War-Rufs County News.
VOL. VI.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1907.
NO. 36.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
>H gpiTOME OF THE MOST I Nit
POHTANT EVENTS AT HOME
and abroad.
north, east, west, south
a Carefully Digested and Con
densed Compilation of Cur
rent News Domestio
and Foreign.
Frank T. Hawley, national president
of the Switchmen’s Union of North
America, made ** statement denying
any connection with the reported
movement to get an eight-hour day
lor railroad switchmen all over the
United States. Such a movement has
no sanction of the organization, he
says, and the present agreements with
the railroads will be preserved.
The preliminary inquiry in connec
tion with the plot unearthed last May
at Tsarskoe-Seloe against the lives of
the emperor, Grand Duke Nichola and
Premiei Stolypin was conducted at
St. Petersburg. Three of the prison
ers will be tried by court martial.
By a process of elimination the
naval board which has been investigat
ing the accident whereby the men
in the turret of he battleship Georgia
lost their lives has arrived at the con
clusion that a "delayed flareback
caus'd this catastrophe.
Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, wife of
the vice president, and other members
of an automobile party were in an ac
cident, but all escaped without serious
injuries. The loss of a tire ditched
their machine.
The field for argument, both for the
prosecution and defense of WilliamD.
Haywood lias been limited by Judge
Wood, who in a decision removed from
consideration of the jury all evidence
bearing on ihe alleged conspiracy by
mine owners and others against the
Western Federation of Miners.
After being out just a month, the
telegraph operators in the Oakland
and San Francisco offices of the West
ern Union and Postal Telegraph com
panies settled their strike Friday.
The will of Theodore Tilton, whose
suit a year ago against Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher brought him unuleasant
notoriety, was filed for probate in New
York. Mr. Tilton died in Paris, for
some time his home, on May 25 last,
but in his will he describes himself
as domiciled in New Y’ork city.
The interior department temporarily
withdrew 801,525 acres of vacant or
unappropriated lands in the Dardan
e.lle, Harrison and Little Rock land
districts in Arkansas, pending action
as to the inclusion in the Ozark na
tional forest.
It licit. lvcwwn
sell Sage had recently given $250,000
to the association for the relief of re
spectable aged indigent females in the
city of New York.
Cotton thread, until a short time
ago the most stable in price of all the
staples, selling the country over ior
•> cents a spool, is to be advanced
again, so that the retail price will bo
10 cents.
The state department received a
communication from friends of Emil
Simon, of .New York, stating that he
had in
‘on arrested in Germany for ac
cidentally killing a woman with an
automobile, and asking the department
to look after his inTerests.
■\rt(T hearing her pastor appeal to
the members of his congregation in a
suburb of Lincoln, Neb., to lead clean
lives, woman confesses to improper re
lations with the preacher, who is sus
pended from the church.
District Attorney Jerome of New
"*10 's suing W. R. Hearst for
$-50,000 for libel, refused in court to
teveal the names of the contributors
to his campaign fund in 1905.
1'iro insurance companies are con
cerned over the unexpected litigation
"i Kansas, which presents new points
aiu* U1:,V make serious trouble.
Standard Oil Company files an addi
tional answer to the suit of the gov
ernment at St. Louis.
New \ork Herald denies It is advo
cating war. Says modern journal
loses money during hostilities. Edi
tonal insists transfer of fleet to Pa
ci ic is patriotic undertaking.
The pope has conferred the grand
cross cf the Order of the Holy Sepul
* !"' on King Menelik of Abyssinia
■ng Menelik recently conferred on
is loimess the decoration of the Star
ci Ethiopia.
trio °f arK'iment on the adinissl
11 y oi portions of the evidence fol
«i d the announcement from the de
,|lM' l,lat *hey had no further wit
'' asns to offer in behalf of William
u Haywood
Etoeks advance sharply in the early
J*** 011 the New York stock ex
- gc, but a reaction follows and the
H'1 ’ hecontes stagnant,
tin 'orl{ bubllc service board be
ca,,S a S('ai ching inquiry into the str#el
Cdl systems of that city.
