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Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29
ENTERTATNS AT CARDS.

Mrs. J. L. Jones entertained the Smart Set and number of invited guests Saturday afternoon at the home of Mrs. w. R. Thompson. Cards was the diversion of the afternoon, at which Miss Lucy Brandenburg won the first prize, and Mrs. J. H. McHugh the consolation, Miss Hazel Jones being the score keeper.
 Dainty refreshments of sandwiches, chicken salad, pickles, coffee and salted almonds were nicely served.
 Those present were Mesdames o. D. Watson, W. " McMinn, w. R. Thompson, Wm. Bailey, T. E. Morri- son, Lacy Tilghman, Clyde Wood, Gus Martin, T. E. Allen, Ed Wilmans, J. H. McHugh, Robt. Cox of Little Rock; Misses Mary Laird, Roberta and Nan nie Morrison, Ray and Lucy Branden- burg, Lou Minor, Lula Empie, Mabel Stayton and Bessie Buford.
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29
TRAINING FOR RACE.

The men selected by the Fire De- plrtment to make the race against Cowboy w. A Smith Tuesday night at the opera house are taking a course of training and expect to maintain a far better average than that of the local athletes in the first race
 It may be of interest to the public to know that s. H. Jackson, who gained several laps upon the champ ion walker in the last mile of the oth- CT race will again measure strides with the visitor.
 J. E. Doherty, manager of the opera house, has offered two silver cups as first and reeond prizes to be awarded the contestants, who make the best time for single miles.
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29
RIVER IMPROVEMENT
 WORK WILL CONTINUE.

The disaster which befell the dam here month ago, soon after it's com pletion by the Government forces, in the washing out of the bank around the abutment, will result in nothing more serious than the delay that must attend the repairing of the break, says the Batesville Guard. The cause of the disaster is well under stood to be the direct result of false economy in the construction of the abutment. Happily, there is plenty of money to repair the damage, and this will be done as promptly as the con dition of the river, now at the high water season, will allow
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29
POLES LAID TO WALNUT RIDGE


 The long distance telephone reached Walnut Ridge with their poles Wed nesday. The present plan is to have the central office in the Less block, and night and day service is prom ised This will require the services of two ladies and one man. A local system will be put in here, 42 instru- ments having been subscribed for. The end of the wire at present is at Tuckerman, and it will probably be a month before the service will be in operation, as four wires have to be stretched. Then you can talk to Gal weston or New York. B. A. Miller is the gentlemanly foreman of construc- tion Walnut Ridge Blade.
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29
RESPONSIBLE FOR EXPLOSION.

Hot Springs, Dec. 27. Responsible ity for the explosion which occurred in the Turf Exchange pool room We'd nesday evening, and resulted in the death of Billy Helwig of this city and c. R. Donnelly of Chicago and injuries 10 more than forty persons, was
 harged to several parties tonight by
 he coroner's jury, which held an in- Quest over Helwig's remains. The .ury returned the following verdict;
 We, the jury empaneled to investi- gate into the cause and manner of death of Billy Kelxig, find that he came to his death in the explosion caused from the careless handling of high proof gasoline in the Turf Ex- change pool room, and that the re- sponsibility of the explosion is placed upon the Waters Pierce Oil Company, the Arkansas Gas and Light Company and Leo Mayer and Eddie Burke of New York, proprietors of the pool room, each being responsible through their employes.o
 Many civil actions are expected to follow the finding of the verdict Many members of the local bar were present at the examination, while ex Attorney General E. B. Trustworthy of Little Rock represented the gas and light company.
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29
IF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
 HAD FLOWED NORTH

