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DE QUEEN BEE.
EVANS & WINFORD, Proprietors.
DE QUEEN, • - - ARKANSAS.
Peru lias taken steps to secure what
ever advantages may he reaped under
the reciprocity clauses of the uew tariff
BCt.
An incandescent gas has been discov
ered in Germany of wonderful power
and cheapness. A single jet of ordi
nary size emits a light of much more
than 1,000-caudle power.
A letter from Vienna says the pub
lished reports of the political situation
in the Austrian empire convey no ade
quate idea of the chaos prevailing in
that country on account of the politi
cal tight between the Germans and the
Czechs.
The condition of the members of the
Turkish embassy in Berlin is deplor- I
able. Not one of them has received .
his salary for over a year, and their
debts in the city aggregate 1,500,000
marks. Tradesmen are importuning
them for money.
Clarence New. a corporal of G com
pany, Fourth infantry, stationed at
Fort Sheridan, Chicago, has been sum
marily reduced to the ranks without
charges or trial, lie testified against
Capt. Lovering at the recent inquiry
into the Hammond case.
A delegation of Ute Indians, who
went to Washington to get the assur
ance of the secretary of the interior
that the Great Father thought it best
for the tribe to take allotments, left
the capital, on the Bth, saying they
would return to their tribe and advise
them to accept allotments.
In the trial of Martin Thorn,at Long
Island City,N. Y. on the 10th, for com
plicity in the murder of William Gul
densuppe, Mrs. Augusta Nack, a mid
wife, jointly indicted for the crime, went
upon the witness stand and turned
state’s evidence, claiming that her
accomplice killed Guldensuppe.
A meeting of anarchists was held in
Berlin, on the 11th, to celebrate the
anniversary of the execution of the
anarchists of Haymarket square, Chi
cago. Several inflammatory speeches
were made, and finally the police, in
terrupting the diatribe of a female
speaker, dissolved the meeting.
The hasty action of the lower court '
in fixing the 12th as the date of execu
tion of Theodore Durrant, the con
victed murderer of Blanche Lamont,
was overruled, on the 1) til, by the su
preme court of California which unani
mously granted a writ of ’ probable
cause” and forbade the execution of
the sentence.
On the 9th the ministers of the
United States, Great Britain and Ger
many addressed a collective note to the
Peruvian government asking that the
bill for legalization of non-Catholic
marriages be included among the meas
ures to be named by President Pieroia
when con voking the extraordinary ses
sion of congress.
Joseph Ventre, the alleged French
anarchist, who had been refused ad
mittance to the United States and was
compelled to remain in the City of
Mexico and for that reason was de
tained on the Mexican gunboat Zara
gosa, was, on the 10th, turned over to
the French steamer Normandie to be
sent back to France.-
The statement was made on high
authority, on the llth, that the com
mittee having in charge the refunding
of maturing issues of bonds of the
Bock island company had accepted a
proposition to refund into a four-per
cent. bond all of the Rock Island is
sues as they become due. One block of
85,009,UU0 matures in 1899.
On the 12th Mayor Warwick of Phil
adelphia signed the bill recently
passed by the councils leasing the city
gas works to the United Gas Improve
ment Co. The terms of the lease are
that the United Gas Improvement Co.
is to pay a rental of 81.990.000 a year
for 30 years, and to spend 85,000,090 on
the improvement of the gas works.
A new industry was started at
Owensboro, Ky., on the 9th. with 100
employes. It is to utilize cornstalks.
Cellulose for lining battleships, mate
rial for making imitation of silk and
for making celluloid are among its
products. Paper is another produc
tion. W. W. Gibbs, of Philadelphia, is
president, and the stockholders are
eastern capitalists.
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.Striking evidence of Spain's finan
cial straits is furnished in the dispatch
of the Madrid correspondent of the
London Daily Mail, cabled to that paper
on the 12th, saying the Spanish gov
ernment, finding it impossible to raise
the sum of £3,009,000 (815,000,000) by
loan or taxation to carry out its orig
inal naval plans, had decided to build
two new cruisers only of 2,000 tons
each.
