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The evening world., 1903-10-16

The police to-day have sent out .
general alarm for the apprehension OF
Clarence II. Leonard. a youth under
twenty-one, Of East Orange. who Is said
to have secured s1o.o7s from two New
York hanks on forged checks. with
Leonard Is believed to be a young
woman to whom he has been very at
tentive. Che IL Miss Katherine Miller,
eighteen years old. of No. 7 Hollywood
avenue. East Orange.
Miss Miller left her home on Monday.
saying she was going to Fairport. y. Y.
to visit schoolgirl friends. 1t has been
learned that she did not go to Fairport.
Young Leonard was employed by Has
kins & Sells, accountants. No. 80 Broad
street. 1t was part OF his duties to
make deposits and draw the money from
the banks for tho firms current ex-
penses. As he had worked for the Arm
a year and had an excellent reputation
and was we'll known at the banks he
experienced no difficulty in having tho
checks cashed.
The banks that are said to have paid
out the cast are the Trust Company OF
America and the Bank OF North Amer
lea. One check was for S2,576 and the
other for 1880. The latter check was
considerably larger tina the Arm 10
In the custom OF drawing and this fact
caused the paying teller to examine the
signature again after he had paid the
money ovet to Leonard.
Calls Up Firm.
Not satisfied with the examination he
called UP the Arm. and L. II. Connnt,
one OF the members, hurried around to
the bank. After examining the check
no pronounced 1t a forgery. The other
bank was then called up and the fact
that a check for $2,676 had been cashed
there was learned. This. too. was pro-
nounced a forgery by conant.
The banks notified the Pinkerton De-
tective Agency and the firm called up
Inspector McClusky at Police Head
quarters. It was while the detectives
were making Inquiries at Leonardo
home In East Orange that the absence
OF Miss Miller was learned. Both the
Leonard and Miller families are highly
thought Of In East Orange and both
are considered we'll to do.
Carried Suit Case.
When Miss Miller left home she wore
a gray walking skirt, white waist and
q largo black hat. She carried q suit
case marked tx. NJ"
Young Leonard H. said to be nineteen
or twenty years old. somewhat under
8 feet In height. medium build and dark
complexion. He has q small mouth and
walks on his toes.
When he went to the banks to get the
cash he carried a brown leather suit
case which he had had at the ONCE for
Q couple OF days. II u believed he had
planned to leave the city as soon as he
had secured the money. Detectives ut
all steamship lines and all railroads
leaving the city were notified to. watch
for both Leonard and Miss Miller. and
their descriptions were sent to all the
principal cities Of the country this
morning.
Believed to Have Elopcd.
It Is firmly believed In East Orange
that the young people have eloped. as
1t vas known to all their friends that
The evening world., 1903-10-16

I1rs. Nora Patterson says: "Eoy
man ysa,s tho pans of nfWaigrs k.pt me
from slipping. ! b'eans Nervous and frf-
table and fb gSnraW mhsrabh. ! con-
snitsd my family doctor and b. trsserbsd
for mo, bit stiU / could not slap. II I'itnd
sdpissd nj 10 take Pans'S Csitrr COMPOUND.
The evening world., 1903-10-16
sAggn,e oFFEa rAkEn boz.

Dan Mex etriek. manager OF Johnny
HFaiak. virtues from Boston that no
adA ready to accept the den recently
z4zz ~ lac nakeF 10 meet Burdlck in
|tf 4 side BET. McKetrick says
h1Ve any part or 40, and II
4afneat let him place it -aith
|'I4 Editor u The Evening
|0IIH Ala ii 4nAttna ~ ka4a 4
The evening world., 1903-10-16
Mrs. Patterson
Made Miserable by Neuralgia
Iols Bedford Avenue. Pittsburg, Pa, August u, 100;

! bsafatsS a long lime, for ! nsps' hsd any
GaM m adrsyfissd mfdEeinss. Finally I
tried a bottle and ! fan such an fnprovsnsnt
that I CONTINUED TO faks IL until ! had taken
fbrss bottles. II eonpisfsH rfstorsd nv
bath and J . slap HotD Is wsH aS aap
one. Ny ~nsrpoHsas,s bss djSbpsarsd and
my abbsiiis is fine"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-14
PASTOR LIKES DIME NOVELS.
Tells Sunday School Teachers Cheap
Stories Are Good for Boys.

