VOL. VII.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1008.
NO, 43.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
the latest news of the
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
north, east, south, west
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Na
tion, and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.
John Early, the leper, has been offi
cially exiled from his home state. The
attorney general of North Carolina has
rendered an opinion that the state is
not called upon to care for its citizens
outside its jurisdiction and that Early,
as a discharged soldier, should be
cared for by the federal government.
The embargo extends also to Mrs.
Early.
Within sight of their frantic families
on the shore, only 100 yards away, 50
of the crew of the Portuguese steamer
Luisa were drowned in the stranding
of the vessel off Figuera de Foz.
Charles B. Roberts, the Baltimore
clubman and financier, who was shot
while riding in a rolling chair with
Mrs. W. S. G. Williams, .also of Bal
timore, is stronger aud there is a good
chance he will recover,
one dying as the result of asphyxiation
by illuminating gas in the home ot
Peter J. Schollert, an old resident of
St. Paul. The dead are Peter J. Schol
lert, his wife and Lewis Christiansen,
Mrs. Schollert's brother, Hans Chris
tiansen, a cousin of Mrs. Schollert, is
dying in the city hospital. A leak in
a tube filled the house with gas.
Editors of official publi-iations of in
ternational trade organizations met
and formed a permanent associa
tion. L. W. Quick of St. Louis, secre
tary of the Order of Railway Tele
graphers, was elected president, and
J. E. Mulkey of the Brotherhood of
Maintenance of Way Employes was
chosen secretary. The meeting adopt
ed a lengthy set of resolutions pertain
ing to labor questions.
In addition to remaining in the air
10 minutes and 40 seconds in
the most successful flight that he has
yet made in France, Wilbur G. Wright
succeeded in making his aeroplane
rise by its own mechanism, discontinu
ing the weight and derrick arrange
ment.
Emery Storrs, 23, who says he is
a son of Emery A. Storrs, a Chicago
lawyer, now dead, who was the friend
of Grant, Garfield and McKinley, is in
jail here today, the confessed burglar
of a number of Harlem flats.
Smothered in a dense fog, an un
known ship was pounded to pieces on
the Point Arenas rocks, 100 miles
north of San Francisco, and it is be
lieved that every soul on board per
ished.
Pope Pius X. in an interview with
Bishop Burke of Albany, N. Y., ex
pressed the fear that he has but a
short time to live.
Rising to a height of BO feet and sail
ing a rate of 40 miles an hour, two
Cornell students who have become in
terested in aerial navigation have suc
cessfully sailed an aeroplain built by
themselves.
Now that he has almost attained his
ambition to control a railroad empire,
E. H. Harriman is going after oratori
cal honors. He left Pelican Lodge, his
summer home, for Portland to
begin a series of speeches which he
has mapped out in response to invita
tions from several civic bodies
throughout the state.
A furore was created in Lincoln by
the news that the engagement of Wil
liam J. Bryan Jr., son of the Demo
cratic presidential candidate, to Miss
Helen Berger of Milwaukee had been
announuced in the latter city.
Hypnotism was injected into the
testimony being taken by the commis
sion in lunacy appointed by Judge
Foster of the general sessions to de
termine whether Mrs. Charlotte Hitch
cock of New York is sane or insane.
Rev. Dr. Fainsford, former rector of
St. George's, who is now on a trip
through Africa, will join the Roosevelt
African hunting expedition. Dr. Rains
ford and the president are warm
friends. The rector’s plans were
•nade known by Rev. Hugh Birckhead,
"ho has been in communication with
Hr. Rainsford’s friends.
Flans for the new Grand Central
Railroad station in New York are com
pleted. The building will cost $20,
000,000. The station will set back 40
feet from Forty-second street and 70
feet from Vanderbilt avenue.
The Brooklyn fire department had a
bad scare when flames, which origin
ated in a pile of waste paper, threaten
ed to destroy Paine’s fireworks scenery
at Brighton Beach and came within a
few feet of the biulding where ex
plosives of all kinds are stored. The
Ore was kept under control, however,
and did less than $1000 damage.
