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The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
THE ESCAPED CONVICTS.
Three More of the Desperadoes Re.
captured and Returned to the
Penitentinry-WorI Resumed.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 12.-Three
more of the 26 fugitive convicts from
Fort Leavenworth prison were cap.
tured at Bazaar, near Cottonwood
Falls, kas., late this afternoon. by
penitentiary guards, after a fight in
which one of the convicts was shot.
The captured men are Gilbert Mullen,
white; Fred Robinson, mulatto. and
Lol Switzerland, Indian. Switzerland
was wounded to-day, but not serious
ly. He was also shot while making
his escape from the prison last week
None of the guards was injured.
Two men supposed to be convicts
stole horse and buggy from a man
near Atchison and robbed him OF
what money he had, but finally aban-
doned the vehicle after being pursued
some distance.
Lewis was returned to the peniten-
tiary in irons, to-day, and is in the
hospital in a critical condition from
his wounds. Thompson, when brought
in, was found to be only slightly
wounded. When the latter recovers
a 25-pound ball will be chained TO his
ankle as punishment
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
Lumber Lends.

A bulletin has been issued by the
census bureau showing the condition
of the manufacturing industries of
the state of Arkansas for the census
year 1900, and giving comparisons
with each census since 1850. The
statement shows that last year there
were 4,474 manufacturing establish
ments in the state, with an aggregate
capital of $35,960.640, with 1,649 sala-
ried officers, to whom was paid S.
6S6,291 The cost of materials used
was placed at $23,963,76 and the
value of products for 1890 was $22,'
659,179. In 1850 the value of prod
ucts of manufacturing character
amounted to only s537,90S. For 1900
the showing in the leading industries
in the matter of value of products
was as follows: Cars and railroad
shop construction, $2,O95. .447; cotton
ginning, $1,261 097; Touring and grist
mill products. $3,70s,7O9; lumber and
timber products, s23,959,9S3; oil, cot
ton seed and cake, s2,S74,S64.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
Another Gould Road,

Articles of Incorporation of the
Memphis, Helena Louisiana railroad
company have been filed with the sec
retary of state and charter granted
by the board of railroad commission
ers. The proposed road is the long
talked-of Gould branch. the ultimate
terminus of which, it is said, is New
Orleans, to give a short line from St
Louis to the Crescent city, paralleling
the Mississippi river. The officers are
not given, but Geo. ]. Gould is presi-
dent. The proposed road will begin
at point on the Memphis branch
1000 feet west of mile post 81, in Crit
tenden county, about four miles from
Memphis, and run in a southwesterly
direction through seven counties,
Crittenden. ST. Francis, Lee, Phillips
Arkansas, Desha and Chicot to a point
on the state line between Arkansas and
Louisiana in Chicot county.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
NEW JAPANESE ENTERPRISE
The japanese Navy Department Pre-
pairing to Establish u Steel Plate
Factory at kure.

Tacoma, Wash, Nov. 12-Oriental
advices received by the steamer Vic
toria state that the japanese naval
department is preparing to establish
steel plate factory at kure, at a
cost of 100000 yen. The plant will
be in working order in three years.
Baron Masahide, of Toxic, has OBJ
tanned from Director Sheng, of the
Chinese railway, a concession for the
erection of important telephone lines
which will connect the largest cities
throughout China. The preliminary
arrangements now made contemplate
that China shall furnish the funds
and the japanese the experts and ma
terial.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
Must Pay Uncle Sam.

IN answer to an inquiry from H. l..
hemmel, collector of internal revenue
At Little Rock. the commissioner of
'n'efnal revenue has written in part
10 follows: Your letter of the 26th
si'imo has been received, inclosing a
.ormuia for the manufacture of bev-
lase called 'beerine.' From this
Oinuia it appears that the beverage
- question is made in part of fer
mehled malt liquor (lager beer), and
,ndt 1t is a light table beer and
snouid be handled as such and not like
eoninon soda water This being the
ease the beverage must be regarded
90 similar to weiss beer, and the
manufacturer of it must be required
- pay special tax as a brewer and tax
on THIS 'beerine,' and other persons
engaged In selling 1t must be required
ers.''
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
Question of Appeal Settled.

