIOAAL NOTES.
The senate passed the bill providing
for the settlement of the afiairs of ths
five civilized tribes of Indians.
The army appropriation bill, carrying
(over $iki,uuu,uu0, was passed by the
house after five days' consideration.
■ The house passed the iforaker bill,
amid applause on both sides, providing
f for marking the graves of confederate
I dead buried iu the north.
The senate has agieed to vote on the
statehood hill befoie adjournment
March 9.
The senate accepted the house
amendments to the Glllespie-Tillman
commerce commission to investigate
the relations of railroads with the pro
duetion of bituminous and anthracite
coal and oil.
TUB SITUATION IX RUSSIA.
A deputation of monarchists has gone
from Ivanovo-Voznesensk to Tsarskoe
Belo .to beg the emperor to withdraw
the reform manifesto and restore the
old regime.
The chief of police' and a number of
gendarmes at Kharkcff, after a sensa
tional trial, have been each condemned
to a month's imprisonment lor beating
and torturing politcal prisoners.
Thirty revolutionists who, the police
Claim, lormed the central group of the
fighting organization of the social rev
olutionists, have been arrested in .St.
Petersburg, in addition many recolvers
and cartridges and several thousand dol
lars of revolutionary funds were seized.
GBXBHAI. NEWS ITEMS.
A report from Boise, Idaho, saj s that
Steve Adams has made a full confession
in the Steunenberg murder case, far
more detailed and sweeping than Or
chard's on the movements of the con
spirators.
John R. Walsh, president of the de
funct Chicago national bank, was ar
rested on a federal warrant, in Chicago,
charged with making false returns to
the comptroller of the currency and
couveiting to his own use, wi'hout
proper authority, funds of the bank to
the amonnl of $3,000,000. He was re
leased on bail pending hearing before
United States Commissioner Foote.
The ban has been placed on boxing
matches and glove contests in Denver.
Charles H. Bricken.-tein, former
treasurer of Conejos county, Colorado,
has confessed to a shortage of $02,000,
of which $19,000 was on deposit in the
defunct Alamcsa bank.
The Equitable Building, Loan & Sav
ings association of Elkhart, Inch, will
go into liquidation in preference to
levying an assessment of seven per cent,
to make up losses.
The trade reviews foreshadow an
enormous spring business end building
operations that will approximate, if not
I*pf
As duke of Lancaster, King Edward
of Great Britain has begun a two
months’ holiday in Paris, Biarritz and
the .Mediterranean, He is attended
only hv Gen. Sir Stanley Clarke and
Hon. Sidney Grevills.
Cap*.■'William D. Matthews, national
head of the negro Ma.-ons, died at his
home in Leavenworth, Kas., aged 80
years. He was* prominent in ‘ under
ground railway” work in the tifties.
Margaret, countess of Suffolk and
Berkshire, daughter cf the late L. Z.
Leiter, of Chicago, has presented hei
husband witl^a son and heir.
George Manvswiler, for years leader
Of the Ringling Bros.’ circus band, was
found dead in bed at Sioux Falls, S. B.,
Where be was spending the winter,
from tile rupture of a blood vessel neat
the Heart.
Alfred von Steiger, of Wilton. N. D.
Is reported to have been killed by
Vaqui Indians in the mountains of So
; itcra. Mexico, where he had gone for
! his health.
Meridian, Miss., and adjacent terrl
Rtory was swept by a terrible tornado on
; the evening of the 3d inst., which cut
‘.a wide swath .^trough the city, leaving
‘ a trail of devastation and death. Fire
ajf.eri to the horrors of the situation.
It was thought a number of persons
were buried in the debris, but the
search for the victims was badly ham
i pored by the prostration of the electric
lighting wires.
Sonor Mendez Capote, vice-president
i elect of Cuba, has signified his desire
:to withdraw before the vote is actually
cast by the presidential electors.
High school girls throughout Ger
many subscribed $3,000 as a silver wed
ling gift to the emperor and empress,
jto go towards Increasing the navy.
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Mrs. Lydia Van Sant, mother oi for
mer Go\ Van Sant, of Minnesota, diet!
at Leclsire, la., where she had lived
since 18'-!7 aged 94 years.
