War-Muts Cmmtx INer
VOL. V.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, ,!ULY 1?, 190(1.
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NO. 34.
An Epitome of the Most Impor
tant Events at Home and
Abroad the Past Week.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH.
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation of Current News Items,
Both Domestic and Foreign, For
People Who Want the Best.
congressional, notes.
The first session of the Fifty-ninth
congress closed its work with the going
out of the month of June. The session
will bear comparison >vith any of late
years in the amount of Important leg
islation enacted. The appropriations
will approximate $900,000,000.
President Roosevelt says of the ses
sion of congress just closed, that it
has done more along the lines of “real
constructive statesmanship'’ than has
been accomplished at any other ses
sion with which he is familiar.
Speaker Cannon says: “In my judg
ment the work done and the legisla
tion enacted in the session just closed
exceeds in importance for the best
interests of the people, the work of
any session during my SO years of pub
lic life.”
GENERAL HKWI IIE11S.
German Consul Bopp, at San Fran
cisco says the German insurance com
panies having risks in San Francisco
will pay their losses dollar for dollar
and will not be classed w'ith the “six
bit” concerns which are endeavoring
to shave their losses. A hint from
Emperor William is sai dto have had
something to do with determining
them.
The making permanent of an in
junction against railroad ticket scalp
ers by Judge Marshall, in the federal
court at Salt Lake, Utah, has the ef
fect of prohibiting the scalping of
railroad tickets anywhere in Utah.
The casualties due to the Fourth of
July celebration had reached, up to
latest accounts 51 dead and 3,551 in
jured.
The jury in the federal court In Chi
cago, in the Chicago & Alton rebate
case, in which John N. Faithorn and
Fred A. Wann, former officials of the
road were jointly indicted, returned a
verdict of guilty on the first eight
counts of the indictment..
The Kansas supreme court handed
down a decision holding Mayor W. W.
Rose of Kansas City, Kas., in con
tempt for having assumed the office
of mayor after the court had ousted
him. The court ordered him to relin
quish the office and fined him $1,000
for contempt.
Former Judge A. B. Tanner, of Port
land, Ore., who perjured himself in
order to shield his former law part
ner, the late United States Senator
Mitchell, charged with land fraud, has
been pardoned by the president.
Bradstreet’s says the bright pros
pects for business continue. unim
paired and that crop conditions, on
the whole are favorable.
The United States transport Thom
as is ashore on a coral reef ofT'the
island of Guam, with little prospect
of getting off. Gen. Wood cabled from
Manila for authority to send the
transport Meade to take off the pas
sengers and cargo. The Thomas car
ried no troops.
umiuL jauica XV. AI1CU, W11U uiauc
an ascension at Providence, R. I., on
the Fourth of July, was rescued by
fishermen 12 miles out at sea off Chat
ham, Mass., the following morning,
about 7/ miles from his starting point,
and after he had drifted around about
200 miles. His balloon waB saved in
good shape.
Secretary of State Walter L. Hauser
of Wisconsin was acquitted in the
Dane county municipal court at Madl
son of the charge of attempting to
bribe the state commissioner of In
surance.
Surgeons testified In the court
martial at Cronstadt that Admiral
Rojestvensky, by reason of his
wounds, was in an irresponsible con
dition at the time the gunboat Be
dov i was surrendered to the Japanese
in the battle of the Sea of Japan.
Judge ^W. D. Robinsqm of the Indi
ana appellate court, sitting as special
Judge, decided against Mayor Blda
tnan of Terre Haute, holding that the
action of the city council In ousting
him was legal.
Former United States Marshal J.
H Woolman, Grant Christian and
Frank D. Cooper pleaded guilty
>n the federal court at Helena, Mont.,
0 illegal fencing of government lands,
and were each fined $500 and sent to
Jail for 24 hours.
Keports from various parts of the
country show that Independence day
exacte(l usual toll in the way of ac
ci ents from the careless handling of
P> i<'technics, etc., the majority, of
course, being children. Thirty-seven
dead and 2,789 Injured had been re
ported up to tlje mqinjftg after.
