VOL. II.
McCROIlY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1902.
NO. 33.
Arkansas State News
Federal Jurors.
The following petit jury has been
drawn and* ordered to report in the
United States district court at Lit
tle Rock on January 12: P. L.
Fakes, McCrory, Woodruff county;
R. S. Coff'man, Russell, White coun
ty; J. W. Deidelman, Little Rock;
A. L. Aydelott, Hill, Prairie coun
ty; Fred Sanders, Little Rock; Sol
Arthur,: Hector, Pope county; C.
J. Julian, Hamburg, Ashley coun
ty; A. C. Jones, Hot Springs, Gar
land county; Howard Adams, Lit
tle Rock; R. H. M. Mills, Pine
Bluff, Jefferson county; Henry El
lingsworth, Carlisle, Lonoke coun
ty; Ben W. Allen, Wilmot, Ashley
county; W. B. Ferguson, Little
Rock; C. A. Haskins, Gum Log,
Pope county; W. S. Grove, Argen
ta, Pulaski county; J. W. Ragsdale,
Perryville, Perry county; Capt. S.
G'eisreiter, Pine Bluff; 0. J. Owen,
Sr., Moore, Faulkner county; Chas.
S. Stifft, Little Rock; M. C. Banks,
Wrightsville, Pulaski county; Q. R.
Reynolds, Enola, Faulkner county;
Maj. S. A. Duke, Baxter, Drew
county; Charles T. Abeles, Little
Rock; J. J. Brassell, Stuttgart, Ar
kansas county; J. H. Mason, Center
Ridge, Conway county; F. M. Jef
ferson, Little Rock; A. M. Ayer,
Grand Lake, Chicot county; Henry
Thane, Arkansas City, Desha coun
ty; John It. Hammon, Monticello,
DrewTounty; R. B. Gress, Little
Rock; D. B. Russell, Morrilton,
Conway county; Walter Kirst, Lit
tle Rock ; J. E. Mason, Maries, Pu
laski county; J. P. Whitehill, Ar
kansas City, Desha cpuntv; C. 0.
Kimball, Little Rock; L. S. Smoth
ers, Pulaski county.
New Railroad.
A new railroad, running from
Newport, the county seat of Jack
son county, to Pocahontas, the coun
ty seat of Randolph county, a dis
tance of 75 miles, and another from
Newport to Jonesboro, the county
seat of Craighead county, will be
started in the course of the next
few weeks. The route to be taken
from Newport may be to follow the
route of the Iron Mountain on the
Batesville branch, until Ellers, the
first station across the Black river,
is reached. Then the road will pro
ceed northward on the west side of
the Black river, by way of Char
lotte, Independence county, thence
to Strawberry, Lynn and Powhatan,
thence across the Kansas City
and Memphis to Loland and
Pocahontas, Randolph county. The
road between Newport and Jones
boro will go by way of Grubbs,
Jackson county, (*9sh and Dryden,
Craighead county, to Jonesboro.
The extension of the first road
southward will cross the White
river west of Newport, proceed bv
way of Adler, Pleasant Plains and
Tyler to Heber; thence by way of
Darcey, Rosebud, Mount Vernon,
Bristol, Cascade, Vilonia, Otto and
Oldstead to Little Rock, by way of
Baring Cross.
To Increase Exhibit.
Hon. H. T. Bradford, recently in
augurated commissioner of agricul
ture, has called upon county judges
of the various counties of the state
to assist him to increase the exhibit
of agricultures! and mineral re
sources now on exhibition at the
state capitol.
Methodist Conference.
The Arkansas annual conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, met at Harrison on the
12th. About one-fourth of the ter
ritory of the state is represented
in this conference, and Rev. E. E.
Hoss, of Nashville, Tenn., one of
the newly elected bishops, presided.
Box Factory Burned.
The Chapin an-Dewey box facto
ry at Jonesboro was destroyed by
fire recently. The loss is placed at
$25,000. A strike of employes had
been settled by the company aceeed
ing to their demands the evening
before the tire occurred.