Hear Admiral Henry Glass, retired,
ormerly commander of the Pacific
aeet, has been taken to the Paso
'.obles Springs In a last effort to save
'is life. Two months ago he under
went an operation. He has been suf
ei*ng from a complication of diseases
Frank P. Sargent, United Stales
Commissioner General of Immigration,
died as a result of a fall and a
paralytic stroke that he suffered about
two months age. He was a former
chief of the Brotherhood of locomo
tive Firemen.
The 'state saloon” or liquor dispen
sary system in Oklahoma, as a salary
producer and money maker, is not
proving the success anticipated. The
Rev. J. J. Thompson, who left the pas
torate of a Presbyterian church to ac
cept a position as district dispensary
inspector, has reported that the county
dispensaries in-his district are not do
ing a thriving business.
Fire in Sumner, Miss., a town of
2000 inhabitants, wiped out the busi
ness section and a part of the resi
dence section, causing a loss of $100,
000. A. M. Phipps, a newspaper man,
who was asleep in the office of the
Sumner News, with which he was con
nected, was burned to a crisp before
aid reached him.
The old Secoy cabin in Oklahoma, in
which Jesse James passed several
weeks, has been destroyed by fire. In
1873 James assisted in the capture of
a desperado in the cabin. The cabin
stood in a dense wood some distance
from a road.
Chester S. Jordan, accused of the
murder of his wife and the attempt to
throw her dismembered body into the
ocean, stoically answered the ques
tions of Judge \Ventwrorth in the
Somerville station, when he was
brought in for his preliminary hearing.
Three St. Paul pioneers are dead and
On the ground that there was no in
tention to deceive, the National Base
ball Commission has decided that no
penalties shall be imposed on Cleve
land. Nashville, Columbus, Toledo and
Portland for irregularities in transfer
ring players.
Going in direct opposition to His
Majestiy, King Edward, who had ex
pressed the hope that she might wed
a member of royalty he had picked
cut for her, Mrs. Marshall Field Jr., of
Chicago, became the wife of Baldwin
A. Drummond, second son of the late
Edgar A. Drummond, at the Registry
Office.
L1 mrl Art If Ctnllnw
rreaericK m. stouer, anas pror.
Kyro, a barber-hypnotist, after winning
hearts and money of a number of
South Chicago women, is in the county
Jail awaiting action by the grand jury.
He is held under $2500 bond.
That Helen Maloney, daughter of
Martin Maloney, is preparing to enter
a convent as the solution of the matri
monial complications into which she
has plunged herself, is now virtually
assured as the result of recent devel
opments at the Maloney summer home
at Spring Lake, N. J.
A negro who had attacked Mrs.
Foster, residing near Wesson, Tenn.,
was shot and killed by the husband of
the woman. Foster was at Work in a
field when he was attracted to the
house by hearing his wife screaming.
Capt. G. A. Merrlam, United States
navy, commandant of the Portsmouth
navy yard, died following an operation
for appendicitis. He was 58 years of
age. He commanded the battleship
Missouri on the recent cruise of the
battleship fleet from Hampton Roads
to San Francisco.
The sunken hulks or the Japanese
battleship Yashima and the Russian
warship Sebastopol, which went down
in an engagement during the recent
war, have been found by a Japanese
salvage vessel.
The initial work on the Union Pa
cific new $1,000,000 extension from
Seattle to Rlack River Junction has
begun. Further extensions, which will
be pushed at once, will cost the road
several times this omunt.
An official order calling off the
strike of coal miners in the Birming
ham (Ala.) district was issued to all
camps in that section. It was signed
by President Lewis, Vice-President
White and Secretary-Treasurer Ryan
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica. The order ends a strike which
began July G and which has been
marked by much violence.
Chicago has suddenly become the
hub of the movement to dethrone King
Peter of Servia. Formal proclama
tion was made that Theodore Max
Obilitch de La Zarre, an employe of
the Rock Island railroad, and resident
of Numia, la., is the rightful king. It
was announced that all that is need
ed to enforce the claim Is $250,000 and
a few thousand more men.
Rev. D. R. Ellis, one of the two sur
viving members of the crew of the
historic old Monitor, the conqueror of
the Merrimac, is dying of Bright's dis
sease at his home in Annville, Pa.
