VOLUME II. NEWPORT. ARKANSAS. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1902.; NUMBER 146
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JACOB-HEILIGER8 WEDDING.
The wedding of Miss Clara Heiligers
to Mr. B. A. Jacob of New York City
took place Tuesday afternoon at the
residence of the bride’s mother, Judge
E. Cypert officiating. Only a few
relatives and intimate Mends were
present. Miss Clara is one of Searcy’s 1
most attractive and Brilliant young
ladies and Mr. Jacob is to be con- j
gratulated on his choice. The groom \
is a partner of the Sutton Knitting!
Mills of New York and is also travel
ing representative of the corporation
in the Southern States. Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob left last night for Memphis,
Cincinnati and Richmond, Va., the
groom’s home. They will reside in
New York City. Those present were:
Messrs. Abe Heiligers and Chas.
Meyer, Newport, Mr. and Mrs. Wili
Loeb, Little Rock, Mr. and Mrs. 8. W.
Deener, Searcy, Mrs. J. L. Moore,
Searcy, and Miss Josephine Dreyfus,
Pine Bluff, Mrs. Kate Heiligers and
Mr. Sam Heiligers.-—Searcy Citizen.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Charley Grider and Mrs. Amanda
Davis, both of Weldon.
Henry Clay and Mrs. Susan Carr
both of Newport.
H. C. Neuhous and Ona Henry, both
of Newport.
U. S. Clark and Polly Slaughter,
both of Auvergne. '
J. T. Turner and Josie Wilhite, both
of Newport.
J. T. Ferguson and Addie May
Frame, both of Tuckerman.
T. C. Reed and Sebelle Huey, both
of Remmel.
J. L. H. Polston and Roselle Coch
ran, both of Tuckerman.
Edward L. Grant and Lena Cathey,
both of Jacksonport.
Miss Laura Evers and Miss Sartoris,
accompanied by the little daughter of
H. G. McBurney, arrived Wednesday
morning from Davenport, Iowa, on
a visit to Miss Ever’s sister, Mrs. H.
G. McBurney. Miss Evers visited
here last winter and made many
friends who will be pleased to renew
their acquaintance.
PRESIDENT ERB’S PROPOSITION.
Little Rock Must Contribute Bonus
Of $100,0000 To Secure Erb Line—
Newport On Either Of Pro;
posed Routes.
President Newman Erb and a party
of other officials of the St. Louis,
Memphis and Southeastern Railroad
Company spent several hours in Little
Rock Wednesday and the result is
that line will be built through that
city if a bonus of $100,000 is given.
Mr. Erb and party left in the after
noon for Memphis. Two conferences
were held at the board of trade and
the plans of the railroad laid before
that body.
The Erb party consisted of Newman
Erb, president, New York; E. F. Bloe
meyer, vice-president, Cape Girar
deau, Mo.; I. M. Dittenhoefer, direc
tor, New York; all officials of the St.
Louis, Memphis and Southeastern
Railroad Company, Gordon N. Peay,
Geo. W. Rogers and Louis M. Levy of
Little Rock are among the directors.
The visiting party reached Little Rock
early in the morning in Mr. Erb’s pri
vate car, “Cape Girardeau,” over the
Iron Mountain road. They left Cape
Girardeau at noon Tuesday and trav
eled over their own line to Hoxie,
after completing an inspection of their
new line from St. Louis to Cape Gi
rardeau. From Hoxie they came to
Little Rock via the Iron Mountain
route, and there the private car was
transferred to the Choctaw tracks and
attached to the afternoon train for
Memphis.
President Erb was seen by a Gazette
reporter in his private car at the Choc
taw and said:
“I have held two conferences with
Little Rock business men today and I
am of the belief that when our road is
built it will be through Little Rock.
We have completed two surveys, one
via Des Arc and the other from Au
gusta to Little Rock to Camden. Our
sngineers succeeded in finding the
grade we required and it is now only a
question of whether we shall build
through Little Rock or Des Arc. The
latter line is much the shorter route,
but we prefer the longer line through
this city from a business point of view.
Of course we could build a branch into
Little Rock, but that would not be like
a trunk line. If the citizens will raise
a bonus of $100,000, the same as was
given the Choctaw, and the city will
be liberal with us as to terminal facil
ities and passage through the city we
will construct a trunk line through
Little Rock and have it in operation
by the close of the year 1903. We leave
in a few minutes for Memphis, from
which point we will go out over the
'Frisco tracks to Deckerville, where
we again strike our own rails.
STABBED BY SHOW ATTACHE.
Helena, Oct. 8.—A double-barreled
affray, in which two men were se
riously wounded, occurred at 1
o’clock in Chris Bremm's saloon in
South Helena. As a result, James
Fletcher, an attache of the Sells -
Downs Circus, is in jail with a bad
hole made bv a 38-caliber uistol in his
body, while Ed Gilliam, bartender at
the saloon, has a knife wound in his
right side, penetrating the lung.
Fletcher is the animal keeper of the
circus and was celebrating the close of
the engagement at Helena by getting
on a magnificent drunk. Just before
the circus train pulled out for Claren
don he wandered into Bremm’s sa
loon, near the railroad tracks, and
engaged in a difficulty with John
Lane, the negro porter at the saloon.
Gilliam, the bartender, attempted to
stop the fuss, and was stabbed in the
Bide by Fletcher. Gilliam returned to
the saloon and Fletcher followed with
a club, announcing that he was going
to “clean out the place.” He was
met by a fusilade from Gilliam and
also from Chris Bremm, proprietor of
the saloon. One bullet struck him in
the right side, and he turned and ran
toward the circus train, but fell and
was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Rabb,
who later arrested Gilliam. Officer
Royall of the city police placed Bremm
also under arrest. i
Physicians were summoned and at
tended the wounded men, the con
dition of Gilliam being found the more
aerious. Fletcher, who claims his
home as Nashville, Term., spent the
night in the Kelley Hotel, and was
this morning taken to jail, where he
is receiving attention, and where he
will recover. Gilliam and Bremm are
out on bond awaiting a preliminary
examination. The shooting of the
circus man is declared by eye-wit
nesses to have been entirely justifi
able.
ANTIS PRESENT PETITION.
Jonesboro, Oct. 8.—The anti-license
people presented a petition to the
county judge of Craighead county
Tuesday morning containing 2,400 sig
natures of adult persons, which in
cludes women over 18. It prays that
no liquor license be granted for the
sale of liquor within two miles of the
North Jonesboro school, and if grant
ed would have the effect of prohibit
ing the sale of liquor in Jonesboro. ,
This county went wet in the recent
election, and the petition is author
ized by another state law. Temper
ance people took a census during the
canvass for petition, and say there are
3,500 persons in the area mentioned.
The license advocates claim more.
Both sides have strong legal talent.
This morning each side agreed on Oc
tober 27 as a date for hearing, but this
afternoon Attorney J. D. Block of Par
agould, representing the temperance
people, asked for a continuance to
January, when the petition would
come before County Judge-Elect Fill
more Rains. Judge Akers took the
matter under advisement.
The ladies of the Newport Relief
Society urgently request that those
gentlemen who promised to take part
in the minstrel show be present at a
meeting to be held at the city hall to
morrow night at 8:30 o’clock and hope
that none will disappoint them.
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