The Rhine is less than nine hundred miles long, and the Danube less than two thousand The length of the longest river in Irdia is two thousand, three hundred miles, and the longest in Asia is three thousand three hun dred and twenty. The Nile is four thousand and sixty two; it affords, however, only seven hundred and thirty miles of continuous navigation from it's mouth. You may take a steamboat from the mouth of the Mis- sissippi and pass up three thousand, nine hundred miles from the Gulf, as far as from New York across the Atlantic to the Strait of Gibraltar, across the Mediterranean and the Egean Sea to Asia Minor, and up the Dardanelles to Constantinople, and then you will have to disembark and walk four hundred miles, if you wish to equal the distance that would have to be travelled to reach the head waters of the river.
 What if this "Father of Waters, ? like the Nile, had flowed north instead of south, and, like the Red River of the North, had emptied into the Arctic Ocean instead of the Gulf? Commer- cially speaking, it would have cut off this great river system from the world, would have made the Isthmian Canal useless to the Mississippi Valley, and would have spread annual devastation throughout it's course, because the floods of spring from the southern portion of the river would have poured down upon the northern while the latter was still ice- bound. Tilting the basin of the Mississippi only few hundred feet would have made all this vast difference. Josiah Strong, in the January Success
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29
GOVERNOR TO BE ELIMINATED.

Little Rock, Dec. 27.-It is now vir- tually settled that the coming legisla
 ture will pass an act providing for the erection of new state capitol. There is considerable talk about the passage of 8 bill that will insure the building of the state house on the plans now owned by the state and that commission will be created by the bill and provision made that will take from the governor any voice whatever in the acts of the commis- sion or in the filling of vacancies that may occur in the membership thereof.
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29
NUMBER 216
sLANDERIEG A POLICEMA N.

Eureka Sprigns, Ark, Dec. 27 Mrs. s. A. McHall, for twenty five years resident of Kansas City, was arrested here last night for slandering q policeman. At the hearing this morning she was charged with accus- ing the policeman of shadowing and otherwise annoying her. The case was dismissed. Mrs McHall, who is a large land owner and reported to be wealthy, is suffering with nervous prostration.
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29
Eupion Oil

When buying Illuminating oil insist on having EUPIoN, the family safety This is a double distilled process oil that is oDoRLEss and absolutely safe If you will use clean burners and ,,wicks and EUPIoN OIL you will have best light obtainable The only merchants in Newport that sell this high grade oil are Wolf-Goldman Mere. Co.,, w. B. Chastain, Wilmans Bros, R. D. Wilmans, Heiliger's Union Market Co.,, Martin Bros, liar ris & Daugherty l. c DaVaul and o. M. Bowen.
 Waters-Pierce Oil Comp'y
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29
FRISCO LOOKING SOUTH.

New Orleans, La, Dec. 27.-B. F. Yoakum, president of the St. Louis & San Francisco, which is supposed to be seeking an entrance to New Or leans, having recently purchased the Louisiana & Arkansas railroad, arriv ed here to night. B. L. Winchell, vice president and general manager will arrive tomorrow. Their visit is of the greatest importance, but Mr. Yoakum was not ready tonight to sub : init to an interview. He absolutely declined to see reporters.
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29
REED SHOT FOR
 REFUSING TO TREAT.

Matt Reed, negro was shot on Christmas day at the saw mill of B. F. Hogan near Kenyon, for refusing to give H. Palmer drink of whiskey The latter threatened the former be- cause he refused and both made a a rush for firearms.
 Reed received a flesh wound, one shot passing through his arm and side. Though no arrest had been made, it was expected that Palmer would be given a hearing before Justice Wolf of Bird Township, Monday.
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29
TRIP OVER ROUTE.

c. s. Jackson, president of the Morning Star Railroad and George E Duy, also interested in the conssruc- tion of that road, arrived Saturday noon and on Sunday morning left for trip over the survey, which crosses White river at this city and runs through Jackson, Independence, Stone, Baxter and Marion counties to Rush, where the company holds leases on valuable mines.
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29
-> -n . U~---e @s- ROCK ISLAND SURVEY.

Malvern, Dec. 27 A party of Rock Island engineers and assistants, mum bering about twenty, arrived here early this week. They established camp on the Gammel place, and have since begun the survey of a line for the southern extension of the Hot Springs Railroad as contemplated by the Rock Island.
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29
LOCAL HOLIDAY
EXCURSION RATES

The Choctaw, Oklahoma x Gulf R R. will sell holiday excursion tickets locally at one fare for the round trip December "A, 25 and 31, 1909, and Jan uary I, 1903, limited for the return un til January ?, 1903.
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29
GUNNEL- SMITH.

