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VOL. I.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUYRY 2, 1902.
NO. 39.
NEWS OF THE WORLD,
Senator Sewell of New Jersey is
dead.
Gov. John R. Rogers, of the state
of Washington, died December 2(1 of
pneumonia.
Secretaries Gage and Long, it is
reported, have notified the president
of their desire to retire from the cab
inet.
In a street fight at Muldrow, I. T.,
between Officer Mayberry and Chas.
Scheiler, both men were mortally
wounded.
Gen. De Wet surprised a camp of
British at Zefontein, Orange River
colony, Christmas eve, and after a
bloody attack captured three com
panies of yoemanry and three guns.
Judge Carter, of the Indiana su
perior court, lias decided the case of
the state against the Commercial
Insurance company, sustaining the
company’s demurrer and holding
that the act under which the stale
auditor seeks to examine the books
of special charter insurance compa
nies is unconstitutional.
Three killed and a $70,000 fire is
the record at Shreveport for Christ
mas day. The three killings report
ed were those of Jack Ryan, color
ed, who was shot by an unknown
man ; Hesah Ewell was shot and
killed by Charles Bell, and the body
of an unknown negro was found in
an alley in the rear of a saloon.
The Pacific Hardware and Steel
company, capital $10,000,000, has
been incorporated under the laws >f
Xew Jersey. The stock is divided
into $7,000,000 common and $;?,
000,000 preferred, hearing (> per
cent cumulative dividend. The com
pany is authorized to manufacture
and deal in every kind of iron, steel
and hardware.
Edgar Stanton Maclay, whose
connection with the Schley case led
President Roosevelt to request his
resignation as special laborer in the
navy and who was dismissed, has
made formal demand for trial by
usual naval procedure. Discussing
the case, Maclay said: “The presi
dent cannot have me dismissed un
der the law as I see it. I do not
see how he can force me out. I am
protected by the civil service laws
enacted by congress, whose enact
ments the president is bound to ex
ecute.”
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A statement exhibiting tne extent
of the cotton manufacturing indus
try of the United States for the year
of 1900, as compared with 1890, by
the census bureau, places the total
value of cotton manufacturing prod
ucts at $336,974,882, a gain of over
25 per cent since 1890. The num
ber of establishments in 1900 was
1,051, a gain of 16 per cent; the
capital employed $467,240,157, a
gain of 32 per cent ; salaried offi
cials, 4,967, a gain of 84 per cent;
amount paid in salaries, $7,535,129,
a gain of 117 per cent; average
number of wage-earners, 302,861, a
gain of 38 per cent; total wages
paid, $90,384,532, a gain of 36 per
cent. Cost of materials used, $176,
551,527, a gain of 14 per cent.
The jury at Jeffersonville, Ind.,
in the case of N. C. Rathbun, charg
ed with murdering Chas. Goodman,
returned a verdict of guilty of man
slaughter and fixed his punishment
at from two to twenty years. Charles
Goodman, Rathbun's alleged victim,
was found dead last month in a ho
tel at Jeffersonville, after he had
spent some time with Rathbun. His
body was shipped to Little Rock,
where Rathbun's wife lives, as that
of Rathbun, on whose life an insur
ance policy for $4,000 had been is
sued. Following the discovery that
the body was not Rathbun's came
Rathbun’s arrest at Louisville, where
lie had enlisted under another name
in the United States army. The
corpse was later identified as that of
Charles Goodman, a wanderer, who
went to Louisville from hvansvill’,
Ind., and met Rathbun.
The report comes from Pekin that
the dowager empress intends to re
linquish control of the Chinese gov
ernment* making it possible for an
amicable, settlement with Russia re
garding JJanchuria.
The bicycle trust is to be divided,
one branch to manufacture automo
biles and the other bicycles.
Gen. Alger, who has been serious
ly ill the past four weeks, is said tc
be out of immediate danger.
Four white men were fatally
wounded in a riot with negroes in
New York City Christmas day.
Secretary Gage has resigned the
treasury portfolio and President
Roosevelt has tendered the position
to Gov. Leslie M. Shaw, of Iowa.
The steamer Sun burned at the
wharf in Memphis Christmas morn
ing and four lives were lost. The
dead are D. N. Rainor and wife,
from Old River, Ark.; Mrs. G. M.
