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Newport Daily Independent.
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VOLUME IV. NEWPORT. ARKANSAS. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER. 18 1904. NUMBER 176.
NEW TIME CARD
ON NOVEMBER 27.
Effective on That Day, Sunday.,
Newport Folks Who Travel
Shculd Post Up on New
Schedules.
£ The new time card ffeat is to
I go into effect on the Iron Moun
| tain system Sunday, November
I 27, at 12:01 a. m.f will make sev
I eral radical changes in the time
I of trains at Newport and folks
who ^travel is? and cat of the city
' would do well to post up on the
S new schedules-.
In the north bound trains Nos.
I 4, 6 and IS are the only ones that
1 do not change. No. 20 will take
1 the place of No. S at 10:55 and
H will make all the local stops be
ll tween Newport and Poplar Bluff.
I No. 2, vhich now goes through
I Newport at 4:42 a. m., will be
I two hoirs earlier, arriving at St
P Louis ai 11:30. No. 12 will leave
Little lock at 6:10 instead of
5:10 asfit present, and its time
at Newport will therefore be
9:48 instead of 8:48 as at present.
Nis. 1, 3 and 7 of the south
bornd trains do not change. The
HolSprings special, known as
Noil7, goes back to the old
■ schdule, passing Newport an
hoif earlier, or 4:36 a. m.
i). 5, which now passes New
. poi at 4:42 a. m, in two sec
ticB, the second being known
byhe general public as 21, will
thi become one train and run
onhe same time as before.
d far as the new schedule
nc mentions there will be no
chge in No. 11, which passes
he at 6:45, and there will be
l n changes on the Batesville
bnch or the local freights car
mg passengers, the north and
gth end locals and the Bates
>e local at 11:45"
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I1V0KCE CASE;
FEDERAL SUIT.
From Batesville comes an in
vesting report of a suit just
[ought by one woman against
lother for the alienation of her
usband’s affections, says the
little Rock Democrat. The
jlaintiff is Mrs. Ada Glenn, now
lesiding at Cheyenne, Wyo., and
he defendant is Mrs. Sharum,
nstmistress at Walnut Ridge,
phe suit is for damages in the
[urn of $10,000 which the plain
tiff is alleged to have sustained
by reason of the alienation of
(the affections of her husband,
E. 0. Glenn, a well known post
office inspector formerly located
in'Little Rock, but now stationed
in Iowa. Messrs. Yancey and
Casey are the attorneys for the
plaintiff and the suit was brought
in t,he federal court at Bates
ville.
AFTER 16 LONG YEARS.
Jonesboro, Nov. 17.—A man
giving his name as Johnson is in
jail here, he having surrendered
on his own accord, saying that
he wanted to be taken to Chat
tanooga and tried for a murder
that was committed in 1888.
He says he has been all over
the country since he killed the
man, is tired of the life he has
lived and will be glad to be tried,
and if found guilty pay the pen
alty, He said he married soon
after the killing and that his
wife has never known that he
idid the killing, and that he was
parried under an assumed name
[of Leroy.
NOT YET SELECTED SITE.
Little Rock, Nov. 18.—Judge
bohn B. McCaleb, representing
the Arkansas state eapitol com
mission; Gen. B. W. Green, rep
resenting the Confederate Mon
ument Association, and Archi
tect George R Mann yesterday
! went over the,new capital grounds
for the purpose of selecting a
! site for the Confederate monu
ment, but nothing definite was
done. They will ask the city
council to establish the grade
of the street in front of the Cap
itol, and when that is done the
site will be selected.
ROYAL ARCH MASONS
ELECT OFFICERS.
Our Riley Mayhan Gets Position
of Grand Royal Arch Cap
tain in Election,
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Little Rock, Nov. 18.—The
following officers were elected by
the Royal Arch Masons at the
session yesterday afternoon;
! J. R. Donnell, Conway, grand
| high priest.
! N. P. Richmond, Malvern, de
| puty grand high priest.
! John T. Hicks, Little Rock,
grand king.
S. H. Davidson, Evening Shade
grand scribe.
John C. Bone, Batesville,
! grand secretary.
John Brodie, Little Rock,
grand treasurer.
F. E. Taylor, McCrory, grand
chaplain.
G. G. Wood, Little Rock, grand
marshal.
R. B. Hogins, grand captain of
hosts.
J. L. Davis, Fayetteville,-grand
principal sojourner.