Will Gunnel of Lake County, Ten nessee, was on Monday noon married to Miss Cora Smith of near Auvergne by Justice L. B. Harris at his resi- dence.
 They left Monday afternoon for the groom's home in Tennessee.
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29

Just received a new shipment of Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pens, the best fountain pen on the market Guaranteed to give perfect satisfac- ton. I. D. Price, sole agent. 193 btf
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29
RAILROAD HAPPENINGS.

A pleasant Christmas greeting to employees was sent over the wires by President B. F. Yoakum, of the Fris- co, as follows: ''I wish you all mer- ry Christmas, and take this oppor- tunity of thanking you for your hearty cooperation, which has made the Frisco what it is todayn
 BIZ. Yoakum.
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29

The Brotherhood of Railway Train men and the Order of Railway Con- ductors are preparing to make de- mand for a 20 per cent increase in wages on all roads west of the Missis sippi river. These two orders include the conductors, brakemen and switch- men. A great many of the Northern and Eastern roads have been increas- ing the wages of the railroad em- ployes, and it is very probable that the two orders will be granted an in crease i'll wages on the Western roads. This will affect all the roads which enter Little Rock and a large number of men will be concerned.
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29

Two passenger coaches of the Ma tional Railroad of Mexico, passed through the Iron Mountain yards Sat urday. The coaches are vestibuled and we'll furnished inside, but are much inferior to first-class coaches used in this part of the country N. Poplar Bluff Citizen.
Newport daily independent., 1902-12-29
DO TT NOW

Have your watch repaired at the Palace Jewelry Store. 202 btf
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-06-14

grow In that farthest west, which is the I'm.
memorial east. The shadow of our destiny
ma mas already reached to the shores of Asia.
1 ne might OF our people already looms large
against the world horizon, and it will loom
ever larger as the years go by. No states
man mas right to neglect the interests Of
our people in the Pacific; interests which are
important to all our people, but which are
OF most Importance to those of our people
VINO have built populous and thriving states
On the western slope of our continent.
Not Party Question.
This should no more be a party question
than the war Of the Union should have been
party question. At this moment the man
In highest Office in the Philippine Islands Is
as vice governor, General Luke Wright of
tennessee, who CALAMITY wore the gray in
the civil War and who Is now working hand
In hand with the head Of our army in the
philippines, Adna Chaffee, who in the Civil
War CALAMITY wore the blue. Those two
and the men under them, from the North
and from the South, III civil life and In mill
tary life, as teachers, as administrators, as
soldiers, are laboring nightly for US who
live at home. Here and there black sheep
are to be found among them, but taken as q
whole they represent as high a standard OF
public service as this country has ever seen.
They areFdoing great work@for civilization.
great work for the honor and the interest
OF this nation, and above all for the welfare
OF the inhabitants Of the Philippine Islands.
All honor to them, and shame, thrice shame,
to US If we fail to uphold their handsl
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-06-14
Brief State Hanneninps.

A young child of Burton Bingham at
Rockton swallowed carbolic acid and
died.
J. D. Beebe is at the head of com
pany being organized for the manufac-
ture Of automobiles in Racine.
John Slovick, years Of age, was in
stantly killed in Marinette by falling Off
wagon. His head was crushed.
A passenger train on the Wisconsin
Central was wrecked near Rugby juno
ton. All the cars We're derailed but no
one was killed.
Albert Weisenborn of Grand Rapids
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head while his wife was sit
ting on his lap.
Charles Ward of Chippewa Fails re-
ceived a terrible cut about the head and
face. which will badly disfgure him. y
wagon load of glass windows fell on him.
James Young, an Indian, living near
Mountain, killed thirteen wolves in two
days and received the bounty for their
scalps, which amounted to $7S.
A steam roller in operation at Eau
Claire crushed to death the 3-year-old
daughter of H. 2. Erickson of the Nc
Donough Manufacturing Company.
Two mad dogs were discovered in the
town of Freedom. Several children and
dogs have been bitten and there is grave
fear of an epidemic of hydrophobia.
A telegram from Postmaster General
Payne to Secretary John NJ. True of the
Wisconsin Board Of Agriculture an
nounces positively that President Roose-
Welt will spend Wednesday, Sept. "a, in
Milwaukee.
A rupture has developed in Christ
Episcopal Church, Eau Claire, between
the rector, Rev. J. F. Milbank, and the
members, who object to high church cere-
monies and to the frankness of the rec
tor in pulpit utterances.
David Whitman, a motorman on the
Oshkosh-Eeenah Interurban Electric
Railway, was instantly killed by a shock
from a live wire. An electric light wire
had fallen across the trolley wire and
Whitman tried to break the former off
with switch iron.
The business men and farmers living
in Greenwood and surrounding country
have organized the Central Clark County
Advancement Association, for the pur-
pose Of advertising the advantages Of
that section of Clark County, and to aid
in securing new industries for the town.
Rev. J. W. Frizzel and Rev. L. c.
Grant made tour of the saloons in Eau
Claire and found number open after IL
O'Clock, the hour prescribed by ordinance
for closing. They addressed civic rally
at the First Congregational Church the
next night on the alleged non-enforce-
ment Of the law.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-06-14
Choate and a Tuft Hunter

