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VOL. II.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1902.
NO. 17.
NEWS OF THE WORLD,
August 9th has been set as the
date of King Edwards’ coronation.
It is estimated this season’s corn
crop will be the largest in the his
tory of the country.
The first week’s contributions to
the striking local miners of Penn
sylvania exceeded half a million
dollars.
Two unknown negroes were lynch
ed near Philippi, W. Ya., for the
murder of a white man named Bud
Wilmoth.
The government of the United
States has not received an invita
tion to participate in the inter
national trust conference, proposed
by the czar.
Secretary Root has issued an or
der for the establishment of one of
the four great military posts, which
are to be the gathering places of the
United States forces in case of war,
aftd in time of peace are to be great
training schools for both regulars
and militiamen. The first post will
be at Chickamauga. Secretary Root
has allotted $450,000 for the con
struction of a post there.
A strange phenomenon is report
ed in the southwestern corner of
Louisiana, a marsh}', uninhabitable
section of country. It is said the
ground took fire several weeks ago
and has been burning ever since.
The soil in this vicinity for the most
part is nothing but sea marsh, and
it is surmised that gas is escaping
through this in sufficient quantities
to make it combustible.
Three American bandits held up
a passenger train on the Mexican
Central and secured over $50,00Q.
Tliq robbery was one of the boldest
on record. At a small station two
of the bandits boarded the express
car and one went to the third-class
coach. The express messenger was
disarmed and the robbers helped
themselves to the cash. The robber
who entered the third-class coach
refused to pay his fare, when the
train was stopped and he was put
off. At the same time the two men
in the express car alighted and dis
appeared in the darkness.
Lieut. Foster, in charge of the
New Orleans branch of the United
States hydrographic office, has re
ported to Washington that a recent
survey of the Gulf of Mexico near
the mouth of the Mississippi river
shows only twenty-five fathoms of
water, where there were sixty fath
oms at the time of the previous sur
vey. Lieut. Foster is puzzled over
the phenomenon. Many believe that
it was caused by volcanic upheavals,
the result of the recent earthquakes
in the West Indies, while others
think it is caused by a deposit of salt
from the Mississippi river. As a re
sult of the discovery the government
probably will order a new survey of
the entire gulf of Mexico.
John W. Mackey, the millionaire
of San Francisco, died on the 20th
inst., in London, of heart failure.
John W. Mackay played the hum
blest parts on the stage of life before
ae reached the role of millionaire.
He was in turn newsboy on Park
Row, New York city, bartender in
Louisville, Kv., laborer and minor,
and his life had been a long strug
gle with fortune when finally he
struck the famous lode which was to
yield for him and his partners more
than $110,000,000. Mr. Mackay
Avas born in Dublin, November 28,
1831. He was president of the
Mackay-Bennett Cable Company,
president of the Postal Telegraph
Company and president of the pros
pective Pacific Commercial Cable
Company, vice-president of the new
$7,000,000 sugar refinery at Yon
kens, N. Y., of which Gus Spreckles
is president; director of the Cana
dian Pacific railway, director of the
Southern Pacific and director of the
new proposed railroad from Havana
to Santiago, in Cuba.
Mexican authorities are said to
have recently executed thirty Y’aqui
Indians, most of them boys less
than 20 years of age. They were
captured by Mexican troops in a
raid in the Y’aqui country.
Adolph Ochs, owner of the New
York Times and several other pa
pers, has purchased the Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
A new postal card is being issued
from the postoffice' department at
Washington which bears the picture
of President McKinley.
After burning for six days, the
Jennings, La., oil well which was
struck by lightning was gotten under
control amd the flames extinguished.
Senator McLaurin, of South
Carolina, has declined to accept the
appointment of President Roosevelt
of a place on the United States court
of claims.
Ashley Cocke and Tom Lunder
dale, members of old and wealthy
families, were hanged at Greenville,
Miss., on the 22d. The crime for
which these two men paid the penal
ty with their lives was the cold
blooded murder of G. M. Wray, on
a passenger train.
In a four handed fight at Green
ville, -Miss., Neal Conley was shot
through the heart. Officer Burns
received a fatal wound, Ed Schraw
ber was shot through the left should
er, and Chief of Police Quinn re
ceived a bullet in the right hand.