Lewis S. Clark, for eight years re
publican national committeeman for
Louisiana, died suddenly in New Or
leans of acute Indigestion.
H. Me. K. Twombly, Jr., aged 18
years, only son of H. McK. Twombly,
the New York capitalist, was drowned
while bathing in Big Sauam lake at
llolderness, N. H.
President Rosevelt has declined the
Invitation of the Commercial Travel
ers’ Anti-Trust league to preside at a
reception it is to tender William J.
Bryan, at Madison Square garden, New
York, August 19.
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth
are in Paris, the guests of Ambassa
dor McCormick. Several interesting
functions in their honor were given
during their stay at the French cap
ital.
Attorney General Rogers of Ar
kansas has filed suits against several
ice companies in Little Rock under the
anti-trust law, alleging a combination
to prevent competition.
The remains of Mrs. James Tanner,
wife of the commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, who wras
accidentally killed at Helena, Mont., af
ter funeral services in Washington,
were interred in the National ceme
tery at Arlington, Va. Among the
floral tributes was a wreath from
President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
George W. Householder, who started
the first evening paper in Kansas City,
Mo., the Kansas City Evening Bul
letin, in 1868, died at his home in that
city, aged 81 years.
The United States cruiser Columbia
and the gunboats Mayflower and Ta
coma are to be stationed at various
ports in San Domingo where custom
houses with American collectors are
installed.
uiKuuumia aim oanauui aic iiuuvm^
overtures to the United States to act
as arbitrator of their troubles arising
from the alleged activity of Salvador
In support of the revolutionary move
ment in Guatemala.
The fall of the Kussian ministry ap
pears to have been postponed on ac
count of the refusal of the constitu
tional democrats to participate in a
coalition cabinet. Premier Goremekin
still asserts his anxiety to retire.
The prefect of police of Moscow has
ordered that striking building trades
employes be expelled from Moscow, and
the city council has decreed that re
lief for the unemployed shall not be ex
tended to strikers.
Hon. Grover Cleveland is reported
ill at his home in Princeton, N. J., and
was obliged to cancel an engagement
to come west for a fishing trip in Wis
consin with James H. Eckels, former
comptroller of the currency.
Benjamin F. Burd, aged 46 years,
member of the Burd & Fletcher Print
ing Co., of Kansas City, Mo., and prom
inent In business affairs in that city,
committed suicide by shooting in his
private office. Financial and domestic
worries are assigned a3 the cause.
The Belgian crew captured the grand
challenge cup in the Henley regatta in
England and the British oarsmen are
terribly disgruntled.
Abe Attell retains the featherweight
championship of America by getting
the decision in a vicious 20-round bat
tle at Los Angeles, Cal., with Frankie
Neil, before the Pacific Athletic club.
He lauded six blows to his opponent’s
one.
The Crown Princess Frederick Will
iam of Germany celebrated the Fourth
of July by presenting her husband
with a son and the German empire
with an heir to the throne. There
was great rejoicing, and a salute of 101
guns was fired in honor of the event
and half a million copies of the official
gazette anouncing it distributed gratis.
The prince will be christened Wilhelm
August 12.
secretary oi state tunu H.001, ac- .
companied by Mrs. Root, his son Ed
ward and his daughter, Miss Edith,
have started on the cruiser Charleston
for the trip to Brazil and other South
American republics.
Americans abroad, as is their wont,
celebrated Independence day. Recep
tions and banquets were held at the
American embassies in London, Paris, |
Vienna and Rome; the visiting Nor- J
wegian-Americans celebrated in Chris- j
tiana; the American colony and tour
ists did likewise in Copenhagen; the
Americans in Berlin got up a game of
baseball, and at Guayquil, EucuadoT,
the foreign consulates hoisted flags
and a military band serenaded the
American consulate.
Harry Kendall Thaw, learning that
the women and boys confined in the
Tombs prison in New York had been
treated to ice cream and cake on the
Fourth of July, and that the men were j
overlooked, promptly ordered a supplyT
of the delicacies for his fellow male
prisoners. It took 46 quarts of cream
and 30 dozen cakes to go round.
