The Newark Journal.
O. P. CRAIG, Editor.
NEWARK- , ARKANSAS.
The government has decided to
extend the weather bureau service
to the Hawaiian islands.
Western merchants are reaping
the benefits of a freight rate tight
between leading trunk lines.
The Panama canal commission
will probably sail for the isthmus
about the 25th of this month.
The Hawaiian islands will not
have an exhibit at the St. Louis
fair, as there is no money in the
territorial treasury.
Gov. Odell of New York states
that he is not an aspirant for the
chairmanship of the national repub
lican committee.
One thousand men employed as
laborers and landscape gardeners
by the St. Loui< Imposition Com
pany went on strike because their
wages was reduced live cents an
hour.
Owing to heavv losses from tires
in leading cities the past throe
months, the insurance companies
are considering a plan t<> increase
rates.
Ex-President Cleveland emphat
ically denies the assertion made by
a congressman during debate that
he dined a colored man at the white
house.
Fourteen persons were killed and
a number injured by the collapse
of the steel frame work of the Bur
lington hotel, under construction in
Xew York City.
The United Mine Workers in na
tional convention at Indianapolis
voted to refer the final decision as
to accepting the wage offer of the
operators to the local operators.
It is reported thousands of Chi
nese have been beheaded at Tien
Tsin by order of the viceroy to pre
vent agitation causing an up
rising in the army against Russia.
Japanese subjects in this country
are being located by their diplomat
ic representatives, in order that
they may be ordered home to take
up arms should their services be
needed.
Xoah Ruby, who served on the
ship Constitution with Farragut,
died in the poorhouse at Xew Bruns
wick, X. J., last week. He was
born in Xorth Carolina in the sev
enteenth century.
Harry Haynor, aged 11 yea rs, has
confessed to starting eight fires in
a building at Bingharopton, X. Y.,
where he was employed in order to
gain the notoriety of discovering
and extinguishing tin.1 flames.
One priest and two servants were
killed and two other priests were
severely injured at a fire which de
stroyed St. Patrick's Roman Cath
olic church and the adjoining rec
tory in Long Island City. Those
killed were the Rev. Father Ernest
and Mary and Margaret Brady, do
mestics.
Six men were drowned and four
others injured as a result of the col
lapse of a bridge spanning Yellow
creek, near Irondale. 0., on the
Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad.
The men were on two locomotives
that attempted to cross the bridge
close together. The engines were
wrecked.
Military experts who voiced the
opinion after the first encounter at
Port Arthur that it would be a
month before real war would begin
probably guessed aright. Four
weeks have elapsed since diplomatic
relations between Russia and Japan
were severed, and there has been
little actual fighting.
A negro named Richard Dixon,
who fatally shot Police Sergeant
Collis at Springfield, 0., was shot
to death in jail by a mob and then
his body was taken to a street cor
ner in the center of the town and
hung to a telegraph pole. The mob
forced an entrance to the jail by
battering down the doors with rail
road iron.
Must Shoot at High Places.
Judge Rowe of Fort Smith was
recently criticised by members of
a law and order league, it being in
sinuated that he had been derelict in
certain duties. In view of the
above, the following charge deliv
ered to the grand jury a few days
ago caused something of a sensa
tion. Judge Rowe said: ‘‘It is
complained that there has been open
gambling and Sunday whisky sell
ing. This court knows nothing
about that, and this court is not a
public prosecutor nor a process
server, nor an informer, and does
not propose fo be. If it be true that
there have been such violations of
law, violators should be punished.
Those who soil whisky on Sunday
and those who exhibit gambling de
vices should be punished. There
may be more moral turpitude in the
man who sells whisky on Sunday
than there is in iho man who sells
a hat on Sunday, but both are equal
ly guilty before the law. Xo man
has the right to hire rigs for Sun
day use nor hire men to work for
him on Sunday, and the profession
al man as well as the business man
has no right to labor at worldly em
ployment on Sunday. I want to say
to this grand jury that under the
law dealing in futures is as much
gambling as is playing cards for
money. I want to sav to you that
alaying progressive euchre for prizes
is under the law as much a viola
lion of the law ns is exhibiting gam
ding devices. V, hen those rich and
ligh up set the example you may
expect tho lowly to emulate that ex
ample. If you will enforce the law
rou must shoot at high places as
veil as low.’’