In the case Of Annie Deshay vs..
The State, Judge Battle, speaking for
the supreme court, passed upon ques-
ton OF appellate procedure which is
OF considerable Importance to the pro-
fession in this state Annie Deshay
was convicted in the Jackson circuit
court on January IT, 1900. She failed
to pray for and perfect on appeal from
the judgment in the regular way AZ
terwards, on April /, 1901, more than
year having elapsed, she prayed for
and obtained from the clerk If the su
preme court writ of error and at
tempted to bring the judgment up
for review in that manner. Previous
to March 16, 1899, the Limitation of
appeals and writs of error to the su-
preme court was three years with GER
tain saving clauses for persons under
disabilities. On that date the legisla-
ture passed an act amending the sec
tons of the digest regulating appeals
and writs of error. so as to specify
that they should not be granted Eek
cept within one year next after the
rendition of the judgment, order or
decree sought to be reversed" The
question here raised was whether the
digesters of the state statutes since
1856 had erred in consolidating the
provisions relating to the allowance
and time of appeals to the supreme
court and writs of error therefrom. as
they are found in sections 1917, 1918
and 1913 of the present digest. The
contention was made that these sec
tions should not have included writs
OF error and that the amendatory act
does not therefore cover this means of
presenting cause for review. The
court held that there was no distinc
tlon In principle between the two
methods of presenting the cause, and
that the digesting of the statutes on
the subject being correct the act of
1899 applies and limited the time for
presenting cause by writ of error to
one year from the date of the judg-
ment.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15

Mckinley Memorial Eund.

The following address to the people
of Arkansas, in connection with the
| movement for a national monument to
the late President William Mckinley,
has been issued:
No matter what ones political faith
may be, all persons must agree that
the late William Mckinley, our mar.
tyred president, was great and conspic-
uous in those tender and chivalrous
virtues which endear leaders and high
officials to their fellowmen. In all
that stood for beauty and nobility of
character. as a husband, a father, a
son. pious, honest and law-abiding
citizen, his example shines resplen-
dent and cannot be surpassed. That
example presents an incentive for i'm
itation and copy to all our American
youth. And even his most bitter po-
litical opponents are bound to testify
ungrudgingly to his greatness and
kindness as man and as a patriot
even though they might feel like ques-
tloning the correctness of his views.
His praiseworthy life was cut short
by the bullet of the reckless assassin.
Thus, without rhyme or reason and
without warning, was his life ended,
and his frail, delicate and suffering
wife bereft of one of the truest. most
|considerate and solicitous of husbands
and of companion whose presence
was never wanting in her hours of suf-
fering. And thus was this glorious
country deprived of a loved and solic-
itous chief magistrate.
From all over this land, from all
over the civilized globe testimonials
to his character were sent to Canton
on the occasion of his funeral. and
the emblems of esteem and sorrow
which adorned his last resting place
counted among them the unsolicited
tokens of peer and pauper, of poet and
peasant, of friend and political foe.
For these reasons, and because
American youth and manhood, now
and hereafter, would set up some last
Ing monument to the personal esteem
in which the lamented William Nc
kinley was held by his countrymen.
and because, too, they would show to
those anarchistic spirits who would
enthrone riot, license and boodshed
In lieu of government that no such
folly can prevail in this land of or
dered liberty and legal freedom, the
undersigned, representing the com
mittee having the matter in charge,
appeal to the good people of this COM
monwealth to respond to the call for
funds to erect a national monument to
the memory of the deceased, William
Mckinley, in such sums, however
small, as they can afford, without ref.
, erence to politics or sex. And they
agree that when the certificates shall
have been issued by the national COM
mittee, to be delivered to those who
| have contributed to this fund, to see
to it, as far as practicable, that the
same are turned over to those whose
names shall appear thereon. 1t being
the intention of such national commit.
! tee to issue such a certificate to each
subscriber to such funds, and to make
this a peoples own tribute to their
late president.
II. M. Cooper Chairman,
Little Rock.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15

At meeting of the state capitol
commission, the following was adopt.
ed:
Whereas, From the report of Archi.
tect Frank Miles Day the new capitol
building cannot be completed as origi-
nally projected and upon the exist
ing foundation at cost of $1,000, 900:
and.
Whereas, This commission is not
warranted in erecting a smaller and
different capitol building upon anoth.
er and different foundation and
Whereas The notifications of the
original plans and specifications
whereby it was proposed to bring the
cost of completing the building within
$1O0O,000 require a use Of inferior
material, unsuitable in the opinion of
the board; therefore,
Resolved, That this board can pro-
ceed no further at the present time,
because of the prohibitory terms of
the act of April 20, 1901.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
MAY BE TRIED IN ST. LOUIS.
The Federal Grand Jury at st. Louis
Is Likely to Deal with Long
baugh and Laura Bullion.

