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HWay to learn something about our new store is to
drop in and see us.
The best way to learn something about our
Clothino*
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,s to try a few of our Sits and Overcoats on. We
are positive we can show styles that you have never
before seen in ready to put on clothes, and prices
are reasonable, not fancy. The many compliments
we have received, the many assertions we make?**
do not in the least exaggerate what we can show
you in ready-to-put-on clothes.
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Men, Boys and the Little Fellows
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Each cand every department of our store represents the best that money can buy, 1
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and the striking points are always your money’s worth at the ]
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The Best Men’s ,
$10.00 Suits ;
on Earth.
Ask to see them.
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N. B.—We have just received from the Rufus Waterhouse Co., the very latest, i
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newest and swelled in Neckwear. The new Four-in-Hands, the 29-inch Midgets, the ,
•swell A scots—50^, 7 5^, $1.00, $1.25. You cannot fail to be pleased with these goods
—an inspection is all that is needed. 1
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ECLIPSE OF THE MOON.
Tonight shortly after 9 o’clock there
will be an eclipse of the moon, and it
is expected that there will be num
erous parties made up to watch fair
Luna hide her face.
It will not be necesary to use
Bmoked glasses, and the eclipse may
readily be seen with the naked ey*
Astronomers say the moon will begin
to be darkened at 9:17 o’clock, and
that it will continue in eclipse until
12:50 a. m.
There will be nothing unusual in
the proceedings and it is just what
has occurred at every eclipse for the
past 3,000 years. But the sight is an
unusual one at that, and *no doubt
many Newporters will be up to Bee
the sight.
BONDS REDEEMED.
Little Rock, Oct. 15.—The state debt
board, consisting of Gov. Davis, Sec
! retary of State Crockett, Treasurer
Tipton and Auditor Monroe, held a
meeting yesterday and six $1,000
bonds of the endowment fund of the
state university were redeemed. They
belong to the permanent fund. The
price paid was at par. They were
purchased from Mr. McDowell of St.
Louis. The board will redeem all
bonds offered at this rate. Few, how
ever, are being offered, or the bonded
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indebtedness of the state would soon
be wiped out.
ARKANSAS’ COAL MINES ACTIVE.
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The coal mines at Hartford are be- *
ing worked to their full capacity on 1
account of the great demand for coal 1
created by the strikes in the anthracite 1
region. The strikers are doing no *
harm in the soft coal districts. 1
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The advertising car of the Wallace ]
show is on the siding of the Iron i
Mountain, at Little Rock where it will {
remain until November 8, when the i
show will disband and go into winter i
quarters, Little Rock being the last t
engagement of the company to show c
this season. t
MURDERER UNKNOWN.
Mrs. Ed Lewis of Forrest City Meets
Death In a Horrible Manner At
The Hands of Parties Un
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Forrest City, Oct- 15.—A very sad J
affair occurred Monday, resulting in
the death of Mrs. Ed Lewis, in a most
horrible manner, about seven or eight
miles south of here. Mrs. Lewis was
riding from her home horseback over
to where her husband was employed ;
at ! fishing camp on the St. Francis |
river; The horse came into the camp j
riderless. A man was sent on the }
horse to see what was the matter. A i
mile or so away he found Mrs. Lewis
lying in some bushes, terribly wound
ed, her skull crushed in at the back 1
part of her head, a deep cut on the ^
forehead and other wounds. It was
supposed that the horse had thrown
her, but there was some suspicious
surroundings, and the coroner was j
notified and went there yesterday and
made a thorough investigation, re
sulting in a verdict of death at the
hands of an unknown party. They
found finger prints on her throat and ,
a wad of her hair pulled out and lying
a ullio uintciuutj away, snowing a coil
flict had taken place. Mrs. Lewis had
$65 hid away in her clothes un
touched, and the matter is a mystery,
rhe neighbors aTe searching the vi- i
3inity for further clues, and summary t
vengeance will be the result if the I
perpetrator is found. I
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WANTS TO KNOW.
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Editor of the Independent:—
In your issue of the 14th, inst., 1 j
notice the action of the city council in
regard to a petition signed by 54 law- *
ibiding and representative citizens of 8
Newport, in which they notify the €
petitioners that if they will make the
necessary oath that the law in regard e
to blind tigers is being violated, that 1
.he mayor will issue warrants and 8
nring the parties violating the law to x
lustice.
