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HE IS DEAD.
Hon. c. Lawrence Blackwell Passed
 Away Friday Afternoon.


 Hon. c. Lawrence Blackwell, oue of Jefferson Cosnty's oldest citizens, is dead. He died after an illness of a little over one months duration. at his home near Faith io White vile township Friday afternoon. He was 67 years of age and at one time represented Jefferson county in the legislature. He took an i'm. portant part in the county elections ard was very infuencial and stood high in his respective nelghbot hood. As farmer, he was progressive and there was a warm spot in all Pine Bluff merchants hearts for him.
 A wife and five children are left to mourn his loss. To them the sym patby of the entire community goes out.
 The remains will be laid to rest in Grf6n's graveyard this after. noon. Tie funeral services will be eonoucted from the Macedonia church
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] COTTON BELT NOTES.
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Mr.sBill Evans, the carpenter who had the misfortune of falling out of the cab on engine 129. is getting along very nicely, although unable to leave his room.
 The shops will be closed on next Tuesday to give the boys an oppor- tuhity to celebrate the Fourth. large crowd of them will leave to- morrow for Jonesb0ro to attend the Locomotive Firemen's display.
 Messrs. Walter Lee. Billie William. son, George Gage Jr., and H. H. Kirchgrabber, four of our most prominent engineers, will shortly leave for St. John, New Brunswick on a pleasure trip.
 MT. ]. T. Stafford, we'll known here in railroad circles, has be.n appointed acting division master mechanic Of the Iron Mountain, with headquarters at Barring Cross, Ark. effective July 3rd, vice Mir. Mord Roberts resigned.
 Mir. Al. Simpson, fireman on the south end. had the misfortune Of scaliing his right eye, caused from the bursting of q water glass in the engine. He was sent to the com pany hospital where he will be given close attention.
 The reporter had the pleasure of looking over the blue priH. of the two Otficlal cars which will be built t these shops under the supervision of General Foreman T. H. Osborne. These cars will surpass anything of its kind and will be built of the very finest material. One car will be for the superintendent of the Arkansas division and the other will be for the superintendent of the Texas division. Mir. Jack Roost. foreman of the paint shop, will have the hono7 of placing the latest painting designs on these cars.
 Mr. George French, formerly maehinist at the shops, but recently chief engineer at the Pine Bluff Cot tonseed Oil Mill, will leave tomor- row for St. Louis to take charge of tie Fordyce roundbale cotton press. His wife will accompany him as they will make that place their future. home.
 Tie special "Texas Ranger" bear. ing General Superintendent F. H. Britton spent few hours in Little Rock last Thursday. Engine which was just turned out of the round house after a general repair, took the special with Engineer Horace White at the throttle, and train master F. ;. Rawlins acting conduc- fnr
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Battered at the Post-ofiice at Pine Bluff. Ak. ..assecold-ciass mail matter
THE GUILTY MEN FLEE
WHEN NO PERSON PURsUErH
 THEM.
A Man Guilty of Smuggling Has Very
 Miserable Trip = Thought He Was BeInK shadowed-Ths Shadow" Was Also Alarmed from Same Cause. .

T was never mixed up with snug gling transaction but once in my life" said q New Orleans business man, whose name may as we'll be left cut, and my experience was so painful that l swore off then and there. l had deal in West Texas on hand at the time and had made short trip over the Mexican frontier, during which I picked up handful of very fine opals. A wicked friend showed me how easy It was to carry them over the line with out paying tribute to Uncle Sam, and l was weak enough to yield to the temptation. When l got on the cars at El Paso, however. to come east to Dallas l was haunted by guilty con- science and had a horrible premoni- tion that some secret service officer was on my track. Presently my at tention became attracted by a man with a black beard, who kept looking at me furtively from a seat across the way. l tried to persuade myself that 1t was all imagination, but number of things occurred during that ride that satisfied me l was really being watched. l went into the smoker. for instance, and before long caught a glimpse of the black beared chap peer ing through the end of the window rom the platform. It was the same in the dining car, and, to make a long story short reached Dallas thoroughly unstrung That evening I began to think 1 had shaken the fellow off my track, when I happened to stroll out of the hotel, and there he was, stand ing behind pillar. Needless to say
 ] didn't sleep wink, and when bumped into the sleuth next morning and saw that he had shaved off his beard l gave myself up for lost How ever, that was the last of him, and for the balance of my stay I was un- molested and gradually regained my equanimity. That the man had been what his purpose could have been and why he dropped the game so abrupt ly were mysteries which I was forced to leave unsolved. It was two years before found out, Then I ran across the man one day by accident in a St. Louis restaurant and he owned up
 It seems that he had been public of ficial in small Texas town, and got mixed up in his accounts. He swore to me that it was only bad bookkeep- ing, but the grand jury indicted him for embezzlement. and he skipped un- til things calmed down. I happened to coincide with description he had of detective, and all his strange moves were actuated by exactly the same mo- tive that prompted me to run-name- ly, to see whether he was Delng watch ed. We were both fooled by our fears. His affairs had since been settled up and we enjoyed Il good laugh and a cold bottle together. But I am a re- formed smuggler for life.S
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Grandmother at RI.