On the sth. amid jeers, catcalls and
hisses, which the police vainly en
deavored to prevent, the common
council of the city of Philadelphia
voted to give away to a ring of poli
ticians and capitalists the most valua
ble property now owned by the city,
namely, the gasworks, worth at least
810,090,000. It was a scene unique in
the history of American municipal af
fairs.
It is said one of the first bills to be
introduced in the New York legislature
will be one providing for a new state,
to be carved out of the Empire state,
by permitting a constitutional amend
ment to be passed and approved by the
United States government divorcing Jtt
counties of the state and including
them in what shall be known as the
btate of Manhattan, with a population
jf 8,908,229.
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CURRENjT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
The annual meeting of the general
committee of the Freedman's Aid and
Southern Education society was con-
I eluded at the Hanson Place M. E.
church, Brooklyn, on the 9th.
A vigorous fight is being made to pre
vent the Palisades of the Hudson from
being used by unscrupulous quarry men.
Cai’T.-Gen. Blanco has been disap
pointed keenly in having discovered
that there are few genuine autonomists
in Cuba, thegreat majority of the mem
bers of the autonomist party having
joined the ranks of the insurgents.
Emanuel Friend, counsel for Mrs.
Nack, accused of complicity in the
Guldensuppe murder in New York, re
ported, on the night of the 9th, that
his client had made a confession and
would go on the stand, on the 10th,
and testify against Thorn, her alleged
accomplice.
A crank appeared at the White
House, on the 9tli, and demanded to
see President McKinley. He said the
president had not treated him right.
He tried to go up by the elevator, but
was taken in charge by officials and
placed in the police station.
The birthday of the prince of Wales
was celebrated in London, on the 9th,
with the usual flag hoisting, bell ring
ing and artillery salutes. He was born
November 9, 1841.
A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says
that a general frost has severely in
jured the wheat and flax crops of the
Argentine republic.
The wheat crop of Italy is estimated
at about 60 per cent, of last year's crop,
or 86,836,700 bushels.
Gov. Leedy of Kansas has been re
quested to investigate the circum
! stances connected with the purchase
I of soap by the state board of charities
for use of the various state institu
tions. It is asserted that the board is
paying 11 cents a pound for soap,
which can be purchased for three cents
a pound.
Dr. Edward Newberry, founder of
Brentwood, Long Island, died, on -the
9th, from pneumonia, contracted at the
funeral of Henry George. He .was an
intimate friend of Henry George, and
an earnest advocate of the single tax.
At Columbia. S. C., on the 10th, De
tective W. H. Newhold, of the state
force, looking after violations of the
whisky law, shot and killed Rev. J. W.
Turner, a Baptist preacher, on suspi
cion. Turner, who was in a buggy
driving through the city, was com
manded by the detective to halt. He
did not halt promptly, and was shot.
The detective fled to escape being
lynched.
The annual dinner of the National
Home Market club was held at the
Mechanic's hotel in Boston on the
night of the 10th. Fully 1,090 persons
attended. The most distinguished
guests were Congressmen Nelson A.
Dingley, of Maine; Charles A. Russell,
of Connecticut, and Jonathan I*. Dolli
i ve>’, of lowa, and Senator Henry Cabot
' Lodge, of Massachusetts.
j Marshai. Blanco, on the 10th, re-
I moved from his command the local
! military commander at Gibara, prince
of Santiago de Cuba, for allowing a
demonstration in honor of Lieut.-Gen.
Weyler, when he went on shore there
a few days ago from the steamer Mont
serrat. which had put into that port
owing to a misnap in her machinery.
Mrs. Margaret Boughan diedather
home in Chicopee Falls, Mass., on the
I 10th. Sue was born in Ireland, and
| claimed to be‘l24 years old. Her hus
band corroborated her story, and said
that he discovered in the records of
her birthplace that she was born in
1773.
> Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, United States
consul-general at Havana, sailed from
I New Y ork, on the 10th, for Cuba.
