WANT-Mk Cmmlty MADE
VOL. II.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1902.
NO. 10.
NEWS OF THE WOULD.
The platform of the Indiana dem
cratis ignores the 1900 national
platform.
Gen. Gomez has declined to ac
cept a pension of $0,000 voted by
the Cuban legislature.
Cotton mill owners of the United
States will organize a mutual com
pany to carry their own insurance.
President Roosevelt has been pe
titioned to appoint a commission to
investigate and if possible settle the
coal miners’ strike.
Senator Hanna spoke for three
hours in opposition to the Nicara
guan canal route and in favor of the
Panama route.
James Black, one of three negroes
who murdered a young married wo
man near Columbia, S. C., was tak
en from jail by a mob and hanged.
On the 3d inst. the town of Joliet,
111., was flooded by a cloudburst, and
the property loss is placed at $750,
000. Three people were drowned.
Western Union and Postal tele
graph operators are said to be pre
paring to demand an increase of
wages and readjustment of hours.
Miss Stone, the missionary cap
tured by Bulgarian brigands, has
been sued for $20,000 damages by
a lecture bureau for alleged failure
to carry out a contract.
The Chicago packing house team
sters won a partial victory after one
of the most exciting contests known
among labor strikes. For days
rioting was continuous and the offi
cers were unable to handle the mobs.
There is a possibility that an
American battleship will be sent to
Venezuela to enforce the collection
of a sum of money due a Texas man
from that government. The clai
mant is Ford Dix or San Antonio,
who claims that the government
named unlawfully deprived him of
a valuable herd of cattle some five
or six years ago.
The Boer-British war which is
now at an end lasted for two years
and seven months. At the outset
the total fighting force of the Boers
was estimated at less than 60,000.
The total number of British troops
engaged in the contlict from begin
ning to end was half a million. The
British lost 1,065 officers, 21,143
men and sent home invalided 3,030
officers and 10,953 men. At the
close of the war +he fighting strength
of the Boers was reduced to about
8,000 men, while 40,000 had been
taken prisoners and confined at St.
Helena, Bermuda and in the Cape.
The number of Boers dead will nev
er be definitely known, neither wil'
the world be accurately informed
of the financial cost to the Burghers.
It is conservatively estimated it
cost England $1,250,000,000 to sub
due the two Dutch republics. By
the terms of the treaty of peace
the Boers gain restoration of farms
to the condition they were in before
the war; restoration of confiscated
property, remuneration for property
destroyed and stock taken, equal
rights of citizenship and suffrage
with the British, and revocation of
the banishment order. On the oth
er hand the British subjects gain
equal rights of suffrage with the
Boers, which they did not enjoy be
fore war was declared, arid the
Boers lose their independence and
the South African republic and Or
ange Free State become crown colo
nies of (treat Britain. The terms
which the Boers accepted are, on the
whole, less liberal, and their future
rights and privileges a»’C more strict
ly curtailed than in the offers of
which they might have availed them
selves earlier in the wa.v The ex
planation is that the Boers strug
gled throughout the negotiations
not for their own interests, but for
those of their allies from the Cape
Colony, who, in their character of
rebels, were liable to grievous pen
alties.
Peace prevails between tbe Brit
ish and Boers, a document contain
ing terms of surrender having been
signed by Boer representatives.
Lord Kitchener and Lord Milner at
Pretoria J^ine 1.
In Nebraska prospects arc excel
lent for a good winter wheat crop
and a good stand of corn is report
ed.
Edison announces that lie has
perfected a new electric storage bat
tery that will revolutionize motive
power.
A Chicago broker named Patten
has just closed out a corner on oats
whereby he cleared up over a quar
ter of a million.
J. Pierpont Morgan, as a corona
tion gift, presented King Edward
with a magnificent tapestry, which
cost half a million dollars.
Herman Wohlfrom, .a 15-ycar
old St. Louis boy, suicided by shoot
ing himself in the head because his
father corrected and slapped him.
The Charleston exposition closed
May 31. The exposition was a suc
cess, save in the respect of financial
returns to the stockholders.
The $5,000,000 city bonds is
sue of St. Louis in aid of the Louis
iana purchase exposition has been
all taken by home capitalists at par.
Tom Harless, a farmer, who
lives near Berkeley, Ala., was as
saulted and robbed by two white
men and then nailed to a tree. He
was rescued alive, but his hands
were badly torn.