The tight was the result of an old
feud between Schrawber and Con
ley.
Mrs. Ellen Wright, of LaSalle,
111., lost her life in an attempt to
protect her pet dog. She was walk
ing along the railroad track with her
pet dog, and a passenger train was
almost upon the dog when Mrs.
Wright leaped to its rescue. She
tossed the animal to safety, but was
unable to avoid the train, which
crushed her to death.
The largest annual seed distribu
tion ever made by the government
will be begun early this fall. Some
important changes in the plan of
conducting this distribution will be
established by the department of
agriculture. With a view of hand
ling the seed to better advantage,
the country has' been divided into
six districts, and seeds and plants
particularly adapted to each district
will be distributed therein. In years
past much complaint has been made
that the seed is received too late in
the season, and this fault is to be
overcome by starting the distribu
tion this year September 1.
A statement has been prepared at
the immigration bureau in Wash
ington, showing the number of im
migrants who arrived in the United
States by countries during the fiscal
year 1902, as compared with 1901.
The'total arrivals for the last fiscal
year were 648,743 immigrants and
82,055 other alien passengers, mak
ing a total of 730,798. This is an
increase of 160,825 immigrants
over 1901. Of this number 178,375
came from Italy, 171,989 from Aus
tria-Hungary, 107,347 from the
Russian empire and Finland, 30,
394 from Sweden, 29,138 from Ire
land, 28,304 from the German em
pire, 17,484 from Norway, 14,270
from Japan and 13,575 from Eng
land.
rne wave oi seismic disturbances
which has traveled around the world
this year was felt in Bandar Abbas,
at the eastern end of the Persian
gulf, on July 9, when there was a
severe earthquake which lasted
from three to four minutes. All
the chief buildings suffered. The
shock continued until July 10. Each
of the live continents, except Aus
tralia, have this year suffered from
earthquakes, volcanic eruptions ac
companying them in five places.
The following is the list: January,
Nova Scotia, Croatia, Mexico, Lis
bou; February, Russia, Schcmacha;
March, Turkey, Italy, Tchangerian
and Lucca, respectively; April,
Guatemala, Iceland; May, Martin
ique (volcanic), St. Vincent, Spain,
France (South Bordeaux), Wash
ington (Mount Redoubt), (volcan
ic), CTotia, Mexico, San Francisco,
Florida, France (the Cruesot dis
trict), the Cape peninsula and
Greece; June, Italy, Russia • and
Chili, in Vellitri, Baku and Chaco,
respectively (the two last volcanic),
Cheshire, St. Vincent, Sicily, India,
Himalayas; July, Turkey and Sa
lonica.
Mrs. S. C. Vaughan, aged 74, of
Paducah, Ky., was accidentally shot
and killed by her 13-year-old grand
son, who wastplaying with a FJobert
rifle.
John Dortsch, alias Gene Sykes,
claiming to be a minister of the
Christian faith, was arrested at
Austin, Tex., last week on the
charge of bigamy. It is claimed
Sykes, or whatever his real name
may be, has five living wives, two
in Arkansas, one in Mississippi and
two in the state of Washington.
Lightning struck the residence of
Mrs. Elizabeth Boyers, near Wabash,
Ind., shivering three of the posts of
her bed, tearing the bed clothing to
ragsr and even ripping open the pil
low on which her head lay and scat
tering the feathers about the room.
Mrs. Boyers was thrown to the floor
and slightly shocked, but arose un
injured. The fact that she slept on
a feather bed is claimed to account
for her escape.
James Jeffries defeated Bob
Fitzsimmons for the heavyweight
championship before the San Fran
cisco Athletic Club in the eighth
round. Up to the final round the
Cornishman had decidedly the best
of the fight, and looked like a sure
winner. Jeffries was severely pun
ished by his vanquished opponent,
who is much the lighter and small
er man. A heavy blow in the stom
ach and a punch on the jaw landed
Fitz on the floor, the first and only
knock-down of the fight.
