News of the World
liussin and Japan are still en
gaged in the prolonged battle, with
typewriters as weapo is.
Over 500 additional policemen
will he on duty in St. Louis during
the exposition.
January 29, birthday of the late
President McKinley, was appropri
ately observed throughout the union.
The brokerage firm of Baxter &
Co., controlling a chain of 125 of
fices from New York to Xew Or
leans, has assigned.
The coming Cuban election is
causing much interest and the dif
ferent factions are charging gross
frauds in the registration.
Forty-eight decrees below zero
was recorded in northern Mighigan
the right of January 29. Cattle
were found frozen stiff in well
built barns.
W. K. Vanderbilt. Jr, on an au
tomobile race course in Florida, run
his machine a distance of fifty miles
in a fraction les- time than fifty
minutes. This is the best record
ever made in America.
When Antonio Souehez. employed
in a mine near Eagle Pass. Tex.,
was notified that liis wife had just
hern burned to death at their home,
ho fainted and fell through a hole
in the shaft, breaking his neck.
The grand jury at Milwaukee.
Wis., after a session rf two months,
completed its work by returning a
total of fifty indictments. Those
indicted include aldermen, ex-alder
"men, supervisor-, a state senator and
some private citizens. Thee barges
in the indictment consist mainly of
“petty” grafting.
Ex-Mayor Amos of Minennpolis,
convicted of illegally receiving mon
^kfrom gamblers and sporting wom
and sentenced to -ix years in
prison, has been released by the su
preme court of Minnesota on a tech
nicality. The court found no flaw
in the indictment, but held the evi
dence on which Ames was convicted
to he faultv.
| Albert Smiteh. aged 19. was las
soed by workmen on a bridge at St.
Louis and rescued after having trav
eled over five miles on a floating
rake of iee in the Missouri river.
The boy attempted to cross the riv
er in a small boat, which was
swamped, hut he managed to save
himself from drowning by clinging
to the ice until rc.-eued as above
stated.
The Rock Island and Missouri
Pacific have made leg cuts in rates
on grain from Kansas and Xebras- |
ka points to the gulf ports. The
reduction is due to an effort of the
Northwestern to secur* the long
haul on grain to the lakes, thus
shutting off the southern lines,
which retaliated with a heavy cut.
Fnless the eastern linos enter into
the fight and cut the rate from the
lakes to the seaboard, practically all
export grain will go via New Or
leans and (hi Ives ton.
The report of the commissioner of
patents for the calendai year 1903
shows that the patent business trans
acted exceeded all previous records.
The total cash receipts of the office
were $1,010,098, leaving a surplus
of $188,000. There were 50,213
patents applied for and 37,099 is
sued. The report predicts the same
increase for the present year, and
says the patent, office since its in
ception in 1836 has furnished a net
balance of $3,082,540 to the govern
ment.
A negro brute entered the home
of G. J. Shields, a business man of
Roanoke, Va., and in broad daylight
assaulted Mrs. Shields and then cut
her throat with a razo/ Her lit
tle; 3-vear-old daughter, who was in
the house, was knocked in the head
by the fiend. The terrible crime
was discovered hv M”. Shields when
he arrived at home her dinner and
his wife managed to tell the color
of the murderer during a moment
of consciousness, f
Japan lias doubled the land tax
and the income tax, which will in
crease her war fund $22,000,000
annually.
Over $2,000,000 woith of prop
erty in the business center of Pro
gresso, Mew, was destroyed by fire
January 28.
Miss Xannie Bryan, sister of lion.
M . J. Bryan, died at her home in
Lincoln, Xcb., January 30. Her
death was due to consumption.
An epidemis of pneumonia pre
vails in St. Louis, and the health
officer holds that lack of warmth in
street ears is indirectly responsible.
Fourteen miners were killed at
Victor, Colo., by the falling1 of the
cage in a shaft. The men fell
1,500 feet and their bodies were
terribly mangled.
While eating breakfast at his
home in Xorris City, 111., Joseph
Edwards, 86 years of age, was
choked to death by bread crumbs
lodging in his throat.
The verdict of the coroner’s jury
in the Iroquois theater disaster
makes the city of Chicago liable in
damage. Suits which will exceed
$10,000,000 will be brought.
More than twenty people were
injured, some fatally, in a street
car collision at St. Louis. The
collision was due to a conductor
stopping his car to settle a dispute
with a passenger when one follow
ing crashed into it. At the time of
the accident there was a dense fog
and motermen could not see beyond
half a block.
D. 11. Francis, president of the
Louisiana Purchase exposition, de
clares he is not a candidate for pres
ident or any other office at the pres
ent time. .Mr. Francis was former
ly governor of Missouri and a mem
ber of the cabinet during Grover
Cleveland’s second term. He is a
member of the conservative wing
of the democratic party.
