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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-05-07

league and the leading citizens, and
arrange to show the party as much
attention as possible. The details
Of the program will be left entirely
that Pine Bluff will do it's full share
ef properly entertaining its visitors
4 would offer one suggestion, how
ever. These men are largely inter
ested in farm lands and will there
fore want to see as much of the cOun-
try as possible. | do not believe you
could entertain them better than by
arranging for drive into the coun-
try to enable them to get an idea
of the character of the country around
Pine Bluff
please advise me at once of what
ever steps you take towards caring
for this party and keep me posted as
to the progress of your efforts. Yours
truly, W. G.. DUNLAP,
"Secretary-Tr Treasurer
Pine Bluff should leave nothing un-
done to make the finest impression
possible on the people composing this
party of land buyers. 1t would mean
much to get fifty or one hundred per-
sons desirous to purchase Jefferson
county land. It would not only mean
a market for real estate, but it would
of crops, which has become a neces-
sity in this county that should be
given every attention. The Graphic
is willing to aid in the movement in
every way possible.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-05-07

some fellow takes full at Gannaway's
grocery store. on South Main street.
Last night the thief entered the store
by boring holes in the door until he
could reach his hand in and unlock the
door. The rest was plain sailing The
thief seemed anxious to get into the
safe and hammered the lock nearly
beyond service, but after hard work
and many trials the safe was opened
this morning. Some hams, candy and
canned goods were all that were ta-
ken.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-05-07

list of bids were filed and a copy of
each given to the Graphic by the agent
of the postoffice department who came
here tc look into the site matter, one
of them was as follows:
81. P. Scull and F. X Scull north
east corner Walnut street and Second
avenue, 152 by 100 feet, $4,000"
cision in the matter has been received
here SO far as the Graphic has been
able to learn, except the telegram to
the Globe-Democrat, and that seems
to be considerably "bulled.'
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-05-07
Federal Building Site Selected

The postoffice department at Wash
ington has selected site for a fed
eral building at Pine Bluff A Wash
ington telegram to the ST. Louis
Globe-Democrat says:
.sThe Pine Bluff site is at the north
east corner of Walnut street and Sec
ond avenue. It is owned by w. N.
Trulock, and he wants $4,000 for a
plot 120x154 feet"
The site at the northeast corner of
Second avenue and Walnut street is
owned by l.: P. and F. K. Scull, and
Mr.. Trulock is their agent. When the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-05-07

court and before being sentenced by
the judge, he apologized to the court
and said he had never seen Judge
Grace in a gambling house and sim.
ply meant to convey by his answer
that he (Altheimer) was not con-
slant frequenter of gambling houses,
but occasionally dropped in, as many
other men do.
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IN sociETY's REALM

Quite picnic party spent the day
Wednesday with Mrs. Floyd Jarvis at
Noble Lake. Those present were
Mesdames G. A. Habner, C. w. May
field, w. w Alexander, T. A. Ward,
Harry Trulock, w. H. Bennett. A. B.
Hunter, of New Madrid, Mo-; Misses
Camille Hunter. New Madrid; Ii uine
Habner, Pauline Bennitt, Mildred .Iay-
field
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Successful Revival,

DR.. j. M. Hawley has returned from
Lake Village, where he and Rev. O..
J. Beardslee held a series of revival
meetings. The doctor reports having
splendid meeting There were
several additions to the church and
the old members had a good warming
I'm
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-05-07
Meeting Of Veterans.

7 Ed Murray camp of the U. C. V.
viii rect at the courthouse at s p. m.
Friday. and it is desired that full
atteneance te present, as much busf-
ness Of int crest will come up relative
70 the New Orleans reunion.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-05-07
Purchase of Convict Supplies.

Joe c. Moore. of Little Rock, was
in the city yesterday. He is the
financial agent for the state peniten-
shipment Of feed and provisions for
the convict farm at the Cummings
place. The purchase was made at
the Sennett commission and provision
firm, and amounted to a considerable
sum-
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MYSTERIOUS DEATH

OF Negro Woman on the p. G. Jen.
kins Place.
A woman of the name of Caledonia
Thomas, living on the P. G. jenkins
place, was found dead this morning at
her home. Her husbands nar1e is Alb
raham Thomas and they were ten
ants on the place. The cause of her
death is unknown. Coroner r. D.
McGaughy received notice today and
instructed J. G. Dalton, ]. p, to hold
an inquest.
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Pine Bluff May Secure
Another Large Oil Mill

A. H. D. Perkins and A. G.. Perkins,
i of Memphis, and both in the oil mill
: business, were in the city yesterday
the erection of an oil mill in Pine
= Bluff. They consider Pine Bluff a
good point, as hundreds of thousands
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-05-07
Circuit Court.

