0. W. KRAMER, Editor.
M’CRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1901.
YOL. I.—NO. 6.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND rOI.ITICAI
The Louisiana Purchase World's
Pair corporation held its first meet
ing-, at St. Louis, on the 2d, and or
ganized by the election of the follow
ing- officers: President, David R.
Francis;treasurer, William H. Thomp
son; permanent secretary, Walter B.
Stevens. Eight vice-presidents were
chosen, viz.: Corwin H. Spencer, S. M.
Kennard, D. M. Houser, C. P. Wal
bridge, S. W. Cobb, C. H. Huttig, Aug.
Gehner, Pierre Chouteau.
The London chamber of commerce
has selected a large committee, in
cluding Lords Rothschild, Avebury,
Revelstoke and Hillingdon, the lord
mayor, Mr. Frank Green, and Sir
Thomas Lipton, to receive the visit
ing delegates of the New Pork cham
ber of commerce. Besides a banquet,
a garden party will be given in honor
of the American visitors.
The board of police commissioners
of Kansas City, Mo., having refused
the request of the special committee
of the Law and Ordinance Enforce
ment league to close the saloons on
Sunday, the league called a mass
meeting-, to take steps toward peti
tioning Gov. Dockery to remove those
officials.
The crusade of Mrs. Nation against
the saloon has resulted in a move
ment to purify Kansas polities that
promises to be more farreaching than
anything of the kind ever before at
tempted in the Sunflower state. A
permanent organization of the grand
chapter of the Law Enforcement
League of Kansas has been effected
whose object is “to purify the politics
of the state and promote its inter
ests.”
Ex-Empress Eugenie has presented
the municipality of Paris with the
cradle of the late Prince Louis Na
poleon, who was killed in the Zulu
war. Tlie*CJ-adle is a superb work of
art-, and was originally a gift from
the municipality to the empress.
On the lid Mrs. Alice A. C. Bailey, of
Des Moines, was unanimously elected
president of the Iowa Federation of
Women's clubs at Council Bluffs. Mrs.
Flora S. Barkley, of Boone, was
chosen vice-president, and Mrs. Nellie
Cooke, of Algona, corresponding sec
retary.
Mr. Takahira, the Japanese minis
ter at Washington, said, on the 3d,
that the reported resignation of the
Ito cabinet had no significance as in
dicating any change in the general
policy of the country on internation
al affairs.
MISCELLANEOUS.
An Athens (O.) special of the 2d
Bays: “From an authority which
seems indisputable there conies the
information that, almost, the entire
coal industry of the Hocking and
Sunday Creek valleys will come under
the. management of the gigantic com
bination of capital of which J. I*.
Morgan is the head.
The reports made by county clerks
show that Kansas has 670,000 acres of
school land, •which may be bought at
$1.25 an acre. It lies mostly in the
western portion of the state, but
much of it is as good as the land in
the Kiowa country.
The officials of the Rock Island rail
way have about decided to rebuild
the bridge across the Missouri river
at St. JosepJT, Mo., and run most of
the. through business that way in
stead of via Kansas City. To rebuild
the bridge will cost $200,000.
On the 3d the twenty-fifth anniver
sary of the Bulgarian revolt against
Turkey was marked by unusual re
joicing in I’hilippopolis, in which
Prince Ferdinand anil the Bulgarian
ministers and prelates took part.
On the 4th R. G. Dun & Co.’s Week
ly Review said: “The marvelously
healthy condition of business is best
appreciated when it is discovered that
the failures last month were the
smallest in 91 months, with the ex
ception of May to August, 1899, in
clusive.”
London’s population, including the
city proper and 28 metropolitan
boroughs; the whole forming what is
termed the administrative county of
London, is now 4,536,034. This is an
increase of 308,717 since the last cen
sus in 1891.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $150,000,000 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued on the
3d, showed: Available cash balance,
J|156t834,956; gold, $97,374,690.
