WWMUHF Ewij News.
VOL. II.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1902.
NO. 30.
NEWS OF THE WOULD,
Miss Eva Martin, a trained
nurse, has fallen heir to $50,000,
left by a man she nursed at a St.
Louis hospital.
The National Fire Association
Agents, in convention at Louisville,
unanimously adopted a resolution
calling upon the national govern
ment to create a commission to gen
erally supervise and pass upon the
reliability of insurance companies.
The issues between the United
States, Germany and Great Britain,
growing out of the Samoan rebel
lion of 1899 has been decided by the
arbitrators against the former
country which set up a claim to
damage on the ground of treaty vio
lation in the Samoan government’s
failure to properly protect Ameri
can interests.
When the case of Clarence Peake,
convicted of murder and sentenced
to ten years, was called in the su
preme court of Tennessee on appeal,
Silas Hulin, the man he was ac
cused of having killed, appeared
and announced his identity. Hulin
disappeared about the time the kill
ing was supposed to have occurred,
and did not learn of the case until
a short time ago. Peake is now
confined in an asylum, a raving
maniac, as the result of his trou
bles.
The annual report of the com
missioner of education, just sub
mitted to the secretary of the inte
rior, shows that the grand total of
papils in schools, elementary, sec
ondary and higher, both public and
private, in the United States for the
year ended June -30, 1301, was 17,
299,230, an increase of 278,520 pu
pils over the previous year. Of this
number the enrollment of pupils in
institutions supported by general
and local taxes furnished by states
and municipalities was 15,710,394,
as against 15,443,402, the number
reported for the previous year.
Representatives of the coal mi
ners of Pennsylvania, in convention
at Wilkesbarre, declared the strike
off and accepted the proposition to
leave their differences to the, com
mission appointed by President
Roosevelt. The vote on the ques
tion of declaring the strike off was
unanimous. After the miners had
called the strike off, they unani
mously adopted resolutions thank
ing all national, state and munici
pal governments, all organizations
and individuals throughout the
world, for assistance rendered the
miners during their great struggle.
President Mitchell expressed him
self as highly gratified at the ac
tion of the convention. He will act
as attorney for the miners before
the commission.
The annual report of the com
missioner of immigration shows
-that of the 648,743 immigrants
who arrived in the United Slates
during the last year, 466,369 were
males and 182,374 females. Of the
entire number of arrivals, Italy sup
plied 178,375, an increase of 42,379
over the number for 1901; Austria
Hungary, 171,989, an increase of
58,599, and Russia 107,347, an in
crease of 22,090. Most European
countries showed an increase, but
there was a falling off in the arriv
als from Ireland amounting to
1,423, the total from that country
being 29,138. The figures concern
ing Asiatic immigration show a
decrease from China of 810, the to
tal being 1,649, and an increase
from Japan of 9,001, the total be
ing 149,270, or 170 per cent. Of
the entire number arriving, 162,188
were unable to read or write, but
74,063 were under 14 years of age.
The total number of aliens refused
permission to land was 4,947, or
about two-thirds of 1 per cent of
the total arrivals. Of these 3,944
were paupers, 109 had loathsome
diseases, 9 were convicts and 275
contracted laborers.
In a row between whites and
blacks at Littleton, Ala., half a
dozen negroes were wounded and
one white man killed. The row
started over the blacks crowding a
woman off a walk.
The establishment of additional
rural free delivery routes will neces
sitate an additional 'expenditure for
the next fiscal year of $5,126,400
over last year.
Twenty-nine persons were cre
mated in a fire at Chicago, which
destroyed a large glucose factory.
The men were working on the sev
enth floor of the building.
Contractors and farmers complain
of a scarcity of laborers, it being
hard to get men on a railroadO
hard to get men on railroad work
at $1.50 to $1.75 per day.
Chicago is to have a restaurant
trust, capitalized at $5,000,000, if
the plans of certain promoters are
carried out. All the large restaur
ants of the city, it is contemplated,
are to be drawn under one central
management, the head of each es
tablishment, however, to retain the
direction of his own place.
British officers appointed to in
quire into the purchase of horses
and mules in this country for use
in South Africa charge that Gen.