Ambassador Choate has a particular
aversion for the tuft-hunting American
who fourishes in Europe and never
misses an opportunity to make court
eous but effective dig at him. A short
time ago Mr.. Choate was a guest in a
country house at which a particularly
offensive specimen Of the genus Anglo
maniac was also staying. Over the nuts
and wine one evening this gentleman
narrated with much glee the story of
how he had once met Queen Alexandra
driving in an open barouche while a
storm was raging and no shelter in
sight. The chiyalrous American, ac-
cording to his own story, Immediately
handed his umbrella to her majesty, re-
ceived In turn a grateful bow, and then
trudging home in the rain. He ended
up by remarking:
''In the old days man would have
been knighted for doing that"
On Mr.. Choate's features one Of those
benignant smiles for which he is
Justly celebrated, says the New York
Times, slowly perfected itself.
"Ah,' he said, land 1 suppose, If you
had been knighted, you would have
chosen an umbrella for your coat OF
arms, with the motto, Pour la Refine "
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-06-14
MARK AND THE EMPEROR.
Humorist Tells of One Kind of Person
He Does Not Like.

Humorist Tells of One Kind of Person
He Does Not Like.
In an article In the North American
Love a Lord" Mark Twain tells the
following story:
Once l was received in private audi
ence by an emperor. Last week was
telling q jealous person about 1t, and
I could see him vince under 1t, see 1t
bite, see him suffer. revealed the
whole episode to him with considera-
BILE elaboration and nice attention to
detail. When was through he asked
me what impressed me most. said:
::His majesty's delicacy. They told
me to be sure and back out from the
presence, and find the door knob the
best I could; 1t was not allowable to
face around. Now, the emperor knew
it would be a difficult ordeal for ME,
because Of lack of practice; and so,
when it was time to part, he turned,
with exceeding delicacy, and pretended
to tumble with things en- his desk, so
that l could get out in my own way,
without his seeing me-"
It went home! It was vitriol! / saw
the envy and disSruntlement rise In
the mans face; he couldn't keep it
down. saw him trying to fix up some
thing in his mind to take the bloom off
that distinction. I enjoyed that, for
judged that he had his work cut out
for him. He struggled along inwardly
for quite a while; then he said, with
the manner Of person who has to say
something and hasn't anything rele-
want to say:
"You said he had a handful Of spe-
cial brand cigars lying on the tables"
Eyes; 1 never saw anything to match
them"
had him again. He had to tumble
around in his mind as much as anoth-
er minute before he could play; then
he said in as mean way as I ever
heard person say anything:
Gle could have been counting the eli
CARS, you know"
I cannot endure man like that. 1t
is nothing to him how unkind he is, so
long as he takes the bloom off. It Is
all he cares for.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-06-14
{z:A{5S;:::;;c SIDE @;
The News -
by Spain
Lucky we don't have to eat coal.