Theodore Durrant, the convicted
murderer of Blanche Lamont, was
taken into court at San Francisco, on
the 10th, and was promptly resentenced
by Judge Bahrs to be hanged on the
12th, despite the efforts of his lawyers
to secure further delay.
Fire in the five-story-building on
Central pier. Brooklyn, occupied by
the Royal Plantation Coffee Co., did
850,000 damage. Ten thousand bugs of
coffee were stored in the building.
The Princeton collegians were great
-1 ly disappointed when it became known,
, on the 10th, that Grover Cleveland's
• son was to be named Richard Folsom
, Cleveland. They had given the young
gentleman the name of Grover Cleve-
I land, jr., on the day of his birth and
hoped it would stick to him. The
name decided upon is given in honor
I of Mrs. Cleveland s father.
William J. Keating, 21 years of age,
' who resided w ith his parents in North
Homestead, Pa., died, on the night of
9th. from the results of an injury re
ceived in a football game at Swissvale
ten days before. He was injured while
playing half back for one of two team#
engaged in the practice.
Col. Henry C. Cook, commander of
the Fifth infantry. United States army,
stationed at Fort McPherson, Atlanta,
Ga.. has issued an order which prohibits
auy further playing of match games of
- football on that reservation.
i At a depth of 150 feet in the new
J workings of the Hawkeye, situated on
' Plum gulch, two miles from Deadwood,
j 8. D., a bod}’ of free-milling gold ore
i has been struck, which shows uu as
say of 91,980 iu gold per ton.
[ The officials of the Glasgow (Scot
land) joiners’ uuiou have posted notices
in all the shops of that city forbidding
members of the union to hang doors
which have been made in the United
Stales, or to use manufactured joinery
which has been imported from Amer
ica.
The Middlesboro (Ky.) machine
works ami foundry, one of the largest
plants in the south, were destroyed by
tire on the 19th. The plant employed
250 men, and was being enlarged. The
loss on the main building will reach
8299.090.
James Simpson, engineer, and John
Robinson, tireman, of a freight engine
on the Burlington & Missouri River
railroad in Nebraska, were blown from
their cab by the explosion of the en
gine boiler, on the 10th, and both in
stantly killed.
Mrs. Minta Moore, a colored woman,
who lived in Lawrence, Kas., many
years, died, on the 10th, at the age ol
115 years. She was born in Kentucky
and w as reared a slave.
A Havana letter to the New York
Sun says that 150.000 Cubans have per
ished from hunger since September 10.
The heavier mortality is reported from
the reeoncentrado districts.
The statement of the condition of
the United Slates treasury issued on
the llth showed: Available cash bal
ance. 8203,169.063; gold reserve, 8155,-
055,050.
Mrs. George Partridge, formerly of
St. Louis, many years connected with
the great Biddle Market Mission Sun
day-school of that city, died in San-
Francisco, on the 11th, aged 65 years.
The trial of Martin Thorn for the
murder of William Guldensuppe, which
was begun at Long Island City, on the
7th, was suspended, on the llth, owing
to the dangerous illness of Juror Mag
nus Larsen. The jury was discharged,
on the 12th, and a uew trial ordered.
King Oscar and a number of private
citizens of Sweden have contributed
sufficient money to insure the dispatch
of a Swedish polar expedition in 1898,
which will be led by Prof. Nathorst,
the geologist The cost of the expedi
tion is estimated at 79,900 crowns.
Dr. Darby, secretary of the British
arbitration alliance, on the llth, pre
sented to Lord Salisbury a memorial
with 64,572 signatures attached in favor
of an Anglo-American arbitration
treaty.
Mrs. W. W. Dudley, wife of Gen.
Dudley, of Indiana, the former com
missioner of pensions, died in Washing
ton on the llth.
On the llth, the earl of Rosslyn was
adjudicated a bankrupt.
The Barcelona police have seized 300
rifles intended for the Carlists. These
were found on board the ship St.
Philip, which took shelter in the har
bor under stress of weather. The ves
sel sailed from Antwerp, and it was
intended to unload her cargo on the
coast of Valencia.
