VOL. VII.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1908.
NO. 28.
NEWS OF
ARKANSAS
Seven Young People Drowned.
Clarendon ,Ark.—Seven people, in
cluding a number of prominent young
cocieties ladies, were drowned in
White River, five miles below Claren
don, Tuesday night when the boiler of
a gasoline launch, in which they had
gone for a moonlight excursion, ex
ploded, wrecking the boat. Other mem
bers of the party Were rescued with
difficulty.
The Dead.
MISS MAUDE MARTHA COUNTS
of Clarendon.
MISS LILLIAN WINFIELD of Clar
endon.
MISS BESSIE PALMER of Kansas
City, Mo.
, MISS ALINE BURTON of Helena.
MISS ALMA PEETE of St. Louis,
Mo.
DR. L. HOUSTON, of Clarendon.
JOE M’MANUS of Clarendon.
The Rescued.
Mrs. George B. Reed of Clarendon,
chaperone.
Miss Mary Cavett of Clarendon, bad
ly burned.
Miss Erma Waddell of Memphis.
W. F. Vaughan of Clarendon.
E. A. Faifer of Clarendon.
Guy H. Hutchison of Fayetteville.
J. H. Youngblood.
Many of those taken from the water
were rescued with extreme difficulty.
Mr. Faifer of Clarendon was said to
have taken three or four of the sur
vivors to the shore. Mr. Hutchison
also rescued one girl, whose name
could not be ascertained. No bodies
have been recovered.
Details of the tragedy are meagre.
The boat left Clarendon early In the
evening bearing a merry party who had
planned to go several miles down the
river.
But five miles below Clarendon the '•
boiler of the launch exploded with ter
rific effect, wrecking the boat and hurl
ing the occupants into the river, which
at that point, more than fifty feet
from shore, is very deep. Survivors can
give no account of what followed. Few
could swim and some were stunned by
the force of the explosion and went
down before swimmers in the party
could make an effort at rescue.
It was two hours after the tragedy
before it was known at Clarendon.
Parents of the young people be
came uneasy because of their
prolonged absence and runners
were sent down the river in
hopes of locating them. They returned
with news of the terrible catastrophe.
The seven who survived were found
by the river bank, where they wait
ed in vain in hopes of locating some
of the missing.
All was wild excitement there, the
dead numbering some of the most
promient and popular of the younger
set of that place. Preparations, how
ever, were begun for dredging the
river and parties have already gone
to the scene of the tragedy.
The boat was a gasoline launch
about 3(i feet long and capable of seat
ing 20 or 25 people. It was owned
by E. A. Falfer, one of those who es
caped and who saved the lives of a
number of the women of the party,
it had frequently been used for like
excursions.
None can even surmise the cause of
the explosion.
Cut Throat With Bit of Glass.
A. C. Foote, aged 30 years, a visitor
at Hot Springs from St. Louis, who
nas been employed as a waiter in a
restaurant for the past two months,
attempted to commit suicide in the
city jail by slashing his throat with
a piece of glass. He was crazed as
the result of a protracted spree.
The jailor detected Foote before
e had succeeded in inflicting a fatal
wound, but not before he had cut a
fcep gash, which almost penetrated
tne jugular vein.
Killing at Cotton Plant.
The dead body of Ralph Johnson, a
tif'gio, was found in the overflow of
Cache river at Cotton Plant Tuesday
•horning. Dunk Nixon has confessed
0 'ho killing, but declares he com
mited the deed in self-defense.
’ixon has been given a preliminary
eating and bound over to the Cir- |
’ 1 hurt on a charge of murder. It
as alleged Nixon sought to pay at
tentions to Johnson's wife.
plum Bayou Levee Board Sues.
The Board of the Plum Bayou
'C'e'' District, which includes valu
an f ',ar,n >ands in Arkansas, Lonoke
,, 1 j nlaski counties, has filed suit in
e • efferson Circuit Court against
operty owners to colect delinquent
et'. taxes alleged to be past due and
Unpaid.
"lh( total amount sued for will ag
J«,e ^°>900. Fifteen hundred land !
is are included in the petition. The
anataxes are for 1905. 1906 '
Bap Association Raps Legislature.
The first day’s session of the Ar
kansas Bar Association, which con
vened Thursday morning in the cir
cuit court room of the federal build
ing at Little Rock was marked by an
important report of the committee on
law and law reforms, which declared
that the Arkansas legislature is being
more anil more governed by local
and special legislation to the detri
ment of the state. The report, was
endorsed and an interesting discus
sion followed its reading. The com
mittee is composed of John Fletcher.
