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News of the World
The Ziegler expedition sailed
June 24 to explore for the north
pole.
Charles Jones, accused of assault
ing a 12-year-old girl, was hanged
by a mob at Elk Valley, Tenn.
Sir Thomas Lipton, challenger
for the American cup with Sham
rock III, arrived in New York from
London June 24.
To date the St. Louis World’s
Fair Company has expended the
sum of $8,500,000. There yet re
mains at the disposal of the com
mission the sum of $5,000,000.
President Roosevelt has instruct
ed the attorney general to lend ev
ery assistance to the head of depart
ments of the postal service in the in
vestigations now under way by ap
pointing special counsel when nec
essary.
Emperor William made a person
al inspection of the American quad
ron, in charge of Admiral Cotton,
upon its arrival at Kiel, Prussia, on
a maneuvering cruise, and personal
ly complimented the officers on the
perfect condition of the warships.
Work has commenced on a sys
tem of wharfage and drainage at
New Orleans which is destined to
make that city one of the best sani
tated in the world. The improve
ments will cost in the neighborhood
of $ 1^,000,000, the people voting to
tax themselves for that sum.
The owners of The Picket, win
ner of tlie American derby at Chi
cago, did not have a dollar bet on
their entry. He is owned by Mid
dleton & Jinglebluth, who breed and
raise all the horses they race, but
they never wag^r any money on re
sults. Both are wealthy manufac
turers, and own a fine stock farm
near Beards, Ky., where The Picket
was raised.
The Iowa state democratic con
vention refused, by a vote of 4(13
to 354, to reaffirm the Kansas City
national platform. The following
ticket was nominated: Governor,
J. B. Sullivan; lieutenant governor,
1). B. Butler; judge of supreme
court, John It. Caldwell; superin
tendent of public instruction, A. B.
McCook; railroad commissioner, W.
S. Porter. The platform denounced
the tariff policy of the republicans;
vigorously opposes imperialism,
c ondemns the republican financial
policy, deplores the corrupt condi
tion of the postal service, demands
that tariff schedules be adjusted
with a view to tariff for revenue
only, and asks for a law limiting
.•barges by railroads.
A mob of 4.i)00 at Wilmington,
Del., burned a negro rapist and
murderer named George F. White.
The mob overpowered the guards at
the work house where the negro was
confined, battered down the door to
his cell and hustled the prisoner
away. Ho was taken to a point
about four miles from town, near
the scene of his crime, where a pile
of brush ami dry timber had been
gathered. The mob formed a circle
while the leaders bound and chain
ed White to a post. The dry tim
ber saturated with coal oil was then
piled about his body and a match
applied. When the rope about the
miserable man’s legs burned away
he leaped from the roaring flames,
but was knocked down and thrown
bgck into the burning timber. Fuel
was piled upon the body until it
was almost entirely consumed. White
confessed to assaulting and murder
ing the 17-year-old daughter of
Rev. K. A. Bishop. The crime was
a most fiendish one. The victim
plead piteously to be spared, but
after accomplishing his hellish
purpose the fiend cut the girl’s
throat. He was captured and held
in jail for several days, and when
the court set his trial for the Sep
tember term, instead of holding a
special session of c-urt and giving-'
him an immediate hearing, the p<yi>
ple became indignant and tools? the
law into their own hands. 0
The immigration bureau of the
treasury department hay prepared a
statement showing ttyat the month
of May last was thej banner month
of the immigration service in the
United States, during the month
140,000 immigrants landed in this
country. V
John Browning, colored, under
sentenced for munfler, suicided in
jail at Georgetown, S. C., a few
days before thfc date set for his ex
ecution by taking pciacn.
Every union workman engaged in
the building trades in New York
city is out on strike, the main
contention being the recognition
of the various unions by contractors.
Over 100.000 men in the trades are
idle and building is at a standstill.
In accordance with instructions
from their government, the minis
try of England, France, Holland
and Turkey have left the capital of
Servia. The above named powers
have demanded the punishment of
the murderers of King Alexandria
and Queen Draga, which threatens
the new dynasty, as those responsi
ble for the assassination are virtual
ly in control.
It is stated that the United States
department of agriculture has de
cided to make Nacogdoches, Tex.,
just north of Beaumont on the line
of the Southern Pacific, the biggest
tobacco experimental station in tha
world. On August 1 a plant for cur
ing all tobacco grown at the experi
mental stations in the various south
ern states will be opened, with leaf
tobacco experts in charge.
Former Congressman Diggs of
New York has been indicted by the
federal grand jury in Brooklyn.
