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Dad at a Saction Honss.

A white man died at section house
on the Valley railroad near Caney
Bayou, short distance from Pine
Buff, whose name and residence could
not be definitely ascertained. He was
i'll and had asked permission to remain
at the section house all night, making
his he'd on the porch, declining the prof
fer Of better accommodations. During
the night he died. Some business cards
were found among his personal effects
bearing the following inscription: f.
W. Aiken, Expert Typewriter Adjuster,
s55 Broadway, New York City," He
was evidently about 40 years of age.
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OLD ELIS COMMENCEMENT
Annual Commencement of Yale
SIX Hundred and Fifteen De-
grees Conferred.

New Haven, Conn.,, June 29.-The an
nual commencement of Yale universi-
ty was celebrated. The weather was
decidedly inauspicious, rain beginning
ta fall Just before the time set for the
forming of the elaborate procession.
The events of the day were the con-
ferring of degrees, to the number of
615, including those awarded to the
members of the graduating classes of
all departments of the university and
the honorary degrees, the announce
ment of prizes, and the awards of
prizes, scholarships and fellowships.
Honorary degrees were conferred-a as
follows:
d. D.-Rev. D. Stewart Dodge, (Yale
college 1850, New York city; Rev.
Prof. George Adam Smith, Glasgow
Scotland.
Ill. D.-Hon. Frederick Adams (Yale
college 1s62), Newark, n. j.; Hon.
George W. Griggs, attorney general of
the United States; Hon. Frederick j.
Kngsbury yale college 1s46) Water
bury. Conn; Emory McClintock, New
York; Prof. S. Minot, M. D., Boston;
Wirklicher Geheimrath Franz Won Rot
tenburg, curator of the University of
I;onne, Germany.
M. A.-Robert Brookings, ST. Louis;
Admiral Francis NJ. Bunce, U. S. N, re-
tired, Hartford, Conn; John r. Mott,
New York; Capt. w. C. Wise, U. S. ~,
Norfolk, Va. Also the following for
mer members of the college; Rev. John
II. Thomas, 1868, Oxford, o.; Herman
Livingston, 1879, Catskill, n. Y; VIM.
A. Otis, 1886, Colorado Springs, Col.
Phi. D.-John Mckenzie, class of
1SSQ Chinn on
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Used IN. n, nil. to Defraud.

F. A. Church was convicted in Fed
eral court at Fort Smith of fraudulently
using the mails and sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary. Church rep
resented that he was the agent of the
American Investment Company, OF
New York, and as such pretended to
organize branch at Fort Smith
through which the members could bor-
row money at a low rate of interest,
each paying a membership fee of $40.
The company was fraudulent one,
and it is claimed collected hundreds of
thousands of dollars throughout the
country.
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IMPORTANT CONFERENCE.
An Hours Consultation With the
President on the Reinforce
ment of Gen. Otis.
ne WILL HAVE FORTY THOUSAND MEN.
EnIistments VIII Continue md Men
be Forwarded So That the End
of the Rainy season VIII Find n
Strong Force Ready for Active
Operations.

Washington, June 29.-Secretary Al
ger, Adit.-Gen Corbin and Col. Bird,
assistant quartermaster general in
charge of transportation, had an
hours consultation with the president,
relative to the question of reinforce.
merits for Gen. Otis.
A Definite Decision.
A definite decision has been reached
to continue recruiting men at all the
recruiting stations for service in the
Philippines, and Secretary Alger said
when he left the White House, after
the conference, that Gen. Otis would
have 10000 men when the rainy sea.
soE closed for resumption of active
operations.
EnIfstments VIII Proceed.
There are 20 recruiting stations in
the United States, and enlistments are
to be taken at all of these places. The
enlistments are to be for service in
the regular army, and recruits are to be
organized into regiments or assigned
to regiments already formed, after en-
listment. No organization as such, are
to be accepted if sufficient recruits can
be obtained by regular enlistment.
For Three Years Term.
Gen. Corbin says that the enlist
ments would be three years, although
the law for the creation of the pro-
vislonal army of $4,000 in excess of
the regular army of $4,000 provides
only for such force until 1901. Ar
| rangements are to be made at once
for increasing the transportation nee
essary to get these additional troops to
the Philippines. The decision to rein
force Gen. Otis by the end of the rainy
season is interpreted to mean that ag-
gressive campaigning will cease until
the bad weather ends.
Circumscribed Operations.
Until that time our operations will
probaly be confined to occasional ex-
cursions to places in close proximity
to our lines, where the insurgents may
have congregated in force. By remain
ing quiescent under good shelter DUR
ing the rainy season it is hoped the
health of our troops will be conserved
tbN 'ht bdhkNI llOhi ICfCIS
reouced to a minimum.
Skeleton ORGANIZATIONS.
Gen. Otis has cabled the war depart
ment that he has the skeleton organ
izations of two or three regiments
which it is proposed to raise in the
Philippines At the war department
this was said to mean that Gen. Otis
has the officers for these regiments
selected, and that they are ready to
| be filled with enlisted men. How many
o? these can be secured from the vol
unteer regiments now in the Philip
pines is not known.
Men Now Being Enlisted.
1t is stated at the war department
that the recruits now being enlisted
at the rate of 1000 week can not be
uaed for the volunteer army provided
for in the act of March 2, authorizing
$4,000 men, although it would be an
easy matter to transfer these men,
with their own consent, to the volun-
teer service if il should be determined
/ tn raise additional troopc
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stn,e Te achsrs, Association.