Thomas C. McRea and J. H. Car
michael. President W. H. Arnold of
Texarkana presided over the conven
tion.
The report called attention to the
fact that the constitution of Arkansas
provides that “In all cases where a
general law can be made applicable,
no special law shal be enacted” and
that “no local or special bill shall be
passed unless the notice of the inten
tion to apply therefor shall have been
published in the locality to be af
fected for 30 days.”
"Since the decision of the case of
Davis vs. Gaines was rendered,” cod
tinues the report, “holding that the ac
tion of the legislature is conclusive
of any question that may be raised in
reference to these provisions of the
constitution, they have been practical
ly disregarded by the legislature.”
The report shows that by the legis
lature of 1874-75 100 bills were passed
of which 11 were local and special and
89 were general. Only 11 per cent of
the whole number were local and spe
cial. Coming down to the last gen
eral assembly, there were enacted 474
bills, of which 308 are local and spe
cial and 166 are general. The per
centage of local and special bills is
62.87 per cent.
“Ws can suggest no remedy, other
than that which appeals to the con
scientious discharge of duty by the
individual legislators,” says the report.
"A reference of each local or special
bill to a proper committee charged
with the duty to inquire into the ques
tion arising under the constitutional
provisions referred to, might go far
to correct the evil.
“We also suggest that a law should
be enacted regulating the publication
of the notice indicated by the consti
tution, and a proper construction of
such an act by the supreme court
might go a long way to correct the
apparent wrong growing out of the
decision in Davis vs. Gaines.”
Hope to Find Bodies Today.
Another day has passed and so far
the parties dragging the river in hopes
of recovering the bodies of the victims
of the gasoline launch catastrophe at
Clarendon of Tuesday evening last
have met with little success. Not a
single body has been found, but Thurs
day afternoon in dragging near when
the accident happened, one of the me
brought up a ribbon that was at first
thought to have been worn by one of
the young ladies in her hair. Upon
investigation it was identified as a
portion of ribbon from the hat. of Miss
Peete.
Later in the day another party
brought up a part of a man’s sock
and it has been recognized as a part
of the hose worn by Mr. M c$I anus.
The finding of those and the fact that
George Stoinmeyer of Little Rock, who
has established a reputation locally in
bringing up bodies, is now here ac
companied by a man who has worked
with him, lends encouragement to the
friends and relatives and it is be
lieved that before tomorrow night at
least some of the bodies will have
been found.
Several Reported Drowned. •
The levee in Red river levee district
No. 1, near Lewisville, broke Thurs
day morning at 2 o'clock. The entire
ottom south of the Cotton Belt rail
road is flooded. The break was un
expected and those in the bottoms
were at the mercy of the flood. Live
stock of all kind is perishing and sev
eral negroes are reported drowned.
Many thousand bushels of patotoes
that were ready for shipment were
lost.
No Claimants for Insane Man.
An insane man, who says ho is Silas
B Parker of St. Louis, was arrested
at Corning a few days ago and the
officers have failed to find any rela
tives or friends of the man and they
have begun to doubt the correct name
or address was given. He gave the
address of relatives in St. Louis, but
communications addressed to them
have failed to bring any response.
A terrific storm, accompanied by
much lightning and thunder and rain,
Struck in the vicinity of Dumas Mon
day night about S o’clock. It was evi
dent that great damage had been done
toward the west and Tuesday morning
news was received at Dumas that the
home of Will J. Martin, who resided
with his wife near Mills Postofflce, in
Lincoln county, had been completely
demolished; that Mrs. Martin had been
killed and Will Martin himself escaped
with his right leg fractured in two
places.
Miscreant Maims 2 in Novel Manner.
As a fast freight passed through
Cove Saturday some person aboard the
train cast a wire in the form of a lariat
at a party of young men standing near
the track, and the noose caught two
as it fell, inflicting serious wounds on
both.
Walter Forehand was caught in the
wire loop by one foot and was hurled
headlong down a 30-foot embankment.
He was bruised from head to foot by
the fall.
Will Hadaway, another of the vic
tims, was caught by one arm and
dragged a considerable distance before
the wire, which was fastened to the
train, broke from the strain upon it.
The wire cut great gashes in his arm
and so badly lacerated it that it will
probably have to be amputated. The
breaking of the wire is all that pre
vented him front being dragged to
death beside the train.