The indictment grew out of the in
vestigation into the postoffice af
fairs made by the grand jury. Four
indictments were found, all practic
ally alike. Each charges that
Driggs, between July 20 and 24,
1000, unlawfully agreed to receive
and did receive a $500 check from
the Brandt-Dcnt Company for pro
| curing a contract from the United
States government for making and
delivering 250 automatic cashiers
for the postoffice department.
Mrs, Amanda DcLertigue was
acquitted by a jury at Spokane,
Wash., of the charge of murder af
ter she made a confession of guilt.
Henry De Lartigue, a farmer, dis
appeared last September. His wife
said he had gone to Honolulu. Last
winter his body was found hidden
in a potato cellar near his home.
During the trial Mrs. De Lartigue
confes.-ed that she killed him Sep
tember 23 and bid his body. She
declared that he attacked her with
a gun and she hit him with an ax.
Evidently the jury accepted this
theory, and she was aquitted.
The Czar of Russia is greatly dis
turbed on account of the rapid
spread of a revolutionary movement.
It is said that the anti-semitie agi
tation at Eastertide extended
throughout the entire pale of the
Jewish settlements. The monarchi
cal society organized at Pinsk cir
culated leaflets beginning: “Brother
Workers, Orthodox and Catholic:
Christ has ari-^n; let us embrace,
kiss and go kill the Jews.” At
Rostov-on-the-Don, it is said, an
officer of gendarmeries has been go
ing about the bazar telling the peo
ple that it is the Jews and Socialists
who prevent their “little father,”
the czar, from giving all his child
ren everything they need, and that
therefore the Jews and Socialists
must be killed off.
Two women, one white and the
other colored, were assaulted and
left for dead about three and a half
miles east of East St. Louis. One
of the victims, Mrs. Anne Greene,
a colored woman, aged 25, was club
bed about the head, her skull frac
tured and her left arm broken. Just
before lapsing into unconsciousness
she told of the assault and described
a light yellow negro, aged 25 years,
as her assailant. She was evidently
the first victim of the fiend, who
later proceeded to the home of John
Bruno, and' assaulted his 17-year
old daughter. She was alone at
home and shortly after the crime
was committed, her brother return
ed and found her on a bed uncon
scious. Her skull was fractured,
and she was suffering from other in
juries, and cannot recover. Should
the fiend be caught a lynching can
hardly be averted.
New York City is to have the
largest bank in the United States
and in the world. It will be larger
than the Bank of England or of any
of the famed financial institutions
of the old world. The capitaliza
tion is to be $100,000,000. This
will equal the government's gold
reserve.
A man giving the name of George
Marvin was fatally injured in an
attempt to blow open the safe in a
store at Jolietville. Ind.
Meeting of Immigration Agents.
An important meeting of the im*
migration agents of the Gould sys
tem was lu'Id in St. Louis last week,
the object of the meeting being to
formulate plans to settle with in
dustrious farmers and horticultur
ists the lands owned by this compa
ny along its lines in Arkansas and
other states. The agents made a
tour of the lines in this state and
were given a grand reception by cit
izens of Little Rook and at other
points. The Iron Mountain system
has been persistently adverting Ar
kansas abroad for rtiany years, and a
g<>od portion of the success made
within the last ten years in the lines
of horticulture and raising produce
for foreign markets lias been due
to valuable assistance given by the
Iron Mountain system.
Raced For His Life.
Wm. Evans, a farmer living sev
eral miles from Eureka Springs,
had a race for his life one night re
cently. During the night the door
to his bedroom blew open, and as he
got out of bed to close it, a copper
head snake hit him in the foot. He
killed the reptile, jumped on his
horse and rode rapidly to Eureka
Springs for medical treatment.
When ho reined up in front of the
residence of a physician he was in
a fainting condition, and had to be
assisted to alight.
Fatal Freight Wreck.
Engineer J. A. Wyatt of Russell
ville and lirakoman Porter Duff of
Searcy were killed in a freight
wreck on the Fort Smith road near
Mulberry. While running on sched
ule time the engine jumped the
track, ditching five flat ears loaded
with coal. The engine turned up
side down, and Engineer Mvatt
was buried under it. Brakeman
Duff was caught under the engine
and scalded to death. Two tramps
and a boy were also killed.
Cannot Resign.
Attorney General Murphy holds
that under the law a school director
cannot resign his office without for
feiting to his district the sum of
$10.
BRIEF MENTION.
T\vr> negro workmen were prob
ably fatally injured while unload
ing iron rails at Plummendlle.
Some of the rails slipped off, fall
ing on them.