Smith, in charge of the purchasing
commission at New Orleans receiv
ed illegal commissions on all pur
chases, and that many animals were
accepted that were unfit for service.
Dispatches report a week of stub
born fighting in Venezuela between
government troops and revolution
ists. The government troops at La
Victoria were led by President Cas
tro, who personally led in battle
and forced 9,000 rebels to retreat.
The killed and wounded on both
sides during the week numbered
over 3,000.
A world's record was made at
the Memphis trotting track last
week in a free-for-all pace to
wagon, with amateur drivers. Edith
W., driven by Frank G. Jones, of
Memphis, and Fred S. Wedgewood,
handled by C. K. G. Billings, of
Chicago, were the contestants, the
former winning both heats, each be
ing paced in 2:05 3-4. . The judges
announced that this was a new rec
ord for two heats for a mare.
After being tried with legal form
and procedure for criminal assault
and murder, and given the death
penalty in each case, Jim Wesley
and Reddick Barton were taken
from the authorities at Hempstead,
Tex., and lynched on the public
square by an infuriated mob. Both
men pleaded guilty to assaulting and
murdering Mrs. Susan Lewis, aged
(13 years. The crime was commit
ted Tuesday, October 12.
Beyond relieving what might
have been a source of anxiety be
cause of inability to fill orders,
lvanSas City coal ^dealers do not ex
pect the settlement of the coal strike
to affect the situation in the west.
They don't expect to see much
Pennsylvania anthracite coal cross
the Mississippi river this fall and
winter. Every large dealer, partic
ularly if he is interested in Arkan
sas coal mines, asserts that there
will never be much anthracite coal
from Pennsylvania sold in Kansas
City territory again.—Kansas City
Star.
■ An east bound passenger train on
the Northern Pacific was held up
by a lone highwayman near Drum
mond, Mont. Engineer Dan O'Neill
was shot and killed. The train was
signaled to stop and the engineer
accordingly slowed up. While do
ing so he saw a man creeping to
ward him over the tender. The
man, who was armed, called to
O’Neill to stop the train imme
diately. The engineer took in the
situation aud, pulling open the
throttle, tried to start the train at
full speed. The robber divined his
purpose and fired at him The shot
took instant effect and the engineer
fell dead at his post. The robber
then proceeded to rifle the express
and mail cars. He plundered the
regular mail and blew open the safe
in the express car, which was wreck
ed by the explosion. The amount
of plunder which he secured is not
known, but it is supposed to be
large.
The missionary council of the
Protestant Episcopal church has
appropriated $100,000 to he ex
pended in missionary work in the
south.
Attorney General Knox is to
take steps to put a stop to surc
thing gambling and general faking
in Alaska.
William Haislip, of Honaldson,
Minn., drank a quart of liquor at
one time on a wage and died in a
few moments.
The Belgian coal miners have
made a demand for a 15 per cent
advance in their wages. They have
also decided to call a convention of
French, English, German, and Aus
trian miners for the purpose of tak
ing international action.
The United States government
will probably be called upon to pro
vide food for a portion of the Phil
ippine inhabitants owing to failure
of the rice crop, which is the prin
cipal product on some of the is
lands.
Four of the big Hawaiian sugar
plantations are to form a $12,000,
000 trust. It will be organized un
der the laws of New Jersey and
shares will be a $100 each. Sep
arate plantation corporations will
be preserved.
Officials of the stationary engi
neers’union threaten to order all
members to refuse to handle an
thracite coal unless all the mem
bers of the organization who went
on strike with the Pennsylvania
coal miners are reinstated in their
old jobs.
The coal strike commissioners
held a conference with President
Roosevelt last week, when their
line of work was pointed out. Most
of the non-union men in the strike
region are leaving and all the old
men are taking their former places
with bue few exceptions.
As a result of a head end colli
sion on the Iron Mountain near De
Soto, Mo., several persons were in
jured, as follows: Engineer F. W*.
Strothman, scalded, probably fatal;
Foreman Gus Lynch, seriously;
Conductor F. B. Haile, Engineer
Peter Constant, Frank Stevens, of
St. Louis, leg broken; Harry Sny
der, of Philadelphia; S. W. Poe, of
St. Louis.