Have Some Birthdays.
An unusual coincidence of birth
days and ages exists in the family of
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Meyers, 319 Com
merce street, Little Rock, to whom a
12-pound daughter, their first child,
was born Monday.
The daughter was born May 18,
which is the birthday of the father.
The daughter’s mother was born July
24, which is t he birth day of her father,
Dan Flannigan of Malvern, a former
well known resident of Little Rock.
When the daughter is 9 years old
she will be the same age as was her
father when his father died, and her
father will be the same age as was
his father at the time he died. Mr.
Meyers is now 31 years old. His
father died at the age of 40 years,
when Mr. Meyers was 9 years old.
Neither Branch Has Quorum.
The Arkansas legislature failed to
convene in extra session Monday In
pursuance to a cal/ issued by Speaker
Allen H. Hamiter while he was acting
governor, and there was no extra
ordinary session of that body. Xoon
and afternoon sessions were held by
members of both the senate and
house, but there as not a quorum at
any time of the four sessions. The
house, at the close of the afternoon,
idjourned sine die. The senate met
as a mass meeting of senators at the
afternoon session, and adopting a
resolution recognizing Acting Govern
or Pindall's power to revoke Speaker
Hamiter’s call, agreed to disperse and
return home.
New Railroad From Hot Springs to
Mena.
Capt. George E. Crater, a prominent
corporation lawyer and railroad pro
noter of London, Eng., is in Hot
Springs accompanied by Alexander
Jerry, an engineer formerly connected
.vith the Edison General Electric Com
iany. The object of the visit of the
wo gentlemen is to take the initial
steps looking to the building of a rail
oad from Hot Springs to Mena. It is
inderstood that several English and
American capitalists have expressed a
villingness to provide the necessary
hinds to build the proposed line. A
i (instruction company is to be organlz
I id this week and active work will
rrobably be commenced at an early
date.
Negro Slays Negro.
Will Shelberger shot and killed
Charley Howell Monday morning.
Both are negroes. They were tenants
upon the farm of H. D. Palmer, some
six miles east of Star City. They had,
previous to this affray, quarreled over
a negress.
At the time the shooting occurred,
Howel was in conversation with a
negro regarding the rent of some
land, when Shelberger came suddenly
upon them and shot Howell, hitting
him in the neck. He died immediate
ly. Howell escaped.
Parasol Causes Trouble.
Frightened at a gaudily-trimmed sun
shade, a delivery .horse belonging to
Oliver & Co., ran away Saturday at
Corning, collided with a wagon driven
by James Matthews, a farmer causing
his team to also run away.
Matthews was thrown from his wag
on, sustaining a broken ankle and a
badly wrenched back.
Chautauquas at Fayetteville.
Fayetteville this year is to have two
Chautauquas. one under the manage
ment of H. Ayer, to begin on the 25th
of June, closing eight days later, and
the other under the management of j
Fred W. BarteTl, to begin on July 9
Wife Threw Scissors at Him.
Charles Early was stabbed at his
home at Eureka Springs by his wife
Thursday and nearly bled to death be
fore a surgeon could reach him. His
wife threw a pair of scissors at him
with great violence and the scissors
struck him in the groin and severed
an artery.
Sees Father after 36 Years.
Theodore Price of Holdenville,
Okla., is at Gillett, visiting his father,
Joe Price, whom he had not seen for
36 years.
NO SKIN LEFT ON BODY.
For Six Months Baby Was Expected
to Die with Eczema—Now Well
—Doctor Said to Use Cuticura.
“Six months after birth my little girl
broke out with eczema and I had two
doctors in attendance. There was not
a particle of skin left on her body, the
blood oozed out just anywhere, and we
had to wrap her in silk and carry her
on a pillow for ten weeks. She was the
most terrible sight 1 ever saw, and for
six months 1 looked for her to die. I
used every known remedy to allevi
ate her suffering, for it was terrible
to witness. Dr. C- gave her up. Dr.
B- recommended the Cuticura
Remedies. She will soon be three
years old and has never had a sign
of the dread trouble since. We used
about eight cakes of Cuticura Soap
and three boxes of Cuticura Ointment.
James J. Smith, Durmid, Va., Oct. 14
and 22, 1906.”
Same Thing.
“Whom did you say she was going
to marry?"
“A Hungarian count.”
“Oh, I thought you said ‘hungry.’ ”
Actual Facts.
