VOLUME VII. NO. 273.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
FORTY-TWO FROM
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Bed Cross Vessel Is Pounding tc
Pieces Against Rocks Where
Wreck Occurred.
Associated Press Dispatch.
St. John, N. F., Feb. 25.—Of the
146 persons aboard the Red Cross
liner, Florizel, wrecked when it
struck rocks near Broad cave yester
day, twenty-two are known to have
been saved and twenty others are re
ported picked up. The vessel now is
being pounded to pieces on the rocks.
The vessel struck the rocks during a
blizzard when it attempted to round
Cape Race on a voyage form this city
to Halifax and to New York. Many
lost their lives attempting to reach
shore in small boats, which were
swamped.
crawfITcase
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Home Superintendent Who Assaulted
Girls At Batc-ville Must Serve
Ten Years.
jrie&s L'iauaitn.
Little Rock, Feb. 25.—The supreme
court this afternoon affirmed the de
cision of the lower court in the case
of W. D. Crawford, who was convict
ed in the Independent county circuit
several months ago of assault and
sentenced to ten years in the peniten
tiary.
Crawford was superintendent of
the Odd Fellows orphans’ home at
Batesville, and it was charged that
he assaulted young girl inmates of
^ the institution.
MRS. MM TO
TALK TOMORROW
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Noted Suffragette and Speaker Will
Talk on War Savings At School
Auditorium.
Newport will have opportunity to
hear one of the state’s most noted
women tomorrow afternoon at 2
o’clock, when Mrs. T. T. Cotnam of
Little Rock, will appear at the high
school auditorium. Mrs. Cotnam is
vice president of the War Savings
campaign in Arkansas, and her sub
ject of talk will be upon this work.
Mrs. Cotnam is a national figure,
being a well qnown suffragette, and
her coming to Newport will interest
many of Newport’s ladies, who are
reouested to be nresent tomorrow af
ternoon at the auditorium.
C. E. Crook went down to Little
Rock Sunday, spending the day and
was accompanied home by Mrs. Crook
who has been the guest of friends
for a few days.
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jSAYS PEACH
TREES DEAD
C. C. Hamilton of the Department ol
Agriculture Visits Jackson Coun
ty Last Week.
C. C. Hamilton, of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, was in Jackson
county last week, working with Coun
ty Demonstrator Banks. The result
of his trips over the county, including
spraying and pruning of fruit trees,
led him to believe that practically all
the peach trees are dead.
This is sad news to the patriotic
housewife, who has planned to can
peaches this summer, and will be a
serious financial loss in many of the
fruit sections of Arkansas. If the
tree owners do not want to lose a
year in their orchards, they had bet
ter get busy. Peach trees planted in
the next three weeks will grow all
right, but any great delay now means
a year behind on the new orchard.
After a hard winter where so much
feed has been used, the quickest way
to get more feed for stock is the best,
Since feed will be and is very high
to hnv a rmn of snrine' oats is the
best way. Spring cats cut for hay
will give feed in early June, and will
tide the work stock over until corn is
gathered. Then be prepared to fol
low the oats immediately with either
peas for hay, or late corn.
GERMAN TERMS
ARE ACCEPTED
Second Time Within Week The Rus
sian Rolsheviqi Have Agreed to
German Terms.
Associated Press Dispatch.
New York, Feb. 25.—Russia, as
represented by the Bolsheviki govern
ment, has agreed to German peace
terms for the second time within a
week while the Germans are advanc
ing into Russia virtually unhampered
along the entire line from the Gulf
of Finland to the Ukraine. The Bol
sheviki commander has asked the
German ,ff if Russia’s acceptance
of peace terms will not revive the ar
mistice broken a week ago by the
German advance on Dvnsk. Count
Von Hertling, the imperial chancellor,
is expected to address the Reichstag
today with especial reference to the
Russian situation and the peace
terms Germany now offers. German
reports say the internal situation is
serious.
GERMANS MOVE
MEN TO FRONT
No Increase of Fighting On the Ital
ian and Western Fronts Are
'Bonnrt Hnwever.
associated Press Dispatch.
New York, Feb. 25.—There is nc
increase of fighting activity on the
western and Italian fronts. Large
troop movements are reported be
hind the German lines opposite the
American sector northwest of 1 oul.
Artillery bombardment of the Amer
ican sector is intense. Raiding par
ties are active at several points.
REVOLUTION IN GERMANY
PREDICTED BY GERMAN.
Amsterdam, Feb. 25—A revolution
in Germany was predicted by Dr.
Cohn, independent Socialist deputy,
in an address to the Reichstag Fri
day, the Volks Zeitung of Cologne
says. Dr. Cohn’s address, made dur
ing the debate on the peace treaty
with Ukraine, threw the Reichstag in
to an uproar. , . ,,
“It is not correct to say that the
people of Russia's Baltic provinces
are longing for German rule,” he said.
“The treaty with Ukraine is not
the fir; fc step toward general peace.
I see the day coming when revolu
tion will reach Germany and the
people will take the fate of their rul
, ers into their own hands.”
The independent Socialists cheered
“the speaker. From other parts of the
house came shouts of “Traitor!”
I JEW HIGHWAY
IS PROPOSED
tizens of Newport and Bateman and
Glaize Townships Promote Road
Improvement District.