After the war Rev. Mr. Ellis moved
to Stony Creek Valley. For a number
of years he was pastor of the Sorr^r
set United Presbyterian church.
The Federal government has taken
a hand in the prosecution of George
W. Fitzgerald, farmer subtreasury tel
ler, charged with stealing $173,000
from the United States subtreasury.
District Attorney Sims made a de
mand for a continuance of 10 days. It
was granted and the Federal prosecu
tion, it is believed, will now taka
charge of the cas“
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State Capital Notes
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Warehouses Suit Farmers’ Union.
The Farmers' Union Bureau of
Arkansas, .'representing eighty-eight
warehouses, were in sessiou nearly
all day Thursday in the hall of the
house of representatives at the state
house, and Thursday night held a
short meeting at which an executive
committee composed of the following
members was appointed: T. C. Wiley
of Cabot, R. H. McCulloch of Beebe,
J. F. Stoball of Plumerville, C. C.
Montague of Van Buren and W. F.
Tate of Camden.
About fifty members of the bureau
were present at the meeting, with
President J. P. Price of El Paso pre
siding and H. T. Smith of Crystal
Springs acting as secretary.
The greater part of the session was
spent in discussing matters relating
to the season's cotton crop and the
arrangements for disposing of it.
A resolution was adopted denying
lhe reported statement that the Farm
ers’ Union of Arkansas disapproved
of the warehouse plan in this state
and favored the handling of Arkansas
cotton through a central warehouse in
Little Rock with headquarters at
Memphis. The resolution declares
that the Farmers' Union's interest in
the warehouse in this state in un
abated and that the Farmers’ Union
Company of Memphis has always fa
vored and helped union warehouses
in Arkansas and sells cotton for Ar
kansas union farmers direct from
their warehouses to the representa
tives of spinners.
B. G. West, manager of the Farm
ers' Union Company at Memphis,
and who acts for the Arkansas union
warehouse men as their sole agent
for the sale of their cotton to spin
ners, stated that there was no inten
tion whatever on the part of the
union to interfere in any manner with
the present warehouse system in Ar
kansas.
It was reported at the meeting that
the upland cotton crop in the state
is one-third short of what it was two
years ago.
Many New Corporations.
A greater number of corporate arti
cles were filed in the secretary of
state's office Thursday than during
any day for several months. Seven
corporations were granted charters
and one foreign corporation filed its
articles and paid its charter fee for
the purpose of doing business in the
state. Following are the articles
that were filed:
Fort Smith-Oklahoma Light and
Traction Company, which proposes to
build a short line in the vicinity of
Fort Smith. Capital stock, $30,000,
of which $500 has been subscribed.
Security Land Company of Cabot,
capital stock $10,000, of which $150
has been subscribed.
Eagles' Building Company of Fort
Smith, capital stock, $11,000 common
stock, and $50,000 preferred stock, of
which $11,000 of the common stock
has been subscribed.
Citizens’ Plumbing and Sheet
Sheet Metal Workers of Jonesboro,
capital stock, $5,000, all of which has j
been subscribed.
Monette Lumber Company of Mo
nette, capital stock $3,000.
Fort Smith Printing Company of
Fort Smith, capital stock, $5,000, of
which $3,000 has been subscribed.
The Bates Coal and Coke Company
of Joplin, Mo., filed a certificate of
Its charter, showing a capitalization
of $100,000 and paid a charter fee ot
$75 in compliance with the provis
ions of the Wingo act passed by the
recent legislature. M. Danaher of
Pine Bluff is named as agent of the
company in Arkansas upon whom pro
cess may be served.
Demonstration Against License.
A movement was inaugurated at the
Y. M. C. A. building Thursday night
to make a general temperance demon
stration and parade on the streets of
Little Rock Sunday, September 13, a |
day before the election, when the
question of license or no license will
be voted upon. The details of the
parade were not decided upon and
the line of march is yet to be out- j
lined. The idea is to secure the co- j
operation of all the Sunday schools
and churches, have their members
form marching clubs and participate
in the procession.
Governor Cancels Dates.
