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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-03-30
The Crowd Did Net Insist.

A capital story is told of one Of the
oldest practitioners at the Erie county
bar He was arguing motion at
neighboring county seat and, as it
sometimes happens, was depending
more upon his own sound logic than
upon authorities for success. At
critical juncture the judge interrupted
the speaker with this inquiry, Yes, l
understand; but where are your au-
thoyities upon the subject?' IF your
honor please retorted our friend,
briskly, Il will explain the absence of
authorities, with your permission, by
telling a little story. A young man
freshly admitted to practice had pro-
duced in court in support of motion
a wealth of authorities. After allow
ing the young man to read page upon
page of dry decisions, the Judge at
length interrupted wearily, You are
just beginning to practice said he;
let me give some advice. 1t does very
well to cite authorities once in while,
but you must always trust somewhat
to the common sense of the court.
1t was bold, almost audacious po-
sition to take, but it won tie old law
yer his case.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-03-30
Need of the Century.

Professor Mason of the Smithsonian
Institution, says that the most needed
achievement of 1903 is the discovery
of satisfactory method of economic
ing electricity. Some day, he says,
in the not distant future, the rivers
will make all the electricity we want
We snail harness the streams, and
they will heat every house. run every
wheel and light every lamp
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-03-30
- AA - rXs 90 I Z IN.
Bears the q The Kind You laye Always 6ough'
"sass''' ss & Wzlzz%x
Coaching for Society.

Wanted in a healthy country town,
lady to take in charge and improve
a young married lady (22) of gentle
birth but neglected education; child
tboy) of Is months to accompany her;
bright society Indispensable State
terms and particulars. Philadel-
phia Standard
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-03-30
Ssylaa. Things.

No man Is 1.4..dre because he say
what he thinks. The failuSe come
when man thinks of t1e Wron
thing to say.-Boston Christian Req
lister.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-03-30
A h!eipinu Hand.

a Helping Hand.
If any little word of mine
May make life the brighter
If any little song of mine
May make a heart the li&hter,
God help me speak the itt'N word.
And take my biz of sinp ns,
And drop it in some lo ely ale,
To set the echoes ringing.
If any little love of mine
MAY make a litc the sweeter.
If amy little care Of mine
May make a friends the heeter.
If any lift of mlne Y ny ec$c
yhe burden of another,
God grant me love. and care. al
strength.
To help my toil!ps brother
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-03-30

Donald McShane, an American born
boy whose nome is at St Louis, Mo,
fought under the British flag all
through the Boer war and has just re-
turned home from South Africa. He
likes Tommy Atkins very much and
Indignantly denies all storise of the
cruelty of the British soldiers.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-04-17
THE GREAT SOUTHWEST.

Farmers, farmers wives and daugh- ters, school teachers, doctors, clergy men, merchants in the smaller towns. any citizen who has something to say, are invited to write letters and longer articles about the locality in which they live in the Southwest.
 The territory includes Arkansas, Arizona, Indian Territory, Louisiana, Southern Missouri, New Mexico, Ok lahoma and Texas Premiums that make it an object are offered. set for each state and territory. Full par ticulars of the conditions of the con- test, and list of the prizes and awards will be sent upon application, to, J. w. STEELE, Commissioner.
 Colonization Agency, Southwestern lines. Columbia Theatre Bldg.,3 St. Louis Mo. 46 b4w.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-04-17

Low rates by the Choctaw, Okla homa & Gulf R. R. (Rock Island Sys- temp for the National Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, to be held at Nashville, Tenn, May 21s to 29th. Full information from Geo. H. Lee, G. P. A., Little Rock, Ark.
 w. s. Hobbs, the popular train master on this division of the Iron Mountain spent Thursday here. While not speaking officially, MT. Hobbs says that another section of the White river branch will be opened for ser vice soon and while it is not known just how the trains will be run, the service between Newport and Bates vile is not to suffer.
 The agreement to close their stores at 7:30 p. m. from May 1st to Septem- Der first, except upon Saturdays and certain specified days, lacks the sig nature of one merchant, w. B. Chas- tain, to be effective. We hope that when the case is laid fully before hin', he may yet agree to the request, which will afford the clerks and store keepers the evening hours for needed recreation.
 T4e recent decision of the supreme court affirming the judgment of the lower court i'll the case of the Bank of Newport versus O. D. Watson ct al denies the petition of the plaintiff, who sought to recover on money loaned upon the Stevely saw mill The bank is awarded the machinery added to the mill subsequent to the loan of the late E. l.. Watson to A. Stevely.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-04-17
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION MEETS
Jackson County Medical Society Elects Officers and Delegates To
 State Convention.

