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Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12
N AUDER
 DIED IN JAIL.
Confessed That He Intended t Commit Assault Upon a
 White Woman.

Magnolia, Aug. 5. A negro named Young died in jail this morning from the effects of a wound received Tuesday night in fleeing from the residence of Ed Skinner, who lives ten miles west of town.
 Young was about g years of age and entered the Skinner home about 3 o'clock Tuesday morning for the purpose of com hitting an assault. Mrs. Skin- ner awoke as he approached her and her screams quickly brought her son to the room with a gun in his hand. The negro scufied with the boy over the gun and it was discharged, the load enter ing the ceiling.
 Then Frank Maulding, a board CT, rushed in just as the negro jumped from the house and ran to the yard fence. As he was leaping the yard fence Maulding shot him. The negro was brought to jail here and died at 4 o'clock Wednesday morning. Just before his death he con fessed to Sheriff E. w. Warren and Dr. Longino that an assault was his intention for entering the house of MT. Skinner. He confessed to having gone there on three other previous occasions for the same purpose, but he was frightened each time before entering the house.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12
ARRESTED FOR VAGRANCY.
Former Member of Worlds Fair Board and One of Davis
 Appointees.

Little Rock, Aug. 6. Sam Cohn, a member of the first Ar kansas worlds fair board, ap- pointed by Gov. Davis in 1901, but who was later removed from the board hy the governor, was arrested by Constable E. S Jones last night upon a charge of vagrancy, on warrant sworn out by Assistant Prosecuting At torney Lewis Rhoton.
 He was taken before Magis- trate Meisner and placed under bond to appear in court Saturday morning at 10 o'clock and answer to the charge.
 Cohn was very indignant over the arrest.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12
WILL SELL ARKANSAS
 BUILDING AT AUCTION.

The Arkansas worlds fair board has decided to advertise for bids for the sale of the state building on the fair grounds. At a regular meeting of the con- mission this action was decided upon. They decided that bids would be opened September 3 at 12 o'clock noon. The terms upon which the sale is to be made are one-fourth cash, the balance to be paid when the building is re- leased December 15.
 The building cost S18.000 and the commission has already re- ceived several inquiries from residents of St. Louis in regard to the disposition of the state building, and this led to the de cision to dispose of it to the highest bidder.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12
MOUNTAIN BRAKEMAN
 TRIED FORGERY.
Issued Bogus Checks for Branch Passengers Which He Sold
 to the Scalpers.

J. J. Davis, an Iron Mountain brakeman has been arrested in Little Rock charged with the forgery of train checks or tick cts on a more or less extensive scale during the last month or so.
 About a month ago a block of blank train checks, about forty in number, was stolen from a conductor on the Fort Smith road. These checks are given a passenger on transfer to another branch when the through tickets are taken up, and are signed by the conductor and punched be- fore they are good. It is all legged that forged signatures and punch marks were placed upon these blanks and that they were then sold to scalpers and others for whatever he could get for them.
 Davis was taken to his room in a boarding house at Thlr-. and Broadway by Constable Jones and other officers. At first he took them to the Wro4s room, but they discovered his slbter- fuge and then secured rhe ser vices of the landlady to show them his room. There they found the rest of the stolen blank tickets and the punches he had used in preparing them, indicat- ing that he had been doing a wholesale business. He then broke down and intimated that he would make a full confession and duplicate others.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12
TED1En TURNS OUT
 TO BE A GIRL.
Supposed Simple Minded Boy Proves to Be a Girl Discov-
 cry Made in St. Louis.