Governor X. O. Pindall left Thurs
day afternoon for Arkansas City to
be absent several days to consult
with relatives regarding arrange
ments for the settlement or the estate
of his cousin, E. S. Pindall, who died
recently at Colorado Springs, Col.
Before leaving Little Rock Gov
ernor Pindall instructed Secretary
Paul Little to cancel all his appoint
ments in the campaign. The gov
ernor has delivered only two speeches
'n the campaign. |
Governor Refuses Sixteen Pardons.
Governor Pindall Saturday put his
gubernatorial foot down upon 16 ap
plications for pardon in cases where
the defendants were convicted of vio
lating the liquor laws of the state or
carrying concealed weapons.
In explaining his reasons for deny
ing the applications for these pardons,
the governor practically announced
that it would be useless to apply to
him for executive clemency for of
fenses of this kind. He also declared
that it was his intention to enforce
the liquor laws of the state to the let
ter.
For a young man who let fall from
his pocket a pistol and was shot acci
dentally, he expressed his sympathy,
but refused to grant him a pardon,
stating that he should have left his
pistol at home. In the list of appli
cants for pardons were two women
and a blind man, each convicted of
carrying concealed weapons, and to
each he denied a pardon.
Escaped Man Is Retaken.
Warden Lem Smith of the state pen
itentiary has had unusually good for
tune recently in recapturing escaped
state convicts without experiencing
any trouble in doing so. Monday he
was walking past the Arkansas sta
bles on Louisiana street, when he
saw James Sears, a negro, who es
caped from the new penitentiary two
years ago.
Sears, who was sent up one year On
the charge of murder, at first denied
that he was the man wanted, but he
was later identified ar.d put behind the
walls to finish his term. He inform
ed the authorities that he had been
living about Little Rock for the past
nine months.
Want Money for Medics.
Physicians and surgeons throughout
Arkansas who are interested in the
progress of the medical department
of the University of Arkansas propose
to ask the next, legislature for an
appropriation to he used in improv
ing the department and bettering its
facilities for carrying on the work
which heretofore has been of no ex
pense to the state,.
The officers of the department and
those who deliver lectures to the stu
dents from year to year have never re
ceived any pay for their services,. The
same is the case with those of the
law department of the university, both
of which departments are located in
Little Rock,.
Unknown Man Found Dying.
A young man, not more than 25
years of age, was found Tuesday
morning by the police in a shed near
the river bank where he had dropped
on the floor, evidently preparing to
die there. Physicians who examined
him declared that he had but a short
time to live, but when the boy was
questioned as to his home and where
he desired to go, he declared that his
name didn’t matter, and that he might
as well die here as any place else.
He was removed to the county hospi
tal during the afternoon, and an effort
will be made to ascertain his name
and residence in order that relatives
may be notified of his whereabouts.
Confesses Stealing Horse.
Pleading guilty to the charge of
horse stealing, George W. Perkins,
alias L. D. Cooper, who was arrested
by Deputy Sheriff Richard Allnut last
week for purloining an animal from J.
E. Osbonre, was remanded to jail Sat
urday by Justice David Meisner. The
roan is alleged to have sold the stol
en horse to G. B. Arnold, a Saline
county farmer, taking in exchange a
mule, a check for $30 and $20 in cash.
He denied being given a check.
Perkins will be held until action is
taken by the Grand Jury.
Service to Monroe Soon.
The Arkansas, Louisiana and Gulf
Railroad will shortly inaugurate a ser
vice to this city from Monroe and
ather Louisiana points at which it
touches. This was announced Tues
day by officials of the Rock Island
over whose lines the service will be
operated. The passenger department
of the Rock Island system is at pres
ent working with the offices of the
Louisiana rbad arranging schedules
and other details. The new service
will probably begin some time this
month.
Governor Offers Reward.
Governor Pindall received a tele
gram Tuesday from Sheriff W. W.
Findley of Searcy county requesting
aim to offer a reward of $100 for the
trrest and return to that county of
Leroy Campbell, who recently escap
?d from the jail at Marshall. Camp- ,
tell was awaiting trial on tho charge
>f horse stealing. Governor Pindall |
complied with the sheriff’s request. I
Stillwell Arrest Causes Sensation.
