The Woodruff County News.
G. W. KRAMER, Editor.
McCRORY, - - ARKANSAS
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
The Schley court of inquiry re
convened on the 20th inst.
Gen. Funston is in a Manila hos
pital suffering from appendicitis.
Mr. Cortelyou, private secretary
to President McKinley, will remain
in his position temporarily.
The longshoremen of New Or
leans gained an advance in wages
from 40 to 50 cents per hour with
time and a half for overtime.
The reformers of New York City,
representing the entire opposition to
Tammany, have selected the Hon.
Seth Low as a candidate for mayor.
The cold weather has seriously de
layed cotton picking and in some lo
calities recent rains did considerable
damage by beating out the lint from
the bolls.
The city cf Pekin was formally
turned over to Chinese troops on
the 19th inst., the last of the for
eign troops withdrawing after hold
ing the city for over a year.
Gov. Voorhees, of New Jersey,
has been warned through the mails
to keep quiet and “send no detective
to Trenton or get what McKinley
got.” The governor says anarchists
will be made to leave the state of
New Jersey by the enactment of
laws fitting their case.
The funeral services at the capi
tol over the remains of the late Pres
ident McKinley were simple and
beautiful. They were of the form
prescribed in the Methodist church.
Two hymns, a prayer, an address
and benediction comprised all of it,
yet the impression left at the end
was of perfection.
The allied third party is the name
of the new political party launched
by populists and dissatisfied mem
bers of the other parties at a confer
ence held in Kansas City. The
platform favors the initiative and
referendum, public ownership of all
public utilities, “scientific money”
not redeemable in any specific com
modity, election of senators and the
president by direct vote tyrd the es
tablsihment of postal savings banks.
Joseph A. Wildman, a minister of
Huntington, Ind., was tarred and
feathered and turned loose to wan
der back home because he rose in a
prayer meeting in one of the city
churches and said: “I suppose there
have been more lies told from the
pulpit and sacred desk today than
Vas ever known before. While I
want to give all honor that is due
Mr. McKinley, still when he was
living he was nothing but a political
demagogue.”
Lzolgosz, the assassin, was ar
raigned on the 17th before Judge
Emory at Buffalo. When the indict
ment was read and the prisoner
questioned as to how he would plead,
he stolidly refused to answer. The
court appointed counsel to defend,
but when the attorney visited the
man at the jail he still refused to
utter a word. Czolgosz is evidently
feigning the insanity dodge.
His trial will terminate in about a
week's time, and his execution will
no doubt take place without any un
necessary delay.
The department of labor has an
exhibit at Buffalo in which there
is displayed a record of strikes for
the twenty years ending December
31, 1900. The figures are worth re
producing. Commissioner Wright,
in commenting upon the record,
says: “During the period named
there were 22,793 strikes, with a
wage loss of $257,863,478, a loss
through assistance rendered by labor
organizations of $16,174,793, and
a loss to employers of $122,731,121.
The lockouts during the same period
numbered 1,005, with a wage loss
to employes of $48,819,745, a loss
through assistance rendered by labor
organizations of $3,451,461 and a
loss to employers of $19,927,983.
The total losses by strikes and lock
outs reached the vast sum of $468,
968,581.”
A light snow fell in North Dako
ta on the 18th.
Crazy Snake, the Creek leader, has
again been trying to incite his peo
ple to rebellion.
Emma Goldman, the arch female
anarchist, arrested at Chicago, has
been released under $20,000 bond.
Chas. Miller, thought to be of un
sound mind, was arrested in New
York for declaring it his intention
to assassinate President Roosevelt.
Portions of Alabama, Georgia,
North and South Carolina was vis
ited by terrible rains on the 18th,
lasting for twenty-four hours. The
damage to crops was appalling.
Great Britain expresses no alarm
at the accession of Mr. Roosevelt:
to the presidency, while Russia is
pessimistic and Germany sees in
the new president a formidable ob
stacle to the carrying oOt of some of
their pet commercial schemes in va
rious ports of the world, particularly
in South America.
The 2-year-old daughter ot Beo.