Knox county lays claim to having the youngest grandmother in the state, If not in the United States, says a Vincoanes, Ind, dispatch in the Gin cirnau Enquirer Her name is Mrs. Jane Burke. and she is barely 33 years old. She lives at Decker's. Her daugh- ter Bertha married John Midkiff two years ago, and to them 8 little daugh. ter was born this week. The mother of the child Is not quite 15 years old, while the father is but 19. The com bined age. Of the father and mother is but one year older than the grand mother, and the combined ages of the grandfather, grandmother, father and child is only 100 years. yet this repre- sents three generations.
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Louis ScLartf has had the honor of having "Captain of tue Fire Brig ade' conferred on him on account of the heroic effort he made to save the life of an old colored woman who was in an adjoining building to the one burned Monday .-Desha Democrat.
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prisoner. Leave being granted,
 tue faithful wife entered the prison almost unobserved. and was con- ducted to cell No 230, accompan ed by Madame Havet. The meeting
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The Ladies Octeste assisted by Mrs C. Y. l. igar all of Fardsce, will ren- tier q delightful program at Fordyce
 the eyeding of the Fourth of July.
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Engineer Dick Johnson is reported on the sick list.
 Engines 200 aud 204 broke their side rods while in motion.
 Mir. Porter Grace has severed his connections with the paint shop.
 The advertising board now adver- tises for fireman on the work train
 A number of visitors of prominence took in the sights last week at these shops.
 Superintendent Wm. Coughlin has returned. after brief business trip to Delta, Mo.
 A large shed has been placed over the small furnace near the black smith shop.
 Mr. Adam Denmead and bride left Friday for Washington, D. C.. on their bridal tour.
 Mir. Frank Uobbins, coach var nisher at these shops, has severed his connection here.
 Engineer A. P. Carter has has been off for the past few days on account of the illness of his baby.
 Mir. William Wright, overseer on the coalshute, is again out. after several weeks illness at his home.
 Mir. Frnak Smith. a popular machinist and ball player. has dis posed of bis handsome moustache.
 MT. Sidney McCarra, an operator at Shreveport. came up here to re- lieye Operator Williams for a few weeks.
 MT. Chas. Shepherd, foreman of the boiler department at the Tyler shop, spent a feT days here last week among friends.
 MT. NJ. Adami, the hustling travel ing passenger agent, returned to Cairo, H., after few hours stay in this city Friday.
 Mir. Oscar KeDner, a machinist at these shops, has severed his connec- tions to accept similar position at his home in Indiana.
 Switch engine 357, belonging to the Iron Mountain road. was run into the roundhouse Friday, to receive slight repairs.
 Mr. P. M. Culp, car repairer, has resigned his position here to accept a similar one at the Mountain shops in Argenta.
 Messrs. c. w Shepherd, Walter JoEes and c. A. Brewer. of the tin department, left yesterday for Lake Dick, to spend few days fishing.
 The Big Four" Quartette, Mes SITS. R. o. Hurt. J. R. Plttman, Jos. Faucette and E. W. Workman, will spend the Fourth in Little Rock, among the fair type.
 Mir. Walter Holden. the Cotton Belt lineman, has returned from Goldman, Ark. where he has been stliDging wires for this company.
 During the absence of Wilbur Fly slop, the telegraph messenger at the shops, Jim Noel, is the hustl ing mes- senger boy.
 Mir. Oscar Harris, after a years absence in Mexico, has returned to accept a position as coachbuilder at the shops.
 The Pine Bluff and Western Rail- way Company has purchased fifty flat COTS and locomotive from this company for their rOad.
 The new buffet car. recently run out of the shaps, has been taken to reXarkana tu run from that point to Memphis
 Engine Id6 has been placed over the drop pit to receive a new set of drivers. Engine l62 will run on train 5 md 4 during the repairs of engine l46
 A notice has been placed through out the entire shops that "on and after July 1st. 1899, no material must he taken away without giving proper order to the material clerk {"
 Mir. Philip Bloom, an industrious
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 Subscribers.