Tedder, the lad who spent sev- eral days in Newport few weeks ago and in his simple minded love of attention and notoriety, was the subject of many pranks and the jollying Iof crowds of children, has proven to be a girl, the discovery being made in St. Louis.
 For two days Mrs. Hattie Bates of 1889 Division street, St. Louis, says the Globe-D Democrat, thought she was giving a home and shelter to an unfortunate boy, but yesterday discovered that her charge was a girl mas querading in male attire. The girl gives her name as Lucinda Harper, says she is 13 years old, and that dressed as a boy she
 
 beat her way from her home in Hardin, Desha county, Ark, to St. Louis in a box car.
 As soon as Mrs. Bates discov- eaed the sex of her charge she informed the police, and the girl was taken to the 4th district station by Patrolman John Lan- cey and placed in charge of the matron. The girl says that her father and mother are both dead and that she is the only heir to a farm in Desha county and to S6000 which her father had on deposit in a bank in Hardin.
 According to the girls. story when a guardian was about to be appointed for her she decided to run away. Realizing that she could make little headway as a girl she had her hair shingled and bought complete outfit of male attire. She went to the station in Hardin without being recognized and concealed herself in a car of the first freight train that came along.
 Lucinda was almost starved when she applied to Mrs. Bates Monday for food and shelter. The police will hold her a prison CT until the authorities of Desha county can be heard from.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12
AUSTRIAN FOUND
 DEAD IN THE HILLS.
Spent the Night of July "A in Oil Trough and Was Sick Then.
 Body Badly Mutilated.

Batesville, Aug. 4. = News reached here this morning that a dead man had been found ii lAe hills near Oil Trough.
 Papers on his person showed he was an Austrian named Jo- |sephus Augerbrand. He was naturalized in Iowa in 1903 and had a deed to 40 acres of land in Saline county, Arkansas. On his person was $27. 50 in money.
 The man spent the night of July 24 with a Mir. Tollz, near Oil Trough, and left next morn ing, saying he was sick. The body was considerably mutilated, wild animals having partially eaten it. Decomposition had also set in.
 The coroner's jury viewed the body this morning and rendered a verdict that the man had come to his death from unknown causes. The body was buried near where it was found. The money and papers on his body are in the hands of Sheriff Nor gan.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12
DAVIS BOASTS
 CANDIDATE MYERS
Also Takes Shot at Attorney Gen eral and Secretary of State
 at Mammoth Spring.

Mammoth Spring, Aug. B.. Governor Davis spoke for about an hour and a half at the opera house last night to a good sized audience. His speech was punc- tuated by frequent applause.
 In referring to the appoint ment of the election commits sioners he charged the attorney general and secretary of state with attempting to turn the state government over to the Republicans.
 He arraigned the Republican party of Arkansas for it's misrule during the days of reconstruc- tion and charged that Harry Myers was insincere, and that 1t was not true that Myers, if elected governor, would appoint Democrats to fill the offices made vacant by death or otherwise of the Democratic incumbents. He said that Myers would appoint the meanest Republicans that he could find.
 Gov. Davis assured his hearers that there were three requisites necessary for him to appointlany one to office. The applicants must be white, they must be Democrats and they must be Jeff Davis men.
 He made a strong appeal to the Democrats co turn out and vote their full strength at the September election. He showed that the assessed valuation of the property of state had been increased over forty-eight mil lion dollars during his three years administration, and said he would recommend to the next legislature a reduction of one half of the present rate of taxa tion.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12
BATESVILLE AUDIENCE
 APPLAUDS MYERS.


 Batesyille, Aug. 4. Harry H. Myers spoke last night at the court house to about 800 people, Republicans and Democrats. He reviewed the situation from a standp sint of independent thought aid none of the bitter ness and vindictiveness of parti- san feeling entered into his argu- ment why the state should be better governed. Applause ire quently greeted his efforts ant. his speech was well received.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12
SEPTEMBER 21 IS
 ARKANSAS DAY.
No Definite Plans Are Yet Made for the Proper Observance
 of the Occasion.

St. Louis, Aug. 5. Acting Secretary of Ceremonies Cockrell of the Worlds Fair stated today that he had just been notified of the selection of September 21 by the Arkansas state commission as Arkansas Day, but that as far as he was aware no plans for the observance of the day had yet been made.
 President George R. Bedding of the commission said: "On September 21 we will try to make plain just how much we appreciate the worlds fair and what it is doing for the people of Arkansas. A greater number of people than have ever before left the state in a body will cross the boundary line on their way to St. Louis"
 In addition to the governor of the state, each of the congress men, members of the legislature and executives of the chief cities have promised to come. One feature-of the day will be the distribution of a carload of the same kind of red apples which so many people tasted when the state pavilion was dedicated.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12
NEGRO PORTER
 NOW IMPLICATED.
of Train Checks Was Carried on at Wholesale Rate
 By Brakeman Davis.

