L Uscidmikk Connity News. "sz"" J
VOL. II.
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McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1902.
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NO; >27.
NEWS OP THE WORLD.
A heavy snow and sleet storm fell
in central Kansas September 30.
Heavy rains throughput the cot
ton belt has retarded cotton picking
and considerably damaged the crop.
Gov. Bliss, of Michigan, has ap
pointed Hon. R. A. Alger United
States senator to fill the unexpired
term of Hon. James McMillan, de
ceased.
The establishment of additional
rural free delivery routes will neces
sitate an additional expenditure for
the next fiscal year of $5,126,400
over last year.
Emile Zola, the noted French
novelist, was found dead in his Par
is home, his death being due to as
phyxiation resulting from the fumes
from a stove in his room.
- Theodore Smith "and T. G. -Fair
cloth, white, were hanged at Bron
fon, Fla., September 30 for the
murder of an aged couple, the crime
having been committed just one
month from the date of their execu
tion.
The steamship combine Has been
incorporated under the laws of New
Jersey under the name of the Inter
national Navigation Company, with
an authorized capital of $120,000,
000. In addition the company is
authorized to issue $75,000,000 in
bonds.
Southern and western bankers
deny that any 'considerable sum lias
been furnished by Wall street finan
ciers to move the present cropis.. The
southern and western bankers have
simply withdrawn their pwn money
from the speculative market, to be
used by local customers. The high
rates recently demanded in Wall
street are attributed to reckless spec
ulation in stocks.. The south’s main
crop, cotton, is a cash one, hence
there is no need ^o draw bn any Oth
er part of the country for assistance
in marketing it.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
has issued an order to the effect that
national banks will not hereafter be
required to carrw a reserve of "25
per cent, against government depos
its secured by government bonds.
The treasury has on deposit with va
rious banks scattered throughout
the country, from Maine to Califor
nia and from Minnesota to New Or
leans, in round numbers, $130,000,
000, against which fhey have hereto
fore been compelled to hold more
than thirty millions of gold, or its
equivalent. This decision will re
lease that much reserve and $30,
000,000 additional credit.
The democratic- state convention
of New York nominated Hon. Bird
S. Coler, of Brooklyn, for governor.
The platform adopted declares in
substance against trusts, advocates
plaoing the necessities of life on the
• free list, condemns the neglect of
the national and state administra
tion to enforce the Sherman law
and the Donnelly state’law; favors
trade expansion, but obiects to this
country “aping England in trying to
establish a colonial government
condemns the action of the govern
ment in its treatment of the Filipi
nos; demands justice for Cuba in
the matter of trade by reducing the
tariff to a strictly revenue basis; de
mands public ownership of anthra
cite coal mines by the right qf emi
nent domain and the payment of
full damages to owners, so as to en
sure peace in the mining regions
and relieve the consumers; arraigns
the state administration for extrav
agance in the administration of state
affairs; declares ip favor of a 1,000
ton barge canal; denounces the pres
ent state excise laws and demands
the return of all monies received
to the county where collected; sym
pathizes with the Jews in Rouma
pia; favors the election of United
S(ates senators by direct vote; con
demns the national adfnihistnatioh
for “trading judicial positions foi
state aid.” ; < • »
In his, Chat,t.ahocga -apeeph Presi
dent Ko^savelt said: "'.there is not any
thing- more soul-harrowing for a man
in time of war, or a man engaged in
a difficult jobj in -time of peace, than
. to give an order and have the gentle
• man addressedsav: ‘.What?’", .. ,
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Gen. Davis assumed command of
the -forces in the Philippines on the
1st inst., relieving Gen. Chaffee, who
sailed for the United States.
Gen. Booth, founder of the Sal
vation Army, has arrived in this
country, and will make a tour of the
principal cities.
President Roosevelt, in recogni
tion of. their long service in the
army, has directed the advancement
of Cols. A. S. Kimball, Chambers
McKibbeen and Chas. C. Hood to
the 'grade of brigadier general. AH
the officers named are near the re
tiring age.
Advices from the Philippines are
to the effect that cholera threatens
to depopulate the island of Samar.
The population of many of the
towns have been heavily reduced
through death and the flight of
panic-stricken people. Many of the
dead, are unburied, and the govern
ment is sending surgeons and medi
cine to tight the disease. The epi
demic also continues its ravages at
Iloilo. ' It is reported that the total
for the islands is 48,4.02 deaths, but
the actual total of cases is estimated
to be about 100,000, with deaths in
.proportion.