The sultan of Turkey has conferred
upon Count Muravieff, the Russian
minister for foreign affairs, the grand
cordon of the Osmanli order, for his
services in “consolidating the friend
ship existing between the two coun
tries.”
The Berlin police have confiscated
the anarchist sheet Neuesleben for
publishing an article glorifying the
anarchists of Haymarket square, Chi- 1
cago, the anniversary of whose execu
tion was celebrated in that city.
During the weekended the 12th fail
ures throughout the United States, as
reported by R. G. Dun & Co., were 291.
against 276 for the corresponding w'eek
last year. For Canada the failures
were 24 against 26 last year.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Edward McCauley, aged 20 years, son
of R. N. McCauley, clerk of the Illinois
board of pardons, was accidentally shot
and killed by a companion while hunt
ing near Olney, ill., Friday.
Eliza Denby, of Pine Bluff, the aged
woman who was convicted in the Unit
ed States court at Little Rock of per
jury in securing a pension, was released
on the recommendation of District At
torney Trieber, on account of her age.
MORE ENG LISH GOLD.
Another Big Shipment of Sovereigns En
Route to San Francisco.
San Francisco, Nov. 14.-—Advices
received in this city convey the infor
mation that the steamship Mariposa,
from Sydney and Auckland, due here
November 18, carries £390,000 in En
glish sovereigns, equal to 81,500,000,
consigned to two local banks. This is
the fourth shipment during the past
four months, making the aggregate re
ceived this fall from the same source
about 819,000.000.
HORRIBLE SUICIDE.
A Fireman Thrust Himself Into the Fire
box of ills Engine.
Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 14. —A spe
cial to the Journal from Mandan, N.
I)., says: Joseph Williams, fireman of
the Northern Pacific transcontinental
train, committed suicide by jumping
into the firebox of his engine. Before
the engineer could pull him out his
head ami shoulders were consumed.
MISSOURI CATTLE.
Ninety Carload* of Prime .Missouri Beeves
to be Shipped to England.
Columbia, Mo., Nov. 14.—Three train
loads of cattle, comprising 99 carloads,
will leave Boone county in December
for England. They are export cattle,
bought at 85 and 85 50 per 100 pounds.
This is the largest and finest single
bunch of cattle ever shipped out of
central Missouri.
War on Tobacco.
St. Louis, Nov. 14. —Miss Alice E.
Lowrey, of Noble county, Ind., has in
vaded Missouri to wage war to the
knife on tobacco. The large tobacco
firms of th is city claim that they do!
not feel any alarm, and will continue
to do business at the old stand.
Neither Hide Scored.
Soldiers’ Field, N. Y.. Nov. 14.—1 n
the Yale-Harvard football match
neither side had scored when the game
ended. There were fully 25,900 specta
tors on the field.
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Federal Grand Jury Report.
The United States grand jury for the
western division of the Eastern district,
after a session of four weeks, submitted
its final report to the court at Little
Rock and was discharged by Judge M ill
iams, who commended the jury for its
efficiency. The report shows the jury
examined 216 witnesses and found 104
true bills of indictment, as follows:
For retailing liquor without paying
special tax therefor. 50; illicit distilling,
33; passing counterfeit money, 6; mak
ing illicit stills, 3; mailipg obscene lit- ,
erature, 2; making moulds for counter
feit money. I; obstructing process of
United States court, 1; intimidating
witnesses, 1; secreting and embezzling
letters, 1; obstructing United States
mail, 1; forgery of endorsement on
money order, 1; illegallyremoving spir
its from registered still, 1; violation of
section 3892. 1; conspiracy to interfere
with revenue officers, 1. Speaking of ,
the difficulties experienced in procuring
evidence against a certain class of vio
lators, the report says: "In a majority
of the eases embracing illicit distilling
and the unlawful sale of the products
of these illicit stills, the grand jury
have been confronted with witnesses
who, while testifying to their knowl
edge of such violations, did so under
great embarrassment, feeling and know
ing that the fact that they had so testi
fied placed their persons and property |
in jeopardy; and the grand jury believe
that it is due to such witnesses that the
authorities of the government charged .
with the enforcement of the laws in ,
these cases should at once enter upon a
vigorous prosecution of this class of
offenders. The evidence produced to
the grand jury shows that there are
still a very large number of persons en
gaged in thus defrauding the revenues
of the government about whom this
grand jury were unable to obtain suffi- !
eient testimony to indict, and we would
recommend that all possible diligence
be now exercised by the officials en
trusted with this service.”