Owing to his age and infirmities
the British government has waived
the claim for acknowledgment by
Kruger of British sovereignty over
the Transvaal and has guaranteed
to all Boer delegates in Europe safe
conduct-to their homes in South
Africa.
On the witness stand in a divorce
case at Kokomo, Ind., Mrs. Florence
Mcllrath testified that her husband
whipped her 217 times in a little
over two years of wedded life. She
kept tally on a window frame, and
had the notches to prove it. She
was given a decree.
The Illinois Car and Equipment
Company’s plant at Hegewiseh, a
southern suburb of Chicago, was de
stroyed by fire. The company was
i engaged in the building of railway
fire grates and the entire population
was employed in this industry. The
property loss is placed at $1,000
000.
The order of the United Mine
Workers’ union, calling out all cn
i gineers, firemen and pumpmen cm
i ployed at Colliers in the Pennsylva
, nia coal region, was responded to
' by about 85 per cent of the men.
The strikers so far have kept the
j peace, beyond a few minor disturb
1 ances, but serious trouble may occur
at anv time.
I By direction of the president,
1 Secretary Boot has issued a general
I order decreasing the strength of our
permanent military establishment
i and changing the ratio of its make
■ up, as provided in the general order
! issued last May to carry out the
army reorganization law. Under
j the general order of last May the
total strength of the army was fixed
at 77,287 men.
An olTicial statement issued by
the London war office shows that
the total reduction of the British
forces in South Africa up to May
30 for the present year was 07,447.
This includes killed, wounded, pris
oners, deaths from disease and men
invalided home. Of these maJfy
have recovered and rejoined their
regiments, leaving 28,434 dead or
permanently incapacitated. The
total number of troops killed in
action or who died of wounds is
7,702, while the total number of
deaths from disease is 13,250.
In spite of earnest representations
made by Secretary Hay. none of the
powers has agreed to his proposal
that China be permitted to pay the
indemnity due on account of the
Boxer outrages in accordance with :
the rates of exchange prevailing on 1
September 7, 1001, when the Pekin
protocol was signed. This means 1
that China must disburse more than ■
$70,000,000 in addition to the sum
of $324,000,000, which she origi- 1
nally agreed to turn over to the west
ern governments. The increase in '
Claim's debt is due to the deprecia
tion of silver. !
At the recent state election in Or
egon Geo. E. Chamberlain, demo
crat, was elected governor by a plu
rality of 2,100. The republicans
elected the remainder of the ticket,
also the legislature.
Chas. M. Schwab, head of the
steel trust, has selected his brother,
Joseph, for the presidency of the
American Steel Founders’ Com
pany, an auxiliary concern, at a sal
ary of $50,000 per year.
John B. McLean, Tom L. John
son and Judson Harmon, the latter
attorney general under Grover
Cleveland, arc being, discussed by
Ohio democrats for the presidential
nomination.
A complete history of the Louis
iana purchase is to be published.
In addition to a general history of
the great territory prior to its di
vision into states, the work will com
prise a history of each state in its
social, political and industrial as
pects. Ex-Gov. Han AV. Jones has
been appointed to write the history
of Arkansas for this work.
The Philippine government bill,
as passed by the senate, approves
the action of the president in creat
ing the Philippine commission and
the officers of civil government and
governor of the islands and author
izes the governor and vice governor
to exercise the jtowers of govern
ment, as directed by executive or
der. Future appointments of the
government or vice governor shall
be made by the president, with the
advice and consent of the senate.
The “bill of rights” of the United
States constitution arc applied to
the Philippine islands,, with the ex
ception of the right to bear arms
and the right of trial by a jury.
The statistician of the United
States department of agriculture es
timates the total area planted—nr
cotton at about three-tenths of one
per cent less than the acreage plant
ed last year. On the basis of the
acreage figures published on May 31
of last year, this would give an acre
age for the year of 1302-03 of about
27,450,000. The average condition
of the growing crop on May 2(i was
35.1, as compared with 81.5 on
May 2G of last .year, 82.5 on June 1,
1300, 85.7 on June 1, 1833, and a
ten years’ average of SO. Only twice
within a period of 21 years, namely,
in 1887 and 1830, has the average
condition on June 1 as high as the
condition now reported. In the
former year it was 36.3, and in the
latter 37.2. The condition by states
is as follows: North Carolina, 31;
South Carolina, 97; Georgia, 94;
Florida, 100; Alabama, 92; Mis
sissippi, 94; Louisiana, 96; Texas,
95 ; Arkansas, 100; Tennessee, 100;
Oklahovia, 96; Indian Territory, 99.