State’s Attorney Miller, of Clinton,
hurries back from his trip after the
prisoners to prepare for the prosecu
tion. leaving the sheriff to bring Ma
gill and 'his bride from San Diego.
The power to go to municipal own
ership at any time is said, in a report
to the National Civic Federation, to
prove an effective weapon in the hand.
of English cities to compel better serv
ice from private corporations.
Facts brought out in the trial of
Karl Han at Karlsruhe, Germany, for
the murder of his mother-in-law, point
to the love of the young professor for
his wife's sister as the cause of all
the troubles.
Captain Winslow’s experience was
similar to that of many other naval of
ficers returning to their own country
after a long cruise in foreign waters,
in that he was charged with having
sought to evade the payment of du
ties on large quantities of expensive
wines and thousands of high grade
cigars and other table luxuries as well
as on curios of great value secured
abroad.
The facts are very different, accord
ing to the statement made to the de
When he learned, later in the day,
and indirectly, to the contrary, Com
mander Winslow informed the collec
tor of the nature of the contents of
the boxes, adding that he did not be
lieve that they were dultable, but that
if there was the slightest question he
preferred to pay the duty in full. He
says he supplied a complete list to the
collector, and paid in any case where
there was a doubt in his own mind
as to whether the articles were pur
chased in New York or a foreign coun
try, the total amount paid being small.
The state of Idaho rests content
with the evidence it has introduced to
prove that William D. Haywood, the
secretary-treasurer of the Western
Federation of Miners, conspired to
kill and therefore murdered Frank
Steunenberg, a former governor of the
Jack Johnson stopped "Bob” Fitz
simmons in the second round of a six
round boxing bout before the Wash
ington Sporting club, at Philadelphia.
Fitzsimmons did not show' a trace of
his former prowess and it is probable
that Johnson could have stopped him
in the opening round if he had cared
to do so.
Dr. Edward R. Taylor, dean of Hast,
ing Law' college and acting president
of Cooper Medical college, received
his commission as mayor of San Fran
cisco from the clerk of the board of
supervisors. He immediately pro
ceeded to the office of County ClerK
Harry I. Mulcreavy, where, in the pres
ence of newspaper men, the oath of
office was administered.
Missouri, Kansas & Texas line will
be double-tracked in Kansas and a
portion of the Territory.
Florence Wood, arrested in Chicago
in connection with embezzlement of
$90,000 from a New Y'ork bank, is
sent to Bellevue prison.
The convention of the Army and
Navy union voted in favor of the
restoration of the army canteen and
for an increase of 10 per cent in the
pay of petty officers and enlisted men
of the navy on every four years of
service.
Hector Henri Mallot, the novelist, is
dead. He w'as born in 1S30.
Colorado is pictured by Judge Ben
B. Lindsay of Denver as being the
most corrupt state in the union.
Question of guilt or innocence oi
Fred H. Magill, of Clinton, 111., charged
with wife murder, rests largely on the
genuineness of letter left by first wife.
Ben B. Lindsey, Denver's “fighting
judge,” in an interview at Chautau
qua, N. Y., declares Senator Guggen
hciin, of Colorado, should be hanged.
Leading Chicago bankers dene "pee
as ill-advised and premature peti««on
fer Paul O. Stensland's release from
prison.
Woman tells deaconness convention
that its members have enough clothes,
br.t is voted down.
Private car owners plan a move
ment to get 50 cents a day from the
railroads for the use of their prop
erty.
Proposed move to secure Paul O.
Stensland's release from prison is de
nounced by losers in the bank crash.
Clinton (111.) officials start for San
Diego, Cal., to bring back F. H. Magill
and his bride, who are held on the
charge of poisoning Magill's first wife,
state.
Charles W. Anderson, who, as Wil
liam January, will be released from
the federal prison at Leavenworth
Friday by executive pardon, has been
offered several chances to enter busi
ness for himself.
The North. Coast Limited, the crack
flyer of the Northern Pacific railway,
was ditched three miles east of Gar
rison, Mont. The locomotive over
turned and Engineer James Graha
of Butte was found dead with his
hand on the brake lever.