st. Louis, Nov. 12.-The eases of
Harry Longbaugh and Alice Laura
Bullion, charged with froging bank
notes stolen from a Great Northern
train near Wagner, Mont, when $751;
900 was secured, will be heard by the
November grand jury of the United
States district court, and that body
will make a report Tuesday after
noon, in all probability returning in
dictments.
Chief Desmond requested the fed
eral authorities to act. as he be-
lieves good enough case can be made
here to put the couple out of harms
way for time.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
THE MAN HUNT IN KANSAS
Thirteen Out of a Possible Twenty
Six of the Escaped Con-
victs Recaptured.
LAWRENCE LEWIS FATALLY WOUNDED,
He Was Ovcrhauled Near QuenemOv
kns., Forty Miles From Leaven-
worth-The Country Alive with
Posses Bent on Rounding I'D the
Rest of the Fugitives.

Kansas City, No., Nov. 11.-Another
day has added one more to the list
of escaped Fort Leavenworth con-
victs captured, that of Lawrence Lew
is, who was mortally wounded,
this morning, near Quenemo, Kas.,
while making a dash through cor
don of armed deputies. Now there
are but 13 prisoners at large.
Lewis is white boy 20 years OF
age, who was sent up in October,
1900, to undergo five years sentence
for larceny. He was tracked to
wooded place near Quenemo by the
city marshal of that place, which is
situated 40 miles southwest from Fort
Leavenworth, and dozen men bear
ing rifles. An order to surrender was
met with defiance, and Lewis, un-
armed and practically surrounded,
darted for the nearest opening. He
had gone scarcely hundred yards
when a bullet from Winchester in
the hands of one of his pursuers
pierced his lung from behind and
brought him to the ground. Bleeding
and fatally wounded, Lewis was taken
to the marshal's office and cared for,
while Warden McClaughrey was noti-
fed.
Three distinct gangs of convicts
have been reported at points within Is
miles around Topeka since last night,
and although a horde of penitentiary
n IL &C. E.
have been on the go all day, night
fell with only one capture, that of
Lewis, reported.
From the descriptions received
Warden McClaughrey believes that the
two captors of Sheriff Cook were
Arthur Hewitt, white, and Lon
Switzerland, part Indian. Hewitt,
with Frank Thompson, negro, were
ringleaders in the outbreak, and the
warden yesterday announced a reward
for their capture. Hewitt and South
erland were both serving five-year
sentences for larceny. Hewitt is 23
years of age, while Switzerland is
about is.
At $50 o'clock this evening a mes
sage was received at the penitentiary
stating that Thompson, with three
other convicts, had been traced to
near Council Grove this afternoon
and was being followed closely.
The officials at Topeka, both coun-
ty and city, are filled with revenge at
being foiled at Pauline, and are bend
ing every energy to overhaul these
particular convicts, who they pro-
fess to believe are in hiding about 30
miles from the scene where yester-
days exciting epiode was laid.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
BRIEF MENTION.

A young man named VIM. Moose
had his leg broken in a football game
at Conway.
]. c. Philan. aged 72, and Mrs. Ar.
tie Christian. aged Sc. were married
at Greenwood November 6.
The Fort Scott, Kan, football team
defeated the state university team al
Fayetteville by a score of II to 6.
Circuit Judge Rowe, of Sebastian
county, holds that the vehicle tax ordi
nance of Fort Smith is unconstitutional.
The grand jury Of Jefferson county
failed to indict Meyer Solmson for the
killing Of Carl Stubblefield. the evi
dence showing that Solmson acted ir
Self-defense.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
STRUCK A SUNKEN ICEBERG.
The Lynn Canal Steamer City of To-
peka Has a Narrow Escape
from Destruction.

Seattle, Wash, Nov. 12.-The Lynn
canal steamer City of Topeka steamed
slowly in the harbor, yesterday
morning, without passengers or cargo.
and with her stem bent and gaping
hole near the load line. The steamel
collided with a sunken iceberg in
Taku bay on the up trip on the
night of November 9. A binding snow
storm was raging at the time, and
when the shock came some of the
passengers, thinking the ship was GO
ing down, made frantic attempts to
get into the life boats. 1t was sool
found that although several iron
plates were broken through there
was no immediate danger.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
SAVED FROM DEATH BY FIRE.
Thrilling Rescue of Over u Score of Women
and Girls From n Burning
Corset Factory.