Pawson—“Bjcnks is a great believ
erJn fate, isn’t he?” Lawson—" Y os,
he has to blame his incompetence on
something.”—Somerville Journal.
“The man who owes his landlord
lives, figuratively speaking, over a
volcano.” “Why?” “Because he is
likely to he blown up.”—Philadel
phia Times.
lie— 1 woum nice to meet a wom
an who can keep a secret.” She—
“Well, just try to find out the correct
age of the next one you meet."—
Putnam Dycdo.
“How is George getting on with his
:ourting?" “Nicely. lie plays ping
pong with Lucy every evening now,
and last night they bumped heads tin
ier the table seven times.”—Clove- .
land Plain Dealer.
Mrs. Battles—“How silly Martha
lets about that baby others!” Mrs.
Waters—“1 know it; it's perfectly
disgusting. She could think more of (
the thing if it were a dog.”—Boston (
Transcript. ]
“That ain’t law,” said the attorney <
to the Billville justice. “I know it,” <
replied the justice, “but it's me; an’
;f ever I hear of you appealing from ;
ny decision I’ll settle with you per- -
lonajlv. Bailiff, clear the court!"— |
Atlanta Constitution. v
Ascum—“I don’t see how you ean| v
>ut in so much time at golf.” Bunker ]
—“0! I'm not busy at the office these ^
lays.” Ascum—“Not busy at the of
ice, eh? How’s that?” Bunker—“I
upposc it’s because I'm so busy rl »
roif.”—Philadelphia Press.
■
NEWS OE AKKANSAS.
Dr. Andrew Hunter.
Dr. Andrew Hunter, the grand
old man, “father of Arkansas Meth
odism,"' passed away at the home
of his son in Little Rock on the
3d inst. Dr. Hunter's last illness
dated from May 10, when he sus
tained a severe shock from a fall in
alighting from a street car. No man
within the history of the state was
more revered by both saint and sin
ner than this self-sacrificing, noble
Christian man. Dr. Hunter was
born in Bclcmoria, county of An
trim. Ireland. December 26, 1813,
of Scotch parents. When but two
years of age he was brought to this
country, his parents settling at
York, Pa., where he grew to man
hood. l)r. Hunter received a com
mon school education, but was the
graduate of no college. In 1883 lie
joined the Methodist church. Two
years later lie left the home of his
youth, taught school in Missouri for
a short time, and in 1836 was or
dained a minister at the lirst Arkan
sas conference, held at Batcsvillc.
At the time it was organized the
Arkansas conference extended from
the Missouri border to the Attaka
pas country, in Louisiana, and from
the Mississippi river to Bonham.
Tex., and embraced the five civilized
Indian tribes. It was divided into
four districts, and a presiding elder
managed to get over his district
about once in three months. Dr.
Hunter was ordained a deacon at
Fayetteville in 1839, and the follow
ing year made an elder at Little
Rock. In 1838 he settled in Saline
county, and in 1842 the conference
assigned him to the district em
bracing Hempstead county, which
extended from Bed river to the
Mississippi. In 1S43, during his
ministrations, old Liberty camp
ground, in Saline county, so long
famous for its annual Methodist
reunions, was established, and Dr.
Hunter preached at the first gath
ering. From 1854 to 1859 he was
Bible agent for the Little Bock con
ference. He was also at different
times presiding elder of the Little
Rock, Batesville, Camden, Arkadel
phia and Fine Bluff districts. In
1844 Dr. Hunter was one of the
three delegates sent from Arkansas
to at tend the conference at New
York that divided the church, and
out of the 300 delegates present
there he survivedall but one. He has
continuously been a delegate to the
general conference since that time.
During the civil war his reputation
had spread so far that he was al
lowed to continue his work without
molestation. In 1866 he was elect
ed state senator for Dallas and
Bradley counties and was elected
president of the senate when that
body met. In 1866 he was also
elected, together with John T.
Jones of Phillips, to the United
States senate, but refused to take
the oath exacted of southern men
seeking seats in that body, and
never went to Washington. Hon.
