The Woodruff County News.
O. W. KRAMER, Editor.
McCRORY, • • ARKANSAS
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Richard Croker declares he will
not give up tlye leadership of Tam
many.
Eugene E. Schmidt, union labor
candidate, was ■ elected mayor of
San Francisco.
** Miss Gertrude Fazel, stenogra
pher, was acting governor of Okla
homa for a day.
Callahan, one of the alleged kid
napers of young Cudahy, was ao*
quitted by a jury at Omaha after a
lengthy trial.
The natural gas supply in In
diana is fast failing, many towns
heretofore using gas as fuel being
compelled to return to coal.
Returns from Nebraska indicate
that the women cast a heavy vote in
the state election, about evenly di
vided between the two parties.
The Ohio campaign was fought
out on old line party princi{i>es, j
there being less than 21?,000 catter-1
ing votes for the minor parties. i
. The Schley court of inquiry ad- i
journed on the 7th inst., after a ses- j
sion of forty days. The verdict of
the court will be given out later.
The democrats elected a majority
of the Maryland legislature, and
Arthur Pugh Gorman will be re
turned to the United States senate.
‘ Three of the convicts wlio es-,
caped from the government peniten-'
tiary at Leavenworth were killed on j
the 8th in a fight with officers, who!
were close on the trail of others.
About 300 head of horses and
mules, the property of garbage con
tractor Ed Butler, of St. Louis, were
cremated in a fire which destroyed
the Butler stables on the 7th inst.
Gen. Frederick Funston, who was
recently operated upon at a Manila
hospital for appendicitis, has entire
ly recovered and will ask leave of
absence to visit his home in Kan
sas.
Plight bodies consigned to a Mis- j
souri medical college, billed as sec
ond hand laundry machinery, were :
discovered by freight handlers of the j
Burlington road in Chicago by the !
bursting of the box in which they
were packed. The party who ship
ped the bodies have been arrested.
The sultan of Turkey has agreed
to settle all financial claims of the
French government. The powers
seem to approve of France's course
in making a naval demonstration
against Turkey, and it is likely
claims of other governments will be
presented to the sultan as a result.
The state department at Wash
ington has been advised by Consul
General Dickinson, at Constantino
ple, in a .report of recent date, that
the Turkish government has ex
tended for a period of ten years from
last August the operations of an
irade which permitted the free en
try of a large class of agricultural
implements
1 The navy department is maintain
ing a strict blockade against the
island of Leyte, P. I., where the in
surgents have been very active recent
ly. Many of the native officers of
the village visited the officer in com
mand and complained that the peo
ple could not procure food on account
of the blockade. They were in
formed that the blockade could not
be raised unless the insurgents bring
in their guns and surrender.
The famous case of Capt. Oberlin
M. Carter, U. S. A., is to be reopen
ed and Capt. Carter will be given an
opportunity to vindicate himself of
the charge of embezzling govern
ment funds, of which he was con
victed and sentenced to prison. The
government has been endeavoring to
recover the sum of $750,000, the
amount alleged to have been stolen
by Carter, but could not locate all
the property. Carter has agreed
that his fortune of a million dol
lars shall be placed in the hands of
the court, to revert to the govern
ment should he be unable to vindi
cate himself.
The Pan-American Exposition
closed on the 2d, inst.
Wu Tung Fang, Chinese minister
at Washington, is to be recalled.
The Spanish chamber of deputies
has passed a bill against the free
coinage of silver.
One-half the biddings in the town
j of Boonville, Miss., were destroyed
j by fire on the 3d ,inst.
| The killing frosts in portions of
J the cotton belt is one of the causes
of cotton advancing in price.
As the result of the administra
tion of diphtheria anti-toxine, elev
en children died in St. Louis from
lockjaw,
Admiral Schley will be presented
j with a testimonial at Memphis by
the Southern people in the shape of
a silver service of magnificent design
and of great value.
One guard was killed, five dan
gerously wounded and twenty-six
convicts escaped as a result of a
mutiny at the new United States
prison at Leavenworth. The men
were working on the new building,
and some one secreted two revolvers
in an uncompleted wall. G. Bar
lor, white, and Frank Thompson, a
negro, both from the Indian Terri
tory, led the mutiny.
Lord Pauncefote, British ambas
sador to the United tSates, arrived
at Washington Monday, and sub
a draft of the Isthmian Canal treaty
to the secretary of state. The
treaty concedes to the United States
the right to construct and to oper
ate the canal, but asks concessions
in the form of trade reciprocity with
the British West Indies.