The thirty-second annual session of
the State Teachers Association closed
at Newport June 22d. 1t was the most
profitable and interesting meeting ever
held, and there was large attendance,
both of teachers and visitors. Many
delightful addresses and instructive
papers were heard. The election of
officers to serve the ensuing term re-
suited as follows: President, j. d. Clary,
Fordyce; corresponding secretary, D. L.
Paisly, Conway; recording secretary,
Miss Emma Mann, Pine Bluff; treas
urer, Mrs. Sue Barkley, Little Rock
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The Broomcorn Flea.

Chicago, June 29.-A report is cur
pest has been discovered in the vicini-
" OF Humboldt and Doran's Crossing,
H., which is playing havoc with the
growing broomcorn in those neighbor-
hoods. The pest is known as the
'broomcorn flea" perhaps for want of
better name, and Injuries the young
md tender corn.
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sampson to Take a vacation.

Newport, r. l., June 29.-Rear-Ad-
miral William T. Sampson. comman-
der-in-chief of the North Atlantic
squadron, after a year and a half of
almost continuous duty of the most
arduous kind, has obtained leave of
absence. The papers from Secretary
Long have reached the admiral on
board the flagship New York, and on
Wednesday, July 5, he will haul down
his pennant and go ashore for a
months vacation.
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DEPARTED FOR PORT SAID.
The Cruiser Olympia Leaves CoIom-
bo-AdmiraI Dewey Visits
Capt. O'Leary.

Colombo, Ceylon, June 2o.-The
United States cruiser Olympia, with
Admiral Dewey on board, sailed from
here for Port Said, at 4 p. IN. The adj
miral has been living quietly here, and
his health has improved. He. went on
board the cruiser at 10 a. m. The Gus
tomary official visits were exchanged
during the day.
Previous to the departure, Admiral
Yosemite, now at this port, having Oh
board Capt. Richard p. OLeary. U. S.
n, the governor of the Island Of
Guam, who is now on his way to his
post.
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Neglected Confederate Graves.

A member OF the Austin Camp of Con-
federate veterans calls attention to the
fact that between 1000 and 1900 Con-
federate soldiers are buried at an old
camp ground about three miles from
Austin, and that their graves have been
untouched and uncared for since their
burial. An effort is to be made to raise
a fund to pay for clearing away the
growth OF bushes and enclose the graves
within a su bstantial fence.
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Harvard Honoring Degrees.

Cambridge, Mass, June 29.-Among
the honorary degrees conferred by
Harvard university to-day were those
of Doctor of Laws, upon Jules Cam
bon, the French ambassador to the
United States; Gen. Leonard Wood,
military governor of Santiago, Cuba;
heaI-Admiral w. T. Sampson, U. S. N,
and Arthur 7. Hadley, president-elect
of Yale university.
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The Banners May Fly.

Detroit, Mich, June 29.-Banners of
welcome and decorative devices will be
permitted to obstruct the view in De-
troit streets during the international
Christian Endeavor convention next
week. The city council has taken ac-
ton suspending operation of an ordi-
nance prohibiting stringing banners
across streets during the month of
.Iuly
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SUPPLANTED BY NEGROES.
White Puddlers Discharged and Ne-
groes Put In Their Places at
sharpsburg, Pm.

Pittsburgh, Pa, June 29.-Nearly
all the white puddlers employed at
Moorhead Bros. e. Co.'S ironworks. at
Sharpsburg, have been discharged,
and the places filed by negroes, who
were brought from other places and
taken to the plant Tuesday night. Tho
firm has opposed the affiliation of its
employees with the Amalgamated asso.
citation, and recently a large number
Of the puddlers joined the unicn.
There is no trouble at the plant, and
quiet prevails in the vicinity. Four
deputies accompanied the negroes.
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Spanish Demand on China.

