VOL. II.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1902.
NO. 3.
NEWS OF THE WORLD,
The St. Louis world’s fair will
not open till 1901.
E. G. Rathbone, convicted with
Neely in the Cuban postal fraud
case, has been released on $100,000
bond.
Fire insurance companies threat
en to cancel all policies in force in
Vicksburg, Miss., unless the city af
fords better protection from fires.
Major Waller, of the marine
corps, has been acquitted by court
martial of the charge of killing na
tive Filipinos on the island of Samar
without a trial.
Mrs. James McGowan, of Ulster
county, New York, aged 28 years,
gave birth to five children, all girls,
who are perfectly formed and doing
well. Her other children are a son
and twin daughters.
The world’s record has been brok
en in a run of 14.8 miles on the
w’estern division of the Chicago.
Burlington & Quincy railway, when
a speed of nearly 100 miles an
hour wras made by a regular passen
ger train.
Henry Flutcher, colored was
hanged at St. Louis for the murder
of Louis Roth, aged 16 years. A
few' minutes after the trap was
sprung the sheriff received a tele
gram from the governor granting
a respite of fifteen days to the con
demned man.
It is reported the Louisville &
Nashville railroad has passed to the
Southern railway. Indications seem
to point to the fact that the L. & N.
will be turned over to the Rock Is
land, and the Southern and Rock
Island systems will affect some kind
of community of interest deal.
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, the
noted Presbyterian minister, died
at his home in Washington on the
12th. Dr. Talmage was born Jan
uary 7, 1832, in Somerset county,
New Jersey. After graduating he
studied law, but a few years later
entered the ministry of the Presby
terian church.
Miss Carrie M. Jennett, a school
teacher, was brutally murdered at
Detroit, Mich., by Prof. Joseph Mil
ler, who beat the girl's head into an
unrecognizable mass with a hatchet.
Miller had wronged the girl, and
when she asked him to leave his
family and go with her he planned
the murder. He was convicted in
less than seventy-two hours after the
crime, was eomriiitted, and given a
life sentence in prison.
An Illinois Central passenger train
collided with a switch engine at
Memphis. The passenger engine,
two baggage cars, the mail car and
a second class coach were derailed.
Fireman Wm. Goodloe, colored, was
killed. Engineer Chas. J. Barnett,
badly injured about the body. Ex
press Messenger Wm. E. Pink of
Cairo, 111., sustained a fracture of
the skull and severe bruises, and an
unknown man, supposed to be a
tramp, lost a hand and one of his
eyes.
The census bureau has issued a
preliminary report on the cotton
crop of 1001, in commercial bales,
gross weight, as returned by the cot
ton ginners, showing an aggregate
crop of 9,052,982 bales. This is
533,166 bales less than the 1900
crop. The 1900 crop, expressed in
500-pound bales, was 10,123,027, or
363,121 less than the number of
commercial bales, the gross average
bale weight being 483 pounds. Fol
lowing are the figures of the crop of
1901, together with those of 1900,
respectively, in commercial bales, by
states and territories: Alabama,
1,162,739 and 1,061,679; Arkansas,
736,740 and 828,820; Florida, 57,
198 and 55,696; Georgia, 1,401,815
and 1,270,597; Indian Territory,
280,175 and 288,114; Kansas, 170
and 151; Kentucky, 140 and 133;
Louisiana, 858,661 and 714,073;
Mississippi, 1,279,286 and 1,055,
968; Missouri, 27, 987 and 27, 980;
North Carolina, 454,354 and 509,
341; Oklahoma, 149,415 and 116,
875; South Carolina, 730,603 and
780,782; Tennessee, 209,186 and
227,601; Texas, 2,590,704 and
3,536,506; Virginia, 13,809 and 11,
833.
i
J. P. Morgan subscribed for one
tenth of the new British loan of
$100,000,000.
Brigadier Generals Isaac De Dus
sy, Andrew S. Burt and Michael Y.
Sheridan, recently promoted, have
been placed on the retired list after
^'hc Chinese exclusion act is meet
ing with opposition from some of
the republicans in the senate, who
argue that the measure will hurt
our trade in China.
In his testimony before the sen
ate committee on military affairs,
Gen. Schofield declared that Presi
dent Roosevelt and Gen. Miles are
not on speaking terms.