Dressed in a suit of l.er brother’s
clothes and with her long, brown
hair cut short and crammed into a
man’s wig, May Bomb'1!. 22 years
old, of Terre Haute. 1ml.. applied
to the recruiting sergeant at Fort
Sheridan to he mustered into com
pany 1. which is ordered to join the
20th regiment in the Philippines as
soon as it is at full strength. The
girl broke down when informed that
she must undergo the regular physi
cal examination, and confessed her
sex. The girl's object was to be near
her sweetheart, who is a member of
company 1.
The United States again stands,
at the close of the calendar year
1903, at the head of the list of
world's exporting nations, so far a?
relates to the exportation of domes
tic products. This fact is shown by
a series of tables just presented bv
the department of commerce and
labor through its bureau of statis
tics. There are only three “billion
dollar countries,” considered from
the standpoint of exportation of do
mestic products, and they are, in
order of the magnitude.of their ex
ports. the United States, the United
Kingdom and Germany. In the
calendar year 1903 the exports of
domestic products were: From the
United States, $1,457,505,783 in
value; from the United Kingdom,
$1,415,017,553; from Germany the
ligures for the full year have not
been received, but an examination
of the figures of the year for which
statistics are available justifies an
estimate of $1,200,000,000.
A dispatch from Terre Haute,
Ind., tells of the death by freezing
of several residents along the Eel
river bottoms. The ri\er overflowed
its hanks and the ice and large vol
ume of water washed away a strip
of levee live miles in length. People
had no warning of the flood, and in
manv places had to seek safety bv
climbing to the roofs of their
houses. The weather registered
below zero, and many thus entrap
ped froze to death.
Convicted Murderer Escapes.
J. B. Coffee, arrested in Califor
nia about two weeks ago on the
charge of having murdered his first
cousin in Hempstead county in
1881), and who was delivered to of
ficers from this state upon presen
tation of a requisition, made a dar
ing and sensational escape from a
train at Fort Worth. The officers
having Coffee in charge were com
pelled to change ears at Fort Worth,
and as they left the Fort Worth and
Denver train the prisoner jumped
from the platform and disappeared
behind some box cars. Coffee was
tried for the killing of his cousin
in Miller county in 181)0 on change
of venue and found guilty of mur
der in the first degree. A few nights
after his conviction. Coffee escaped
and succeeded in hiding his iden
tity until arrested in California.
Exciting Time With Crazed Negro.
Mrs. L. D. Jackson of Searcy
had a thrilling experience with an
old negro servant, whose clothing
caught lire and she was burned to
death. The unfortunate negress
got too close to a fireplace, and when
she discovered her garments ablaze,
she jumped into a bed occupied by
Mrs. Jackson and her little girl.
Mrs. Jackson rescued her daughter
after a fierce struggle with the
crazed servant, in which she was
badly burned about the hands. The
negress rushed from the room into
the yard, and died after suffering
the most excruciating pain.
P03tal Changes.
The following changes in fourth
class postmasters ha\e been an
nounced: Aplin, Perry county, W.
F. Pitts, vice David 1>. Ford, resign
ed : Eastwood. Jefferson county, W.
T. MeBurnctte, vice J. D. Holley,
re-igned: Gaither, Boone county,
Bhoda Hickman, vice J. A. Caru
tliers, dead; Glassville, Baxter
county. Henry C. Browning, vice
Charles E. Talley, resigned; Mon
arch. Marion county, ,1. 1). Sims,
vice Mary FI. Stephenson, resigned;
Biddle. Sevier countv, James L.
Luck, vice William D. Enoch, re
signed.
Assigned to Duty With Militia.
Brig. Gen. E. M. Haves, retired,
recently appointed to service with
the Arkansas state guard, has seen
forty-eight years of active army ser
vin'. His term of appointment is
four years. lb' will hold no rank
in the guard, but will act only in
an advisory capacity with the offi
cers, giving them tin benefit of his
experience, and representing the
secretary of war as intermediary
between the department and the
guard.
New Road in Prospect
W. 11. (Coin) Harvey has made a
proposition to build a railroad from
Lowell through Springdale to Si
loam Springs. It i- estimated
that Hie cost of the roadbed alone
will he about $140,000, of which
amounts the towns and people along
the line of way are asked to contrib
ute 5,000.
BRIEF MENTION.
North Arkansas experienced zero
weather for the lirst time this win
ter January 2G.
Marion county will make an in
dependent mineral exhibit at the St.
Louis exposition.
Van Gray, a watchman for the
Cotton Belt, was caught on a trestle
near Clarendon bv a fast mail train
and fatally injured.
A sour cocoanut eaten by the fam
ily of ( has. Carson, a negro at Hot
Springs, caused the death of his
wife and 10-year-old daughter.
The second annual Sunday-school
institute of the Arkansas confer,
ence, M. E. Church, South, will be
held at Fayetteville, February 8, 9
and 10. ,
Over 100 deaths occurred in Lit
tle Rock during the month of Jan
uary. A majority of the deaths
were due to pneumonia and con
sumption.
One of the numerous candidates
for sheriff of Pulaski county pro
poses, if successful, to donate $7,000
to local charitable institutions out
of his salary.
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