Wwdrukk Cimmky News.
VOL. II.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1902.
NO. 14.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Congress adjourned on the 1st
inst.
Aguinaldo was given his political
freedom July 4.
On the 4th snow fell for two
hours over the mountainous region
of Wyoming.
Chas. M. Schwab, the steel trust
magnate, is to build a home in New
York City to cost $3,350,000.
The Georgia democratic conven
tion failed to mention in its plat
form the national platform of 1900,
and no reference was made to
Bryan.
J. H. Kent is under indictment
at Fort Worth charged with cutting
the throat of a brother lodge mem
ber at a meeting of a Woodman of
the World camp.
The first loss of life from law
lessness since the beginning of the
coal strike in Pennsylvania about
two months ago occurred on the 1st
inst. near Wilkesbarre, when a
striker named Guiseppe, who was
endeavoring to enter a stockade, was
shot dead.
Robert Galz, a St. Louis shoe
maker, went into the basement of
his home to investigate a gas leak
and lighted a match. An explosion
immediately followed which wrecked
the building, burying Galz’s wife
and child in the runis. Galz him
self was badly injured.
Reports to R. G. Dun & Co.
show commercial failures for the
half year 6,165 in number, with
$60,374,856 liabilities, against
5,759 insolvencies in the correspond
ing months of 1901, involving $55,
804,690. Of this year's aggregate,
1,418 were in manufacturing for
$24,145,622, and 337 in other com
mercial lines for $6,289,214; as
compared with 1,265 in manufactur
ing last year for $21,691,048, 4,
189 in trading for $24,864,207, and
305 miscellaneous with liabilities of
$9,249,435. Defaults of banks and
other fiduciary institutions num
bered 34, with an indebtedness of
$16,797,763, against 45 in the cor
responding six months of 1901, in
volving $15,839,389.
A statement prepared by Senator
Allison, chairman of the committee
on appropriations, shows the total
appropriations by congress at the
session just closed, as follows:
Agriculture, $5,208,960; army, $91,
530,136 ; diplomatic and consular
$1,957,925; District of Columbia,
$8,647,526; fortifications, $7,928,
955; Indian, $91,439,902; legisla
tive, $25,398,381; military academy,
$2,627,324; navy, $78,678,963;
pension, $139,842,230; postoffices,
$138,416,598; river and harbor,
$26,726,442 (exclusive of contracts
authorized) ; sundry civil, $60,125,
359; deficiency, $28,039,911; mis
cellaneous, $3,600,000; isthmain
canal, $50,130,000; permanent an
nual appropriations, $123,921,220;
grand total, $800,193,837. The
total last year was $730,388,575.
Tobacco manufacturers and deal
ers will be considerably affected by
a provision which has been passed
by congress without attracting much
attention, as a part of the bill re
rating to the tax and rebate on to
bacco. The provision is that no
package of manufactured tobacco,
snuff, cigars or cigarettes shall have
attached any representation oi
promise of a ticket or chance in any
lottery or an immoral picture. The
provision will end a system of ad
vertising upon which tobacco manu
facturers have expended thousands
of dollars. It is believed by internal
revenue officials that the provision
■will prohibit the prizes that are
offered by nearly all manufacturers
of plug tobacco and cigarettes,
awarded by presentation of a speci
fied number of tags or box wrappers.
The question will probably be
brought to a ruling of the treasury
department on a test ease.
K. G. Rathbonc, formerly director
general of posts of Cuba, who was
convicted in Cuba on charges involv
ing mal-administration of his office,
has petitioned congress to order au
investigation of all his acts in Cuba.
At the recent session of congress
10,700 pension bills were introduced.
Morgan’s latest scheme is to effect
a combine of all the coal mines in
the country.
Crops throughout the west were
badly damaged June 29 by record
breaking rains.
Seven jury bribers were convicted,
in Chicago and given long terms in
the penitentiary.
The new ship combine has placed
an order for seven fast freight
steamers, to cost $2,000,000. .
The expenditures of the govern
ment in taking the twelfth census
approximate $12,000,000 to date.
