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SHERMAN ALIVE AND IMPROVING A False Report of His Death Was Widely Circulated. i ITS ORIGIN IS UNKNOWN ; __ The Statement Contradicted In Dispatch From Santiago. * A special of Tuesday from Santiago de Cuba, says: “There is no truth in the statements p.blished in the United States and cabled back hero repre- senting that John Sherman is dead. “It is incomprehensible how these reports originated. “The American line steamer Paris, Captain Frederick Watkins, arrived Tuesday evening before dark, and it was immediately reported that Mr. Sherman was mot only alive, but bet- ter, w r as resting easy and was expected to recover. He will be transferred if all goes favorably to the United States cruiser Chicago on Thursday.” Was False News. Seldom has official Washington been more completely , , , stirred by conflicting emotions than it was Tuesday by the announcement of the death of John Sherman and then by he contradic- tion of tho report which came a few hours later, the one giving a relief which was as marked as was the sor- 10 rri^ 10 , , U< e ... ., ,.' 6 .. p !. rS 4 . le l :iOT > n 'n c * e from ■m-, y °J t ’ 1VaR 1CC r' 6< a °. * an - ne atternoon t and was c .- le in_ i denar men jus ie ore ey c ose o V rj y- announcenien ,-< unu , ° °T,i Da ' lra J 10 ,? e f <:a e o grams a ie < ay, st.inn , . a , 1 ae vui , i era )le s atesman scorn l ion me grown worse since one ay, aiu leie was a umversat expression ot regre , an m mfiny cases ot persona t is less over tb u e ws ' ~ , . . . , , a aiue minis ers, sen a ois ant members ot tne House expressee ( eep sorrow, speaking not on y in erms o admiration and respect lor the ex-sen- ator s public career, but dwelling witli . loving kindness upon his personal character. The contradiction of the first report did not arrive until .. «:d(J o >ii clock. r* came totbe Associated Lress in ■ e shape ot a positive s a einent rom bantiago de Oulia, made in the Jcnow - edge that the report of the ex-sena or s death had been circulated. Tlnsdis- culat culation h ioI a m V“ity me city a?it as it g! ‘was was possible possiDie for it to receive at that hour. Secre- tary Hay was placed in possession of KSSS'fSSS’ “Almost marvelous condition " of a affairs,” remarked the secretary. Ho then proceeded to express his great relief that the first news was not con- firmed. The news of the reported death of Mr. Sherman took many persons, friends and others, to his house on K gregated >r” there e when the represeuta- tive of the Associated Press called were the two former private secre- taries of ex-Senator Sherman, Mr. Babcock and Mr. Valle, as well as Miss Kate Wilcock, a niece, and Mrs. Colonel Charles Hoyt, whose husband was a cousin of ex-Senator Sherman, Tliey and others present read the dis- patch stating that the ex-senator was still alive with tumultuous joy. QUARANTINE DATE CHANGED. s .„„o„ wi« B , sl0 ap„i ,«B Of May ist. The sanitary board of Savannah, Ga., held a meeting Tuesday afternoon and changed the time for the starting of the close quarantine season from May 1st to April 10th. This means that all vessels and pas- sengers after April 10th will have to undergo a detention of five days or longer after the process of disinfecting has been completed. On this account the government authorities will make every 0 get all troops possible from Cuba before the close quarantine period begins. Most of the membeis of the city council are in favor of the proposition to turn the Savannah quaiautine sta- tion over to the national government and the chances are that steps will be taken very shortly looking to this end. BIG POWDER EXPLOSION. Accident at Dupont Mills In Which Three rien Are Killed. Over three thousand pounds of smokeless powder exploded Wednes¬ day at the E. I. Dupont powder works, at Carney Point, N. J., instantly kill¬ ing three workmen and injuring a number of others slightly. The dead are: Isaac Lyman, William Ford. John Magill. of the accident has not The cause originated in been determined, but it one of the drying houses where Lay- man was at work. The shock of the explosion shook the country ior miles around and heavy panes of glass were broken. A NATIONAL PARTY May Be Organized By Labor Agita¬ tors and Social Reformers. A meeting of labor agitators social reformers, silver men and delegates from several bodies organized for the advancement of various kinds of social conditions was held in New York Wednesday. conference informal, . While the was some of the participants have a plan whereby it is thought a national party will be organized. MRS. PLACE ELECTROCUTED. Dies In the Chair For the Murder ol Her Stepdaughter. Mrs. Martha Place, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison Monday for the murder of her bt She^made no^sceue^TUe firstshock lasted four seconds. The voltage was 1,760. It was then reduced to 200 five or six seconds. A second shock was then given. Mrs. Place went, calmly to the chair. She leaned on Warden Sage’s arm. Her eyes were closed and she seemed neither to see nor hear. She murmnr- ed a prayer. Mrs. Place was calm beyond expoe- tation, No one has walked into the I)fiath came with !egg R , ru ggj e than waB ever witnessed before. Death was instantaneous. Just as she sat down in the chair she said: “God help me.” The electrode was fastened in a mo- ment; another was placed over her thick light hair, turning gray, a small circle of which had been cut away. The straps were adjusted over her face and a pad over the