In a duel on horsfeback at Pittkin,
Col., George Campbell was shot and
killed by Frank Vader, a ranchman.
Vader says Campbell stole a horse
from him.
The "Welcome'' arch at Denver, Col.,
erected opposite the union station at a
cost of >22,000, raised by voluntary
contributions, which, on special occa
sions, will carry 1,800 electric lights,
was dedicated on the Fourth.
Prof. Henry A. Ward, of Chicago, a j
well-known naturalist, was struck by
an automobile in Buffalo, N. Y., and
'tilled. I
AB
RKANSAS
STATE NEWS
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Don’t Think He Is Missing Heir.
Contractor P. H. McCarthy who lives
at 2121 Cumberland street in Little
Rock, may have fallen heir to a large
fortune and an extensive estate if he
should prove himself to be the man
sought by the International Genealog
ical Association of New York. But
Mr. McCarthy expresses serious doubt
as to whether he is really the man.
Chief of Police Hawkins has received
a lette from the association asking
him to help locate “P. H. McCarthy,
2121 Cumberland street,” and the let
ter stated that this man was a direct
descendant of a wealthy man, and
missing heir to a large estate. Chief
Hawkins had no trouble in locating
Mr. McCarthy. It is not known to
what estate the letter refers and Mr.
McCarthy does not know much about
the matter. He has received other
letters from the International Gene
alogical Association, but places little
faith in that part of the letters which
says he is the missing heir to a for
tune.
Keep Up the Good Work.
The County Farmers’ Union has
closed a two days’ meeting at Liberty
Church, nine miles east of Conway.
Z. D. Morgan was elected president.
J. N. J. Wilkerson, vice-president; E.
H. Edwards, secretary and treasurer;
R. G. Dunaway, county organizer and
lecturer. The meeting w'as well at
tended. An open session was held,
and State Lecturer Beecher Lewis of
Monroe county and J. P. Price of El
Paso, White county, addressed the
meeting. Mr. Lewis reviewed the
growth of the union in Arkansas and
the good that has been accomplished.
Wealthy Negro Passes Away.
Ben Payne, a well-known and
wealthy negro, is dead at his resi
dence, near Oakville, about nine miles
from Memphis. Uncle Ben was 75
years old at the time of his death.
The old negro was very popular with
both races, and earned his competence
by hard labor and friendly relations
with the white race. He was honest
and trustworthy, and won the friend
ship of everybody with whom he came
in contact. The deceased’s fortune
was estimated at ?200,000 or more. He
owned farm lands in Tennessee, Texas
and Arkansas.
In Union There Is Strength.
At a meeting of prominent Cumber
land Presbyterians at the First Cum
berland Presbyteria Church at Nash
ville, Tenn., which was attended by
several members of the church from
this state, plans were diseussed for a
campaign for the purpose of dissemi
nating information relative to the re
cently concluded union between the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church and
the Presbyterian Church of the United
States of America. Plans were fully
matured for the campaign, and a num
ber of important questions were con
sidered. Dr. Ira Landrith, moderator
of the last Cumberland General As
sembly, presided at the meeting.
Words, Words, Words.
The largest deed ever recorded in
Uttle River county has been made
)f record in the Circuit clerk’s office,
t is the deed from the F. and K. C. S.
Co. to J. T. Cowling as trustee for
he holders of certicates of purchase,
rhe register of names and addresses
)f each and every shareholder is
nade a part of the deed. It takes
ip several hundred pages of the rec
>rd book.
Arkansas Postal News.
The sites of the following postofficei
have been changed: Iuka, Izard Coun
ty, 200 yards north, Lucy C. Arnold,
postmaster; Lena, Garland County,
one-fourth mile east, Robert H. Mel
ton, postmaster. John R. Moseley has
been appointed postmaster at Eaton.
A Prince of the Blood.
Oskazuma, native born Kaffir from
the heart of Kaffir land, in South
Africa, is thoroughly civilized and
enlightened, due to the efforts of the
missionaries who took him from the
haunts of the native savages at the
age of 14. He is now 40 years old,
and for many years has traveled over
the world giving exhibitions and lec
tures. fie is spending the summer in
the South, having lately appeared at
the negro theater, Little Rock, where
he gave lectures on the customs of
his people.