CL..flMfib
Interesting Legal Decision.
An interesting matter was decid
ed by Mr. Justice Riddick in the
supreme court last week. One Ru
fus Johnson was indicted by the
Jackson county grand jury for mur
der in the second degree. Before
trial in the circuit court the circuit
judge, upon ex parte testimony, it
is said, concluded that the grand
jury had not done its duty and that
an indictment for murder in the
first degree should have been re
turned. He, therefore, referred the
matter to the next grand jury, thus,
in effect, setting aside the indict
ment of the first grand jury. In
the meantime he committed John
son to jail, and Johnson made ap
plication for bail, which was re
fused. In this way the matter was
taken to the supreme court, on
Johnson's application for bail.
Justice Riddick upheld the decis
ion of the lower court, and refused
bail, holding that while the circuit
judge had express authority, after
trial had commenced, to stop the
trial and remand the matter for the
investigation to anotlier grand jury,
when, in his opinion, the indictment
should have been for a greater of
fense, it was also obvious to have
the same power before trial.
New Roads Incorporated.
Two new railroads were charter
ed last week by the state hoard of
railway commissioners, as follows:
The Piggott- and Northwestern
Railroad Company, to build a
branch road from Piggott, on the
Cotton Belt road, in a northwester
ly direction to a point in Clay coun
ty, twelve miles distant on the east
bank of Cache river. The Arkan
sas, Red River and Paris Railroad
Company; the capital stock is $266,
000, divided into $100 shares. The
proposed road shall begin at the
station of Morris’ ferry, on the
Kansas City Southern, where it
crosses Little river, and thence run
westerly eight miles to the line be
tween Arkansas and Indian Terri
tory ; thence westerly eight miles to
Allen's Siding on the Arkansas and
Choctaw railroad; thence in a south
westerly direction to Harris' Ferrv
on Red river, twenty-two miles,
making a total of thirty-eight miles.
Faithful Fmploye Killed.
John Feehan, a flagman in the
Iron Mountain yards at Little
Rock, was run over and killed while
on duty. He had just given the
signal for a train to pass, and was
crossing one of the many tracks
when he was run down by some cars
being backed onto a switch. Feehan
had been in the employ of the Iron
Mountain for a quarter of a com
turv, and was always efficient in the
discharge of his duties.
Embezzler Sentenced.
B. Iv. Anderson confessed in Ar
kansas county circuit court to the
embezzlement of $7,500, while agent
for the Pacific Express Company at
Stuttgart and was sentenced to
four years in the penitentiary. An
derson got jnvay with the money
about two years ago and fled to
Montana, where he was located last
spring. _
Shot by Mistake.
A sad accident occurred at the
home of Verball Stewart, in Colum
bia county. A Mr. Blatson went to
the home of Stewart, his brother-in
law,' and attempted to arouse him
by firing a pistol. The noise awak
ened Stewart and he, not knowing
who Blatson was, shot him through
the.window, the bullet taking effect
in the abdomen.
Store Burned.
The store house of James Frazer
at Kerr, in Saline, county, was de
stroyed by fire. The house em
braced a general supply store, tick
et office of Choctaw, Oklahoma &
Gulf railroad, postolliee and Dr. J.
F. Brower’s office. The total loss
is $1,200.
BRIEF MENTION.
E. B. Gilespie, a well known
farmer, was thrown from his horse
near Stuttgart and killed.
Dan Brown was fined $500 and
thirty days in jail at Waldron on
the charge of operating a blind ti
ger.
Oscar Davis, colored, was shot
and killed at Cotton Plant, while
resisting arrest, by Marshal Pol
lard.
Ex-Chief of Police Craig, of
Pine Bluff, is alleged to be short
in his accounts. Craig disappeared
several weeks ago.
A crow bar passed from the out
side by some friend enabled five
prisoners to make their escape from
jail at Lockesburg.
