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VOLUME V. ' NEWPORT. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, J905. NUMBER tit.
JURY RETURNS VERDICT.
Coroner’s Inquest Fails to fix Responsi
bility or Determine Weapon Used
in Murder of Milligan.
The coroner’s jury in the in
quest proceedings over the body
of Isom Milligan reached a ver
dict Friday evening that the de
ceased came to his death by
wounds from a deadly weapon in
the hands of unknown persons.
The jury is said to have had some
doubt as to whether the wounds
were from a gunshot and this
word was stricken from the final
judgment.
Charley Johnson, the negro
held on suspicion,. was released
after the jury had reported, there
being no evidence introduced to
show his guilt.
5 IN SOCIETY. \
DR. AND MRS. COFFMAN ENTER
TAIN.
Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Coffman
threw open their hospitable doors
to their many Newport friends
Friday evening when they gave
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was enjoyed by a merry party
until a late hour.
The brilliant lights turned the
handsome double parlors into a
place of beauty, and the large
lawn surrounding the home was
made attractive by the use of
dozens of varicolored Japanese
lanterns which had been placed
there during the afternoon.
During the intermission de
lightful cream and cake were
served, and then came the hour
when thanks were returned to
the host and hostess for the en
joyable evening spent under
their hospitable roof.
The guests present were:
Messrs, and Mesdames E. L.
Maris, R. C. Harder, G. K. Ste
phens, Mrs. L. Hirsch, Misses
Stella Magness, Pearl Warner,
Hilda Bailey, Irma Hooker, Lucy
Brandenburg, Aubrey Arnold,
Imogene Bandy, Bessie Buford,
Minnie Lee Jago, Kate Harder,
Hester and Josephine Phillips,
Zerlena Meyer, Jessie Sain, Fan
nie Smith and Fannie Hud
dleston; Messrs. Henry Owen,
J. L. Bevens, Adam Lockard,
Will Magoffin, SamMever, James
Blackwood, Garland Hurt, James
Scarborough, F. L. Dunn, Chas.
Carroll, John Hencke.
Sold liquor Unlawfully.
Nashville, Sept. 1.—John F.
Reese of this place today plead
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the circuit court charging him
with the unlawful sale of liquor.
He was fined $200 in each case
and sentenced to ninety days in
jail for each offense. The total
fines together with those assessed
against him last winter amount
to $4,770 and the jail sentences
to five years.
ft No Money in Candy.
Pine Bluff, Sept. l.-The Pine
Bluff Candy Factory has closed
down its plant temporarily and
Sam B. Russell, its manager, has
returned to the Southern Gro
cery Company. The candy fac
tory was opened in this city
about eighteen months ago and
the plant has been in operatior
continuously until Wednesday,
when it was decided to close
down temporarily.
F. L. Reiff has resumed his
work with Pond-Decker aftei
several weeks’ recreation a1
Ravenden Springs, where he
reports Capt. R. D. Welch’s
popular hostelry crowded anc
turning away visitors.
BERRY ISSUES ADDRESS.
Docs Not Propose to Go Erom Place to
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Place Abusing and Insulting
Opponent.
Little Rock, Sept. 2.—Senator
J. H. Berry has issued a four
column address to the people of
Arkansas in which he never
mentions the name of Jeff Davis.
He announced that he will rtot
engage in a joint canvass for the
office.
He says he has “no ambition
to go frorn^place to place in a
personal canvass, indulging in
abusive and insulting language
towards an opponent.”
He says he has never sought
| office on the demerits of another
and never will. His record is
open to discussion, but no man
has a right to falsify, misstate
and misconstrue it.
He says he is in favor of tariff
reform, freight rate control by
i interstate commerce, and a law
! making it a crime to deal in fut
| ures. He says he has always
! fought for the farmer and looked
i after the interests of the state,
! and that he has never accepted a
i railroad oass. never hired a man
to work for him at the polls, and
never trafficked in politics.
“Joint personal debates,” he
added, “between Democrats
seeking nominations for the past
five 1 years in Arkansas have
been of such a nature as greatly
to injure the good name of the
state both at home and abroad,
and have done infinite harm to
the party.”
LOOKED LIKE SOL ALCORN.
Arrest Made in St. Louis Turns Out Thai
it Was a Case of Mistaken
Identity and Released.
St. Louis, Sept. 1.—Robt. Ad
ams, who was arrested yesterday
I at 3501 Morgan street on a tele
j gram from Constable Carouthers
|of Newport, Ark., stating that a
j man named Sol Alcorn, alias Ad
| ams, wanted on a charge of em
| bezzlement, was stopping at this
j address, was released, cleared of
I all suspicion.
The arrest of Adams was due,
the police say , to a letter written
by Mrs. Etta Merrill, stopping at
the same place, but formerly of
Newport, who wrote to friends
j there, it is said, that Sol. Alcorn
i was stopping at the Morgan
I street house under the name of
| Adams. Mrs. Merrill was brought
! face to face with Adams at the
j Four Courts and ihen said that
I she must have been mistaken.
Adams had already convinced tne
police that a mistake had been
made.
Alcorn was treasurer of the
Newport lodge of Eagles and
skipped several hundred dollars
short. Efforts to locate and
bring him to trial have thus fai
failed. ^ _
EXPRESS COMPANIES POOR.
Want to Advance Rates and Railroac
Commission Seems Willing to
Advance of Rates.
