VOL. II.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1902.
NO. 2.
NEWS OF THE WORLD
Lord Kimberlv, the British lib
eral leader, is dead.
President Roosevelt and family
were the guests of South Carolina on
the 8th and 9th inst., at the Charles
ton exposition.
Lyman J. Gage, former secretary
of the treasury, has been elected
president of the United States Trust
Company, of New York City.
James Wilson was convicted at
Ava, Mo., of a murder committed
thirty-five years ago and sentenced
to ten years in the penitentiary.
Gen. Delarney has reported to
Former President Kruger numerous
cases of wanton murder of defense
less women and aged Boers by Brit
ish troops. The accusations are sup
ported by affidavits, and specific
cases are'mentioned, with dates of
occurrences.
The largest quarterly receipts in
the history of the postal department
are reported for the three months
ending January, figures for which
have just been completed. The re
ceipts were $38,005,021; expendi
tures, $30,947,131; excess of receipts
over expenditures, $1,058,490.
The April report of the statisti
cian of the department of agricul
ture shows the average condition of
winter wheat on April 1 to have
been 78.7, against 91.7 on April 1,
1901, 82.1 at the corresponding date
in 1900 and 82.4 the mean of the
April averages for the last ten
years.
Powell Clayton, United States
ambassador to Mexico, is the first
person to secure the submission igf a
case to The Hague arbitration. It
is a claim between the Mexican gov
ernment and the Catholic church of
California as to the liability of the
former for the interest on certain
church lands which the Mexican
government undertook to hold as
trustee for the church. The sum in
volved is about $1,000,000.
The Danish government has de
nounced as False the charge of one
Christmas, who alleged that, while
representing the Danish govern
ment in the sale of the West Indies,
he used the sum of $500,000 with
congressmen and offcials of this
country as bribe money to consumate
the deal. It appears that Christmas
was nothing more nor less than an
adventurer, and had nothing offi
cially whatever to do with the mat
ter.
The president has decided to in
vestigate the conditions maintaining
in the vicinity of New Orleans,
where the British are forwarding
horses, mules and forage for the use
of their army in South Africa. At
torney General Knox has reported to
the president and Mr. Hav, the sec
retary of state, advising that an in
vestigation should be made. He
has not passed upon the question
whether the operations of the Brit
ish officers and employes thus far
constitute violations of the neutral
ity laws.
Dick Balen, aged 19 of Joplin,
Mo., is a hero. The hoisting plant
in a mine in which he was employed
caught fire. The building was very
dry and the boards were very much
oil-soaked, and the fiaines spread at
a tremendous rate. The hoisternian
seemed paralyzed with fear an !
started for assistance to try and
quench the flames. Young Bay less,
who was employed to run the tubs
from the shaft to the main plant,
saw the assistance could not arrive
in time and rushed into the burning
building to the hoister and signaled
to the eleven men below to be hoist
ed out. He heroically stood at the
hoister until nine of the imprisoned
miners were hoisted to the surface,
and the othere two succeeded in es
caping just as the building collapsed.
Bayless had lost consciousness from
the intense heat and he was jerked
from the tottering building just ir.
time to save his own life.
An appeal has been issued by
Boer sympathizers of Illinois for five
million donations of $1 each, to be
forwarded for the relief of Boer
men and women in concentration
■camps in South Africa.
Fire at Columbus, Ga., destroyed
property valued at $250,000.
The Kansas City, Mo., democrati2
municipal ticket was elected by a
plurality of 2,000 rotes.
R. J. Wynne, a newspaper man
of Washington, has been appointed
first assistant postmaster general.
Eight hundred hands employed
in cotton mills at Augusta, Ga., are
on strike for an increase in wages
of 10 per cent.
Miss Helen Stone, the missionary
who was captured by brigands in
Bulgaria, arrived in this country on
the 10th inst.
H. G. Squires, secretary of the
American legation at Pekin, has
been tendered the post of United
States minister to Cuba.
Maj. Gen. W. R. Shafter, retired,
has agreed to accept the republican
nomination for governor of Califor
nia should it be tendered him.
Three millionaires—N. B. Scott,
Henry Schmulback and James Cald
well—are opposing candidates for
United States senator from West
Virginia.
