THE NEWARK JOURNAL.
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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, AUK., FRIDAY. AUGUST 7, 1903.
VOL. Ill—NO. 32.
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OVERWHELMING
EVIDENCE
There are four piano manufacturers in nhe United States
and only four, who have made 100,000 pianos each. The
houses which are now proudly celebrating this achievement
aie the(_ flickering, the Fischer, the Steinway and the Kimball.
It will no doubt be of interest to know «lie length of
time it has taken each of these distinguished companies to
produce 100,000 pianos, which is as follows :
H: The Chickering, 80 Years
|E The Fischer, 63 Years
H The Steinway, 50 Years
s| The Kimball, 20 Years
Jg: Of these companies the Kimball is the only organ manu
Sg: facturer, and in addition to the pianos has also made more
than 250,000 reed organs and 4,400 large pipe organs.
In twenty years time, therefore, the Kimball Company
^ar outstripped all other makers in output in this or any
other country.
this wonderful achievement, when coupled with the
artistic merit of the Kimball, as attested 113- so large a num
^>er °f great artists and musicians of Europe and Atnetica,
completes a record of facts which is indisputable, and makes
plain the verdict.
ITollenberg
M' sic Co
:<17 Main St
Little Ilock
Factory
Wareiooms
THE KIMBALL
SURPASSES ALL
Holienberg
Music Co
.‘117 Main St
Little Rock
Factory
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Newark, - Arkansas.
Capital $20,000
J. A. Y\ ii.liamison, President. Yr. L. Pascoe, Vice President
K. B. Chesser, Cashier.
DIREC IORS: <^23»s
J. A. Williamson V. L Pascoe
Ct. O. Maoness W. T. Mauness
W. T. Kinman M. S. FisIIer E. 13. Chesser
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Dealers In
General Merchandise, and
COTTON BUYERS.
(siT To The Fariners:-We want your produce and will pay the highest market
price, cash or merchandise.
KENTUCKY PRINCE SALOON
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refunded. We aiso need your produce, and if we haven’t got what
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Live Stock, Corn, Hay and Feedstuffs.
Highest Market Price Paid For CottoivSeed.
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Newark,
Arkansas
Arkansas State News
Farmer Assassinated.
Alexander Todd, a Pulaski coun
ty farmer, residing in Mineral town
ship, was shot from ambush and
killed. J. C. Lindsey, a neighbor,
was arrested, charged with the crime.
With others Todd had been work
ing the road and shortly after quit
ting time, after he liad departed for
home, his companions heard the re
port of a double-barrel shot gun.
Nothing was thought of this, how
ever, at the time, but the following
day Todd's body was found in the
road, riddled with buckshot. Lind
sey was arrested upon testimony of
several neighbors that the two had
had trouble. Todd is said to have
been a member of a gang of cattle
thieves that operated several years
ago, and that he escaped by turning
state's evidence. Several of the
gang were convicted and served time
in the penitentiary.
Ad^anc* in Price of Coal.
Prices on Arkansas hard coal
will jump skyward during the
next few months, and several
mines may shut down on account of
the increased cost of production.
The increased prices arc due to
the recent scale of increased wages
affecting the miners of Missouri,
Kansas, Indian Territory and Ar
kansas for the next year. It will
be difficult to purchase Arkansas
hard coal at from $5.50 to $(J..5 a
ton, and the Arkansas soft coal will
be raised as usual, bringing $G per
ton. Arkansas hard coal will bring
$8 per ton after September 1, as
the increased figures for mining
will be added to the price of coal.
Operators are not making contracts
more than thirty days ahead for
delivery.
Meeting o^Oniversity Board.
At a called meeting of the board
of trustees of the State l niversitv.
held at Little Hock, Mrs. Fannie
Washington of Cincinnati, \\ ash
ington couniy, Ark., was elected
matron of the university dormitory,
vice Mrs. Julia Watkins, resigned;
Theo. C. Treadway of Little Rock,
a graduate of the university, was
elected adjunct professor of me
chanical engineering; Mr. Bryan of
Fort Smith, a graduate of the uni
versity, was elected adjunct pro
fessor of civil engineering. The
board refused to order a new exam
ination for Prof. Isaac l'isher. prin
cipal of tin* Branch Normal College
at Pine Bluff, since he has already
taken one examination and has
been granted a first-grade teacher s
certificate.
