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WWÆUHF Cmmlty News.
VOL. II.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1902.
NO. 15.
NEWS OF THE WOKLD.
President Roosevelt lias taken up
his residence &r the summer at
Oyter Bay.
The Louisiana legislature passed
a bill appropriating $100,000 for
an exhibit at the St. Louis exposi
tion.
Heavy rains in Eastern Nebraska
and Western Iowa damaged crops
and destroyed thousands of dollars
in property.
Ten thousand delegates attended
the annual convention of the Bap
tist Young Peoples’ Union, held at
Providence, R. I., last week.
The life of Sam Woodley, colored,
convicted of assault on a white girl,
was spared by Gov. Sayers, of Texas,
because the criminal is but seven
teen years of age. He will pay the
penalty of his heinous crime by
serving a life sentence in the peni
tentiary.
Nine thousand freight handlers
of Chicago went on strike on the 8th
inst. for an increase of wages and
recognition by the railroads of their
union. Practically every railroad
entering Chicago was affected, and
much inconvenience and great finan
cial loss is the result.
Susan Frazier, 10 years" old, was
arrested at Paducah, Ivy., charged
wiih the murder of her uncle, George
James. The child, it is claimed,
saw her uncle beating his wife, and,
obtaining a pistol, shot him in the
stomach, inflicting a wound causing
his death shortly afterward.
There is considerable speculation
in the army as to the probable suc
cessor of Lieut. Gen. Miles, who re
tires by reason of age August 8,
1903, but it is not generally known
that the duties of the office of com
manding general are now largely
performed by Gen. S. B. M. Young,
the president of the war college. It
is an open secret in the war depart
ment that Gen. Miles is command
ing general in name only. His
name appears on office orders and
routine papers pass through his
office, but when advice is desired by
the secretary of war on matters af
fecting the army Gen. Young is al
ways called into consultation. It is
definitely known that when Gen.
Miles retires, either by reason of
age a year from now or by order of
the president, Gen. Young will be
named as his successor, but as Gen.
Young retires for age January 9,
1904, he will have but a few months
to serve, and the real interest centers
in a successor to (Jen. Young. The
contest is between Corbin, Chaffee,
Bates, McArthur and Wade.
On the recommendation of the
Mississippi commission, Gen. Gil
lespie, chief of engineers, has made
the following allotments from the
appropriation, aggregating $2,200,
000 for the improvement of the
Mississippi river from the head of
the passes fo the mouth of the Ohio
river, under the act of .Tunc 13,
1902: For levees, $1,000,000; sur
veys, gauges and observations, $69,
000; dredges and dregging, $295,
000; improving harbors. New
Orleans, Memphis, Natchez, Vitlal ia,
La.; Helena, Ark.; Caruthersville,
Mo., and Gjeeneville, Miss., $2.15,
000; Atchafalayu and Red rivers,
$15,000; 1st and 2d districts, $200,
000; 3d district, $205,000; 4th dis
trict, $186,000; Mississippi river
commission, $10,500, leaving un
allotted, $4,500, The allotment of
$1,000,000 for levees is to be dis
tributed as follows: For lower Yazoo
district, $291,000; upper Yazoo dis
trict $70,000; lower St. Francis dis
trict, $125,000; upper Tensas dis
trict, $112,500; lower Tensas dis
trict, $110,000; Pontchartrain dis
trict, $101,500; Reel Foot district,
$20,000; White river district, $90,
000; Atchafalava district, $40,000;
La Fourche district, $20,000; Bara
traria district, $10,000; Lake Borgna
district, $10,000.
The authorities at Washington
have notified Acting Gov. Wright
that no religious doctrine shall be
taught in the public schools in the
Philippines, though a strict relig
ious discipline must be maintained.
On the 9 th inst. .six persons died
in Philadelphia from heat.
Missouri democrats, in state con
vention, indorsed the Kansas City
platform.
All classes of organized labor have
been asked to contribute funds to aid
the anthracite coal strikers.
Floods destroyed millions of dol
lars worth of property in Kansas,
Nebraska and Iowa, and for several
days railroad traffic was at a stand
still. Iowa suffered the heaviest
from destruction of crops, live stock,
farm houses and railroad track and
bridges.