Good Advise to the Negro.
In an address before the African
Methodist Episcopal conference at Lit
tle Rock, which represents the oldest
and one of the largest church organiza
tions in America among the colored peo
ple, Bishop Derrick, a learned colored
man, referred to the duties of the
negro in the following sensible lan- i
guage: "The man in the ministry in .
this conference who will not study will i
have to look for another job, because t
we do not intend to tolerate longer the ’
blind leading the blind. We must learn
to be law-abiding citizens, and not up
hold criminals among us; a criminal is
a criminal, let him be black or white,
and should be punished. If a negro
commits a crime let us not try to hide
it by saying that ‘he should be pro
tected because us poor colored folks
have such a hard time,’ but assist in
bringing him to justice before the law
of our land. Learn also that there is
no such thing as black badness and
white badness, but badness is badness
and goodness is goodness. Let us seek
an opportunity to make an honest liv
ing and build up our native land. Re
-1 member at all times that this sectional
feeling should not cross our minds. Do
not say anything against the southland
to create public sentiment against that
partof our country, because if thesouth
is doomed, so will you be.”
Perished in the Flames.
A building occupied by A. Erhart as a
bakery on Central avenue, Hot Springs,
was destroyed by fire early on the morn
ing of the Bih inst. Clara Erhart, aged
11 years, and two bakers, Charles John
son and Frank Coffman, perished in
the flames. Mr. Erhart and his wife
I were seriously burned and their three
1 younger children rescued from the
burning building with difficulty. Clara,
the little girl who was cremated, after
being rescued, ran back into the build
ing calling for her mother, and was
overcome by the smoke and heat. The
charred bodies of the two bakers were
found in their beds on the third floor
after the fire was extinguished The
origin of the fire is unknown, but it
it is thought it started from one of the
bake ovens. The loss on the building
is fully covered by insurance.
Counterfeiter Sentenced.
Lit Dodson, one of the famous Bull
Frog Valley gang of counterfeiters, was
sentenced to five years in the peniten
tiary by Judge Rogers, of the Western
district of the United States court. Dod
son is a brother of J. M. Dodson, the
deputy marshal who was murdered by
moonshiners in Pope county. After
passing sentence on Dodson, Judge
Rogers said: "There are two things
I am going to break up in this district,
and those are counterfeiting and moon
shining. Hereafter I intend to send
every man convicted before me of either
of those charges to the penitentiary.”
Murdered and Robbed.
T. McClanahan, proprietor of a mer
cantile establishment at Butler's Land
ing. near Osceola, was murdered and
robbed by unknown parties. McClana
han was known to have been doing a
good business, and it is supposed kept
quite a sum of money at his store, as
the nearest bank was at Osceola. One
morning recently it was noticed that
McClanahan s place of business was not
open, and upon investigation the back
door was found unfastened and the un
fort umate storekeeper lay dead on the
fluor, with his skull crushed in.
United States Lands.
By a recent ruling of the department
of the interior, section 6, of the act of
March 2, 1889, is so construed as to per
mit any one who has made entry of and
final proof on less than 160 acres, to
I make an additional entry of such an
amount of land as will, when added to
the original entry, make 160 acres.
A large number of people in this state
will be benefited by this ruling.
Death of Prof. Leverett.
Prof. ( . H. Leverett, who for 20 years
l ad occupied the chair of ancient lan
guage in the Arkansas industrial uni
versity, at Fayetteville, is dead.
