The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-09-22
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Gen. Miles believes the dispute in
China will involve the world in war.
During the year over forty thaus.
and new names have been added to
the pension roll.
The Catholic church is stirred bv
report that the Pope will bar wo-
men hon church ehoirs.
1t is proposed to build a railroad
from Ft. Smith to Guthrie, Oklaho.
ma, Insufficient indueement is offered
There were enlisted in the federal
army during the civil war 1862.
o62 white and 1s6.017 eolored sol
diers.
The internal revenue collections for
the state in August were $19,962,
being little less than for last Au-
gust.
The attendance at Robinson's cir
Gus IN Little Rock was so large that
the police had to stop the sale of the
tickets.
The gross receipts of the corhet-
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Mccoy prize fight was $75. 222, of
which the fighters got over fifty
thousand dollars.
The ninth annual State eneamp-
ment of the Arkansas confederate
veterans will be held in Little Rock
on October 9th.
Queens from all the Five Civilized
Tribes of the Indian Territory will
be feature Of the Fort Smith street
fair next month.
A single Industrious tale-bearer,
who is always incidentally mis-
ehiefmaker, can keep whole neigh
borhood in hot water.
The White River Conference of the
Methodist church will convene at
Jonesboro November Goth. Bishop
Galloway will preside.
The Seminole Indians have made
no increase in two years, and num-
Der about 5000. They marry very
little outside of their tribe.
Gen. Joe Wheeler, so lately retired
from the army, has returned to his
home in Alabama, and will possibly
be candidate for the senate.
Most of the broom corn of the
country is raised in two counties in
Illinois, and recent storm there de-
stroyed ST, 100000 of the crop.
It is said 1900 men in single To-
eality in West Virginia. who voted
for Mckinley in 1896, have signed
an agreement to vote for Bryan.
A row between the cattlemen and
sheep men at Walsenberg, Col, re-
suited in the cattle men running 5000
sheep over precipice and destroying
them.
The governmental declared to be
fraudulent a civil service school in
Washington, which processes to pre-
pare persons for civil service exami-
nations.
Capt, Elias Chandler, who was
Colonel of the First Arkansas regi-
ment OF Volunteers, has returned
from Cuba and been stationed at
Little Rock.
Millions of crickets settled on the
the streets of Denison, Texas, the
other night. In places they were
two to four feet deep, and had to be
shoveled away.
Arkansas has 3145 miles of rail-
road in operation; in the last twelve
months built 231 miles, and now has
more miles Of railroad projected than
any other state in the union.
Railroads south of the Ohio and
east OF the Mississippi have resolved
to charge $3.50 mile for hauling
the special trains carrying presiden-
tial candidates on speaking tours.
The warning republican factions in
Tennessee have been brought togeth-
er by Senator Hanna's refusal to
give them campaign money SO long
as they remained apart,
Scipio Jones, the colored attorney
at Little Rock, has appealed thecase
Of a negro sentenced to hang in Per
ry county to the Supreme Court and
asks reversal Of sentence on the
ground that there were no negroes
on the iury that tried him.