Chas. T. Roberts, a Mississippian,
smashed a $300 plate glass window
of a Memphis millinery store, giv
ing as his reason that a w^ax figure
in the window was immorally draped
in fine lingerie, unfit for the eye of
youth to look upon. Roberts’ efforts
at reform will cost him several hun
dred dollars and probably a long
term in prison.
Joe Mulhatton, the prevaricator
prince of America, has been heard
from agani. His latest is that he
has discovered a method for con
densing Kentucky whisky to such
an extent that he can get all of its
joyfulness and strength into little
pills, fifty of which are equal to a
gallon of the priinest mountain dew
ever gathered on the smiling slopes
of old Kentucky.
Eugene F. Ware, of Kansas, has
been named as the successor of Pen
sion Commisisoner Evans. Mr.
Ware is a veteran of the civil and
Indian wars; was a member of the
Kansas senate and twice delegate to
the republican national convention,
lie is the author of many sketches,
pamphlets and legal essays, and un
der the nom de plume of “Iron
Quill’’ has written a number of
poems.
Gen. Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina, died on. the lltli inst.
Gen. Hampton had just passed his
84th birthday. He was the most
distinguished citizen of South Car
olina. To the dead statesman and
soldier, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee paid the
following tribute: ‘'Gen. Hampton
was one of the most magnificent men
in many respects 1 have ever known;
a man of great ability, fascinating
manners, true and loyal to his
friends and an officer of great mer
it and a citizen without peer and
without reproach. He was a mag
nificent specimen of the southern
gentleman and his death will not
only be greatly deplored over the
country, but more especially by
those Confederate soldiers who were
accustomed to follow him on so many
fields of battle.”
The democrats and the republican
insurgents rode rohgli shod over the
house leaders on the Cuban reci
procity bill. They overthrew the
ruling of the chair in committee of
the whole on the question of the
germaneness of an amendment to
remove the differential from refined
sugar during the existence of the
reciprocity agreement provided for
in the bill. The motion to over
ride the decision of the chair, made
by Mr. Sherman, of New York, was
carried, 171 to 140, .37 republicans
joining with a solid democratio
vote. Having won this preliminary
victory the amendment was adopt
ed in committee, 104 to 111, and
later in the house by a still larger
majority, 199 to 105. The bill, as
passed/authorizes the president, as
soon as may be proper after the es
tablishment of an independent gov
ernment in Cuba and the enactment
by said government of immigration
exclusion of contract labor laws, as
restrictive as those of the United
States, to negotiate a reciprocity
trade agreement with Cuba by
which, in return for equivalent con
cessions, the United States will
grant a reduction of 20 per cent
lrom the Dingley rates on goods
coming into the United States from
Cuba. Such agreement is to con
tinue until December 1, 1903.
During the existence of such agree
ment the duty on refined sugars
and all sugars above No. 16, Dutch
standard, is to be 1.825 per pound.
THE “MONKEY DRILL.”
Said to Be Cause of Desertions from
Cavalry Regiments.
A cavalryman who had enlisted in
the Eleventh at Fort Myer was talk
ing to a Post reporter the other day,
when the subject of desertion came
up, and the. conversation drifted to
the why and wherefore of the frequen
cy of such things over at the fort.
“The reason,” he said, “why so many
deserted from the Eleventh is the fact
that they dread and detest the monkey
drill. The monkey drill is' the term
we use to designate that portion of
the exercises in which we endeavor
to perfect ourselves in the art of rid
ing bareback, standing in an upright
position on the back of a galloping
horse, swinging into the saddle a? thej
animal dashes at breakneck speed and
in performing other daring and dif
ficult feats of horsemanship.
“This.is just about the hardest
work that one ever attempted, and
when it is over the men are complete
ly exhausted. Only the strongest and
hardiest men are abld to stand it and
i is only about one in every 20 that
really enjoys the work. Most young
fellows imagine that they would like
to belong to the cavalry and become
daring equestrians, as a result of hav
ing witnessed some of our riding,
either in Buffalo Bill’s show or at
Madison Square Garden. They en
list, never dreaming that the daily
practice is as hard as it is, and then
their troubles begin.
“The result is that in a short while
they are completely worn out and ut
terly disgusted. Then they desert.