Girl sentenced to serve twenty
months in an Alabama prison, is kept
there for twelve years, until she dies,
a clerk's mistake having made the sen
tence read twenty years. Legislature
is asked to provide money for hei
child.
ARKANSAS
Estate news?
Insurance Men Meet.
The Arkansas Life Underwriters'
Association met in Little Rock re
cently for the purpose of electing
delegates to the National Convention
of Life Underwriters to be held at
Toronto, Canada, August 21 to 23.
After the work of electing the
delegates was finished the convention
went into a discussion of fraudelent
Insurance schemes and alleged viola
tions of the Holland bill, which was
passed by the last General Assembly.
The Holland bill was aimed against
companies engaged in selling what
is known as board contracts, or
special contracts, permitting discrim
ination in favor of one class of policy
holders against other clases. Un
der the board contracts it is alleged
certain life insurance companies have
permitted their agents to place poli
cies with wealthy applicants with the
understanding that the men insured
would have an interest in the pre
miums paid by other holders.
By a unanimous vote the following
resolution was adopted on the sub
ject:
Be it Resolved, by the Arkansas
Life Underwriters’ Association, in
regular convention assembled, That
every effort suou». ue made to secure
a prompt and energetic enforcement
of the Holland bill, passed by the last
Arkansas legis.ature, forbidding all
forms of discrimination among policy
holders in life insurance companies.
Be it further resolved, That the
kindly interest and cooperation of
Avery Moore, state commissioner of
insurance be respectfully solicited
ajid that the prosecuting attorneys
in the several judicial districts of the
state be requested to proceed toward
the prompt inforcement of the law.
The convention gave special atten
tion to the action taken by Geosgia
officials against the State Mutual of
Rome. At the request of one of the
speakers, a review of the Georgia
situation was made a part of the
minutes.
The Georgia company proposed to
establish a co-operative agency com
pany, to write insurance for the
mutual. The agency company pro
posed to sell stock to the extent of
$10,000,000, as permitted under its
charter, according to the report pub
lished by an Atlanta paper. The
proceeds of the sale of stock were
it is alleged, to be turned over to the
insurance company, thus leaving the
agency company without the assets
derived from the sale of the stocks.
Attorney General Hart of Georgia
held the plan illegal, so far as the in
surance company is concerned, be
cause it is not within the scope of its
charter powersi.
Based on the attorney general’s
opinion, the comptroller of Georgia
will, it is said, prohibit the company
from putting its proposed plan into
operation.
Boll Weevil in Bradley.
J. J. Moore, special agent of the Bu
reau of Plant Industry, United States
Department of Agriculture, who was
detailed by the government two weeks
ago to visit the southern tier of Ar
kansas counties and make a careful
examination of the cotton crop has
discovered the boll weevil in Brad
ley county. Last year boll weevils <
were found in Union and Columbia (
counties, but they did little damage i
to the crop in the two counties. Ef- j
forts were made to destroy the pests
and most of them were gotten rid of.
In many places they were extermi
nated last year and thus far have not
been heard of this season. The boll
weevil is a migratory pest and travels
about 40 miles each year. It is not
expected to reach Hempstead coun
ty before next season. An effort will
be made to prevent the weevils from
advancing beyond the Bradley sec
tion. Mr. Moore says they are doing
a great deal of damage to the cotton
in that locality.
Boy Fatally Injured.
Albert Green, a boy of 17, whose
home is in Texarkana, was run over
by a Kansas City Southern freight
train at Index, ten miles north of Tex
arkana, recently, and was1 fatally hurt.
His left arm was crushed off at the
shoulder, one of his thighs was crush
ed and he sustained other injuries.
Interest on Deposits.
It is estimated that the interest
Madison county will receive under the
new depository law will amount to
$600 or $700 annually, which goes to
the unapportioned school fund. Here
tofore the county has received no in
come whatever from its idle cash.
Jealous Man Kills Wife.
A. O. Gholston, of Fort Smith, cut
his wife's throat with a jack-knife,
the wounds causing almost instant
death. He was in an intoxicated
condition at the time and accused
his wife of being unfaithful.
Drowned While Bathing.