London, June 2o.-Chinese advices
state that Spain will prefer a demand
for lease Of Chinese territory, on the
ground that China, during the Spanish
American war, permitted the shipment
o. arms and ammunition TO the Philip
rines by American steamers.
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Infant Instantly Killed.

In runaway near Russellville Mrs.
Rufe Howell was seriously injured and
her baby instantly killed. Mrs. Howell
was driving toward town when her
horse became unmanageable, dashing
down a steep hill, demolishing the
buggy with the above result to its oc-
Cunantg
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BRIEF MENTION.

One case of SMALLPOX is reported at
Ozark
Fifteen freight cars were ditched on
the Cotton Belt near Clarendon June
23d.
The sheriffs are unusually prompt
this year in making settlement with
the state.
Peter Dougan, a Choctaw construc-
tion foreman, dropped dead in Little
Rock bar-room.
1t is reported the Searcy & West Point
and the Des Arc & Northern railroads
are to be consolidated.
The Iron Mountain shops at Little
Rock are running only eight hours dur
ing the summer months.
Ex.Gov Clarke announces that he will
not be a candidate for the United States
senate against Senator Berry.
The assessment of railroad property
in Arkansas will be the same as last
year of lines then in operation.
Senator James X. Jones writes to I.
friend that he will return to the United
States about the first of September.
Ex.Gov. J. P. Eagle and wife. after
an absence of 12 months in Kentucky,
have returned to their home in Little
Rock.
The sheriff of Arkansas county de-
stroyed $50 bottles of beer and ten gal
Ions of whiskey seized in Dewitt
blind tiger.
lightning struck a house on the
Trulock plantation near Pine Bluff,
and killed Jim jackson and VIM. Pat.
terson, colared.
John Chapman, a young Michigandes
"bicycled" it from Fruitport, Mich, all
the way to Brinkle y in IA days, dis
tance OF SO7 miles.
The annual meeting Of the Wholesale
Grocers' Association of Arkansas and
the Indian Territory was held in Pine
Bluff June 27th.
NJ. A. Eisele has been appointed
superintendent of the Hot Springs
reservation, vice Col. Little, to take
effect August 1st.
Ex-Representative Jesse London, OF
Crawford county, was arrested at Alma,
June 22d, charged with forgery and
released on $500 bond.
Two colored section hands engaged
In an alteration few miles north OF
Pine Bluff in which one of them was
Drained with a crowbar.
The gentlemen recommended for CEN
sus supervisors by the republican state
central committee and Senator Berry
were appointed by Director Merriam
The Ozark Zinc Company, of Eureka
Springs, filed articles OF incorporation
with the secretary Of state. The cap
ital stock is 100000. W. NJ. Boles is
president.
VIM. ]. Bryan has accepted an invi'
tstion to speak at Springdale July gath.
The residence OF win Singleton, OF
Hot Springs, was struck by lightning
and totally demolished. Several mem
bers of the family were slightly in
jured by falling timbers.
The Arkansas Construction Company
has entered into a contract with citi
zens of Fayetteville to build -oad
from that city to connect with the
Pittsburg & Gulf, the citizens to secure
right of e way to Pennington and
bonus of $40. 900.
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VIII Pay for Government Timber.

The firm Of Mclaughlin, Harrison &
Co., OF Batesville, has made tender of
el, 10s S5 to the government in payment
for SO, ,O91 feet of lumber alleged I have
been cut from government lands This
is the case that attracted the attention
Of the senate last fall, when Senator
Jones demanded an investigation on
the ground that the inspector exceeded
his authority in seizing the timber. 1t
is proba bic the offer will be accepted.
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DREYFUS COURT-MART1AL.
The Detail of Officers for the Retrial
of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus mt
Rennes, France.

Rennes, June 29.-The official list of
the composition of the Dreyfus court
martial, which is to assemble in the
army service building for the retrial
of the prisoner, is as follows: Presi-
dent, Col. Jouaust; Maj. Brongniast,
artillery; Maj. De Breon, artillery;
Maj. Profilet, artillery; Maj. Merle,
artillery; Capt Parfait artillery;
Capt. Beauvais, artillery. All the men,
bers of the court-martial have passed
through the POLYTECHNIC school.
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No Excuse For II.