Over two-thirds of the desertions from
the Eleventh were due to the monkey
drill. This is not. of course, the fault
of tlie officers. The regulations are
very strict, and only the healthiest
and hardiest men are enlisted, and,
what is more, they are given to un
derstand before they enter the ranks
what they have to expect, so that it
is their own fault if they don’t like
it.—Washington Post.
HE KNEW THE TUNE.
But Was Ignorant of the Title of the
Pieces He Wanted.
It was at the sheet music counter
of a department store. A man who
had found his way through the maze
of dress goods avenues and millinery
streets came up to the young woman
and said: “I want to get a piece of
music I heard the other evening. I
don't know the name of it. but in om
place it goes something like this:
La-la-Ia-la-la-la, la-la-la-la. lallalla.
lallalla. la-la-la-la."
The young woman had leaned over
the counter and listened thoughtful
ly. says the Milwaukee Sentinel, but
when he had concluded his very try
ing vocal exercise she shook her head
as if in doubt. Then she brightened.
‘■Perhaps you mean this," she said,
and she hummed a fragment of tune.
“That’s it.’’ he exclaimed, grin
ning. “I didn't have it quite right.”
After he had bought' his piece of
music and departed the saleswoman
said, in answer to a question, that verv
often a customer who came in to buy
a song did not know the name of the
songand would singtheair. Oftener
still, the customer would know one
or two lines of the songand would ex
pect the saleswoman to recognize the
song from the brief quotation.
“SURE THINGS.’*
Why the Sporting Man’s Suggestions
Were Not Acted Upon.
‘‘1 have three ‘good things’ in the
first race,” remarked a sporting man
who met a party of friends this moru
ing.
"Don’t tell me about ‘good things’ ”
one of the party told him. "A man
of vour luck should not be getting
his friends in trouble.”
“What’s the matter with him?”in
quirmed another friend.
“Last year he went to the races with
a ‘sure thing’ and it was almost neces
sarv for him to walk home. He not
only lost hi? money, but he was a Jo
nah in every respect. The car on
which he started home broke down
and then he got in an electric vehicle
with a friend. When the electric ve
hicle became disabled he got. in a
wagon and the horseran away, lhe
wagon was demolished and he linally
got home on a street car.
His “sure things,” observes the
Washington Star, were not wanted.
NEWS OF ARKANSAS,
The Universalists.
The conference of the Universal
ists of Arkansas closed at Little
Rock on the 12th after electing the
following officers for the ensuing
3'ear: Judge J. W. Pittman, of
Prescott, president; Judge J. W.
Howell, of Hot Springs, vice presi
dent ; E. P>. Maust, of Little Rock,
secretary; Mrs. (Xolin, of Little
Rock, treasurer. The committee on
finance and recommendations sub
mitted a lengthy report, which was
adopted. The committee on resolu
tions also made a report in which the
following was embodied:
“Resolved, that we stand stead
fast in the belief of the universal
fatherhood of God in spiritual au
thority and leadership of his son,
Jesus Christ, the trustworthiness of
the hible as containing a revelation
from God, the certainty of just retri
bution for sin. the final harmony of
all souls with God. We extend our
heartfelt thanks to our national
young people's Christian union for
placing a misisonarv in our field
and contributing so liberally to his
support.”
Crop Conditions.
The second weekly report of the
Arkansas weather bureau on crop
conditions in this state, for the week
ending April 10, shows that in near
ly all sections cool, wet weather has
greatly retarded farming operations.
Corn planting is still progressing,
though slowly, on account of the un
favorable conditions of the weather
and soil ; some of the early planted
has come up. Very little cotton has
been planted, farmers generally arc
waiting for more favorable weather
conditions. Preparations for plant
ing, however, are progressing. Wheat
generally looks well, in some few
localities it is not doing well, and
is being plowed up. and the land
prepared for corn. Oats are coming
up to fair to good stands. 1 risli po
tatoes are being planted, the early
planted are beginning to sprout, but
on account of the cool, wet weather
are not coming up very rapidly.
Fruit has not been damaged to any
extent, and all reports indicate very
favorable prospects for fruit of all
kinds.
To School Directors.