On the 3d Jacksonville, Fla., was
visited by the most disastrous confla
gration ever witnessed in that city or
state. Miles ot territory, in the best
residence and business sections were
laid waste, over one thousand build
ings, including churches,hotels, banks
and theaters, being- burned, at a loss
conservatively estimated at nine or
ten million dollars. It. was reported
that several negroes perished in the
flames.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
Seven persons were burned to death
while asleep, three were fatally, and
several severely burned, early on the
morning of the 5th, in a tenement
house in South Chicago. A freight
train of five ears, which was standing
in frot of the building, and which the
crew failed to move, blocked the fire
men, who were unable to get near the
burning building with their engines
until it was too late to save the in
mates.
The Gardo house, known as
“Amelia's Mansion,” built in Salt Lake
City, Utah, by Brigham Young for his
favorite wife, Amelia Folsom Young,
and for years occupied by her, has
passed out of the hands of the church,
the property being sold in the name
of President Snow, as trustee of the
church, to Col. F. E. C. Holmes, of
that city.
The United States cavalry and ar
tillery left Pekin, on the 5tli, to
march to Ton-Ku. Imposing farewell
ceremonies attended their departure.
Sir Alfred Gaselee and the other Brit
ish generals, with their staffs, were
present, and the British commander
sent a detachment of Beluehis, who
escorted the Americans outside the
city wall.
The Ohio special, bearing Gov. Nash
and '.tali' and about one hundred citi
zens of Ohio to San Francisco for the
launching of the battleship Ohio,
passed through Kansas C'tv, Mo.,soon
after noon on the 51 li. Keligious serv
ices were held on board the train at
11 o'clock.
It is reported in Shanghai that fam
ine will make it impossible for 1 l.t?
Chinese court to remain longer in Sian
In. and that the court is now only
waiting for the astrologers to fix an
auspicious day for beginning the jour
ney to Kal Feng Fu, in the Province
of Ho Nan.
After a careful consideration of the
situation in the Philippines as it ex
ists to-day. the administration has de
luded to reduce the army in the archi
pelago to 10,000.
The Piussian government has
bought the coal mines in the ltuhr dis
trict known as “The Minister Aehen
baeh” and the “ Altrop,” for 25,000,000
marks.
The Geneva correspondent of the
London Daily Mail asserts that Presi
dent McKinley has informed Mr. Kru
ger that he can not receive him either
officially or unofficially.
Mariano Ignacio Prado, ex-presi
dent of Peru, died in Paris on tlie
Gtli. Mariano Ignacio Prado was born
in 1820. He participated in Gen. Cas
tilla’s revolution against Echenique’s
government in 1854. He marched
against Lima in 1805, and entered the
capital, November 6, at the head of a
victorious army. On November 20 he
declared himself dictator and was
subsequently elected constitutional
president by the Peruvian congress,
lie was again elected president in
•1870.
The lale Count Hi. Qnen de Pierr
eourt, whose family date back to Will
iam the Conqueror, bequeathed to the
city of Itouen, France, his fortune of
ten million francs on the novel con
dition that the city annually give a
marriage gift of 100,000 francs to a
couple of giants, in order to regener
ate the human species. The candidates
are to be medically examined and the
healthiest couple will be chosen.
Milton I'J. Arnold, aged 41 years,
died at Kansas City, Mo., on the 0th.
of heart disease. Arnold was the son
of a wealthy cotlon broker living
near Atlanta, Ga. He was graduated
from the University of Georgia and
later studied law, being admitted to
the bar on the same day as Hoke
Smith, who was his classmate. For
several years he had been a curbstone
vender.
The British war office, on the 0th,
officially gave out the total number of
deaths in the South African war at
714 officers and 14,204 men. Four offi
cers and 114 men have been invalided
home and subsequently died. Two
thousand four hundred and ninety
three non-commissioned officers and
men have left the service untit for
duty.
With her hull gaily decorated with
flags and her deck well filled with
sailors the yacht Constitution was
christened, at Bristol, K. I., on the
0th, by Mrs. W. Butler Duncan, who
broke the traditional bottle of wine
on her glistening bow just as she
started slowly down the ways into the
sea.
The determination of the joint
smashing colleagues of Mrs. Nation
to stay in jail at Wichita, Kas., till
their trial commences was broken, on
the 6th, b.v Mrs. Julia Evans giving
bond for her appearance. The other
women, except Mrs. Nation, also in
dicated their purpose of giving bond.
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ARKANSAS STATE NEWS,
Gave Way to St. Louisans.