Timbs and child, Richardson, Tenn.
The tire was discovered at 4:10 a.
m., and spread with such rapidity
that the steamer was a mass of
flames when the department re
sponded to the alarm.
Secretary Long has disposed of
the Schley case for good so far as
the navy department is concerned.
He approves of the findings of the
whole court, and of the majority re
port where, it differs with the mi
nority report made by Admiral Dew
ey. The secretary has also declined
the application of Admiral Samp
son’s counsel to enter upon an in
quiry into the question of command,
and notified Admiral Schley’s coun
sel of that fact as a reason for de
clining to hear them on that point.
A dispatch says: The Ital
ian government has been renewing
its efforts of late with the authori
ties in Washington to have our fed
eral statutes so extended as to pro
tect foreigners in cases arising with
in the jurisdiction of states, thus
giving a federal remedy for lynch
ings and like affairs directed against
Italians, such as have occurred in
Louisiana, Colorado and Mississippi.
The Italian ambassador at Washing
ton is endeavoring to secure this
protection for subjects of his gov
ernment through treaty amendment.
The preliminary report of the in
terstate commerce commission on
the income account of the railways
in the United States for the year
ended July 30, 1001, shows returns
of railway companies operating 192,
193 miles of line. The passenger
earnings of these railways were
$426,909,210 and the freight earn
ings $1,114,740,770. The total
gross earnings were $1,578,164,205,
or $8,211 per mile of line, against
$1,487,044,814 in 1900. Operating
expenses amounted to $1,023,156,
281, or $5,323 per mile of line,
making net earnings $555,007,924,
or $35,577,218 in excess of the fiscal
year 1900. The amount of divi
dends declared during the year was
$121,108,637, or $13,000,000,000
more than for the same roads in
1900. The surplus from operations
was $77,744,735. The complete re
port for the preceding year showed
a surplus of $87,657,933.
DV uriUT ui me piir-iurm, otric
tary Boot sent to' Lieut.-Gen. Miles
a caustic rebuke for expressing a pro
Schley opinion as to the result of
the court of inquiry. In his reply
to the secretary for an explanation
of his conduct, Gen. Miles, in part
said: “I have the honor to state that
mv observations as substantially re
ported had no reference to the ac
tion, pending or otherw ise, of a co
ordinate branch of the service; they
were merely my personal views,
based upon matters set forth in va
rious publications which had been
given to the world and concerning
which 1 conceive there was no im
propriety in expressing an opinion
the same as any other citizen upon
a matter of such public interest.”
The president took the stand that an
officer has not the same right as any
other oil i/on to express publicly an
opinion regarding official questions
pending in the course of military
discipline. Following the publica
tion of the Miles reprimand. Secre
tary of the Navy Long called for
the resignation of McClay, the man
who wrote the history of the battle
at Santiago, and who referral to
Schley in such incomplimentary
terms.
Christmas services at a country
church near Piketon, 0., broke up
with a general row in which six men
were fatally wounded.
The threatened trouble between
Chili and the Argentine republic is
to be settled by submitting the
boundary disputes to the king of
Spain.
Industrial stagnation throughout
Germany is said to be causing an
unusual number of young mechan
ics to seek service in the German
army.
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, pro
poses to have the question of mu
nicipal ownership of street railways
submitted to the voters at the ap
proaching city election.
In a general fight between white
men and negroes at Childersburg,
Ala., two white men were killed and
a white boy and one negro wounded.
The trouble started between negroes
and when a white man tried to stop
the fighting he was shot and fatally
wounded. Several other whites
then interfered and a general fight
followed.
itauroaa Dunamg in tne unnec
State during 1901 was greater thar
it has heer> for eleven years previous
the total approximating 5,057 miles
of line, as against 4,437 last year
The construction for the year, addec
to the total mileage reported pro
vious to that, brings mileage of tin
country to approximately 190,37(
miles. It is noted that the south
west and the middle west take th
palm for the year, that Texas lead
with 583 miles of new line, distrib
uted among twenty-three roads, an<
that the Rock Island leads all other
with the longest single line of 26.
miles, to which might well be addei
28 miles of the El Paso and North
ern from Santa Rosa to Carrizozo, N
M., which will be completed by Feb
ruary 1.