The Jackson County Medical Asso- citation met in the office of the county judge Wednesday morning and cleo, ed the following officers for the en- suing year: J. M. Jones, president Henry Owen, first vice. president Geo. K. Stephens, second vice-presi dent; H. o. Walker, secretary; o. E Jones, treasurer and c. A. Causey librarian.
 Drs. L. E. Willis, Crawford Wes and H. O. Walker were chosen dele gates to the meeting of the Stat Medical Society to be held in Jones boro on April 30 and May 1 and 1903.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-04-17
TIME LIMIT EXPIRES
 FOR JOHNSON APPEAL

The sixty days allowed under the law for taking an appeal have expired in the Rufus Johnson case and the attorneys for the defendant have not taken steps in this direction. The judgment of the court, sentencing the defendant to four years in the peni- tentiary was made upon February 1; and the sixty day limit for appeal ex- pired Tuesday.
 It is reported that the attorneys fo1 the defendant will file writ of error and ask the court to grant an appeal
Newport weekly independent., 1903-04-17
This Bank has an authorized
 CAPITAL of $IOO, 1000. .OO.

An authorized and subscribed Capital convenient thing good thing for advertising purposes but to be perfectly honest and tell patrons the truth it really counts for little We could have had just easily Subscribed Capital of S500,000. It would not have cost us one cent more.
 What patrons really interested in knowing is this Bank has invested in it's business of ITS OWN MONEY S5S, ,OOOOO OF CASH PAID IN CAPITAL and undivided profits That the this Bank prepared to take good your business And you that MORE CAPT. WILL BE PAID IN believe it can be safely and proftably invested.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-04-17
JUDGMENT AFFIRMED.

Justice Battle of the state supreme court handed down an opinion Satur- day, affirming the decision of the low CT court in the case of the Bank of Newport versus O. D. Watson ct al, which was appealed from the Jack son county circuit court.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-04-17
SPRING RACE MEETING,
 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

One fare, $3.40, for the round trip to Memphis, via the Iron Mountain Route. Tickets on sale for trains ar irving in Memphis March 30, April 2, II, 13 and 20. All tickets to bear final return limit of days from date of sale
 1S2tbd T. H. REAMEY ,Agt.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-04-17
THE BANK OF NEWPORT
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.

OFFICERS
 G. W.DECKER, President A. D. BAILEY Vice R. M. JOHNSON, Cashier T. D. Asst. Cashier. V Y THos. J. GRAHAM A. E.S FLYNN JW GRUBBs, STATION.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-11-19
Labor Notes.

There were 252 strikes in Austria last
year, involving SG,304 work people. OF
these there were successful. IL; partly
successful, 6S: failed, %; result unknown
in 1S cases.
Elevator constructors from all over the
country have held Il convention in New
York City, formed an international union
and decided to affiliate with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
Brockton, Mass, Shoe Stitchers' Un-
ion is by far the largest local of the
Boot and Shoe Workers in the United
States or Canada. 1t has total mem-
bership of over 1900 and an income OF
500 day.
The Amalgamated Association Of
Iron. Steel and Tin Workers limits the
amount of production of the mills over
which it has control in accordance with
the amount of work it believes its men
are capable of performing. The present
limit is about 430 sheets in eight hours.
There is no eight-hour day in Russia.
On the government work the laws pro
vide that the day must not extend be-
yond eleven and half hours not count
ing the recesses, and on Saturdays and
DAYS before holidays not more than ten
hours. Daytime is reckoned from a.
m. to 8 o. m., aud those who work at
night must not be kept working moro
than ten hours of the twenty-four.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-11-19
OUR FINEST FORTRESS.
It Is Mt Des Moines, H., and Cost Over
S2,OOO,OOO