At the- recent meeting’ of the Elk*
fit fine lilutf, they decided to with
draw from their project to build a
combined opera-house and Elks' lodge
in that city. They took this step to
give way to Adolphus Ilusch and S. W.
Fordyce, of St. Tonis, who have sub
scribed liberally to a fund to build a
fine hotel and opera-house at Pine
Bluff.
Thief Fatally Shot.
John Williams and George Buckner,
both colored, were arrested at Van
Buren, pending the arrival of officers
from Russellville, Pope county, where
they were wanted, it was stated, for
horse stealing. Buckner was fatally
shot before he would surrender in a
running fight, and at last reports he
was expected to die.
Child Attacked by n Dog.
The seven-year-old daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. William Bethel, of Hot
Springs, was terribly injured by a
vicious dog. The parents left the
child in the yard at play while they
were visiting a near-by neighbor. Hci
screams attracted them in time tfl
save her life. It is feared the dog
was mad.
Given Two Addresses of Welcome.
Gov. Davis has appointed the fol
tended the street fair at Texarkana
The party was met at the depot by :
delegation of citizens, headed by n
brass band, and an address of wel
come was made by Mayor Winham ol
the Arkansas side of the town and al
so Mayor Estes of the Texas side.
Monument to a Suicide.
The Fort Smith Woodmen of th«
World unveiled the monument erected
by the order over the graves of Sov
ereign Clark A. Wyant and Sam Ber
ry, in that city. Wyant was killed by
an electric car and Berry commit
ted suicide.
Attempted lo Murder Tlielr Victim.
J. F. Wilson, of Omaha, Neb., was
knocked down and robbed of $175 at
Hot Springs. The robbers then tied
and gagged him and threw him across
a railroad track, where he was run
over by a train and his left leg cut
off.
Threw Powder in the Fire.
IV. I.. Cobb, a druggist, while mak
ing a tire at Itedfield. Jefferson coun
ty, accidentally threw a sack of pow
der in the tire, which exploded, burn
ing Mr. Cobb severely in the face. He
will lose the sight of one eye.
lief used to Testify.
A. II. Spahm, a colored school diree
tor, was locked up in jail at Pint
Bluff by Circuit Judge A. B. Grace
for refusing to testify in the case ol
W. D. Bivens, charged with forgery
Bivens was released.
World's Fnlr Commissioners.
• Gov. Davis has appointer the foi
lowing St. Louis World’s Fair com
missioners: John J. Whittaker, Pine
Bluff; Sam Colin, Holly Grove; G. J
Crump, Harrison.
A(>gro Killed Policeman.
George li. C. Pickett, a policeman
was killed at Fine Bluff’, in an engage
ment with two negroes whom he was
trving to arrest. One of the negroes
was captured.
New Town Xenr Harrison.
Alpena. Pass, the new town buildins
at the tirst railroad station west fron
Harrison, is but four months old am
already numbers a dozen busifes;
houses.
Fractured His Skull.
Kube Alexander, colored, fractured
his skull at Pine Bluff by jumping
from a moving train. He will die.
CharKril Willi Theft of Mail.
William Isaacs, assistant janitor o
the post ofliee building at Helena, was
arrested, charged with stealing regis
tered packages from the post ofliee.
Dentil of Mrs. William Brown.
Mrs. William Brown, a society lead
er of Cabot, Lonoke county, died at
that town after a brief illness. The
remains were sent to Newark.
Dentil of E. C. Keichnrt.
E. C. ttiechart, ii native of Fort
.smith, died at that town from con
sumption, aged P.4. He was well
known and popular.
Drowneil in Wliltc River.
John Howell, aged 15, was drowned
in the White river near Springdale,
Washington county. His parents live
near Kureka Springs.
Olil Milton Dead.
John T. Marsh, one of the most
prominent Freemasons in the state,
died at his home in Pine Bluff fron
appendicitis, aged CO.
lllK Hurricane Mine Sold.
The Big Hurricane mine in Newtoi.
county, near Kureka Springs,has been
sold to the Corrydon Mining Co., ol
New York for $25,000.
Died nt Hot Sprlntrii.
Mrs. Schultice, wife of a prominent
jitizea of Hot Springs, and for 33
years'a resident of that town, died
after a long illness.
