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The Springfield herald., 1899-04-21

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Fine growing weather.
Fins oranges at Homsher'a.
Fresh dried beef and cheese at
Homsher's.
Postmaster Brooks OF Minneap-
oils, was here Wednesday.
Butler 4 Hays will carry your
freight and express safely.
Several OF the rxnchmsn are de-
horning their cattle now.
Judge Gordon Is branding and
dshorning his cattle today.
Blank deeds, mortgages, etc,
and stationery for sale at this shop.
Patromze w. T. Cross, Lamar.
He makes special sales each day
of the year.
Sweet potatoes and hominy at
Homsher's. Both are fattenlng,
try 'em and soc.
The birthday party at Van
orsdors was we'll attended and
thoroughly enjoyed by all.
Miss Marsh came down from
Ma1ey to attend the birthday
party At Fanorsdois Saturday.
Pay up your subscription. We
are sending out statements and
you can see how much you owe.
Tho birth. dav party season is
now on. Tho most reeent one
was at Patterson's, Tuesday night.
Henry and August Rlanchst
and Dick Vowel passed through
here Monday going to the cedars
to cut post.
Several load Uf freight went
through here for Wheeler thi.
week. In fact quite number
goes through every week.
The best flour OF. the market
"Crystal." every sack guaranteed
Price $1.90 per cwt. or less lr
500 ID. lots. at Mathw's Coolidge
We were rendered spsechlesl
the other day by a gentle man
dropping in and paying up tor j
year. back subscription and one
year in advance. Gracious
o. S. Curran, postmaster at Gal
liehas, Okla, stepped In ON III
one evening this week. We for.
rot to ask him what he was dong
on the flatr
Il. Tankersley is having trouble
with his mail line to Atlanta vi,
Ma1ey. The fact that his mai
day to Minneapolis comes on the
same day that the mail must go tt
Atlanta, makes it necessary fol
him to hire someone and this h
seems to be Unable to always dc
Unless the schedule on one OF the
routes can be changed Mr.. Tank
srsley will have trouble during
VIC nest t~ves years.
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Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-04-26
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRE.
4 Complete Review Of the Events for
the Past Week in This and Foreign
Lands-summarised From the Latest
Dispatches.

Rt. Hon. Sir John Robert Mowbray
Of London is dead.
The condition of Vice President Ho-
bart continues to improve.
War is on between the ship owners
association and the seamen's union in
San Francisco.
The navy department has authorized
battleship Maine.
President Rafael 'Iglesia, of Costa
Rica, has arrived at New York on his
return from Europe.
A new first class theater to cost,
with the land, s40O,0 900, is to be erected
in San Francisco.
w. b. Storts, wanted in Saline coun-
ty, Missouri, for embezzlement, has
been arrested in Los Angeles, Cal.
Coast survey steamer Patterson is
being fitted out for survey work at the
mouth of the Yukon and in Bering
sea.
d. C. Corbin has withdrawn his ap-
plication pending before the Canadian
dominion parliament for the Kettle
Valley railway charter.
The steamship Glenogle of the North
American Mail Steamship Company's
Tacoma-O Oriental line crashed into the
big steamer City Of Kingston about 4
o'clock Sunday at Tacoma off Browns
Internal revenue officers have seized
in Denver 100000 cigars bearing coun-
terfeit revenue stamps.
The large tannery and yards of the
United States Leather Company at Lin
coin, Maine, have been destroyed by
fire. The loss was S150,000.
The Army and Navy League of Chi
cago will close its affairs and disband
on May l. This action was decided on
at meeting of the executive commit
tee yesterday.
Katie Dibble Baker, aged IA; Mamie
Braddick, aged 15, and Della Taylor,
aged z, inmates Of an orphan home at
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-04-26
GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S DIVISION
ATTACK REBELS AT CALUMPTT.
The Rebel Prisoners Say AKuinaldo Is
There with Largo Force Of Fiiipinos
Tried to Burn Bridges-Natives Go
into Deserte. Towns.