A2»ia»t Davis Commission.
Judge \Viafield of Pulaski' circuit
court, in the quo warranto proceed
ingsagainst the state capitol commis
sion appointed' bv Gov. Davis, do
cided that the said commissioners be
restrained from exercising any au
thority as members of the commis
sion, and ordered that all papers,
property, etc., which may have come
into their possession as such com
missioners be turned over to the
proper authorities. An appeal was
granted to the supreme court. An
application has been made to the
supreme court by the Davis commis
sion for a restraining order to pre
vent the legislative commission from
letting any contracts until a final
! hearing of the case is had.
Braksman’s Horrible Death.
J. II. Jones, a brakeman on the
Choctaw, met a horrible death near
Forrest City. 11c was walking on
top of the cars and in stepping from
one car to a not Ivor ftdl to the track
beneath, several cars passing over
his body, causing almost instant
death.
Three Cornered Shooting Scrape.
In a three-cornered shooting af
fray five miles west of Texarkana,
JetT Wilson, K. J. Blackstock and
Cud Shipp being the principals,
Blackstock was shot in the -side and
in the head and Shipp was severely
wounded.
Reward Offered.
The governor has offered a re
ward of $100 for the arrest and
conviction of Jin Hawke, colored,
wanted in Crittenden county for
the murder of W. H. Hubert, a
prominent planter. Hawke's ac
complice was captured and lynched
a few days after the crime was
committed.
Traces of gold hav$ been found
at Houston in Perry county.
Important Question Decided.
Judge John II. lingers of Fort
Smith, of the United States district
court, has decided that Deputy Rev
enue Collector F. M. Lamberton,
who was fined $25 and sentenced to
forty-eight hours’ imprisonment by
Judge E. G. Mitchell lor contempt
if the state court at Harrison, need
not testify in a state court as to
knowledge gained through his offi
cial capacity as a United States of
ficer. He had been summoned to
prove that persons el ••god with the
violation of the state liquor laws
possessed government license.
Restored to Its Mother.
A well dressed young woman rail
ed on the police of Pine Bluff, who
had charge of (he baby deserted on
a Cotton Belt rtain, and begged
that it be returned to her, claiming
to be its mother. She minutely
described the clothing found with
the infant. After securing the
babv the woman made strong en
treaties that her identity be kept a
secret and the poliee granted her
request. The transaction of restor
ation is shrouded in as much mys
tery as wus the finding of the child.
The White River Extension.
The White River brafich of the
Iron Mountain has been completed
to. Cotter, a point about 100 miles
northwest of Batesville. Trains on
this road are running from New
port. where it joins the main line,
to Buffalo City, and in a short time
it is expected that the service will
l>e extended to Cotter, which is 1"?
miles west of Buffalo City. Cotter
is to be the division point of the line,
which is to be extended to Carthage,
Mo., where it will connect with an
other Missouri Pacific line.
Old Citizen Dead.
lion. A. B. Israel, a prominent
citizen of Itoxie, mot with a fatal
accident last week. Mr. Israel,
who was agent for the express com
pany at Hoxie, accidentally stum
bled over the tongue of a truck and
sustained a fracture of the skull,
which proved fatal. He was TO
years of age and an ex-Coufederate
veteran.
Two Men Killed.
Dave Perrin and a young man
by the name of West were shot and
killed at a picnic near Fancy Hill.
Men bv the name of Cogburn are
charged with the "killing. There
was an old feud between the par
ties and it is said that the lives of
the slayers had been threatened.
The Cogburns are at large.
Claim Self-Defense.
M. C. Lamberson, a live stock
dealer, was shot three times and seri
ously wounded on the outskirts of
North Little Pock. William and
John Rich were arrested, charged
with the shooting. They claim Lain
hereon followed them toward their
home and that they acted in self de
fense.
Alleged Swindler Captured.
E. M. Daniels, alias James A.
Monroe, charged with having pass
ed worthless checks at Ozark and
other points in this state, was ar
rested at Alva, Ok. It is alleged
Daniels represented himself as a
traveling man, selecting hotel pro
prietors as his prey.