Maj. Jas. Parker has compiled
some interesting statistics regarding
the insurrections in the Philippines,
There were 2,56 l engagements with
enemy, more or less serious, be
tween February 4, 1899, the date of
the battle of Manila, and April 30,
1902, fixed as the virtual downfall
of the insurrection. The larger pro
portion of these fights were attacks
from ambush on the American
troops or skirmishes in which only
small detachments took part. “In
almost no , case in these engage
ments,” says Maj. Parker, “did
American troops surrender or have
to Tctrcat or have to leave their
dead and wounded in the possession
of the enemy, notwithstanding that
in many cases the percentage of
loss was high.” The number of
troops transported to the Philip
pines up to July 16 last was 4,135
officers and 123,803 men. The aver
age strength, taken from monthly
returns for the period of the insur
rection, was approximately 40,000.
The casualties arc reported as fol
lows: Killed or died from wounds,
69 officers and 936 enlisted men;
deaths from disease, 47 officers and
2,535 enlisted men; deaths from ac
cidents, six officers and 257 enlisted
men; drowned, six officers and 257
enlisted men; suicided, ten officers
and 72 enlisted men; murdered, one
officer and 91 enlisted men. Total
deaths, 139 officers and 4,016 en
listed men. Wounded, 190 officers
and 2,707 enlisted men, a total of
2,897; killed and wounded and
deaths other than by disease, 282
officers and 4,188 enlisted men.
Total, 4,470.
The stogie, or cheap eigar manu
facturers of the country, have com
bined, with a capital of $7,500,000.
Cattle and sheep growers of Wy
oming have recently had numerous
battles. In Freemont county a hand
of 150 masked men have slaughter
ed several thousand head of sheep,
driven other hocks into the moun
tains, and threaten death to the
owners if they drive them back on
the range. The militia may be call
ed out to protect the sheep men.
Twenty-five thousand garment
workers are on strike in New York
city.
Kansas has a short wheat crop of
poor quality. It looks now like
about 45,000,000 bushels, compared
with 100,000,000 a year ago. Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois will have a
trifle more than last year. Missouri
and Michigan will have about a
quarter more. These six states
raise over half of the winter wheat
crop.
NEWS OF ARKANSAS.
Staff Officers State Guard.
An official list of the staff organi
zation and captains of companies in
the two regiments of the Arkansas
state guard has been completed. It
is as follows:
FIRST REGIMENT.
(North of Arkansas river.)
Colonel—John L. Horner, Hel
ena.
Lieutenant Colonel—J. E. New
man, Harrison.
Major First Battalion — W. F.
Harrison, Osceola.
Major Second Battalion—John
E. Frazer, Denning.
Major Third Battalion — W. K.
Surridge, Walnut Bidge.
Surgeon — W. H. Abbington,
Beebe.
Adjutant—J. D. Mays, Helena.
Company A, Morrilton—Captain,
Sig Hecht.
Company B, Denning—Captain,
W. L. Godsev.
Company C, Siloam Springs—
Captain, Leon S. Brown.
Company D, Eureka Springs—
Captain C. D. James.
Company E, Beebe—Captain, II.
B. Andrews.
Company F, Harrison —Captain,
Bobt. S. Murray.
Company H, Walnut Bidge—
Captain J. B. Heister.
Company I, Paragould—Captain,
A. H. Glasscock.
Company K, Jonesboro—Captain,
W. M. Stoddard.
Company L, Black Bock—Cap
tain, W. A. Beakley.
Company M, Newark—Captain,
L. S. Arnold.
SECOND REGIMENT.
(South of Arkansas river.)
Colonel — Claude Saylc, Little
Bock.
Lieutenant Colonel—Charles T.
Duke, Monticello.
Major First Battalion—John G.
Lonsdale, Hot Springs.
Major Second Battalion—Henry
Stroup, Paris.
Major Third Battalion—George
Webber, Texarkana.
Surgeon — C. M. Hay, Hot
Springs.
Adjutant—James B. Dickinson,
Little Bock.
Company A. Boonevillc—Captain,
C. II. Carmichael.
Company B, Hot Springs—Cap
tain, James P. Bandolph.
Company C, Little Bock—Cap
tain, Leslie F. Hawkins.
Company D, Ola—Captain, Ed.
