Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-08-27
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office of the comptroller Of the cur
rency has just succeeded in identi-
flying about $4,000 worth of nation
al bank notes in box Of fragments
delivered to it several day ago by O.
D. Earle, a citizen of Morrilton,
Ark. Earle buried $4,000 worth of
bank notes in the earth in 1904 for
safekeeping because he had lost faith
III banks. When he dug up the tin
box in which he had deposited the
notes before covering them with
earth he discovered the box had rust
ed and the bills decayed until it was
impossible for him to identify them.
He then appealed to a Morrilton
banker to help him. Accompanied
by the cashier of the bank at Morrill,
ton, Lloyd Rainwater, and with a
letter of introduction from his men,
Der of Congress, Charles C. Reid,
Earle went to the Treasury Depart
ment and handed in the box of
mouldy paper Mrs. A. E. Brown,
the expert in the redemption divi-
sion, was put on the work of identi-
fication. At II o'clock Thursday,
after working three days, she had
identified all but $1,000 of the bills,
and the treasurer paid Earle the
money for their redemption. 1t is
not unlikely, Mrs. Brown thinks,
that she will ultimately recover most
Of the other $1,000 from the frag-
ments.
A record breaking trial, as to the
time involved and the unusual hour
of the hearing, took place at New
port Thursday morning. Ralph
Young, the negro who recently at
tempted criminal assault upon Miss
Ida Edwards, a young lady belong.
ing to one of the most highly re-
spected families Of that section, was
captured Wednesday and spirited
that night to Newport. With un-
usual dispatch the court was con-
vened for the hearing and at ?
o'clock Thursday morning the negro
was brought in for trial He plead
ed guilty and was given a 21-ycars
sentence in the state penitentiary.
As quietly as he was taken to town
he was again swiftly spirited away
from Newport, practically before any
knowledge of his presence in the
town had had an opportunity to be
noted. 1t is presumed he will be
taken at once to the penitentiary at
Little Rock.
John Williams, a negro mail hust-
Ter, and Hurbert II. Mitchell, a
white car gaser at the Union depot
at Texarkana had a fight Wednes-
day morning, in which Mitchell
got the worst of it and had to be
carried home in an ambulance, while
the negro had to be locked up in the
mail room at the depot until the
officers arrived to prevent the crowd
from doing him violence. The
negro pulled his mail trucks over
the gas hose and broke it and after
few words the negro knocked
Mitchell down. Williams is now out
on a $3.50 bond awaiting his pre-
liminary trial.
A proclamation calling for a spe-
cial election to elect a successor to
succeed j. E. Riddick, associate JUS
tee of the Supreme Court, deceased,
issued by Governor Pindall and dat
ell August 10, was placed on the
proclamation book in the secretary
of states Office Thursday. The date
set for the election in the proclama-
ton is September II, when the
general election will be held. TIE
candidate to succeed the late Justice
J. E. Riddick is Jesse Hart, who was
to the position upon the
death of Justice Riddick.
The contract for the furniture for
the new 100000 high school build
ing at Pine Bluff was awarded to
Tomlinson & Knox, their bid being
$500. The contract provides for
100 school desks, s6 recitation
benches, 521 opera chairs for the
auditorium and 20 desks for the use
of pupils taking the commercial
course