Cotton Greatly Improved.
Condition of the cotton crop in
the lowlands continue to improve.
Though the plant is small, it is fill
ing out well. Early corn has been
made, hut the yield of tha late crop
depends largely in matay sections
on favorable weather the next few
days.
Fireman Injured.
A light engine collided with a
passenger train on tin' White River
branch of the Iron Mountain at
Sycamore. The engineer had made
a run to a water tank and in back
ing did not slow up when lie reached
the train. Fireman Davidson was
slightly injured.
Mississippi River Improvements.
The Mississippi river commission
I has appropriated the sum of $5,000
j to be expended in improving the
harbor at Helena. Among other
allotments by the commission of
direct interest to Arkansas are the
following: Plum Point Reach,
$00,000; Hopefield Bend, $1)0,000;
care, repair and renewals, $00,000;
i levees, $728,500.
Damaging Windstorm
Military Heights, a suburb of
Xorth Little Rock, was struck by
i severe windstorm on the afternoon
if July 30 and several small houses
were destroyed. Two colored wo
men were slightly injured. A num
ber of buildings were blown from
their foundations, and that only
two persons were injured seems mi
raculous, as all the buildings were
occupied.
Arrested At Prison Gate.
W. W. Anderson, colored, was ar
rested as he stepped from Fort
Leavenworth prison, after serving
three years on a conviction of per
jury in a pension case. Anderson
was sent up from the Eastern dis
trict of this state, and the charge
now pending against him is similar
to the one of which he was convict
ed three years ago.
State Encampment, A. S. G.
Maj. Gen. Haynes announces that
the state encampment of the Ar
kansas state guard will be hold in
Little Hock the last week in Au
gust, By that date the full equip
ment furnished by the government
will have been distributed and a
most successful encampment is look
ed forward to.
Transferred to Federal Court.
Tiie ease of \V. F. Cleveland
against the Cotton Belt railway, in
which the plaintiff sues for $15,000,
has been removed from the state to
the United States circuit court
Cleveland sues for $15,000 dam
ages for injuries received Decem
ber, 1002, in a wreck near Glen
dale.
BRIEF MENTION.
The Dairyman's Rank at Carlyslo
has opened for business.
James W. Hill, aged 55, a pioneer
citizen of Eureka Springs, is dead.
Four negroes met violent deaths
within four miles of Prescott in one
week.
Floyd Ellis, who was shot by Bee
Bates m Pope county, died of his
wounds.
A new bank, has boon organized
at Sheridan, Grant county, with a
capital stock of $15,000.
Crops have been seriously dam
aged in Montgomery county on ac
count of the dry weather.
The residence of W. II. Brown, a
well known citizen of Woodson, was
completely destroyed by fire.
A Mr. Dunn, agent for the Cud
ahy Packing eompan# at Ashdown,
was drowned while in swimming.
Richard Eaton was eonyieted at
Lake A’i 11 age of kidnaping and sen
tenced to nineteen years in the pen
itentiary.
Mike Bouldin, an employee of the
DeQueen and Eastern railroad, was
run over and seriously injured by a
hand car.
William Duncan, while adjusting
a pulley at a mill in Perry county,
was caught in the belting and fatal
ly injured.
W. W. Phillips, formerly manager
of a Fort Smih furniture house, has
been arrested, charged with embez
zling funds of the company.
Boh Ried, a colored laborer on
construction work near Van Huron,
fell from a hand car and was killed,
the wheels crushing his skull.
A negro at Alto, Texas, who in
sulted some ladies by cursing them
and firing into their houses, was
taken a few miles from town and
lynched.
Frank and Pin Williams, broth
ers, arrested in Sevier county, were
bound over by Commissioner Som
merville at Texarkana on the charge
of moonshining.
Hubbard Heard, colored, one of
the prisoners who broke jail at
Batesville, returned after two days
and surrendered stating that Ik
was tired of being pursued.
A citizen of Conway claims to
have invented a signal to prevent col
lisions. It is claimed for this de
vice that it will warn each train of
the approach of another train from
either direction.
Secretary of State Crockett, who
spent several months at Mineral
Wells, Texas, with his wife for the
benefit of her health, has returned
to his oflicial duties. Mr. Crockett
is greatly improved.