Chism Hanley, until recently a resi
dent of Helena, was drowned while
bathing in the Missouri river at Coun
cil Bluffs, Iowa. Hanley was born and
reared in Phillips county. At the age
of 18 years he enlisted in the Provis
ional Army and served three years in
the Philippines. Returning to Helena
at the end of his term of enlistment he
was appointed deputy circuit clerk
and continued in the clerk’s office for
four years. After his retirement from
the clerk’s office he was appointed a
member of the Helena police force,
and made a most efficient official. A
few months ago he resigned from the
force and later went to Omaha, Neb.,
where he has since lived.
Chicot County Drainage.
Chicot county, in the southeastern
corner of the state, is planning to take
up a drainage proposition in the near
future. According to present arrange
ments, a canal 40 miles long will be
dug along Macon bayou. It will emp
ty into the Boef river, and will eventu
ally be discharged into the Red river.
The strip of country drained through
Chicot county will be about 18 miles
wide. Another system that is now be
ing organized will have a canal 14
miles long, originating near Dermott
and emptying into the Bayou Mason
canal, west of Lake Village. Consid
erable interest is being manifested in
the success of the projects.
Killed By Mule.
Prof. John Blair was found dead in
his field near Charlotte, Independence
county, a few days ago. The back
of his head was crushed and his mule
was standing near the body. Blair had
gone to work in the morning, and
when he did not come to dinnner, his
wife went to the field, and found his
dead body. It is supposed he took the
mule from the plow, at the noon hour
and that the animal in some way kill
ed him.
Negroes Engaged In Fight.
Isaiah Hunter, a negro, was fatallj
injured in a fight with another negro,
James Ferguson, at Ozark recently.
Ferguson attacked Hunter with
stones, cutting a big gash in the back
of his head,breaking his nose, fract
uring both his jaws, knocking out his
right eye, and loosening several teeth.
The negros had quarreled beause
one of them had removed the axle of
a baby’s buggy.
Mysterious Killing.
A second coroner’s jury at Mountain
View, after deliberating two days, re
turned the following verdict in the
cate of King Thomas, whose body was
found with a bullet wound in the head:
“We find that King Thomas was shot
through the head by unknown parties
from ambush.” Frank Ring, a well
known citizen of that place is under
arrest for the crime.
Arrested In California.
Andrew J. Workman has been ar
rested at Santa Cruz, Cal., and held
awaiting the arrival of officers from
Little Rock. Nearly one year ago
Workman was in Little Rock and posed
as an Elk and a railroad contractor.
He secured the signature of M. P.
Forster, W. S. Bone and S. Breier to
drafts which it ia alleged proved
worthless.
Fine Peach Crop.
S. E. McMichael, a farmer at Hatton
Gap, last week shipped a carload of El
berta peaches to New Orleans. These
peaches, the fruit buyers say, are the
best that have ever been shipped from
Arkansas. The extent of the fruit
industry in Arkansas is indicated by
the fact that Hatton Gap will ship
more than four cars of peaches this
year.
Work Being Pushed.
Grading for the new railroad be
tween Leslie and Searcy, a distance of
about 75 miles, running through the
counties of Van Buren, Cleburne and
White, is almost completed. Steel is
being laid out of Leslie, and already
nearly three miles of track has beei
put down. Track laying out of Seal
cy will begin in a days.
Expensive Hogs.
After having expended about $40(1
in court costs in an effort to replevin
hogs worth bout $15, Frank Cox, a
farmer living near Searcy, lost his
case in the White County Circuit Court
a few days ago. Proceedings were be
gun in the lower courts and the case
has been tried several times.
Killed by Train.
David Evans, a young man, aged
about 21 years, was run over and
killed by an Iron Mountain train at
Knoxville. He laid down to sleep with
his head on the track. The young
man’s home wns at Pottsville, Pope
county.
Child Killed Accidentally.
A little 5-year-old child of Mattie
Ames, living near Clifty, accidentally
killed himself while playing with a
revolver. The ball entered his breast
killing him instantly.
Terriffic Pall of Hall.
A terriffic fall of hail visited Hatfield
recently and did considerable damage,
nearly every building In the town
showing some results of the storm.