Jessie Morrison, convicted at El
dorado, Kan., of murdering her
rival, Mrs. Olin Castle, has been
sentenced to serve twenty-five years
in the penitentiary. Her first con
viction, reversed by the supreme
court, inflicted a penalty of five
years in the penitentiary.
Preliminary returns to the sta
tistical! of the department of agri
culture on this year’s acreage of
corn planted indicate an increase of
about 3,520,000 acres, or 3.9 per
cent, on the area harvested last year.
The average condition of the grow
ing crop on July 1 was 87.5 as com
pared with 81.3 on July 1, 1901;
89.5 at the corresponding date in
1900, and a ten-year average of 89.2.
During a game of base ball at
Fort Worth, Chas. Harrington, of
the Dallas team, was struck in the
stomach with a batted ball and
killed. After being struck Har
rington picked up the ball and threw
a runner out at first. The ball was
returned to him from first, and, as
he caught it and was in the act of
again pitching, he threw up his
hands and toppled over, a corpse.
Gen. Chaffee has ordered Lieut.
Edward A. Hickman of the First
cavalry to Manila for trial by court
martial on the charge of alleged
cruelty to natives of Tayabas prov
ince. The charges arise from the
Gardener inquiry. It is claimed that
Hickman ducked two natives in a
stream in order to obtain informa
tion. He is further charged with
having ducked a third native, who
died from the maltreatment.
A frightful wreck occurred on
the Mountain Lake Electric rail
road, near Gloversville, X. V., which
caused the death of the following
persons, besides about thirty were
badly injured: Mrs. Edward J.
Baird, Miss Margaret Main, Mrs.
Oman Eastman, Edward Davis,
Edward T. Trevitt, Jos. Saloy, Mrs.
Jos. Saloy, Edward Saloy, Isadore
Rothberg, Mrs. Maria Annabel, of
Northville, Fred Cronin. The ac
cident was caused by a combination
baggage and passenger car getting
away from the mortorman and rush
ing down the mountain at terrific
speed.
The president has issued an order
prohibiting the exercise of outside
influence in securing promotions in
the classified civil service. The
order is an amendment to rule 11
of the civil service code, and is as
follows: “No recommendation for
the promotion of any employe in the
classified service shall be considered
by any officer concerned in making
promotions, except those made by the
officer or officers under whose super
vision or control such employe is
serving; and such recommendation
by any other person, with the knowl
edge and consent of the employe,
shall be sufficient cause for de
barring him from the promotion
proposed, and a repetition of the of
fense shall be sufficient cause for re
moving him from the service.”
Several Apache Indians killed
and scalped a member of their own
tribe and stabbed his squaw to death
near Fort Sill. The offenders were
arrested and precautions taken to
prevent further trouble. The
Apaches have been prisoners of war
for several years, but were released
on an order from the war depart
ment two months ago.
Three linemen and a colored
helper, while stretching telephone
wire at Opperman, (la., were struck
by lightning and instantly killed.
The white men killed were: M. C.
Hawkins, F. B. Sluder, A. H. Ky
mer, all of Alexander, N. 0.
NEWS OF ARKANSAS.
Crop Conditions.
For the week ending July 7 Sec
tion Director E. B. Richards, of the
Little Rock weather bureau, fur
nishes the following summary of
crop conditions in Arkansas:
Fair weather generally prevailed
during the week; light showers fell
in isolated localities. Corn has felt
the effects of the recent heavy rains,
causing it to make a very rapid
growth, and in many instances too
much weed. In sections where heavy
and continuous rains occurred the
crop is becoming grassy from lack of
cultivation, as the ground has been
too wet to work, but, on the whole,
the crop is in good condition, and is
doing well. No damage by insects
has been reported. Corn has im
proved during the week, and a full
crop is apparently assured. In those
localities where considerable lodging
had been caused by the heavy rains
and high winds of the preceding
week, it has straightened up very
much, and the damage is not as great
as estimated. Wheat thrashing con
tinues; the yield is, as a rule, below
expectations, although in some lo
calities an average crop of good
quality is harvested. Oat harvesting
is about completed, but thrashing
has not yet begun. There has been
no improvement in the indicated
yield. Fruit conditions are practi
cally unchanged. Apples continuo
to fall, but peaches present fair pros
pects.