The prosecution against w. H. It'd.
we'll is on trial.
Robert Curtis, white, of Altheimer
pleaded guilty to grand larceny and
was sentenced to one year in the pen
itentiary.
Addie Chambers was fined 81 fol-
contempt for failing to appear.
The grand jury reported this morn.
ing with twenty-one true bills and
may adjourn Saturday.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-05-07

P. B. Malone was business visitor
to Dermott yesterday.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-05-07
MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPH C. BRECKlNRIDGE.

C.
Una the other with the
rank Of brleadier general The
retirement reached the limit
fol attr lie
tie of
the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-05-07

Gannaway's Store Robbed Again.
About every three or four weeks
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-05-07

of pounds of seed are marketed here
each season and the shipping facili-
ties are good. These gentlemen have
returned to Memphis to consider the
matter further before announcing any
determination as to what they will
do.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Flames destroyed 2S houses in the
suburbs of the city of Hull, Ont.
The doors of the Atlas Loan COM
pany. of ST. Thomas, Ont, were closed,
with liabilities of 100000.
Flames wiped out the village OF
Briggs Corner, n. b.
BY the sinking of the British steam
er Arequipa in the harbor of VAL
pariso over 100 persons lost their
lives.
Venezuelan revolutionists, who have
for over a year and half been fight
ing the government of President Cas-
tro, will petition the United States for
recognition as belligerents.
About 200 residents of Smerdash,
European Turkey, were murdered by
Bashi-Bazouks and their villages
burned after commandment.
A telegram from Consul McWade, at
Canton, says that over a million ma
tives in KwangSi, China, are starv-
ing.
At public execution Mayor Fran
cisco Sanchez, instigator of the as
sassination of Dupin and Courmont.
Frenchman. at Chilpaningo, Mexico,
has been shot dead.
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LATER NEWS.

College officials say women are sur
passing men in scholarship and honors
in institutions where coeducation ex-
lists.
Thomas W. McGregor and C. ELS
worth Upton, postal employees arrested
for alleged bribery, have been dis
missed from the service.
Bishop Mcdonnell, of Brooklyn, is
considering plan whereby the Roman
Catholic church in his diocese will in
sure its own property. a great saving
is calculated
The Hargfs-Cockrell feud in Breath
lit county, KY, dates back to the civil
war, and fresh outbreaks of assassina-
ton are feared in spite of militia guard
ing Jackson, which is now the center
of trouble.
Prof. w. II. H. Hart, of Howard uni
versity, and one of the most advanced
negro philanthropists, says education
is the only solution to the negro prob
lem. He does not blame the south for
all the troubles, and says it will take
long time to get results.
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THE EAST.

The building trades strike in New
York is practically ended and work
will be resumed at once. Drivers and
laborers get no concessions, and waive
union recognition.
Threats are made of another gen.
by the executive board at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, because of the operators refusal
to recognize the miners representa-
tfves on the Cancellation board, as
promised under the arbitration agree
ment.
Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed left per-
sonal property valued at $431 900, ac
cording to report filed by the APP
praisers at New York.
Decision upon a renewal of the
anthracite coal strike has been left
to a joint convention of miners to
meet at Pottsville, Pa. June IS.
A bronze statue of Garrett A. Hobart,
late vice president, erected in his
SonoE by friends, has been unveiled at
Paterson, n. J.
In the Adirondacks and New Eng
land forest fires are rapidly spreading
and timber worth millions of dollars is
being destroyed, with summer camps
and resorts.
New England is praying for rain to
check the forest fires that are sweep
ing from Maine to Connecticut.
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HEAVY FAILURE.
Eppinger az Co., of San Francisco.
Grain Dealers, Go Under, with
Liabilities of Over $1.OOO,OOO.