Ivlosterman, of St. Louis, had a re
markable escape from death. The
child was playing at an open win
dow in the third story of a tene
ment house, when she lost her bal
ance and plunged down toward the
street below. She struck an awn
ing about eight feet from the pave
ment, which broke her fall and the
only injury sustained was a slight
bruise on the head.
The census bureau has just is
sued a bulletin showing the popula
tion of Tennessee by sex, general na
tivity and color. The tables show
that in Tennessee the population is
composed almost wholly of persons
of native birth, the foreign -born ele
ment representing only nine-tenths
of 1 per cent of the total population.
The males constitute 50.5 per cent
of the population, while the females
constitute 49.5 per cent. The whites
constitute 70.2 per cent and colored
23.8 per cent.
A dispatch from Lord Kitchener
from Pretoria, dated September 18,
announces that the Boers, Septem
ber 17, ambushed three companies
of mounted infantry with three
guns, commanded by Maj. Gough,
in the vicinity of Scheeper’s Nek.
After severe fighting the British
were overpowered and lost their
guns, the sights and breech-blocks
of which were first destroyed. Two
officers and fourteen men were kill
ed, and five officers and twenty-five
men wounded. Five officers and
150 men were made prisoners. Maj.
Gough, who escaped during the
night, reports that the Boers num
bered 1,000 men and that they were
commanded by Gen. Botha. Gen.
French' reports that Commandant
Smuts, in order to break through
a cordon, rushed on a squadron of
the Seventeenth lancers at Elands
river port,, killing three officers
and twenty men and wounding one
officer and thirty men. The Boers,
who were dressed in khaki and who
were mistaken for British troops,
lost heavily.
In an address to the students of
Princeton University, ex-President
Cleveland paid the following trib
ute to our dead president: “Today
the grave closes over the man that
had been chosen by the people of the
United States to represent their sov
ereignty, to protect and defend their
constitution, to faithfully execute
the laws made for their welfare arid
to safely uphold the integrity of the
republic. He passes from the pub
lic sight not bearing the wreaths
and garlands of his countrymen's
approving acclaim, but amid the
sobs and tears of a mourning na
tion. The whole nation loved their
president. His kindly disposition
and affectionate traits, his amiable
consideration for all around him,
will long be in the hearts of his
countrymen. He loved them in :e
turn with such patriotism and un
selfishness that in this hour of their
grief and humiliation he would say
to them: ‘It is God's will; I am
content. If there is a lesson in my
life or death, let it be taught to
those who still live and have the des
tiny of their country in their keep
ing/ ”
It is estimated the striking steel
workers lost $10,000,000 in wages
and the employers $15,000,000.
Citizens of Chicago have started
n movement for the erection of a ma
morial arch for President McKinley
in Washington.
Rear Admiral F. M. Ramsay has
been appointed a member of the
Schley court of incpiiry in place of
Admiral Howison.
Jones, under indictment in New
York for aiding in the murder of
Millionaire Rice, made a second un
successful attempt at suicide.
Striking steel workers express dis
satisfaction of the terms by which
the trouble was settled by President
Schaffer, and many refuse to resume
work.
It is a singularly coincident that
the day selected for the burial of
President MoKinley (September 19)
is the anniversary of the death of
President Garfield.
Bishop Whipple died on the 1 nth
at his home in St. Paul, Minn., aged
86 years. He had been bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal church of
Minnesota since 1859.
The anarchist and “yellow jour
nalism” have about run their course
in this country. Wherever an an
archist viper shows his colors, he
is quickly run to cover by an indig
nant and sorrowing people. Re
ports come from many quarters that
parties giving utterance to un-Amer
ican sentiments meet with deserved
punishment as a warning to all such
characters.
Articles have been filed in the of
fice of the secretary of state of Mis
souri and consildating the St. Louis
and Memphis Railroad Company,
the Memphis and St. Louis Rail
road' Company and the St. Louis,
Caruthersville and Memphis Rail
road Company under the name of
the St. Louis and Memphis Rail
road Company, with a capital of
$1,125,000. Referring to the con
solidation, the Globe-Democrat says
that it is generally understood in
railroad circles that the Frisco has
an option on the three, properties
named, which' are located in south
east Missouri on the Arkansas bor
der, and that it is the intention of
the Frisco management to establish
a short line between St. Louis and
Memphis.