Mrs. Mary McDonald was fatally
shot by Mrs. John Kane at Clinton,
a suburb of Terre Haute, Ind., as
the result of a quarrel between the
children of the two households. The
two elderly women joined in the dis
pute, and when Mrs. McDonald
threw a rock at Mrs. Kane the latter
went into the house and returned
with a revolver, firing two shots, one
of which entered Mrs. McDonald's
abdomen.
A desperate negro named Rey
nolds shot and killed Sheriff Gassa
way, P. A. Prout, Jesse Davis and
another officer at Tuscoinbia, Ala.
The officers went to arrest the negro
when he opened fire with a Win
chester. Reynolds was himself kill
ed in battle: Following the tragedy,
an order was issued forbidding the
assembling of negroes, for fear that
a clash between the. races would oc
cur. At Florence a negro who ex
pressed gratification over Reynolds’
fiendish success as a murderer was
killed by a butcher, who cut his
body almost half in two with a meat
knife.
Plans have been completed by the
navy department for important
changes in the existing system of
'training enlisted men for the ser
vice, and a policy adopted whi.li, :f
carried out, will give the navy an
aggregated force of 50,000 seamen
in the next nine years. It is pro
posed to add 3,000 men annually
to the navy, beginning this year and
extending until 1910. There are
now nearly 23,000 men in the ser
vice, including apprentices, and with
the increase that is expected to be
authorized this season, the navy
must make provision between now
and July 1. 1903, for 0.798 men.
Almost the entire population of
Zapota county, Tex., is in a deplora
ble condition and many persons are
on the verge of starvation. There has
been no rainfall there' for two years,
and former fertile acres are now
nothing but ghastly, glistening sand
dumps. The bones of thousands of
animals strew the plains, and death
and desolation are to be seen on ev
ery hand. Citizens of Texas 'have
contributed to the sufferers, and
the governor has done all in his pow
er for their relief, but outside aid
i-, badly needed. Many of the people
will remove to other parts if assist
ed to do so.
Wheat was cultivated on 209,
460 farms, covering 807,136 acres
and producing 11,237,005 bushels
of a farm value of $5,748,371. Corn
was cultivated, on 4,097,799 farms,
producing 2,606,436,279 bushels on
97,910,806 acres of a farm value of
$830,257,720. On 2,114,559 farms
oafs was cultivated over 29,539,
597 acres, producing therefrom 942,
387,375 bushels, of a farm value of
$217,098,584. Bye was cultivated
on 295,108 farms, covering 2,054,
209 acres, producing therefrom 25,
570,330 bushels, of a farm value of
$12,291,258. On 2,053,912 farms
wheat was cultivated, on 52,588,574
acres, producing therefrom, 658,534,
252 acres, of a farm value of $369,
945,320.
The lower house of congress pass
ed the senate bill extending char
ters of national banks twenty years.
The State Bank at Ruskin, Neb.,
was robbed by five bandits of $16,
000 in cash. Dynamite was used in
blowing the safe.
F. F. Sargent, president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men. has accepted the appointment
of commissioner general of immigra
tion, to succeed T. V. Powderly.
Whitelaw Reid, special embassy to
the coronation of King Edward, will
have to defray the expense of the
trip for himself and staff, congress
having failed to make an appropria
tion for that purpose.
A general advance of 10 per cent
in wages of cotton mill operatives
went into effect on the 8th inst. in
the southern half of New England.
More than 75,000 hands are bene
fited by this raise.
A great sensation was created a+
Marion, Ind., by the discovery of an
organized band of shop lifters com
posed of some of the best known
women of the city, most of them
wives of well to df) citizens.
Tho report of the St. Louis grand
jurv, which was in session several
weeks investigating municipal cor
ruption, caused a great sensation
when made public a few days ago.
Indictments were returned against
Robert N. Snyder, an ex-council
man,; for bribery; Edward Butler
and John H. Becker for attempted
bribery a fid G. J. Kobusch for per
jury. The grand jury report de
clares that the people of St. Louis
have but a vague conception of the
extent to which corruption and ve
nality have for the past ten years
existed among the sworn officers and
public servants. It finds the condi
tion of affairs almost too appalling
for belief. The parties indicted be
long to both political parties.