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A TERRIFIC COLLISION.
Engineer Dies nt III* Post in the
Vain Attempt to Save Hie
Train and Passengers.
Ottumwa, la.. May 7.—Burlington
passenger train No. 3 was wrecked
yesterday while passing Thayer, a
small town 18 miles east of Creston,
causing the death of Engineer S. D.
Brown, of Burlington, and injuring
over a score of passengers. The loco
motive hauling the passenger train
struck an engine attached to a freight
train that was backing on to a side
track. The passenger engine and all
but two cars of the passenger train
left the rails and rolled down a 20-foot
embankment.
Thayer is situated in the bed of a
deep ravine, and on either side of the
station the track curves sharply.
Neither engineer could see the other’s
train until they were within 200 feet
of each other. The passenger train
was running at a high speed.
The engineer of the freight train
heard the passenger train coming and
made the utmost endeavor to back
his heavy train on to the side track.
He succeeded in getting all but the
engine on the siding when the crash
came.
As the passenger train rounded the
curve, Engineer Brown saw his peril,
but he stuck to his post, reversed his
engine, threw on the air brake to the
emergency notch, applied the sand
and awaited the crash.
At the last moment the men on the
freight engine jumped, escaping seri
ous injury. The crash was terrific.
The freight engine was thrown
across the tracks and the passenger
engine hurled down the 20-foot em
bankment, followed by the baggage
car, the express car, the day coach
and three chair cars.
The agent at Thayer and several
hangers-on around the depot, wit
nessed the wreck and rendered such
aid to the wounded as was possible
before the arrival of a relief train
dispatched from this eily with sur
geons.
DEATH UNDER THE SNOW.
Seven Men tluricil by n Snow-Slide.
Five of Whom Were Dond
When Taken Ont.
Seattle, Wash., May 7.—Particulars
of the snow-slide reported to have oc
curred at Sunrise City, Alaska, about
March 20, were received here, yester
day, by mail. The slide did not occui
at Sunrise, but at Smith’s camp, or
Lynx creek, 22 miles above Sunrise.
Five men were killed.
The slide started on the side of an
adjacent, mountain, and came thun
dering down over a cliff on to the
camp beneath, a sheer fall of 200 feet
There had been nothing to give the
men warning of their danegr, and the
first known of the castrophe was
when they heard the roar of the
great body sliding down the moun
tain. There were at the camp, in all.
seven men, two beside the five who
were killed.
The entire seven were buried undei
the mass, but Frank Fleehardy, a
strong young’ man, was not buried as
deeply as the rest, and by several
hour’s hard work suceeded in getting
out of the slide. As soon as he reached
the surface he began, without result
to dig for his comrades.
The first man reached was Gilber'
Devoe. Beyond a number of severe
cuts and bruises and the fact that he
was seriously frostbitten Devoe was
all right, and will recover, although
he was under the snow l(i hours. The
others were dead when the rescuing
party reached their bodies.
KILLED HIS ASSAILANT
llrKrnted n Kirk With a Club and
Struck n Dcntli-Doalliiji
Ulow.
Kansas City, Mo., May 7.—Bosic
Lambert, a 16-year-old boy, is being
held at the police station for killing
Philip llauensteili, 35 years old, a bar
tender. Hauenstein was fishing- at
Washington park, Sunday, and the
boy, happening along, stopped to ex
amine the man's string of fish. Hauen
stein remonstrated and kicked the
boy, when the latter struck him ovei
the head with a club. Hauenstein’s
skull was fractured and he died yes
terday without having regained con
sciousness.
TO PAROLE THE YOUNGERS.
The Notorious Outlaws. After Twen.
ty-Five Years' Imprisonment,
May Go Free.
St. Paul, Minn., May 7.—The board
of state prison managers meet to-day,
and it is believed that Cole and James
Younger, serving life sentences in con
nection with the Xorthfield bank rob
bery and murder, committed 25 years
ago, will be granted paroles under the
terms of the law just enacted by the
legislature.
Before the parole becomes effective
it must be approved in writing by all
of the members of the board of par*
dons, Gov. Van Sandt, ,\ttorney-Gen*
eral Douglass and Chief Justice C. Mt
Start.