0QDSGp1OGrS. By special arrangement with the publishers, the SEMI-WEEKLY GRAPHIC is able to offer subscrib- CTS two papers for the price of one.
 The price of the Seml-Weekly Graphic is $r.5o a year, and to al new subscribers, together with the old ones who prepay one years subscription in advance, we offer the following papers free. TWO PAPERS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE. THE GRAPHIC AND THE: Twice-a-W Courier Journal
 SI.5O. Weekly Commercial-Appeal|
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 The Home and Farm,
 Sl.5O.
 Cotton Planters Journal,
 $50.
 Select anyone of the above peri odicals and send us SI, 50 and you will get it and the Semi Weekly Graphic for one year. Address.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-10

West Sixth street car Al Buchanan street
last night Tor bO-srerOu= talking As soon
4s ne recovered his eQ Jill Drum he plant
a1 himself under the electric light IN the
middle of the track stripped off his coat
ant proceeded TO hurL 6eIef1icCL1us At the
conductor until the car dIsa ppeareet from
SIg1E around the curve At W est street
The suit IF Harry AL5ulLou against the
Masonic Mutual Benefit society Tor 1850
LIE Insurance alleged 30 have been carried
by his father mas been decided against the
plaiuCI1 n the district court The elder
Aoul-ou applied for the Insurance and
granted. but ne died before ls received
the policy Il was SHOWN oy the resri-
U0uy that the application had not been
passed upon fav0rabLy by the insurance
officials
Hutchinson News The people Of Kan
szS CRY want TO give E1z Twentieth Kan
q Big time on It's return and run ex
cursL0l trains from al parts Of the state
10 Kansas cry Tor me benefit OF the U1er-
chants % that city Il - AL right Tor
Kansas city To give the Twentieth the
glad hand and warm colgra LuIaCious as Il
passes by but the Big celebration. the
one tla- viii have the Id of, should De
IN Kansas
Tae Syracuse N " Herald says
since Funston swan the Bag-Bag- the
Rio Cfrande and other streams in LuZOu-
his state mas gone Wild over MS exploits
signal Of Two fingers in the air used by
sC1ooL boys 10 Indicate swimming be
adopted a sign OF recognition 70 the
Twentieth Kansas EInSCOnS regiment
E1eu its boys come marching homo from
The war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-10
THOUSANDS CUMING.
Every Ocean Liner Laden With Euro
psan Immigrants

New York. May IA dispatch from
Hamburg has been received here an
nouncIng that fifty thousand GaHcians
are on their way OF preparing TO come
10 this country
The Storage quarters On the German
American liners, IL IS said, are crowded
with the Immigrants. ElO are leaving
home in couseq uence Of oppression and
famine The Patricia. which sailed
from Hamburg Sunday. had $500 and
the Graf WaIderSee- which sails next
Sunday viii have as many more The
amburg-A nericau steamship BFOsiIIa
which arrived at Halifax yesterday
morning. had 400 GiaIicians bound for
places IN Canada
Commissioner FItche thinks that the
figures mentioned in the dispatch must
be wrong as ne does not believe that
the AustrO- H uugarian government
would permit 50 large d number 10 emf
CRATE at one time II was pointed out
that the erligra ton OF so 600 pepoI4
would mean about Onetenth Of the pop
uIati0u Of GaHcia. going away. and
would go q long way toward depOpulat-
ing the province
Chief Clerk LeierhIIger. an expert On
immigration said II was enough 10
make one faint il true and no matter
how small the number might be that
any were coming was TO be regretted.
as they are Z most undesIra bic class
There ara i've ships on the sea with two
thousand Poles all told and the Amster-
dam which arrived Tuesday. had sew
eraI hundred Nearly loco Italians ar
rived Tuesday On the Tartar Prince and
the NaSSslIa and more are On their way
hare
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-10
IN PITTSBURG'S NAME.
Carnegie Offers s25o,ooo to Univer-
sity Of Birmingham, England

Birmingham. England May 10--AIr- AT
drew Carnegie - written z letter TO Mr.
Joseph H Chamberlain Offering % con-
tribute the last E50-31U tS258 0oUl which Mr.
C1am o@rLaIn Is trying 70 raise Tor the
University OF Birutr CHAM provided The
scientific school De made C1e principal de-
paCLDeuC in The Institution Mr. CarDz-
ELe points OlC the great need IN England
Of young scientific experts manage
works Of the IS which EuEIand must
secure i she Is 70 remain one Of -le pr1l-
ctpaI manufacturing nations OF The world
He urges Mr. cha mb=rlaIu 10 take Cor
nell university Z model where the sci
eu1Iflc department mas won FIRST place IN
the number of students. and gives de-
grees in science as II the classics Mr..
Carnegie continues I an sure that our
people Of the Birmingham across the At
IauCic VIII heartily approve Of I gift 10
their prototype on this side OF the water.
for what does not the younger owe OF its
greatness and prosperity % the o Z land
Let The gift. therefore oe considered only
as slight acknoWIe1 cement of a debt
that PI-EsburE. the greatest beneficiary
OF your steel Inventions cau never nope
10 repay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-10

