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Newspaper
Mena Star
Location
Mena, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1899
Page
1
Havana dispatch describes Cuban generals led by Gomez opposing Gov Brooke with armed protests against U S governance. Street talk cites money disputes, distrust of American plans, Gomez's leverage, and imminent letters exposing Brooke and McKinley. Washington reports no expected alarm. Brooke urged mild firmness.
The sixty first annual Missouri grand lodge 1 C F session began at the Academy of Music with 125 delegates. Opening addresses and the grand lodge degree were conferred on 50 candidates. Visitors include 20 past grandmas ters and about 15 cantons of Patriarchs Militant. A parade with 2000 in regalia is planned tomorrow afternoon.
Illinoisan report from Arcola dated May 17 describes a damaging cloudburst four miles west of Humboldt and six miles south of Arcola. Stock and poultry suffered heavy losses while hogs calves and young stock were swept away. Plowed fields were washed out forcing replanting.
Abraham Dingman son of James Dingman, a Niantic township farmer, was killed on a Wakeeny ranch over land rights. Three unknown assailants were implicated. reportedly a Kansas jury acquitted them. Dingman family plans to travel to Kansas seeking justice.
Winnie Roach and her husband face charges after allegedly burning their four children with kerosene soaked paper. Lawrence Roach fled when police learned of the abuse. a crowd interrupted the act as the woman attempted to ignite another child.
St Louis citizens plan to protest to Congress against Secretary Alger’s permission to open the drainage canal if an extra session occurs before the canal’s opening date. The big channel cannot be finished this year and will carry 200000 cubic feet of water per minute as required by law. Moreover, Ogden Utah saw death sentence pronounced for Abe Majors for the killing of Police Captain Brown, with execution set for July 7 between ten am and four pm.
A May 17 dispatch from Madrid reports Gen. Rios and Maj. Gen Otis agreeing on an immediate Spanish evacuation of Zamboanga and Jolo. The Leon VIII L sails with American troops to Jolo, then Zamboanga, where Rios will supervise the evacuation and the Americans will not occupy Zamboanga.
A telegraph from Little Rock reports Forty striking laborers attacked five black miners behind a stockade at No 53 mine near Huntington. Guards fired killing one striker, John Wright killed, James Campbell wounded./New guards posted and more trouble feared as blacks from Illinois had been brought to replace strikers.
May 17 report details a street clash after laborers demanded back pay from Capt. Barker. A second mob joined, threats and obscenities followed, one laborer killed, several wounded including three police. US Second infantry deployed to patrol as tensions rose. Also notes cattle quarantine shifts in Oklahoma and a Carnegie interview criticizing mendicants.
Richmond Indiana May 17 The Peace Association of Friends in America with HQ at Richmond issued an address urging American delegates at The Hague to back a method for permanent international peace The address favors a permanent board of arbitration and calls for disarmament progress. Topeka May 17 Auditor Cole says state railroad assessors results near ready for publication The aggregate valuation will rise about 150000 over last year Changes mainly affect Missouri Pacific property increase and Chicago Rock Island Pacific Atchison Topeka Santa Fe decreases.
Western Oklahoma cattlemen plan a boycott of Kansas City shipments in response to the Kansas quarantine board requiring inspection of all Oklahoma cattle entering the state. The Missouri board approved the rule, making shipments to Kansas City costly and difficult and prompting a shift to Chicago and South Omaha.
Topeka Kansas May 17 Fifty employees of the carpenter department of the Santa Fe shops were laid off yesterday due to the company's inability to obtain lumber for the large box car order under construction. Railroad circles report the lumber famine as unprecedented.
Federal Judge Hook ruled that if county commissioners remit penalties for hard up individuals then corporations in difficulties should be treated the same. The Wichita and Western rail road receivers paid the flat tax and the suit to recover the penalties proceeded.
In Waukegan Illinois on May 17 the bodies of two Austrian men named Joseph Zurgnis and Joseph Brants were found among the ruins of a sugar resin facility fire after they were reported missing during the blaze.
The Hague, May 17. The drive for universal disarmament collapses as the meeting shifts to arbitration and humanitarian projects. The Deribund unites against disarmament and rejects outside plans and petition submissions. William T. Stead seeks recognition, pero delegates return the marble heart.
Kansas City May 17 Populist editors at the National Reform Press association session hear Ignatius Donnelly urge the party to stay independent from fusion with any group and condemn Bryan and the Democratic party for treachery. He calls for a middle road to outlast the corrupt democracy.
Washington May 17 Many applications have been made to the war department requesting that all useless cannon captured in the Philippines be turned over to the states as trophies of the regiments making the capture. Secretary Alger cabled Gen Otis asking what there was in the way of this and had received a reply stating that, under the terms of the peace treaty, all obsolete cannon are to be turned over to the Spanish government.
President McKinley plans to be in the western states when volunteers return from the Philippines to muster out. He aims to greet and honor them in their home states. James T. Tufts of Atchison named private secretary to Assistant Secretary Ryan. Judge Burwell of Tecumseh sentences George Boggs to four years in federal penitentiary for robbery.
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