A Smooth Artist. |
Dr. Charley Davis, a patent medicine .
vender, was arrested by Sheriff Grand
staff at Waldron upon information re
ceived from Fort Smith officers, stating
that he was wanted on the charge
of bigamy. The Doctor, who is said
to be a very smooth individual, did not .
linger long in the custody of the offi
cers, however, as he outwitted them
and made his escape. Davis expressed
.surprise at his arrest, and assured the
sheriff that it was a case of mistaken
identity. He said he was perfectly will
ing to go with the Fort Smith officers,
however, should they come after him,
and while awaiting their arrival he in
vited the sheriff and his deputy to take
dinner with him at his hotel. Ihe in
vitation was accepted. W hen dinner
was announced the doctor excused him
self to step up stairs to prepare his
toilet. The sheriff and deputy stood
guard at the foot of the stairs about an
hour awaiting the return of their host
‘ and prisoner, but the doctor didn t come
back. Upon investigation it was dis
-1 covered that Davis had slid down a
telephone post from a second story win
dow and escaped.
Thanksgiving Proclamation.
Gov. Jones has issued the following
Thanksgiving proclamation:
State of Arkansas,
Executive Department.
In obedience to the beautiful and
time-honored custom which has grown
up in these United States, and in reeog
' nition of the God upon whose mercies
all men and all nations are dependent,
I, as governor of the state of Arkansas,
I do hereby appoint and designate the
1 fourth Thursday in the present month
of November as a day of thanksgiving
to the Almighty for his goodness and
mercy. His blessings have been mani
fold and ample, and any unusual bur
dens which we as a people may bear are
not the result of His acts, but of the
acts of His weak, misguided creatures,
men. I therefore earnestly recommend
that the people of this state do observe
said day of thanksgiving to Him in such
appropriate manner as they may have
opportunity.
Dan W. Jonf.s, Governor.
Railroad’s Title Perfect.
Judge Robertson, of the Fifth chan
cery district, at Piggott, in Clay county,
decided an important case involving
the validity of state's title to certain
lands claimed to be swamp .ands, and
selected by the state under the act of
i 1850, and the conflicting claim of the St.
i Louis, Iron Mountain A- Southern rail
' way. as successor to the Cairo A Fulton
j Railway Co., under grant to the state
for the use of railways, approved July
9. 1853. The case was argued at Wynne,
Cross county, October 25. The state
was represented by Hon. E. F. Brown,
of Jonesboro, and the railroad company
by Hon. S. R. Allen, of Little Rock,
assisted by Col. Frank Johnson. The
chancellor holds the title of the Iron
Mountain Railway Co. to be perfect.
The Omaha Exposition.
Officials of the St. Louis-South west
era railway (Cotton Belt Route) have
secured 2,000 feet of space in the agri
cultural building at the Omaha (Neb.)
exposition, and are making' prepara
tions for a magnificent display of the
resources of the country along its lines.
In connection with the Cotton Belt,
the city of Little Rock will have an ex
hibit at Omaha when the big fair opens,
and it is thought other cities on the
line of that road will also join in mak
ing a good showing of the state's many
natural advantages.
Row Over a Horse Deal.
At Jenny Lind, Chas. Colbert, a drun
ken miner, shot and mortally wounded
a man named Jamison. Colbert some
time ago purchased a horse from Jami
son on time, but failing to pay for the
animal a dispute arose between the
men over its possession, Colbert having
left the horse at Jamison’s stable, and
when he returned for it Jamison would
not give it up. A few words passed be
tween the men, when Colbert drew a
revolver and shot Jamison, the ball en
tering the stomach.
Judge Sanders Passes Away.
Judge M. T. Sanders, of Helena, well
known throughout the state, died at
his home on the llth inst. Judge Sand
ers was prominently connected with the
affairs of Arkansas for many years. He
had served as county judge of Phillips
county, and also as judge of the First
judicial circuit. He served throughout
the late war under Gen. Hindman, with
whom he formed a law partnership
after peace was declared, which lasted
until Gen. Hindman's death.
Would Have Seen It, Anyway.
The principal of the public school
at Gurdon called upon Superintendent
of Public Instruction Jordan to decide
the question as to whether the school
board had the right to pass a rule for
bidding pupils of the schools, under
penalty of suspension, from attending
a circus, or not. Prof. Jordon decided
that the board had no power to adopt
such a rule.