The monthly statement of the
public 'debt issued from the treas
ury department shows that on Sep
tember 30, 1902, the debt, less cash
in the' treasury, amounted to $957,
a 0,887, wmon is a aecrease ox $xu,
675,434 as compared with Septem
ber 1. The comparative statement
of government receipts and'expendi
tureg -shows that for the month of
September, 1902, .the total receipts
were $48,580,381, an increase oi
over $4,000,000, as compared with
September, 1901. The expendi
tures for September were $37,554,
•'798, leaving a surplus for the month
of $11,000,000.' "
President Roosevelt, Attorney
General' Kilox and several' other
members of the Cabinet have recent
ly bben conferring on the strike sit
uation in Pennsylvania.' While it is
known that tlie situation does not
present a case in which there can
• be. federal interference by any war
rant of law, it is hoped the good of
fices of the president will
bring about a settlement of the trou
ble. No relief is looked for through
the recent efforts .to have a receiver
appointed to. operate the coal carry
ing roads and mines. • In several
cities schools have been compelled to
close for lack t>f fuel, industrial
plants are shutting ’ down and coal
cannot be secured at any price. In
the tenement district 6f eastern cit
ies fences, plank walks and dumber
left on flic streets, is being burned,
The situation is critical, apd the
only solution to prevent many deaths
and great suffering, is to bring
about a settlement of the strike by
some means.
President. Roosevelt’s effort to
bring the coal mine operators and
representatives of the strikers to
some agreement proved unsuccess
ful. A large number of the opera
org met with the, president, and offi
cials of the miners union. Mr.
Mitchell, president of the union,
maeje a proposition that ■ the
•issues be referred to a committee to
be annointed bv the oresident, the
miners to return to' work *' imme
diately and- abide: by whatever de
cision the ' arbitrating committee
might render. This .. proposition
the operators refused, and urged the
president to order out the national
troops to protect those at work and
others that may he inthtfed to go to
work. The operators' irt -their talks
were very bitter toward the officers
of the .miners’ organisation, desig
nating, them as anarcldsts and in
stigators of murder and lawlessness.
. Under no circumstances, • declared
Mr. Baer, would the operators rec
ognize the union, but declared their
willingness to treat with the men
individually at each colliery.
Whetlier further efforts on the part
of federal officials will be made to
settle the trouble is not known. Un
til the officials of Pennsylvania de
clare their inability to preserve or
der, it is not likely the aid. of fed
eral troons will be invoked.
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Gen. Milas sailed from San Fran
cisco for the Philippines on the 1st
inst.
The government estimates this
season’s corn crop will exceed 2,500,
000,000 bushels.
Dennis Riordon, of St. Louis, was
held up by a lone highwayman and
robbed of $250 and' a new revolver.
Tim annual convention of the
American Federation of Labor has
been called to meet at New Orleans
November 13.
Emile Hartman, one of the. fugi
tives wanted in St. Louis to answer
charges of bribery,, was captured last
week at South McAlester, I. T.
Wm. Johnson, a section foreman,
lost his life at ;Missoula, Mo., in
performing an act that, prevented
the wreck of a passenger train.
While he lost his own life; Johnson
prevented a disastrous accident and
probably saved the lives -of many
passengers.
With the engineer gone and the
fireman sleeping in the cab, a lone
Wild Northern Pacific engine tore
down a mountain side a mile west
of Livingston, Mont., and at the
foot of the hill struck another en
gine with terrific force. Engineer
Owen, in charge ofi the latter/was
killed, and his firemap, James Hose,
fatally injured. ' The sleeping fire
man of the runaway-was not awak
ened until thrown frpm the cab by
the collision and escaped with a few
uruisus.