Cleveland, o., Nov. ia fire which
destroyed NJ. o. Stone & Co.'S build
ing at 46 and 4s Euclid avenue, yes
terday afternoon, was attended by
the thrilling rescue Of over n score of
women and girls who were employed
on the fifth floor, in Mrs. Graham's .
corset factory.
When the fire broke out all the girls
made a rush for the lre escapes and
ladders. The fire spread so rapidly
however, that they could not use the
ire escapes, and it seemed that many
of them must perish. Ladders were
quickly sent up, however, and all but
three of the women were taken from
the windows and carried to safety by
tiremen. Three who could not be
rescued, including Mrs. Graham,
jumped from the fifth-story windows
into nets held by the firemen below.
When taken to the hospital, Mrs.
Graham was founo 20 nave been fatal
ly hurt, her side having been
crushed in, her spine fractured and
an arm broken. She died at the hos
pital last night.
Other occupants cf the building i'm
jured were Miss jeanette Stratton,
who jumped from the second story
and sustained broken hip. She will
recover. Kate Mulcahy, who jumped
from the third story, received spinal
injuries and broken leg.
NJ. 0. Stone 81 Co., shoe dealers
and owners of the building, suffered
loss of about $4,000, and the jewelry
firm of Armstein Bros. d. Mer, oc-
cupying the second floor, sustained n
loss of about $4,000. Eighty per cent,
of these losses are covered by insur-
ance.
DR.. Dowd, dentist, and Chestnut
Bros, photographers, were other ten
ants, and their loss is total. Lieut..
Granger of Co. 27, Farrell English,
of Co. 2, and superintendent of ma
chinery Reicllert were ncapacitated
by reason of injuries received.
The stores of Fueldheim Bros, shoe
dealers, and Goodhart & Co., furni-
ture dealers, adjoining the Stone
store, were considerably damaged by
smoke and water.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
DESTRUCTIVE FLAMES.
Sixty-TwO Buildings Burned and
One Hundred Families Rendered
HOmeIess-Other Bad Fires.

Parsons, w. Va, Nov. 13.-Fire at
Thomas, in this county, yesterday de-
stroyed 62 buildings and left over 100
families homeless. The post office,
many stores and 30 houses belonging
to the Davis Coal Co. are in ruins,
and the loss is estimated at from $780,
900 to 100000. One life is reported
to have been lost. The heavy wind
made fighting the fire impossible, and
all the destruction was wrought in
three hours time. The fire started
by the explosion of a lamp in the
Giesberger hotel.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15

The ST. Louis and Memphis Railway
Company last week filed its map and
profile with the secretary of state. The
road is to run through Mississippi
county through Blytheviile to Luxora,
in a southern direction, wholly in that
county. Permission was given at a
meeting of the state board of railway
incorporators for the consolidation of
the st. Louis. Caruthersville and Mem
phis, the Memphis and st. Louis Rail-
way companies and the first named
road under the name of the ST. Louis
and Memphis. The road is now built
to Blytheville, and authority was
granted to extend to Luxora, distance
of nineteen miles.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
THE DEADLY FIRE DAMP.
Responsible for the Death of Three
Miners in an Explosion at
Steubenville, q.

Steubenville, o., Nov. 12.-Three
lives were lost at the La Pelle iron
works yesterday morning. The miners
after being flooded for years are be-
ing reopened. Just as James Robert
son, Edward Simpson and William Van
Dine were let down the shaft, there
was an explosion of gas or fire damp.
When the flash came up the shaft the
engineer raised the cage through the
flames, and in it were the bodies of
Robertson and Simpson. The body Of
Van Dine has not been recovered.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
FOUR CHINAMEN ARRESTED.
They Are Said to Have Come In in
Violation of the Chinese Ex-
cIusiOn LAW.

New York, Nov. 12.-Four china
men were arrested in Jersey City on
complaint of a Chinese inspector of
immigration, who alleges that they
were brought into the country in yio-
lation of the Chinese exclusion act. Ii
is alleged that the prisoners were
rowed across the Niagara river from
Canada by man who was under con-
tract to deliver them in New York for
$3.50 a head.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
threatening swamp Fire.

