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Newspaper
Conway Log Cabin
Location
Conway, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1900
Page
2
Mrs. Ed Barton of Searcy leads Arkansas sentiment for adopting the apple blossom as the state flower. The editor agrees the apple blossom fits Arkansas as the apple orchard of the world and praises the initiative.
The towns Mor rilton and Plumerville adopt prohibition by small majorities. The piece lauds keeping towns sober, notes Morril ton acted early against early traffic, and urges selling cotton if priced around nine cents. It also calls attention to school funding and crowding from transfer students and requests action.
The Globe-Democrat editorializes on September 6 accusing Democrats of recklessness and deceit, claiming no joy in a Democratic victory nationwide. The piece labels the editor as mean and immoral, criticizing his alleged lies while asserting the paper’s aggressive stance.
A long Republican critique argues that Arkansas has a durable Democratic habit despite a strong Republican candidate. It warns that even a Republican win would bring economic gains, while accusing the Globe-Democrat of vituperation and falsehoods.
The shop advertises a wide range of staples and fancy foods for both farmers and city customers. It pledges low prices and high quality with personal attention to every order and invites trial orders by visiting or calling Phone No. 36.
Major General Virgil Y. Cook announces the ninth annual Arkansas Division UCV encampment at Little Rock on October 1 1900 with large camp representation urged. A division and four brigade commander elections will occur and a state reunion may be modeled after UCV reunions. A parade may occur with a Spanish war veterans battalion and band.
A bolt of lightning struck the Allis place in Jefferson County killing two negro farm hands at the barn where they were shooting craps. The live man prayed on his knees afterward. Silver dollars on the floor melted from the heat. Lightning also hit the Main Street Methodist Church steeple in Pine Bluff during services causing panic, a steeple fire, and a run on horses outside before it was extinguished.
On the evening of the 4th a quarrel over church funds at Mount Cannan colored church in Hot Springs led to Walter York firing several shots at Charley Pritchard as he attempted to leave. Pritchard escaped unharmed but the panic caused many in the congregation to flee through windows and doors.
Dr C E McCauley prominent Greene county physician was shot dead at Rector during a political gathering on the Ist. Willis Copeland town marshal fired after McCauley advanced with a knife. Crowd upset after whisky flowed and an arrest attempt preceded the tragedy. Local election results noted elsewhere.
Joe Reeves, described as a negro, was jailed in Camden on a murder assault charge tied to a 1910s case. He visited Capt. J.T. McMahon and wife at supper, asked for tobacco, drew a pistol, and fired at the couple. A bullet hit McMahon’s suspenders, a second shot aimed at him and a third at Mrs McMahon before Reeves fled as Mrs McMahon seized a shotgun.
Gov Jones renewed a reprieve for Charles Colbert sentenced to death in Sebastian county for first degree murder. A November 7 deadline to present evidence for possible commutation followed earlier August dates. Mrs Mollie Daly and over a thousand citizens petitioned for commutation to life imprisonment.
The killing of Charles Miller near Harrison on August 30 is linked to Frank Blair who shot the preacher in his room after a stormy night at a gospel tent meeting. Rev. S. G. Miller of Little Rock led the services. Blair surrendered to authorities. A separate note mentions eastern capitalists proposing a Fort Smith Guthrie railroad project to Port Smith businessmen.
A Cotton Belt work train derailed at Finnis Siding 75 miles from Pine Bluff when a car jumped the track as the train entered the siding. The engine and several box cars were smashed. the fireman brakeman and a colored laborer were seriously injured. There will be no Confederate state reunion at Newport this fall.
Residents of Harrison donate 3500 dollars in cash 20 acres of land and three miles of right of way to extend the railroad line from a nearby town toward Harrison. The effort aims to speed construction and connect local communities.
A disturbing fragment describes a party of five or six boys at a swimming pool when a boy, jumping from a bull into the water, was shot through the heart and died. Names Richard Stahl and Roy Mark Kort Smith appear in the text.
Various brief items report Pine Bluff banning nickel-in-the-slot machines, A U W lodge meeting in Pine Bluff on October 9, a Warren post office burglary, a Hackett would-be burglar shot, a Gentry restaurant fire, river work pay, possible Missouri Pacific leadership, Dawes Commission appointments, Pine Bluff craps game shooting, Booneville safe robbery, a Jefferson county pension board appointment, Bishop Witzgerakl’s return, extreme heat delaying cotton, week-long rains aiding cotton, transport California arrival at Manila, wartime supply losses, and discharge plans for volunteers in San Francisco and Manila with MacArthur’s orders.
The report describes a catastrophic hurricane striking Galveston and southern Texas, with telegraph lines down for 36 hours and massive loss of life and property. Estimates place deaths between 600 and 1,000, with $10 million in damages, plus wrecked ships, flooded ports, and scattered casualties across Port Arthur, Texas City, and Houston.
Major W. H. Haynes of Little Rock, a leading cotton expert, estimates Arkansas cotton for this year at 775 000 to 800 000 bales, about 50 000 more than last year. The rise excludes abandoned cotton and reflects roughly an 8 percent gain.
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