Attacked the jailer.
A jail delivery occurred at Wash
ington, Hempstead county. The
prisoners ran over jailer A. D. Mon
roe while he was giving them their
breakfast, and Monroe was badly
beaten up, but managed to hold on
to one of them until he was assisted
by another prisoner. Tom Simms,
I). Nolan and three others escaped.
Monroe shot Nolan as he ran, hitting
him in the back and inflicting a
fatal wound. He also shot at
Simms, but missed him. The town
was aroused and all the escaped
prisoners recaptured. Simms and
Nolan were condemned to die for
murder, and their eases were af
firmed by the supreme court last
Checking Up Tobacco Rebates.
The internal revenue office at Lit
tle Rock is at present checking up
the claims on rebate of tobacco deal
ers throughout the state. The law
repealing the war tax. which went
into effect on the 1st inst. makes a
reduction of 3 (5-10 cents, which re
duces the tax on tobacco to the
original of six cents per pound.
The claims, when all have been re
ceived, will be forwarded to the
Washington office, from which they
will be investigated, and in the
early part of next year will be paid
in checks from the Little Rock of
fice according to instructions re
ceived from the internal revenue
commissioner at Washington.
Actor Suicides.
The body of a white man about
60 years of age, supposed to be S.
R. Gayord, of Los Angeles, Cal.,
was found under a tree near Helena
with a bullet hole through the head.
On the tree was a mirrow, which had
been used by Gayord in aiming the
shot that ended his life, and near his
body was a revolver. Gayord went
to Helena and registered at a hotel
as being from Iowa, but all his cloth
ing bears marks of Los Angeles mer
chants. His general appearance and
a paper of a dramatic school at Los
Angeles found in his grip lead to
the belief that he was an actor.
Negro Killed.
Dalph Lee, colored, was shot and
killed by A. C. Cogbill, a planter,
on Bayou Bartholomew. It is said
Lee was drunk and went to the home
of Cogbill and began to curse and
abuse him. Cogbill ordered him to
get out of his yard and go away.
This seemed to have angered him.
Mr. Cogbill told him if he could not
get him out one way he could an
other, when he stepped' back in his
house, got hi* gun, fired and killed
bim.
Land Office Business.
RJohard Jones, living near
Graphic, Crawford county, was in
stantly killed and his two children
dangerously, if not fatally, injured
in a runaway.
State Land Commissi<*ier J. W.
Colquitt has completed his report
for the quarter ending June 30. It
shows collections as follows:
$1,794—Fees.
$3,437.20—Swamp lands, 1,148.
29 acres.
$1,000 — Internal improvement
land, 800 acres.
$850—Saline lands, 280 acres.
$2,341.07 — Real estate bank
lands, 1,593.33 acres.
$2,543.82—Forfeited land re
deemed, 8,435.73 acres.
$411.31—Sale of forfeited town
lots.
$9,562.64—Forfeited land do
nated.
8,311.62 acres of forfeited lands
deeded to settlers.
$29,443.77—Total amount re
ceived during quarter.
Date of Execution Fixed.
Gov. Davis has fixed the date of
execution of two murderers whose
cases have been passed upon by the
supreme court. Sy Tanner of St.
Francis county is to be hanged at
Forrest City on Friday, July 25.
He was convicted on March.4, 1902,
in the St. Francis county circuit
court and sentenced to be manged
on May 22. An appeal was taken
to the supreme court. Lathe Hem
bree, a white man, is to be hanged at
Nashville on July 25, 1902. He was
convicted on February 11, 1902,
and sentenced to hang March 28.
An appeal was taken to the supreme
court, which affirmed the judgment
of the lower court. Hembree was
convicted of killing au old man
named Willis in Folk county. He
has been in the state penitentiary for
some time for safe-keeping.
Killed by a Train.
B. F. Wolford, a prominent far
mer of Crawford county, was killed
by a train at Monctt, Mo. He was
en route to St. Louis with a car of
melons when he was run down in
the Monett yards and both legs cut
oil', death ensuing in a few hours.
Wolford's daughter was killed a
few weeks since by being accident
ally shot by a playmate.