The Wheeler elevator, on Buff, lo riv
er, at Buffalo* N. Y., was burned: loss,
$175,000
J. W. W. White, a wealthy [aimer
near Sparks, Okla., was shot and killed
by James Crane, an einploye whom he
had accused of stealing.
Sifted down to actual facts it appears
that the recent trouble at Nanehan, Chi
na, was '■:>! a Boxer outbreak at all,
but a purely local affair, the rioting
and killing,, being the result of objec
tion to Frwtch Catholic priests assum
ing to ex'.»*;so civil functions.
A prairie tire swept 30 square miles of
the riches" farming lands in Rice coun
ty, Kanu ;esulting in damage esti
mated at $5i ,000.
Miss Katherine O'Brien, daughter of
the Aincr'i an minister, Thomas J.
O'Brien, :>■ Copenhagen, and Henry
G. Chilton secretary of the British le
gation tin.]*-, are to be married April 21.
Bishop Rotter, of New York, and his
daughter are spending a month in
Rome.
in open eg the Newfoundland legis
lature, Gov. Sir William MacGregor, re
ferred glowingly to the colony's unex
ampled prosperity.
Mrs. J. f,. Brock, the wife of a far
mer, was aw arded $3,000 damages in
the ■’district court at Independence,
Kas.. apa as George Francis, one of
the wealthiest men in Kansas, for in
juries received in a runaway caused by
an automobile driven by Francis.
AValter Scott, the Death Valley miner,
and hi:; brother, Warner Scott, were
fired upon from ambugh at Windy Gap,
138 miles from Barstow, Cal., and War
ner Seotl was dangerously wounded. He
is now in a hospital at Los Angeles.
Judge \\ ,rthir.gion, in the circuit
court at 1 eoria, 111., has ordered the
eight school inspectors of Peoria who
have a yeai yet to serve, to appear in
court, March 12, and show cause why
they should not be ejected from office
on the ground of illegal election.
Constable Joseph Fleis was shot and
instantly killed by Mrs. Lawrence Ba
ker, in Chicago, while attempting to
levy upon : ome property in Mrs. Ba
ker's home without having shown liis
authority.
The monthly statement of I he public
debt show- hat at the close of business
Februar _ the total debt, less cash
in th. i.l-r*-;.. -.nt* $r--78,?.!H,:755, a .la
crease for tbt? month of $4,003,041,
principally accounted for by a large in
crease in tb-’ amount of cash on hand.
Dr. William Hill, a well-known Illi
nois politician, died at his home in
Bloomington, aged 77 years. He was
present, in an official capacity, when
William J. Bryan was horn.
At last accounts the mob still held
partial sway in Springfield, O., seem
ingly bent on driving the negroes out
of town. The presence of several com
panies of state troops was the only
thing that deterred them, and they
didn't seem to be very much afraid of
them as the military was handled very
gingerly.
A. W. Moerki, postmaster of Colum
bia, Isle of Pines, has been taken into
custody because he refused to pay the
storekeeper's tax, on the ground that
the Isle of Pines is not under Cuba’s
jurisdiction.
Under Sheriff John E. Sealy was shot
and lulled at Hurley, Wis., by George
Greenweed, a Wisconsin Central op
erator, who mistook Sealy for a burg
lar. Sealv likewise mistook Green
wood for a burglar who had taken ref
uge in the station.
The terrible drought which for years
has paralyzed the industries of Aus
tralia has Keen broken, and record
breaking crops and plentiful pasturage
marks the return of normal conditions.
1 UIV llin UCCJ1 UUauiC IU UUUUU CIA1 ill
definite leave of absence, Maj. Cassius
E. Gifiette. one of the best-khown cn
gir.ee: s in the United States army, has
resigned his commission, and has been
i^pointed by Mayor Weaver of Phila
delphia chief engineer of the bureau of
filtration, a position paying $17,000 a
year.
The native population of Nanehang,
China, where the recent murders of
missionaries' were committed, is flee
ing, dreading the arrival of armed forces
from European and American gunboats.
Bamuel J. Humphries, Douglass E.
Smith, Charles Augustus Seton aud
Charles T. C. P. Colmey, indicted in
connection with Norfolk & Western
$4,500,000 l one! forgery, were arraigned
before Recorder Goff, in New York, and
all pleaded guilty but Golmey. They
were remanded one month for sentence.
A bill has been introduced in the
lower house of the New York legisla
ture making it a felony to advocate or
teach tlie duty, necessity or propriety of
shortening the lives of incurably dis
eased or imbeciles.