The police of Little Rock complain
that large number of discharged sol
diers visit that city and are great
source of annoyance, begging from
citizens and bunking in any out-of-the-
way place. The better class OF soldiers,
which constitute a great majority, soon
find honorable employment when dis
charged from the service.
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ODD MENTION.
Section Director, Little Ro

Over three-fifths of the mail of Des
Moines, Ia, was collected last year from
the boxes on street cars.
In Berlin the pawnshop is royal and
philanthropic institution. Any profit
that is made is spent on charity.
Painted coffee beans are among the
latest curiosities of the adulterated food
market. Inferior beans are colored
with burnt umber and made TO look like
the finest Mocha. They are described
as "shiney brown outside, yellow inside
and tasteless."
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Incrense of stock Authorized.

Baltimore, Md. June 29.-The stock
holders of the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road met and authorized an increase
of the preferred stock from S40,OOO.-
100 90 S6OOO0,O0O and of the common
stock from S35,00o,0O0 to S45,OOO,0 600
for the purpose Of carrying out the
plan of reorganization OF the Balti-
more & Ohio Southwestern railway.
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Fatal Runaway.

Mrs. T. b. Martin, wife of Chancellor
Martin, of Little Rock, was killed in a
runaway on the evening of June 22d.
Judge Martin and his wife were out
driving when their horse became
frightened at two ladies passing on a
bicycle. In urning a corner Mrs.
Martin was thrown from the buggy
against telegraph pole, crushing her
skull
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II IL to be HOped So.

Pretoria, June 29.-The conference
between President Kruger and Fischer,
a member of the executive council of
the Orange Free State who was the
bearer of compromise suggestions
from the Free State, in the matter of
the disputes between the Transvaal
and Great Britain, have been conclud-
ed. The general impression is that
Fischer's mission has beer successful.
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PRISONERS PAY GOES ON.
Welcome News for the Spanish Sol.
diers, Prisoners In the Hands
of the Filipinos.
STEADY EFFORTS FOR THEIR RELEASE.
Spaniards Are Fast Leaving Manila
and English Capitalists Are Sc
curing Some of the Largest Inter.
ests-A Brush With Insurgents nt
MuntiuIupa.

Manila, June 20, 4:55 p. m.-Gen.
Jaramillos, who is settling Spain's
military affairs here, has received a
cable message from the minister of
war at Madrid, Gen. Polavieja, an
nouneing that the pay of all soldiers
WHO are in the hands of the insurgents
will be continued during their cap
tivity. The families of many of these
officers and soldiers are in Manila,
without means of support here or on
their return to Spain.
The new Spanish consul here, Senior
Luis Marinas, says his foremost busi-
ness is to secure the release of the
prisoners.
Spaniards Leaving Manila.
The Spaniards are fast leaving Ma
nila. The steamer Isle de Luzon sails
for Spain soon, taking several hun
dred persons, civil and military Off
Gals, and their families. The Spanish
commercial men are selling out and
some of the largest interests here will
soon pass into the hands of English
capitalists.
A Brush With the Enemy.
Capt. Gales squadron of Fourth cav
airy embarked for Morong Monday.
Tie gunboat Napidan, which accom-
panied the troops, visited the town of
Muntiulupa, on the west shore of the
lake, and found small body of rebels
intrenched there. The intrenchments
were shelled by the Napidan, and when
the rebels began to retreat, the cav
airy was landed. The Filipinos, in
firing final volley, killed cavlary
private.
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WEARIED WITH WANDERING.
A Fugitive From Minneapolis, Since
1893, Returns to Face Grand
Larceny Indictments

Minneapolis, Mimi, June 29.-Louis
F. Menage, the former president Of
the defunct Northwestern Guaranty
Loan Co., which failed May II. 1895,
has returned to Minneapolis and sur
rendered himself TO Sheriff Megardea,
There are two indictments against
him for grand larceny. He has been
in Guatemala and Mexico about six
years and determined to return and
stand trial.
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ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Celebrated Batesville Timber Seiz.
sure Case Likely to Be
Compromised.
EVENTS OF A WEEK BRIEFLY cHRoNIcLED
Constitution AIity of the Aot Providing for
New state House to he Decided ny
Supreme Court - Neglected Graves of
Confederate soldisrs-Other Matters of
Geper al Interest
Governor Issues q Proclamation.

Gov. Jones has issued a proclamation
prohibiting the further importation of
colored miners by coal mine operators
of Western Arkansas. The governor
was petitioned to take some action to
prevent importation of colored niners
by over ZOO citizens of the mining dis
trict of Sebastian county. In the procla-
nation he directs "that the sheriff of
Sebastian county employ such deputies,
call on such citizens and take such
action as may be necessary to prevent
the importation of Objectionable men,
TO the end that peace may be preserved" "
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Served Ten Years.