A. H. Garland took his place in
stead. In 1872 he partially con
sented to run for governor against
Baxter. About this time he opened
i Camp-meeting in Bradley county
ind became so enthused with his
vork tHat lie conceived a sudden dis
nclination to re-enter polities. He
iccordinglv sent, word to the poli
icians at the state capital that he
sou Id not make the race. From
hat time lie devoted himself to the
ninistry.
Dr. Hooper Resigns.
Dr. P. O. Hooper, suporintend
nt of the state insane asylum, ten
lered his resignation to Gov. Davis
lav 31, to take effect July 1. Dr.
itinson, of Lake Village, and Dr. -
inner, of Hope, the present assist- ;
nts to Dr. Hooper, are mentioned
connection with the vacancy. ''
then asked why he resigned. Dr. |
looper said: "I am tired and (
■cary of the whole business, and
■ant to quit and take a rest.” Dr.
looper’s connection with the insti
ation dates from the time it was 1
reated, with the exception of a ]
tiort period, liis retirement will <
e generally regretted. ,
Valuable Minerals.
Chas. D. Walcott, director of the
United States geological survey, lias
issued the following bulletin on
aluminum and beauxite, which will
be of interest to Arkansans:
Aluminum—The production of
aluminum in the United States
during 1901 amounted to 7,150,000
pounds, an increase of 1,150,000
pounds over the year 1000. The
Pittsburg deduction Company, op
erating the Hall patents, remains
still the sole producer of aluminum
in this country. The price of alum
inum per-pound remained practical
ly stationary throughout the year, |
although the demand for the metal
increased. The total imports of all
forms of aluminum in 1901 were
valued at $109,748, as compared
with $50,414 in 1900.
Bauxite—Georgia produced the
bulk of the bauxite in 1901, the re
mainder being supplied by Alabama
and Arkansas. The total production
was 18,905 long tons, valued at
$79,914, as compared with 23,184
tons, valued at. $89,076 in 1900.
Bauxite is used mainly for the man
ufacture of aluminum, although a
considerable quantity is used for the
manufacture of aluminum sulphate
and crystallized alum. The Pitts
burg Reduction Company, is in
stalling a large plant at Bauxite,
Saline county, Arkansas, which
promises to increase largely the
output from Arkansas in 1903. The
import of bauxite into the United
States during 1901 amounted to
$07,117; the exports were valued at
$300,000, and the consumption
seems to have been 39,058 long tons,
valued at $151,202. The imports in
1901 were 18,313 long tons, as com
pared with 8,050 tons for the pre
ceding year, an increase due mainly
to the low ocean freight rates from
. foreign ports. This low freight
rate caused bauxite to be delivered,
duty included, from the south of
France at New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore at a lower rate per
ton than it cost to ship it from
Georgia or Alabama to Philadel
phia. The principal commercial
salts of aluminum arc aluminum
sulphate and crystallized alum, for
the manufacture of which bauxite
and Greenland cryolite arc used.
The Pennsylvania Salt Company
possesses the exclusive privilege of
importing cryolite into North and
South America. In 1901 the pro
duction of aluminum sulphate was
74,721 short tons, and that of crys
tallized alum was 7,755 tons.
James Greenway, of Hot Springs,
was recently married at Pittsburg,
Pa., to Miss Louder, a niece of
Andrew Carnegie. Mr. Carnegie's
gift to the bride was a cheek for
$1,000,000. Mr. Greenway and an
older brother fought through the
Spanish war in Cuba with Roose
velt's regiment. The couple were
make Hot Springs their home.
Looking Into Combines.
Attorney General Murphy caused
a decided sensation at Little Rock
by making the following statement
relative lo an organization which
has branches all over the state: “I
think that the Retail Grocers’ Asso
ciation of Little Rock is an unlaw
ful combination to raise prices, but
the facts are not sufficiently in my
possession lo warrant the institu
tion of proceedings at this time.
Moreover, the legislature placed no
fund at my disposal for the investi
gation or discovery of offenses of
this character. I have to depend on
"'hat I can learn from those who
tre willing to give the information
•oluntarilv. I think it will not be
ong till 1 will have obtained even
n this way enough to justify the in
titution of suits. This association
s not the only combination for rais
es prices, lo which I am seeking to
five attention. When I get enough
videnee to sustain suits I shall
•ring them, but it would be worse
ban idle to sue when, for want of
videnee, failure is inevitable.
L. C. Street., a stock dealer, was
atally shot at Morrilton by J. H.
Linker, a barber. The difficulty
frew out of a dispute’ over the prjee
>f a cow.
i
HOW CHEAP BAKING POWDEB
IS MADE.