L. Lucas.
Company F, Dardanelle — Cap
tain, G. L. Wirt.
Company F, Magazine—Captain,
Chas. E. Scott.
Company G, El Dorado—Cap
tain, B. E. L. Giles.
Company H, DeQueen—Captain,
Jacob H. Sanders.
Company I, Arkadclphia—Cap
tain, C. M. Clark.
Company K, Prescott—Captain,
B. H. Blakely.
Company L, Cabot—Captain, B.
F. Cranberry.
Company M, Little Bock—Cap
tain, C. Lavatte.
Chinaman May Be Deported.
Frank Lee Duey, a Chinaman of
Hot Springs, has run against the
United States exclusion act, and is
now in the Pulaski jail to await a
hearing before Judge Trieber, of the
federal court, who is in Michigan on
his vacation. Duey may have to re
main in jail until the judge returns
in October. He was arrested in Hot
Springs by Deputy Marshal John
son. If the judges’ decision is ad
verse, Duey will be transported at
the government's expense back to his
fatherland.
Lawsuit Over a Monkey.
A legal battle for the possession
of a money that will likely end in
the supreme court is on between
Dave Smith and A1 Belding, of Hot
Springs. The animal, which is val
ued at $50, was attached by Mr.
Smith for a debt against the origi
nal owner, who had made a present
of it to Mr. Belding. The case was
decided against Belding, who took
un appeal to the supreme court.
Six Murderers Hanged.
Friday, July 25, was hangman’s
day in this state.
Dave McWhorter, who was exe
cuted at Van Buren, spoke for ten
minutes from the gallows, advising
his hearers to profit by his fate. On
the loth day of November, 1901,
McWhorter shot and killed his wife,
Mary McWhorter, to whom he had
been married about one year. They
lived near Mulberry, and some three
weeks before the killing the couple
separated, McWhorter leaving the
([)lace. On the day of the killing
McWhorter went to his wife's house
and tried to get her to allow him to
conic back and live with her, but
she refused, telling him that she
was done with him. She and her
two children, George and Ester
Snodgrass, aged respectively 8 and
10 years, were starting to the field
to pick cotton, McWhorter accom
panying them and still begging his
wife to make up with him. He was
heard to say to his wife that if she
would not allow him to come back
that he would kill himself. She re
plied that she hoped he would not
do so, but that she could not help it.
They were at this time-crossing a
ravine, and McWhorter stepped
hack to allow his wife to go ahead,
and when a few feet ahead of him
he pulled a pistol from his pocket
and fired, the first shot missing her,
the second striking her in the back
*f the head and passing through,
coming out of her mouth.
At Arkansas City, James Kitts,
colored, forfeited his life on the gal
lows for the murder of Jim Come
lately, also colored. The killing oc
curred November 13 last, in a crap
dive run by the murdered man.
Cy Tanner, executed at Forrest
City, confessed his guilt ott the scaf
fold. Tanner was convicted of the
murder of another negro, Robert
Black, in St. Francis county. The
tragedy ensued over a debt of 25
cents, claimed to have been due Tan
ner from Black. The latter offered
to pay it when he could, but Tanner
answered him by firing a fatal bullet
into his body.
Dee Noland and Tom Sims, both
colored, were hanged at Washing
ton. Tom Sims shot and killed
Nancy Setton and Tabitha Setton,
mother and daughter, both colored,
in November, 1901, near Spring
Hill, Hempstead county. He claim
ed he was paid $6 to commit the
murder by a negress who was jeal
ous of the daughter. Dee Noland
killed his wife near Wallaccburg,
Hempstead county, by choking her
to death. The evidence was circuni
| stantial until he confessed, but he
claimed the killing was accidental.
Lathe Hembree was executed at
Center Point for the murder of W.
M. Willis, in Polk county. The exe
cution was private. Lathe Hem
bree was convicted on circumstan
tial evidence for the murder of Col.
W. M. Willis, a tie inspector, in
Polk county, March 2, 1900. Rob
bery was the supposed motive, Hem
bree had several trials, the last be
ing in Howard county on a change
of venue. Every legal recourse was
exhausted in his behalf.
Seeking Information.