Shipments of pig iron and cast
iron pipe, as well as steel billet, from
the southern iron fields during Au
gust were considerably heavier than
during the same month last year.
The shipments of pig iron from Al
abama and Tennessee wrere 123,513
tons, of which 56,987 tons went from
the Birmingham district alone. Ex
ports were 131 tons, shipments of
cast iron pipe from Alabama and
Tennessee were 14,550 from the
Birmingham district alone 6,476
tons, exports 134 tons. Shipments
of steel billets from the Ensley steel
mill were 5,456 tons, some of which
were exported. The total increase of
iron movements of all kinds over Au
gust of last year was about fifteen
per cent iron. Masters say the trade
is in a highly satisfactory condition,
and they look for an early advance
in prices.
hornier Attorney General Griggs
says the talk of amendment to the
constitution to deal with the situa
tion which arises out of the shooting
of President McKinley is unnecessa
ry. “A law should be passed,” he
said, “making it an offense punish
able by imprisonment for life to be
a member of any organization that
teaches the murder of public offi
cials. It should be made a capital
offense to attempt the life of the
chief executive and the higher offi
cers of the government, whether it
succeeds or not. This is not like or
dinary attempted murder. The ob
ject of the crime is the subversion of
the government, and is, therefore,
aimed at every citizen of the repub
lic. Another law should be passed
prohibiting the importation intp this
country of all persons who are mem
bers of organizations that hold and
teach these murderous doctrines,
and still another providing for the
deportation of all such persons.”
NEWS OF ARKANSAS.
The Peabody Fund.
Below is an extract from the an
nual report of State Superintendent
J. J. Doyne to Dr. J. L. M. Curry,
trustee of the Peabody fund:
“I regret that I have no special
report to make to you this year, ow
ing to the fact that the Peabody aid
was withdrawn from the state by
your board on account of the failure
of our legislature to make any ap
propriation for summer normal work
for the present year. Through the
earnest effort of our county examin
ers, however, the teachers were giv
en the advantage of short-term insti
tutes under competent instructors,
the teachers themselves bearing the
expense of the same. The reports
from these institutes are encourag
ing, and the sentiment is more than
ever before in favor of trained teach
ers. In these institutes there were
enrolled about 4,000 teachers, while
the attendance of those who were not
teachers but who were simply inter
ested in <the work was unusually
large. There is a steady growth of
interest in our schools. The enroll
ment is better; the attendance is
more regular; the demand for good
buildings and better teachers is in
creasing. There are now more than
fifty new buildings in process of
erection, and about 240 were erected
in the year ending July 1, 1901.''’
In support of these statements Su
perintendent Doyne gives the fol
lowing encouraging comparative
statement:
For the past twenty-eight years
Arkansas has every year received a
portion of the Peabody fund to as
sist in holding institutes and nor
mals, and has now lost it through
the indifference of the legislature. In
1895 and in 1897 the legislature ap
propriated $10,000 a year for the
purpose of carrying on the normals.
In 1S99 the legislature refused to
make the appropriation, and the
Peabody board very wisely refuses
to help those who will not help them
selves. Arkansas now occupies the
unique position of being the only
southern state with no fund avail
able for institute and normal work.
Arkansas to the Front.
In an interview published in a St.
Louis paper Hon. Phil D. Scott, of
Van Buren, member of tire St. Louis
world’s fair national commission
says:
‘‘Arkansas will let no state excel
her in her exhibit. The entire state
of Arkansas is greatly interested in
the 'St. Louis ..world’s fair. Gov.
Davis has appointed over 400 hon
orary commissioners, and the plan, I
believe, is to appoint commissioners,
in each county to the number of fif
teen or more. These commissioners
will take up the' work and raise
funds for individual county exhib
its. By this means the whole state
of Arkansas will be represented
throughout. Each county will have
its product® separate. We will show
mineral and agricultural products,
as well as things that Arkansas man
ufactures. The people of Arkansas
are determined that even Missouri
shall not excel her in thc-matter of
exhibits. We expect to secure an
additional appropriation from the
legislature which meets in 1903. If
it will give us $75,000 or $100,000
this will probably swell the whole
sum to be extended to about $250,
000. With that sum we think we
can make an adequate showing, and
something that no Arkansan would
be ashamed of after it is installed.”