TRUST PROTECTION
A Question That Is Goins to Giro
the Republicans a Great
Deal of Trouble.
Near tlie close of the last congress
(he chairman of the republican con
gressional committee, ,7. W. Babcock,
Introduced a bill to abolish the tariff
on iron and steel. This was just
ifter the formation of the steel trust
was announced. This apparent lapse
of Mr. Babcock from the dogma of
protection caused considerable talk,
and he was interviewed by the news
papers. In one of these interviews
he is reported to have said: “It
rvas to forestall similar action
by a democrat.” No action was
taken by the committee to
whom the bill was referred. Mr.
Babcock evidently did not expect
it, he was merely playing to the gal
leries; in fact, his bill did not abolish
(he duty on iron and steel, it merely
pretended to. It provided for the re
peal of the iron schedule, but did not
repeal or change section 193, which
provides for an ad valorem duty of
45 per cent, on iron and steel not spe
cifically provided in the act. The
steel trust would doubtless be quite
satisfied with this 45 per cent, tariff.
Two or three democrats at the first
session of the Fifty-sixth congress
had introduced bills repealing all du
ties on trust articles, but the com
mittee on ways and means never con
sidered them, the republican majority
being opposed to such action. Mr.
Babcock, therefore, did not forestall
the democrats, who are pledged by
(heir national platform against
trusts and the Dingley tariff, and will
certainly introduce a bill to that end
when the Fifty-seventh congress as
sembles. This will again try the
faith of those republicans who feel
that the trusts should be curbed.
If the steel trust is to be legislated
against, why not the sugar trust, the
tin trust and the hundred and one
other trusts and combines. But to
do this would require nearly every
schedule, of the tariff law to be re
pealed, and the whole fabric of pro
tection would be wiped out. This
would leave the republican partyJjith
but imperialism as a living issue and
with the greatest source of its cam
paign funds cut off without a coun
tervailing fountain to draw from.
A large majority of the republican
senators and representatives have re
ceived, and are receiving, favors from
the trusts, combines and corpora
tions, many of them are owned by the
trusts, and relief to the people from
them is unlikely and almost impos
sible.
But there are other troubles for
the protectionists. The state depart
ment and the diplomats have become
interested in the tariff discussion.
The countervailing duties on Russian
beet sugar has been met by that,
country with a large increase of duty
on American goods, so that door is
closing against us. Germany and
France are also said to be intending
retaliatory measures, and even many
of the English politicians are talking
(lie same way.
Then we have a colonial tariff ques
tion that must be set tiedjind our new
possessions may soon be supplying
us with sugar and some kinds of to
bacco. Free sugar from Porto Rico
Rtid the Philippines would cut off the
revenue from that source, wipe out
the American sugar plantations, and
free tobacco would ruin the protected
Connecticut wrapper grower.
The whole tariff is a complicated
but frail structure, and, like the chil
dren's house of cards, a finger or a
breath will cause a wreck. When you
have local politics, loot and diplomacy
all taking a hand and inherited faith
ir. the doctrine they have taught
their rank and file to worship to be
ware of one cannot envy our repub
lican friends the job of tariff revision
they must soon enter upon.
The democratic plan of tariff for
revenue will have to be adopted soon
er or later.
-How any American, be he repub
lican, democrat, prohibitionist or
what not, can uphold the policy of im
perialism as enforced by the present
administration in the island of Porto
Rico, is beyond comprehension. We
have not yet heard one {rood, sound
argument in its favor, but arguments
against it are to be met on every
hand. It needs not words to frame
them—tin deaths, the famine, the im
poverishment which prevail among
the people of that once prosperous
but now unhappy island form an ava
lanche of unanswerable protests
against the unchristian, un-American,
heartless, greedy policy of imperial
ism.—Buffalo Times.
-Tariff reform ought not to h
attempted in patches. Duties should
be revised and cut down all along
the line. In all places where this
tariff enables the manufacturers of
trust goods to sell cheaper to the for
eigner than to the home consumer
it should be abolished, and such ar
ticles as trusts produce should be
placed on the free list.—Kansas City
Times.
-By a careful perusal of the av
erage republican machine organ, now
adays, the republican legislator will
Pnd himself possessed of unsuspected
virtue— Albany Argus.