The McKinley National Memorif
Association, with headquarters i
Cleveland, 0., has had its attentio
called to so many enterprises of
commercial nature tending to mak
capital out of sentiment of publi
affection for William McKinley, tha
the following statement has beep, is
sued by Judge Win. R. Day, ex-sec
retary of state and president of th
association : “The public is especial
lv cautioned against any enterpris
attempting to make capital out o
the sentiments, the affection, wliic
inspired the desire to rear at th
grave of the late president a memo
rial which shall fittingly, honor hi
memory. It is the desire of th
trustees that all contributions shal
bo free-will offerings of the people
and they respectfully request th
public to discourage all proposition
which may seem to have as thei
object the obtaining of money b
the giving of all or part of their pre
coeds to the memorial fund.”
Profitable Weddings.
' What is known as the “pay wed
ding” is popular in Germany. Th
bride receives the guests with a basil
set before her, and into this each vis
itor entering the reception-roor
drops either some jewelry, a silve
spoon, or a piece of money. In som
parts of the country the expenses o
the marriage feast are met by eacl
guest paying for what he or she ma
eat and drink. Some visitors pa
high prices, and the happy eoupl
make a handsome profit out of thei
wedding, as many as 300 guests oftei
being present at such a festival.
Work for Explorers.
Explorers have approached withii
238 miles of the north pole, but th
nearest approach to the south pot
has been 772 miles.
Scientists Puzzled.
It has been a source of much sur
prise to Prof. Nordenskjold that dur
ing his expedition within the arctii
circle, in regions where animal life i;
abundant, he has found very few re
mains of animals which died a natu
ral death. No one has any idea o:
what becomes of the bodies of sucl
animals; and it is indeed very strang<
that on Spitzbergen it is easier to fine
bones of a gigantic lizard of remoti
geological time than those of a “self
dead” seal, walrus or bird. The sam
is also true of some places not so fa
north.
NEWS OF ARKANSAS.
Street Fight at Parkdale.
Three men were wounded in a
shooting affray at Parkdale. Jt
seems that Frank Barnes was a little
boisterous on the streets and Depu
ty Sheriff Atkins was asked to ar
rest him. G. P. George volunteer
ed to assist Atkins in the arrest.
Atkins procured a shotgun from one
of the stores, proceeded down the
street to await the coming of Barnes.
As Barnes was passing up the street
George caught his horse by the bri
dle and pulled a revolver, when both
began firing. George emptied his
revolver, missing every shot. Barnes
only having three loads, fired at
George twice, one bullet taking ef
fect in bis leg. Then seeing that
Atkins was about to sxioot with a
shotgun he fired at him and Atkins
fell to the ground, his gun being dis
charged in the air without damage.
After emptying the gun at George
and Atkins, he threw his empty gun
at George. George also threw
his empty gun at Barnes. Robert
Norwood, a relative of George, then
. carried another shotgun to Atkins
, and he fired at Barnes, the load tak
i ing effect in his shoulder. Barnes
. having no more ammunition, had
. wheeled his horse to get out of the
• way and was shot in the back.
Verdict Against Railroad.
The jury in the damage suit oi
: the Wolff-Goldman Mercantile Com
J panv against the St. Louis, Iron
■ Mountain and Southern Railroad
l Company, growing out of the com
3 press fire at Newport April 4, 1900
' when 2,108 bales of cotton were de
^ stroVbd, gave a verdict in favor ol
‘ the plaintiffs for $124,000. Tin
• real plaintiffs in the suit are no!
' only Wolff-Goldman Mercantile
Company, but seven or eight insur
1 once companies, who carried the
3 risks upon the cotton destroyed. Tin
3 petition of the plaintiffs alleges tha
i sparks from engines on the Iroi
e Mountain set fire to the Best feee
e and livery barn, in which in tun
t set afire the compress property
- The Lessor Cotton Company prose
* cuted a similar claim in the federa
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court against the Iron Mountain fo
losses sustained in this fire, the casi
having been tried at Little Rock las
spring, but was decided against tin
plaintiff.