Little Rock, Sept. 1.—The ex
press rates in the state may bt
slightly advanced. The Arkan
j sas Railroad Commission an
nounces that at its next meeting
on September 13 it will take uj
the question of adopting the ex
press companies’ scale of grad
uated charges for packages
weighing less than 100 pounds
carried on interstate business,
in lieu of the graduated scale pro
vided in the commission’s ex
press tariff.
j This is done in pursuance o:
i | petitions by the express compan
I ies, which claim that the com
I mission rates are too low.
ROGERS CLOSED IEEE’S- MOUTH.
Governor Didn’t Dare Besmirch Charac
ter of Rogers’ Wife and Mother
After Due Warning Given.
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Referring to the tilt between
the governor and attorney gen
eral at the barbecue down in
White county Thursday, General
Rogers says:
“On the evening I started to
White county I was informed by
a friend that Gov. Davis said he
was going to tell the people of
White county about an incident
alleged to nave happened some
years since, affecting not only
my private character but drag
ging the names of my wife and
aged mother into it.
“This was a falsehood in the
beginning, made of whole cloth,
and I think the governor knew
it. I did not know whether he
intended to use it or not, but I
will allow no man to drag my
family into a malicious campaign
story. I met the governor in the
Bevel house at Higginson Thurs
day mbrning and told hi coolly
that my public and official record
was open to discussion by any
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personalities of the character
; mentioned.
“He replied that he would ‘do
as he d—d please.’ I then said,
‘if you do I’ll kill you.’ He made
j no reply and walked off. There
was no reference made to the al
leged story on the stump, and I
1 hope there will be none. I am
sorry the incident occurred, but
the reputation of my family is
! worth more to&me than any office
within the gift of the people.”
Gov. Davis made the same
; speech he mak^s everywhere
| with the exceptifify of the atten
tion he gave to the attorney gen
eral. A characteristic remark
about him, made in connection
with his discussion of the set
tlement of the railroad tax case,
was this:
“I do not think he can discuss
this tax settlement intelligently.
He hasn’t got sense enough. He
| don’t know any law. He has
been saying he went after me on
the railroad compromise. I want
to say this is the best settlement
that has ever been made.”
The governor said he did not
care how much of a fee Senator
Clarke got for his services in the
tax settlement, and Mr. Rogers
retorted that it was a pretty fat
fee to be paid $30,000 for doing
$200 worth of work.
The governor said that Henry
i Armistead was the one entitled
to credit for the back tax suits
against the private car lines. He
said that General Rogers had
compromised with the Hartford
Insurance Company for $10,000,
when the state should have had
$550,000. He accused Rogers of
being “an intimate friend of M.
ID. L. Cook and Tom Cox,” who
have been mixed up in the boodle
; investigations. General Rogers
'replied in brief that he knew
them, but that he was not there
to say any man was guilty until
proven so.
J The speaker said all he knew
1 about bribery is this: “While I
was prosecuting attorney a coo
i stable in Crawford county ar
i rested two 15-year-old boys.
• | They were drunk. He carried
•! one to his father and told him
s that he had taken a pistol from
the boy, and for $25 he would
| turn him loose. The old father
■ paid him. He then took the
■ other young boy to his pa
rents and made the same de
? mand. This father replied that
■ he had no money. ‘I will take
- him to jail, then,’said the con
stable. When the boy’s old
DR. CHAS. E. CARROLL
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Dentist
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Gives special attention to
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Crown and Bridge Work,
And correction of Irregularities
of the Teeth.
Office Watson Bli>3. Phone, 63.
Newport, - Arkansas•
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E. L. WATSON, M. D.
OFFICE OVER MOSBY’S.
NEWPORT, - - ARK.
mother said: ‘My God, don’t j
take my boy to jail. Here is $7, j
all 1 have; take that.’ This old !
| mother had been to town that j
day on a mule, carrying butter,
eggs, potatoes and dried apples,
and brought back $7. This con
stable took the money and turned
the boy loose. These people
were poor and were soon run out
of the country, but I got after
the constable, indicted him, con
victed him and sent him to the
penitentiary and Governor Davis
pardoned him within six weeks.
Why should he be afraid that I
would pardon bribe-givers and
bribe-takers?”
Mr. Rogers’ closing remarks
received great applause.
‘‘They say,” he said, ‘‘thatthe
Little Rock papers and the Lit
tle Rock gang want me, and that
I am not with the masses, the
common people. My God, friends
why should I not .be? There
stands a grand old man, Mr. !
i Hendrix, that I worked a year f
j for for I $6 per month, carrying i
my wages home in the form of a 1
: sack of meal and bacon to my ;'
widowed mother. I picked cot-j
I ton for John Dyer and Judge
Johnson from the time I was
ten years old. I love White
eountv. I want it. My father, i
brothers and sisters are buried;
here. But only vote for me if i
you believe me worthy.”
He paid a beautiful tribute to
the ladies, an’d closed amid
i deafening applause.
Scholarship for Sale.
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The Independent recently of
i fered for sale a scholarship in
the Memphis Commercial College
at a cut rate. It was sold the;
second day by ’phone message as
a result of the advertisement and
the fact that a bargainSwas
I offered.
1 We have another, a $50 schol
| arship in the famous . Interna-1
tional Correspondence School of
! Scranton, Penn., for almost any
course of study desired. Business
course, bookkeeping, stenogra
phy, architectural, electrical and
I civil engineering, chemistry,
j metallurgy, teaching, surveying,
in fact most any line can be taken
up at home and acquired. This
j scholarship will be sold first ap
plicant for $35. btf |
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