For upwards of fifteen years Hunt’s
Cure has been sold under a strict guar
antee to cure any form of itching skin
troubles known. No matter the name
—less than one per cent, of the pur
chasers have requested their money
back. Why? It simply does the work.
His Satanic majesty has learned
the art of getting something for noth
ing.
Don't Delay.
Save a possible serious spoil of fever
later on by cleansing your system now
of its accumulation of impurities. Sim
mon's Sarsaparilla will do it. It makes
fine blood, fine appetite, great strength
and grand ambition.
A good life is the readiest way to
procure a good name.—Whlchcot.
HEALTH VERY POOR —
RESTORED BY PE-Rl-NA.
Catarrh Twenty-five Years—
Had a Bad Cough.
Miss Sophia Kittlesen, Evanston,
Illinois, U. S. A., writes:
"l liave been troubled with catarrh
for nearly twenty-live years and have
tried many cures for it, but obtained
very little help. *
"Then my brother advised me to try
Peruna, and I did.
"My health was very poor at the time
I began taking Peruna. My throat was
very sore and I had a bad cough.
“Peruna has cured me. The chronic
catarrh is gone and my health is very
much improved.
"I recommend Peruna to all my
friends who are troubled as 1 was.”
PiRCNA TABLETS: Some people pre
fer tablets, rather than medicine in a
fluid form. Such people can obtain Peru
na tablets, which represent the medici
nal ingredients of Peruna. Each tablet
equals one average dose of Peruna.
Man-a-lin the Ideal Laxative.
Manufactured by Peruna Drug Manu
facturing Company, Columbus, Ohio.
SICK HEADACHE
Positively cured by
these Little Pills.
They also relieve Dis
tress from Dyspepsia, In
digestion and Too Hearty
Eating. A perfect rem
edy for Dizziness, Nau
sea, Drowsiness, Bad
Taste in the Mouth, Coat
ed Tongue, Pain in the
Side, TORPID LIVER.
They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable.
SMALL PILL SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE.
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Genuine Must Bear
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REFUSE SUBSTITUTES.
$30,000 Hotel Projected.
The Park Amusement Company will
consider the prposition of erecting p
$30,000 brick hotel in the park at Mor
rilton in the near future. The com
pany was formed more than a year ago
and one of the finest springs in the
county has been fully developed and
over $1,500 worth of work done on the
spring, a large pavilion for the band
has been erected, concrete and cement
placed around the spring from the
town. The spring is one of the finest
in the state and a large hotel will
make Morilton one of the leading sum
mer and health resorts in the state.
The spring referred to is near the
foot of a slooping hill near a rippling
brook and is within three blocks of the
business part, of the town. The spring
was found about 40 years ago and cows
drank out of it, but no one knew it
was the very finest of sulphur water
with some iron in it. The people of
Morilton are found at the park every
day drinking from it.
2C0 at Banquet to the Medical Society.
More than 200 men were at the ban
quet at the Hotel Marion Friday night
given by the citizens of Little Rock
under the auspices of the Board of
Trade to the members of the Arkansas
Medical Society. J. J. Mandlebaum.
vice-president of the Board of Trade,
was the toastmaster and there were 11
speakers. One of the features of the
evening was the speech by Dr. C. C.
Stephenson, whose subject was “Post
Mortem Remarks,” but who spent most
of his time discussing the proposition
to turn the old state house into a State
Charity hospital.
Hinemon College Closing.
The annual commencement exer
cises of Hinemon University will be
held June 2. The program for the
commencement week is as follows:
Friday evening, May 29. annual con
cert; Saturday evening, contests in
elocution, oratory and music; Sunday
morning, baccalaureate sermon by
Rev. R. A. Cooper, D. D., of Pontotoc,
Miss.; Monday evening. Crescent
against Adelphian Intersociety, de
bate; Tuesday evening, graduation ex
ercises, baccalaureate address by
Lieutenant Governor Manship of Jack
sou, Miss. Presentation of medals
and diplomas.
Shot By Playmate.
Stuart Smith, the S-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. William .1. Smith, 1918
West Pullen street. Pine Bluff, was
accidently shot and killed Thursday
while playing in the woodshed with
some other children who were trying
to cock a 22-caliber revolver which
they had found. The bullet entered
near his right eye and he ran out of
the shed into the back yard, where
he fell dead. His playmates at once
ran to their homes and are so fright
ened at cannot be learned in whose
hands the weapon was when the aeci
detn occurred.
