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The Woodruff County News.
G. W. KKAMEK, Editor.
McCRORY, - - ARKA NSAS
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Walter Devon, aged 25, died in a
church at Bonham of heart disease.
Within the past twelve months 81
persons were killed by street cars in
St. Louis.
The attorney general of Indiana
says the last gambling resort in that
state has been closed.
A severe wind and rain storm de
stroyed thousands of dollars worth
of fruit in southern Illinois.
Many houses in Ohio county,
Kentucky, were washed away and
several persons drowned by a water
spout.
General Booth, founder of the
Salvation army, will arrive in this
country from England early in No
vember.
Non-union employers of the Atoka
Coal Company at Lehigh, I. T., have
demanded that all union men bo dis
charged.
Near Columbus, Mo., Boss Fran
cis, a negro farm hand, o’- raged and
■mn-rrln-no/1 o irmimr lorlir •fVin cicfr»T* r»"f
liis employer.
William R. Bigham, of Kansas,
has been appointed consul general >it
Cape Town, South Africa, to succeed
Colonel Stowe.
The steel trust has secured control
of the Bethlehem Steel Company’s
mammoth plants, the consideration
being $4,032,000.
The marine hospital service, as
sisted by special experts, has practi
cally wiped out yellow fever in Ha
vana and Santiago.
Charles J. Jones, valet to Million
aire Rice, and who planned with
Patrick to murder his employer, is
said to be regaining his health in a
New York sanitarium.
The grand encampment, Knights
Templar, at the Louisville services,
elected H. B. Stoddard, of Bryan,
Tex., grand commander to succeed
Reuben Loyd, of California.
During the last fiscal year the
United States sold to foreign coun
tries $175,000,000 worth of wheat
and wheat flour. This is $9,000,000
more than was exported during the
previous fiscal year. It is expected
that this year the farmers of the
country will receive $24,000,000
more for their wheat than they did
during the year ended June 30 last.
Dispatches from Dawson state
that water is very scarce on all the
Klondike gold creeks. Many opera
tors have been compelled to shut
down indefinitely. Only those who
have pumping plants can continue
taking out gold. These pump the
water into the sluices and use it over
and over again. Many men on El
dorado, Bonanza and Sulphur creeks
have been discharged because of the
shortage.
The rebellion against the govern
ment of Colombia is becoming se
rious and is rapidly gaining in
strength. The government is se
tu/Minlir L on /l l -Pn/\rv» 1 n /-.L A-p
funds, and business men are vir
tually being robbed by governors of
the provinces. The United States
gunboatMachias arrived at Colon
August 27, for the purpose of afford
ing protection to American inter
ests.
On account of disputed questions
between the French and Turkish
governments, the French envoy at
Constantinople has withdrawn. A
dispatch from Washington says it
is feared in official circles that the
withdrawal of the French ambassa
dor marks the dissolution of the con
cert of European powers under
which the integrity of Turkey was
guaranteed. By the treaty of Ber
lin all the great powers of Europe
subscribed to an agreement to re
frain from any act that would tend
to the destruction of the Ottoman
empire. This action was taken to
forestall what were conceived to be
the designs of Russia to seize on Tur
kish territory, and Russia herself
was led to subscribe to the agree
ment by force of circumstances.
Ex-Gov. Stone, of Missouri, is a
candidate for United States senator
to succeed Senator Vest.
At Sparta, Tenn., Judge Smith
refused to release six men charged
with taking part in a lynching.
Two men lost their lives at
Beaumont, Tex., in an attempt to ;
shut off the flow of a new oil guher.
At the end of six weeks the strike
of steel workers is as far from settle
ment as on the day the strike order ,
was issued. ,
The government has decided to
abandon pneumatic guns, better j
known as dynamite guns, both on ,
ship and in fortifications. ,
In a riot at a park in Indianapo
lis, Ind., between negroes and whites 1
four of the former were badly injur- |
ed and others compelled to leave the i
grounds.
The annual conclave of grand en- ;
campment of Knights Templars met i
at Louisville, Ky., August 27. There
were 40,000 Knights in line of the
grand march on the 28th.