Lee King Under Arrest.
Lee King, of Harrison, under sen
tence of ten years’ imprisonment in
Missouri for complicity in the killing
3f Henry Barchman, near Omaha, in
connection with the late Wes Hudson,
has been apprehended at Yellville
and will be removed to the Missouri
penitentiary.
Eureka Springs Failure.
John M. Whitehead, a Eureka
Springs grocer, has assigned for the
benefit of his creditors, with assets
sufficient to cover his liabilities
15.000.
It Stood the Test.
The floors of the new State Capitol
have been tested for the purpose of
ascertaining their condition, and
whether ther is any truth in the
charges made that they will not sus
tain the weight required. The re
sults obtained were eminently satis
factory. The specifications call for
floors that will sustain a pressure of
from 150 to 300 pounds to the square
foot, and the tests went as high as
730 pounds without a deflection that
could have been discovered by a mi
croscope. The first test was made in
the law library, where the middle
span was covered with brick to the
depth of thirty inches. The span is
13 1-2 feet by 28 12 feet. Fifty-seven
men then mounted the pile of bricks,
waking a total live weight of 143,710
pounds, or an average of 350 pounds
to the square foot, where only 300
pounds is required. The average be
fore the men were placed on the
weight was 321 pounds. The next test
was made in the committee room on
the third floor, where 344 sacks of
cement were piled up in a space 4 by
15 feet and forty men, all that could
find a foothold, placed upon that,
making an average of 730 pounds to
the square foot. The test was an ad
solute one, and gauges were arranged
so that any deflection would be read
ily detected. Nothing whatever could
be seen in the first test indicative of
the least sagging, but in the last some
thought they saw a deflection about
the width of half a pencil mark. It
is claimed that the floors will give
an inch before breaking, but it is
pointed out that a most stupendous
weight would be required to produce
such a strain—a weight that no floor
could ever be called upon to sustain.
All expressed themselves as highly
pleased with the tests.
The Coffers Will Be Full.
Within the next twfo weeks State
Treasurer Tipton expects to receive
from sheriffs of the State taxes
amounting to $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
The County Courts of the State are
now in session for the purpose of
approving the settlements as com
piled by the county clerks. When
these settlements have been approved
the sheriffs will begin paying over to
the State the moneys specified in the
reports of the county clerks. As a
rule it is several days after the meet
ing of the County Court before much
money is received. A meeting of
sheriffs will be held in Little Rock
soon for the purpose of considering
legislation of especial interest to
sheriffs, and it is expected a great
many sheriffs of the State will take
advantage of this opportunity to pay
in the funds from their county to the
state treasurer.
Innocent, He Asks No Pardon.
Topeka, Kan. — Senator Burton's
counsel, in a signed statement, say:
“Recently there has appeared in the
public press of Washington a dis
patch saying an effort will be made
to obtain a pardon for Senator Burton,
and saying, further, some of his ex
colleagues have quietly discussed the
advisability of asking Presndent
Roosevelt to set aside the sentence.
We are authorized to say for him
that neither now nor at any time will
he ask for a pardon. This is a case
for the courts, to be finally adjudi
cated by the courts, and our client
will rest his case there and obey the
mandate, whatever it may be, and
while he will contend to the last for
his honor and good name, asserting
his inocence always, if the final de
cree is against him he will not turn
to the executive for a pardon for a
crime he never committed.”
Out on a Strike.
Birmingham—Because of the expir
ation of their wage contract two thou
sand union miners have quit work.
This makes five thousand union
miners on strike in Alabama, others
having been idle for two years past at
the mines of the four largest furnace
corporations in the state, which have
established “open-shop mines."
Justice of the Peace W. A. Ray of
Falkner county imposed a fine of $25
and costs upon the St. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern Railway Com
pany for failure to keep its bulletin
board properly posted, as provided by
law. Some time ago Information was
filed against the railroad company by
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Robins,
charging the railroad company with
failing to properly post the bulletin
boad on May 9, 1906. The railroad
company did not appear, and a plea
of not guilty was entered for it, and
the trial had, with the result stated.