The Soufriere volcano on St.
Vincent island, has been active
since October 15, keeping the peo
ple in the Windward district in a
state of continuous unrest. Evi
dence gathered in the district proves
that the eastern crater was chiefly
operative during the last eruption,
and the population is leaving as,
fast as they can get away.
The cash receipts by the govern
ment from the sale of public lands
for the year ended June 30 last ag
gregated $6,500,000. This is the
largest amount derived in a single
year from the sale of homesteads
within the public domain in the his
tory of the government. Last year
receipts on account of public lands
reached a total of $5,000,000. The
bulk of this money was paid by set
tlers in the south and west.
The annual volume on the miner
al resources of the United States
for 1001, prepared by Dr. David T.
Day, of the geological survey, has
been sent to press and will be is
sued soon. An interesting feature
is a compilation of statistics show
ing the number of working days
lost in strikes in the coal industry.
The total number of days lost for
the present year is placed at 20,
000,000 days, compared with the
33,802 days in 1901, 4,878,102 in
1900 and 2,124,154 in 1899.
Officers have discovered that a
regularly organized gang of grave
robbers have been operating
throughout the gas belt of Indian
for some time. The headquarters
of the grave robbing industry was
located at Indianapolis. In three
years it is estimated that over 1,200
graves have been despoiled and the
bodies taken from the coffins and
shipped to the dissecting rooms of
colleges.
NEWS OF ARKANSAS,
Personnel of Next General Assembly.
The general assembly which con
venes in January will consist of 35
senators and 100 representatives.
The senate will be solidly democrat
ic. The occupations of the 35
senators are classified as follows:
Twenty-five lawyers. 2 merchants,
2 farmers and teachers, 1 circuit
clerk, 1 fruit grower, 1 real estate
man and farmer, 1 farmer, 1 sheriff
and 1 editor. Twenty senators
were born in Arkansas, 5 in Ten
nessee, 3 in Georgia, 2 in North
Carolina, 1 in Maryland, 1 in Mis
souri, 1 in Illinois, 1 in Mississippi,
and 1 (Senator Sengel) is a native
of France. In religion, 13 are
Methodists, 5 are Missionary Bap
tists, 5 Baptists, 2 Presbyterians, 2
Cumberland Presbyterians, 1 Ko
mar Catholic, while there are seven
whose demoninational affiliation is
not stated. The oldest senator is
Hon. James E. Wood, 55, and the
youngest is Hon. T. E. Mears, 27.
Of the 100 members of the house,
98 are democrats and 2 (Moore of
Newton and Arnold of Searcy)
republicans. Forty-eight were born
in Arkansas, 10 in Tennessee, 10 in
Mississippi, G in Georgia, 2 in Illi
nois, 4 in Missouri, 1 in Louisiana,
3 in Kentucky, 2 in South Carolina,
5 in Alabama, 1 in Indiana, 1 in
New York, 1 in America, 1 in Ire
land. 1 in Germany and 1 in Can
ada ; the place of nativity of three
members not being given. In relig
ion, 31 are Methodists, 18 Bap
thts (including Missionary), 9
rrci byterians, 3 Cumberland Pres
iyterians, 9 Christian, 1 Congrega
tional, 1 Second Adventist, 1 Epis
copalian, 1 Christ's church, 2 are
classified as Protestants, while the
remaining members are not classi
fied. Thirty-seven members of the
house are recorded as lawyers, 1 of
that number being on the roster as
‘Tanner and lawyer,” another as
“lawyer and planter,” and another
as “lawyer and farmer.” Twenty
members each give their occupation
as that of farmer. One member is
mill man and farmer, 1 civil engi
neer and farmer, 3 teacher and
f iimer, 3 merchant and farmer, 1
insurance agent and farmer and 1
iimbermar. and farmer. Altogeth
er there are 33 members who are
i itlier farmers alone or are engaged
i.u agricultural pursuits along with
other duties. There will be G phy
ucians in the house and one minis
ter. Three are editors, 1 real es
tate dealer, 1 undertaker, 1 law stu
dent, 5 teachers, 2 clerks, and the
occupation of one member is given
as “politics.” The occupations of
5 of the members are not given.