The gin house of John C. Scoby,
near Warren, was destroyed by fire.
Sixteen bales of cotton was also
burned. Loss, $4,000.
Constable Tate, of Hot Springs,
has given warning that he will ar
rest all parties who use profane
language on the public streets.
The Northeast Arkansas Teach
ers' Association will hold their an
nual meeting at Mammoth Spring
on January 1, 2 and 3, 1903.
A man by the name of Ashlock
was shot and fatally wounded by
some unknown party while sitting
at his breakfast table at Perry.
While squirrel hunting near
Lockesburg, W. C. Lee was shot
in the side bv the accidental dis
charge of his gun and probably fa
tally wounded.
The Pulaski county grand Jury
has notified the sheriff and chief of
police of Tuttle Pock to keep all
saloons closed Sundays and to raid
all gambling houses.
Complete returns of the congres
sional election show that Hon. Joe
T. Robinson, the democratic nomi
nee, received a total vote of 5,237,
and his opponent 617.
Jimmie Malone, aged 19, was
playing in a gin press near Bates
villo, when the fellow block and pin,
weighing about 700 pounds, fell
and crushed him to death.
Engineer Ed Hasler, of the Kan
sis City Southern Railroad was
killed in an accident at Horatio.
He was 45 years of age and leaves
a wife and three children at Mena.
A man by the name of Smith was,
killed by a train at Plummerville.
He was crossing the yards to get
out of one train's way when struck
by another going in an opposite di
rection.
A man by the name of Sipes,
■ while crossing the railroad track at
j Dumas with a team, was struck by
a train and thrown beneath the
cars, his body being terribly man
gled:
George Montgomery, of Fort
Smith, who has a wife, is said to
have eloped with Nana Taylor, a
16-year-old girl. Montgomery be
came acquainted with the girl while
she was employed to wait on his
sick wife.
Train No. 8, on the Iron Moun
tain, the Hot Springs special, north
bound, was wrecked at Mablcvale
on the 14th. Of the fifty passen
gers on the train only one, a lady,
was injured. The train butcher
was also injured.
Watch Glasses.
In the production of common
watch glasses the glass is blown into
a sphere about 40 inches in diameter,
sufficient material being taken to
give the desired thickness, as the case
may be. Discs are then cut out from
this sphere with the aid of a pair of
compasses having a diamond at the
extremity of one leg. There is a
knack in detaching the disc after it
lias been cut. A good workman will
cut 6,000 glasses in a day.
Quinine is sold in every rural post
office in India at the rate of 20grain*
for a penny. In Bengal last year
1,410,000 live-grain packets were
thus sold.
Quinine in India.
News of the World
Gen. Fred Grant recently ap-1
pointed commander of the depart
ment of Texas, with headquarters
at San Antonio, has assumed com
mand.
Secretary of War Root, in his an
nual report, will recommend the re
establishment of the army canteen,
abolished by act of the last con
gress.
A general fight followed an at
tempt to force negro workmen to
leave Beaumont, Texas., in which
Max Weylich, a white man, was
killed.
Rev. Charles Cox, aged 65, pastor
of a church at Morehead, Ky., elop
ed with a 17-year-old girl, a mem
ber of his congregation, deserting a
wife and five children.
President John Mitchell, of five
miners’ union, refused to stanjl for
election as president of the Amer
ican Federation of pabor, '/to suc
ceed Mr. Gompers-.
Henry Youtsey, now serving a
life sentence under conviction
of complicity in the murder of Gov.
Goebel, of Kentucky, is alleged to
have made a confession, implicat
ing several parties not heretofore
suspected in connection with the
crime.
The St. Louis city school board
has decided to supply free text
books to the children of that city.
J. H. Bingham, collector of rev
enue for Alabama, has been re
moved from office, it is claimed, on
account of his activity in what is
called the lily white movement to
exclude negroes from the councils
of the republican party.
The reply of President George F.