$2,OOO,OOO.
The new Fort Des Moines" in Des
Moines, which has been erected by q
special act of Congress at a cost of 81
100000 and is second to none in the
country, will soon be ready for occupan-
cy, and regular army soldiers will be de-
tailed to the new war establishment.
On Thanksgiving day Colonel William
c. Wallace, in charge of one squadron
of the Fifteenth Cavalry now in the Phil
ippines, will become commander of this
post.
The buildings, which are all of hard
pressed brick, surround parade ground
1,0OOx2,OO0 feet and are as level rs a
floor. In front of this and between it
and the public road are the double-faced
houses for the commissioned officers. A
macadamized drive passes between the
houses and the parade ground and cir
cles around the ground. Standing on the
majors porch, one sees to his left the
imposing Administration Building. and
by its side the guardhouse, which by its
grated windows announces that disobe-
dience to army discipline will not go un-
punished. Back of these are the quar-
ters of the commissioned officers and
the hospital. Across the parade ground
are the barracks to quarter 200 men
and to their rear stables for as many
horses. On to their right is the regi-
ment's bakery and stewards houses. To
the right of the parade ground is moth
ing but the undulating rich Iowa farm
land stretching into the distance The
spot is located within one of the richest
fruit growing sections of the State and
the scenery, while not imposing, is the
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-11-19
To Raise Anger, Goats

Raw wool merchants are much inter
ested in the efforts of the government
bureau of animal industry to promote the
raising OF AngOra goats in New Eng
land and other parts of the country.
George +. Thompson of the bureau has
lcctured in Boston and elsewhere on the
possibilities of goat culture, and has
particularly endeavored to impress the
farmers with the practicabiiity of his
ideas.
He tells them that the goats are of
great value rs destroyers of brush; that
there is little cost in feeding them, as
they find food for themselves where 9TH
er animals would starve: that their fleece
is equal in value TO that of the sheep,
and the meat is us nutritious. although it
does not meet with as ready n sale
In some parts of the West Angora
goats are being raised with profit and it
is the expectation to produce all the mo-
hair needed in American manufacturing.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-11-19
Intere.tinx New. Items.

The water works tunnel at Cleveland,
Ohio, that has cost fifty lives and mill
ions Of money, has been opened after
years of work.
While delirious. Margaret Mcfarland,
q typhoid fever patient in st. Luke's
hospital. Duluth. leaped from a fourth
story window and was instantly killed.
The plasterers' union at Minneapolis,
Mimi. is one of the strongest unions in
that city from a financial standpoint, and
with three exceptions every plasterer in
the city is a member of the union.
Samuel Hunkin, a contractor, was In
etantly killed and his companion, Miss
Matte Fitzsimmons, was dangerously in
jured in suburb Of Cleveland. They
were driving and were struck by the
flyer on the Erie road.
Thomas Lucas, a 16-year-old colored
boy of Brooklyn. ILL.,, is prisoner charg-
ed with killing his stepfather, Charles
Anderson, also colored, aged 40 years.
The production of the play, "Jesss
James, the Bandit King" by a company
filling an engagement Mt the Auditorium
Theater. in Lincoln, Neb., was stopped
by Ufder of Chief of Police Routzahan.
George Grace, aged 10, whose parents
reside at Lake Contrary, near st. Joseph.
Mo-. was killed in runaway. He fell
from Il seat and his right leg was caught
between the spokes of wheel and torn
off.
Jerry Gallivan, farmer who lived
southeast of Warrensburg, Mo-, drove
over the edge OF culvert and overturn-
ing his wagon. fell into ditch below
and broke his neck, killing him instantly.
Adam Cupler, Jr., president Of the firm
of A. Cupler, Jr., & Co., manufacturers
Of nitro-glycerin and oil well supplies,
was instantly killed in East Titusville,
Pa, by the accidental explosion Of ten
quarts of the high explosive.
An unknown man, apparently about go
years of age, was struck by the south
bound Santa Fe passenger train while
on the Cow Creek bridge, about two
tanned injuries from which he died.
F. w. Crosby, who is collecting speci-
mems for the Smithsonian institute at
Washington, is in Oregon City, Ore, to
see the meteor reported few days ago
and has pronounced it not only genu-
inc meteor. but the largest ever discov-
cred in the world. 1t weighs twenty
tons.
B. T. Dunn, an attorney of Findlay,
Ohio, and formerly vice commander Of
the Grand Army of the Republic depart
ment of Ohio. fled a petition in volun-
tary bankruptcy. He gives his liabilities
as S7e,O30.07 and his assets as S40O
Mr.. Dunn's failure is due to deprecia-
ton of Findlay real estate after the gas
boom in that city some years ago.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-11-19