A Shanghai dispatch reports the
death of Rev. H. C. Ivingham's eldest
daughter, from the effects of injuries
inflicted upon her by the Chinese mob
that killed her parents at Nanehang.
The citizens of Bath, England, by a
vote of two to one, decided to reject
Andrew Carnegie’s offer of $05,000 for
a public library.
Within five minutes after 500 factory
girls had mached ottNof the big factory
of the Star Shirt Co. at Bridgeport,
Conn., the building was a seething fur
nace. It was a dose call for the girls,
but discipline counted.
Medical Society Meeting Place to Be
Changed—Death of Wealthy Woman
—Buys Large Coal Tract—White
River Telegraph Offices.
For Arkansas Forest Reserve.
Reports from Washington indicate
that the Forest Bureau is seriously
considering the advisability of estab
lishing a forest reserve in Arkansas.
According to Forester Pinehot, direc
tor of the, bureau, the great forests of
Arkansas are becoming devastated,
and in fact will be wiped out of exist
ence if conditions continue as now.
If a free hand is given in Arkansas
much longer and settlers are per
mitted to cut and slash and burn
wherever they wi’J these forests will
practically vanish within a generation.
•uni lilt people oi Aihausas win no
driven to the necessity of buying their
lumper in distant markets, says Mr.
Pine hot. The forestry service admits
that the lumber industry is the largest
in Arkansas, yet it will not stand idiy
by and watch the destruction of what
in the future will be the greatest as
set to the stale. There are nearly 3,000,
000 acres of the public domain in Ar
kansas, and much of this land is valu
able for its timber.
State Medical Society Meeting.
The officers cf the State Medical So
ciety have been advised that Pin.'
Bluff will be unable to entertain the
delegates to the state meeting this
year, and a meeting of the officers
will be held within a few days to ar
range for tifiolhTr mettiilg pTSfce. rat?
hotel accommodations of Pine Bluff
will not be sufficient to accommodate
the crowd, and the society there de
cided to let some other city have the
meeting rather than curtail the at
tendance. Inasmuch as Hot Springs
, was a close second in the race for this
! meeting, it is expected that city will
j be chosen as the place of meeting.
Wealthy Woman Dies.
Mrs. Francisca Massmau, 85, died at
her home, three miles west of Eureka
Springs, of pneumonia. She came
from St. Louis at an early day and
bought up large tracts of pine lands,
from which she shipped hundreds of
cars of lumber, the output of sawmills
operated under her direction. She
had an extensive business acquaint
ance, and was the wealthiest woman
iu Carroll county.
Deal in Coal Land.
A. P. Gunther, president of the Ar
kansas Valley Coal Company, has pur
chased the entire holdings of the
Spradling Coal Company, and also 400
acres of coal land from R. T. Powell,
of Greenwood, the consideration be
ing from $65,000 to $75,000. This makes
Mr. Gunther one of the largest holders
of Sebastian county coal land.
To Put in Telegraph Offices.
The railroad linemen on the White
River division of the Iron Mountain
have been instructed to put in wires
and instruments for telegraph offices
at O'Neal, Mt. Olive, North Fork and
Sycamore. There are agents at all
those stations now with the exception
of North Fork, but there arc no tele
graph operators.
Former Sheriff Under Arrest.
J. M. Cole, former sheriff of Tell
county, was last week arrested in San
Angelo, Texas, on a requisition and
warrant issued from the secretary of
state’s office, on the charge of viola
tion of the election laws of this state.
Cole is charged with having voted
twice in the last general election
Found Dead in His Room.
Ren Powell, an old resident of Lit
tle Rock and a familiar figure in the
justice courts of the city, was found
dead in his room Monday morning.
Druggist in Bankruptcy.
Ben R. Williams, druggist, was
placed in bankruptcy last week on an
involuntary petition filed by attorneys
for creditors in the United States Dis
trict Court. The assets are estimated
at $11,00C and liabilities about $15,000.
Fenders on Street Cars.
The killing within one week of two
children by Little Rock street cars
have aroused the citizens and com
pany to action with the result that all
the street cars of that city will be at
once equipped with fenders.
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For Italian Colony.