J. R. Mayhan, Newport, grand
royal arch captain.
J. D. Dodge, Little Rock,
grand master third veil.
Mark P. Olney, Mena, grand
master second veil.
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grand master first veil.
Edmund Metcalf, Little Rock,
grand sentinel.
WHO GETS THE BOQUET?
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“Uncle” .Tack Gray, formerly
a resident of Independence coun
ty and in touch with a score of
old-time friends in Newport, re
turned from the world’s fair
Tuesday morning. He exchang
ed a fine lot of cattle in the St.
Louis market for ready cash,
and, most naturally deposited
I the receipts for the same with a
! prudential banking firm of New
port for safe keeping. Mr.
Gray is now a resident of New
Mexico, but ne will never forget
his first love—good old Arkan
j sas. —Batesville Bee.
j DEATH OF AN INFANT.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs»
i George B. Irby died at the family
!home, on Main street, Friday
morning at 1 o’clock. The little
one was only two months old,
and had been sick most of its
life, and it death was not unex
! pected.
The funeral was held from the
home this afternoon at 4 o’clock,
conducted by Dr. C. Pope, burial
following at Walnut Grove.
Mr. and Mrs. Irby have the
sympathy of all in their sorrow.
TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.
Searcy, Nov. 17. —0. L. Clem
men of West Point, this county,
committed suicide last night by
shooting himself in the head. He
was the manager of a milling
firm at that place and. un
married. Financial trouble is
supposed to have been the cause
of his act.
DRAGGED TWO
AND A HALF MILES.
Whit Carter of Jonesboro Has
Awful Experience Trying
to Ride a Freight Train.
.Jonesboro, Nov. 17. — Whit
Carter of this city wa# frightfully
injured at about 8 o’clock last
night between Fisher and Weiner
on the Cotton Belt railroads He
had missed his train at Fisher.
A freight train followed later
and he attempted to get aboard
while in motion. He caught one
of the cars and attempted to
climb up between the bumpers,
when he fell, his trousers catch
ing on the drawhead and holding
him.
His head and shoulders struck
the ground, his trousers still
holding, and in this position was
dragged for two and a half
miles, the train running at the
rate of twenty miles an hour.
His face and arms were terribly
lacerated.
He was noticed first by Aquilla
Ferguson, who was a passenger
on the train, and succeeded in
stopping it by firing his pistol.
The injured man was taken from
his position and placed in a ca
boose.
It was found that all the flesh
on the left side of his face and
his ear had been ground off, and
the arm and shoulder frightfully
torn. On his arrival here he was
taken to St. Bernard’s Hospital
and at the present time is resting
fairly well.
EDWIN JOHNSON
IN SECOND PLACE.
Baby Contest Takes on Added
Interest and New Leaders
May Yet Appear.
Jas. Edward Wilmans. 525
Edwin Johnson. 437
Charles Jones Brandenburg 385
Wm. Wallace Dutton. 354
Ernest Theodore Phillips. 212
Dorothy Stephens. 182
Jeannette Henry. 125
Thelma Smart. 25
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The Independent’s baby con
test today shows that it has not
been forgotten, but on the other
hand indicates that the votes or
coupons as printed in each days’
paper are being carefully clipped
and in most instances saved up
for use when the contest gets
warmer.
Master Edwin Johnson today
steps from fourth to second
place, with James Edward Wil
mans still in the lead.
HUNTER KILLED.
Waldron, Nov. 17.—Emmett’
Weeks of Indian Territory, who
has been visiting relatives at
Bates, was killed while hunting
on Tuesday. He went out alone
Tuesday morning, and when he
did not return at night his friends
began a search for him. His
dead body was found with a gun
shot wound in the left side. It
is supposed his guh was acci
dentally discharged.
BURNED THE BISCUIT.
Fort Smith, Nov. 17.—The
Fort Smith biscuit factory was
destroyed by fire last night. It
is not khown how the fire origi
nated, but the building is sup
posed to have caught from the
oven. Tj^e loss is about $6,000.
The company will rebuild as
soon as the insurance is adjust
ed, and upon a larger scale. In
surance $3,000.
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OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
J. W. Grubbs, President. Nathan Graham,'„V. -Pres..
Chas. G. Henry, Cashier.
B. B. Bond, M. D. Campbell, S. D. Campbell,
G. D. Clements, R. F. Drummond, W. D. McLain,
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