The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-11-02


boys near there. The accessory, a
white woman. followed the negro to
Toyah. and they were living togeth-
er. The COWBOYS went in the night
and placed a rope around the neck
of the negro. He was dragged to
death and then hanged.
Charles w. Morse has increased
his already large ownership of
steamships in the coast trade by the
purchase of the Mallory line from
the firm of G. H. Mallory & Co.
The transaction involves the trans
fer of eleven steamships plying be-
tween New York. Brunswick, Ga,
Key West, Mobile and Galveston.
1t was reported at Okmulgee, I.
! T., that Thomas Calhoun, colored,
went to the home of another colored
family named Wanzer, and demand
ed that Mrs. Wanzer tell him where
his wife. who had left him, was,
and on being refused shot Mrs.
Wanzer. who died.
Carrying out further the policy
under which arms surrendered by
the Cuban insurgents have been de-
stroyed, orders have been given that
a great quantity of arms, the ae-
emulation of forty years, now
stored in the basement of Moro cas-
tie, Havana. be thrown into the
sea.
The financial and banking centers
were relieved greatly by cable infor-
nation that after negotiations be-
tween the Bank of France and the
Bank of England, the Bank of
France released 250,000,000 francs
$50, 000,000) as an aid to the
Egyptian crop movement which has
called heavily on England's gold
supply, causing increase in Bank OF
England discount rate last Friday.
The information greatly relieves the
situation in this country and will be
felt especially in the stock market
where a vast volume of liquidation
followed the announcement made
last Friday by the Bank of England.
New York iobbers report the lar
gest business ever known to date
in October
The Merchants and Planters
bank at Indianola, Miss, has been
placed in the hands of a receiver on
the application of Memphis and
New Orleans banking institutions,
which present claims aggregating
$35, 700. Marvin Brown, of Indian
ola, was named as receiver.
Miss Nettie Brown, % years old,
said to be the daughter of ID. c.
Brown, of Lincoln, Neb., committed
Kansas City, Kas., by taking car
bolic acid.
Uncle John Tate. a negro, who
lives on the Ashford plantation,
known through north Alabama as
''The Plantation" near Mooreville,
in Limestone county, seven miles
northeast Of Decatur. claims to be
the oldest living person in all the
south. From all information the old
negro is considerably over 100 years
of age. He has a paper from Mr..
T. Il. Ashford, of Birmingham, Ala,
in which Mr. Ashford says that, ac-
cording to the best information OBJ
tainable. John Tate was born in the
year 1900. TIE old negro says that
he is older than this. He claims
that he was born about the year
1895. and therefore claims to be
about 40 or Ill years of age.
Three cars of an electric train on
the West JERSEY and Seashorc rail-
road jumped the track on the bridge
over the Thoroughfare. at Atlantic
City, y. j., going off into the water.
Two of the cars were submerged
with their living freight, but the
third car was not submerged until
! the people were able to get out or
were rescued. The dead was vari-
ousl Y estimated at from So to rs.
Many of the injured were perhaps
fatally hurt,
Three persons were killed and a
number injured by an explosion of
natural gas at Cofeyville, Kas.,
which wrecked five two-story bust
ness buildings.
Fire partially destroyed Trow-
bridge hall, the young ladies' dormi-
tory of Defiance (Ohio) college, and
Sc girls had narrow escape.
The San Francisco school beard
states that it was simply obeying the
laws of California when it estab-
lished separate schools for japanese
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