C. Farafxoni, Italian consul at New
Orleans, has been in Rogers several
Jays in answer to a cablegram from
tome directing him to visit the site
of the proposed Italian colony in
den ton county. He finds the lands
'here all that is desired, but does not
\ike the contract between the
'.■olonists and the agent. Mr. Fara
i'roni will return to Rogers in a few
lays to meet the owner of the land
id upon his report will depend the
te of the project, as the colonists
ill not leave Italy until his report
received.
The Chicken Escaped.
Mrs. W. T. Ramsey of Wilson, met
vith a very painful accident recently,
yhilo attempting to kill a chicken.
Mrs. Ramsey was trying to chop the
i hicken's head off with ail axe, and
just as she started to strike the
iowI it made a desperate effort to
scape, and she lost control of the
xe and it struck her on the knee,
ho keen blade almost splitting the
1 neecap in twain.
Narrow Escape.
While attempting to board a St.
bonis and North Arkansas passenger
train at Marshall as it was pulling
( ut from the station Dr. Ira Smith ot
Gilbert was thrown beis^on the plat
urn and the train and narrowly
•scaped being crushed to death. He
• as bruised to some extent about
hi* head and body and one cf his
Cn Charge of Bigamy.
Arthur W. King is confined in the
county jail at Little Rock on the
i {targe of bigamy. King is a marble
ctitte , and has lived in Little Roe'U
tor the past four months. It is said
hi has confessed to the detective de
terment, who arrested him, that he
has been three times married, one
of his wives being still alive and un
it; voiced.
Mutiny Among Convicts.
A mutiny occurred a few days ago
among the convicts at Allen’s camp,
o ■ the Arkansas & Louisiana rail
h'ad, at Washington, Hempstead
fyanty. A hundred and one convicts,
•ilHSSfty negroes, are at Work nt this
camp, and only the prompt action cf
the guard in shooting the four lead
ers averted a serious outbreak.
Found in Arkansas.
Thomas D. Jordan, former comp
troller of the Equitable Life Assur
ance Society, whose whereabouts
have been unknown for several
months, has been located at Hot
Springs. He has been there since
February 8, when he registered at
the Park hotel under his own name.
His wife is with him.
The Fatal Diaz Curve.
Through freight trains 55 and 5G
collided head-on just south of the
ill-fated Diaz curve Sunday after
noon at 5:30 o'clock and as a result
both engines and six cars of freight
were badly wrecked. T^o lives were
lost, and the injuries were few anc»
not serious.
Union Depot at Hoxie.
The people of Hoxie are elated over
the assured fact of a new union
depot. The material has been shipped,
and the plans call for a structure
with two wings, one 24 feet long fac
ing the Frisco tracks and the other
70 fei?t in length facing the Iron
Mountain tracks.
John Dow, negro wife murderer,
was hanged at Batesville Tuesday.
On April 4, 1905, at Sulphur Rock,
Dow killed his wife, from whom he
was separated, and shot his father
in-law, mother-in-law and another
negress.
Negro Shoots White Man.
Joe Price, a negro, employed on a
levee camp near Grady, in the Din
wood and Auburn levee district, shot
one of the levee bosses, a white man,
and has been placed in the Pine Bluff
jail for safe keeping.
Fire at Newport.
Fire in the business district of
Newport destroyed property valued
at $25,000. Owing to a high wind,
the entire city was for a time in
danger, and was saved only by the
united efforts of the citizens.
Census Being Taken.
A census of Hope is being taken
with the object of making the town
a city of the first class, 2,500 popu
lation being necessary. A census
taken last fall showed 3,443 inhabi
tants and it is believed the number
will exceed that now.
Coal Miner Killed.
George Brooks, a miner was
killed by falling slate in a coal mine
[ at Spadra recently.
Bad Habit.
“So you lost your position?” we ask
of our young friend who has demanded
our sympathy.
“Yes; the firm told me I would have to
quit.”
“What reason was given?”
“I smoked cigarettes.”
"Why, that seems hardly a sufficient
reason for such drastic action.”
“Yes; but I was smoking the boss's
cigarettes and he caught me at it.”—
ludge.
The Old Story.
Still do the fates conspire and frown,
And bitter is life’s cup.
Whene’er the mercury goes down,
The price of coal goes up.
—Washington Star.
THE DOCTOR’S IDEA.
Invalid—Doctor, I must positively
insist upon knowing the worst.