Little Rock, Aug. 6. Andrew Boatright, a negro porter at the Iron Mountain railroad depot, was arrested yes terday morning by Constable E. s. Jones on a warrant charging him with steal ing pass checks from the road to the value of $1,OO0.
 He is supposed to have been the tool of the two white men, J. J. Davis and H. c. Wallace, who are confined in jail on a similar charge, and the medium through which they obtained the checks which they are alleged to have afterward forged and dis posed of.
 The negro confessed to Con- stable Jones that he had often given bundles of the blank checks to Davis and Wallace and that he was paid 25 and 50 cents at time. His statement is in the hands of the constable, as is also the alleged confession of Davis to the forging of the checks.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12

two stab wounds in the right side of the abdomen.
 Gray insisted almost to the last that he was going to recover anI refused to maze any statement about the difficulty.
 The remains will be buried Sunday at Gilbert's chapel in the Oil Trough bottom.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12

was sent u2 from Mississippi county Tor assault with intent to kill about two years ago and served only two months, when he escaped
 He will be carried back to Lit tie Rock this week and turned over to the authorities with fif- teen years hanging over him.
 Bush Wise, a negro who mur- dereds his wife a month ago, was given a sentence of ten years and will be taken down with Cribbs.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12
DESPERATE CHARACTER
 SENT TO PENITENTIARY.


 Pocahontas, Aug. 4. n Will Cribbs, desperate character who has been terrorizing the people of Cherokee Bay, about ten miles north of here, for the past four months. has just re- ceived sentence of five years for burglary. He was captured by the sheriff, indicted by the grand jury, tried and convicted by the court in two days.
 He is an escaped convict, hav- ing one three and one seven-year sentence hanging over him. He
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12

etc. The party will leave Pine Bluff on the 20th inst, and q special train will be secured if the required number of people subscribe to the trip. It is evil dent that a large party will go as Pr. Jordan is receiving many applications.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12
RUFFIANS ASSAULT
 TRAIN c CONDUCTOR.
Waited Until Train Had Passed Borders of Their Home Coun- ty and Then Attacked
 Conductor.

The Eureka Times-Echo pub- fishes the following account of a recent sensational affair on the ISt. Louis & North Arkansas rail- road:
 City Engineer Sam Bell re- turned from Flippin, Marion county, where for the past week he has been laying out the Flip pin townsite. He reports that the tracks of the Iron Mountain extension will reach Melville within a day or two, but trains will be unable to pass through the upper tunnel for nearly a year.
 He gives an account of a das- tardly occurrence on the train yesterday. Saturday evening several rowdies from Marshall came over to Eureka Springs and returned home Sunday forenoon. It seems that they did not like the train crew, and as soon as they had passed over the Searcy county line they assaulted Con- ductor Nichols and Brakeman Harry Linzee of the St. Louis & North Arkansas railroad. They used knives on Linzee with fear full results, and he is confined to his home on Pine street today with number of serious cuts on his body and face.
 He finally managed to get away and jumped from the train. Con- ductor Nichols gave the seven rowdies a fight and although se- riously bruised up was able to take his train out again this forenoon.
 It seems that it was a premedi- tated affair and that the rufians feel secure from punishment in their home county; in fact the marshal of the town of Marshall was on the car during the as- sault and made no effort to in- terfere.
 We understand that an effort will be made to bring the parties before the United States court, and if this succeeds they will get their just punishment and 1t will have the effect of breaking up what is known as the Searcy county clique, which runs things with a high hand.
 Another matter that is exas- perating the good citizens of that vicinity is the scandalous treat ment that 150 negro convicts are receiving at the hands of heart less overseers on the railroad construction there. They are being beate n uselessly and un- mercifully.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12
GROVER GRAY DEAD.

Grovelgs Gray the young mar who was stabbed a week ago Friday night at dance in the Elmo neighborhood, died of his wounds at 2:l5 o'clock Saturday morning, after a week of intense suffering.
 Young Gray was 19 years old and he and another young man got into a difficulty at the dance which resulted in him receiving
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12
MRS. BROWN DEAD.