W. G. Tiffony has been appointed
superintendent of the Memphis
branch of the St. Louis, Memphis
& Southeastern.
Tests of wireless telegraphy
systems in use in the United States
and Europe will shortly be begun
under direction of a board of naval
officers. These tests will occur be
tween stations erected at the navy
yard, Washington, and the Naval
Academy at Annapolis.
At Secretary Moody’s suggestion,
the cabinet has adopted names for
the six new ships of war authorized
by the naval appropriation bill.
The four larger ships, two battle
ships and two armored cruisers,
will be named Louisiana, Tennessee
and Washington, but it is not yet
settled which states shall be chosen
for the battle-ships and vice versa.
The two gunboats provided for in
the act wi'J be named the Paducah
and the Dubuque.
The government is preparing to
prosecute holders of excess land in
the Chickasaw nation in accordance
with a provision in the Indian ap
propriation bill. This provision, it
is said, is now a law, but it is
generally understood that the new
act is operative from July 1.
Hundreds of landholders are about
to vacate every acre in excess of 320
acres in order to escape a fine of
$100 for each day they hold posses
sion.
The special congressional com
mittee, appointed to investigate the
charges of bribery in connection with
the purchase of the Danish West
Indies, has reported that there is not
the slightest semblance of evidence
that any member of congress, either
directly or indirectly, was offered or
paid any bribe, or was paid any
valuabe consideration of any kind
or character, to vote for or assist in
procuring the proposed adoption or
ratification of the treaty of sale of
the Danish West Indian islands to
the United States.
The act of congress approved
April 12, 1D02, repealing war
revenue taxation took effect July 1.
It abolishes all special and stamp
taxes imposed by the law now in
force, with the exception of the tax
of ten cents a pound on tea, which
will continue until January 1, 1903,
and the provision in the present law
relative to mixed flour. The present
taxes on fermented liquors, snuff
und tobacco, and cigarettes have
been reduced and the taxes imposed
on the manufacture and sale of oleo
margarine and process butter by the
act approved May 9, 1902, will be
enforced.
The president has formally de
clared the restoration of peace in
the Philippine archipelago. He has
placed the islands under complete
civil control, and has extended
general amnesty to the Philipinos
who have been in rebellion. These
three things, marking one of the
most important chapters in history,
were accomplished through the issue
of three separate orders and procla
mations, one by the president, over
his own signature, extending am
nestv; one through Secretary lloot,
by the president's order, relieving
(Jeneral Chaffee of his duties as
military governor, and a third,
which takes the shape of a general
order, addressed to the entire army
of the United States, in which Sec
rclary Hoot takes occasion to express
the president’s high appreciation of
the work accomplished, both in
Cuba and in the Philippines.
Gov. Van Bant, of Minnesota, has
been renominated for a second term
by the republicans.
President Roosevelt lias issued a
proclamation, formally postponing
the St. Louis fair until 1904.
The supreme court of Missouri,
in the suit against the packing som
bine, has sustained the anti-trust
law of the state.
VI ike Burke, a farmer near St.
Joseph, Mo., was shot and killed by
his wife. He was under the influ
ence of liquor and had viciously as
saulted his wife.
William Coates, aged 17, murdered
his mother at her home near St.
Joseph, Mo. 'L'he boy confessed to
the crime, declaring his father told
him to kill his mother.
Senator Bailey, of Texas, lost hi*
temper and assaulted Senator
Beveridge, of Indiana, in the senate
chamber a few moments after the
body had adjourned for the day.
The episode was the result of a
heated controversy which the two
senators had, when Senator Beve
rige had said that Senator Bailey
had made an “unwarranted attack”
on Solicitor Penfield of the state de
partment.
Acting Secretary of War Sanger
sent a communication to the
house in answer to a resolution di
recting the secretary of war to furn
! ish information as to what amounts
have been paid out of the
Cuban people to F. S. Truber or any
other person, corporation or associa
tion for advocating reciprocity with
the United States. The answer ol
the war department consists of cer
j titled copies of vouchers covering the
j payments referred to it in the resilu
tion, amounting to $15,626.
