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SENTENCED TO HANG.
Wallace Grant Under Sentence of
Death, Which Will Be Executed
at Gallows Friday, September
Twenty-Sixth—New Trial
Refused By Judge.
During the four years that Judge F.
D. Fulkerson has presided upon the
criminal bench of this circuit, his
honor had never been called upon to
pass sentence of death until in the
case of Wallace Grant, for the mur
der of Essex Powers, October 23, 1901.
When court convened after the
noon recess Tuesday, and a few pre
liminaries had been disposed of,
among which was the refusal by the
court to grant a new trial to Grant,
the prisoner who had been brought
into court, was requested to stand
and offer reason why he should not
receive sentence. He took matters
very indifferently to all appearances,
and as he began to speak, his face
broadened for an instant into a grin,
which was short-lived however. As
he mumbled something about it not
being right, he hardly raised his eyes
and very few could hear what he
said.
His attorneys interposed no ob
jection and Judge Fulkerson proceed
ed to pass sentence upon the con
demned man. He seemed somewhat
affected by the sentence it became
his duty to impose, and after review
ing the case in which he compliment
ed the prisoner’s attorneys for their
able defense, Friday, September the
26th between sunrise and sunset was
named for the execution day and the
sheriff directed to carry out the or
ders of court in the hanging of Wal
lace Grant.
The condemned man is a big, burly,
black negro and his features and ap
pearance do not controvert the de
fense made of insanity. The last
hanging in Jackson county was that
of the train robbers’in 1893.
CRIMINAL COURT RECORD.
State versus R. E. Johnson, burg
lary, grand larceny and receiving
stolen property; plea of guilty to
grand larceny and sentenced to 1
year, judgment for costs.
State versus Harve Osburne, grand
larceny and receiving stolen proper
ty; plea of guilty and sentence of 1
year.
State versus Arthur Alexander,
burglary; jury trial, verdict of guilty,
sentenced to 3 years in penitentiary.
R. E. Johnson, burglary, grand
larceny and receiving stolen proper
ty; plea of guilty, sentenced 1 year to
begin at expiration of other sentence.
Monroe Andrews, burglary, grand
larceny and receiving stolen proper
ty, two accounts; plea of guilty and
sentence of 1 year on each account.
Will Clinton, grand larceny and re
ceiving stolen property; continued on
motion of defendant and set for
Tuesday of second week.
Thomas Milligan, selling liquor
without license; fined $50 upon plea
of guilty.
Joe Clinton, grand larceny and re
ceiving stolen property; continued
upon motion of defendant and set for
Tuesday of second week.
CIVIL COURT RECORD.
A. J. Shell versus W. H. Shawler,
damages; continued by consent and
set for Wednesday of second week.
Louis Rossias, administrator of es
tate of R. J. Jones, deceased, versus
Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway
Company, damages; judgment con
fessed for $1250 and accepted by
plaintiff.
SMALL WRECK AT MOARK.
Moark, which is in Arkansas, though
so close to the state line that both
Missouri and Arkansas contribute to
ward giving it a name—nothing else,
was the scene of a small wreck on the
Iron Mountain Tuesday, which [did
little damage, except to delay pas
senger service, causing No. 3 to be
several hours late. A car on a freight
off the Memphis division jumped the
track and the wrecker from Poplar
Bluff and “Schlitt’s Special” from
Newport were sent to the scene to
clear the track.
STATE NEWS NOTES.
APPOINTMENTS RECALLED.
The appointments for the guberna
torial speaking at Corning and Wal
nut Ridge for Monday were recalled,
owing to the lateness of No. 4, as
Myers and Davis were both in Little
Rock. The engagements Tuesday
were for Black Rock and Mammoth
Spring.
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PEARLER POWELL DROWNED.
Corning, July 28.—Jno. Powell, of
Poyner, Mo., was drowned while
hunting pearls in Black river just be
low Murphy lake about seven miles
southwest of Corning. He had been
wading in the river for some time,
and it is thought he had an attack of
cramps or a fit. He leaves a widow
and several small children.
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WOODRUFF COUNTY GIN COMPANY.
The Farmers’ Gin Company of Au
gusta, Woodruff County, was incor
porated Monday, with a capital stock
of $6,000, of which $6,000 has been
subscribed. They will gin, buy and
sell cotton and cotton seed. The cor
porators are B. A. Fletcher, L. W.
Krumm, Ed Roddy, J. S. Aaston, J.
G. Haralson, W. A. Campbell, S.
Davis and T. E. Stanley.
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DENNIS HODGE DYNAMITED FISH.