Richard Harding Davis and other
newspaper correspondents, who were
with the army in Cuba during the
fighting with Sapniards, thereaten
to Sue Gen. Alger for utterances in
his book which declare the newspaper
men of a cowardly set, who write
their reports of battles at a safe dis
tance. In several cases command
ing officers made special mention of
the bravery of correspondents.
In a speech before a number of
representative Filipinos, Hon. Luke
E. Wright, one of the Philippine
commissioners, said: “There are a
number of people living in the
Philippines, who so long as there
is no punishment for treason
will take advantage of the fact
to clog the wheels of the in
sular government. It must not
be overlooked that turbulent spir
its exist in the pacified prov
inces. The masses of the people are
susceptible to inflammatory utter
ances and liable to be influenced by
scheming demagogues. It would be
inexcusable weakness on the part of
the commission to allow people to
be aroused to deeds of violence who
are now gradually drifting to the
pursuits of peace.
The text of Gen. Botha’s counter
proclamation to Lord Kitchener’s re
cent proclamation has been made
public. It was issued on September
15. It declares: “Whereas, Xo
official of the Orange Free State or
the Transvaal republic, and no gen
oral, commandant or burgher in
tends to obey Lord Kitchener’s proc
lamation or to trouble with it; and,
whereas, The proclamation con
tains falsehoods habitual to the Eng
lish; and, whereas, Lord Kitche
ner’s proclamation has strengthened
the determination of all burghers to
resist to the end; now, therefore, L,
Louis Botha, commandant general
of the republican forces, with the
consent of the governments, officers
and burghers of both republics, pro
claim Lord Kitchener, his staff, and
the officers and soldiers serving un
der his orders, fighting us now, to
be outlaws in South Africa, and all
officers and burghers in the two re
publics and in Cape Colony are or
dered to shoot every armed English
man whom they meet.” Lord Kitch
ener’s proclamation, to which Gen.
Botha’s counter-proclamation is in
such open defiance, provided that on
and after September 15, 1901, all
Boers or burghers who had not sur
rendered to the British forces in
South Africa should be banished
from the country.
Fire in the business portion of
Jennings, La., caused a loss of $117,
000.
Chas. Thompson, supreme finance
keeper of Knights of Maccabees,
headquarters at Port Huron, Mich.,
has confessed to being a defaulter
to the order in the sum of $57,000.
The order is protected by a surety
bond.
The massacre of the American
garrison at Moncada, Island of Lu
zon, P. I., was averted by the wife
of one of the plotters. Several of
the town officials are implicated in
the murderous scheme. The wo
man who revealed the plot hid a de
tective beneath a house in which the
leaders of the conspiracy were meet
ing. Arrests followed and many in
criminating papers were seized. The
plan was to set fire to a house close
to the barracks, after dark, and
when the soldiers came out to assist
in extinguishing the flames, 150 con
spirators, armed with bolos, were to
rush on the guard, capture their
arms and proceed to massacre the
garrison.
Li Hung Chang, the “grand old
man of China,” died on the 7th inst.
It is the belief among government
officials at Washington that Li’s
death will not affect the execution
of the undertakings imposed upon
China in the protocol. A change in
the Manehusian situation is ex
pected and the United States lias a
very considerable interest in the
outcome of the matter. But it is
possible that his death, and the com
ing into power in China as the di
rector of foreign affairs of another
prince less friendly to Russia, might
hasten the day when Russia might
relax her hold upon Manchuria and
allow the country to be opened up
to the commerce of the world.
The annual report of Second As
sistant Postmaster General Shallen
berger shows that on June 30 last
there were 367,357 miles of star
route service, 183,358 of railroad
routes, 45,779 of railway postoffice
car routes, and almost -3,000 miles
of electric and cable car routes in
the country. The annual rate of
expenditure for all classes of domes
tic mail transportion service has in
creased $6,940,285 since last year.
It is contemplated that the new con
tracts for star mail service beginning
next July shall provide for deliver
ing mail into boxes along nearly all
of the routes. The practice of grant
ing to contractors general permission
to sub-let their star-route service has
been discontinued.
