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ROBERT CROSBY WILL
PAY DEATH PENALTY
The Execution To Take Place at
Batesville To-Day.
Crime For Which he Suffers Extreme
Penalty Was a Most Cold
Blooded One.
The execution of Robert Crosby
for the murder of Sherit!' Jeff. D.
Morjran will take place at Bates
ville today.
As provided by law, the execu
tion will be private, and but 25
ROBERT CROSBY,
Who Will Be Hanged at Batesville
Today For the Murder of Sheriff
Jeff. D. Morgan.
persons will be permitted to wit
ness the hanging.
Owing1 to the fact that Sheriff
Kaneaster has refused to grant the
necessary permission. The .Jour
nal will have no representative
prys<jnt to report the affair, and
must rely upon the reports gather
ed as best we can from oilier
sources.
The editor of The Journal made
a personal application to Sheriff
Kaneaster immediately after Cros
by was convicted and long before
he had made up his list of witness
es, for permission to witness the
execution in order that we might
he able to s?ive our readers a bet
ter account of tfie occurrence, but
Mr. Kaneaster ’has ignored our
request.
The details of the crime for
which Robert Crosby today pays
the death penalty are too. well
known to need repeating here.
On Thursday evening, Septem
ber 15, he deliberately shot down
Sheriff Morgan on the streets of
Batesville while Mr. Morgan was
attempting to arrest him on an old
charge of burglary. Crosby, it
will be remembered, narrowly es
caped being lynched by the enrag
ed citizens of the county, but cool
er heads prevailed, and the mob
of angry citizens were persuaded
to allow the law to take its course.
On Sunday, October 1*, Crosby
made a daring escape from jail,
but was recaptured before lie got
out of the city limits and again
placed behind the bars. The talk
of lynching him was again reviv
ed, but extra guards were placed
about the jail and Crosby was
bound in chains, hand and foot.
Tiijfse extra precautions to prevent
his further escape somewhat ap
peased the wrath of an outraged
citizenship and no further at
tempts were made to lynch him.
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, November 25, 1904.
HARDWARE STORE ROBBED
Unknown Parties Broke Into Haw
thorne’s Store and Stole $150
Worth of Goods.
Some time during Sunday night
H. E. Hawthorne’s hardware
store was entered by unknown
parties and about $150 woith of
goods stolen. rI he goods stolen
consisted of guns, knives and raz
ors. It is not known just how
much they secured, but Mr. Haw
thorne places the loss at between
$125 and $200. Eight or ten guns
are missing and quite a number oi
knives and razors.
The burglars effected an in
trance by removing the panes of
glass from a side window.
Harr.v Cunningham, who came
up from Newport on the Sunday
evening local, was arrested on sus
picion Monday afternoon. At the
time of his arrest he was lying out
in the woods a short distance be
low town, and pretended to be
rortr rlrnnlr Hp WHS JIT rftftted 1)V
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS
Items of General Interest Gathered
Fresh From the Columns of
the Daily Papers.
Marion county’s new court
house at Yellville is nearing com
pletion.
A big {rjn together with 25 bales
of cotton were destroyed by fire at
Palarm Saturday night.
Miss Mamie Kellogg of Wynne
recently fell heir to $4,000 by the
death of her grandmother in Indi
ana.
Newt Nelson pleaded guilty at
Hardy to an attempted criminal
assault, and was sentenced to fif
teen years in the penitentiary.
The steamer 1 lari in sank in the
Arkansas river near Bickers Land
ing, in about 30 feet of water
i Monday morning. No lives were
■ lost.
Congressman Morris Sheppard
of Texarkana, Texas, will ask
congress to appropriate $25,000
I for a government building at Tex
arkan*.
BAD MEN MEET AT GUION ,
John Murphy Was Shot and Fatally
Wounded by M.E.Shores as the
Result of a Spree.
(iuion. Ark., Nov. 21.—As the
result, it appears, of a spree, John
Murphy was shot ami fatally
wounded here at 1 o’clock this af
ternoon by M. E. Shores. Roth
are residents of Stone county.
It is claimed that the two men
were under the influence of intox
icating liquors and it is said that
Shores has been fined twice in the
last two weeks for disorderly con
duct.
Circumstances, as near as dis
cernible, indicate that the blood
letting today was due to the con
dition of the men at the time.
THE HONOR ROLL.
The following is the average,
taking 100 as perfect, of the pu
pils of the Newark school for the
month ending November 25, 1904:
Lucy Lawton, Teacher.
HEADING.