Asbury Park, \ j., July 14.-Sun-
day school teachers attending the
school of methods were shocked by
the remarks of Dr. Byron FOrDush
when he said good stories to inter
est pupils could be secured from dime
novels. He said there was a reason
for reading dime novels and an art
of story telling in them that appealed
to boys. They had the four charac-
telistics of all good books-a hero,
plenty of action, suspense and final
solution where virtue conquers.
L have read great many of them,
said DR.. Forbush They are not i'm
moral, with the possible exception OF
the Jessie James series. Diamond
Dick is not such bad sort of fel-
low"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-14
AT EVANSVILLE, IND, WAS THE
NEGRO IN POLITICS, SAYS
EUGENE DEBS.
Importation of Blacks for Election
Filled Them With Their
importance.

Terre Haute, Ind, July 14.-Eugene
V. Debs denies that the Socialists in
stigated the Evansville race riots, as
charged by Capt A w. Dudley, of
Company B, Indiana national guard.
Debs said:
Instead of the Socialists, the rot.
ten and vote-buying political party
to which Dudley belongs is respon-
sible for these crimes In the late
municipal election at Evansville hun
dreds of negroes were imported from
Kentucky to help elect the present
Republican mayor of that city.
The negro whose murder of the
policeman precipitated the conflict
was one of these. He was 9 Republi-
can. the policeman he murdered was
q Repui2lican and the city officers for
whom he acted as political plugger
We're also Republicans.
ftci the election this negro felt
thar as one of the main props Of the
administration he could strut and
sWagger at will. This was the start
ing point Of the present trouble,
which since then has been brewing
ard required only some spark to set
it off.
"The whole trouble is the culmina-
tion of the negro as factor in poll
tics; and, as is notoriously true, a
corrupting factor, since he finds
ready sale for his votes in the polit-
ical market of Evansville.
'.The Socialists never purchased a
negro vote nor imported negro voter
to debauch the politics and incite
race war in Evansville. Will Dudley
say the same for the party to which
ne belongs?"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-14
CONGRESS WILL BE CALLED.
President Intimates Special Session
Will Be Called November 9.

Kansas City, July 14.-Con-
gresham w. S Sowherd stat
ed to the World last night: "On the
authority of man close to President
Roosevelt it has been announced to
congressman that special session
of congress will be called to convene
November 9.
This is to put, as understand 1t,
the Cuban treaty through before II
is delayed by other congressional leg
islation as would be the case II IT
went over until the first Monday in
December, the regular session.
There has been no official call, but
to all congressman it has been strong
" intimated that the extra session
and it's date, November 9, have been
determined on by Mr.. Roosevelt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-14
STEEL TELEGRAPH Poles.
Western Union Is Having Trouble
Getting Its Wires Strung.

One of the troubles met with since
the telegraph poles of the Western
Union Telegraph company were cut
along the Pennsylvania railroad has
been the matter of securing telegraph
poles for the Postal Telegraph COM
pany. The telegraph company will
use the private wires Of the Penn
<. ,,ya.4isss Railroad company for some
time in connection with it's own, and
it is said that by another year the
company will have its own 10000
miles of Wiling completed. 1t will be
probably six months before the whole
stretch of polling will be completed
from Pittsburg to Philadelphia.
There are now about twenty-five
miles up, and on each side of the di-
visions the work is progressing about
mile day.
Down along the Pennsylvania rail-
road about Sang Hollow may be seeen
a dozen steel A-shaped telegraph
poles. These are being tested by the
Pennsylvania and have been in SER
vice only few weeks. The scarcity
Of good timber for poles has been
engaging the attention of railroads
over the whole country, and eventual
ly some other material must be used.
While the A-shaped pole serves its
purpose we'll so far as can be seen,
it is too costly at present, and may
not prove lasting enough to meet
the demands. An official remarked
that there is an opportunity for some
one to make fortune by inventing a
pole of little cost, but lasting quail
ties.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-14
RUMOR TO TIE EFFECT THAT
PROF. FISHER HAS QUIT
BRANCH NORMAL.
Said to BE Due to the Fact that Board
Required Second Examination.
Which He Refused.
Which He Refuse d