New Road Opened.
The El Dorado and Bastrop rail
road has been opened for traffic
from El Dorado to the Arkansas
ind Louisiana state line. The open
ing of this road gives the Goulds
mother short line to the gulf, as
they now have lines from Little
Rock via l’ine Bluff and MeGchee,
ind via Gordon. Camden and El Do
rado. The Gordon branch now runs
it connects with this new El Dora
:lo and Bastrop railroad, which in
turn connects at the state line with
the New Orleans and Northwestern
railroad, running to Natchez. Miss.,
and making connections at Coneor
Jia for New Orleans.
Fire at Garden.
Three store and office buildings
at Gunion were destroyed by fire
and the total losses will reach
£ 15,000. It was only by the
hardest kind of work that the flames
were confined to the buildings de
stroyed. Hayes & ('o.’s loss is
£2,500, insurance $1,000; E. A.
Whitemore, grocer, loss $7,000.
Mrs. Newton's loss on two build
ings $1,200; insurance $1,000. The
second story of Whitmore's grocery
was occupied by the Masonic and
other lodges as a meeting hall.
Fatal Clash Between the Races.
Two white men were killed and
three negroes injured in a race riot
at Bokoshe, I. T. The dead are
John Hopper of Paris, this statv,
and J. ('. Butler. The wounded
are Charles Levins of Harrison and
Walter and John Jackson from Lit
tle Bock. It is stated that the
white laborers on the Midland Val
ley railroad, at a camp a short dis
tance from Rokoshe, attempted to
drive the negro laborers from the
town. The negroes resisted and a
pitched battle followed.
New National Bank.
The State Bank of Texarkana
has been converted into a national
bank, with a paid-up capital of
$100,000, and began business March
1, under the national banking laws.
The oflieers of the new bank are E.
W. Frost, president; B. IF. Kuhl,
vice president; E. K. Smith, cash
ier, and li. L. Dal by, assistant
cashier.
Prepare For Inspection.
Major R. M. Pearson, A. S. G.,
lias issued the following order:
‘“Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 27, 1004.
* ^‘r—1 tall your attention to Ex
ecutive Circular Xo. 1, dated Feb
ruary 15, 1904.
"It is my desire that the compa
nies in my battalion pass the best
inspection of any companies in the
state, and in order to be properlv
prepared you must ‘get to work' and
have all rifles and equipments in
the best possible condition.
“Have all your men properlv ac
counted for. Have your record of
supplies, etc., up to date.
"I would suggest that you begin
at once to clean your rifles and get
them in excellent condition.
“Polish, everything, buttons, gun
slings, belts, mess pans, knives,
forks, cups, etc. Have your uni
forms washed and ironed.
“Have the web belts, canteens,
leggins, haversacks, scrubbed with
warm water, soap and brush.
“See that all men have a blanket
roll at inspection.
"\ on should drill your company
twice each week and get it in shape
to put up a good drill for the in
spectors. Teach them extended or
der, advance and rear guard form
ations. See that your officers are
well drilled.
"I will inspect your company dur
ing the month of March, and will
expect to* find everything in first
class condition. I will notifv von
upon what day T will inspect your
company. Bv order of
“Major li. M. Pearson.”
“Commanding First Batallion.
Second Regiment. A ,S. G.
“M . Ik Milliard, First Lieutenant
and Battalion Adjutant/’
Second Attempt Successful.
James Gowan, a laborer on the
Kansas City Southern railroad, at
Fort Smith, made an attempt at
suicide by cutting his throat with a
razor. A ease was found, but no
razor, and he told the oftieer who
found him lying on a sidewalk that
he had been attacked by footpads.
Later he admitted committing the
act. He was taken to Belle Point
hospital, where the # und was
dressed and pronounced not danger
ous. “Later, when the hospital at
tendees were not watching, he -lip
ped into the medicine room, secured
a four-ounce bottle of laudanum
and drank the contents, Xur-es
thought him to be asleep until the
death agony set in.
Boy Drowned.
Fid die Dando, aged 10 years,
was drowned in the Arkansas riv
er at Little Rock. Several
hundred people saw the lit
tle fellow struggling for hi
life, but were powerles- to render
assistance. He was paddling
around in a skiff near the shore,
hut as the water was up, he drifted
into the current. Then he lost the
ores. and. being unable to steer the
skifl, jumped into the water and
attempted to swim to land. Had
he remained in the skiff a few min
utes he would have been saved, as
parties were preparing to go to his
rescue.