The hailstones varied in size rang
ing from the size of a hickory nut Co
several pounds in weight. One whick
was found the following morning was
as large as a man's head and weighed
five pounds. The fall of hail began
in the evening and continued two
hours without intermission and with
destructive violence. Cattle were killed
in large numbers in the fields, an«l
houses, barns and fences were broken,
while vegetation was cut down, and
the trees stripped of their foliage.
Fayetteville Wants New Road.
The railroad for which the Commer
cial League of Fayetteville has been
working for several months will, it
now seems, be secured. The road will
be a branch from Caney, Kan., of the
Cherryvale, Oklahoma and Texas Rail
road, better known as the Porter
Stabbs line. The company has a cap
ital stock of $18,000,000, and the line
will run southwest from Caney,
through Oblahoma, to El Paso, Tex.
The line to Fayetteville will be one of
two branches, the other leaving the
main road at Childress. Tex., and run
ning to Aransas Pass by way of Abi
lene, Tex.
County Fair For Camden.
The Board of Trade and the County
Farmers’ Union will hold a three
days’ harvest fair at Camden this
fall, at which an exhibit of the agri
cultural products, live stock and
poultry of Ouachita county will be
made. Premiums will be offered
and awards made for the best of
each, then the blue ribbon stuff will
be displayed at the State Fair at Hot
Springs as a county exhibit.
Illness Follows Ice Cream Supper.
The ladies of the First Methodist
church of Lewisville gave an ice
cream supper recently after which all
| of the physicians of the town were
kept busy saving the lives of about
twenty people who partook of the sup
per. It is supposed the sickness was
caused by ptomaine poisoning com
ing from the ice cream.
Child Killed By Brother.
Mamie, the 8-year-old daughter of
W. F. Sprinkle, of Rogers, was shot
and killed by her 12-year-old brother
recently. The boy was playing with
an old muzzle-loading shotgun, which
was supposed to be empty, but which
was suddenly discharged, the entire
load striking the little girl in the right
side just below the breast.
Monroe County Cash.
Probably for the first time since
the organization of Monroe county
her treasurer is paying in cold cash
all holders of county scrip who pre
sent their warrants to him, and there
is enough cash on hand not only to
pay off all outstanding indebtedness
but to leave a surplus of $4,000 or
$5,000 in the treasury.
G. W. Prutsman Killed.
George W. Prutsman. of Argenta,
asistant yardmaster in the Iron
Mountain yards, was run down by a
switch engine and killed at what is
known as “Puzzle Switch." This trag
edy marks the fourth of its kind at
this place in the past twelve months,
and an unrecorded number occurred
prior to that time.
Child Has Hydrophobia.
Emma, the little daughter of J. C.
Carnahan of Fort Smith who was bit
ten by a mad dog and taken to New
York for treatment at a Pasteur in
stitute developed hydrophobia and
death resulted a few hours later. J. P.
Martin, who was bitten by the same
dog has experienced no trouble from
the bite.
Woman Killed In Falling Building.
Mrs. Tom Doggett was killed in
the collapse of the peach packing
aou30 of the Southern Orchard
Planting Company, at Horatio, recent
y. The building was crowded with
women and girls at the time of the
col apse, and about a dozen others
were seriously injured, one of them
fatally.
Disastrous Fire At Plumerville.
A disastrous fire occurred, the sec
ond within a year, at Plumerville re
cently, in which twelve buildings in
the business sect-ou of the town, were
destroyed. The loss is estimated at
$40,00d with insurance at $20,000.
Star City Anxious for Road.
Star City is anx.ous to get the rail
road that is now being built from
Monroe. La., to Crosselt, and which
will later on be extepded to Pine \
Bluff. This road would give Star
City direct connection with the
various railroads entering Pine Bluff.
Richard Pate Killed.
Richard Pate of Plumerville was
killed at Morrilton, where he had gone
to take part in the festivities of the
Fourth, by falling under the wheels of
a passenger train which he was at
tempting to board.
THIRTY DEAD
Horrible Wreck On Pere Marquette
Railway Kills and Injures 100
People.