John Brown, colored, sent up from
Lonoke county in 1889 for 81 years, was
granted pardon by the governor. The
crime for which Brown served ten years
was the killing of his wife. He caught
her with another man and attempted
to shoot the latter, but the ball struck
the woman in a vital spot.
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Shall She be Surrendercdi

FL Paso, Tex, June 29.--The trial of
Mrs. Matte Rich has begun before the
United States commissioner here to
determine whether OF not she is to be
surrendered to the Mexican authori-
ties for trial at Juarez on the charge
of numbering her husband last April.
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Prominent Colombian Dend,

New York, June 29.-Gen. Thomso
Herrera, of Panama, Colombia, is dead
at a private sanitarium in this city,
aged 81 yearr. He had held many Of
feet in Colombia, including that Of
secretary of the interior and was one
OF the principal citizens of Panama.
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OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Okla. has been chartered.
Sedalia, Mo-, has arranged for a
street fair to be held in the fall.
The official report for Kansas shows
4 better wheat yield than expected.
Mrs August Beckman is mysterious.
ly missing from her home at De Kalb,
Ill.
Otto Carpenter tried to board a
train near Centertown, Mo-, and was
killed beneath the wheels.
The negro miners at Pana, ILL.,, have
no money to get out of town and the
operators refuse to aid them.
Ralph Johnstone and his wife had a
narrow escape from death during a
fire at their home in st. Louis.
James L. West was convicted OF
train ROBBERY, at Sedalia, Mo-, and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for ten
years.
The official Illinois crop report
shows u very poor wheat yield. The
acreage in corn has been materially
increased.
Maude Stovall, II years old, of Farm
ington, Ky, has been missing since
met with foul play.
Hennessey and Witchell, who es'
capped from the Springfield (Mo.) Jail
have been recaptured.
A boy at GRANVILLE, ILL.,, was smoth
cred to death in a wheat bin beneath
$50 bushels of grain, which was dump
ed in on him suddenly.
Edward Hodges shot and killed
Frank Connor in Dallas, Tex. They
quarreled over a bill owed by Connol
to Hodges, who escaped.
Ernest Tucker was run over by a
train near Mill Springs, Mo. He lin
gered in agony all night and dice
shortly after being found.
Nigh pleaded guilty, at Hartville
Mo-, of participation in the Macomf
train robbery, and was sentenced to
the penitentiary for ten years.
William Anderson has been arrested
near Linn Creek, Mo-, on the charge o.
killing his father, George w. Ander
son, and his female housekeeper, sonlt
months ago.
A substantial farmer testified thai
he witnessed the lynching of the three
Humphreys in Texas, and corroborat
ed the testimony of the men who turn
ed states evidence.
The st. Clair county (Mo.) Judges
again outwitted the federal author
ties and transacted business undetect
ed, although deputy marshals were or
the lookout for them.
Three negroes are dead and one j!
not expected to live, as a result of :
riot between the white and negr,
miners at the ore mines near Cardiff
in Jefferson county, Ala.
The strike of the freight handler.
along the docks, at Buffalo, N. Y.
which has been in progress for severa
weeks, was declared off Tuesday night
and the men will return to work.
Mrs. Martha Heistand, aged so years
widow of Solomon Heistand, com
mitted suicide by jumping into a wei
containing 16 feet of water, at hel
lthlhNlSt, CdSC VI Ddltul
Ill.
The steamer ST. Paul, of the Dia
| mond Jo line, blew out the fues of hel
boiler, Tuesday evening, near Jersey
Landing, about twelve miles above
Alton, ILL.,, scalding five of her crew
two fatally.
The st. Louis Consolidated Elevator
Co. is in financial straits. The board o
directors has decided that it will b,
impossible to meet the interest on tn,
bonded Indebtedness of the company
| which falls due July /.
The official government report say.
that the weather was exceedingl,
favorable for Missouri crops during
the week. Corn is in good condition
and the wheat yield is better than ex
pected. Oats are being injured by rust
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Commission Victorious.

Chancellor Martin sustained the de.
murrer of the capitol commission in the
suit filed by Attorney-General Davis.
The suit was instituted to determine
the question as to whether the law
authorizing the building of a new cap
itol was legally passed. The case has
been appealed to the supreme court
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Loaf An Arm.

Joseph Stanfield, 81 years old, fell
from switch engine in the Valley
Route yards at Little Rock and his left
arm was caught under the wheels and
crushed necessitating amputation. He
was not an employe of the railroad, but
WAS riding for pleasure.
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signed the Scale.

The Prairie Creek Mining Company,
operating mines near Huntington, and
the striking miners, reached an agree
ment and the men returned to work.
II is understood the company agreed
70 recognize the union and conceded
the scale demanded.