There is a story out to thc effect
that Prof. Isaac Fisher. who recently
left this city for visit south. viii
not return 10 esme the duties Of
principal of the Branch Normal col.
teec. the state institution Of learning
f"l HE eoIeresi people IL is said thar
before gong away Prof. :5ishor wrote
his resignation OF the pri8eipalship
and placed i'm The hands OF a f.iend
10 be lain before the uni
yersity board at its next meet
ing. It is also stated that
Prof Fisher, when informed by the
board that the examination he had
taken was not at all satisfactory to
the board, and that he must submit to
az examination which would embrace
the entire curriculum of the Branch
Normal college, positively declined,
and was informed by the board thar
dtti1oS ilS uIu ouDllliL To SuCn exam
lnation he would be removed as prin-
cipal Prof. Fisher is out of the city.
and Mr.. w. II. Langford, the local
member of the university board, Is
also absent, hence no verification OF
the rumors recited in the foregoing
could be mad, but a gentleman who
has taken considerable interest in the
matter of whether or not Fisher was
qualified for the position of principal
of the Branch Normal college, says
that Fisher declined to submit to a
second examination, and that the
board gave him to understand that
he would be removed, and if that much
of the rumor is true, it is quite prob.
able that Fisher, before going away,
left his written resignation to be
lain before the board.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-14
MISSOURI NEGROES
Will Meet In August to Consider Sc
rious Problems.

Kansas City, Mo-, July 14.-Leon
H. Jordan, president of the Negro
Republican League of Missouri, in
the call for the annual state conyen-
ton to be held at Springfield August
4, S and 6, says: "Questions affect
ing the moral and material welfare
of the race will occupy the major
portion of the time of the conven-
ton. At no time during all the years
of his national life has the negro
been confronted with so many differ
ent problems as now stand in his
neutrality-suspicious. that he must meet
and settle now or leave them as a
he itage for the destruction of fl
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-14
ARE TAKING STEPS TO AVERT
A THREATENING RACE
WAR.
Better Element of the Colored Pop.
u'aton c. indianapolis
Organize League.

Indianapolis. July 14.-Negro lead
ers in Indianapolis are taking steps
to avert a race war The Evansville
riCts and conflicts between the races
in other cities have made them ap.
prehensive of a similar outbreak here.
An organization that is known as the
Negro Business league has just
been formed to rid the city of what
the better element of the race calls
the Jim Crow negro. The pl ime
movers of this league are J. H Lott,
Dr. B. J. Morgan and A. E. Manning.
Gurley Brewer, editor Of the World,
the neg.o organ, who is supporting
the movement, said:
1T is very easy to determine who
the shiftless. worthless negroes are,
for they are found almost altogether
in the Indiana avenue district. Agents
of the Negro Business league will
make inquiry concerning them, and
those who will not work will be~re-
ported to the authorities with a re-
quest that they be driven out of town.
This scheme of Kidding the city of
worthless negroes is both practicable
and sensible
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-14
CANNON LIKES GREEN CORN.
Joke Related of Congressman Who
Has Degree of IL. D.

The comforting of the degree Of
LII. d. upon Joseph G. Cannon, con-
gressman from Illinois and speaker Of
the house, has brought to mind some
humorous stories. Mr.. Cannon is
man of strong likes and dislikes and
never does anything by halves. In
the list of his likings, so far as Gu
linary matters are concerned, his
fondness for green corn takes first
rank, and on this score he tells good
story at his own expense.
After long sOjourn in Washington
he returned home and started out to
look after his political fences in his
district. At small village hotel
where hc stt!r Cd for dinner a scanty
plate of fine roasting ears was placed
before him as a side dish. Immedi-
ately he abandoned the main bill of
fare and applied himself exclusively
to the green corn. When the plate
was depleted he called for more roast.
ing ears. and continued his feast un-
til he had made his entire meal from
the staple product of the Illinois pra-
ries. The hotel keeper noticed the
array of cobbs stacked upon the plate
Of the tall politician, whose identity
was unknown to him, and said:
"Say, stranger, what in thunder do
you want + board at a hotel for?
The place Tor you to put up is a liv-
cry stable. Don't you know green
fodder is dunn sight cheaper in a
barn than in a house?"
During the remainder of the cam
paign Congressman Cannon retailed
this story to his constituents-and
turned it to good account among the
corn growers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-14
WOOD C0LLARED JEFF
bayis Said Supreme Court Was Corrupt
and Wood Struck Him.
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HAMPTON, July lin the presence
l. 1000 persons Judge Carroll D.
Mood Yesterday caught Gov, jeff Da-
lis by the collar and struck at him
The personal encounter was caused
k Coy. Davis making remarks that
1udge Wood objected to as beihs a
reflection upon the honor OF the su-
9reme court.
The tVo candidates we're introduced
X Representatiye Charles Poole. Coy.
Davis spoke first. beginning at 12s:5o
md ending at $50. His speech was
Hong his usual lines, except that
5e was mo4e severe than ever before
y his attacks upon the supreme court.
4e was among d Davis crowd in
Davis stronghold and did not lose
he opportunity To make it uApieas-
INT for his opponent.
Judge Wood spoke for an hour and a
lalf after Gov Davis had finished
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-14