A Rock Island passenger train
was held up on the night of the 3d
near Dupont, Til. Express Messen
ger Kane was Ihot through the groii
by one of the robbers. The loca
safe was forced open, but the amouni
of the booty secured is not known
One party has been arrested, bu
declares that he was forced at th<
point of a pistol to climb on th<
engine and demand that the trait
be stopped.
The annual report of Chie:
Wilkie, of the secret service division
submitted last week to Secretary
Shaw, shows" that during the yeai
there were 573 persons charged witl
various offenses against the fedora
statutes, New York leading witl
eighty-five prosecutions. Of the of
fenders, 415 persons were of Ameri
can birth, the next largest number oi
offenders being Italians. Sixty
three per cent of those arrested were
convicted. The report shows the facl
that during the fiscal year but one
dangerous spurious note was put in
circulation, a $5 silver certificate,
while there was but one other even
passable counterfeit—a $1 silver
certificate, whose makers, with their
complete plant, were captured in
Chicago the same day they attempted
to put one of their notes in circu
lation.
The monthly report of the sta
tistician of the department of agri
culture shows the average condi
tion of cotton on June .25 to have
been 81.7, as compared with 95.1 on
May 2(i, 1902 ; 81.1 on June 25,
1901; 75.8 on July 1, 1901, and a
ten-year average of 85.(1. With the
exception of North Carolina, where
there seems to have been a slight
improvement, and Virginia, where
there is no appreciable change in
everv cotton-producing state shows
a decline during the month, the de
cline being greatest in Texas, where
it amounts to 22 points, and in
Louisiana, Indian Territory, Mis
sissippi and Alabama, where it is
11, 10. 9 and 8 points, respectively.
The condition is, however, still in
excess of the ten-year average in
the following states, by the number
of points stated in each case: Vir
ginia, 2; North Carolina, 6; South
Carolina and Florida, 9; Georgia
and Arkansas, 7; Tennessee, 12;
Oklahoma, 2; and Missouri 10.
NEWS OF ARKANSAS
Crop Conditions.
For the week ending June 30,
Section Director E. B. Richards,
of the Little Rock weather bureau,
furnishes the following general
summary of crop conditions in Ar
kansas :
Generally hot, dry weather, with
south winds, prevailed during the
forepart of the week. Heavy gener
al rains began on the evening of the
27th and continued intermittently
until the close, swelling streams and
inundating lowlands. These rains I
were, in many instances, ac
companied by high winds, which :
damaged corn somewhat by beat
ing down and tangling. Cotton
continues in generally good condi
tion, is laid by in most sections,
and, as a rule, is blooming and fruit
ing well; in some isolated localities
where corn was suffering for the
want of moisture it has been great
ly benefited by the recent heavy
rains and a full crop is now assured
in almost all sections. Wheat
thrashing is progressing; while the
indications in most sections are fa
vorable for an average yield, in
many instances it will be below the
average. Oat harvesting is about
completed and thrashing has begun.
Previous estimates as to the yield
are practically confirmed. Garden
truck and pastures were much bene
fited by the rains. Fruit conditions
remain unchanged.
Alleged Whitecapper Killed.
A dispatch from Mammoth
Springs tells of the killing by Harve
Sexton of Pink Gibson, a member
of a party of whitcappers. It is al
leged Sexton was the associate of a
woman who lived a few miles from
Mammoth Spring. Both were
warned to leave by the regulators,
after the woman had been terribly
whipped. Sexton went to his home
to secure his gun and because his
boy would not tell him where his
, gun was he gave him a whipping.
Sexton’s wife swore out a peace war
( rant for him, and Pink Gibson took
; several young men and went in
search of him. Not finding Sexton
at the house of the woman men
tioned, they blew it up with dyna
mite, and went to the Webb place,
where Sexton was found. Sexton
’ went upstairs, and as Gibson, who
; had dynamite in the inside pocket
of his coat, came on the porch Sex
ton shot at him, the bullet striking
the dynamite and exploding it,
blowing Gibson to pieces. Sexton,
after several other men had come on
the ground, surrendered to them,
under promise of protection from
the mob.