Virl Pascoe 93; Hattie Rogers
100; Susie Rogers 99; Ethel Mil
ler 98; Pearl Poe, 100; Ruby Poe,
100; Winnie Hearing, 88; Van
Pascoe, 96; Pearl Craig, 100; Fay
Williamson, 90; Addie McHenry,
Constable S.W.Clark and brought
to town and placed in the caliboose
for safe keeping. About nine o'
clock Tuesday morning he broke
out of the caliboose, and, although
the officers started in hot pursuit,
he succeeded in evading them and
made good his escape.
LATER DEVELOPS! ENTS.
Five of the stolen guns were
found secreted in the woods just
below town Wednesday night,
This led to the arrest of “Gov’’
Grosser and four or five of the
missing knives were found on hi>
person. His trial was set for one
o’clock yesterday before Squire
Tharp and resulted in his being
over to the grand jury in the sum
of one thousand dollars.
Notice to Teachers.
Notice is hereby given that there
will be a public examination at
Batesville, Arkansas, on Thursday
and Friday, the loth and 16th day!"
of December, 1904, to ascertain
the professional qualifications of
all persons desiring to teach in the
public schools of Arkansas within
the limits of Independence county.
The examination will begin prompt
ly at 8:30 a. m. and each applicant
is requested to be present at this*
hour. Given under my hand thi>
14th day of November, 1904.
Sidney Pickens,
County Examiner.
SHOT DOWN AT HIS HOHE.
Waldron, Ark., Nov. 19.—Jesse
Smith was assassinated at his home
two miles east of Waldron .yester
day. He was cutting wood and
some unknown person fired from
ambush upon him. Smith was fa
tally wounded, dying a short time
after the shooting. A peculiai
fact is that this was the third sim
ilar attack on Smith. Twice be
fore he was shot from ambush and
slightly wounded.
HAVE SAVED $8,000.
It is learned on good authority
that the Arkansas World's Fail
Commission will cover back inte
the treasury at the close of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition an
unexpended balance of $8,000.
from the total of $100,000 appro
priated by the legislature for the
purpose of providing a proper dis
play of the state’s resources.
Buy American Wire Fence—the
best on earth, from Barnett Bros
Merc. Co., Batesville, Ark
S. C. Dowell of Walnut Ridge
and George E. Wells of St. Louis
will probably be granted a fran
chise for a $25,000 electric-light
plant at Pocahontas.
Lizzie Williamson, a negress,
was found dead at Kerr, near Lon
oke, Saturday afternoon. The
verdict of the coroner’s jury was
I that death was caused by heart
j failure.
The State Board of Railroad In
corporators has extended the time
of the charter of the Batesville and
Jacksonport Railroad, upon the
application of the president, H.
Devereaux.
Louis Lilley one of Faulkner
county's oldest citizens was found
dead at his home Sunday evening.
He lived alone and his death is
supposed to have resulted from
heart failure.
The smallpox situation near
Ward and Butlerville, in Lonoke
county, seems to he under very
good control, and the pest is sub
siding At present there are only
twenty-three cases in all in Lon
oke county,
Uml Farris and Roc Farris, his
ARITHMETIC.
Ruby Poe, 97; Pearl Poe, 97;
i Van Pascoe, 90; Hattie Rogers,99;
Susie Rogers, 98; Ethel Miller,92;
Virl Pascoe, 90; Fay Williamson,
100; Addie McHenry, 100; John
Saylors, 100.
GEOGRAPHY.
John Saylors, 100; Ethel Miller,
96; Virl Pascoe, 99; Van Pascoe,
90; Pearl Poe, 98; Ruby Poe, 98;
Hattie Rogers, 100; Fay William
son, 97; Addie McHenry, 100;
Winnie Hearing, 90.
GRAM MAR.
Ruby Poe, 98; Ethel Miller, 9-1;
Van Pascoe, 90, Virl Pascoe, 90,
Fay Williamson, 92; Addie Mc
Henry, 95; John Saylors, 99.
HISTORY.
John Saylors, 100; Fay Wil
liamson, 90; Addie McHenry, 90.
ALGEBRA.
John baylors, !*8.
MENTAL ARITHMETIC.
John Saylors, (J6.
Those in the first and second
readers who deserve special notice
are: Billie Barksdale, Ola Barks
dale Kate Martin, Nobe Holderby,
Hazel Edwerds, Lena Magness,
Virgie Ilulse.v, V. L. Pascoe,
Charlie Edwards, Lena Pascoe,
Flora Love, Leon Love, John
Miller and Jewell Magness.