along the line he adopted Al TIE on
set of the campaisn aHd VS. followed
by Gov. Davis in balf=h0Gr rej5tr-
der. Il was il this speech that Sc
governor beeama So violent in AZ ~
alignment of jte sUFTzEo=5a55= a
..ees he said =tae eosrt was e@a5z.
judge Wood 6ael- e.. pg.a ~ GaIs
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speech 2nd stass.Gshat ~ la z4t la..
gende1 t. 4etIe =u5oa J#64e EEo51.s
9oaor 5ud5, Wood accept =assass
e..Hcr's statement aad 5a la@54zi=
e5osed. judge Wood is il he5e@ Coz
Davis LETT for Thornton Wbara ae
poke last night
all-steel gondolas, %, aII-steei 1iat cars,
~ horse ears and l1 stock cas-.
There have been few questions of
more general interest discussed by
the railway clubs of the country in
the past year or two than the eff.
c.ency or demerit of the steel or steel
frame car.
A leading motive power official of
one of the local railroads said that
the test in lasting qualities OF the
steel cars has hardly been Of sutfi-
eient length to adjudge its efficiency
in a definite way The policy of the
railroads to order this kind Of car
seems to indicate that the officials
have full faith in its staying qualities
as we'll as in its permitting of less
handling of freight because OF its
being double the capacity of former
cars.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-14
THEY HAVE EVIDENTLY COME
INTO THE RAILWAY WORLD
TO STAY.
Test Hardly Sufficient to Judge Their
Lastng Qualities in
Definite Way.

Steel cars have evidently come
into the railway world to stay The
ra1ld strides made in the use Of this
kind of car for freight hauling of all
kinds is demonstrated by the fact
that, While the Bessemer and Lake
Erie was the first to adopt the steel
car of big tonnage in 1887, on June
of this year there were 1OO.3SO steel
cars in use on the railroads of this
country.
mere are few railroads that are
adding the old wooden car to their
equipment This is partly due to the
necessary Increase of tonnage per car
and to the fact that most of the inter
changing lines refuse to accept the
smaller and lighter cars for hauling in
train composed mostly of the heavy
type.
1he pennsylvania has a special 100,-
Voo-pound steel car for hauling coke
from the coke regions to the various
industries reached by the lines, and
all the local roads now have big
supply OF all-steel cars for coal and
coke shipping.
Most of these cars are loaded by
ineehahlcal apparatus, and are dump
eQ oy either drop floors or side doors.
Inc increase from 10000 pounds to
iVV,ooo pounds capacity for freight
cars mas been made rapidly, and has
proved economical. Practically the
same space is occupied on the track
ny the heavy car, while it can be
moved in shorter trains, and thus
handled more quickly.
Ihe Baltimore and Ohio has steel
coal and coke cars-the gondola and
uae styles-carrying from 10000 to
iVo'ooo pounds. The Pittsburg and
Lake Erie recently received 1000 gon-
oola cars of S0,0O0-pounds capacity.
me West Side Belt line cars are
slfnllar in pattern to the latter, al.
snoush some of them are capable of
nauiing 1Oo,999 pounds. Many OF
'ne oox cars with steel underframe
are now in use and all new orders
are Tor this kind of car on the prin-
clpal roads.
The Pennsylvania lines west order
'ne steel frame cars now extensively,
-i' Oh this type being due for the
"n1ahdle in the next couple of
months.
1ne fanhandle will also receive %
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-14
GUILTY CONSCIENCE
Causes a Five.Year-Oid Boy to Cree
mate Himself.

Perry, Ia, July 14.-Frightened be-
cause he had set fire to his fathers
barn, Abner Carpenter, Jr, five years
old, hid in the haymow of the burn
ing building and was cremated by
the flames.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-14

Some wives consider marriage a
successful failure if the alimony is
satisfactory.
If beauty is only skin deep that
may explain why SO many pretty girls
are shallow.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-14
QUO =VADis?

ture generations.
Invitations have been extended to
United States Senator J. R. Burton,
OF Kansas, and Maj. William Warner,
of Kansas City to address the con-
yention.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-14

No woman would care to be an in
valid if size couldn't talk Of her all
ments
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-14

Nearly every time a fool makes a
kick some wise man gets the ben
eft Of Il.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-14