_
ENORMOUS GAMBLING
Wall Street Game* That Kara
Been Favored by Republican*
In Congreaa.
The speculators and stock gambler*
in New York are running wild with the
mad desire to get other people’*
money. In one day the exchanges at
the clearing house reached In round
figures the enormous amount of $547,
000,000, beating the previous high rec
ord by nearly $102,000,000, or about 23
per cent. The Bank of Manhattan
alone turned in close to $64,600,000 in
checks, etc. In past years it would
have been safe to foretell that a panic
would soon follow such abnormal deal
ings and the accompanying rises in the
prices of stocks and bonds, but as all
the great financiers, Morgan, Rocke
feller, and the great banking houses,
with billions of ready money, are sup
porting this bull market nnd nearly
all the leading and wealthy bears have
joined in the saturnalia or are bank
rupt, it is impossible to say when it
will all end and normal conditions be
restored.
It is stated that until Morgan has
unloaded the watered steel stock the
boom is to continue.
The ordinary speculator has no show
in such a market, as by a word from
the princes of finance the market can
be swayed either way and wipe out
any ordinary margin.
It would seem that this excitement
would be enough to satisfy the most
inveterate gambler, but a special tele
gram to the Chicago Chronicle sa3Ts:
“Three of a party of five men toyed
with the fickle game of hearts at the
Waldorf-Astoria Monday night until
they arose from the festive board with
an aggregate loss of nearly $60,000.
The game of hearts is now understood
to be the most popular of card amuse
ments indulged in by patrons of the
hotel, and nearly every night in one
or two of the cardrooms a pretty stiff
game of the elusive pasteboards may
be found in operation. It is reported
that several members of the recently
formed giant steel corporation, who
make their headquarters at the hotel,
have been the heaviest losers at the
game, but who the winners have been
none will ever hazard to guess.
These gamblers are the men who
have been favored by the republicans
in congress with special legislation to
aid them in robbing the people of their
millions of dollars. Even the door of
the white house is open to them or
their emissaries for like services. Cab
inet officers are appointed in their in
terests, to-wit, the new attorney gen
eral, who has been, and perhaps now
is, the attorney of the steel trust.
Strong objections were made to his
appointment on the ground that it
would injure the party and prove tl
contention of the democrats that
talk of curbing the trusts was bi
combe and only an attempt to fool th
people. McKinley ignored the advice,
and it is thus fair to assume that the
great majority of his party are either
controlled or under obligations to
these gamblers and trust magnates.”
PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS
-Xo bank embezzler need feel
safe in jail after William McKinley
gets his benevolent eve on him.—X.
Y. World.
-Expansionists declare that the
Cubans are very “ungrateful” if they
do not accept the Platt amendments.
If they are to give value received why
should they be grateful? Give them
independence that is independence,
and see whether they are not grate
ful.—Indianapolis Xews (Ind.).
--The public need expect no relief
through the repuolican party from
the exactions of the trusts. Even the
republican leaders themselves pro
nounce such a thing outside the range
of reason. If there is to be any
change in conditions it will have to
come through the democratic party.
—Butte (Mont.) Miner.
-It is thought worthy of tele
graphic notice, from Washington, that
Mark Hanna is opposed to all move
ments looking to a change in the man
agement of the democratic national
committee. Pretty soon they will ba
asking us to pay tolls on the discov
ery that Hanna knows when he is
well off.—Albany Argus.
-Tf a white republican party suf
ficiently strong to compete with the
democratic party springs up in the
south the black men of both sections
must commence to do a little think
ing on their own account. It can only
mean that the republican party has
formally abandoned the southern
black to the political fate that has
menaced him for a long time in the
south, and that it has to all intents
and purposes consented that 'he be
returned to practical serfdom.—Den
ver Xews.
-The ink was hardly dfy on the
issue of the tin can trust'fu^bck cer
tificates before it got dot^-j^ busi
ness by announcing an increase in the
price of its wares. It is estimated
that the cost of living for each per
son who consumes canned goods will
be increased to the extent of 50
cents a year by the increased pries
of cans. This will not be a heavy tax
to the individual, but will run into
millions of dollars in the aggregate,
and every cent of it will be plunder.
—Philadelphia Record.