The contract for the Arkansas
World's* Fair building at St. Louis
has been let to a St. Louis firm.
The contract price is $17,000.
A man by the name of Barnes,
who, with his family was hoeing
cotton near Tuckerman, was struck
by lightning and instantly killed.
While grading a roadbed in Boone
county, workmen blew out about
fifteen ton of high grade zinc ore,
which is being shipped to a smelter.
A state baseball league has been
organized, composing tho towns of
Searcy, Wynne, Marianna and llel
na. Brinkley and Jonesboro may
also be included.
In a difficulty at Pocahontas a
Mr. O’Hair is reported as fatally
cutting a man named Piece. When
the officer went to arrest O’llair he
resisted and was shot dead.
Jesse Dixon, who disappeared
from his firm near Stephens nine
teen years ago, and whose where
abouts all these years remained a
mystery to the wife and seven child
r-n he left behind, returned home
last wri'k. 11is reasons »>r leaving
home have never been made known.
At the time of his departure hi?
children were all small, and for
years the good mother toiled to
furnish them the necessaries of life.
As they grew older, however, tire
struggle grew less burdensome on
the brave mother, and upon the
father’s return he was welcomed to
a prosperous home and farm man
aged by his grown sons, who were
deserted in their infancy. Dixon is
said to have grown wealthy in a
western state, and only spoke of his
family when he’fell ill and was not
expected to live. A friend wrote to
his oldest son, who went west and
brought the father back with him.
A nogre>s by the name of Joseph
ine Evans, residing near Antoine,
was caught in the act of secreting
the remains of her 2-montbs-old
toy. An investigation revealed th»
the child had been murdered by the
mother, who was held to the grand
jury. , • s
George Robertson, a pearl fisher
man, found a pearl in White river
which he sold for $3,500. This ii
said to be the largest and most val
uable pearl ever found *n tins stoate
Condemned Man at Hot Springs
Takes the Life of a Fellow
Prisoner.
THEN DEFEATS GALLOWS BY SUICIDE
Young Negress Slays Her Paramour
at Little Rock and Two Street Car
Motormen Fight a Fatal Duel in i
Dark Room With Knife and Pisto
as Weapons.
A diabolical murder and suicide ol
the murderer at Hot Springs and twc
murders at Little Rock is the record
for Sautrday, June 27.
The Hot Springs tragedies occurred
in the county jail, where James
Dougherty, recently convicted of thf
murder of Jack Donahue and sen
tenced to death, murdered R. H. Wil
liama, one of the men under arresi
in connection with the famous foot
racing cases. The prisoners, as is
the custom, were turned into the jai
corridor about 7 a. m., to permit ol
cleaning of their cells.
While Williams was washing his
face, Daugherty, who had secured £
razor from *he coat pocket of a ne
gro prisoner, without a word of warn
ing, slashed his victim from behind
the steel cutting his liver almost ii
twain and making a deep wound ex
tending across the abdomen on ths
left side.
Then waiving the bloody razor ir
the air. the murderer defied the othei
prisoners to interfere.
A moment later Daugherty spranj
upon another prisoner named John
son. bore him to the floor and was it
the act of finishing him when ofli
cers arrived and forced him to re
treat into a cell.
When news of the tragedy and Wll
liams’ death became known the peo
pie showed great indignation anc
about 12 o'clock at night a crowd oi
several hundred gathered in front ol
the jail with the intention of lynch
ing Dougherty.
Sheriff Williams, however, was ot
guard with a large number of depu
ties, but while he was pleading witt
the crowd to let the law take its
course a messenger from the insids
announced that Daugherty had no1
only defeated the object of crowd, bu
had cheated the gallows by commit
ting suicide.
Upon investigation it was discov
ered that Dougherty had taken th<
steel ends of his shoestrings, flat
tened them out and made a two inct
incisions on each side of his throat
causing death.
Dougherty was one of the tough
est characters ever convicted of t
crime in this state. During his triu
for the murder of Officer Donahue hr
demeaned himself in the most dis
gusting manner, cursing his attor
neys, the court and all parties con
nected with the case.
Duel to the Death.
In a dark room of a small cottag*
on West Markhafn street. Little Rock
Pete Fulghum and Joe Campbell
street car motormen, engaged in t
tight that cost Campbell his life.