Salem, Mich., July.—Thirty people
are dead and more than 70 others are
injured, several of them seriously, as
the result of a head-on collision Sat
urday between a Pere Marquette ex
cursion train, bound from Ionia to De
troit, and a westbound freight in a
cut located at a sharp curve of the
Pere Marquette railroad about a mile
east of Salem.
The passenger train of 11 cars, car
rying the Pere Marquette shop em
ployes of Ionia and their families to
the Michigan metropo.is for their an
nual excursion, was running at high
speed, probably 50 miles an hour,
down a steep grade. It struck the
lighter locomotive of the freight train
with such terriffic force as to turn the
freight engine completely around.
The wrecked locomotives lie side
by side, both headed eastward. On
ly a few of the freight cars were
smashed, and it was only a few hours
work to remove 911 traces of them
from the scene, but behind the tw'o
wrecked locomotives six cars of the
passenger train lay piled in a hope
less wreck. Four of the passenger
coaches remained on the track un
damaged, and were used to convey the
dead and injured to iVmia; one coach
was entirely undamaged, with only
its forward trucks off the rails. These
were the rear five cars. The two
coaches next ahead of these were tele
scoped. The next car forward stood
almost on end after the wreck, its for
ward end resting on the roadbed and
the rear end high in the air upon two
telescoped coaches that had been fol
lowing it. Two coaches were thrown
crosswise of the track and lay sus
pended from bank to bank of the cut
five or six feet above the rails. Of
the baggage car not enough remains to
show where it had been tossed. Por
tions of the baggage car and of the
locomotive tenders and freight cars
were piled in a tangled mass of de
bris. The cause of the wreck is
said to have been forgetfulness on the
part of the freight train crew.
For Transports.
Tacoma, Wash., July.—After the re
turn of the Boston Steamship Com
pany's liner Tremont from the Puget
Sound navy yard dry dock at Bremer
ton, it was learned on good authority
that the inspection of the steamer
just completed by Pacific Mail Steam
ship officials and others was made on
behalf of the United States govern
ment, the men having been deputized
for the work. The Tremont is not the
only large steamer on the Pacific to
be inspected by the men who were in
port early in the week. It is said
there are at least 15 vessels scheduled
for inspection, the list including the
American Hawaiian liners and some
of the Pacific Mail Company's steam
ers. Reliable authority states that
this inspection is being carried on by
the government with a view of char
tering the steamers for government
transports should occasion require it.
No More Lynching.
Hahnville, La., July.—Following the
excitement attendant upon the at
tempts to lynch the Italian prisoners
held in the St. Charles parish jail,
Hahnville was quiet Sunday. Three
companies of state militia still guard
the men and women recently convicted
of murdering the kidnapped Lamana
child, and all signs of violence havu
now passed. As the jury brought in
a verdict of guilty, without capital pun
ishment, it will be necessary for the
judge of the court to pass sentence of
life imprisonment, which will probably
be done when court convenes Monday.
Two more Italians. Leonardo Gebbia
and his sister Nicolina Gebbia, remain
to be tried on the same charge. They
are held here with the Italians con
victed last week, and their trial will
be taken up Monday.
Prominent Man Killed.
Macon, Miss., July.—Mayes Hun
ter, son of a prominent railroad con
tractor of this city, was* shot and kill
ed by Albert Carr, a negro early Sun
day at Aliceville. Ala., and a posse of
several hundred citizens is in pursuit
of Carr. The negro, it is stated was
creating a disturbance, and Hunter
was killed while he was endeavoring
to quiet him.
Pioneer Killed.
Lancaster, Tex., July.—A fast Mis
souri. Kansas and Texas passenger
train struck a carriage containing J.
R. Lavender, a pioneer merchant of
Texas, Ethel and Ruby Fondren and
two little girls named McCallum. Lav
endar died shortly afterward and Eth
el Fondren, aged 12, had her skull
crushed and may die. The others
were more or less hurt.
Uncle Eben.
“When I goes to de co't house," said
Uncle Eben, “it sometimes looks to
me like de jury was a committee to
award a prize to de smartest lawyer.”