Pine Bluff, Aug. 5. Mrs. M. B. Brown, aged 82, died last night at her home here, after an illness of some weeks from old age and general infrmities. Her husband is in the employ of the Sawyer & Austin Lumber Com pany.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12
MAYOR DISQUALIFIED

Little Rock, Aug. 6. Cha; C. Henry was appointed ys day as the Republican md of the board of election missioners of Jackson courk s fill the vacancy made b7 resignation of Mayor Grubbs of Newport, wh disqualified through hold office of mayor.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12

We notice the name of George A. Hipolite of Newport among those registered from Arkansas at the state building in St. Louis lthis week.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12
RETURNED WITH PRId

Pine Bluff, Aug. 5. Sheriff Mason Philpc d last night from Vicksb] where ne went to arr 'Lennox, a negro, arr in 1895 for burglary, his bond. Mir. Phil Lennox with him.
 Robert 1Wa1
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12
SHOOTING MAY
 TERMINATE FATALLY.
Story of Trouble Between Jack son and Purnell in Latter's
 Blind Tiger.

Walnut Ridge, Aug. A.. Infor- nation from the hospital at Jonesboro indicates that there is very little hope for the recovery of Oscar Jackson, who was Ehota here Tuesday by c. Purnell. I% is stated that blood poison hasV set in and that Jackson persist ently refuses to allow the leg to be amputated.
 There is very little information at hand as to how the shooting occurred. From the best ob- tainable it seems that a blind tiger said to be operated by Pur-
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12

saying 10 the oeher that ". tiger was no place for tkaM | be, or that the place should A closed up.
 As they reached the door Jac| son received a pistol ball in tl left knee, breaking the bone al making an ugly wound.
 Jackson was taken to his honi where a physician examined D wound and announced that was of a very serious natsrfl afl and recommended that he sent to the hospital at Jonesb(
 Purnell has not been seen si Jackson was taken from
 place, and it is thought that has left the country.
 seems to be no doubt buo
 Purnell did the shooting.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-08-12

nell was the cause or culty, and that Jackso pany with 3 man nam, went into the place taking several drinks was said which Jackso| like and he proceeded the floor IF. 1avis.
 'arnell, acc riding tooS n3 part F. llle n
 .4e troz.lelle vas sooM stwean tho m=sl and III U leave the place
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-26
CHINESE IN PISTOL DUEL.
Members of Rival Societies FIRE
Fifth Shots an ChinatO7cn.

Fully fifty pistol shots We're exchanged in
front OF Nos 10 and II BOwery last night at
II 40 o'clock. by eight or ten Cinnamon MEM
bers of the Hip Sing Tong, the reform organiza-
ton. which occupies part of the building at No.
u Bowery and members of the On Leong Tong.
the Chinese secret organization which fosters
opium traffic and gambling.
So far known Cinnamon We're shot but
two men were hit. and one is thought TO be NOR
laborer, of No. Jos Nassau-st.. Brooklyn. He
was coming out of the saloon at No. Bowery.
when he fell, struck in the abdomen by bull
let. The other wounded man was Horace Laudt
an Italian machinist of No. 6 RooseveIt-st.. who
was shot in the hip
The shooting was between Doyers and Peu sts,
and near the Tuxedo and Oriental restaurants a
district where sidewalk and pavement traffic IS
heavy at that hour of the night. As soon as IL
realized that the reports were of firearms
and not of firecrackers the crowds in the street
began running for shelter. The fusillade of bull
let's lasted minute or two. Some eyewitnesses
asserted that many hundred shots
were fired although the police say that half
that number is nearer correct.
Patrolman Ferguson in uniform and Detective
MCGOWAN began searching for the fighters who
had scatter 81 as soon the shooting was ended
In No. y Mott-st. were found four members Of
the Hip Sing Tong all armed. They were ar
rested.
Wong Lung. one prisoner who was identified
by Laudi as one of the shooters. wore d coat of
fine metal mail. Ong Lung, another was pro-
tected by a heavily padded coat of leather and
heavy fabric. Each man had revolver that
had been recently used.
few moments previous to the shooting Lieu
tenant General Won Loewenfeld and Major Count
Won SchmettOw. special commissioners from
Germany TO the recent unveiling in Washington
of the statue of Frederick the Great had gone
over the scene of the shooting in company with
Police Inspector Titus
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-26
DRAG HIM ACROSS CAR TRACKS.
Detective, in Stopping Runaways, Narrowly
Escapes Being Hit by Car.