Helena, Mont, Nov. 13.-Swamp fire
near Ovando, a small town a few
miles west of Helena, is endangering
the town. The fire has been burning
about a week. 1t is burning with
such persistency that it is believed to
be underlaid with coal which has be-
come ignited. Water has been turned
into the swamp with little effect on
the flames. A report from Ovando
says if the wind turns and blows the
fire towards the town it is doomed.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15

The Jefferson county grand jury, in
a report to the circuit Judge, stated
that they found Prosecuting Attorney
w. B. Sorrells guilty of "grossest
criminality." After filing the report
they asked to be dismissed by the
court. Judge Grace directed them to
return to the grand jury room and
amend their report, stating in detail
what the "grossest criminality" con-
sisted of. He refused to receive the
report.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
SURRENDERS IN sAMAR.
The Cutting on of Supplies IL Hav-
ing It's Effect.

Catbalogan, Island of Samar, Nov.
12.-The insurgents are focking
northward. They are suffering great
ly from famine. Many isolated bolo-
men have surrendered. Only fear,
caused by Lukban's proclamation,
threatening with death those who
surrender, prevents a general submis-
sion of the insurgents, but it is ex-
pected that this will be secured in q
few days,
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
NEW GOVERNOR OF SHAN TUNG
Not Much is Known in Washington
OF the Personality of Chan
Yen Ting.

Washington, Nov. 12.-It is under.
stood here that Chan Yen Ting has
been appointed to succeed Yuan Shi
Kai as governor of the Chinese
province of Shan Tung. Not much is
known here of Chan's personality,
save that he is civil service man and
not a soldier. He is understood, also,
to have been appointed director of
transportation, a very important post
in China.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
Frank Thompson Captured.

Topeka, Kas., Nov. 12.-Frank
Thompson, the negro leader of the
mutiny at the federal prison, was
captured last evening near Council
Grove by posse under Deputy Unit
ed States Marshal Prescott, after a
hard fight. Thompson was slightly
wounded in the head. None of the
posse was injured.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
Suspect Under Arrest.

A man supposed to be Butch Cassidy
is under arrest at Hot Springs, sus.
pected of being an accomplice In the
holdup of a train in Montana last
July. The man was seen with wo-
man and a man, now under arrest in
st. Louis, on the same charge, the
trio spending several weeks at the
springs. squandering money freely.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15
Berlin, Md. burned.

Berlin, Md, Nov. 13.-The business
portion of this town was practically
destroyed by fire early yesterday.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
The Forrest City times., 1901-11-15

Marshalltown, Ia, Nov. 13.-Fire
yesterdayTtotally destroyed the plant
of the Marshall Oil Co. Loss, $780,
900; insurance. $4,000.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-10-25
THE NEWS In IOWA
ROB ALLISON TREASURY.
safe blowers Get One Hundred Doaars
From County Treasury.

FROM County Treasury.
Allison, Oct ...,.-A daring roDoers
was committed here 1T :; o'clock a. M,
the safe in the county treasurer
Office being blown open and about
500 stolen. The court house IS sit
uated at some distance from any
other building and the only person
sleeping there MAS Louis Busse,
prisoner confined III the lali below.
Busse saws that between two ana
three o'clock he was awakened by a
noise in the hallway above the jail,
On gaining entrance to the treas
nrer's Office by battering in the door
Russe says they worked rapidly and
quietly. They cut off the ends OF the
riyets in the door of the safe, poured
in nitro-glycerine. lighted the fuse
and ran to the south end of the build
ing until after the explosion.
The explosion was heard by num-
Der in town but none thought serl-
ously of it and the alarm was not
given until about seven O'Clock IN
the morning when .lailer Lincoln
brought the prisoner his breakfast.
He immediately gave the alarm and
1t developed that horse had been
stolen OF III. c. Parsons.
An examination of the office showed
that the stove was broken and the
windows shattered. the side door
demo lished and the money gone.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-10-25
TO SHOOT BRITISH OFFICERS.
Trans vaai Plan of Reprisals Said to Have
Been Agreed Upon

New DIRK, Oct. 23.--The Vienna cor
respondent of the London Times and
the New York Times quotes the Pes
ter Lloyd, which says it learns from
the Hague that Mr.. Kruger, DR.. Leyds
and Messrs. Vessels, Wolmarans and
Fischer have held council of war at
Villa Caracasa to consider what an
swer is to be made by the Beers to
the executions in South Africa. All
present at the meeting except Mr..
Kruger, says the report, advised i'm
mediate reprisals-that for every
Boer prisoner executed a captured
British officer be shot. Mr.. Kruger
opposed this plan on the ground he
did not wish to give the campaign the
characte of war between savages.
although it had already become a
war Of eXtermina ton.