Three Dead.
s Martin Davis and Jeff Davis, col
e ored, who were cousins, living nea;
1 Wilmot, quarreled over the owner
i, ship of some land, when both pullec
8 guns and opened fire. When tin
s smoke cleared away they were botl
r dead. It seems that one Jin
f Thompson was a friend to one o:
• the fiarties in the shooting, and it n
supposed that he took a hand ii
the shooting. Thompson went ti
Wilmot for a coffin, when Artlnu
. Davis, father of one of the deac
i men, met him in a store and sho
l him dead.
Money Recovered.
Twenetv-three hundred dollars ii
[ bills of the $7,000 taken from th<
j Springdale bank were found in tin
j mountains near the place where tin
,f bandit's coat and pistol were found
Only $650 of the amount is nov
3 missing. $6,350 having been recov
r ered. A man named X. B. Carlisle
j was arrested on suspicion of bein<
the robber.
Petition Refused.
A petition of Hot Springs dairy
men to increase the rate on milk ant
milk products from Carlisle to Ho;
Springs was refused by the state
railroad commission. It was. over
ruled on the ground that it woulc
tend to suppress fair and reasonable
competition, to the detriment of con
sumers.
Shot Through the Heart.
Frank Chileutt shot and killed
Frank Mallory at Hot Springs
Christmas day. Chileutt is the pro
prietor of a saloon and Mallory oon
i ducted a restaurant next door. Mai
> lory was drinking and sent Chileutt
- word he was going to kill him. As
; Mallory entered the saloon Chilcuti
r shot him through the heart.
To Consider Change in Commerce Law.
The Arkansas State Board of
Trade a few days since received a
letter from E. 1\ Bacon, chairman
of the executive committee of the
interstate commerce law convention,
inclosing a copy of the proposed bill
to amend the present interstate com
merce law, and requested the ap
pointment of a committee to consid
er and report on same. In accord
with the letter President J. A. Wood
son of the state board appoint
ed the following committee to
consider the subject: W. W. Dick
inson, chairman; Janies A. Fones
and Chas. F. Pcnzcl, of Little Bock;
Hon. George Sengel. of Fort Smith,
and Hon. Louis Altheimer, of Pine
Bluff. Copies of the bill will be
furnished each of the gentlemen
and they are expected to report by
letter to Geo. B. Brown, Little Bock,
after which President Woodson will
make a report as the majority de
cide.
Coal Output Increasiag.
In reviving the coal mining in
dustry of the south, F. E. Seward,
an authority, says of this state:
“Arkansas is coming up as a coal
producer. For the year 1890 it
was credited with but 279,584 net
tons and for 1900 it has 1,447.945
tons to its credit. One may safely
put this state down for 1,750,000
tons for the year 1901, as the devel
opment lately has been along the
lines of improvement around Fort
Smith. There is a great awakening
in this respect.”
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Slain By Brother-in-Law.
On Christmas eve Jack Pcpltin,
who conducts a store about six
miles from Forrest City, and his
brother-in-law, John Manus, had a
difficulty. Manus shot into Pipkin’s
store, slightly wounding Pipkin and
his two sons. Manus was arrested,
but when released Christmas morn
ing returned to Pipkin's store and
renewed the difficulty, when he was
shot and killed. Pipkin was exon
i erated.
Arkansan Killed in Memphis.
Robert Blythe, a farmer, whose
home is at Earle, this state, was shot
I and probably fatally wounded by an
officer at Memphis. Blythe is said
to have been drinking and trying tc
raise a row with a saloon man, and
when the officer tried to arrest hi in
lie resisted. A brother of the wound
ed man was shot by a deputy sheritl
in Memphis last August.
Railroaders Fight.
Tn a difficulty at a tie camp on the
Choctaw road on L’Anguille rivei
- Gabe Potts was probably fatally
wounded by M. P. Bern lev. Potts
1 is said to have insulted Remley’s
[ wife, and when called to account by
the husband assaulted him, when
' Rem ley made a gash in his neck with
1 his pocketknife, nearly severing the
1 jugular vein.
Woman Wounded.
Jack Elmore and Roland Thorn
ton engaged in a difficulty at Clar
endon, when the former shot at the
latter with a shotgun loaded with
1 Xo. 1 shot. The load missed the
mark but lodged in the face and neck
of Mrs. Saxton, inflicting serious
wounds.
BRIEF MENTION.