The arrest of Dr. J. 3. Stillwell, a
wealthy professional and business
man, and prominent churchman and
Mason of Searcy, on a charge of ar
son, has produced a sensation which
has only been surpassed in the his
tory of the town by that which follow
ed the exposure of the famous Lightle
insurance fraud about four years ago.
Following so closely after that sen
sational case, the arrest of Dr. Still
well on a somewhat similar charge
has aroused more interest than might
otherwise have attached to the case.
Dr. Stillwell, who is now under
bond to answer to the charge of
setting fire to the building in which
his offices were located, has been for
years one of the most prominent citi
zens of Searcy. He had been the
leading dentist of the town for years,
and has been actively connected with
many successful business enterprises.
He is a steward of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and for years has
taught a class of young women in the
Sunday school of that church. He
has also been a member of the church
choir, and it is said has not missed a
choir practice in fifteen years.
Dr. Stillwell is one of the largest
stockholders of the People's bank,
which owned the building which he
is charged with attempting to burn,
and owns a large amount of other
property. He is reputed to be worth
at least $50,000.
The building which, it is alleged.
Dr. Stillwell attempted to burn is a
two-story brick structure occupying
the most prominent corner of the busi
ness section of Searcy. The building
was purchased last spring by the
People’s bank officials to remodel the
structure and convert it into a modern
bank building. The bank paid $8,000
for the property. After the deal was
made an architect was engaged to
prepare plans for the reconstruction
of the building, but upon an investi
gation the architect advised the bank
officials that the walls of the build
ing were unsafe, and that it would be
impossible to remodel the structure.
It was then proposed that the build
ing should be torn down and a new
one erected on the site. This propo
sition was under consideration when
the attempt to burn the building was
made.
One night about tnree weeKs ago at
about 9:30 o’clock a Are was dis
covered on the second floor of the
building in question. When the
volunteer firemen responded to the
alarm they found that an attempt had
been made to burn the structure. In
the hallway on the second floor, im
mediately in front of the office of Dr.
Stillwell, they found a blazing box,
which was about two feet square, had
been saturated with coal oil and
filled with cotton and small pieces of
wool, which had nlso been saturated
with oil. The box was standing upon
a rug, which had also been subjected
to a bath of oil. It is the theory
adopted' by the officers that a lighted
candle had bean placed in this box,
with the idea that it would burn down
and ignite the cotton and other con
tents at some time during the night.
It is supposed that the candle was
overturned and the fire occurred
ahead of the schedule time. No
candle was found, but it is thought
possible that it might have been lost
after the fire, as the burning box was
thrown to the ground from a rear
doorway and no particular attention
was paid to it until the following
morning. The flames were extin
guished before they had done any
damage aside from scorching the
walls of the hallway around Dr. Still
well’s door.
Although the attempt to burn the
building was made three weeks ago
and suspicion was directed shortly
afterward against Dr. Stillwell, the
officers proceeded slowly and Dr. Still
wrell was not arrested until Tuesday,
when an affidavit making the formal
charge against him was filed by Pros
ecuting Attorney P. R. Andrews of
Augusta.
The evidence against Dr. Stillwell
Is entirely circumstantial and is based
chiefly upon the fact that he was
seen doming from the building about
five minutes before the fire was dis
covered.
Almost Severed Head From Body.
With the head almost severed from
his body through one long gash of
a raj or blade, the corpse of a man
about 26 years of age was found in
the suburbs of Hot Springs Thurs
day afternoon. His identity is not
known. The man first visited the
locality Thursday afternoon and slept
on the porch of a residence last night.
“My father and mother are dead, and
I thought I had one other friend, but
I haven’t,” he said in despondent tones
to a chance acquaintance. A short
time after this his dead body was
found in the weeds.
Hold Gregson for Death of Pickett.
The coroner’s jury which was em
paneled to investigate the killing of
Arch Pickett, the well-known resident
of Jonesboro who was shot to death
at his residence Monday afternoon,
created much surprise by holding that
M. P. Gregson slew Pickett. Pick
ett’s wife is held by the coroner’s jury
to have been an accessory.