Baer of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Coal Company to the charges of
President Mitchell of the United
Mine Workers, as presented to to
the arbitration commission, ignores
Mitchell as an official of the union,
and suggests that the commission
exclude the union from any recog
nition in their conclusions of the
matters in dispute.
It is stated on the authori
ty of a man who has the closest
personal and political relations
with the Ohio senator that Mr.
Hanna will not be a candidate for
re-election to the senate; will not,
under any combination of condi
tions, be a candidate for the repub
lican nomination for the presidency
in 1904 and will not, if he can pos
sibly avoid it, continue as chair
man of the republican national
committee after the meeting of the
republican national convention in
1904.
A lone bandit, attired in Indian
costume and streaked with war
paint, held up the village of Oak
land, Ind., in broad daylight. The
stranger rode down the main street
of the town, firing right and left
through the windows of the busi
ness houses. He ordered every one
he met to hold up their hands, and
when he reached the principal store
of the village he entered and rid
dled the glass front with bullets.
He then helped himself to all the
money in the cash drawer and rode
out of town.
That the anthracite coal-mine
owners will resist to the utmost
every effort to make the recognition
of United Mine Workers of Ameri
ca an issue in the arbitration which
is now in progress is made evident
by the replies to the statement of
President John Mitchell of the mi
ners’ organization, which has been
filed with the strike commission.
There are five of these answers, in
addition to that of President Baer,
and all dwell with especial empha
sis and marked unanimity on this
point. They also agree in resisting
the demands of the miners for an
increase of pay for piece work, a
reduction of hours for time work
and for the weighing rather than
measurement of coal.
President Roosevelt will visit
Memphis on the 18th inst.
The French arbitration board has
decided against the striking coal
miners.
A. L. Pennock and Pat Doyle,
railroad laborers, were instantly
killed by the premature explosion
of a charge of dynamite near Tin
ion, Me,
Marshal Nicholas Hofferton, of
Independence, Ky., was killed in
a desperate battle with a farmer
named William Rice, who was him*
seif fatally wounded.
Striking girl employes of a wool
en mill at St. Joseph, Mo., attacked
four non-union girls while they
were on their way to work and al
most stripped them of their cloth
ing.
£>r. G. A. Charlton, an eminent
pathologist of Montreal, claims to
have discovered a serum for the
cure of scarlet fever. Out of fifteen
cases recently treated with the ser
um, thirteen recovered.
Secretary Hay has informed the
navy department that conditions on
the isthmus of Panama have as
sumed so favorable a phase that
he no longer has any suggestions
to offer as to the further disposi
tion of the American sailors and
marines who have been doing guard
duty at the terminals and on the
railway line itself for many weeks
past.
The exports of manufactures
from the United States in the nine
months ending with September,
1902, are larger than those in the
corresponding period of any other
year in the history of our country,
with the single exception of 1900.
The total for the nine months is
$311,302,441, against $298,660,551
in the corresponding months of last
year, and $388,678,243 in the cor
responding months of 1900.
Roland B. Molineaux was set
free by a jury in New York City,
after having once been sentenced to
death and after spending four years
in prison. Molineaux was accused
of murdering Mrs. Katherine
Adams by forwarding poison
through the mails. The case has
been one of the most sensational in
the history of the country, and at
tracted unusual attention on ac
count of the prominence of the ac
cused and his accusers.
Col. hd butler, the millionaire
politician of St. Louis, on trial
charged with attempting to bribe
Dr. Chapman, of the St. Louis
board of health in order to influ
enee^ his vote on the endorsement
of a garbage contract with the city,
has been found guilty by the jury,
which assessed the punishment at
three years in the penitentiary. An
appeal has been taken to the su
preme court, and Col. Butler was
released on $10,000 bond.