A number of .officials of the
United States agricultural depart
ment are in, the, south for the pur
pose of investigating certain features
of the cotton movement., . Statisti
cian Hyde’s estimate of the amount
of cotton actually grown during the
year 1901-2 and the report of the
census office as to the amount ginned
during the year both differ consider
ably from, the amount marketed ac
cording to commercial reports. No
expense will be spared, it is said, in
an investigation as to what the com
mercial crpp really amov. ted to and
what it. consisted of. . •
Coal consumers of Bostoa have
filed a bill in equity asking that a
receiver be appointed for the anthra
cite coal companies and coal carry
ing railroads. The bill~ is' based
upon the legal theory of. the coal
situation given by II. W. Chaplin, a
lawyer, Mr. Chaplin says in sup
port ,of -his position: “Since the
public haye a right in the mines, a
right to have coal forthwith mined
for immediate consumption and
have a right to have that coal imme
diately transported out of the mine
regions by the coal-carrying roads, a
court of equity, if no other solution
of the difficulty is open, has author
ity to*.and, upon the application of
a representative proportion of the
people, undoubtedly would^. appoint
a receiver or receivers to take into
his or their hands the whole business
now in the hands of the anthracite
coal combine and to run it in their
place. The questions involved are
new as to the court’s jurisdiction,
and the outcome is of great interest
both to the general public and the
mine operators. "
Grand Excursion
to Fort Smith
Account of carnival and.
reception to' ‘
ADMIRAL SCHLEY.
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Special train October loth and 16th,
making all stops between Little
' Rock and - Fott .Smftb/
Rate from little Rock $2.50
All other stations alohg line of
Little Rock & Ft. Smith division at
proportionate rat».
Tickets Good for Two Days.
For further information call
on local agent.
57c TOWNSEND, G. P. &T. A.,
ST. LOUIS. MO.
NEWS OF ARKANSAS.
A Speedy Trial.
One of the shortest trials of a
criminal charged with a capital of
fense in the history of the state took
.place a few days ago at Van Buren.
The accused was Hal Malone, col
ored, and the crime criniinal as
sault. At 10 o’clock a special grand
jury was empaneled, and at 12
o'clock returned the indictment
Court adjourned to 2 o’clock. \yhen
Malone was arraigned and plead
guilty, Judge Evans pronouncing
the death sentence and fixing No
vember 7 as the date of execution.
The crime for which Malone was
convicted was committed * six miles
from Van Buren September- 5. Mrs.
Rebecca McLeod, aged 18, accom
panied by a 10-year-old boy, start
ed to a doctor’s, about a mile from
the home of a family she was visit
ing to get some medicine for a sick
child. Malone was waiting in a
thicket and grabbed the woman,
and tried to catch the boy, who ran
to the nearest house and raised an
alarm. Malone carried hi's victim
into a thicket and assaulted her,
leaving her almost dead. He was
captured in a few hours and' placed
in jail at Van Buren, and no doubt
would have been lynched by a crowd
gathered with that intention but
for the assurance of Prosecuting At
torney Rodgers that a special term
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wuii nuurn ^auv-u uuu
prisoner given a speedy trial.
Has Faith in Arkansas.
A correspondent of the Manufac
turer’s .Record interviewed George
Gould in New York recently and
says :■
“Mr. Gould has much faith in the
future of Arkansas, with its wealth
of timber and mineral resources, and
its fertile soil, and he expects to see
a steady development of that section
-—looks for the swamp lands to be
drained, the country to be more fully
occupied by incoming settlers, the
great natural resources of the state
to be developed and the whole coun
try to be built up and its prosperity
greatly increased. Much interest
was expressed by him in the better
ments of his roads, and he particu
larly dwelt on the work being done
on the line from Little "Rock, south,
through Pine Bluff, where a 1 per
cent graeje has been secured through
cutting, filling and raising the track
etc.”
Murder Near Newport.
Walter Horton, colored, is in jail
at Newport charged with murdering
-another negro named Clark, and
wounding Clark's brother. The
three were at a colored ball when
Horton is said to have been hit by
Will Gregory, but the former
thought it was one of the Clarks. He
went home after his shotgun and on
his return met the two Clarks com
ing out of town. Tie dismounted
and shot Ed Clark in the chest,
from which he died almost instantly,
and then shot Will Clark in both
legs. __
Former Arkansan Killed in Colorado.
. A dispatch from Victor, Col., re
ports tlie tragic death in that city
of R. A. Loyd, formerly a promi
nent merchant at Van Buren. Whe^
Loyd left Van Buren he was accom
panied by Airs. Mabel llensil, a
young widow, and upon their arriv
al in Denver the couple were mar
ried. The dispatch from Victor
contains the information that Airs.