The wife of G. Smith, a Pope
county farmer, shot herself with a
snuiU calibre target gun and died
instamtly. Jll health had caused the
womaflvs mind to become unbalanc
ed. \
AN ESCAPE FROM PRISON.
Remarkable Achievement of the
Prince of Adventurers.
A’ fine type of attractive rogue#
was .Jacques Casanova di Seingalt,
styled the Prince of Adventurers, the
gentlemanly scapegrace who for over
half a century ranged at full will over
Europe a debonnair free lance, taking
to himself a most unfair proportion
of this world's good's, interviewing
popes and sovereigns on equal terms,
cheating men and betraying women.
A proud rogue, too, says the Edin
burgh Scotsman, was Casanova;
with an entire lack of honor in his
dealings with others, lie coupled a
striking amount of “amour propre.”
and his affairs of honor may be
counted in their tens. Besides his
more casual iniquities, Casanova
managed to fall foul of the author
ities by his dabbling in black magic,
and, having incautiously boasted of
certain interviews withthe Almighty,
was incarcerated by the inquisition,
out of the way of further mischief.
But liberty was to Casanova as the
breath of life. Get out he must! The
cell in which he found himself con
fined was small, secure anil closely
guarded. Pen and ink and knife were
forbidden luxuries, and the captive’s
sole recreation was to walk in a nar
row corridor where old lumber had
accumulated.
Here he discovered one day a =mall
block of marble which he secured.
Later an iron bolt came into his hand
by accident,and with these crude
tooks worked together he managed
to make quite a respectable weapon,
file, hammer and ax in one. But how
to use it? His own cell was impreg
nable from within ; he must have col
lusion from without.
In an adjacent cell was imprisoned
a monk, one Father Balbi, wft ti whom
Casanova was allowed to exchange
books and w hom long imprisonment
had rendered less closely guarded.
With mulberry juice and a sharpened
fingernail Casanova wrote instruc
tions in books to this accomplice, w ho
was to make his way to the roof and
open from the leads a hole into the
ceiling of Casanova’s cell. The in
genious rogue supplied the plot and
the tool; Father Balbi was to do the
work.
The improvised weapon of deliver
ance was secretly conveyed by the
gaoler to Balbi in the following way:
He persuaded the gaoler, a good-na
rured fellow, to buy him an extra
large Bible, intending to cut away
the pages and hide the tool in it; but
to his distress he found that it was
too long and stuck out two inches at
either end. To conquer this diffi
culty Casanova turned cook; he ob
tained' a quantity of macaroni and
prepared with butter a tempting
Michaelmas dish, almost running
over. Placing the dish on the Bible,
which it quite hid, with the bolt half
concealed between its covers,.Casan
va requested the gaoler to carry it
w ith his compliments to Balbi.
The man obeyed, unsuspecting,
and returned to report that not a
drop of the butter was spilt. In a few
days Casanova heard the delightful
sound of his faithful friend working
stealthily hut steadily overhead, the
noise coming nearer as lead roofing
beams and josts gave way to the file.
As the last day’s work was being done
—Balbi had even made a tiny hole
of communication in the ceiling—
awful accident occurred. A spy of
the inquisition came to share Casano
va’s cell and captivity—a fellow who
was not to be trusted or relied upon
for a moment.
With a daring almost increiiihle
Casanova speedily frightened the
newcomer out of his wits by eerta#n
awful incantations, telling him that
his entry had disturbed the Divine
presence. He bade him engage in
prayer and cover his eyes, for at a
certain hour the Blessed Virgin
would appear in the roof and set the
chosen free and the unprepared
would assuredly perish at the sight.
The stranger was at first incredu
lous, but. when the sound of muffled
hainmeriugs commenced overhead
he believed the tale and prayed with
might and main. To cut a long story
short, Casanova got safely away anil
cut clear of Italy, to continue his ex
citing career in another state.
Though his imprisonment w as doubt
less richly merited, we cannot but
think his industry and ingenuity de
served to be rewarded with success.
Don’t Explain.
Never stop to explain your actions.
People prefer to form their own
opinions, and won't believe you any*
way.—Chicago Daily News.
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