Faulkner’s New Sheriff.
Hon. Jesse E. Martin was appointed
sheriff of Faulkner county, to fill the
unexpired term of 11. B. ingrain, who
recently resigned in order to devote his
entire time to the management of his
business affairs. Mr. Martin was finan
cial agent of the penitentiary during
Gov. Clarke’s administration, and has
satisfactorily filled other offices of pub
lic trust.
Banished From the State.
The notorious Minnie Jones, who has
been before the United States court at
rort Smith on numerous occasions on
the charge of selling whisky without
license, was given the choice of serv
ing a sentence in the penitentiary or
leaving the state by Judge Rodgers
after entering a plea of guilty to the
above charge recently. She promised
to leave.
Dr. W. H. Cayce.
Dr. W. H. Cayce, an old citizen of
y \ r^“ nsas UD <l one of the first settlers
of lexarkana. died at the home of his
son-in-law, Col. J. Sumpter, in Hot
Springs, on the 13th inst.
| STATE TAXES.
! Amount* Paid By the Various County p .
Whlte and Colored Tax-Payerg,
The following table shows the amonnj
of taxes paid by each county iu Ark» tt .
sas, with two exceptions, from which
no reports have as yet been received by
the auditor. The aggregate amount
paid by white tax-payers is shown i n
the first column and in the second col.
unin appears the amount paid by col.
ored tax-payers. In a few counties the
relative amount* are not given. The
figures are taken from the record in the
auditor's office for the current year:
Counties. White. Colored
Arkansas ....< 37,266 50 979 gl
Ashley 19,418 41 9 400 91
Baxter 13,379 72 8
Benton 53,241 12 53 7 g
Boone 24.777 44
Bradley 15,228 26 1,171
Calhoun 14.27144
Carroll 39,634 46 q m
Chicot 29,642 92 2.351 1|
Clark 52.141 70 1^»
Clay 35,(35 37 j» 28
Cleburne 11,925 75 g
Cleveland 17,887 16 70
Columbia 28.750 95 2.970 13
Conway 30,695 61 0.139 it
Craighead 58,983 88 j 7l 7J
Crawford 48.770 39 805 29
Crittenden 34,91 m 44
Cross 25,207 70
Dallas 10.’236 48 832 33
Desha 28.14 758 1.099 1}
Drew 31,572 28
Faulkner 35,411 60 1,6153$
Franklin 34,228 88 289 84
Fulton 23.226 29 4 01
Oarland 49.360 00 3,317 qq
Grant 11,404 20 X 35 a
Green 34,305 48 30 5Q
Hemstead 36.733 54 3,049 ij
Hot Spring 26,586 00 278 qq
Howard 19,996 36 1,403(9
Independence 55,733 57 30754
Izard 14,392 53 150 DO
Jackson 52,304 25 1,790 51
Jefferson 121.421 16 8,58151
Johnson 33,027 46 216 61
Lafayette., 18.322 52 766 51
Lawrence 38,712 60 243 M
Lee 35,774 02 6,021 54
Lincoln 20.934 76 2.2JJ St
Little River 17,3 17 46 1.308 38
Logan 35,901 76 322 91
Lonoke 44.327 27 1,96000
Madison 20,824 99 2 41
Marion 13,308 96
Miller 41,050 66 1,379 00
Mississippi 25 207 27 37! S
Monroe 37.005 12
Montgomery 8,638 45 135 04
Nevada 29.066 94 1,51144
Newton 9.936 86 61
Ouachita 45,567 00 2,800 00
Perry 10.325 08 839 01
Phillips 77,36102 7,186 54
Pike 9,782 38 154 d
Poinsett .... 1
Polk 8,517 27
Pope 4091100 700 a
Prairie 34.212 89
Pulaski 263,587 3V
Randolph 21,692 38 193 40
Saline 23,610 75 100 00
Scott 18 570 68 9 »
Searcy 11,685 50
Sebastian 112,507 53 21018
Sevier 15.088 72 663 8
Sharp 20 740 77 31 50
St. Francis 36 946 33 3,293 21
Stone 6,808 73 2 a
Union 24 I 2« 99 1,713 »
Van Buren 8.813 00
Washington 79,943 86 223 58
White ,
Woodruff 29 5.W81 2.675»
Yell 34.499 18 <» 15
LEGAL VOTERS.