San Francisco. June S.-The firm of
Eppinger q Co., one Of the largest grain
dealing concerns in the world, with
connections in all the principal ports
of Europe, announced its insolvency
Saturday. The crash, although not al
together unexpected, was a surprise to
the ma ority of traders and for time
panicky conditions prevailed on the
local exchange. The money involved in
the failure, it is said, will mount to
more than million of dollars, while
the London. Paris and American bank,
the money house with which the firm
dealt and which precipitated the crash,
also is expected to lose heavily. Up
to the dissolution of the great combina-
ton, which controlled the grain bust
ness, charters, prices and contracts,
Eppinger & Co. were members of a COM
bination known as "The Big Four"
This combine, which was in control of
warehouses all over the state. notably
those of Port Costa, was dissolved
about six months ago. 1T has been the
custom of the concern, it is declared, to
advance considerable sums of money
to farmers throughout the state ON
wheat crops and it is thought that this
was done this year. Present reports
from the valleys are that the crops will
be comparative failures, and this has
had a depressing effect on the market.
The final crash was precipitated by
the London. Paris and American bank,
which within the last two or three days
made peremptory and heavy demands
on the firm of Erpinger & Co. The
obligations were pressing, and the firm
could not meet them. Therefore, no.
tice of Insolvency was sent to the ex-
change.
Henry Ach attorney for Eppinger &
Co., said Saturday afternoons: "At a
meeting of creditors held in my office
it was shown by the books of the firm
that the liabilities were in the neigh
borhood of $780, 900. The assets are
placed at 100000. Nearly all of the
creditors are partially or wholly Sc
cured"
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HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE.
CIoudburst I'm south Carolina Causes
Enormous DamaHc-DeRth
List over 100.

Spartanburg, S. c., June S.-The loss
of life in Saturdays cloudburst and the
resultant floods may reach $50, but the
more conservative estimates place it
somewhere around 40 or so. The total
property loss in the entire section laid
waste by the storm is likely to aggre
gate $4,000 900. The loss at Pacolet is
placed at 81 100000, summarized as fol-
lows: Mills Nos. 1 and 2 demolished,
5000 spindles wrecked, $500 bales of
cotton and 100000 worth of cloth
goods in company's store damaged;
grist mill, cotton gin, post office, shoe
shop, blacksmith shop, dental office,
livery stable and Presby terrain church
all washed away.
More than 500 people are homeless
and 1000 out of employment. There
was no wind and no damage except by
water. This fell in veritable torrents,
converting the surface of the earth
into sheer lake of raging water. Rail
road bridges were torn from stone and
iron piers, cotton mills were crushed
like straw before the food, and grist
mills and innumera BILE small industries
and cottages were wa shed away by the
angry waters.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-11
\ WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happenings OF a
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
ALI the Latest News of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.

The statement of the public debt
issued on the 1st shows that the debt
decreased $3,247,385 during the month
of May. Cash in the treasury, $780,
168,807. Total debt, less cash in the
treasury, $1,31O,s56, $50.
In May the total receipts of the gov
eminent were $44, 1863, and the dis
bursements $40, $780, 1896, leaving sur
plus for the month of $3,526,973.
May 20 the total circulation of ma
tional bank notes was $406, ,205, an
increase for the rear of $49, 696,021.
During May the total coinage exc
cuted at the minis of the United States
was $1,78O,4S6.
According to Commissioner Yerkes'
ruling, oleomargarine manufacturers
must pay ten cents a pound tax II any
coloring matter is used.
At the navy department bids have
been opened for three battleships, to
be the most powerful in the navy.
A law passed by the last congress
requiring all naturalization offices to
make special inquiry regarding anar-
chistfc views which may be held by APP
plicants for citizenship has gone into
effect.
In May the fire loss of the United
States and Canada was S16,366, 500,
against $14, 100000 in May, 1902.
In the case of A. w. Machen, former
superintendent of free delivery, who
is accused of accepting brides of 500
600, the federal grand jury heard testi-
mOnV,
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WEST AND SOUTH.