Loyd shot her husband dead and
then took her own life. Jealousy
is supposed to,'have been the cause
of "Hid tragedy.
Child’* Miraculous Escape.
The lo-inonths-old child of C. CL
Nicholson, of Swifton, had a mi
raculous escape from death. The
child crawled upon the railroad
track, and an engine and- ten cars
passed over its body but its injuries
were only slight. The child was
knocked down by the cowcatcher
and the train was almost wrecked by
being stopped so suddenly. The
engineer thought the child was a
piece of paper on the track.
Postal Receipts and Expenditures.
The annual report of the auditor
of the postoffice department for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1902,
contains tables which show the re
ceipts and expenditures for the year
of presidential postoffices for Arkan
sas.
There are fifty-five postoffices of
the presidential class in Arkansas.
Of these all except the postoffiees of
Conway, Junction, Marianna, Mon
ticello and Van Buren have showed
increase. The principal postoffices
showed increases as'follows: Fort
Smith, $4,250 40; Hot Springs,
$1,828 78; Little Rock, $13,154.67;
Pine Bluff, $3,454.64; Texarkana,
$4,084.45.
The Arkansas list follows:
Postoftices
Arkadelphia ....$
Arkansas City ..
Augusta .
Batesville .
Bentonville .
Black Rock ....
Brinkley .
Camden, .
Clarendon .
Clarksville .
Conway.
Corning ..
Dardanelle .
De Queen .
El Dorado .
Eureka Springs .
Fayetteville.
Fordyce .
Forrest City ....
Fort Smith .
Hamburg .
Harrison .
Helena .
Expen
Receipts. ditures.
5,887.34 $ 2,379.84
7.070.24 1,315.60
2,459.80 1,314.00
5.438.25 2,742.49
3.819.39 1,848.47
2,366.44 1,332.42
3.395.84 1,763.36
7.232.85 2,129.28
3,159.79 1,722.74
2,753.70 1,668.24
2,366.44 1,332.42
1,145.42 618.05
3,031.10 1,952.16
3,329.38 1,533.17
2.862.40 1,890.08
7,988.20 3,955.35
11,238.54 4,879.61
3,823.94 1,575.08
4,366.03 2,057.14
37,716.72 20,051.80
3,030.14 1,529.98
4,742.73 2,297.12
11,611.20 4,734.71
Hope . b.iiz.ya z.zos.tx
Hot Springs _ 32,301.39 18,306.06
Huntington . 2,164.33 1,239.28
Jonesboro . 11,144.23 4,244.82
Junction. 2,431.19 1,891.06
Little Rock .103,136.80 37,228.58
Lonoke . 3,125-15 1,578.32
Magnolia . 2,918.56 1,496.58
Malvern . 2,939.59 1,608.28
Mammoth Spring 2,202.41 1,511.38
Marianna . 3,746.31 1;877.28
Mena . 5,756.39 2,369.44
Monticello . 3,734.20 1,928.40
Morrilton . 3,870.63 1,810.15
Nashville . 2,773.75 1,678.40
Newport . 8,123.25 3,258.96
Osceola . 2,751.78 1,270.56
Paragould . 6,175.50 2,317.26
Pine Bluff . 27,673.15 14,315.34
Prescott . 4,083.11 1,955.08
Rogers . 5,565.99 2,291.20
Russellville . 3,481.40 1,820.99
Searcy . 4,658.89 2,566.96
Siloam Springs.. 3,822.52 1,950.02
Springdale . 3,186.19 1,820.28
Stamps . 1,311.00 624.42
Stuttgart . 4,070.65 1,889.95
Texarkana . 31,110.22 15,190.69
Van Buren. 5,466.79 2,361.18
Walnut Ridge .. 2,554.99' 1,305.63
Warren . 2,987.22 1,466.34
Wynne . 2,892.26 1,717.60
State Treasurer’s Report.
Below is given the receipts by the
state treasury from all sources for
the quarter ending September 30.
According to previous statements
the receipts for the past quarter arc
the largest :n the history of the de
partment.
From collectors ....$1,021,814.21
Insurance fees. 720.00
Land commissioner’s
fees. 2,138.8a
Sec. of state fees, etc. 4,890.70
Sales and redemptions 11,107.70
Swamp land sales .. 2,675.29
Internal imp. lands.. 164. L3
.Real Estate bank
lands .. 290.00
Sixteenth section
lands . *'46,281.91
Nomination fees.... 867.SO
Penitentiary deposit. 24,586.0!)