The preliminary estimate of the
average yield per acre of corn, as
published in the monthly report of
the statistician of the department
of agriculture is 20.8 bushels, as
compared with an average yield of
10.7 bushels in 1901; 25.3 bushels
in 1900 and 1899, and a ten year
average of 23.4 bushels. The aver
age yield by states shows Missouri
in the lead with 32 bushels per acre,
Ohio next with 30 bushels per acre,
while the lowest in production is
Texas, with 8.01 per acre.
The executive board of districts
14, 21 and 25, representing coal mi
ners of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas,
Indian Territory and Texas, held a
secret conference at Pittsburg last
week, the object being to formulate
plans by which they can make joint
demands on the Central Coal and
Coke Company, the Western Coal
and Mining Company and the
Southwestern Coal and Improve
ment Company for recognition of
the union. These are the only com
panies in the west that have noli
signed a union contract.
Employee of the Southern Pa
cific railroad have demanded a gen
ial increase in wages.
This year’s corn yield in Indiana
is estimated at 175,886,900 bushels,
the largest in the state’s history.
Nine persons were badly injured
in a collision between a railroad
train and a trolly car near Belle
ville, 111.
While prospecting for sulpher in
North Carolina, W. L. Woodcrow
struck a vein of gold that is yielding
$45 per ton of ore.
Two men were burned to death,
two boys were overcome by smoke
and the pressroom of the New York
Times was wrecked by u fire.
A report is current to the effect
that the Arkansas Southern, which
runs between El Dorado and Hus
ton, La., will be extended to Little
Hock.
The postmaster general has or
dered that the position of postoffice
physician be abolished in all post
otfices in cities under 500,000 pop
ulation.
Dispatches from Hawaii state
that the republicans swept the is
land in the recent election. The
republican congressional delegate
elect is a full-blood Hawaiian.
Harry Allemang, who led the
Southern league baseball pitchers
the last two seasons, was shot and
fatally wounded at Mason, Va., by
burglars, whom he surprised in the
act of robbing the post ottice.
Postmaster General Payne denies
a report that President Hoosevelt
had expressed himself in favor of a
move to reduce the south's repre
sentation in congress.
The secretary of the treasury has
revoked the order made several
weeks ago, providing for the ac
ceptance of state and municipal
bonds or security for public depos
its.
An entire family, three children
and the parents, by the name of
Bense, were found in almost a dy
ing condition from starvation in a
tenement house at Philadelphia.
They had been without food for
seven days.
Richard Ivain, who fought with
Dewey in the battle of Manila, and
a member of the American crew
under Gen. Marmaduke, now man
ning a Colombia gun boat against
the revolutionists, was killed in bat
tle last week.
in\ \\. ii. Jvnnberlin, a Kansas
City oculist, was shot and killed in
his office by a patient named John
Scanlon, who then suicided. Scan
lan left a note claiming that he
killed Kimberlin because he had de
stroyed his eyes.
The German reiehstag adopted a
paragraph in the new tariff hill au
thorizing the government to retal
iate against anv country discrimi
nating against German goods. This
may bring on a tariff war between
the I nited States and Germany.
There is some talk among politi
cians of opposition to the re-elec
tion of Senator Platt from New
^ ork. It is said Gov. Odell is de
sirous of the defeat of Senator
Platt, owing to certain opposition
shown in the last campaign.
The south constructed last year
2,254 miles of steam railroads. In
one southern state, Texas, there
have been planned since the begin
ning of this year new lines and
extensions aggregating 3,797 miles.
Of these, 2,423 miles represent the
plans of established companies, and
1,274 are entirely of new undertak
ings, nineteen in number. In addi.
tion, other plans are reported as
under consideration at various
points to build am aggregate of 1,
000 more mileage. The process un
der way in Texas, Louisiana, Ar
kansas and other parts of the south
west is an intensified form of that
which has wrought so mightily in
the upbuilding of older states of the .
south.
An unmasked mob hanged a ne
gro named Robert Adair in the
court house yard at Lewisburg,
Penn. Adair murdered a farmer,
who surprised him while stealing
corn from his field.