Lucky we don't have to eat coal.
Hailstone stories double in size for
each hundred miles they travel.
Down in Martinique they are suffering
principally for the things that money
cannot buy.
Mount Pelee is not yet in a mood that
would encourage basket picnics on its
shady slopes.
In the coal situation all is quiet. The
coal dealers are putting up the price as
noiselessly as possible.
That Franco-Russian alliance has to be
kept pumped full of mutual compliments
to make it run smoothly.
Considering that their cause has been
regarded as wreck for some time, the
Beers saved a lot out Of it.
Cuba is shifting for itself, but it would
not be safe for any of the big boys to
throw stones at it, just the same.
Several weeks Of talk about the Philip
pines gave the Senate a glorious chance
to rub the mold off its stock Of platitudes.
About year ago Kansas was suffering
from drought Now no Kansas homo
Is considered well equipped without q
boat.
Martinique might be sufficiently row.
DIV island to keep the worlds anarchists
amused if they were to be colonized
there.
Doubtless the wretchedly poor walk
ing between Martinique and solid ground
Is what keeps the inhabitants of the ISL
and from going where they could read
about the volcano.
A Michigan man who had not learned
TO spell in his youth left 100000 for
home for Indignant" women. The fe-
male portion of his heirs are now prepsr-
ed to prove that they are Indignant,
they having been cut cut by the viii.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-06-14
SDeaking Italics.

A piece of parliamentary repartee
quite as good as the famous retorts In
the House Of Commons and our Con-
gress comes from a New England uni
versity. Two students, ranged against
each other in debate, grew very warm
and took to commenting on each
others oratorical manner. One Of
them spoke with much emphasis, let
ting the stress of his voice fall ex-
plosive1y on certain passages.
His opponent opened his speech by
saying, my friend on the negative
thinks to win this debate by speaking
acknowledgements and italics"
The other could do nothing at the
moment to turn the laugh which this
speech raised, but when his turn came
he 'got back" at his opponent with
this retort:
"My friend on the affirmative says l
sneak italics. l should say that he
uses italics in the way they are used
in the English Bible, not to emphasize,
but to mark what is not original and
inspired"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-06-14

ness, while population without lands is
bowling mob.
In support Of his argument that agri-,
culture is the basis of commerce the
president of the Great Northern Railway
and his men in the Northern Securities
Company called attention to the need Of
material aid to irrigation. He compar-
ed railroads to schools and religion as
among the great educators of the people.
He said:
''For the first time in the history Of
this country thousands of our farmers
ere seeking homes in the Canadian North
west, owing to the cheap lands offered
in that country and to the difficulty Of
securing such lands in the United States.
"a wise system Of irrigation by the
general government can be made not only
self-sustaining but a source of income.
Lands that without irrigation are given
away or sold at a nominal price can be
sold as fast as they are furnished with
water at $40 an acre or upward and the
cost would be little, if anything, more
than half that sum-"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-06-14

lie attention. Her desire to escape it is
honest, and she resorts to many subter-
fuges to avoid it. For nineteen years
she has been living in the little village
of Central Valley, about fifty miles from
New York, where her husband taught
school. Mr.. and Mrs. Palma have six
children, and they are indeed happy
family. Mrs. Palma would not have ex-.
changed her simple New York home for
the palace at Havana were it not for the
devotion Of her husband to the island
for whose freedom he struggled as an
unselfsh patriot, being finally driven out
by Spain.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-06-14
Kills Himself with Rifle,

Adelbert Shaw, for years bookkeeper
for the A. A. Bigelow Company Of
Washburn, and one of the best known
citizens, was found dead with rifle bull
let wound through his head. The coro-
ner's jury returned a verdict of suicide
while temporarily insane.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-06-14

@ u b a n republic.
Mrs. Palma is a
woman of simple
tastes. She is still
the loving wife of
the country school
master, and she
does not seem to
think that the 20
litical honors thrust
upon her husband
entitle her to hold
her head any high
err. Mrs. Palma
chripkc from pi,b-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-06-14
She Had.

Blanche-Did she give Cholly any en-
couragement2
May-Yes; she said she might not OBJ
iect to a man with more money than
brains,-Puck.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-06-14

w. B. Morgan, the only survivor of the
explosion in Fraterville mine at Coal
Creek, Tenn, was blown 1,400 feet to
the mouth Of the mine, where he was
found. He was in two previous mine dis
asters, of one Of which he was also sole
survivor. His leg was shattered, his
back sprained, and he was injured about
the head.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-06-14
Life Sentence for Murder.

Joseph Minett was sentenced for life
to the State prison, at Waupun for the
murder of John Mulaney. When taken
before Judge Benlden of the Circuit
Court in Racine for sentence he pleaded
guilty and asked the judge to be lenient
with him, as he was drunk when he COM
mitted the crime.