BRIEF MENTION.
lion. M. L. Davis, of Dardanelle,
has been appointed adjutant genera]
of the state guard.
Capt. W. C. Sloan, an old citizen
and prominent business man of
Walnut Ridge, is dead.
The Jolly hotel at Warren was
destroyed by tire and two guests
were painfully burned.
Gabo Clark, colored, aged TO
years, was killed by a Valley Route
train a few miles from Pine Bluff.
John Gillmsn, a highly respected
old colored imfn, said to have been
over 120 years of age, died recently
at his home in Ashley county.
The roadbed of the second twenty
miles of the White River Railway
is completed, and the track will be
laid as fast as the rails are delivered.
Chris Anderson, a telephone line
man, was fattaly injured while un
loading poles from a car at Little
Rock, one of the poles falling on
him.
Gov. Davis has issued a procla
mation fixing July 25 as the date
of execution of Dave McWhorter,
the Crawford county wife mur
derer.
H. R. Cathron, white, wanted at
Russellville, N. C., on the charge of
murder, was captured a few days
igo on the border of Arkansas and
the Indian Territory.
Eight state convicts, employed on
construction work on the Fort'Smith
road, escaped at Preston by cutting
:hcir way out of a box car. All were
white men with one exception.
Henry Chiles, colored, wanted for
:he theft of a bicycle from a Little
Rock dealer, was shot and fatally
wounded by Link and John Butler,
ilso colored, who had been deputized
!• arrest him.
Joint Political Discussion.
Hon. Jeff Davis, democratic
nominee for governor, and Hon.
Harry H. Myers, republican nominee
for governor, will address the people
upon the political issues of the day
at the places and on the dates named
below:
Danville, Yell county, Monday,
July 28, at 1 p. m.
Boonevillc, Tuesday, July 20, at
1. p. m.
Fort Smith, Tuesday, July 20,
at 8:30 p. m.
Van Huron, Wednesday, July 30,
at 1. p. in.
Fayetteville, Thursday, July 31,
at 1 p. m.
Berryville, Friday, August 1, at
1 p. m.
Harrison, Saturday, August 2, at
I p. m.
Mena, Monday, August 4, at 1
p. in.
DeQuoen, Tuesday, August 5, at
II a. m.
Texarkana, Tuesday August 5,
at 8 p. m.
New Lewisville, Wednesday, Aug
ust 6, at 1 p. m.
Pine Bluff, Thursday, August 7,
at 8 p. in.
Stuttgart, Friday August 8, at
11 a. m.
Brinkley, Friday, August 8, at
8 p. m.
Jonesboro, Saturday, August 0,
at 1 p. m.
Walnut Piidge, Lawrence county,
Monday, August 11, at 1 p. m.
Batesville, Tuesday, August 12,
at 11 a. m.
Newport, Tuesday, August 12, at
8 p. m.
Arkadelphia, Wednesday, August
13, at 1 p. m.
Hope, Hempstead county, Thurs
day, August 14, at 1 p. m.
Conway, Friday. August 15, at 1
p. m.
Clarksville, Saturday, August 16,
at 1 p. in.
Russellville, .Monday, August 18,
at 1 p. m.
Little Rock, Friday, August 20,
at 8 p. m.
Gov. Davis has announced his
desire to meet both the insurgent
and regular republican nominees,
and it is probable the above list of
appointments will bo rearranged
later.
Wardens to be Held Responsible.
The state penitentiary board has
decided that in the future no con
vict camps shall be maintained with
less than fifty convicts, also that
hereafter no convict labor shall be
furnished to any contractor at any
camp until the superintendent has
examined the stockade or prison
accommodations provided by the
contractor and found the same to be
safe for the detention of convicts
and comfortable for their occupancy.
A warden from whose camp or
place of superintendency any con
vict or convicts escape will be im
mediately discharged, unless he pro
duce satisfactory evidence that the
escape was not due in any degree to
Kept the Passengers on a New York
Suburban Train Guessing.
The thin man looked just as if
everybody in the world imposed on
him. Even his moustache, says the
New York Post, grew crooked, lie
came into the car of the suburban
train sidewise, deposited his basket
gingerly, and slid into the seat beside
it. As soon as the train cleared the
tunnel, the basket meowed. The thin
man smiled back at the man across
the aisle, and gave the basket a shake.