Fatal Collision on Choctaw.
Conductor James Turner and
Brakeman J. F. Brennon were in
stantly killed in a wreck on the
Choctaw in the yards at North Lit
tle Rock. Freight Xo. 81 had just
pulled in from Memphis, and was
followed by fast freight Xo. 88.
The wreck occurred about 5 o’clock
in the morning, when a heavy log
prevented the crew of Xo. 83 seeing
the light on the forward train until
too late to make a stop. The dead
men were in the caboose of Xo. 81.
which was crushed to pieces and
their bodies mashed almost beyond
recognition. Turner leaves a wife
and one child and Brennon was un
married.
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Accused Murderer Acquitted.
Tom Trulock was acquitted in
Hempstead circuit court of the
charge of murder. Trulock was
tried for the murder of Delia Walk
ej, a negress, at the April term of
court and found guilty, the jury as
sessing the death penalty. An ap
peal was taken to the supreme
court, which reversed the decision
of the lower court. The evidence
against Trulock was all circum
stantial, and lie gained considerable
sympathy by refusing to join other
prisoners in an attack on the jailer
while under sentence of death.
Biennial Report of Land Office.
Following is the report of Land
Commissioner Colquitt for the two
years ending September 30: Fees,
$17,727.75; swamp land sold, 10,
830.13 acres, $13,469.55; internal
improvement land sold, 3,479.86
acres, $4,349.82; Saline land sold,
2,875.85 acres, $3,594.86; Real Es
tate Bank lands sold, 2,516.45
acres, $4,360.24; forfeited land
sold, 72,964.36 acres, $91,205.76;
forfeited town lots sold for taxes,
penalties and costs, $2,221.30; for
feited town lots sold at public sale,
$5; forfeited land donated, 107,
325.60 acres; forfeited land deeded
to actual settlers, 64,153.91 acres;
forfeited land relinquished, 708.86
acres; total acres disposed of, 330,
637.95; total funds received, $150,
119.41. The total of the funds re
ceived for the two years immediate
ly prevoius, $127,164.88, showing a
considerable increase in sales. The
state now has about 550,000 acres
of land of all kinds, swamp, hill,
timbered, rocky, mineral, etc., scat
tered in large and small tracts in
every corner of the state. The re
capitulation of classes of funds re
ceived is as follows: Currency,
$113,113.92; county scrip, $34,
138.39; city scrip, $14.50; certifi
cates of indebtedness, $412.60;
swamp land scrip, $2,140.
Convictions in Federal Court.
At the first term of federal court
held at Harrison last week, Judge
Rogers presiding, the following
cases were disposed of: Wm. H.
Spurlock, retail liquor dealing, fined
$100 and thirty days’ imprison
ment ; Marvin F. Haywood and
Jas. A. Yillines, cutting govern
ment timber; Haywood fined $210,
thirty days’ imprisonment; Yillines,
$30 and ten days’ imprisonment;
Jas. J. Roberts, breaking into post
office, $100, four years’ imprison
ment; George W. Tennison, retail
liquor dealing, fined $100 and sixty
days’ imprisonment; Thomas E.
Bradley, selling cigars unstamped,
fined $10 and one day's imprison
ment; James F. Bennett, retail liq
uor dealing, fined $100 and ninety
days’ imprisonment; James F. Ben
nett, retail liquor dealing, fined
$100 and sixty days’ imprisonment:
Samuel B. Wingate, mailing ob
scene letters, fined $100.
Shot by Whisky Peddler.
While attempting to arrest four
white men on the charge of operat
ing a whisky boat on the Mississip
pi in the lower part of Chicot coun
ty, Sheriff Frank Strong and Depu
ty Wallace and Braner were shot
by the crew of the boat, the sheriff
receiving a flesh wound in the face
and the deputies each a flesh wound
in the arm. After the shooting the
boat pulled anchor and started
down the river, but a posse went
in pursuit and captured part of the
crew.
The owner of the boat says he
acted in self-defense in firing on
r he officers, and that they began
the shooting. He claims that he
mistook the officers for toughs after
whisky.