as q result of the legal battles now being
waged over the stricken territory.
This Montana mining area is the rich
est on the face OF the earth. Its stored
up. treasures have already yielded many
millions of dollars TO mans insatiate de-
sire, though the mining may be said to
have hardly begun. so great is the wealth
which nature has here stored away. The
very cream of this is around Butte City,
where the mineral area is about four
miles in width by ten miles in length east
and west. Here are located the big cop
per mines which have yielded hundreds
OF millions of dollars and are vet in
their first stages of development, and for
the ownership of which men are putting
up the greatest legal fight of the age.
AS Il result of court decisions in favor
of its opponent. +. Augustus Heinze, the
Amalsamated Copper Company has shut
down for an indefinite period all of its
mines, smelters, sawmills and coal works.
Starvation confronts thousands of idle
miners and their dependent families. To-
day the population of Montana is 2JO,-
0oo in round numbers. The shutdown
of the mines and mills of the copper
trust has thrown 10000 men out Of
work. The gaunt specter of want peer
ing through the saGging doorways of
10000 homes strikes terror to 10000 peo-
pie. Other thousands of merchants,
landlords and the like are made to suffer
indirectly. until. when all is told, the
of it is appalling.
In Butte alone 10000 men are thrown
out OF work. The payroll of $4,000 a
day has been stopped. To the business
community of the city that means a loss
of Mt least Il quarter Of a million dol
lars a week. With starvation threaten
ing the masses and ruin and bankruptcy
hanging over the heads of many mer-
chants and business men. it is no Won
der that an atmosphere of gloom has set
tied over the stricken community
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-11-19

Passenger rates between Chicago and
st. Paul have been restored to the nor
NAL tariff Of $11.50 over all the lines.
The Southern Pacific Company is max
ing extensive improvements on its line
between San Antonio and III Paso. Tex.
Freight traffic on the Big Four during
September was "A per cent greater than
during the corresponding month Of last
year.
The New York Central is making prep
arations for pensioning off its old eni-
ployes who have been incapacitated or
worn out in the service.
The annual report of the Clover Leaf,
or Toledo, st. Louis and Western. for
the fiscal year ended June 30. shows
gross earnings of SO, ,359, an increase
of S410,4I9.
At conference of Eastern, Western
and Southern traffic managers, held at
the office of the Trunk Line Association
in New York last week. new schedule
of rates to middle western points from
gulf and Atlantic ports was agreed upon.
Plans are being considered by the
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis and Oma-
ha for improvements i'll st. Paul which
will increase the capacity of its freight
yards four-fold and will require the ex-
penditure of n sum estimated at from
100000 to $1,0OO,0O0.
Eleven hundred and thirty-eight trains
arrive daily in the city of Chicago upon
twenty-three railroads, carrying an aver
age of 100000 passengers. OF these
trains 33S are for through traffic and S04
for suburban business. The twenty-three
railways combined have n mileage of
more than $1,000 miles, which is more
than one-third of the total mileage of
the United States, and within 1900
miles of the entire mileage of the United
Kingdom, Germany and France. The
100000 passengers may be roughly di-
vided into 10000 suburban and 10000
through passengers. The largest number
of suburban passengers are handled by
the Illinois Central Railway, while the
Union station and Canal street, between
Madison and Adams, receives and sends
out the largest number of through trains.
The Louisville and Nashville has Civ
en- notice that on account of the extreme
car shortage it will be compelled to re-
strict the operation of its own freight
cars to its own system.
During last year electrical railway
companies ran their cars eleven times the
distance from the earth to the sun, killed
1,o1S persons and injured 41,429.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-11-19
SETBACK TO CHILD INSURANCE.
Indiana Judge Makes a Ruling of I'M
fa tTa To