to their home in Horton Monday, after
q short VISIT in Topeka
Miss Edna Floyd has returned from
Valencia where she gave some read
ings at an entertainment
1Tr Clifford Holmes OF Kansas City Is
spending a few days II the city with
his uncle Mr. E H Phillips
D 7 GreeuwaId is II lola On snort
business trip
Mrs. Fannie Sutherland and daughter
Mary left today for months visit with
relatives IN Pennsylvania and New
York
Mrs \ B. Shook Of Urbana- III, who
is visiting her brother. Mr. E T. Sim
will 90 10 Wichita the first Of the week
Mr. and Mrs P E C0Wdry have an
nouuced the marriage Of their daugh-
ter. OrDha AIiue. 70 Mr. Edward H
Doyle. which will take place Thursday
May Is The young couple viii be az
home 70 their friends after June Is
at SO Monroe street
Miss TeIia Davis of Burlington Is IN
the CITY visiting Mrs z. J. LIndamOOd-
Judge W \ Johnston returned today
from a short visit at his old home in
Minneapolis
Mr. ard Mrs Charles W. CIeaVer and
Mrs McC4rew Of EnpOr1a are spending
4 few days in the city
The WOmaus Home Missionary So
cfety Of the First NJ E church will give
d thiubIe party at the homo Of Mrs W.
z AcVey. 626 Buchanan street, F'rtda y
afternoon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-10
NORTH TOPEKA.

Sailors. sailors at MS Courtney's-
Mr. Pask is visiting Mr. William
Forbes
The Kaw township. Jefferson county.
bridge bonds were defeated yesterday
Married. May 5. BY Rev. Calvin HoI-
man. H c. Long and Fife Site. both
Of Topeka
Go TO c. B Lyon, D D 3. for fine
dental work at popular prices Orncs
81 Kansas avenue Tel ESQ
Mrs Wilson Of Kansas City is the
guest Of her daughter Mrs HouisOn-
at her home, corner Of Gordon and Mon
roe streets
The Ladies' guild Of the Church of
the Good Shepherd viii meet Thursday
afternoon at 2-30 at the home Of Mrs
Rowlsy. S29 Quincy street
Mr. and Mrs Herbert Palmer are
moving today from Fifth and Jefferson
streets 70 the Haisch property on Cen
traT avenue. north Of Soldier creek
On Thursday. May Il which will be
Ascension day, there VIII De 4 CeIe-
bratiOn Of the holy communion at $50
O'Clock in the Church OF the Good Shep-
herd
tie daughter Of Anthony, Kan. are Wis
iting their many north side friends
Rev. Mccain was formerly pastor OF
the Congregational church
Frank the little son Of MI and Mrs
J F Long. died this morning at
o'clock Of spinal meningitis at the fam
fly home. 1904 Topeka avenue The
child rad been III for the past eight
weeks He would have been years
old IN July The funeral viii be held
Friday. but the hour has not yet been
decided upon
CDugreSsuan and Mrs Charles Cur
It's returned yesterday from Atlantic
City. where CongTessnau Curtis went
to attend q meeting Of the financial
committee While east Mr. and Mrs
Curtis Visited Washington. New York
and Niagara Falls
\ telegram was received this morning
from Mrs. William DriscOu Of Mem
phfs- No. an aunt Of the young man
who was killed by the A T & s 2
engine Monday night saying that the
parents Of the deceased did not live in
either KfrksvtlIe Or CfraeucastIe No
and that the body should be buried here
by the county
The threatening weather prevented
many from attending the meeting Of the
ArgonaUC club last evening which was
held al the home Of Mr. and Mrs. c c
Nicholson Rev W 3 Hutchinson
conducted the lesson for the evening
as Miss Grace Root was uuabI 70 be
present and Miss May Albright read
an interesting paper on +'Xeuoph0nr -
which had been written by Miss Bessie
Reeder- The next meeting viii be held
in two weeks al the same place Roll
call viii be answered by quotations
from Gen Lew Wallace The uro-
gramula committee for the work Of next
year viii report al thai CiTua
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-10
LESS COTTON
And More Food to Be Produced IL
the South