The department of agriculture
lias issued a statement of the for
eign trade of the United States in
agricultural products. It shows that
during the fiscal year 1901 foreign
countries purchased American farm
products to the value of $952,000,
000, representing the largest agri
cultural exports in our history. Com
pared with the record for 1900 they
show an increase of over $100,00',
000. Agricultural imports, on the
other hand, disclose a considerable
falling off when contrasted with the
trade of the year preceding. The
various products of agriculture re
ceived from foreign sources during
1901 had an aggregate value of
$392,000,000, or $28,000,000 less
than in 1900. Tn comparison with
the value of agricultural imports ex
ports show the exceptionally large
excess of $500,000,000.
Dun’s Review reports commercial
failures for the first quarter this
year, 3,418 in number and $33,731,
758 in amount of defaulted liabili
ties, compared with 3,335 failures
for $31,703,480 during the same
three months of 1901. Manufactur
ing insolvencies numbered 710,
against 710 last year, while liabili
ties aggregated $14,775,904. com
pared with $12,504,222 in 1901.
There were 2,502 trading failures
for $15,517,327, and last year there
were 2,408 for $14,552,900. Other
commercial failures not properly in
cluded under either of the two prin
cipal divisions numbered 170, with
liabilities of $3,438,527, against 157
last year for $4,040,358. Banking
and other fiduciary defaults were 20
in number, against 21 a year ago,
but there was a large increase in
liabilities to $15,588,603, compared
with only $3,441,389 a year ago.
Capt. Joseph B. Coghlan, of the
navv, of “Hoch der Kaiser” fame,
has been pardoned by the president.
Some years ago Capt. Coghlan
sharply criticised the register of the
navy in a letter written to the latter,
and was reduced nine numbers in
rank. The pardon places Capt,
Coghlan at the head of the list of
captains, so that, on the 19th of this
month, upon the retirement of Ad
miral Farquhar, he will become a
rear admiral.
NEWS OF ARK ANSAS
Crop Outlook.
A summary ol' the weekly crop
bulletin of the Arkansas weather
bureau, for the week ending April
9, shows that unfavorable weather
Conditions have retarded farming
'operations and work is generally two
weeks behind in almost all sections
of the state; wherever the weather
permitted, work has been pushed
rapidly. The weather has not been
favorable for the proper germina
tion of seed and the growth of vege
tation. Some corn has been planted
in all sections, and in some localities
is almost completed, but the bulk
of the crop remains to be planted.
Some preparations are being made
for cotton planting, but none has
been planted. Wheat and oats, as a
rule, do not present very flattering
prospects, although in many locali
ties the chanagshETAOINTAOIX
ties the change has been for the bet
ter, oats especially has improved and
the stand is fair to good. Some po
tatoes have been planted, apd are
coming up in some sections.' while
in others they are not doing well
and are rotting in the ground. Fruit
trees are budding and have received
no injury from the late frost.
Fraternal Insurance.
The annual statement by State
Auditor T. C. Monroe shows the
following members and amount o’
insurance in force in the various
fraternal societies operating in Ar
kansas last year:
Ancient Order of United Work
men, Bentonville; 3,725 members,
$5,497,000.
Catholic Knights of America, St.
Louis, Mo.; 23,772 members, $35,
134,000.
Eastern Star Benefit Association,
Helena; 2,340 members, $234,000.
Knights of Honor, St. Louis,
Mo.; 55,773 members, $90,852,500.
Knights and Ladies of Honor, In
dianapolis, lnd.; 51,808 members,
$58,583,500.
knights ot Pythias, ( hicago, ill.;
57,075 members, $101,265,500.
Knights of Maccabees, Fort Hu
ron. Mich.; 240,299 members, $326,
020,000.
Masonic Benefit Association, Pres
cott; 4,159 members.
Odd Fellows' Benefit Association,
Fort Smith; 2,89ti members.
Woodmen Circle, Omaha, Neb ;
11,848 members, $12,688,800.
Woodmen of the World, Omaha.
Xeb., 153,017 members. $248,871,
000.