The Health Department of New
York has seized a quantity of so-called
cheap baking powder, which it found
in that city. Attention was attracted
to it by the low price at which it wa*
being sold in the department stores.
Samples were taken and the chemist
of the Health Department reported
the stuff to be “an alum powder,1*
which analysis showed to be composed
chiefly of alum and pulverized rock.
The powder was declared to be dan
gerous to health, and several thou
sand pounds were carted to the offal
dock and destroyed.
It is unsafe to experiment with these
so-called “cheap” articles of food.
They are sure to be made from alum,
rock, or other injurious matter. In
baking powders, the high class, cream
of tartar brands are the most, eco
nomical, because they go farther in
use and are healthful beyond question.
Reflection* of n Bachelor.
“Did you ever hear how the word
‘but,’ saved a man's life?” asked Rep
resentative Burleson, of Texas, of a.
group of newspaper men on the.
“row” tiie other night. “Well, it difL
There's an old judge down our way
who swears that if he hadn’t, man
aged to slip in that word at the prop
er time lie would have experienced a
swift and painful finish. It was at.
the time of the Paris lynching, which
took place not far from the judge’s,
place, lie heard about what the mob
intended to do, and, being a law
abiding citizen and somewhat God
fearing, he was horrified.
“ 'Oh, that is horrible, horrible,’ he
said to his son. ‘I’ll have to go down
there and stop this. Get me a horse,
there and stop this. Get me a horse.’
“ ‘You'd better stap away from
there, pop,’ the kid said. ‘That
crowd'll shoot you.’
“ ‘Oh, no; it must be stopped,’ the
cid man declared, and he mounted
his horse and started for the place.
They’y built a rough platform and
about 1,500 Texans were standing
around it, ready for the ceremony,
when the old judge rode up. He
spurred his horse through the mob,
jumped off, tossed the bridle reins tt»
a bystander and mounted the plat
form.
“ ‘Fellow-citizens,’ he yelled, ‘you
are about to drag the fair fame of
our community in the mud of every
lasting disgrace-’
"At this juncture there was an in
terruption from a man in front, who
said:
‘‘‘.lust shoot the dern head ofTn
him.’
“A dozen guns were leveled, hut the
old judge’s presence of mind didn’t
desert him.
“ ‘But.' he yelled—the pistols wav
ered—“if we must take the law into
our own hands, let us proceed about
it in a quiet and orderly manner.’
“The mob cheered and made the
old fellow the master of ceremonies.
—Philadelphia North American.
lirej hound the Fastest Knnr-Footfr^
A correspondent says that as the
result of experiments he has made
under careful timing’, he finds that;
the greyhound is the fastest of alt
four-footed animals. When going at
full gallop it. can cover twenty yards
a second, or about a mile in a min
ute and twenty-eight seconds—at
speed that comes very near that of
a carrier pigeon. There are few thor
oughbred horses that can exceed
nineteen yards a second. Greyhounds
have been known to better that by
four yards. Foxhounds have a record
of four miles in six and a half min
utes. or nearly eighteen yards a sec
ond. This speed is to some extent an
inherited gift, as wolves can run at
the rate of a mile in three minutes.
Nunsen says that Siberian dogs can
travel forty-five miles on ice in five
hours.—St. James’ Gazette.
Couldn't Deny It.
Sir Wilfried Laurier, the Canadian
premier, was on a speechmaking tour
of Ontario during the recent bye-elec
tions in that province and the prov
ince of Quebec. The elections were
bitterly contested, and efforts wera
made both by the liberals and coa
servatives to stir up race and relig
ious prejudice. A Quebec liberal,
whose acquaintance with Sir Wilfred
wfls only political, sent this telegram
to his leader:
“Report in circulation in this coun
try that your children have not been
baptized. Telegraph denial.”
To which dispatch the premier sent
this reply:
“Sorry to say report is correct. I
have no children.”—N. Y. Times.
It Didn't Work.
“I read an article on “The Manage
ment of Husbands’ in the Ladies’ Own
Journal, which said that the surest
way to put a man into a good humor
was to have an elegant dinner wait*
ing for him when he came home fro*
work.” said Mrs. Trizitt.
“And did you make the experi
ment?” asked Mrs. Duzzitt.
"Yes; and he has been mad ever
since because of the expense at tti
dinner.”—Baltimore American.