Body Buried as Unidentified.
In relation to the question of the
identity of the man found in the Ar
kansas river, near Little Rock, some
days ago and taken to Birmingham
a3 the body of W. J. Marshall, the fol
lowing from the Birmingham Age
Herald establishes that the body was
buried as that of an unknow'n man:
“The body found in the Arkansas
river and believed by S. H. Harris to
be that of W. J. Marshall, the missing
contractor of Birmingham, was buried
as unidentified in Elmwood cemetery.
GERMANS ABE NOT
SIX BIT CONCERNS
WILL PAY DOLLAR FOR DOL
LAR ON FRISCO LOSSES.
SO SAYS GERMAN CONSUL
The Germon Emperor Said to Have
Practically Ordered the Compa
nies Not to Fall Down On
Their Obligations.
San Francisco, Cal.—“The German
Insurance companies will pay in full/'
says F. Bopp, German consul, tempor
arily located in this city, who recently
returned from Germany, where he in
vestigated the standing of the coin
panies doing business on this coast.
Not “Six-Bit” Concerns.
"I am in a position to know that the
German insurance companies will pay
dollar for dollar,” said the consul,
“and I wish to advise ail persons do
ing business with a German company
not to accept a compromise. None of
the German companies wish to be
classed with the ‘six-bit’ concerns.
My knowledge on this point is absoj
lute. Money to pay off every claim is
on hand, and it will be a matter of but
a few days when it will arrive.”
Made Exhaustive Investigation.
Mr. Bopp has just concluded an ex
haustive investigation of conditions
in San Francisco, the result of which
he has sent off to his government.
While making no recommendation to
the home office, the tenor of the re
port is unmistakably in favor of the
insurance companies carrying out
their obligations.
The Emperor Gave Them a Hint.
The consul would not commit him
self on the attitude of Emperor Will
iam toward those companies that
showed a tendency to shave claims.
The general implication of his re
marks, however, was to the effect that
the emperor had practically ordered
the companies to settle on a dollar for
dollar basis.
MAYOR ROSE FINED
$1,000 FOR CONTEMPT
Topeka, Kas.—The Kansas state
supreme court, Friday, handed down a
decision holding Mayor W. W. Rose of
Kansas City, Kas., in contempt for
having assumed the office of mayor
after the court had ousted him for the
non enforcement of the prohibition
law, and the law against gambling.
In the order Mayor Rose is ordered
to relinquish the office and is fined
$1,000 for contempt. The court
further orders if Mayor Rose fails to
pay the fine w-ithin 20 days he shall be
committed to jail until such time as
it is paid.
Mayor Rose's attorneys immediate
ly filed a writ of error.
THE MUTINY AT VLADIVOSTOK
Riot and Mutiny Among the Russian
Troops Reinforced By a Citicen
Mob.
Tokio, Japan.—Riot and mutiny are
In progress at Vladivostok, accoiding
to the news brought to Nagasaki by a
steamship, the Colonia of the East
Asiatic Steamship Co., which has ar
rived at Nagasaki from the Russian
naval stronghold. There was bloody
fighting in the streets between the
Cossacks on one side and the mob,
re-enforced by disaffected soldiers, on
the other. Just before the Colonia
sailed the mob had captured a battery
of artillery and was using it in an at
tack on the Cossacks.
PROSPECTS CONTINUE
BRIGHT FOR BUSINESS
New York.—Bradstreet’s regular
weekly review says:
It has been a between-seasons week
in general trade and industry, but
more than the usual seasonable busi
ness doing, despite holiday influences.
The taking of inventories and in the
case of industrial plants, the making
or repairs is naturally a feature. Nev
ertheless bright prospects continue un
impaired. Fall orders are coming for
ward in good volume. Crop conditions
on the whole are very favorable.
DUE TO INSANE CELEBRATION
Fifty-One Dead and Over Three Thous
and Injured the Latest Fourth
of July Figures.
Chicago.—A nearly full round-up of
casualties due to an “insane” celebra
tion of Independence Day shows 51
dead and 3,551 injured. The loss of
life almost equals that of last year,
when 59 persons were killed. Every
record for the number injured was
broken, and all of the back countries
haven’t been heard from yet.
