VOLUME II. NEWPORT. ARKANSAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1903 NUMBER 258
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Henry ©wen
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AN*
OCULIST.
'•VER BAILEY BROS’. DRY GOODS STORE
JACK JONES,
The Crack Barber, keeps a neat
and busy little shop. Upper end
of Front street. Expert tonso
rialists. Easy shaves and the best
haircuts. Our work pleases.
“Come on, ye stubby beards.”
JACK HERRON.
Back again in Newport and
Prepared to do all kinds ol
Brick Work.
Repair Work Promptly
Attended To.
MRS. MARY K. EAGLE.
Wife of Ex-Governor And One of
Arkansas’ Best Known Women
Passes Away—Bids Her
Husband a Touching
Good-Bye.
Mrs. Mary Kavanaugh Oldham
Eagle, wife of Ex-Gov. James P.
Eagle, died Sunday morning at the
family residence, 219 East Seventh
street, after an extended illness. The
funeral will take place at 10 o’clock
this morning from the residence, and
the interment will be in Mount Holly
cemetery. During yesterday hun
dreds of friends called at the residence
to take a last look at the features of
one whom they had known so well in
life. A large number of telegrams of
sympathy were received from all
parts of the United States, the news
of the death having gone out Sunday
night.
“You have always been a good,
kind husband, and I have had a happy
home here. I am sorry to have to
leave you alone, and sorry to leave
our happy home, but you yet have a
great work to do, and I have a better
and happier home up yonder, and am
glad to get to it. Good-bye, dear.”
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spirit of one of the most distinguished
women in Arkansas took its flight to
the great beyond, and there was sor
row, not only in tne stately mansion
over which she had for years reigned
a beloved queen, but in many homes
in the city of Little Rock and the
state of Arkansas. Mrs. Eagle has,
for the past fifteen years, become
known throughout the state and na
tion, and numbered among her per
sonal friends the foremost women of
America.—Gazette.
GOVERNOR’S PROCLAMATION.
Executive Chamber,
Little Rock, Feb. 16, 1903.
Death having claimed one of the
purest, noblest and grandest women
of Arkansas, Mrs. James P. Eagle,
wife of our former chief executive, it
is with deep regret and sad hearts that
we bow to this great affliction; and in
honor of her memory, I, Jefferson
Davis, chief executive of the state of
Arkansas, do hereby order and direct
that all business be suspended at the
state capitol until high noon on the
17th inst. in honor and commemora
tion of the obsequies of this noble
woman.
Given under my hand and official
seal, this 16th day of February, 1903.
JEFFERSON DAVIS,
Governor of Arkansas.
RIVER STILL RISING.
White River registered 22.8 feet on
the Newport guage Tuesday morning
at eight o’clock, a rise of 3.7 feet the
preceding 24 hours.
At Mt. Olive, 62 miles above Bates
ville, by the river channel, White rose
18 inches Monday night, which indi
cates that not much further rise from
that stream need be expected unless
the snow is melted by a warmer tem
perature than now prevails.
All points on Black River however,
promise a heavy rise and many river
men refuse to modify their first fore
bodings and still declare that White
will reach 30 feet on the Newport
guage.
Should the cold weather continue,
these calculations are probably too
high, but few doubt that the danger
line of 26 feet will be passed and even
the high bottom land overflowed.
GREAT WEATHER CALENDAR.
The Chattanooga Medicine Co , the
manufacturers of McElree’s Wine of
Cardui and Thedford’s Black-Draught
have just issued the 1903 edition of
the Cardui Weather Chart and Calen
dar. This Calendar has sprung into
universal prominence by accurately
foretelling the Galveston flood and
predicting the droughts and floods of
the past summer, a year ahead of
each occurence. This office has just
received one of these calendars,
which consists of twelve sheets of
paper, 13x20 inches in size, all fasten
ed together with a gilt tin strip and a
brass loop hanger. Each sheet con
tains the calendar for one month in
figures that can be read across the
room. Under the figures patent
weather signals indicating Prof.
DeVoe’s Weather forecasts for every
day in the year appear. We under
stand a few copies of it can be secur
ed by sending 10 cents apiece in pos
tage stamps to The Chattanooga Med
icine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.
IRON MOUNTAIN’S
NEW DIVISION.
Not ice Given In Official Circles of
New (Division to Become
Effective March First.
Effective March 1, another division
will de added to the Iron Mountain
Railroad between St. Louis and Little
Rock for freight runs, Hoxie being
the headquarters of the newly formed
division. The new division will be
from Hoxie, Ark., to Piedmont, Mo.,
a distance of 99 milds. It will have
240 miles of track. A number of men
will go from the Arkansas division to
Hoxie to take runs on the new divi
sion.
Trainmaster W. S. Hobbs of the
Arkansas division has posted a notice
to trainmen and conductors wishing
to work in the new division to tile
applications with him. Under the
agreement with the brotherhood
orders two-thirds of the men will be
taken from the Missouri division and
one third from the Arkansas division.
The mileage taken from them is
eighty miles from the Arkansas divi
sion and 160 miles from the Missouri.
The new freight division will be
added to the Missouri division, which
jurisdiction will be extended to Hoxie,
giving 226 miles on the main line.
The new Hoxie division will be as
follows:
Main line, Piedmont to Hoxie, 99
miles.
Doniphan branch,' Neelyville, Mo.,
to Doniphan, 20 miles.
Cairo branch, Poplar Bluff to Cairo,
74 miles.
Dexter branch, Dexter to Grays
Point, 37 miles.
Total, 240 miles.
After March 1, trainmen and con
ductors on freight trains will run from
Little Rock to Hoxie on the north
end instead of to Poplar Bluff, which
has for many years been the stopping
point. At Hoxie a new crew will
carry the train to Piedmont, where
another crew will take it into St.
Louis. This cuts the main line mile
age on the north end from 179 to 119
miles. Now the north end run is the
longest on the Iron Mountain system.
As one-third of the freight conduc
tors and brakeman for the new divi
sion will come from this division,
there will probably be a good many
move from Little Rock to Hoxie dur
ing the next two weeks.
SERVICE DISCONTINUED
TEMPORARILY.
The Iron Mountain fast mail train
No. 3, which arrived in Little Rock
at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon from
St. Louis, did not carry a dining car
as usual, and the through passengers
ate in the depot dining room.
It was stated that the cutting out of
the diner was only temporary, being
due to the burning of one of them
Friday night between here and St.
Louis. That there was no diner in
St. Louis to come out with that train.
“Those who laugh last laugh best,”
but those who see “A Wise Member”
will laugh the loudest, the longest,—
in fact, will laugh all the time. It’s
the funniefet ever.” At the Opera
House, Friday evening, February 20.
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