A mob, enraged by an attempt of i
a negro to stab a white man, drove
all the blacks from the town of
Stroud, Okla. The houses of two
negroes were torn down and the con- :
tents burned. '
Mr. E. H. Oliphant, of the United s
States geological survey, has com- ]
pietea tne preparation oi a paper on
natural gas production in 1900. The ]
total number of wells producing at <
the close of 1900 was 10,506, as com- ]
pared with 9,738 producing wells at ,
the close of 1899, a gain of 768 wells (
There were 991 wells abandoned and j
359 dry holes or non-producing wells ]
drilled in 1900. The value of nat- i
ural gas produced in the states of the j
middle west and southwest in 1900 (
was as follows: Colorado, $1,800; 1
Illinois, $1,700; Kansas, $356,900;
Missouri, $547; Texas, $20,000. ,
In a fight at a party near Nacodo- i
chess, Texas, Sam Scott was shot and 1
instantly killed and Hammond ,
Scott, his brother, will die as a result 1
of knife wounds. B. W. Beard was c
shot in the stomach and can hardly j
recover. His brother was wounded (
in the leg and foot, and Jasper Me- i
Daniel was hot in the hip and may 1
lose his leg. The three last named i
were attendants on the party which
was given at Beard’s home and had ]
nothing to do with the fight. The (
Scotts and a neighbor, Osceol Bar- .
ker, were the principals, there being s
an old grudge between them. 1
William M. Iloye, collector of cus- 1
toms at Nogales, Ariz.; B. F. Jossey, <
immigrant inspector there; Frank 1
Howe, a Chinaman, and another I
Chinaman, living across the border 1
at Clifton, Mex., have been arrested 1
by the federal secret service officers <
on the charge of smuggling Chinese \
immigrants into the United States.
The arrest of these men brings to j
light one of the most extensive and l
most successfully worked frauds in (
the history of the immigration ser- \
vice of the United States. The se- |
cret service officers have been at j
work on the case for a month past s
ana tne miormation wmcn lias come 5
to the treasury department indicates ]
that nearly every member of the cus- |
toms and immigration force at >
Nogales is implicated. Hoey makes ^
a complete denial of any wrong <
doing on his part or any of his \
deputies.
Bradstreet’s report of trade condi- ]
tions for the week ended August 23, ]
says: Evidences multiply that the i
tide of trade has turned, and that it i
is now setting strongly in the direc- 1
tion of an enlarged business, at -
steady or higher prices. Crop im- 1
provcment, particularly in the cen- >
tral west and the Mississippi valley, '
has been the main spring of the <
more cheerful tide of advices and en- <
larged fall trade operations at such 1
cities as Chicago, St. Louis and Kan- 1
sas City. Even from the so-called 1
drouth-stricken corn belt come ad- (
vices of quite a satisfactory busi- i
ness, in some instances reports being 1
of a larger jobbing trade than in the <
corresponding period a year ago. 1
The notable strength of cotton, <
partly, however, the result of real or '
assumed crop damage, has been the i
active feature in the betterment of i
southern trade advices. (
Several valuable Tace horses
lurned to death at the St. Louis fair
grounds race track.
The new town of Anadarko, Okla.,
vas almost wiped out by a storm, in
vhich four people were killed.
The census of New Mexico shows
i total population of 195,310, 7 per
;ent of which is foreign born.
The wre*k of a passenger train on
lie Pennsylvania railroad near New
irk, N. J., resulted in the death of
deven persons.
One man was killed and seventeen
njured by a head-end collision on a
■apid transit line, a suburban road,
lear Atlanta. Ga.
The threatened rupture between
rurkey and France has been averted
>v the former government granting
;ertain demands of the latter.
The transport Sheridan sailed
:rom San Francisco August 31 with
i large number of teachers for the
rnblic schools in the Philippines.
Nine people are known to be dead
md nineteen are missing as the re
;ult of the explosion of a boiler on
he seamer City of Trenton near
Philadelphia.
The fall season for active recruit
ng for the navy is soon to begin.
Fhe middle, western and southern
states are expected to furnish a large
lumber of men.
since September 1, 1900, seventy
ive Filipino natives have been con
victed by the civil authorities and
)aid the penalty of death for their
:rimes; eighty-nine sentenced to
leath have had their sentences com
nuted to life imprisonment or stated
icriods of time; in five cases the sen
ence of death has been disapproved,
md seventy-five sentences to impris
tnment for periods of time exceeding
en years have been confirmed.
The third death from yellow fever
aused by the bite of a mosquito is
eported from Havana. The vic
im was Miss Clara Maas, of New
Jersey. Of the six persons bitten
y mosquitoes recently in the course
f the yellow fever commission's ex
leriments, three have died, and the
[octors say the o|her three are suffer
ng from light attacks of the disease.