Manila, April 24.-General MacArthurs
division left Malolos today, apparently in.
tending to besiege Calumpit.
General Hale at o'clock this after
noon had crossed Bagbab and had
areched position quarter of a mile
from Calumpit, thus commanding the fort.
Prisoners captured by Hale's troops
say Aguinaldo, General Lune and the
Filipino staff are at Calumpit with a
great force of Filipino troops.
DeIore daylight the Fourth cavalry,
with three guns belonging to the Utah
battery, the Nebraska regiment and the
Iowa regiment under Hale were proceeding
in the direction of Kuinchua, where the
Bagbab is fordable, but commanded by
trenches. During the afternoon the troops
crossed the river.
Generals Macarthur and Wheaton, with
the Montana regiment advanced to the
left OF the railroad, and the Kansas regi-
ment moved forward to the right north of
Malolos. They had with them long
supply train with two armed cars in font
carrying two Gatling and Colts apid fire
guns and the six Founders.
The insurgents attempted to destroy
their bridge outside of Calumpit and sue
ceeded in badly warpng the iron frame
work.
As soon as the soldiers left the Filipino
capital the natives began focking in as
they did at Santa Cruz, before the last
boat of General Lawton's expedition had
sailed. Our army is compelled to aban-
don all towns when an onward movement
is commenced because Of insufficient men
to garrison them.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-04-26
St. Pau, Flyer Lef. the Track.

Aurora, ILL.,, April 2l.-The st. Paul
flyer Of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
road went into a ditch seven miles west
Of here last night, killing Engineer Lock
and injuring several others and wrecking
the train.
The accident occurred while the train
was going so miles an hour. The engine
left the track, followed by the train, which
turned over. The dining car and one
coach we're burned.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-04-26
Another Victim.
War VIII Go On.

Washington, April 2l.-Notwiths.and.
ing the presence of the hot season and the
imminence of the rainy season in the
Philippines, there is to be no cessation Of
the active hostilities against the Filipinos.
This fact was developed at conference
between the president, Secretary Alger,
Secretary Long and Adjutant General Cor.
bin. 1t was also again decided not to Is
sue the call for $4,000 volunteers authoriz-
ed by the army reorganization law.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-04-26
Put Your Money in a Home. :.

It's the best savings bank on the earth.
The cashier will never run off with tit
will never Ego out of business" You've
got 1t right under your thumb-no one can
take 1t away from you. There 1t is-a
shelter in the time of storm. You'll have
a place to sleep II you don't have any
thing to eat-and surely that's better than
having no place to sleep and nothing to
eat. 1t is always something on which you
can realize ready money.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-04-26
No Word of GiImare.

Washington, April 23.-No word has
come to the navy department since last
Thursday relative to the fate Of Lieuten-
ant Gilmore and the Ia sailors of the
Yorktown, who were ambushed and cap
tured at Baler, on the island Of Luzon.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-04-26

London, April 2l.-A dispatch from
Shanghai to a news agency says the Ger
man protected cruiser !Gefon has been or
dered to proceed to Apia, Samoa, after en-
barking an extra supply Of ammunition
at Kiao Chau, China, and that another
cruiser is TO follow her.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-04-26
Hero Of the civil war.

New York, April 2l.--John Lewis Lay,
formerly a first assistant engineer in the
United States navy, and on the torpedo
boat which was used by Lieutenant VIII
liam B. Gushing to destroy the rebel ship
in 1864. ia dead in this city, aged 6s years.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-04-26

Some Egyptian boats made Of cedar.
probably in use 1900 years ago. have
been found buried near the banks Of
the Nile. and furnish an interesting
proof of the power Of that wood to
Withstand the ravages Of time.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-04-26

John I. Yeend .Walla Walla
COMMISSIONERS ARID LANDS.
o. r. Holcomb .....................Rit .Ritzviile
ADAMS COUNTY OFFICERS.
Superior Judge ........... Hon. c. ii. Neai
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-04-26
still Thirst for Revenge.

Palmetto Ca Anr;l 14--Tba hoJy NJ
Lige Strickland. the negro imnlicatei bv
sam Hose in the killing Of AIfred Cran.
ford. was found swinging to tbe iimh of
n tree about n mile from town This morn.
ing. The ears and fingers were ont off
and on tho hodv wos y;nnoa -
beariny fhesa words.
"We must protect our southern
women"
Strickland was a negro minister 90 years
OF age. Sam Hose, just as the torch was
about to be applied to the pile of wood
under him yesterday, admitted that he
killed Crawford, but said Strickland had
given him $l2 to do the deed. The con-
fession OF Hose caused great excitement
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-01-06
opposed to Being Pensioned.