Superintendent of Public In
struction Boyne has issued the fol
lowing circular: “As the annual
school meeting is soon to be hold,
and there has been considerable dis
cussion of late as to the rights of
school directors in the expenditure
of the funds of the districts, permit
me again to c;jll your attention to
the opinion delivered some time ago
by this department, and endorsed
by the attorney general. Please give
this as much publicity as possible,
in order that the electors may be in
formed as to the same prior to the
annual meeting.
“1. As a guide to the (‘lectors
in voting the tax in the May meet
ing, the directors are required to
submit to them at that meeting an
estimate as to the amount of money
necessary to meet the expenses of
the district for the year to follow.
“2. If no estimate is submitted,
and the tax is voted for ‘general
purposes.' the directors would be au
thorized to expend the fund arising
therefrom for the actual expenses
necessary for the maintenance of
the school, except that no part of it
could be used for building or seating
a school house.
“3. If any part of the district j
fund is to be spent in the purchase j
of maps, charts, globes, etc., the es
timate should so state, and the di
rectors are limited to the amount
therein mentioned.”
Complete official returns have
been received from seventy-four out
of seventy-five counties as to the
vote on United States senator in
the democratic primaries on March
29, with the following results:
The Official Vote.
Clarke
Jones
Clarke's majority . 9,(398
The annual meeting of the Na
Order B’n»i B rith.
The twenty-ninth annual convrn
tion of district grand lodgo, Inde
pendent Order of B’nai B’rith, met
at Little Rock on the 14th inst. The
states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mis
sissippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Texas
and Florida were represented. The
report of Secretary Strauss gives the
following summary of membership
since 1891, prior to the adoption of
optional endowment: Endowment
members in 1891, 2,242; losses by
death, 482; losses from other causes,
434—a total of 916; present mem
bership, 1,326; non-participants in
1891, 11; accessions, deducting all
losses, 1,764; on the roll today, 1,
775; endowment benefits paid dur
ing this decade, $537,000; charities,
$169,000. The following summary
of the financial condition of the en
dowment is given: Amount of re
serve as per last, report, $286,474.
88; amount of reserve as per De
cember 31, 1901, $302,077.68; net
increase, $15,602.80.
The proposition to establish a
sanitarium at ITot Springs was en
dorse! and a movement started to
raise funds for the purpose. The
election of officers resulted as fol
lows: President, S. C. Eldridge, of
San Antonio, Tex.; first vice presi
dent, Rabbi George Solomon, of
Vicksburg, Miss.; second vice presi
dent, Joseph Bertman, of Birming
ham, Ala.; treasurer, Lewis Mayer,
of Demopolis, Ala.; secretary, Na
than Strauss, of New Orleans; ser
geant-at-arms, 1L J. Dannebaum, of
Houston, Tex.
Fatal Family Quarrel.
A family quarrel over a dividing
fence to adjoining farms culmi
nated in a terrible tragedy in Arkan
sas county. The parties to the
bloody affair were Henry Hill, B. T.
Dillon, Mrs. Dillon and her son, Wal
ter, Mrs. Dillon being a sister to
Hill. While under the influence of
liquor Hill armed himself with a
Winchester, went to Dillon's house,
called him out on the porch and
shot'him down. Mrs. Dillon ran to
her dying husband when her broth
er shot her through the body, in
dicting a fatal wound. Walter Dil
lon, just as his mother fell by the
side of her husband, appeared on the
scene and shot Hill twice with a
Winchester, death resulting in a few
minutes. Hill bore a bad reputa
tion, and young Dillon stands well
in the community.
The Editors.
tional Editorial Association was
held at Hot Springs last week.
One of the features of the
meeting was the discussion of
a resolution asking congress
to investigate the acts of
the postal department and condemn
ing the course of Mr. Madden, as
sistant postmaster general. The
meeting was well attended, and the
delegation was royally entertained
by the citizens of the most famous
health resort in the world. On
Monday the editors arrived at Tittle
Rock and for a day were the guests
of the business men of the capital
city. The officers chosen for the en
suing year were: President, G. A.
Willard, Booneville, N. Y.; first
vice president, P. . Collins, of
Minneapolis; second vice president,
G. T. Davis, of Concordia, Kan.;
third vice president, W. W. Screws,
of Montgomery, Ala.; correspond
ing secretary, J. M. Page, Jersey
vilie. 111.; recording secretary, R. M.