Mrs. Pickett, who was arrested
shortly after her husband was slain,
said that she killed him and gave her
reason that “he was mean and abusive
to her at various times.” Gregson, her
step-father, who is a well-to-do and
highly respected man, was also arrest
ed, but was released on his own recog
nizance.
After the report of the coroner’s ju
ry a_ warrant was issued for Gregson,
but'before he was placed in jail Coun
ty Judge J. B. Walker released him
on a- writ of habeas corpus and by
agreement with Deputy Prosecuting
Attorney J. M. Hawthorne, put un
der a bond of $5,000, which he readi
ly gave.
The killing of Pickett has created
a profound sensation there, as all the
parties to the trouble are prominent.
While no one other than Gregson and
Mrs. Pickett saw the actual shoot
ing, more than one person heard the
shots and saw Pickett stagger toward
his house and fall. They also saw Mrs.
Pickett and Gregson enter a buggy and
drive hurriedly away. A constable
followed them and arrested both of
them at the Gregson home about six
miles from Jonesboro.
Jenkins’ Assault Case Nolle Prossed.
One of the most extraordinary cases
ever docketed in the Pulaski Circuit
Court has been swept from the docket
by the nolle prosequi of the indictment
against T. J. Jenkins of Perry county.
The case went to that county on a
change of venue, and it was charged
that Jenkins had assaulted Vergie Mel
ton, his niece. The case was tried
twice, both juries failing to agree, and
the costs amounted to $1,500.
Jenkins was defended by Gus Fulk
and prosecuted by Lewis Rhoton, form
er prosecuting attorney. One feature
of the trials was the fact that Jen
kins denied that Vergie Melton was
any relation to him. He claimed that
his mother told him that Vergie’s
mother and himself were not brother
and sister, although they had always
thought so.
Gus Fulk said Monday the case was
dismissed because Mr. Rhoton explain
ed to Roy D. Campbell, prosecuting
attorney, that a conviction probably
could not be had. Since the prose
cution began, Vergie Melton, the prose
cuting witness, has married and left
Perry county.
Pine Bluff Gets 1909 Convention.
With a Dutch lunch, smoker and
Mardi Gras parade, the second an
nual convention of the State Aerie,
Fraternal Order of Eagles, came to a
successful close at Little Rock Thurs
day night, to meet next year in Pine
Bluff, the exact date to be selected
at a future meeting of the trustees.
The business session was brought to
a close at 1 o’clock Thursday after
noon with the selection of the foliow
i ing officers:
President, Barney Stiel, Little
Rock; Vice President, A. P, McMa
hon, El Dorado; Secretary, W. G.
Hutton, Little Rock; Treasurer, A F.
Gunther, Hot Springs; Chaplain,
Frank N. Henderson, Argenta; Con
ductor, A. A. Ledgerwood Hot
Springs; Inside Guard, W. D. Jack
son, Argenta; Outside Guard, W. H.
Lowery, Benton; Trustees, H. D.
Riff of Argenta, Benjamin Robinson
of Pine Bluff, W. S. Gaunt of Benton
and A. G. Mashburn of Little Rock.
Veterans Meet in October.
The annual meeting of the United
Confederate Veterans will be held Oc
tober 14 in the state house in the
hall of the House of Representatives.
The representation at the meeting is
one delegate for every 20 members in
a camp, but each camp is entitled to
at least two delegates, irrespective of
its membership. Brigade command
ers are requested to forward to head
quarters at Little Rock information
as to the number of delegates that
will be in attendance, as well as to
see that the annual dues are remitted
in order that the camp may have
a voice in the business of the con
vention.
Pioneer Citizen Dead.
Dr. A. Carter, 76 years old, one of
the pioneers of Couway, died Sunday
night, after an illness of two months.
He was one of the best-known citi
zens in Central Arkansas and served
with the Confederate army during the
Civil war. Dr. Carter had lived in
Conway for 50 years.
Delays Cartwright Trial.
Judge Eugene Lankford is ill with
typhoid fever and as a result it ia
scarcely probable that a special ses
sion of the Faulkner county circuit
court for the purpose of trying James
A. Cartwright, the white farmer
charged with the killing of his wife,
will be held.