Rock Fraternal Union, T.ittle
Rock; 600 members.
United Moderns. Denver, Col.;
6,942 members, $10,169,250.
Value of Vegetables.
The United States census report
for Arkansas has the following: The
total value of all vegetables grown
in the state in 1899, including pota
toes, sweet potatoes and onions, was
$3,365,343, of which 23.5 per cent
represents the value of potatoes;
14.7 per cent, that of sweet potatoes ;
1.4 per cent, that of onions; and
60.4 per cent, that of miscellaneous
vegetables. In the growing of mis
cellaneous vegetables, 44,937 acres
were used. Of this area the prod
ucts of 34,991 acres were not re
ported in detail. Of the remaining
9,946. acres, 5,162 were devoted to
watermelons; 2,388 acres, to musk
and other melons: 948 acres, to cab
bages: 850 acres, to tomatoes; 220
acres to sweet corn; 205 acres to
cucumbers; and 175 acres, to other
vegetables.
Mayor Beldiog Accepts.
Mayor George R. Belding, of Hot
Springs, has accepted the appoint
ment as a member of the Arkansas
World's Fair directory. He says, in
a letter to Gov. Davis:
“I am glad to accept the appoint
ment, and desire to say to the peo
ple of Arkansas that with their
hearty co-operation Arkansas will
have an exhibit at St. Louis of which
we will all be proud. We have a
wealth of undeveloped resources and
another better opportunity to dis
play them will not be available in
perhaps a century. With a unity
of action we w’ill accomplish the de
sired end.”
Gen. Clayton Vindicated.
Advices from Washington state
that Hon. Powell Clayton, ambassa
dor to Mexico, will be retained at
his present post. Gen. Clayton is
said to have met the charges prefer
red against him to the entire satis
faction of the administration. A
part of the charges which were given
publicity and which it was believed
were under consideration at the de
partment were never in fact referred
to Gen. Clayton. These related to
his alleged neglect of the interest of
Americans in the Mexican courts.
It develops that Gen. Clayton in all
he did in this connection carried out
the explicit instructions of the de
partment at Washington and every
detail of the proceedings was made
familiar to the Washington officials
as soon as developed. The other
charge and the only one the general
had to meet, was that he had acquir
ed an interest in mining property in
Mexico in which Mexican official
were interested. This he disposed
of to the satisfaction of both the
president and Mr. Hay.
Medical Graduates.
The annual commencement exer
cises of the medical department of
the state university were held at Lit
tle Rock on the 7th inst. There
were eleven graduates presented
with diplomas, as follows: N. E.
Armstrong, Logan county; J. A.
Bogart, St. Francis county; A. J.
Clingan, Sevier county; J. 1). Eddy,
Conway county; I>. H, Edwards,
White county; E. Kreugar, Pulaski
county ; G. W. Lewis, Pulaski coun
ty; M. D. McClain, Saline county;
James Parker, Prairie county ; B. S
Stokes, Pike county; W. W. Ward,
Union county. The gold medal of
fered by the State Medical Society
of Arkansas to the graduate passing
the best examination in all branches
was awarded to J)r. M. IX McClain;
honorable mention, Drs. J. A. Bo
gart and E. Kreugar.
Dr. Hooper Reports.
The following is the official re
port submitted by Superintendent
P. t). Hooper, of the Arkansas State
Lunatic Asylum, to the board of
trustees, for the month of March:
Patients on Hand, February 28—
(males) 272, white (females) 263,
colored (males) 88, colored (fe
males) 66; total, 688.
Admitted During Month of March
—White (males) 7, white (females)
5; total, 12.
Discharged, Recovered—\\ lute
(females) 1.
Discharged Urn improved—White
(males) 2.
Died—White (males) 2, white
(females) 1, colored (males) 1; to
tal, 4.
Remaining on Hand March 81 —
White (males) 274. white (females)
265, colored (males) 87, colored
(females) 66; total, 642.
Causes of Death—Consumption 1,
apoplexy 1, tabes mesuntcria 1, ex
haustion 1.
Vance Gets Twenty Years.