Number of White and Colored CltiiMt
Who Have Paid Poll Tax.
The subjoined table (except in a few
counties, where there was no separate
reports made to the auditor of state)
shows the number of white and colored
citizens who have paid poll tax in each
county in Arkansas for the current
year:
White. Col. White. Col.
Arkansas.. 1,728 504 Lee 933 I,KI
Ashley .... 1,173 718 Lincoln..., 886 80
Baxter .... 1,470 .... Little Klv. 1,026 756
Henton .... 5,146 11 Logan 3.283 Iff ■
Boone 3.145 .... Lonoke.... 2.496 1,10 ■
Bradley ... 1.011 399 Madison .. 2.440 I ■
Calhoun .. 933 324 Marion .... 1.800 ... I
Carroll .... 2.MM 5 Miller 1.467 MB
Chicot 258 940 Mississippi 516 • ■
Clark 2,535 837 Monroe..., 889 IK ■
Clay 2.573 3 Montgom y 1,565 • ■
Cleburne. 1,544 5 Nevada . 1 925 5K ■
Cleveland. 1.337 351 Newton ... 1,827 ' ■
Columbia 2,346 1,173 Ouachita .. 1.683 1,4® ■
Conway. 2.245 1,272 Perry 847 *■
Craighead 2.r22 73 Phillips ... 1.074 2.M ■
Crawford.. 3.043 234 Pike 1,450 T ■
Crittenden 368 1,293 Poinsett... 1.153 ® ■
Cross 1,527 .... Polk J
Dallas .... 1,224 519 Pope 3 239 » ■
Desha 374 693 Prairie.... 1,414 »>’ ■
Drew Pulaski ... 4.101 I.M ■
Faulkner.. 2 «90 079 Rando'ph . 2,030
Franklin .. 3.018 75 Saline ■
Fulton .... 1,991 5 Scott 1.973
Garland... 1,407 495 Searcy .... 1.565
Grant 1,153 129 Sebastian . 4.207 ■
Green 1,929 6 Sevier .... 1.414 ® H
Hempst d . 2,18 t 1,553 Sharp 1.938 J ■
Hot Spring 1,945 137 St Francis 1.094 1,1 ■
Howard ... 1.786 442 Stone 1J53 M
Independ. . 3,401 112 Union 1,913 »>» ■
Izard 2,166 45 Van Buren 1 735 ■
Jackson ... 1.891 365 Wash’ton . 5,372
Jefferson .. 2,152 3,299 White ■
Lafayette . .’>6l 616 Woodruff.. M 5 l.w ■
Lawrence. 2.220 112 Yellß,lßl ■
THE STATE IN BRIEF. ■
Pike City, Pike county, has been !»• H
corporated. ■
Gill is the name of a new postoffice i* M
Lee county. M
M iss Grammer is the name of a teach# ■
in the public schools at Van Buren.
In the Pope circuit court 26 outofijM
cases were for a violation of tl )e
laws. H
A traveling man at Newport lost IS® ■!
in greenbacks and <2,200 in governinc ll
bonds.
The <3,000 residence of J. S.
at Hot Springs, was totally
by fire.
Charles Jones, a Van Buren
keeper, committed suicide by taking
overdose of opium.
A franchise for electric streetlight’
is being asked for at Fort Smit |y,
syndicate of capitalists
Win. Faught, convicted in L
county in 1895 of grand larceny
sentenced to 12 years in the P* al
tiary. was granted a pardon by** l W_-
ernor,
Willis Sheffey was found de* l " ■
cotton pen three miles from Co®
The body was completely buried
ton seed, and it is evident
murdered.
The Little Rock board of
declared the quarantine off
, points. The cool weather
any possibility of yellow
ing Arkansas.