Dynamite was exploded by an
unknown party near the court house
at El Dorado, resulting in about
$500 damages.
Levy Sanders, a convict sent up
from this state for violation of the
postal laws, escaped from the Leav
enworth prison.
Gov. Davis made glad the hearts
of twenty-eight state convicts by
granting them their freedom as a
Christmas present.
Cordelia Walker, a colored wo
man, was assassinated as she sat in
her room two miles from Fulton.
A negro named Trulock with whom
the woman had been living was ar
rested.
Chas. F. Moore, the Hot Springs
hotel man who shot and killed James
and Will Garner because they re
fused to take a drink with him, was
taken from the city to prevent a
lynching.
DICK MADE THE TRIP,
Tom Helped Him Out Though He Didn't
Mean To.
Here is a story of two well-known
young Baltimoreans, whom we will
•■jail Mr. Tom Blank and Mr. Dick So
and-So. Each prides himself on be
ing absolutely up to date and up to
snuff in all particulars. Tom called
around to see Dick one morning a.
short time ago and had scarcely
passed through the door before Dick
exclaimed: *
"By George! The very man. Say,
Tom, I want to go to Boston this aft
ernoon and I need $75. I wish you'd
let me have it. I really wouldn't ask
yoti. hut see my position.”
“Yes,” replied Tom, “a sort of
touch-and-go or no-touch-no-go posi
tion. You are better off at home,
Dick. It’s very cold in Boston.”
“Somewhat frosty here, too. it
seems,” said Dick. “But it’s all a joke,
old man. Come in and sit down.”
"Haven't time,” said Tom, “I just
stepped around to see if you wouldn't
let me have that $100youalready owe
me—if it's perfectly convenient.”
Dick seemed to make a hurried
mental calculation, and then told his
friend that he would give him a check
for that amount, but didn't think ha
had quite that much *tn bank.
"But you can go down and see,” he
added.
So Tom took the check, invited
Dick to go to the theater with him
that evening and hurried down to the
bank. The paying teller took the
check, strolled back, looked at Dick's
account and returned to the window,
shaking his head.
"How much does it take to make it
good?" asked Tom.
"Yot allowed, to .tell,” replied the
teller.
Tom went to the receiving teller
lollars to
Dick's
ollars
and deposited ten dc
credit, but that 4jdj
good. Another* t|
others were put u{
suit, until Tom be<
the bank people tl
Tom deposited his*
with the remark that It was a tough
game to be up against, and he again
presented the check, only to be met
with another shake of the teller's
head and the information: “Very
sorry, Mr. Blank, but that account
was somewhat overdrawn.”
Tom gave it up and dashJcl out of
the bank. He had no sooner gone’
than Dick sauntered in and asking
how much he had to his credit was
told $95.
“Just cash me this checlv^for $90,”
he said, "and if you see Mr. Tom
Blank to-day tell hint I’m awfully
sorry I cannot be able to see him this
evening, as I have decided to iake
that little Boston trip we were talk
ing about this morning.”—Baltimore
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LETTA AND HER CURLS
Borrowed Finery, as Usual, Brings Griet
to a Young Heart.
In a W iseonsin town were two
young girls who were fast friends and
had but one jealousy between them.
The older of the two, says the Mil
waukee Sentinel, had hair just the
common length, while the younger
had long brown tresses that reached
near the bottom of her dress. Night
and day Letta of the scanty locks pon
dered over the situation and tried va
rious means to coax and impress upon
her hair the propriety of thrift. But
all in vain. As time sped on, her
parents moved to Milwaukee, and as
they were sorting and packing Letts,
found in an old bureau nothing less
than a bunch of curls that her mother
had worn in her girlhood. Compari
son proved them to be the exact color.
“Now. ’ said the young leader of
fashion. “I will be just sweU*tht rirst
day at school.”
Letta braided her hair carefully and
tied the curls at the end with a fre.-li
ribbon.
When recess came the girls were
ranged up in a row for pull-away. and
as all went flying across the school
yard a spry little maidenCaught the
curls as they sped by Uyr, and lofthey
staved with her while their owner
went straight to the goaj.
Alexander's Mole.
Alexander the (Ireat had a large
mole on the right side of his neck.
It was regarded by his con tempos*
as a sign of good luck.
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