FRAUD IN THE WEST.
THE MUCK RAKE TO BE USED TO
UNCOVER POLITICAL FILTH.
Special Grand Jury Ordered and
Many Officers to Be Put
On the Rack.
Denver.—An order has been made
by District Judge John I. Mullins, sit
ting in the criminal division of the
District Court, calling a grand jury
to investigate all city and county offi
cers, “and such other matters as may
be submitted to the jury.”
Judge Mullins, in his order, says:
“It having been brought to the at
tention of the court, through the pub
lic press and from many honored and
respected citizens of this city and
county, that frauds of the grossest
character were perpetrated at the re
cent election held in this city and
county for the election of city officers
and the submission of certain fran
chises to the vote of the people at
said election, the court has deemed
it imperative to call a grand jury.
From the information the court has
received it has ben determined that
such grand jury shall investigate the
officers and office of the district at
torney within and for the Second
Judicial District, the sheriff, coroner,
treasurer and assessor and their ofc
Sees in connection with said election
frauds.”
The order continues.
“It is further brought to the atten
tion of the court that these officers,
together with certain city officers, en
terel into and were in collusion to
protect the violators of the election
laws in the aforesaid election.”
Before calling the grand jury Judge
Mullins reviewed the proceedings in
his court in the petition of the Honest
Elections League for the appointment
of a grand jury to investigate alleged
frauds at the city elections, and for
the removal of the sheriff, coroner
and district attorney. He said:
“The showing of the Honest Elec
tions League was such as to warrant
the court in finding that the grossest
frauds were committed on election
day of May 15, last, that a bold and
brazen attempt was made to steal the
election and on the face of the re
turns, succeeded, by debauching the
ballot boxes and the corruption of
public officials, who, though charged
with the ferreting cut of crime and
the punishment of the criminals, were
either parties to this outrage, or were
negligent in the discharge of their
duties as to make them particeps
criminis.”
When Will It End?
Mexico City.—The latest arriving
ing persons from Guatemala confirm
the reports of stagnation of business
and lack of men to gather the coffee
crop, while corn is not being planted.
The government has concentrated an
army of 30,000 men, many of them
unarmed and badly clothed, near the
Salvadorean frontier. Gen. Toledo’s
camp of revolutionists is near at hand,
and he is drilling his men and receiv
ing recruits from all parts of the coun
try. A refugee from Guatamala says
Guatemala City is like a dead city,
with no news of things that are hap
pening. N o one says a word against
the Cabrera administration, for they
dare not, and newspapers come out
without news of the revolution, as
they are under the strictest sort of
censorship. No one in Guatemala
dares know anything about the revo
lution. To talk is to be suspected.
Cabrera, this informant says, is a
shrewd man, but promises more than
he can carry out. His policy with
suspected people is to send them out
of the countiy.
A Grand Work Well Done.
Geneva.—The final text of the re
vised Red Cross convention, whereby
practically all the nations of the civil
ized world agree upon rules in the
matter of the treatment of the sick,
wounded and dead, members of the
hospital corps and nurses in time of
war shows a number of changes in
the antiquated convention of 1864.
the protocol of this new convention,
which has been signed by William
Cary Sanders, who was assistant sec
retary of war under Secretary Root;
Rear Admiral Perry, president of the
naval war college; Gen. George B
Davis, judge-advocate general of the
American army, and Gen. O'Reilley,
surgeon general of the American
army, all acting in behalf of the
United States, gives until December
13, 1906, for the ratification of the
convention by the governments con
cerned.
May Be He’s Right About It.
Altona, Prussia—August Rosenberg,
formerly of Seattle, Wash., who was
arested here July 3 as a suspected
anarchist, affirms that he is an Amer
ican citizen, who sold his property
in Seattle and returned here with the
intention of passing the remainder
of his life in the village of Lieuten
genburg, province of Schlesswig-Hol
stein, where his wife was brought up.
He is 65 years old. His wife, who
was arrested at the same time, haa
been liberated.