The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1903-07-03


pole.
Charles Jones, accused of assault
ing a 12-year-old girl, was hanged
by mob at Elk Valley, Tenn.
Sir Thomas Upton, challenger
for the American cup with Sham
rock III, arrived in New York from
London June "a.
To date the st. Louis Worlds
Fair Company has expended the
sum of $8,5O0,O00. There yet re-
mains at the disposal of the COM
mission the sum of $5,000,000.
President Roosevelt has instruct
I'd the attorney general to lend ey-
cry assistance to the head of depart
ments of the postal service in the in
yestigations now under way by ap-
pointing special counsel when nee
essary.
Emperor William made a person.
al inspection of the American quad
ron, in charge of Admiral Cotton,
upon its arrival at Kiel, Prussia, on
a maneuvering cruise, and personal
ly complimented the officers on the
perfect condition of the warships.
Work has commenced on a sys-
tenn of wharfage and drainage at
New Orleans which is destined to
make that city one of the best sani-
tated in the world. The improve
ments will cost in the neighborhood
of 100000, the people voting to
tax themselves for that sum.
The owners of The Picket, win
ner of the American derby at Chi
cage, did not have a dollar bet on
their entry. He IS owned by Mid
dIeton & Jinglebluth, who breed and
raise all the horses they race, but
they never wager any money on re-
suits. Both are wealthy manufac-
turers, and own a fine stock farm
near Boards, Ky, where The Picket
was raised.
The Iowa state democratic con-
vention refused, by a vote of 463
TO 354 to rpahirm the Kansas CITY
national platform. The following
ticket was nominated: Governor,
J. B. Sullivan; lieutenant governor.
D. B. Butler; judge of supreme
court, John r. Caldwell; superin-
tendent of public instruction, A. B.
McCook; railroad commissioner, W.
S Porter. The platform denounced
the tariff policy of the republicans !;
vigorously opposes Imperialism,
condemns the republican financial
policy, deplores the corrupt condi-
ton of the postal service, demands
that tariff schedules be adjusted
with a view to tariff for revenue
only, and asks for a law limiting
charges by railroads.
A mob of 1000 at Wilmington,
Del, burned a negro rapist and
murderer named George T. White.
The mob overpowered the guards at
the work house where the negro was
confined, battered down the door to
his cell and hustled the prisoner
away. He was taken to a point
about four miles from town. near
the scene of his crime, where a pile
Of brush and dry timber had been
gathered. The mob formed a circle
while the leaders bound and chain
ed White to a post. The dry tim
Der saturated with coal oil was then
piled about his body and a match
applied. When the rope about the
miserable mans legs burned away
he leaped from the roaring flames,
but was knocked down and thrown
back into the burning timber. Fuel
was piled upon the body until it
was almost entirely consumed. White
confessed to assaulting and murder
ing the 17-year-old daughter of
Rev. i. A. Bishop. The crime was
a most fendish one. The victim
plead piteously to be spared, but
after accomplishing his hellish
purpose the fiend cut the girls
throat. He was captured and held
in jail for several days, and when
the court set his trial for the Sep
TENDER term, instead Of holding
special session Of curt aad giving,
him an immediate hearing, the pe6-
pie became indignant and took the
law into their own hands.
The immigration buresiu of the
treasury department has prepared a
statement showing that the month
of May last was thej banner month
of the immigration service in the
United States. During the month
10000 immigrants landed in this
country.
John Browning, colored, under
sentence for murder, suicided in
Jail at Georgetown. s. c.. a few