Texarkana, July 28.—Dennis Hodge
was convicted to-day and fined $50
for killing fish with dynamite in Clear
Lake a few days ago. Twelve others
are charged with a like offense and
will be tried to-morrow. All of the
fish in Clear Lake, near this place,
one of the most delightful resorts in
the south, have been exterminated
by the above named process within
the last few days.
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SENATOR BERRY’S SERVICE.
Senator Jas. H. Berry spent a por
tion of the week in Harrison, says the
Times of that city, “shaking hands
with his Boone county friends. Both
in the matter of our public building
and the improvement of White river
Lt. o vi/1 win f 1-1 A £1 An o f ah Vina
been able to serve his North Arkan
sas constituents to advantage in Con
gress recently, and they are pleased
to have an opportunity to thank him
in person.”
FRISCO DESIRES ENTRANCE.
Hon. H. L. Remmel, chairman of
the republican state committee, and a
former citizen of Newport, who has
achieved distinction in two fields,
business and politics, dropped off
here Tuesday morning on his way
home to Little Rock from a trip to St.
Louis.
In a conversation with a reporter
for this paper, Mr. Remmel told an
incident of his visit to the World’s
Fair city, which will be of interest to
Newport, in that it relates to her
future, which must come through the
acquisition of new railroads. Mr.
Remmel while talking with Mr. Par
ker, who is the general attorney for
the Frisco System, remarked that he
had seen notice of the latter’s visit to
Newport and inquired concerning the
intentions of his road.
Mr. Parker frankly avowed that
they were to enter Newport by means
of the Bonnerville branch as soon as
possible. The Frisco management
has evidently been impressed with
our little city and what lies within its
possibilities and desire to place them
selves in a position to share the busi
ness of so prosperous a section and
promising a city.
SECURES SMALL JUDGMENT.
Searcy, July 28.—In the circuit court
here today, in the suit of Edward A.
Tabor against D. O. Kirkland, a judg
ment was obtained for the plaintiff in
the sum of $200. This was a suit by
Tabor against Kirkland for alleged as
sault committed on Tabor in the town
of Bald Knob some time last winter.
NEW WASH GOODS.
15 and 20c dimity, lawq,and baptiste
all go for 10c a yard at Chas. Meyer’s
Great Bargain Store. 67dtf.
Huffman bakes bread every day.
EXTENSION SEEMS PROBABLE.
Newport Nearly Certain to Secure
Extension of St. Louis, Memphis
& Southeastern—Surveying
Corps Working From Two
Points—Erb’s Sig
nificant Visit to
Little Rock.
That Newport will be a point on the
the extension of the St. Louis, Mem
phis & Southeastern Railway and that
this railroad will in the near future
commence the construction of its line
from its present Southern terminal,
Hoxie, in the direction of Little Rock
through Lawrence, Jackson, Wood
ruff, Prairie and Lonoke counties, ap
pear to be more than promising pos
sibilities but rather as probabilities,
which are well supported in surveys
that are now in progress.
Robert Burges, with a corps of a
dozen engineers, last week set out
from Hoxie in a southerly direction
surveying for a practicable route for
the extension. From Augusta, also, a
party of surveyors in the employ of
the St. Louis, Memphis & Southeast
ern were sent south, the first party to
make towards Newport,indicating that
this city was down on the maps of the
company for a connection.
Newman Erb, president; Judge
Frank E. Burroughs, general attorney
and E. F. Blomeyer, vice-president of
the St. Louis, Memphis & South
eastern were in Little Rock Monday
and promised to build into that city
from Hoxie via Newport and Augusta
provided Little Rock should offer
financial encouragement and a grade
of not over two per cent could be se
cured.
“We are not prepared to say ex
actly what we will do,” said President
Erb Monday. “It all depends on what
assistance we receive from the citi
zens of Little Rock and those of the
counties through which we propose
to build our extension. Our proposed
extension has not been incorporated
yet and our trip here is in response
to an invitation from the board of
trade, with which we have been in
correspondence for some time past.
We this morning submitted a pro
position to Secretary Geo. R. Brown
of the board of trade outlining what
we would expect should we extend
our line south from Hoxie to Little
Rock.
“The first concession we ask is th. t
we secure a two per cent grade, which
is ten and one-half feet to the mile,
which is the greatest grade we will
build. The second is that your cit
izens treat us as kindly in a financial
way as they did the Choctaw, to which
they gave a bonus of $100,000. On
this and the success of our engineers
in locating the necessary grade will
depend whether we build to Little
Rock.
“We would desire access to the in
dustrials of the city, which are essen
tial to the success of a railroad, which
is such an important matter that we
could not see our way clear unless we
could reach them over our own tracks.
W. J. Knox and son Willie are in
the Olyphant “neck of the woods”
squirrel hunting today.
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