Another meow. A little girl in the
seat in front stood up on the cushion
and peered at the basket.
“Like cats?” the thin man asked.
“Yep,” the child answered.
“Lemnie see it.”
“No; it might get away,” the thin
man said with another smile.
The basket preserved silence for
several minutes, then it began to
cluck. The child's eyes opened wide.
“Like chickens?” the thin man
asked.
Before the child could reply, the
basket emitted a shrill whistle, and
the man across the aisle, whose face
was as puzzled as the child’s, asked:
hat have you there, anyhow?”
“Mocking bird,” the thin man an
swered.
WHEN JUMBO II. SNEEZED.
Great Was the Commotion Caused Aft*
a Half Hour’s Preparation.
Jumbo II. sneezed, sa\'s the Balti
more 11 erald. To t lie average person
this information is of no startling
importance, but to those who hap
pened to be on the midway at the
Maryland Industrial exposition,
Pennsylvania and North avenues,
when Jumbo sneezed the event was
one long to be remembered. Jumbo's
sneeze is like the bursting of a boiler,
and it created a fairly good-sized
panic. The elephant began to get
ready for the sneeze half an hour be
fore it happened, and as the time for
the event drew near Ik* was rolling
about in his cage in great agony.
Suddenly lie stopped, gave one bellow
and then sneezed.
The look of perfect contentment
on his face after the great event was
in startling contrast to the terror
seen on the faces of the fleeing peo
ple. A'isitors to the exposition were
running in all directions, not know
ing what awful thing it was they
were racing away from. Among the
Mohammedans of the Oriental and
Cingalese villages Jumbo's sneeze
caused wild excitement. Oriental
folk are most superstitious about ele
phants, and they believe to hear one
sneeze brings all kinds of good luck.
They rushed to Jumbo’s cage and,
bowing low before his elephantine
highness, began praying at a rapid
rate. When they finished they ex
plained that an elephant's sneezes are
of the rarest occurrence, and the
event was one of great significance to
them. Elephants arc susceptible to
cold and catch cold easily, but it ig
very, very rarely that they sneeze.
, Capt. Miller, Jumbo’s keeper, says
it is a good thing that this is so, for
a few more sneezes like Jumbo had
bmight blow the top of his head off.
MADE KEYS WITH HIS TEETH,
Convict’s Ingenuity in Producing Means
of Escape from Prison.
AVill Rentier, a negro who escaped
from the city prison a year ago and
was recaptured recently, came very
near escaping again the other morn
ing, says the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitu
tion.
Render had two pieces of bent wire,
taken from Water buckets, of which
he had made skeleton keys which can
open any loek in the prison*. It is
now known that he used similar wires
when he escaped before.
A fellow-prisoner told on Sender
by writing a note to the turnkey.
When Render was searched the wire
was found secreted on his person.
Iron buckets arc used to supply the
prisoners at the police barracks with
water, and the buckets have heavy
wrought-iron handles. Render re
moved two of the handles, and with
his teeth bent them into the shape
desired. The turnkey, after taking
the wires from Render, tried them in
the cell door locks, and had no diffi
culty in shoving back the bolts.
The making of the keys out of
the wire, and with no implement ex
cept his teeth, showed Render to be
a decided mechanical genius.
A year ago Render was arrested
for cow stealing, and he and another
negro escaped from t lie city prison in
a most mysterious way. It was be
lieved the turnkey had left a door
open, and he was suspended for ten
days. When Render was caught he
stated that the other fugitive opened
the doors with a skeleton key. This
was told to throw suspicion front him
self. lie will now be kept closely
guarded.
Apoligize, Then Do Better.
Apologies for careless work never
go, with some people, unless accom
panied bv an effort to do better.—
Atchison Globe.
Be Sensible.
Remember that making a fool of
yourself does not impress other peo
ple. They have seen others.—Wash
ington (la.) Democrat.
Tall Soldier*. '
About 41 in every 1,000 men in the
British army are six feet in height
or over.
Some People.
Be good to some people, and they
be£in to make demands on you until
you cannot stand it.—Atchison Globes