The supreme court, in the case of
lteedy Vance reversed the death sen
tence of the lower court and ordered
the circuit judge to sentence \ ance
to twenty-one years in the peniten
tiary. Justice Riddick, speaking for
the court, said that while such a
course was very unusual, the su
preme court could reverse, remand
or modify the judgment of the low
er court in criminal as well as civil
cases. Vance was convicted of mur
der in the first degree in Perry coun
tv for the killing of a Chinaman
at Little Rock.
Mysterious Drowning.
Birney Dickens, aged 19, a promi
nent young man of Eureka Springs,
was drowned in White river six miles
from the. above place. \ oung Dick
ens was fishing from the bank,
when suddenly his companion, a
few feet away, heard an outcry and
saw Dickens throw up his hands and
plunge forward into the stream, lie
did not rise and his frightened com
rade ran to some section men a
short distance away, who returned
and found the body plainly visible
in the bottom of the stream, six feet
beneath the surface. The singular
accident is ascribed to heart failure.
Two Injured.
The falling of a tall pine trp«
across the track qf the Kansas City
Southern caused a bad wreck of a
passenger train near Ashdown. All
the passengers and trainmen escap
ed except Engineer Taylor and Fire
man Reuter, who were seriously in
jured.
BRIEF MENTION.
A $3,000 college building is to
be erected at Heber by the Bap
tist denomination.
The directors of the Cotton Belt
have decided to locate the general
offices of the board at Texarkana.
Dora Sims was shot and fatally
wounded at Pine Bluff by Mary Mc
MeXanllv. Both women colored.
The Southwestern Telephone com
pany will expend $1,000,000 for im
provements in Arkansas and Texas.
Ike .Tones, colored,' serving a 21
year sentence in the penitentiary, es
caped from the convict camp at Der
inott.
The T. E. .Jackson handle fac
tory at Black Hock was destroyed
by tire April !), loss $3,200, insur
ance $2,000.
Douglas Fears, colored, was kill
ed at Camden by a crazy negress
named Frazer, who split his head
open with an ax.
The river and harbor appropria
tions bill before congress carries the
sum of $200,000 for improving the
upper White river.
The date of the annual meeting
of the State Teachers’ Association at
Hot Springs has been changed from
•Tune 10, 11 and 12 to June 24, 25
and 2(1.
Prof. Junius Jordan will shortly
resign as one of the faculty of the
state university to accept the super
intendency- of the-public schools of
Pine Bluff.
Jim Young, Ben Matthews and
Foster Blade, young negro boys, are
under arrest at Pine Bluff, charged
with a series of burglaries of busi
ness houses.
Hon. Clay Sloan, of Black Rock,
has resigned as member of the stale
board of charitable institutions, and
is succeeded by Hon. Jesse R. Bush,
of Helena.
Torn Shields, a young white man,
was shot and killed at Hamburg by
a man namd Lochia. The tragedy
was the result of a quarrel over a
game of c ards.
A. B. C. Duren was arrested at
Fort Smith charged with complic
ity in the hold-up of the Kansas
City Southern train near Spiro, I.
T., last January.
Gov. Davis lias displaced lion. J.
J. Whittaker as president of the St.
Louis state world's fair board and
appointed Hon. Geo. Belding, of
Hot Springs, as Iris successor.
Complete returns show that Judge
Battle* secured enough instructed
votes at the recent democratic pri
maries to insure his re-nomination
as associate justice of the supremo
court.
McWhorter, the wife murderer,
who was to have been hanged at
Van Buren on the 11th, has been
granted a stay of execution by the
supreme court, in order to pass
upon an application for a new trial.
Superintendent Gray, of the blind
school, reports that the enrollment
for March was: White 169, colored
63; total. 201. Twenty-seven were
discharged during the month, six
of whom had their eyesight entirely
restored.
The colored Masons of this state
propose to erect a $30,000 temple in
Pine Bluff. The property has been
purchased and paid for and it is
thought" the work will be far enough
along in August for the laying of
the cornerstone.
Cecil Rhodes left a fortune of
525,000,000, the bulk of which he
bequeaths to British educational in
stitutions. Oxford and Cambridge
received the largest gifts. A given
number of scholarships to these in
stitutions have been provided for, to
be distributed through competitive
examination in the United States,
Great Britain and Gerntany.