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Several progressive citizens of
awport and others living in Bateman
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id Glaize townships, aided by citi- j
ns just across the line in White
unty, who live near a point where
public highway from here would'
pss into that county, constituted
gmselves a committee to promote a
ad improvement district through
at section and met here last week
r the furthering of the projects,
committee was appointed to map
t the proposed highway and to re
rt to the county judge the feasibil
r of such a road. The proposed
ad will run directly southwest from
her side the upper or lower ferry
ross White river from this city and
IT r>AVI i-k 4-•*»«-! f A AVIA A P fVlA PlTIOof f n I
PLOT TO KILL
TUAN CHI KUI
Three Japanese Are Arrested In Con
nection With Conspiracy to As
sassinate War Commissioner.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Peking, Feb. 25.—A conspiracy to
assassinate General Tuan Chi Hui,
former premier, now war commis
sioner, has been discovered. A num
ber of arrests were made, including
three Japanese.
Mrs. S. R. Phillips and little Claire
went to Batesville Sunday and spent
the day with her mother, whom we
are glad to repoi-t improving from
quite a sick spell.
Mrs. J. F. Rice and Miss Rena
Cunningham returned Sunday even
ing from Sulphur Rock, where they
had gone to see the former’s mother,
Mrs. T. A. Bevens, who has been quite
ill, but who is improving slowly.
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hite county. The small towns along
K proposed road are Nuckolls, Oly
ant, Grand Glaize. It is expected
tit all the people along the line
11 be enthusiastic over its construc
ts The committee appointed to
ew out the proposed highway are:
dney Mack, Marion Dickens, W. A.
look, G. C. Ross, Pat Worley, T. L.
ason and Mr. Cazort.
WOMAN MAIL CARRIER.
Batesville, Feb. 24.— Evening
iade, a small village a few miles
Batesville, can now boast of
having one of the few female mail
carriers in the state. Mrs. Bessie
Flemming moved there from Cave
City a few days ago afid took charge
of the mail route between Evening
Shade and Cave City, making daily
trips in a buggy. Mrs. Flemming is
a widow and has one child and her
mother to support. She makes good
time on the route.
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tual status of Russia can bo ascer
tained.
Guy Churchwell and Miss Mabel ■
Dean spent the day at Sulphur Rock
Sunday, guests of Mrs. Arch Kent.
Clyde Wilson, a very capable young
man of Sulphur Rock, has accepted a
position with Harry G. Brandenburg.
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First Showing of New Hat
Styles for Spring of 1918
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Knox
Stetson
Hawes
Hats
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$3.50, $4
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have the largest and most complete variety of styles we have ever shown. {
The mirror can tell the story of these new hats better than we can. Some- c
where in our stock is the new one that you would like to wear right now. :
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ADAM LOCKARD, Manager. “THE APPAREL STORE FOR MEN”
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MEXICANS KILL
OILMSTEA
Attack On Americans Is Not Thought
to Have Been An Outburst of
Anti-Americanism. „
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Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, Feb. 25.— Edgar
House, paymaster of the Texas Oil
Company, was killed and three other ^
Americans were wounded in an at
tack from Mexican bandits on an oil
boat at Tampico Wednesday. Offi
cials regard the incident as a case of
robbery, rather than an outburst of
anti-American feeling. So far as
known the bandits are not connected
with any military forces. The inci
dent has been called officially to the
attention of the Mexican government.
UNFAIRllADE
CHARGES MADE
Complaints Against Many Manufac
turing Concerns Have Been Made
and Investigations Ordered.
Associated Press Dispatch. | $
Washington, Feb. 25.— Complaints
charging unfair trade practices have ;
been issued by the Federal Trade |
Commission against thirty-eight
manufacturing firms, and thirty-four , |
complaints against varnish makers, *
three against manufacturers of print
ing ink, and one against a soap fac- *1
tory. A number of other cases are <jj
under investigation.
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Berlin Report Says Russian Seaport
Is Now in the Hands of the
Germans.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Berlin, Feb. 25.—German trpope^^
lave occupied Pernau, a Russian sea- >
port, in Livonia, 157 miles Northeast *?
if Riga, the war office announces.
ADOPT RESOLUTIONS.
Special to Independent.
T ' e Rock, Feb. 25—Following »
sermon on “An Unjustifiable Dis- ^ga
crimination in Food and Fuel Conser
vation,” by the pastor, the Rev. B. F.
Cato, the following resolutions were
unanimously adopted at the forenoon
session Sunday:
“Resolved, that we, the congrega
inn nf the First Christian Church, of
kittle Rock, Ark., do hereby con
lemn the policy of permitting the
ireweries to continue the wilful and
ndefensible waste and destruction of
ood and fuel in the manufacture of
eer and near-beer products, the
qual of 7,000,000 one-pound loaves
f bread daily and 8,000,000 tons of
oal annually, as an unjustifiable dis
rimination against the patriotic
aen, women and children who are
ailed upon to make tremendous sac
if ices to help win the war; that 1iie
•rotest be transmitted at once to the
•resident, the Food, Fuel and Rail- ^
oad Administrators, and the Arkan
as delegation in Congress, demand
ng the prompt enactment of laws
hat will insure the immediate clos
ng of all breweries in the United
States, for the period of the war and
econstruction, as a measure of com
mon justice to our people.”
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