Skull Broken by Fall.
Robert Turner, the 5-year-old son of
Judge P. A. Turner of the district
court, fell on the pavement in front of
the Turner residence, 623 Olive street,
Texarkana, about S o'clock Thursday
night and sustained a slight fracture
of the skull. His injuries were at
first regarded as very dangerous, but
it is now stated that he will recover.
Senator Greenhaw Hurt.
Passenger train Xo. 4 from the south
was wrecked eight miles from Fay
etteville Thursday morning. The en
gine and tender were badly smashed,
a number of cars left the track and
the baggage car turned over.
The only injury was Senator Green
haw of Leslie, Ark., whose side and
thigh were hurt, but not seriously.
Schaeffer Out of Bulletin.
The Citizens' Bulletin, a Hot Springs
afternoon reform newspaper, changed
hands Thursday. George H. Adams of
Helena, Ark., purchasing the interest
of his co-lessee, R. O. Schaffer, It is
understood the paper will be continued
under the sole management of its new
editor, but probably on less radical
lines than in the past.
Bids for New Public Building.
A message has been received from
the treasury department of the Uni
ted States government, saying that
sealed proposals for the building of
the United States government build- j
ing at Fayetteville will be received
tin to the 24th of June. The building
i.- to be a $50,000 structure, and is to
bo erected on the public square.
Andrew Heintz of Sebastian county,
who was convicted last July of mur
der in the second degree and sent
enced to 15 years in the penitentiary,
was Wednesday pardoned by Acting
Governor Hamiter. A petition ask
ing for the pardon was presented,
which was signed by several hundred
citizens of Sebastian county. The
petition stated that Heintz was a
good citizen with a family, and that
he killed the man whom he was con
victed of murdering when both were
drunk and fighting.
More proof that Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound saves
woman from surgical operations.
Mrs. S. A. Williams, of Gardiner,
Maine, writes:
“I was a great sufferer from female
troubles, and Lydia E. Piakham’s Vege
table Compound restored me to health
in three months, after my physiciam
! declared that an operation was abso
lutely necessary.”
Sirs. Alvina Sperling, of 154 Cley
bourne Ave., Chicago, 111., writes:
“I suffered from female troubles, a
tumor and much inflammation. Two
of the best doctors in Chicago decided
that an operation was necessary to save
my life. Lydia E. Pinkharns Vegetable
Compound entirely cured me without
an operation.”
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera
tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges
tion, dizziness,or nervous prostration.
Why don’t you try it t
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her tor advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
The fairest of all things fair on
earth is virtue.—Shakespeare.
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
1 >eal applications, as they cannot reach the dl»
portion of the ear. There Is only one way to
care deafness, and that Is by constitutional remedies.
I>eafne«s Is caused by an Inflamed condition of rhe
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this
tube s Inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Im
perfect hearing, and when It Is entirely closed, Deaf
ne>- is the result, and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condi
tion. hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases
out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which Is nothing
but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of
Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured
by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.
F. J. CHENEY <& CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists. ?5c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
WAIT TILL HE SEES THE BILL.
"My husband has promised to allow
mo to choose what I want for my
birthday.”
"Oh, then there'll be no surprise
this year.”
"Won’t there! I'll bet you there is,
only he'll get it instead of me.”
DR. TALKS OF FOOD
Pres, of Board of Health.
“What shall I eat?" is the daily in
qniry the physician is met with. I do
not hesitate to say that in my judg
ment a large percentage of disease is
caused by poorly selected and improp
erly prepared food. My personal expe
rience with the fully-cooked food,
known as Grape-Nuts, enables me to
speak freely of its merits.
"From overwork. I suffered several
years with malnutrition, palpitation of
the heart and loss of sleep. Last sum
mer 1 was led to experiment person
ally with the new food, which I used
in conjunction with good rich cowr's
milk. In a short time after I com
menced its use, the disagreeable symp
toms disappeared, my heart's action
became steady and normal, the func
tions of the stomach were properly
carried out and I again slept as sound
ly and as well as in my youth.
"I look upon Grape-Nuts as a per
fect food, and no one can gainsay but
that, it has a most prominent place in
a rational, scientific system of feed
ing. Any one who uses this food will
soon be convinced of the soundness of
the principle upon which it is manu
factured and may thereby know the
facts as to its true worth.” Read "The
Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s
a Reason.”
Ever read the above letterY A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.