Four Murder Cases Affirmed.
The supreme court last week de
cided four murder cases. The first
was the case of D. Nolin vs. The
State, from Hempstead county.
Nolin was convicted of choking his
wife to death, flis own evidence
convicted him. He said they quar
reled and he choked her with one
hand and discovered when he let go
that she was dead. The second was
that of Tom Situs vs. The State.
Sims was convicted of killing two
negro women, Nancy Jetton and
I'abitha Jetton. His case was also
from Hempstead county. The
third was the case of Kitts vs. The
State, from Desha county. He was
convicted of shooting one Jim John
son. The last was the case of Junius
Bonvillc vs. The State, from Pope
county. He was convicted of mur
der in the second degree.
A Desperate Negro.
A desperate negro, thought to be
Francis Bessie, is supposed to have
been killed by officers in a swamp
near Little Bock. The negro at
tacked a constable and cut the throat
of the horse ridden by the officer
and painfully slashed the latter.
A posse pursued the negro into a
dense swamp by the trail of blood
from a wound inflicted by the con
stable, and it is believed he was
either drowned in an effort to
awim a bayou or crawled into a
thicket and died.
Analysis By Government.
The bureau of chemistry, United
States agricultural department, has
just completed an analysis of the
water at Hot Springs. The
analysis was made at a cost of $5,
000, and shows the hot water to con
tain all the mineral and curative
qualities ascribed to it. It was
made at the suggestion of the super
intendent of the government reser
vation, Martin Eisele, who, in his
annual report to the interior depart
ment, advised an exhaustive analysis,
in order that the medical and heal
ing qualities of the water so long
known might be established under
the direction of the national govern
ment.
Fatal Difficulty.
As the result of a difficulty at
New Edinburg, Cleveland county,
two men lost their lives and one
lies seriously wounded. The dead
are Arthur and Garfield Kilgore,
and the wounded man is named
Ruth. It is said that the Kilgores,
who operated a general store, were
under the influence of liquor and
became boisterous. Ruth was depu
tized to arrest them. The Kilgores
resisted and began to slash Ruth
with knives, the latter using his
pistol. The fight was waged des
perately for a few minutes and at the
end all three of the parties lay
writhing in agony on the floor.
Another Probable Candidate.
It is said to be probable that the
populists will put out a candidate
for governor, and will make a can
vass of the state before the Sep
tember election.
Col. A. VV. Files, chairman of the
populist state committee, makes the
following announcement:
“The populists will hold a camp
meeting at Arkadelphia July 25
and 20. There will bo a big rally
and conference, and speaking by
Cyclone Davis, of Texas, and
Joe E. Parker, national chairman,
of Louisville, Ivy., and others,
Prof. Menke Declines.
Prof. A. E. Menke has declined
the position of professor of chemist
ry in the University of Arkansas,
to which he was re-elected by the
board of trustees recently, after his
salary had been raised from $2,00C
to $2,500. Prof. Menke had pre
viously accepted a place with £
prominent manufacturing firm ir
Cleveland, O., and the firm refused
to release him in order that he could
continue with the university.
Escaped Convict Captured.
Chas. E. Etu, who escaped froit
the penitentiary at Little Rock bv
concealing himself in a car he was
assisting in loading with lumber,
was captured a few days ago at
Kansas City. Etu was sent up foi
twenty-one years from Garland
countv for robbery and attempted
murder, and had served only a few
months of the sentence when ht
made his escape.
. Eleven Convicts Escape.
Eleven state convicts escaped
from the stockade at Daleton,
twelve miles west of Pine Bluff. One
of the men was white, the rest
negroes. Henry Woodfolk, in for
a term of 21 years, convicted in
Jefferson circuit court as accessory
to the murder of George Pickett,
was one of the convicts.
Shot Himself.