Jiss Maas was a nurse at Las Ani
aas and wished to become immune.
Governor Longino, of Mississippi,
las suspended State Treasurer Stow
■rs. A count of the cash by an
[gent appointed by the governor,
howed a shortage of $107,000. The
reasurer asked for a recount, and
vhen made all the funds were found
>n hand, Stowers stating that when
he first count was made the de
iciency was on deposit in a local
>ank. As the law requires that all
he funds be kept in the treasury,
Jovernor Longino suspended the
reasurer.
An Associated Press dispatch
torn New York says: “Since it
•ecame known that the Gould inter
:sts had made an offer for the con
rol of the Choctaw, Oklahoma &
julf railroad, there has been active
novement in the previously dormant
ijfiicfc ul uie Vyuiurauu oi ouuuiern
ailroad in the New York stock mar
cet, with rumors that George J.
Jould was buying the property.
Chere is trustworthy authority for
he assertion that the Colorado &
southern will in the future be eon
rolled by interests friendly to both
dr. Gould and Mr. Harriman. This
oad, which includes about eleven
mndred and fifty miles of line, has
mportant connections with the Un
on Pacific, as well as with the
Jould-South western roads. The
No Grande Western, a Gould road,
s joint owner with the Colorado &
Southern of the Colorado Midland.
Hie Colorado and Southern company
>wns fully 90 per cent of the stock
>f the Fort Worth & Denver road,
vhich is to be connected within a
'ew months with the Choctaw, Okla
homa & Gulf road, for which Mr.
Jould had made an offer. Kailroad
nen familiar with existing condi
ions in the Southwest say that the
Joi id roads grid-iron the territory
ravirsed by the Colorado & South
■rn, the Oklahoma & Gulf, and the
?orn Worth & Denver and that the
tbscirption of the three last named
oac fe by the Gould system is regard
inevitable.’-'
NEWS OF ARKANSAS.
Reedy Vance Convicted.
A jury at Perryvilie returned a
verdict against Reedy Vance for the
killing of a Chinaman at Little Rock
of murder in the first degree, the
penalty being death. On June 4 last
Vance entered a restaurant run by
the Chinaman and ordered a bowl of
soup. After eating the soup Vance
walked out of the place without pay
ing the nickel. The Chinaman fol
lowed him to the sidewalk demand
ing pay, when Vance pulled a pistol
and shot him down. A change of
venue was taken to Terry county, the
defendant claiming that he coidd not
get a fair trial in Pulaski county.
The state proved that Vance shot the
Chinaman without provocation.
The defense set up the plea of self
defense and insanity, the only evi
dence of justification being that of
Vance himself. Several witnesses
testified to peculiarities of the ac
cused, and depositions were read
showing that his father was of un
sound mind in the latter years of his
life and that an uncle had died in an
asylum. A physician, an expert on
insanity, testified that he had exam
ined Vance shortly after the killing,
and found him to be of sound mind.
Vance was known to be a bad man
when drinking, having killed two
men in Little Rock, besides engag
ing in numerous difficulties. He
cnwofl tfirm "for
the illegal sale o£ liquor, but was
pardoned on condition that he never
again engage in the whisky business.
He is a native of Mississippi, and is
highy connected. The case will be
appealed to the supreme court, and
should the verdict be approved, an
effort will be made to have his sen
tence commuted to life imprison
ment.
About Insane Asylum Employes.
Superintendent F. 0. Hooper, of
the State Insane Asyluiv., reports
that he will have difficulty in carry
ing out the orders of the board in
filling the 105 positions at the insti
tution wholly with citizens of the
state. The order went forth four
weeks ago, and up to date only five
applications have been made. The
order provides that the change shall
be made within ninety days at most,
but if there are no applicants the old
employes must of necessity be re
tained. The order affects about
twenty-five. There are as many
more from outside the state who
have been here long enough to be
come citizens, and who w ill not,
therefore be displaced. Superinten
dent Hooper says that it is a profes
sion, and not a desirable one, as the
only association from morning till
night week after week is that of
lunatics.
The Arkansas and Choctaw.
The contract for construction of
225 miles of the Arkansas and Choc
taw line, from Arkinda to the Red
river, was awarded last week to the
firm of Johnston Bros. & Faught.