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BRIDGE CONTRACTS LET.
Judge Wycough let the contract
for building four bridges Satur
day afternoon. One across Polk
Bayou in Jefferson township was
let to M. M. Stewart for $770; one
across Curia near Cedar Grove was
awarded Mr. Stewart for $500. A
foot bridge over Blue creek near
Y. M. Macks was let to W. T. An
derson for $‘.*0 and one over Long
Slough in Big Bottom township
was let to X. M. Wilson for $385.
—Batesville Bee.
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A man named Johnson surrend
ered to the chief of jH>lice at
Jonesboro, saying that he is want
ed in Chattanooga, Tenn., for a
murder committed there sixteen
years ago, in 1888. After the kill
ing he married under the assumed
name of Leroy, and has a daught
er eight years old. His health is
very bad.
son, of Stone county, have been
placed in the penitentiary to serve
one and two-year terms respective
ly. Another son, George Farris,
was already in the penitentiary
I serving a sentence of three years.
This has proved a very success
ful year to the rice growews in
Lonoke county, and W. H. Fuller
who owns a large rice farm in that
county has harvested 5,450 bush
els from his 75 acre tract. The
rice Is said to be of the finest qual
| ity.
Alfred Arthur, aged 14, shot
and instantly killed Kelly Davis at
Marked Tree Monday. Davis had
been on a spree and was beating
his wife, who was the boy’s sister,
when the lad shot him in the head
with a small rifle. The boy sur
rendered to the authorities.
Etument Weeks was killed last
week while hunting near Waldron.
S iie went out alone, and when he
did not return at night his friends
Kegan to search for him. His
dead body was found with a gun
shot wound in the left side, aud it
is supposed that his gun was acci
dental discharged.
Vol. 4. No. 48.
HOT SPRINGS TRAIN
WRECKED AT SWIFTON
Crashed Into Heavily Loaded
Freight Tuesday Morning.
Engine Badly Injured and Fireman
Killed, but Passengers Escape
Serious Injury.
The Hot Springs Special, train
No. IT on the Iron Mountain, was
wrecked at Swifton, 16 miles
north of Newport, Tuesday morn
ing at 5:45
Engineer Andrew De Guire was
badly injured and fireman Harry
Wells was buried beneath the
wreckage and instantly killed,
only eight passengers were ser
iously injured, which seems almost
iniarcuious, as the train was run
ning 60 miles an hour when the
accident occurred.
The wreck was caused by the
passenger smashing into a freight
which was taking the sidetrack for
No. 17 to pass, and was the result
of the dense smoke from the for
est fires which overhung that vic
inity. The freight was a few min
utes late in making the siding, and
a brakeman walked up the track
w/ viiv ^
but the density of the smoke ob
scured his lantern, and No. IT
dashed by him at the rate of HO
miles an hour and crashed in the
freight, only a few cars of which
were still on the main line.
The passenger engine and four
coaches and ten freight cars were
demolished. To add to the horror
of the occasion the wreckage took
tire and the entire passenger train,
except the two sleepers which did
not leave the track, was consu med
by the flames.
It is said to have been one of tho
worst wrecks on this road in
years, and the loss is estimated at
$100,000.
$75,000 FIRE AT RECTOR.
Rector, Ark., Nov. 21.—Rector
was visited last night by the most
destructive tire in its history.
Shortly after 8 o’clock the cry of
“tire’’ was heard and the people
rushed from the quiet of their
Sunday homes to find the town
ablaze. The fire started in a ware
house at the rear of J. R. Arnold’s
store, which carried, among other
things, a large stock of hay. The
extreme dry weather in the
past two months made every
thing burn like a pile of tinder,
and the flames, in spite of the ve
ry best efforts of hundreds of wil
ling volunteers, spread rapidly,
until one entire block of brick
buildings was consumed, with the
exception of three houses. Among
the heaviest loosers are: Joseph
Wolf & Co., general merchandise,
stock and building; Chris Neely,
clothing and furnishing goods; J.
R. Hafford, drugs; Porter Vance,
confectionery and bakery; King
H. Buy, groceries; J. R. Arnold,
groceries and hardware; I). G.
Moseley & Son, general merchan
dise; Charles Johnson, billiard
and pool room.
The loss on the buildings is com
plete. Except in three instances
the loss on scock is very great.
It is estimated today by those in
position to know that the loss on
stocks and buildings will aggre
gate $75,000. The insurance is
small.
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