The census report on school, mi
litia and voting age for all states and
territories shows the following sum
mary for the country as a whole:
Person of school age, 5 to 20
years, 20,110,788, of whom 24,891,
130 are native born, 22,490,211 are
whites and 13,086,160 are males;
males of militia age, 16,360,363, of
whom 13,132,280 are native born
and 14,495,396 are whites; and
males of voting age, 21,329,819, of
whom 16,227,285 are native born
and 19,036,143 are white. Of the
total number of males, 21 years of
age and over, 2,326,255 are illiter
ate. Of the 16,227,285 native born
males, 21 years of age and over, 1,
706,293 are illiterate, and of the
5,102,534 foreign born, 620,002 are
illiterate. Native white males of
voting age who are of foreign par
entage show a relative increase in
their proportion since 1890. while
the colored males of voting age have
increased throughout the northern
and western sections with a few ex
ceptions, like California, where there
has been a large decrease in Chinese
population. In many Southern
states, especially Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Louis
iana, the colored element of voting
age shows a decreased proportion.
Foreign white males of voting age
show an increased proportion in all
New England except Vermont.
There has been a relative decrease
in all of the remaining states and
territories except New Jersey. A
little over 28 per cent of the entire
alien population of the country is
illiterate.
BRIEF MENTION.
Lee Carroll shot and killed a man
named Porterfield at Nathan, Pike
county.
An X-Ray machine has been in
stalled by the faculty of the state
medical university at Little Rock.
A man named McCully, charged
with stealing from a car of Hour at
Hot Springs, was acquitted by a
jury.
Circuit Judge Rowe, of Sebastian
county, holds that the vehicle tax or
dinance of Fort Smith is unconsti
tutional.
II. B. Copeland, formerly post
master at Clinton, was convicted in
federal court at Little Rock of vio
lating the postal laws.
Van Capers, aged 18, met death
near Marlin by being accidentally
shot and killed by the discharge of a
gun in his own hands.
A company, said to be headed by
H. C. Frick, the Pennsylvania iron
magnate, has purchased 2,500 acres
of coal lands in Sebastian count}’.
Ella Cobb and a negro boy named
Charles are under arrest, charged
with the murder of M. L. Hawkins,
son of Judge Hawkins, at Parkdale.
A negro named Washington made
a brutal assault on a white married
lady near Charleston. Officers spir
ited the negro away to avert a lynch
ing
The grand jury of Jefferson coun
ty failed to indict Meyer Solmson
for the killing of Carl Stubblefield,
the evidence showing that Solmson
acted in self-defense.
W. 1). Burd, who lost nearly $10,
000 worth of pearls in the recent rob
bery of the Bank of Black Rock, will
pay a reward for the return of tho
pearls and ask no questions.
Alfred Nix, the first colored man
ever arraigned before Judge Trieb
er in federal court in Little Rock on
the charge of illicit distilling, was
acquitted last week by a jury. He
lives in White county.
In attempting to board an in
coming passenger train at Hot
Springs, Andrew Stone, colored,
aged 40 years, missed his footing
and fell under the wheels. His
body was horribly mangled.
The Gazette, commenting on the
threatened strike of New England
textile workers, makes a stirring
plea for the locating of cotton manu
factories in this state, where a good
percentage of the raw material is
produced.
The body of an unknown negro
man was found in the woods near
Hot Springs. An examination re
vealed that he came to his death
from a gunshot wound. Whether it
is a case of murder or suicide is not
known.
The chief of the navigation bu
reau has submitted an estimate on
the cost of a naval station in the
Philippines. The cost is placed at
$30,000,000.
The American consul at Constan
tinople received a letter October 20
from Miss Stone, the American
missionary held by brigands, in
which she said she was in good
health.
During speaking at a political
meeting at Ferrum, Ya., a negro,
who objected to remarks of one of
the orators, fired both barrels of a
shotgun into the crowd, killing two
white men and a negro.
Gen. Maso has announced as a
candidate for president of Cuba.
Gen. Palma is the choice of the mili
tary government for the honor.
Maso comes out in opposition to the
military government and the plan
of government recommended by
Gen. Wood.
A woman whose name is Laura
Bullion, and a man giving the name
of Longbaugh, are under arrest in
St. Louis, charged with being im
plicated in the robbery of a great
.Northern express near Wagner,
Mont., several months ago. Among
the woman’s possessions was found
a package containing $7,000 in un
signed Helena National bank notes,
this money being part of the booty
secured in the Montana hold-up.