Ed Murray Camp, United Confed-
he Veterans, Pine Bluff, has for
rded TO Senator James Ii. Berry the
owing protest;
! the officers and members representing
camp. beg leave to call your attention TO
nroposed amendment to the pension law
IN senator Butler has given notice he will
oduee in congress admitting ex-Confeder-
soldiers ETC. TO the benefits OF the national
Zion law However worthy may be the
m and intention OF Senator Butler In the
misses aforesaid. all the members OF this
n view with disfavor the introduction OF or
massage OF any such law For generation
Moderate veterans, their widows and orph-
have successfully battled in peace, and
been able 10 subsist without the aid OF
&onal donations, and now. at the close OF
nineteenth century, as well as the closing
IN of most OF those who wore the gray. 1t
Id not only be untimely but ungracious for
-onfederate veterans, or their families. to
H. for or wish for any national law of relief
suggested by the proposition OF Senator
kler In thus placing ourselves on record,
lido not wish to be understood as opposing
IN legislation from spleenish considerations,
because we are not truly loyal to our gov
nent, for be it known that several whose
hes are hereto attached had sons In the
st Arkansas Regiment, United States Vol
keers, in the recent war with Spain, and sew
II now have sons in the Second Arkansas
Xriment, at present in the service of our
1t government. but we are actuated by con-
kntious motives in this, that we do not de-
I to become pensioners upon the govern
|nt. and further. we do not believe that we
build be- We feel that what we did from 81
f65 was in no sense dishonorable; to the con-
kry we are proud of ourselves in having dis
Urged our duty as we then understood it to
and having this patriotic and imperishable
collection we feel that it would be ineon-
|tent to accept. under such conditions. the
kition Of pensioners upon the national gov
kment All these things being true. as we
nprehend ii, we most earnestly ask that you
: your influence to defeat the measure as
bposed BY Senator Butler.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-01-06
BRIEF MENTION.

Prescott has law and order league.
A. Blum, dry Goods merchant at Pine
Bluff, assigned.
The Bentonville railroad has been
completed to Gravett.
II. +. Maggard, pioneer of Boone
county, died at his home in Harrison
December Goth.
A Little Rock street-car motorman
was held up by two highwaymen and
robbed of $3.50
A New York capitalist has secured a
20-year lease of 1000 acres of mineral
land in Marion county.
1t is reported the Missouri Pacific will
absorb the Arkansas Central, recently
placed in the hands of a receiver.
Arkansas has the only anthony
mines east of the Rocky Mountains.
They are located in Sewer county.
A hose cart and chemical engine col
lided while making run TO a fire at
Little Rock, seriously iniuring three
fremen.
Two children of Mr.. and Mrs. Stat
ford, of Independence county, aged 5
and years, were SO severely burned
both died.
Chas. Falconer, ''frer" in coal mine
near Russellville, was seriously injured
by flying coal, caused by setting off a
shot prematurely.
Frank and Henry Pace, charged with
the killing John Aderholt at Harrison
December cath, were admitted to bail
in the sum of $4,000.
The contract for Pulaski county pris-
oners for 1899 was awarded to John M.
Oracle, who will work them on his JEFF
ferson county plantations.
The Choctaw e. Memphis extension
westward from Little Rock will run
through Scott, Logan, Yell, Perry and
Pulaski counties.
Gov Jones appointed Hon. ]. M.
Shinn treasurer of Newton county, to
MI the uncApIco IoiHi VI IA u lawn,
who died December cath.
The big press of the Standard Com
press Company, Pine Bluff, was con.
siderably damaged by an explosion and
several workmen were seriously in
jured.
r. w. Jones, who was private in
Company NJ, First Regiment, died at
Thornton on the LIST inst. from the
effects of injuries sustained about a
month ago in wreck.
A record of crime in Arkansas for the
year 1898, as kept by the Little Rock
Democrats, is summarized as follows
Homicides, 149; suicides, So; lynchings,
IL; legal executions, Z.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-01-06
In Favor of Reforms.