Latest reports place the number of
known dead by the recent tornado
at Gainesville, Ga, at 10, and the in
iured at 800.
The Mississippi river excursion
steamer Flying Eagle was crushed
against bridge pier at Hannibal, Mo-,
and four children were drowned.
In a wreck due to a washout near
Columbia, S. c., Conductor Clements
and four negroes were killed.
Men in Louisville, KY, are promoting
a strike insurance company, which it
is proposed shall write risks protect
ing employers against labor troubles.
The low country between Warsaw
and Quincy, ILL.,, is under water. The
loss is $750,000.
At Jackson, Miss, the new state cap
itol building, erected at a cost of
81, 100000, was formally dedicated
Robbers blew open the safe of the
Gold-Stabeck bank at Vesta, Mimi,
and secured $4,000 in currency and $780,
900 in notes.
In Chicago 400 members of the Black
smiths union and 800 of the Team
sters' union have been suspended by
the international officials for break
ing contract with employers and 60
ing on strike.
At Danville, ILL.,, an unsuccessful at
tempt was made to wreck Chicago &
Eastern Illinois train by placing a tie
on the Vermfllion river bridge.
The death of Judge James Cobb, of
Tuskegee, Ala, who for - years rep
resented the Fifth Alabama district
in congress, occurred at Las Vegas,
n. NJ.
Rivers are falling in Missouri and
Kansas, and the worst of the food is
over, except at st. Louis and vicinity.
The president on the 4th dedicated
new state armory and spoke TO
colored soldiers at the tomb of Lincoln
lin Springfield. assisted in defeating a
university at Decatur, spoke at Dan
Vile. and then left Illinois for Indian
apolis, where he made the final speech
of his western trip, leaving at 900 p.
m. for Washington.
BY a head-on collision of two Santa
Fe railroad passenger trains near
Stilwell. Kan. nine persons were killed
and three injured.
At Joplin, Mo-, Samuel Mitchell
(white), who led the mob that lynched
Thomas Gilyard, negro, recently, has
been sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment.
John Dennis. negro, was lynched
by a mob at Greenville. Miss, for an
attempted criminal assault upon a
well-known young lady.
Miss Frances Moore, of Davenport,
Ia, and John L. Miller, of Lincoln,
Neb., students at the University of Chi
cago, were accidentally drowned in
Jackson park lagoon.
At Keokuk. Ia, the Mississippi river
food broke all records. The Sny. Hunt
and Indian Grove levees broke and
100000 acres were submerged.
The Ohio republicans, in convention
at.Columbus, nominated Myron /. Her
rick. of Cleveland, for governor, and
President Roosevelt and Senator Han
ma were Endorsed fe= reelection.
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LEAVES THE BENCH.
United States Circuit Judge Caldwell
Has rendered to the President
His Resignation.

Little Rock, Ark, June s.--A letter
was received in Little Rock from Judge
III. c. Caldwell, of the eighth United
Circuit court, stating that he for
warded his resignation to President
Roosevelt June 2, to take effect June
4. The letter was written at Wagon
wheel Gap, Colo, where the judge is
spending the summer with his family.
Judge Caldwell was appointed United
States district judge by President Lin
coin in 1864 and was promoted to the
circuit bench by President Harrison.
He reached the age limit of 20 years
last September.
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STILL SAFE.
Mon mt -. Francis. Kan, Has Not Yet
Secured Dewey and His Cow
bOys-TrOOps En- Route.

Topeka, Kan, June S.--A message
from st. Francis says Chauncey Dewey
and his cowboys, under arrest for the
alleged murder of the Berry family
last week, are yet safe from the mob.
The settlers have formed sort of
military organization, it is under
stood, and are outspoken in their de-
termination that Dewey and his men
shall not escape. A military company
from Osborne is now on its way to St.
Francis. More than fifty miles of the
distance will have to be covered by an
overland march, however, and it will
be Tuesday before they can reach
there. The sheriff of CChCeyenne
county thinks he can protect the men
until the arrival of the militia.
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A PeriIOus Voyage.