Judgment for T n Tbcusrnd.
E. F. Graham, a dry goods clerk
of Hot Springs, got judgment for
$10,000 against J. F. O’Xeill, a
wealthy man of Kansas City.
O'Xeil was a visitor at the springs
a year ago, and accidentally met
Graham one night while drinking
around town, and while with him
lost a sum of money and some jew
elry. lie had Graham arrested the
next day on a warrant charging
aim with larceny. Graham was ac
quitted in the magistrate’s court,
and then brought suit in the circuit
court for $25,000 for defamation of
character. O’Xeil failed to appear
to prosecute the case, and a judg
ment for $10,000 was awarded to
Graham by default.
Raised Bills Passed.
Three men giving the names of
Joe Cheng, John Williams and
Richard St. Clair, were arrested at
Little Rock on the charge of rais
ing one dollar bills to tens and
passing the same. They were
bound over in federal court.
Federal Officer Short.
Goo.IT. Hozier, chief clerk in
the United States marshal’s office
at Little Rock, has been suspended,
after the discovery of a discrepancy
in his accounts. An inspector dis
covered the shortage, but the
amount has not been made public.
Ilozier disappeared upon the arriv
al of the inspector. He had been
in the marshal’s office since March,
1897, under Marshal Cooper, and
was reappointed by Col. Fowler.
Hosier is not known to have had
any bad habits, and his friends were
astounded when the shortage be
came known.
The Drouth Fund.
State Treasurer Tipton will sub
mit to the next legislature an item
ized statement of the disposition of
the drouth fund raised last spring.
There was $7,004.95 collected, and
$7,530.42 disbursed to the sheriffs
of Sharp, Randolph, Fulton, Stone
and Baxter counties, $1,240.07
each, leaving a balance of $08.53.
The bulk of this money was loaned
by banks, upon the request of Gov.
Davis, who will ask the general as
sembly to reimburse those who fur
nished the funds.
Proposes to Build State House.
Geo. W. Donaghey, a well known
contractor of Morrilton, has mado
a proposition to build a new state
house according to the plans of Ar
chitect Mann for the sum of $1.
000.000, the price stipulated by
the legislature. The present hoard,
after receiving a report from Ar
chitect Day that the cost of the
structure would exceed $1,000,000,
if built according to the plans of
Mr. Mann, stopped the work under
way, and the matter will come up
in the next general assembly.
Celebrated Golden Wedding.
Q. T. Holloway and wife recently
celebrated their golden wedding at
Clarendon, with a family reunion,
at which forty-nine of their lineal
descendants were present, among
them three sons, five daughters,
thirty-four grandchildren and ten
great grandchildren, besides ten
sons-in-law and daughters-in-law.
i^r. Holloway is 77 years old and
his wife is 67, both being in the
best of health.
City Marshal Shot.
City Marshal Pullen, of Ozark,
was shot and seriously wounded by
Sherman Stahl, a business man,
whom he was trying to arrest.
Stahl was hunting for two parties
whom he said he was going to kill.
Pullen tried to take the weapon
from Stahl, when he was shot in
the hip, the ball ranging downward,
coming out at the knee.
Terrible Death of a Boy.
Joseph Butcher, a G-year-old boy,
died at Fort Smith as a result of
whisky poison. The lad got hold
of a bottle of whisky kept by his pa
rents and drank a large quantity of
the stuff, which threw him into con
vulsions and he died after terrible
suffering.
BRIEF MENTION.
The state grand lodge, F. and A.
Masons, will meet at Little Rock
November 18.
Newton county has a new court
house built of marble quaried in
that county.
Hugh McGery, a steamboat mate,
shot and killed Ike Dorsey, a negro
prize fighter, at Helena.
Ben Brown, a negro charged with
criminal assault, was hanged by a
mob at Tallapoosa, Ga. -
Four laborers were seriously in
jured by the explosion of a boiler
at Franklin’s mill near Warren.
It is reported that oil sand has
been struck at a depth of 500 feet
on a claim near Eureka Springs.
The second annual report of the
state railroad commission is out
and ready for distribution. A copy
of the report will be sent to any.
address upon receipt of 15 cents to
pay postage.