The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1903-12-11

The Panama canal treaty was
signed at Washington on the I'd
inst.
New England cotton spinners
announce that the price Of cotton
goods viii be advanced.
President Roosevelt has refused
to withdraw the nomination of Gen.
Wood to be a brigadier general.
A bitter fractional fight has been
brought about in France by the re-
opening of the famous Dreyfus
case.
American Jews are now forbidden
to enter Russie without special per-
NIT from the interior minister of
that country.
Martial law has been declared in
the Cripple Greek mining district
and by the military will now deal
with all offenders.
One hundred and fourteen fine
draft horses were cremated in a fire
which destroyed the barns of a st.
Louis transfer company.
Judge Parker's friends claim he
will have the solid delegation from
New York state at the next nation
al democratic convention.
Five ex-city officials of Grand
Rapids, Mich, have confessed to
receiving brides for voting for an
ordinance granting the municipal
water supply franchise.
It is generally believed that SEN
ltor Hanna will decline reelection
as chairman of the national repub-
lican committee, owing to the heavy
strain of the duties on his health.
The problem Of securing electric
al energy direct from the eombus-
ton of fuel without the interyen-
ton of power to oscillate the dyna-
mo or of the action of chemicals
and metals has been accomplished
by James H. Reid Of Newark. n. J.,
according to his pretensions and the
assent Of number Of electrical en-
gineers and scientists.
The annual report Of Admiral H.
c. Taylor, chief of the bureau of
navigation, recommends the creation
of general staff in the navy, the
appointment of two vice admirals,
one for the Asiatic station and one
for the North Atlantic station; a
material increase in the number of
officers and the addition of num-
Der of ships to the navy.
Now that practically all Of this
seasons crop has beeen marketed,
the spectators have forced prices
up to Is and IA cents per pound.
However the producer this year has
received good prices and are in bet
ter condition than in many a day.
The government department of ag-
riculture estimates the present crop
at less than 100000 bales.
Fred Strube, a young white man,
arrested at Macon, Mo-, has con-
fessed to the murder Of Miss Alice
Henniger, which crime was commit
ted on the night of November IA
last few miles from Havana, I'll.
Strube had accompanied his victim
IN a buggy to party, and while re-
turning home he spoke of the cold
manner in which she had treated
him since becoming acquainted
with another man. When the girl
told Strube that she could never
marry him, he picked up a wrench
that lay in the buggy and crushed
her skull with repeated blows. He
then took the body from the buggy
and partially concealed it in q
Geld, where it was found the next
day. The murderer is but 20 years
Of age and his victim was but 10.
The effect of the Bristow report is
said to be that there will be no con-
gressional investigation of postal
frauds, and Perry Heath will retire
as secretary of the national republic
can committee.
The receivers of the Zion City in
dustries controlled by Alexander