Gloucester, Mass, June Slow
ard Black burn, who has already made
two voyages across the Atlantic alone
in small dories, started Sunday after
a third attempt to cross the ocean,
with Havre as his objective point. His
intention is to return via Gibraltar,
Western islands, Porto Rico and Cuba,
and exhibit his boat at the ST. Louis
exposition.
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AnuihiIated,

Salonica, June S.-A band of Bulga-
rian revolutionaries was destroyed by
Turkish troops on Saturday at Crado-
bar, near this city. Fifteen BuIgarians
were killed. Another insurgent band
is reported to have been annihiIated on
the railway line near Ristovatz, Servia
after a six hours fight. Surprise is ex-
pressed that the band was able to APP
proach SO near the town. The insur-
gents last Wednesday killed ten Greek
villagers while the latter were in
church at Selovo, near Monastir.
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A strong movement has been begun
in Richmond, Va, for the removal of
the body of Patrick Henry from its
present humble and neglected grave
in Charlotte county to ST. Johns
churchyard in Richmond and the cree
tion of marble monument to the
great Virginia orator and revolution
list. The idea is to have Henry's body
inferred, if possible, beneath St. Johns
church, about at the spot where tradi-
tion says he stood while delivering his
famous speech which eliminated in
the words: Give me liberty or give
me DEATH
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COMING TO AMERICA.
Hundreds of Miners and Iron Work
men Leaving Austria for the
United States.

Vienna, June S.-There is a whole
sale emigration of miners and work
men in the iron districts of Austria to
the United States in consequence ofthe
unprecedented stagnation of the iron
industry. Hundreds of men have been
discharged since the beginning of the
year and the mines and iron works are
operating on short time. Wages have
fallen so per cent. and in many in
stances the men are earning less than
so cents a day, and their families are
suffering severely. There is faint hope
of any immediate improvement in the
situation, and whole colonies of work
ing men are leaving the country.
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MnnRIed hY tfnundn.

Cincinnati, o., June S.-One boy was
fatally and three seriously hurt Sum
day by kennel of 25 hounds. While
John Fisgus, aged Is years, was APP
preaching the kennel of julius Ernest,
the hounds seized him and tore him
almost to pieces. Mr.. Ernest was seri-
ousIy hurt in trying to rescue the boy.
Finally ChCarles Fissell mounted
horse and undertook to ride over the
dogs. Both rider and horse were Sc
rionsIy bitten. especially the latter.
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In Chicago several large hotels and
restaurants were tied up, because of
strike of walters and cooks.
In a quarrel over land cowboys killed
E. NJ. Berry and his three sons at ST.
Francis, Kan.
In the flood at Topeka, Kan, II per-
sons are now known to have lost their
lives.
Discovery has been made of new
counterfeit, Photographic reproduc-
ton and the $50 issue of the National
State bank of Metropolis, III.
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FLOOD LOSSES.
in Kansas Suffered to the Ex-
tent of $I2,23O,OOO.

Topeka, Kan, June S.-The body of
has suffered as result of the recent
hoods more than any other state.
NO exact figures of the loss sustained
can, OF course. be given. but those
who have an intimate knowledge of
the Hoods have been making esti-
mates, and the conclusions that they
have reached may be considered fair
~ reliable. The damage done in the
principal cities and towns is estimat
ed as follows:
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No account has been taken of the
smaller towns, although nearly 200
of these were affected by the floods.
The very lowest estimate that can
be made of the loss done to crops is
$5,000,000. Owing to the lateness of
the season and the condition of the
soil. it is very doubtful if any profit
will be drawn during the remainder
of the year from the farms which
We're inundated. AS conseq renee
there Will be great deal of ind i'd
ual want and suffering among farm
ers, upon whom the blow fell heav-
lest
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Free rural delivery has been pressed
forward so rapidly that the post office
department is wise in slowing up until
it can fully grasp the situation In
1897 free rural delivery began with an
appropriation of $40, 900. The amount
allowed in 1898 was $50, 900, and in 1899.
$4,000 In 1900 the appropriation was
$45O,OO0. In 1901 S1,750,OO0 was pro-
vided, and in 1902 S3,993,7 with S,466
routes For the year beginning next
July $12, 621, 700 is available In six
years the routes have expanded from
"a TO $4,000, on which carriers travel
$1,000 miles, serving 100000 people.
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Present indications are that foreign
immigration to the United States dur
ing the current fiscal year will exceed
all previous records. The fiscal year
will end next June 90, and during the
ten months up to April 80 the number
of immigrants was 620,71O, against
7sS.992 in any previous year. An I'M
pleasant feature of the present immi-
grafton is that the countries whose
people we least desire are furnishing
the most immigrants.