The men called on two younj
women, sisters, whose parents at th<
time were away from home. It seem:
jealousy existed between the men am
a quarrel arose. Campbell first at
tacked Fulghum, according to ths
latter's statement, with a piece ol
stove wood. At the start of the trou
ble the young women ran from tht
room, upsetting the lamp in theii
flight. The men continued the strug
gle, Fulghum claiming that Camp
bell drew his knife after the piect
of wood was knocked from his hands
Before the women had goue a blocl
they heard two shots in rapid sue
cession, and a moment later Ful
ghum appeared at the door with s
smoking revolver in his hand. Tc
parties that had gathered he statec
what had transpaired and proceeded
to the city hall, where he surreu
dered. No one entered the hous<
where the tragedy occurred until tht
arrival of officers, who found Camp
bell lying on the door with his fact
toward the wall, dead. Fulghum wa.
held to the grand jury by the cor
oner's jury.
Robert Richardson, a young negrt
about 22 years of age. was stabbet
in the heart with a pen knife by Vids
Binkley, a 15-year-old mulatto girl
In the stable yard adjoining the rest
dence of his employer at Little Rock
The girl surrendered and claims tht
killing was in self-defense. The glr
had remained all night in Richard
son’s room, and says that when sht
started to leave about 5 o’clock it
the morning Richardson tried t<
make her give him a silver dollai
she had in her purse. Upon her re
fusal the girl claims Richardson be
gan to beat her, knocking her dowi
and kitking her in the side. Ac
cording to her story she gained he:
feet and continued the struggle, sue
ceeding in getting hold Richardson':
knife when she plunged the bladi
into his heart.
A negro porter passing the scene o
the murder testified that he saw th<
couple fighting; that Richardsoi
knocked the girl down and kickei
her; that she appealed to him fo
assistance, but that he told her i
was none of his affair and went 01
Jiis way to 5" ork. The coroner's jur;
the girl on a charge of lava!
uM^ry manslaughter.
Killed By Negroes.
Arkansas State News
To Prevent Sale of Poisonous Drugs.
Attorney General Murphy calls
attention to an act of the last gen
.eral assembly, the intent of which is
to stop the spread of the destruc
tive habit of using cocaine among
negroes and the lower class of
whites. The use of this drug was
almost unknown a few years ago,
except in a legitimate way by drug
gists and physicians, but it is said
its victims are now numbered by
the thousands. Its effects are as
baneful as opium or morphine, and
soon wrecks the unfortunate who
becomes addicted to its use, both
physically and mentally. Col. Mur
phy holds that under the law a phy
sician has no right to give a stand
ing order for the sale of cocaine
whenever the party to whom the or
der is given wishes it, nor has any
druggist any right to repeat such
order or to fill it more than once.
The object of the law is to prevent
those who are addicted to the drug,
or any one else, from obtaining it
except when it is really needed. In
order that its sale may he justified
it i - necessary that the prescription
be given on the physician’s estimate
of the need of the patient at the
time lie prescribes. Whoever fills
such an order or prescription for
the same person more than once
contravenes the spirit of the law
and renders himself subject to pun
ishment. Members of the State
Phainaeists Association propose to
use their efforts to stop the sale of
the deadly drug.
Treasurer Tipton Comptimented.
II. T. Hampton, appointed by
Governor Davis, under the act of
March 13, 1891, to examine and re
port on the condition of the books
and funds of State Treasurer Tip
, ton, lias finished his work and has
made his report to the governor.
He found $3.51 in excess of the
amount given in the currency state
ment, ami concerning which he
says: “I attribute'the small excess
in this fund to the inability to
make exact change in the numerous
transactions at the cashier’s win
dow.” Concerning an excess of
$41.93 in the county scrip account,
Mr. Hampton says: “The excess in
this fund is probably caused by the
overpayment of cheap county scrips
by parties purchasing state lands.
Were it in my province to make sug
gestions I should recommend that
this account in the state treasur;
be permanently closed and the
county’s part of the purchase or re
demption of lands be paid directly
to the county treasurer and his re
ceipt used as a voucher in the trans
actions.’’ There was an excess of
$1.37 in the amount of scrip due
cities. All the other funds agree to
a cent. Mr. Hampton compliments
Treasurer Tipton on the efficiency
of his clerical force and the thor
ough system in which the accounts
of the various funds are kept.
Injured By Ltghtuing.
Mrs. L. V. Reeder, her daughter,
Miss May, aged 19 years, her son
Fred, 17 years old, together with
■Miss Janie Jones and Andy Dar
! row, were seriously injured by a
| stroke of lightning at Newport.
They were sitting on a porch when
a flash struck a large tree in the
j yard, hurling flying bits of timber
I in every direction. The victims
were paralyzed by the shock, but all
| will recover.
Shot Himselt.