Miscellaneous ...... 44,102.6!
Total .$1,160,946.75
We’ll Be There.
Formal allotment of the 6ite for
the Arkansas building at the St.'
Louis world’s fair was made Sep
tember 30. In a speech accepting
the site, Gov. Davis declared that
the people of Arkansas are .deter
mined to show the state’s resources
to the world and would expend fully
$300,000 on a building and exhibit.
Colored Infirmary Destroyed.
The Arkansas colored infirmary;
at Pine Bluff was destroyed by fire
September 30. The flames spread
tc other property and five other
buildings were consumed. The in
firmary was the only institution ex
clusively for colored people in the
state, and will likely be .rebuilt.
Lynching at Portland.
Walter Su'livan, colored; aged 19,
who shot D. D. Body, a merchant at
Portland, was lynched on the public
square at the above place. Rody
was shot down while standing in
front of a store. He had whipped
a negro boy, the brother of the party
lynched. The father of 'the boy
made some threats against Rody,
and suspicion fell upon him, but
when it became known that Walter
had left town a posse started in
pursuit and captured him near Wil
mot. He was placed in the cala
boose, and about 3 o’clock in the
morning the crowd took him to
within a few feet of where Rody
was shot and hanged him to the
limb of a small tree, firing about
twenty shots into his body before
dispersing.
Minister Sent to the Pen.
The noted forgery' case against
Rev. A. E. I)ean6r was disposed of
at Batesvillc last week, the accused
pleading guilty in two cases and re
ceiving a sentence of four years.
Ten years ago Rev. Deaner.was one
of the best known pulpit orators in
the state. He is highly educated
and well connected. After uttering
the forgeries to the extent of $12,
000, he went to Mexico, and only
returned to this state a few ’months
ago. When taken 'into custody he
stated that a desire to once more vis
it his relatives prompted him to re
turn and face The charge against
u™
New Industries.
The Chattanooga Tradesman
gives the number of new industries
organized in Arkansas during July,
August and September, as follows:
Canning factories, 1; compresses
and gins, 9; cotton and woolen
mi'lls, 3; development companies, 1;
electric-light plants, 1; flour mills,
1; ice an cold-storage' plants, 2;
mines, 7; gas and "Oil companies, 1;
oil mills, 4; iron-wprking plants, 1;
telephone companies,' 1; woodwork
ing plants, 15; miscellaneous, 7.
Shooting at- Fayetteville.
W. J. Ward, deputy county clerk,
was shot and probably‘fatally bound
ed in the court house a‘t Fayette
ville by Dr. J. P. Dorr. The shoot
ing caused considerable excitement
on account of the prominefiee of
both parties. Jealousy on the part
of Dr. Dorr is thought to-.have led
to the shooting.
BRIEF MENTION.
At a mill near Warren a man
named Scott seriously cut Rufus
Reach.
An independent packing and cold
storage plant is to be established at
Fort Smith.
James Russell, a miner,, was kill
ed at Jenny Lind by falling slate.
He leaves a wife and two children.
Robert Flurry, charged with the
killing of Robert Crownover at Dan
ville September 20, was released at
his examining trial.
The seventh annual convention
Ol 21UL2U1SU& XSIVISIUU, UXliUUU
Daughters of the Confederacy, will
meet at Newport on the 22d.
Geo. Smith, a farmer living
near Siloam Springs, suicided by
tying a 60-pound rock to his peck
and 'jumping into the Osage river.
A company composed*of' Eastern
capitalists have purchased *a tract of
12,600 acres of land near Clarksville
and will commence at once the min
ing of .coal. .
Fireman Abraham was instantly
killed and Engineer Kinney • and
Conductor Miller seriously scalded
in a wreck on the St. Paul branch
of the Frisco. * '. *
Walter Neil, the young whiteHman
charged with kidnaping the S-year
old son of J. I. Hollinger, a Jeffer
son county planter, was fined, $10
and sentenced to thirty days in
jail. *
Tom Brannel shot and killed Den
nis Camp at Brinkley. Brannel
claims Dennis ran him from a: sta
ble, in front of which the killing
I occurred, with a knife. The men
had previously had a difficiflfy.