Fined For Wife Eeaticg.
Mr*. S. \j. Hart appeared in court
at Pino Muff and testified that her
husband, a well known young man,
had struck and choked her, and that
lie had also failed to properly pro
vide for her. The court fined Hart
$50 and costs and remanded him to
jail until the money was forthcom
ing. The ease caused much com
ment on account of the former good
standing of the accused.
Dr. Westbrook Dead.
After lingering for several days
Dr. Westbrook, who was shot in a
difficulty at Doddridge by Mack
Mays, succumbed to his wounds. He
was taken to a sanitarium at Tex
arkana, where an operation was per
formed, from the effects of which he
never rallied.
Jail Delivery at Fort Smith.
Three important prisoners made
their escape from the jail at Fort
Smith in broad daylight. They
are Will Davis, indicted for murder,
and William Kerry and John Mc
Kay. Breakfast was being served
the desperate prisoners, who were
confined in a cage. The three
named slipped into the corridor un
seen and hid in an angle. Then
one of the prisoners on the opposite
side of the cage asked the jailer to
hand him a shirt and handkerchief,
and when the jailer stepped into
the corridor to do so the three men
rushed past him into the office,
shutting the door and locking it.
They made their way into the yard,
sealed the fence and escaped. The
jailer attracted attention bv shoot
ing off his revolver. By the time
assistance arrived the men had dis
appeared. Tt developed that when
the men reached the oflice it was
their intention to get the key to the
cage from a desk, and also the jail
er's revolver, then return, overpow
er him and liberate all in the cage,
to the number of twenty-three, all
charged with felonies. The jailed
had the key and his revolver on him.
and, seeing that, they sought safety
for themselves.
Carelessness May Lose Him His Life.
The careless handling of a shot
gun while he was out hunting may
cost David Snyder of (Jarland
county, his right arm, and perhaps
his life. Snyder rested the butt of
his gun on the ground, and, placing
his hand over the muzzle, was lean
ing on it, when it was discharged,
the entire load of squirrel shot pass
ing through his hand and entering
the shoulder at the armpit, plough
ing a hole the size of a dollar to
the shoulder bone.
Kobbed Station Agent.
An unknown man armed with a
shotgun, entered the Kansas City
Southern railway station at Sul
phur Springs, in Renton county,
and after relieving the agent of all
cash on hand bound and gagged
him. He then compelled the agent
to march about half a mile from the
station and tied him to a tree,
where he was found the next morn
ing- _
Crazed Man’s Awtul Deed.
A sad tragedy took place in T/i
gan county recently, near Paris
Joe Wagoner, a fanner, became
suddenly insane, and taking his
4-year-okl daughter to the barn he
knocked her in the head with an
ax. The child died instantly. The
crazed man then took the ax and
killed five milc h cows hi fore hP
could be overpowered.
Bad Man Killed.
Sam Dennis, a deputy marshal.
Hint and killed Sam Jxjcket at Har
rison. The men had some words,
and when Locket started toward the
offieer, with a drawn bayonet
he fired, the first shot striking a
vital spot. It is claimed I-ocket
had killed several men. The offi
cer was cxhoncratcd by the coro
ner’s jury.
Woman Puts Burglar to Flight
Mrs. Lillian Pollard <rf Hot
Springs proved that she is a woman
of courage one night recently by
putting to flight a burglar whom
she discovered in her room. .Mrs.
Pollard gave the alarm and started
after the- thief, who, in his haste,
forgot his overcoat, which he had
laid* aside upon entering the build
ing.
Death ot Unknown Man.
An unknown white man died in
the city hospital in Little Hock
from pneumonia. The man was
evidently sent to Little Rock from
some point on the Valley road.
He was taken from a passenger
train in an unconscious condition
and lived only a short time after
reaching the hospital.
A Princely Gift.
Bishop Edward Fitzgerald has
donated to the Sisters of Mercy of
Little Rock the entire block hound
ed by Louisiana, Center, Sixth and
and Seventh streets, upon which
are located the buildings of St.
Mary’s academy. It is a princely
gift, being one of the be&t proper
ties in the city.
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