Detective John Dillon, of tho Thirty-eghth Pre-
cinct The Bronx, stopped a runaway team Of
horses Yesterday near st. Peters Episcopal Church
W., chester In front of which a of chill
dren were playing. HIS act undoubtedly saved the
lives OF several. The team, attached to a heavy
wagon belonging to the odd Fellows Home at
JTnionport was driven by August Norcross. AT
Ntneteth-st and Avenue b the horse became
frightened and ran Norcross, trying to stop them.
lost his balance and fell on the pole between the
animals.
Dillon saw the runaway team dashing stralght
toward the children. Running into the middle Of
the street he grabbed the bride of one OF the
horses and swerve the team out of the path of the
little ones He was dragged more than two blocks
and across the Union Railway tracks. just missing
a trolley car but ne cung desperately to the Birdie
and managed stop the horses after he had forced
them into a sandbank Norris-ave. He was
caught beneath the horses. but escaped with
bruises and n bad shaking up. Three of the
drivers ribs broken and his right leg was
fractured.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-26
NEARLY GOT THE $4,000.
Burglars Surprised Just IN Time
Escape 4mid Bullets.

Bridgeton N j.. Nov. 2J (SpeciaD.-With their
fingers almost clutching $4,000 in cash. two
professional cracksmen surprised in the
office of the Whildin Moore Glass Company's
works in this city tonight. With bound they
were out of the window with pistol shots flying
after them. They managed to escape. Word
has been telegraphed in all directions for the
police to be the alert for them.
Although night shift OF men is on duty at
the glass works. the office closes at D p. IN.
Tomorrow wifi lie payday, and the money had
been drawn from the bank and placed in the
safe to pay the large force at the plant. Ed
ward Stanger, an office employe. had work to
look after tonight and he was greatly surprised
TO unusual light in the office, which is
only thirty yards from the busy glass factory
where hundreds of men were at work. AS he
opened the door he saw two men leap from
window and fly from the place. The safe was
complete wreck and the cracksmen had reached
the compartment containing the fortune. which
in few more seconds would have been in their
clutches.
Mr. Stanger gave the alarm and grabbed one
of two revolvers kept in the office He fired
several shots at the fleeing FORMS but none took
effect The burglars had used dynamite to blow
open the door while the night shift of glass
blowers were busy with their work near at hand,
but the noise Of the heavy explosion had doubt
The robbers left fine kit Of tools.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-26
JUST 4 FEW BRUISES.
Subray Jonah Hurled Forty Feet
by ErDress-Third MiShap.

Struck by an express train going forty miles
an hour yesterday, John Gravannf. OF No. 224
Chrystie-st., a subway track worker. was hurled
twenty feet between the pillars and over to the
local tracks and yet he escaped with only few
slight bruises and electricity burns. He was
able to get out of the way of the local train.
Gravanni is known the Subway Jonah
among the employees in the tunnel He has been
the victim of two other accidents in it. On the
two previous occasions he came in contact with
the third rail. and received shocks severe
enough, seemingly, TO kill, but he was only
temporarily disa bled.
Gravanni was working the express tracks
with a gang yesterday, about one hundred feet
south OF the Spring-st station. He heard the
roar of an approaching train, and his fellow en-
ployes shouted to him to get out of the way.
He too slow in moving, and his left leg
was on the rail when the express hit him. The
shoe of the motor struck his knee, there
was a binding flash of electricity and Gra-
vanni went hurting through the air TO the
northbound local track.
Gravanni era wled off the track just in time to
escape being run over by a northbound local
He taken to st. Vincent's Hospital, where
he made light of the accident, and declared that
his luck in escaping death twice before had
continued to stand by him.