Otis Cnntley, city marshal of
Prescott, accidentally shot himself
in the left groin, the ball going
through his body, lie was stooping
over getting some books out of a
low iron safe, when his pistol fell
from his scabbard, going off as it
struck the floor, with the above re
sult.
James A. Fones.
James A. Fones, one of the best
known business men in the state,
died at his home in Little Rock on
the 4th inst. Mr. Fones, with two
brothers, removed from Georgia to
Little Rock in 1865, and engaged in
the hardware business. He is sur
vived by his wife, one son and a
brother, D. G. Fones.
WATCH THE WORKERS.
Public Stopped to See Simple Process ot
Moving a Big Foie.
A gang ol' men were tugging away
at a great pole the other day on one
of the business streets trying to get
it through an alley to the in.-ide of
the block, says the Washington Star.
When in place it was to carry tele
phone wires, and as the telephone
users were evidently numerous in
that locality the pole was correspond
ingly long and thick. One of the
giauts of the forest had fallen when
the ax was laid at the root of this
specimen, for what was left of the
tree, stripped of its branches and its
bark, must have been fully GO feet
long and some three feet in diameter.
The men pulled and hauled, but ap
parently made little progress, and yet
it was no small force that was applied,
as no less than bO sun-bronzed work
ingmen united their strength in the
task.
Finally with a lift altogether the
lightest end was raised high enough
to permit a small platform on two
wheels to be run under, and upon this
a portion of the weight rested. The
gang of men moved forward a little,
and, raising the tree trunk, the plat
form was pushed farther along until
a point was reached where the ends
were balanced and then the bulk was
easily pushed along the street on the
wheeled platform to the alley.
As is usual when any manual labor
is going on in the streets of the city,
spectators gathered about watching
with the interest of fascination the
spectacle of other men at work. Why
such a commonplace as men at labor
should attract attention is one of the
curious problems of human nature
which lias never been fully explained.
Naturally, as they looked they talked,
and the latter was largely critical of
the methods employed, as well as the
way the job was being done. From
the curbstone spectators the boss of
the gang might have had for nothing
a whole lot of suggestions. But none
were offered, perhaps because none
were requested.
One man who had a cool place be
neath the shade of a tree remarked,
casually, but also disdainfully: “They
raised them poles just that way 40
years ago. Where is your modern ma
chinery?” he added, with scorn.
‘‘Perhaps hand labor, is cheaper,”
observed his neighbor, who looked
discontented.
“The boss of this gang,” broke in a
keen-looking man, “said there were
machines for handling telegraph and
other poles, hut his company did not
have one.”
At that point in the discussion the
pole beg in to move rather rapidly up
the street and the group of specta
tors melted away.
QUITE RIGHT, TOO.
No Occasion for Hilarity Over Appear*
ance of Baby’s First Tooth.
“George," exclaimed Mrs. Young
husband, w ith a radiant smile, “baby
has a tooth.”
“Has he?" was the response, in a
tone which betrayed no emotion.
“You don't seem surprised.”
“I’m not surprised. All babies
have first teeth. If our didn’t
have any I'd manage to work up some
excitement, perhaps.”
“1 thought you’d be ever so pleased
and happy about it.”
“No; 1 don't see that it’s any oc
casion for especial congratulation.
The baby has my deepest sympathy.”
“What for?”
“For having the first tooth. He
has just struck the opening chapter
of a long story of trouble. Pretty
soon he’ll have other teeth.”
“Of course he will.”
“Every one lie cuts will hurt him.
Then his second teeth will come and
push these out. That will hurt him
again. Some of the new ones will
grow crooked, likely as not, and he
will have to go to the dentist and have
instruments adjusted to them to pull
them into line. Then he'll cut his
wisdom teeth. They will hurt a loti
After that he'll have to go to the den
tist and let him drill holes and ham
mer until his face feels like a great
palpitating stone quarry. I shouldn’t
like him te go through life without
teeth. But 1 must say that I don’t
sec any occasion for the customary
hilarity over an event that means so
much in the way of sorrow and humil
iation.”—London Tit-Bits.