White, of Mexico, Mo.; treasurer,
James G. Gibbs, Norwalk, Ohio;
Omaha, Neb., was selected as the
next place of meeting, defeating
Milwaukee, Wis., and Asheville, N.
C.
Governor on a Vacation.
Gov. Davis left on the 10th for a
six weeks’ vacation, accompanied by
Judge E. O. Mahoney, of El Dora
do, and his private secretary, Chas
Jacobson. After a visit to Wash
ington and New York, the party
ivill go to the state of Washington,
spending the time in hunting the
aig game that abounds in that coun
try. During Gov. Davis’ absence
Col. M. P. (Mike) Huddleston will
direct affairs of state.
Would Withdraw.
At tho annual meeting of the
general federation of Arkansas club
women, held at Fort Smith last
week, the following resolution was
adopted:
“Whereas, The color question,
which now confronts the G. F. W.
C., is of most serious import, and,
“Whereas, It behooves every state
convention to show its status on this
issue, therefore be it
“Resolved, That the A. F. W. C.
is totally opposed to any com prom
ise measure which shall leave a loop
hole by which colored women may
be introduced in the G. F. W. C.
“Resolved, further, that should
this question be brought to a suc
cessful issue by those who favor tho
admission of clubs containing col
ored members, the A. F. W. C. with
draw at once from the national fed
eration.”
Died on Train.
C. C. Chariot, of Helena, was
found dead in a sleeper of the South
ern Pacific near Reno, Nev. Mr,
Chariot had been for an ocean voy
age, on the advice of his physician,
as he was a sufferer from rheuma
tism and asthma and had just re
turned from the Samoan islands.
His vessel was detained at quaran
tine at San Francisco, owing to a
couple of cases of bubonic plague in
the steerage, and he had just start
ed for home when death came.
An Inventor Missing.
The police of Memphis are anx
ious to learn the whereabouts of
Arthur S. Winston, who disappeared
from the above city several days ago,
atfer causing the arrest of a man
named Watson on the charge of rob
bing him of valuable drawings and
plans of a patent. Winston’s home
is at Danville, this state. He was
known to have in his possession at
Memphis the papers alleged to have
been stolen, but after making com
plaint he failed to show up to pros
ecute the acccused. On the 14tli
he had failed to show up at Dan
ville, and it is feared he met with
foul play.
Electrocuted.
Wilev Sessions, a young white
man, was electrocuted at Little Rock
'by touching a live wire. With some
friends he was crossing the street at
a point where there was a mud hole.
To keep out of the slush he took hold
of a telephone pole. The live wire
was hanging to the pole and his
hands came in contact with it, death
being instantaneous.
The Red Men.
Tim second annual meeting of the
Improved Order of Rod Men of
Arkansas was held at Little Rock
on the loth, when the following of
ficers for the ensuing year were
elected: G. W. Sexton, Newport,
G. S ; R. G. Moore, Fort Smith, G.
S. S.; G. A. Kimberly, Little Rock,
G. J. S.; 0. G. Porter, Pine Bluff,
G. P.; Mark P. Olney, Mena, G. C.
R.; Bruce Mulkey, Wynne, G. K.
W.; D. S. Ross, Blytheville, G. G.
W.; P. M. Hodler, Texarkana, G. G.
F.; II. E. Sibels, Helena, G. S
('has. Stapleton, Jenny Lind, G. M.
Newport was selected as the next
place of meeting, the third Tuesday
m April, 1903.
BRIEF MENTION.
An oil mill is to be erected at
Ashdown.
A new bank, capital $20,000, is
to be established at Plummcrville.
Little Rock is to have a new ice
plant erected by eastern capitalists.
The republicans will put out a
full county ticket in Pulaski coun
ty, for the first time in ten yo&rs.
Peter Malton, white, was proba
bly fatally injured by falling fronv
a passenger train leaving the yards
at Fort Smith.
Plans are now on foot to raise
$10,000 among the colored people
to aid in the erection of the Arkansas
building at St. Louis.
For the week ending April 15,
Lord Kitchener reports that about1
200 Boers were killed, wounded or
captured. There were about a hun
dred British casualties.