The Unloaded Gun.
The 5-year-old son of D. W. Clai
borne. of Hot Springs, was shot and
instantly killed by his older brother
while playing Indian. The youngest
boy had an old rusty revolver and
his brother a musket. Each snap
ped their weapon several times at
each other when suddenly the mus
ket went off with a loud report and
the little fellow fell dead with a
large bullet hole over the right nip
ple. i The ball passed entirely
through his body and came out be
tween the shoulders.
Wiu. Jones, wanted at Bonham,
Tex., as accessory to a murder, was
arrested at Hot Springs.
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U. C. V. Resolutions.
Omer R. Weaver camp, U. C. V.,
of Little Rock, adopted the follow
ing resolutions:
“Whereas, On the 7th inst., while
the president of the United States
was attending the Pan-American Ex
position, and was in the act of re
ceiving and greeting his fellow-citi
zens, he was ruthlessly shot down
and fatally wounded by a red
handed assassin; therefore be it
“Resolved, By Omer R. Weaver
Camp, United Confederate Veter
ans No. 344 that we denounce in
unmeasured terms the cowardly and
dastardly deed of the miscreant an
archist who, by this act, has brought
sorrow to the heart of every true
American citizen.”
Properly Observed.
Gov. Davis’ proclamation, issued
in accordance with President Roose
velt’s proclamation, fixing Septem
ber 19, the day on which President
McKinley’s remains were interred at
Canton, as the day of prayer and
mourning, was observed in every
city, town and hamlet in the state,
where services were held at the
churches and other public places
and appropriate resolutions were
adopted expressing the sorrow of
the peojfie.
State Rewards.
Tho following rewards have been
offered by the governor: One hun
dred dollars for the arrest and con
viction of Richard Rakes, for the
murder of Jim Garter, August 15,
1901, in Desha county ; $100 for the
arrest and conviction of James Ho
gan, Jr., for seduction; $100 for the
arrest and conviction of James
Staggs, who is charged with the
murder of Abe Pinson in Lonoke
county, August 24, 1901.
Sad Accident.
Miss Laura Justin was shot and
killed by her 14-year-old brother in
Marion county, near Lead Hill. It
seems the girl and her brothers got
into a play, and during the time one
of the little boys said to the girl
that he would shoot any one who got
into his watermelon patch, so he lev
eled his gun on his sister and snap
ped it, but it failed to fire. He
tried it a second time, when the gun
went off and killed her instantly.
The Umpire Was Assaulted.
A serious riot was narrowly avert
ed at a game of baseball between
the Nashville and Little Rock base
ball teams in the latter city. Um
pire Johnstone rendered a decision
against a Little Rock player which
angered parties in attendance, and
one party assaulted Johnstone.
The mayor had Johnstone and
his assailant placed under arrest
and put a stop to the game.
Grief Was Too Great.
Paul Morton, aged 21, suicided at
Fort Smith by taking morphine.
The young man had just returned t
from Little Rock where he visited a
young lady to whom he was soon
to be married. When he arrived in
Little Rock he found his fiance ly
ing at the point of death. This
grieved him so much that it is sup
posed his mind became unbalanced.
New Postmasters.
The following changes of fourth
class postmasters have been an
nounced: Durham, Washington
county, W. S. Bassett, vice B. F.
Jones, resigned; Gleason, Conway
county, F. R. Freeman, vice E. G.
Turned, removed; Kendall, Faulk
ner count}', W. R. Powell, vice W»
H. Lily, resigned.
Heavy Fines Remitted.
On condition that the two com
panies will not again violate the coal
screening laws, Gov. Davis has re
mitted the fines and costs in excess
of $4,500 assessed against the West
ern Coal and Mining Company and
the Central Coal and Coke Company
in Sebastian county for violation
thereof.
Want Wellington Expelled.
The Texarkana commercial club
adopted resolutions demanding that
Senator Wellington, of Maryland,
be expelled from office for unpatri
otic utterances about President Mc
Kinley.