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Now, I would like to call the at- "
.ention of the members of the council,
sspecially the mayor, to the law in
•egard to this matter, and after they f
iave read the law I would ask them if 1
he mayor is not ignoring it. If my '
nemory serves me correctly, I think
vhen the mayor takes his oath of of- C
ice he swears that he will support and 1
mforce the laws of the State of Ar- C
cansas, and the laws and ordinances *
>f the city, and, after he has read the k
aw, I would ask him to decide for 3
limself if it requires the oath of some 3
irivate citizen to get him to do his
luty which he has sworn he will do. *
Act 1899, page 11.—It is hereby
nade and declared to be the duty of
ihancellors, circuit judges, justices of
he peace, mayors and police judges, ~
>n information given or on their own
knowledge, or when they have reas
mable grounds to believe that alco
>ol, spiritous, ardent, vinuous, malt
)r fermented liquors, or any com
iound or preparation thereof com
nonly called tonics, bitters or medi
ated liquors of any kind, are kept in
my prohibited district to be sold con
rary to law, or have been shipped in
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jontrary to law, that they issue a
varrant, directed to some peace offi
;er, directing in such warrant a search
or such intoxicating liquors, speci
ying in such warrant the place to be
learched apd directing such officer on
inding any such liquors in any pro
hibited district to publicly destroy the
same.
Here is the law, Mr. Mayor; please
•ead it, and say whether or • not you
lave reasonable grounds to believe it
s being violated. Very respectfully,
J. E. WIlmans.
WALLAOE’s’cLEAN SHOW.
Those who had the pleasure of at
ending yesterday’s performances of
he Wallace shows, says the Kansas
3ity Journal, were struck by several
kings which broke the traditions of
he itinerant circus. In the first place,
here was an air of cleanliness about
he whole thing which was impressed
ipon the visitor the moment he step
>ed upon the grounds. This spick
md span impression continued and
'row also throughout the perform
mce, and while there were the regular
lumber of barkers and peanut men
md red lemonade vendors and con
ert ticket “agents,” all eagerly after
he coin, they were of a gentlemanly
breed and did not obtrude themselves
mnecessarily. Even the roustabouts
vere good-natured, and the absence
if any sort of profanity was most
narked.
“Mr. Wallace is particular on the
mbject of keeping things nice,” was
;he way one employe put it when a
itranger asked him how it came about
;hat all the costumes appeared to be
lew. This feature was one that call
ed forth much favorable comment.
There was not a soiled costume and
is the performers came out from their
iressing rooms they appeared as im
naculate as though they had never
lefore been in the sawdust arena.
Sven the ropes were clean and the
lickel plated supports for the guard
ope6 around the outside of the hip
lodrome were newly polished.
The same idea of having things clean
vas carried out in the circus acts
hemselves. Not a trace of vulgarity
vas there and all this is the reason
vhy the Wallace show is great.
The date for Newport is Thursday,
November 4.
HAS TOO MANY WIVES.
i Former Arkansan in the Toils at
Memphis, Charged With Murder
and Bigamy.
Detective J. H. Clark arrived last
light to make investigations of a
narriage libense issued in 1897 to W.
I. Elders, ; of this city, and Lorine
'arks, of Ash Hill, says the Poplar
fluff Citizen of the 15th.
Poplar Bluff people will remember
his man Elders for he lived here for
everal years. He is now in jail at
lemphis, charged with murder and
ligamy. He has five wives and is en
gaged to another, who visits him daily
nd brings him all manners of dainty
dibles.
Elders came here in ’97 from Ark
,nsas, where he left a wife. He was
aarried to Lora me Parks, of Ash Hill,
,t this place and left ner shortly after
wards. He went to Searcy, Ark., and
aarried again, thence to Jackson,
’enn., where he entered into his
ourth matrimonial adventure. His
ast experience was at Memphis, and
lefore he could marry again he very
adiscreetly committed murder and
was apprehended.
There were two wives by the name
f Daisy, and as one of them was di
orced from him both claim to be that
ne. It is thought, however, that the
Lsh Hill wife was the divorced one.
Several of the marriages were illegal
nd all the wives were deserted after
short time.
Ho seems to have run up against it
lis titae, but wife to be No. 6 hopes
>r his acquital.
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