BREVITIES OF FUN. ~
A man isn t sick enough to he in <he
distinction class unless he is takiim ,0
many kinds of medicine that the doc
tor had to prepare a time table.—.
Atchison Clobe.
“Surely you are not afraid of the
dark!” “No,” said the small boy
“but I’m a little scared of the things
that might be in it that 1 can't see.”—
Washington Star.
Kitty—“My dressmaker says it is
such a pleasure to fit a gown tome.”
Edith—“Considers it a >ort of ar
tistic triumph, I suppose? The true
artist delights in difficulties.”—Bos
ton Transcript.
First Farmer—“You ought to al
low I summat off the price o’ that
’orse you sold las’ week. Why, Yve
bin an’ took an’ died!” Second
Farmer—“Well, that's funny, now;
’e never cut any o’ them capers when
I ’ad ’im!”—Punch,
Commonplace — “Some people
seem to think lie’s a genius.” “Oh!
he can’t be. He’s too methodical.”
“Is he, really?” “Very. Somebody
gave him a silver matchsafe over a
month ago and he still keeps his
matches in it.”—Philadelphia Press.
The Irrepressible.—“Will you have
another dish of ice cream?" asked the
mother of Johnnie, whose place was
across from the invited guest the
mother was entertaining that day.
“Well, yes, I b’leeve 1 will,” said
Johnnie; then he added, “bein's we,
don’t have it more’n wunct a year.”—
Ohio State Journal,
“Been to town?” “Yes,”answered
Farmer Corntossel. “How’s busi
ness?” “I dunno yet. Haven’t had
time to figger. I bought a gold
brick.” “There’s uo profit in that.”
“I ain’t so sure about that. The fel
ler I got it of was so kind o’ hasty an’
nervous that 1 jes’ handed him a
bunch of confederate money.”—
Washington Star.
HOW DEMOSTHENES WON OUT.
Simply Found Out What He Could Do
and Then Did It
De-mos-the-nes was a young A-the
ni-au who was am-bi-tious to win
fame as an el-o-eu-tion-i-t. Un-fort -
u-nately, how-ev-er, be suf-fered
from an im-ped-i-ment in his speech
and was al-so ex-treme-ly bash-ful.
Noth-ing daunt-ed by these secm-ing
ly in-sur-mount-a-ble ob-sta-cles. he
em-ployed the best teaeh-ers and
stud-ied dil-i-gent-ly to per-fect him
self in his chos-en -pro-fes-sion.
Now, in those days mod-i-cal sci
ence was not so far ad-vanced as it is
at the pres-ent time, and the se-cret of
cur-ing stam-mer-ing in twen-ty les
sons by mail was as yet un-known.
Con-se-quent-ly De-mos-the-nes made
very lit-tle prog-ress.
See-ing that ihe fate? werea-gainst
him, our he-ro cast a-hout for some
means to cir-cum-vent the ma-lign
deities. At last a bright i-de-a struck
him, but he said noth-ing a-hout it
un-til the an-nu-al or-a-tor-i-cal con
test was a-bout to be-gin. Then lie
as-ton-ished his friend- by an-nounc
ing hint-self as a com-pet-i-tor for the
gold noted-al. Ev-er-y one pre-dict-ed
that he would be left at the post, but
De-mos-the-nes kept qui-et and took
all bets that were of-fered. He was a
fif-ty to one shot, and there was all
kinds of mon-ey in it if he could win.
When the e-vent-ful even-ing ar
rived it was found that De-mos-the
nes was down on the pro-gramme for
an im-i-ta-tion of a bash-ful young
man who stut-tered. re-cit-ing, “Cur
few Shall Not King To-Night.” It
is need-less to say that he took the
house by storm and won the med-al in
a walk. Af-ter that his fame was as
sured, and he was of-fered an engage
ment with a vaud-e-ville syn-di-eate
at a prince-ly sal-ary. He nev-er dis
played any great de-gree of ver-sa-til
i-ty—in fact, the on-ly thing he could
do was to im-i-tate a bash-ful young
man who stut-tered, but there was no
de-ny-ing that he did that to the
queen's taste.
The best way to suc-eeed in life is
to find out your best stunt and then
work it for all it is worth.—Isaac An
derson, in N. Y. Herald.
Men and Irishmen.
An Irishman says one man is as
good as another, and if he’s an Irish
man he’s a great deal better.—Chi
cago Daily New*.