Dr. Stinson, superintendent of
the State Insane Asylum, is send
ing out cards to the clerks of all the
county courts, requesting the num
ber of the insane, white and black,
male and female, in the county
poor houses and prisons. It is un
derstood that this is being done to
find out just what accommodations
will be necessary in the state asy
lum, and that a statement of the
need of adding to its capacity will
be submitted to the next legisla
ture.
Railroad Incorporated.
A charter has been granted the
Arkansas Southwestern Railway
Company, which proposes to con
struct a line from El Dorado to a
connection with one of the large
roads in Louisiana. The capital
stock is $300,000, and the -incor
porators arc A. E., W. K. and A. K.
Silverstone, H. S. Powell and Wm.
McCullen.
Dr. J. P. Webb.
Dr. J. P. Webb, for years a prom
inent business man of Little Rock,
but for the last few- years a citizen
of Springdale, suicided by shooting
himself through the temple. Dr.
Webb had been in poor health for
some time, which is supposed t»
have been the cause of his suicide.
Dr. Webb was born in Caldwell
county, Kentucky, in 1832. In 1869
he located at Little Rock and en
gaged in the wholesale shoe busi
ness, but was forced to sell out some
time later on account of his wife’s
failing health and return to Ken
tucky. where Mrs. Webb died. Or
liis return fo Little Rock Dr. Webb
formed a partnership with T. W.
Wilson in the book and stationary
business under the firm name of
Wilson & Webb and continued at
that with success for eighteen
years, selling out in May, 1888. He
left a valuable estate.
Heir to a Fortune.
Mrs. Hal Henley has been noti
fied that she is heir to a large for
tune, left by Mrs. Augusta Rogers,
who died recently at Plainfield, 3*.
J. Mrs. Rogers was a miser and
died in supposed poverty, but pa
pers found among her effects show
that she possessed a large fortune.
About six years ago Mrs. Rogers
went to Hot Springs to get Mrs.
Henley, who, she claimed, was her
daughter, and who was then Lialia
Rogers, a girl 15 years of age. She
stated the girl had run away from
her home several years before, which
was then Butterfield, Ark. Mm.
Henley says she never believed Mrs.
Rogers was her mother. When a
young child she was placed in an
orphan’s home in Xcw York City.
One day while separated from her
nurse she was seized by Mrs. Rogers,
who said she was her mother, placed
in a carriage and driven rapidly
away. She lived with her in vari
ous parts of the country until she
was about 12 years old, when Mrs.
Rogers moved to her farm at But
terfield, Ark.
Fruit Train Wrecked.
A fast fruit train on the Iron
Mountain railroad, consisting of
fourteen cars of fruit from
Texas points, was wrecked at
Sprudel, about twenty miles
north of Texarkana. The train
was made up entirely of re
train was made up entirely of re
frigerator cars and was running on
passenger time when the wreck oc
curred. The entire fourteen ears
left the track and were piled up
across and beside the right of way
in an indiscriminate heap. Fortun
ately no lives were lost, but a large
quantity of good fruit was ruined,
which will probably cost the raiFroafi
quite a sum.
Infant Deserted.
An unknown infant, about a week
old, was found in a basket on a
Cotton Belt train at Bearden. It
was discovered that the basket con
tained all articles necessary for a a
infant's use, all of a fine quality.
There was also a milk bottle, hot
pads and other accessories to an in
fant's toilet, all going to indicate
that the mother of the little one
was not poor in this world's goods.
The child was taken to Pine Bluff,
and has been adopted by a wealthy
but childless couple.
BRIEF MENTION.
Four negro prisoners escape*!
from jail at Texarkana by tunnel
ing under the wall.
Will Curtis, white, shot and killed
a negro named lludolph, at Haynes,
in Lee county.
The general offices of the Arkan
sas and Choctaw railroad have bee®
removed from Texarkana to liugo^
I. T.
A young man named Harrisoa
Crawford accidentally shot and kill
ed himself while hunting, near Har
rison.
Dan Johnson, a farmer, ame
Harrison, was assassinated by sessas
unknown party. Johnson was at
work on his place when the asstsas
fiv-’d on him from behind a tree.