Dr. Wise—Weil, I guess my bill will
be about $85.—Chicago Journal.
How, Indefd?
The poor musician ’gan to cry.
And this is what 1 heard him say:
"How can I lay a little by
When none will buy my little lay ?”
—Judge.
Might Live Too Long.
Old Gotrox—I proposed to Miss
Peachly last night and what do you sup
pose she said?
His Friend—She said “yes,” doubtless.
Old Gotrox—No; she said before giv
ing me an answer she would like to look
at my family Bible. Now, what do you
suppose she wants to see that for?
His Friend—Oh, she probably wants
to see if you come of a long-lived family.
—Chicago Daily News.
The Music That Chtffms.
“The old-fashioned idea of serenad
ing has gone completely out of date,”
said the romantic youth.
“Yes,” answered Miss Cayetwe, “a
girl don’t care to hear a guitar now.
But an automobile horn will cause her
to take notice.”—Washington Star.
His Advice.
“What do you think we had better
do to stop the railroads?” asked the
man who is patriotic, but nervous.
"Don’t try to stop ’em,” answered
the man who is always in a hurry.
“Encourage ’em to run faster and
oftener.”—Washington Star.
Exchange of Confidence.
Mr. Jinks—I don’t know how you
will feel about it, sir, but the fact is
that my wife, your daughter, is a
dreadfully hard woman to live with.
Mr. Blinks—I can sympathize with
you, sir. I married her mother.—N. Y.
Weekly.
Money Gone.
He longed to wed the girl
Whom ho was wont to court.
But he had courted her so long
It made him very short.
—Philadelphia Press.
SFOKT.
“Morning. Killed anything?”
"No; have you?”
No Ynll at Vassar.
First Vassar Student—Say, girl3,
there’s one thing we’ve forgotten. We
haven’t any college yell. All colleges
have yells, you know.
Second Student—Why, of course.
Strange we never thought of it. Let’s
have one.
Third Student—But I don’t sec how
we can yell without taking the gum out
of our mouths.
Fourth Student—Let’s let the yell go.
It isn’t very lady-like, anyhow.— N. Y.
Weekly. / ,
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True Humility.
“The cook wrote me a letter of res
ignation.”
"The idea! What did she say?”
“She called me every name she
could think of; said you were a beast
and that she considered herself our
superior.”
“That all?"
“All except that she signed herself:
‘Your humble servant.’" — Houston
Post.
—
Only Kemedy.
Mrs. Blinks—Our son John doesn’t
seem to have a bit of energy. He’ll
never be good for anything until he
marries.
Bim'ks—How win inirmSs”'benefit
him?
Mrs. Blinks—Oh, after he’s married
a few weeks he’ll get over the habit
of hanging around lue house.—Chicago
Daily Aews.
Poor Boi?i.
Count Boni is sued for divorce
Because he has acted too coree;
It's the thought of the dough
He’ll have to let gough
That's Idling his heart with remorce.
—Houston Post.
BLACK AND WHITE* OR, THE
STOE.Y OF A PUZZLED
MOTHER.
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Consistent
Mrs. Newbride (petulantly)—No! you
don't think of me at all any more.
Mr. Newbride—That isn’t so, my dear.
Why, I’ve been thinking of you all day.
Mrs. Newbride—Fibber! You even
forgot to mail the letter I gave you this
morning.
Mr. Newbride—Well—er—you see, I
think of you so earnestly that I forget
everything else.—Philadelphia Press.
Extra Precaution.
“Onions!" hissed the beautiful girl.
“You feasted on onions and then dared
to kiss me?”
The timid young man paled.
“Well, you see, my dear,” he faltered,
“I—er—heard that there were germs in
kisses and I thought possibly the onion
breath would destroy them.”—Chicago
Daily News.
Speaking Acquaintance.
“You say you know the judge?” asked
the officer who had just arrested the
chauffeur for exceeding the speed limit.
“Well, yes,” replied the chauffeur; “I
have a speaking acquaintance with him.
He once said ‘$25 fine’ to me, and I said
‘thank you’ to him.”—Yonkers States
man.
Doubted Her Love,
“Why did you marry me?”
“Because I loved you, and because
you said that if I did not marry you
you would kill yourself.”
“Humph! If you had truly loved
me you would have permitted me to
kill myself.”—Houston Poet.