The work will be completed within
a year and the line will be operated
as an independent property. It has
ample financial backing and it is ex
pected to be a paying proposition
from the start. It will traverse a
country of diversified resources and
will be extended from time to time.
The line is already in operation from
Texarkana to Arkinda, forty-six
miles, via Ashdown and Arden, and
it connects with the St. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern, the Cotton
Belt, the Texas and Pacific and the
Kansas City Southern.
Confederate Pensions.
The state pension board has dis
posed of the bulk of applications of
ex-Confederate soldiers for pensions.
While very few of these claims were
rejected, a great disappointment is
yet in store for the veterans, owing
to the fact that the amount of availa
ble funds for the payment of pen
sions is far short of the amount re
quired to pay the claims allowed and
the number which will doubtless re
ceive favorable action. It is esti
mated that for the present year pen
sioners will not receive more than
!20 per cent of the amount allowed
them. Application to the number
fo 4,000 have been filed, the claims
ranging in amount from &25 to $100
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* Ex-Postmaster in Trouble.
W. W. Brownfield, until about a
year ago postmaster at Grannis, Polk
eount}r, was arrested last week at
Anaconda, Mo., charged with embez
zlement. Brownfield is under in
dictment in the western district of
Arkansas, and will shortly be taken
to Fort Smith where his trial is to be
held. He claims to be innocent of
the charge lodged against him, and
intimates that a spirit of spite,
though not on the part of the gov
ernment, is back of the trouble. He
acknowledges that there was a short
age of a few hundred dollars at the
Grannis postoffice during his admin
istration, but is not able to fix the
blame. The deficit was met by his
bondsmen when its existence was dis
covered, and this he claims to have
made good through the sale of Kan
sas property owned by his wife. Ac
cording to his story, he resigned
when he learned that he was sus
pected of wrong-doing. This story
is at variance with that of the gov
ernment officers, who say he has been
a fugitive from justice since June of
last year.
Disastrous Fire at Huntington.
A disastrous fire occuijred at
Huntington August 27. The fire
started in the ice plant of the Kan
sas and Texas Coal Company, and
spread to the offices and large de
partment store. The losses are giv
en as follows: Kansas and Texas
Coal Company $60,000, fully in
sured; Win Harper, loss $5,000, in
surance !j>2,5UU; VV. VV. A. Uurry,
loss $3,000, insurance $1,300: Mrs.
Mary Weaver, two buildings, total
loss $2,000, partially insured; Black
Diamond Saloon, damage $000;
Mrs. J. S. Young, millinery, dam
age $500; Tom Speer’s dry goods,
damage $1,000.
Hung Himself to a Limb.
M. J. Simmons, a farmer, while
rambling through the woods five
miles from Hot Springs, discovered
the body of a man hanging from the
limb of a tree twenty feet from the
ground. There was nothing found
upon the body by which the man
could be identified and a verdict of
suicide was rendered by the coro
ner’s jury.
Munday Promoted.
James Munday, chief train dis
patcher of the Arkansas division,
Iron Mountain road, has been pro
moted to the position of trainmaster,
with headquarters at Van Buren.
He succeeds Trainmaster Coppage,
who recently resigned to accept the
position of superintendent of the Ar
kansas Southern railroad.
Must Pay Fine.
Gov. Davis has refused a pardon
to R. C. Brady, of Jonesboro, who
was fined an aggregate of $1,300 in
thirteen cases for whisky selling.
Brady has already served over a year
in jail and on the county farm. Un
less the fine is paid or a pardon
granted, should he live he will be
compelled to serve about twelve
years.
Prominent Conway Man Drowned.
Maurice Frauenthal, a well known
merchant of Conway, was drowned
in Cn.dron creek, near the abnre
place. It seems Mr. Frauenthal
drove into the stream to water his
horse, when the animal became
frightened and plunged into deep
water. The unfortunate man be
came entangled in the harness and
could not extricate himself.
Will Employ Special Counsel.
It is almost certain the state peni
tentiary board will employ special
counsel to represent the state in
the case to come up in Pulaski chan
cery court involving the right of the
board to annul the ten year lease of
300 convicts to the Arkansas Brick
Manufacturing Company. This
lease was made by a former board.
Got Ten Years in the Pen.
Ed Eastling, colored, was convict
ed in Perry circuit court of murder
and sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary. Eastling killed an
other negro named Ed Marshall in
1899. At his first trial he was
convicted and sentenced to be hang
ed, but the case was remanded for a
new trial by the supreme court.