A blockhead is a man who is I'M
able to fit his opinions to your chan
mel.
Newport daily independent., 1903-08-05
SUSPENSION OF WORK
 ONLY TEMPORARY

A report has been published that work had been suspended on the pro posed extension of the Searcy & Des Arc road from Des Arc to DeValPs Bluff. In this connection George 0. Strong of DeVall's Bluff has received the following letter from First Vice. President Q. H. Warren of the Rock Island system at Chicago:
 "The suspension of work on the Searcy & Des Arc to and through De- Vall's Bluff is merely temporary, as the work will be taken up and carried to completion later on. We are very sorry that the conditions seem to make it necessary to temporarily sus- pend this work, and if there is any uneasiness on the part of our friends as to the ultimate completion of the work you are at liberty to use the in- formation in this letter to allay their fears. We regret that conditions made the temporary suspension nec- essary, but there need be no fear that it will not be resumed and completed before great while."
Newport daily independent., 1903-08-05
MAY BE MURPHY.
Newport Petition Asking Division of Time Received at Governors Office Wood May Be Rep resented By Certain
 Able Campaigner.

Little Rock, Aug. 5.-A petition signed by more than 600 representa- tive people of Newport was received at the governors office yesterday morning, in which the governor is asked to divide time with Judge Wood and MT. Vandeventer when he speaks at Newport on the 9th.
 The petition came in the nature of a surprise. Gov. Davis, it seems, had been invited to Newport and the other gubernatorial candidates had not When this fact became known the petition was circulated by Newport people and numerously signed, asking for the division of time.
 Gov. Davis spoke yesterday at Cot ton Plant. Mir. Vandeventer also spoke there. It is not known whether the news of the receipt of the petition was communicated to the governor by any of his office force, though it is presumed this was done, as Cotton Plant has both telegraphic and tele- l phonic communication with Little Rock.
 The Gazette's correspondent at Cot ton Plant was notified of the receipt of the petition here and instructed to l inquire of the governor whether he was willing to divide time with Judge Wood and Mir. Vandeventer. His an swer was:
 "Gov. Davis says he will divide time with Mr. Vandeventer and Judge Wood at Newport. He says he has a petition of five or six hundred asking him to speak at Newport"
 It may be tha9 neither will be able to be present, fs MT. Vandeventer, who was notified yesterday by tele- phone of the receipt of the petition here, said that he had been called to Missouri for day or two, but was anxious to be present at Newport and would be if it were possible. Judge Wood is at Hot Springs trying to re- gain his health and will probably not be able to go to Newport, as his phy- sicians have instructed him to rest for time, but should be not be able to go, certain very able campaigner may be sent to represent him and meet Gov. Davis. There is nothing serious about the illness of Judge Wood, but his physicians told him plainly that if he did not take rest his slight illness would become se- rious, and Judge Wood reluctantly de- cided to spend a week or two at Hot Springs.
Newport daily independent., 1903-08-05
COTTON MAKING RAPID GROWTH.

Following is the weather bureaus weekly summary of crop conditions in Arkansas for the week ending August 8, 1903:
 The temperature was nearly sea- sonal during the week; copious and fairly we'll distributed showers have occurred and were beneficial to grow ing crops, but rain is still needed in portions of the northwest and south east sections of the state. Cotton IS making rapid growth; in some sec tions it is making too much weed and fruiting we'll; most of the crop has been laid by in fair to good condition. Rains during the week have made the early corn crop and were very benefi- cial to the late planted and, except in few isolated localities, the crop is not suffering for moisture; the early crop promises to be nearly or quite up to the average. Thrashing of wheat and oats contln- ues, but the yields are generally light. The second crop of potatoes is being sown under favorable weather con- ditions. Forage crops, pastures and gardens are in excellent condition; watermelons of good quality are be- ing harvested; grapes are beginning to ripen; peaches and apples show no improvement.
Newport daily independent., 1903-08-05
NEW SLEEPING CAR SERVICE.
Trough Buffet Cars on Iron Mountain Route Between Little Rock and
 New Orleans.

The Iron Mountain Route has ex- tended it's sleeping car service be- tween New Orleans and Monroe, La., to Little Rock, so that through Pull man Buffet sleeping cars are now operated between Little Rock and New Orleans daily. These cars leave Little Rock at 8 a. m. arriving at New Orleans at 7:30 a. m. the next day, and returning, leave New Orleans at 6-20 D. m., arriving at Little Rock at 7:45 p. m. next day. Direct connect ions are made at Little Rock with trains to and from St. Louis. sd3t