AT the sixth annual meeting of the
Northeast Arkansas Teachers Associa-
tion' which convened at Wynnc De-
eemoer ~ 1898, the following from the
committee on resolutions were adopted:
i. That we favor the abolition OF the ONCE
=. Soun'S examiner. and the substitution OF
tnat OF county superintendent
=. That we favor the adoption of the town-
ship district system
-, .. mat we favor raising the requirements
for county certificates
>. Ihat we favor an appropriation for the
continuance OF normal schools under the pres
ent law.
D. Ihat we favor the grading of salaries in
keeping with the grade OF certificates
o Ihat we favor the incorporation OF the
senooi history OF Arkansas into the public
school curriculum
=" Ihat we pledge our continued support &c
the Arkansas Industrial University
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-01-06
beware of Ointments For Cntarrh
Tint Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely derange the whole sys
tenn when entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never be
used except on prescriptions from reputable
physicians, as the damage they will do is
often ten fold to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by i. j. Cheney & Co, Toledo,
o.. contains no mercury, and is taken inter.
nallv, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the gen
uine. 1t is taken internally and made in
Toledo, Ohio, by L. j. Cheney & Co. Testi.
nonials free.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-01-06
Murdered by a Tramp.

An aged farmer by the name of Britt,
living near Bernes, a station north of
Texarkana on the Iron Mountain, was
waylaid and murdered by tramp
whom he had befriended for several
weeks. Britt had been to town, where
he expected to receive big sum of
money, and when at secluded place
was attacked and beat to death with a
club. The murderer got no money. as
the sum Britt was expecting had not
been received at the station. The tramp
was captured.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-01-06
-,eIegates Named.

Gov. Jones has appointed the follow
ing gentlemen to represent Arkansas
at convention of delegates from the
various states carved from the IL ouisi-
ana Purchase" at st. Louis, January
the 10th. The object of the convention
is to determine a time, place and
manner of celebrating the one hun
dredth anniversary of the acquisition
by the United States FROM France of
that vast area known as the Louisiana
territory. James p. Clarke, Thos. w.
Baird, Abe Stiewell, S. j. Beauchamp.
Guy Z. Thompson, Little Rock; L. A.
fitzpatric, Helena ]. NJ. Barker, At
kins; b. b. Biffel, Piggot.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-01-06
FIVE in THE RACE.
Lively But Good-Natured-Candi ates
For Other Positions Numerous.

Little Rock, Jan. "a large number
Oh the members of the Thirty-second
general assembly have arrived, and
all incoming trains are being met by the
horde of candidate for the different
positions at the disposal of the law
makers, each eager for the first inter-
view with the ARRIVING member The
candidates for speaker have been on
the ground several days, marshaling
their forces for the final struggle next
Monday. Those aspiring to the honor
OF occupying the speakers chair are:
Hon. Z. w. Rector, of Garland; Gen. J.
c. Tappan, of Phillips; Hon. A. f. VAN
deventer, of Conway; Hon. T. l. Herrn,
of Sharp, and Hon. R. 4. Foster, of
Jefferson.
Both Col. Rector and Gen. Tappan, at
previous sessions, have been honored
with the spealsersbip Each candidate
has warm admirers, and as the MEM
bers arrive they are besieged by those
who came in advance and importuned
/ W "id TIC erection Oh InlS or
candidate.
At this time it is impossible to esti-
mate the strength of the different can
! didates for speaker, and as there is to
be no caucus before the legislature as
sembles, it would not be surprising if
the whole of the first day is taken up
by the house in electing presiding
officer.
For president of the senate only one
name has been mentioned so far-that
of Hon. M. j. Manning. of the Thir-
teenth district, and it is likely the upper
branch of the legislature will succeed
in organizing the first day of the ses.
sion.
With the exception of the secretary
ship of the senate and chief clerkship
of the house, there are from five to
thirty candidates for each position to
be filed. Unless some rule be adopted
dropping the candidate receiving the
lowest number of votes after each bal
lot, some prolonged contests may be
looked for.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-01-06
Favor County NormaIs.