portance to the Companies.
Judge Plummer of the Wabash Circuit
Court. Wabash, Ind. rendered decis-
ion in the case of Mary \. Ellis of that
city against the Metropolitan Life In
surance Company of New York, which
is OF vital interest TO insurance COM
panies that insure the lives of children
and to persons who pay for such policies.
Last summer Mrs. Ellis insured the life
of her son, Will Ellis. and paid several
premiums. The lad was attacked with
hemOrrhase of the lungs and died sud
denly. Mrs. Ellis demanded payment OF
the policy, under which she, as beneti-
ciary. was entitled to $l26 The COM
panys attorney filed an answer setting
forth that although young Ellis was not
of age he was married and had children
and that the mother received nothing
from him in tire way of support, ana
therefore was not pecuniarily interested
IN the policy. The plaintiff demurred
and Judge Plummer overruled the de-
murrer, holding that Mrs. Ellis did not
have an ''insurable interest In her son;
that the mere fact of relationship did
not permit her TO stand as beneficiary
under the policy and that Judgment must
be for the defendant Under this theory
any insurance company which insures an
infant, in law, can successfully defend
suit on the policy brought by the parent,
as the mere relationship does not give
cause of action. 1t is severe blow TO
child insurance companies.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-11-19
FATAL BLAST AT COLLEGE.
One Man Killed and Others Hurt by
Boiler Explosion In Ohio.

One Man Killed and Others Hurt by
Boiler Explosion In Ohio.
While students of the Agricultural
College at Ohio University in Columbus
were witnessing the harvesting Of field
Of corn for ensilage purposes with ma
chine operated by an old traction engine
the boiler blew up and pieces Of iron tore
through the crowd of students. The en-
gineer, Charles Pepper, was blown about
fifty feet from the engine and his body
was terribly mangled by the debris and
scalded by the hot water from the boiler.
John Delgaru, assistant engineer, was
fatally injured. Prof Vernon II. Davis,
assistant professor in horticulture, suf-
fered severe injuries to his hand. The
explosion was felt in all the university
buildings. With tremendous force the
pieces Of iron were hurled through the
air and blew a great hole in the side of
barn over a hundred yards away.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-11-19
WIFE MAY NOT MEND.
Philadelphia Organization Takes Ad.
vanced Stand on DOmestic Labor.

vanced Stand on Domestic Labor.
Does n union man violate the man.
dates of trade unionism when he allows
his wife 10 mend Il rent in his oyercoat:"
This question caused a heated discus
sion in the Central Labor Union in Phil
adelphia. and the decision finally reach
ed was that he does. 1t also was decided
10 fine all organizations which do not
employ regular union men for all work.
The matter was brought up in an argu-
ment rs 10 the right of n union man 10
do the work of bartender and waiter
at an entertainment given by his own
organization. For nearly two hours the
delegates debated the matter. President
Ieps argued that it was all right for
union men to perform any necessary
work at home. but he was voted down.
He said: Union men have Il perfect
right to do gratuitous work of that sort
where there is 10 pay. You can do the
work of other crafts at your home with
out violating any laws of trade unionism.
If l choose to, l can hang paper in my
own home. or do any other work. Is
man 'scab' simply because he allows
his wife to mend tear on his overcoat
or suit. instead of taking it to a union
tailor:'
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-11-19
International's Report.

Special telegraphic reports from corre-
spondents of the International Mercan-
tile Agency throughout the United States
and Canada regarding the state of trade
are summarized as follows:
The Intervention Of elections in eleven
States, with a week Of mild weather, has
served to check retail sales Of seasona-
BILE goods, notably clothing and millinery,
but a canvass Of leading jobbers in sta
pie lines at important cities indicates
that the seasons total business is somc-
what in excess of expectations.
In financial circles features have been
the ease with which the Wall street
stock market resists shock, the ease with
which gold was engaged for import after
the first flush of cotton export bills and
the increased frmness of money at the
West, where, as Chicago bankers say,
continued tension is promised for the
next four weeks. The cotton crop, rep
resenting 100000 more than that Of
last year, even if no larger, points to fur
ther financial drafts to market it.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-11-19
FEATURES OF INTEREST
CONCERNING PEOPLE, PLACES
AND DOINGS OF THE WORLD.
Courts and crimSss' Accident. and
Fires, Labor and Capital, Grain,
Stock a1d Money Markets.
Gas Snreads Havoc.

marion. Qnd.) special: An explosion
natural gas wrecked the home of Ben
~54min Hight. in South Nebraska street,
and terribly burned the five occupants of
the house. While firemen were eXtin
gushing the blaze a second explosion
occurred and a fireman was hurt. The
injured were taken to the hospital. and
although seriously injured it is said all
ri ii recover, with the exception of Clyde
hite, aged 19, of Grand Valley, Pa.
White was terribly burned about his
hands, feetan face and his condition is
critical. a With the exception of White
and the fireman all the injured were
members of the Hight family. The eN-
plosion lifted the house from its foun-
dation,