The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-09-10

policy of $1,000. The company he
gan issuing insurance in August 1866.
and has S2,50O,000 II force.
William II. Taft WI make trave>
| ing campaign during the month o.
October. devoting his time principally
! TO those states which the National
Committee may consider doubtful, If
the ideas of both the candidate and
| his national chairman Frank II Hitch.
! cock are carried out.
The Republican National Committee
has issued the campaign textbook for
| 1908. Its $50 pages contain in concise
form such information as is likely to
be required by speakers and writer's
| and other campaign workers.
Leon s. Gutenberg, one of Little
Rocks best-known young business
men, was shot and killed by Charles
b. Parsell. There were no eye
Witnesses to the killing and Parsell re-
fuses to talk, merely stating that he
killed Ehrenberg in self-defense. The
| men were former partners in the
plumbing business, and were believed
to be on friendly terms.
John r. Early, the leper, signed his
pension certificate without touching it,
except with the point of the pen and
without seeing it. The paper was
covered when it was handed to Early,
little spaces just large enough for the
signature being exposed. In these
spaces Early wrote his name, and the
covering was then removed by the
health authorities and burned.
Not only will Mrs. Peter c. Hams,
the wife of Captain Peter c. Hams Jr.,
who, with his brother 7. Jenkins
Hams, is a prisoner in Long Island
Prison, charged with numbering Vii
liam f. Annis, at the Bayside Yacht
club be called on to testify at her
husbands trial, but it is expected that
the mother of the brothers will take
the stand in their behalf.
The city authorities at Springfield,
| H., have agreed to make good the re-
cent losses by fire, due to the riots in
that town, for which the companies
We're not liable on account of the riot
clauses in their policies. 1t is under
stood that an agreement has been
made to have the city pay - per cent
of the total damages and The owners
will have to lose the remainder.
The state saloon or liquor diSnon-
! sary system in Oklahoma, as n salary
! producer and money maker, is not
proving the success anticipated The
Rev. }. j. Thompson. who left the pas
torate of a Presbyterian church 10 ac-
| cept a position as district dispensary
| inspector, has reported that the county
dispen.5aries in his district are moi do
! ing a thriving business.
Fire in Sumner, Miss, 4 town OF
! 1000 inhabitants. wiped out the bust
ness section and part of the resi-
! dence section, causing a loss of $780,
! 600. A. NJ. PhippS, newspaper man.
who was asleep in the office of the
| Sumner News, with which he was con
nectcd. was burned 10 a crisp before
| aid reached him.
The old Secoy cabin in Oklahoma, in
which Jesse James passed several
weeks, has been destroyed by fire. In
1873 James assisted in the capture OF
desperate in the cabin. The cabin
stood in a dense wood some distance
| from a road.
Chester S. Jordan accused of the
murder of his wife and the attempt TO
throw her dismembered body into the
ocean. stoically answered the Ques-
tions of Judge Wentworth in the
Somervile station. when he was
| brought in for his preliminary hearing.
Going in direct opposition to His
! Majcstiy. King Edward, who had eX-
pressed the hope that she might wed
a member of royalty he had picked
! out for her Mrs Marshall Field il, of
| Chicago, became the wife Of Baldwin
! A. Drummond second son of the late
! Edgar a. Drummond, at the Registry
! Office.
That Helen Maloney. daughter OF
Martin Maloney, is preparing 10 enter
q convent as the solution of the matri-
monial complications into which she
! has plunged herself, is now virtually
assured as the result of recent devel-
! opments at the Maloney summer home
at Spring Lake, y. J.
\ negro who had attacked Mrs.
! Foster, residing near Wesson, Tenn,
was shot and killed by the husband Of
the woman, Foster was at work in
/ field when he was attracted To the
| house by hearing his wife screaming.
Capt. G. A. Merriam, United States
navy, commandant of the Portsmouth
navy yard died following an operation
for appendicitis. He was IS years OF
age. He commanded the battleship
Missouri on the recent cruise of the
baitleship feet from Hampton Roads
To San Francisco.
The sunken hulks of the Japanese
battleship Yashima and the Russian