Washington, May 10--The cotton re-
port for May. issued today by the de-
partment Of agriculture. Is as follows
The cotton report for the month Of
May indicates merely the notation Of
correspondents on May l as 70 the in
tautI0ns Of planters regarding the acre
age 10 be planted and the estimates
being liable 70 modification during Nay
they should be regarded merely as a
general indication Of the strength Of the
tendency toward an enlargement OF re-
ductiOu of acreage IN every cotton
growing state the Indications on the 1st
inst pointed to a reduced acreage, with
a corresponding decrease in the sale of
fertilizers and an increased acreage in
the various food crops
The probable reduction by states is
as follows In Mississippi and Indian
Territory ) per cent in Alabama 8,
Texas 9. Arkansas. 10. South Carolina.
II. Louisiana. IL Georgia. Is; North
Carolina and Tennessee. II, and Okla
h0E1a. Is per cent
No estimate Of the total reduction
will be published until next month
when the final reports On planting will
be compared with the revised acreage
figures for last year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-10
ACARPET TRUST
Is Being Formed In New York and
Boston.

New York. May lot is reported
that negotiations are in progress, with
ar excellent prospect Of soon reaching
q successful conclusion, for com bina-
ton OF manufacturers Of all grades OF
carpets IN a corporation which viii be
known a the National Carpet company
and viii be capitalized al between $40
GEO 600 and $50 0C0 00o- The cOus0lida-
ton is being promoted by New York
and Boston capitalists, IL Is said Ac-
carding to the plan, the National Car
pet company will buy q manufactures
plant and business for sum agreed
upon. paying One-haIf cash 70 repre-
sent the investment IN real estate ana
machinery. and oEe-haIf in common
stock Of the new company II VIII also
pay cash for material On hand. manu-
featured and uumauufaCtured- In par
tfcuIar cases the book accounts VIII
also be purchased. If guaranteed The
cash 10 make these purchases VIII be
raised by the sale Of a : per cent cum
uIative preferred stock. which VIII be
offered to the concerns going into the
movement This carries q bonus Of ore
share Ct common stock for each two
shares Of preferred 50 that each con-
Germ can become a n underz ritter There
are no commissions 70 be paid 20 any
underwriting syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-10
Guard system. died here last night
aged 81 years

Guard system. died here last night
aged 81 years
Pittsburg. May 10.-The Bessemer
Iron association which controls all the
merchant furnaces in the Sheuango
and MahOning valleys. has advanced
Besseu1er pig TO S15 per ton in the val
leys and 1855 per ton IN PIttsburg-
Niles. Mich. May 10-The homestead
near CIaIeSburZ. Mich where General
the American forces in the Santiago
campaign was born and reared. is 10
be torn down and the property sold
During the fighting at Santiago the
PIE who carried away pieces of the old
log house as relics
Lansing. Mich. Nay 10.-The senate
has passed an income tax Dill which
provides for q tax Of oue-fourth Of one
Per cent on all incomes OF one thousand
dollars and upwards
London. May 10-SIr Henry irving.
owing to the fatiguing character Of the
performance, has found it expedieut TO
discontinue uatfuees Of SardOu's .RO-
bespierre' at the Lyceum theater-
Hanover Mass, May 10.-The viii Of
the late Edward V Perry leaves the
greater portion Of his estate variousIy
estimated at from $4,000 10 81. 600 900.
as a trust for the benefit Of the poor Of
this and two adjoining towns
Washington. May 10--E- President
Cleveland passed through washington
last night en- route for Sandusky. Ohio.
He was travelling in a private car ac-
com panied by only two p0rrers He
was Joined here by Captain ROblsE D
Evans. Mr. CIeveIand's fav0rtte COM
paniou on his shooting trips
Albion Mich. May 10-The eleventh
biennial convention Of the Delta Cam
ma WOmen's college fraternity began =
three days meeting here last night IN
der the auspices Of the Zeta Chapter Of
Albion college
Port Townsend. WI May 10-A
mortgage given by the Seattle and san
Francisco Railway and Navigation
company to the Metropolitan Trust
company Of New York for 800 coo
has been recorded here
san Diego. Cal May 10.-Gen- John
NJ Wilson chief Of the engineer corps
of the United States army. has just
made 4 thorough inspection Of the Bal
last Point Qualifications and Of the site
for the batteries on Point Iona He
has also examined the work Of deepen
ing the bar which is being conducted
by Captain POIhamus-
San Diego. Cal. May 1G.-WiIIiam NJ
Kerr, a banker Of IroutOu. Ohio who
has been sojOuruiug with his wife IN
this city dropped dead yesterday.
Heart disease was the cause