The following resolutions were adopt
at the meeting of the Western Ar
bnsas Teachers Assertion, which met
annual session at Fort Smith Decem-
kr Goth:
BE 1t resolved First. That the subdivision OF
e territory OF the state into small, weak and
Regular districts is a serious obstacle 20 the
Dvelopment OF our rural schools wherin is
und a percentage OF our scholastic popula-
bn; and that the substitution OF the township
stem therefor would result in better schools.
hger terms and higher instruction without
~ increased burden OF taxation.
Second. That we heartily endorse the county
prmal Institutes and urge upon the legista-
IRE the necessity OF their permanent continu-
bee with such notifications as the changing
>nditions of public education may demand;
bd that We favor the enlargement OF the nor
bal department Of the Arkansas State Uni
frsity and the establishment OF one or more
)ate normal schools for the professional ele-
ption OF the teachers of the state.
/ Third That the creation OF the office OF coun-
superintendent is a necessity to correct the
featest defects OF our rural schools, the lack
professional spirit in our teachers. the abb
ence OF definite aim in education and the in
fference Of the public toward the free
fhools and that an efficient county superin-
fndent will cause the adoption OF uniformity
] courses OF study and methods Of instruction
proughout his county, and will. by the pre-
Fntlon OF reckless and sometimes willful ex-
Fndltures, be the successful means OF econo-
plzing the public school funds.
Fourth, That we note with pleasure the
Fowlng affiliatlon OF our State University and
Pc public school system. OF which it is the
tcognized head, and that we again pledge to
our cooperation in every effort to increase
usefulness and further its development.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-01-06
To Urge River improvements.

At the request of all the congress
men from Arkansas, a delegation COM
posed of business men of Little Rock
Fort Smith, Pine Bluff, Dardanelle and
Conway, appeared before the con-
gressional river and harbor committee
at Washington January 6, to urge the
necessity of a liberal appropriation for
improvement of the Arkansas river and
other navigable streams in this state.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-01-06
State Blind school.

The nineteenth biennial report of the
tate school for the blind has been sub
pltted to the governor by the board of
fustees. The report shows the cur
ent expenses of the school for the
lghteen months ending September 80,
S9S, were s17 .665. S. The total enroll
hent was EOS, an average cost per pupil
fnrolled for the eighteen months of
eo'ol' or an average of t4.74 per month.
he average daily attendance was $50
pupils. The enrolment for the past
p years has been las far as at present
ttalnablel as follows: In 1850, 10;
ool-62, IS; 1868, 10; 1868, IS; 1s69-70,
p; lS7l-72, Al; 1s73-74. So; 1856. 90;
$3.50, S2; 1ssl-s2, Al; 1ss3-s4, 43; 1886,
p; lsS7-sS, 1902; 1889, IA; 1890, 1866;
PsSs-sO, 2l4; 1s91-92, 229; 1s92-94, enroll
nent not known, 1s9596, $3.50; 1s97-9S,
200 In view of the increase in attend
fhce the past two years, the trustees
Prges the legislature to make liberal
appropriation for the maintenance of
Fne school, in order that pupils may be
given every advantage possible.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-01-06

by virtue of recent decision rend-
|ered by Judge Jno. A. Williams of the
eoeral court the railroad lien statute
|oi Arkansas is virtually rendered in
operative, as the court holds that the
|only lien that can be given under that
|ae1 Is In favor of laborer who con-
|,iac's direct with the railroad company.
T. iaborer is employed by a con-
tractor or sub-contractor he has no
|,ien' and the law therefore gives no
ilen 70 the contractor, or su-bcontractor
|or laborer.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-01-06
DATES IN HISTORY.

The photograph was invented by
Edison in 1877.
In 1879 Edison produced the mean
descent electric light.
In 1870 the first electric railway was
operated in Berlin by Siemens.
Giles de Retz, of France, the original
"Blue Beard" was executed on Christ
mas day, 1440. in atonement for multi
tude of sins. which included the killing
of six wives, from which the popular
nursery story is derived.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-01-06
Officer Killed BY a Negro.

W. I. Witt, deputy constable, died
at Little Rock January 1 from the
effects of wound inflicted by George
McLendon. Witt attempted to arrest
the negro, who was drunk and bolster
Gus. when the latter secured the officers
pistol and shot him, the ball entering
the left lung. The dead man was over
60 years old, and had been an officer
90 years.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-01-06

The State Sheriffs' Association, which
held meeting in Little Rock last week,
adopted resolutions favoring change
of tax-paying time, SO as to begin the
first of November instead of the first of
January. A resolution was also adopted
urging that the state provide for
acquisitions for witnesses in felony
cases.