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Newspaper
Conway Log Cabin
Location
Conway, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1900
Page
2
The Conway weekly notes local concerns and opinions on fire protection and water supply. It comments on foreign affairs, praising cautious independence in U S policy and criticizing the Senate for Anglophilia while noting Hay’s treaty defeat and Monroe Doctrine implications.
Sir John Murray describes the Black Sea's unique circulation with a surface flow to the Mediterranean and a dense salty current returning. The bottom water is anoxic and lifeless below about two fathoms, while the deeper layer upon surfacing emits a rotten egg odor.
Local residents including Dr. Matthews of Saltillo and Col. G W Bruce of Conway visit or pass through Chadwick. People travel to Little Rock for holidays and business while other residents plan future moves. School interest grows under Miss Bessie Easterwood with most pupils enrolled. A brief consumer notice promotes Chamberlain's Pain Balm for cuts and injuries available from W H Martin & Co.
The Arkansas railroad commission filed its first biennial report. It lists state track mileage 3 167 4 miles with 181 28 miles of new line for 39 roads. Total earnings 6 545 645 25 with a loss 1 359 444 94 from operation. Deficits shown by several railroads.
A sick mother in Hot Springs recounts a dream that foretold the deaths of her two daughters after they fell ill following their removal to the Catholic infirmary. She says she saw them in coffins and witnessed the funeral procession in her vision.
Will Lillard, a colored man scheduled for execution at Lake Village on the 1th, for the murder of his father-in-law Jack Anderson, had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment by Acting Gov. Lawrence. The commutation was supported by the prosecuting attorney and many Chicot county citizens who argued he was driven by mistreatment by his stepfather and acted more from fear than vengeance.
Sheriff Kitchens shoots Ed Gatling a colored man, fatally wounding him as he fled after arrest for cotton theft. Gatling, held by the arresting officer, used a crowd rough street to try to escape. the sheriff warned him to stop but fired, the ball entering a long cavity.
Frank Marian known as Beckley was arrested near Benton by a deputy U S marshal on charges of sending obscene mail to his wife in Hot Springs. He was bound over to the federal grand jury after a Hot Springs commission. An unknown Negro was found dead at a railroad camp near Arkansas adelphia.
The race for western district marshal will be close with Hon. Ben Foreman of Miller County and incumbent Hon. B. F. Stahl running. The position pays a little over $5,000 yearly. Chairman Remmel notes the state committee will meet in Little Rock early February to settle the contest.
John Lay was convicted before a justice of the peace at Marshall of attempting to bribe his wife and her father. He was sentenced to two hours in jail for trying to induce them to leave the county to prevent testimony in a criminal case.
The contract for a new court house at El Dorado has been let to begin construction.
The advertisement touts a wide holiday assortment including silver flat and hollow ware, plate, diamonds, clocks, watches, brooches, pins, lorgnette chains, shirtwaist sets, and Philippine shell novelties. It also markets musical instruments and invites customers to view high quality goods at modest prices.
The Supreme Court upheld that challenging a juror for not paying poll tax comes too late after verdict. Felix Lawson’s qualification was not shown to prejudice the defendant James, and the juror was not properly challenged during voir dire. The decision cites statutes on juror qualifications and precludes post verdict objections unless prejudice is shown.
Dispatch from Hot Springs reports the pugilistic season opens in two weeks with a twenty round bout between Jack Bonner and Jim Scanlan at Whittington Park arena under the Hot Springs Athletic association. Bonner offers to fight Scanlan and arrangements are underway as inquiries from pugilists nationwide pour in, signaling strong winter sporting interest.
In Pulaski circuit court J H Gunn administrator of the estate of W S Yowell was awarded 3500 against the St Louis Iron Mountain Southern railroad. Yowell was killed in August 1899 on a wrecking train when a light and water company wire stretched across the track struck him and threw him from his derrick in Pine Bluff. Mae left two children in Illinois and Gunn was appointed administrator.
The Hankins store two miles south of Pine Bluff was wrecked by a keg of powder explosion. Two boys, Joe Hankins and Jim Kelly, playing behind the building, dropped a lit match into the keg and were blown through the roof, found nearby badly burned. A passerby, J F Bono, a planter, was hurt by flying debris.
Congressman W L Terry introduces a bill to hold circuit and district courts in Arkansas eastern district. Western district at Little Rock on first Monday in April and third Monday in October. Eastern district at Helena on second Mondays in March and October. Northern division at Batesville on fourth Monday in May and second Monday in December.
Perry Huff of Garland County discovers a white quartz vein with an almost pure gold nugget in a small creek several miles northwest of Hot Springs. Experts estimate the nugget’s value and the find causes considerable excitement locally.
Brief local items report a fatal horse attack near Hardy, a Lonoke judge's death at 75, a bank opening Jan 1, mine blast injuries near Eureka Springs, fires and losses in Jefferson county, senate confirmation of H. H. Myers in Little Rock, wedding season notes, jail site offer by Little Rock, Newport death from alcoholism, wage rise for Cotton Belt machinists, Texarkana murder conviction, a rector’s paralysis, a child burned in Texarkana area, hunting licenses convictions in Wynne, large fruit shipments from Rogers, Little Rock & Southern denied absorption, cyclone injuries near Stuttgart, Catholic diocese consulator appointed, Hot Springs slot machines ruling, new postmasters named across several counties, and state taxable property rise from 1890 to 1900.
Notice states a stockholders meeting of the Bank of Conway will be held at the bank office in Conway on Monday January 7 1901 to elect seven directors and conduct other business L H Pyur Asst Cashier Conway Ark December 11 1900 Also ad offers three steam engines two 20 HP and one 25 HP plus a Kingsland Douglass saw rig and a wood lathe for sale at Conway Ark with contact details included.
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