Richard Y. Williams, a promi
nent young Jefferson county plant
er, accidentally shot and killed him
self at his home in Pine Bluff. Just
how the accident occurred is not
known, as Williams was alone in his
room at the time. It is believed he
went to remove his pistol from a
bureau drawer, when the hammer
i struck something and was discharg
ed, the ball passing through his
side and ranging below the heart,
deuth resulting instantly.
Alderman’s Predicament.
One of the first arrests made at
Hot Springs for violating the or
dinance recently passed, closing cig
ar and confectionery stores on Sun
day was an alderman who voted for
the measure, lie was charged with
selling a dime’s worth of tobacco.
Lice is reported as causing soma
^:j4n’|gge to cotton in sections of this
Mortgage to Pay Fine Void.
In the case of Arthur Hubbard vs.
1 ho State, decided in the supreme
court last week, Mr. Justice Battle
delivered the opinion of the court.
Hubbard was convicted before a jus
tice of the peace of gambling and
was fined $10 and costs. After bis
eonviction he executed a note and
/t
1 v
mortgage to secure the payment oT,
the fine and costs. T.ater he prayed
an appeal to the circuit court and
tiled an appeal bond, which was ap
proved and the appeal granted. In
the circuit court the state moved to
dismiss the* appeal because Hubbard
had executed a note and mortgage to
the state of Arkansas in payment of
the fine and costs. The court sus
tained this motion and the defend
ant appealed to the supremo court.
Mr. Justice Battle stated that it was
ibvioug that the security mentioned
in the act of March 3, 1807,
amendatory of section 2321 of
Sandels & Hill’s digest, pieant per
sonal security and not a mortglgtflfe'v^i
or lien upon property, and that no
one has authority to tike a mort- ^
gage on behalf of the state for the
payment of a fine.
Some Good Scores.
The South Arkansas (lun Club held
a shoot in Junction City last week.
Score—Out of 195 shots, Clements
of Pine Bluff killed 156, Pierce of
Pino Bluff 157, Morgan of Cam
den 162, Wright of Camden 157,
Sevier of Camden 128, Howell of
Arkad dphia 121, Allen of Arkadel
phia 116, Williams of Arkadelphia
60 out of 100, F. L. Proctor of
Junction City 130 out of 175, Hi
Brown of Junction City 110, Par
nell of Junction City 151, Harris
of Junction City 155, and J. D.
Proctor of Junnction City, 153 out
of 200. State Championship ■&’
Trophy—Score: Clements 34, Mor
gan 41, W right” i*~ '
Pierce 36, Sevier 38, Brown 28,
Knott 42, Williams 34, Allen 31,
F K Proctor 42, Parnell 44, Har&is
3!) and J. D. Proctor 38. The
medal was won by Kd Parnell of
Junction City.
Game Law Test Case.
Capt. W. B. Mallory, a prominent
citizen of Memphis, and member of .
a club occupying land in this state
as game preserves, has been arrested
for violating the Deltossit game law,
passed at the last session of the -i
legislature. Capt. Mallory invited 1
the sheriff of Crittenden county to
meet him on the river, where lie was
fishing, the object being to make a
test ease of the law. Attorneys rep
resenting the State Sportsman’s As
sociation will prosecute the suit.. A
few days after the arrest of Capt.
Mallory application was made be
fore Judge Tricber.in federal court,
for a temporary restraining order
against the officers of Crittenden ‘
county to prevent the trial of the
ease in the state courts, which was [4
granted. The next move in the case
will probably be a motion on the
part of intervenors, or those repre
senting thoofficers against whom the
injunction is issued, asking for the
dissolution of the injunction. In
ease thus is denied an appeal will lie
taken to the circuit court of appeals,
and probably to the United States
supreme court.
Arkansas National Banks.
The following report lias been
made to the comptroller of thg cur
rency of the condition of the nation
al banks of Arkansas at the close of
business Jnne 9: Doans and dis
counts, $4,512,094.76; total specie,
$401,660.15; legal tender notes,
$206,044; Capital stock paid in,
; $ 1,237,500; undivided profits, lesa
I expenses and taxes paid, $305,342.
|74; individual deposits, $6,064,417.
19; United States deposits, $81,
589.88; percentage to deposits
cash on hand, redemption fund and
due from reserve agents, 39.85; per
centage of legal reserve to deposits.
19.26. _,
Three Injured in Runaway.
George Smith, a Jackson county
farmer, his wife and one child, were
! injured in a runaway. Two of Mr.
Smith's children who were in the
runaway escaped injury. Mr. Smith
was tlirown out and run over by tha
i
i
m
wagon.
....0. Several ribs wore broken,
his back was hurt ’and he sustained
internal injuries. Mrs. Smith and
a little girl sustained bad