forehead. Only her mouth was visible, In her hand Mrs. Place carried a prayer book, and when the shock came she gripped it tightly. The other held fast to the chair handle. The woman’s month merely J closed; the face was a trjfle , ivid Her lae cea6ed to beat . “ , • min . lte e crim<J for which MrP . P i ace B „f- f ^ the death penalty was 8U a tvooi- ous one. She killed her stepdaugh- ter, Ida Place, at thtir home, 598 Hancock street, Brooklyn, on Febrn- av J 1897. The girl was but twenty- two years old. A double murder had been planned by the woman. She ^lled her stepdaughter when the girl was taking an afternoon nap, splitting \ 1(;r skull open with an ax, and pour- ing vitriol on her face and into her moll th. The same evening the woman lay in j wft it foi her husband, William W. ] dace) i n the darkened hallway of the bouse, and when he entered she struck him in the face with the ax and inflict- e d a severe wound. He managed to ge t outside the front door and alarm t he neighbors before he became un- congc i oug When the police and neigh- j,ors entered the house theT found Mrg . Piaoe in a bed-room in which gas was escaping, and sh@ was shamming uncousciousness. Mr. Place recovered consciousness and said his wife had d .j ed to murde r him, and the woman was arrested after they both had been taken to a hospital. GROWTH OF thc THE SOUTH. cnirrw The Various New Industries Estab- „ . . p w . Among the ., m ” e imnortan't of the SKtol&JSKS North Carolina; canning factories m Mississippi and North Carolina; coal mines in Kentucky and West Virginia; cooperage works in Georgia; cotton compresses in Georgia (round bale), Louisiana, North Carolina and Texas; two cotton compress manufacturing companies in Texas; a $100,000 cot- spindles aSSVBSLS* in Louisiana cotton “»r' 5 S seed ml mills in Georgia, an elec- tncal gmia, flouring rapply' mills in Alabama J and lr ' North Carolina; a 1,000,000-bushel grain elevator in Texas; a hardware factory in North Carolina; a harness factory in Georgia; ice factories in Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi; a $100,000 improvement company in North Carolina, a $60,000 irrigation company m Louisiana; a $15,000 amt- tingm.ll in East Tennessee; lumber | marble ssjs compan ?s^£srnsr j in Tennessee, two r novelty works in Virginia; a rubber tire factory, a silk mill and a spoke and handle factory m North Carolina; a stave mill in Kentucky, a tobacco factory and a general woodworking factory in West Virginia.—Tradesman (Chattanooga, Te nn .)_______ CONDEMNED BY MINISTERS ’ - Atlanta Preachers Pass Resolutions Regarding the Palmetto Tragedy. At a meeting of the Methodist min- j g ^ erg 0 f Atlanta, Ga., Monday morn- ing resolutions relating to the Pal- metto tragedy were introduced aud unanimously adopted. The resolutions ex gsed stronp B y mpa thy with the good citizens of Palmetto, commended Governor Candler and condemned the cr j me 0 f mob j n tbe strongest f erms THREE HEN ENTOMBED. Walls of Old -Copper Mine Cave In Upon Them, The bodies of three white miners now lie 125 feet under ground beneath a great volume of water and tons of diit and debris in a manganese mine nine miles from Cartersville,Ga.,where they met death Tuesday morning by being mashed and smothered by the great mass above where they were working caving in on them. and The mine is on the Canton road is known as the Clumber Hill mine. It has recently been leased and worked with a force of from three to five hands. OREGON REACHES MANILA. 3ig Battleship Is In Good Condition , For Any Emergency. The navy department has been ad¬ vised of the arrival at Manila of the battleship Oregon. The following cablegram was re¬ ceived from Admiral Dewey: Secretary of the Navy, Washington: The Oregon and the Iris arrived today. The Oregon is in fit condition for any duty. (Signed) Dkwky. SPANISH FLAG GIVEN M'KINLEY Trophy Is Donated By Vice-Con- sul Torras at Brunswick. WAS FIRST TO SALUTE, President Leaves Jekyl and Re¬ turns to Thomasville. President McKinley returned to Thomasville from Jekyl Island Wed- nesday . evening, bringing , . witfi ... ,,• mm as one of the trophies of his visit to Bruuswick a Spanish flag. This was the first flag of the con- quered , , , ■ i . nation o )e , se< - the president of the United States af- ter the conclusion of peace, and Presi- dent McKinley will give it a prominent place among his trophies commemora¬ tive of different phases of the late unpleasantness.” The flag was presented to him by Mr II II Raymond / ’ general south- ern manager of the Ma loiy r me, o behalf of Rosendo Torras, Spanish vice consul at Brunswick. Perhaps it would be more nearly correct to say “late” Spanish vice consul, so long as diplomatic and consular relations be- tween the two governments have not yet been formally resumed; but Torra* is so thoroughly identified with Bruns- wick that nobody thinks of him in any other than his official capacity. Mr. The presentation was made by Raymond upon the arrival of the pres- j The idential flag party accompanied at half-past by 1 this o’clock, note: was “This is the first Spanish flag whick saluted President William McKinley after the conclusion of peace between the United States and Spain, and is now presented to the president at Brunswick, Ga., March 22, 1899, with the compliments of Rosendo Torras, late vice consul of Spain.” masthead The flag was flying at the of the bark Tafalla, of Barcelona, when the presidential party arrived at Brunswick. The departure From Jekyl. The start from Jekyl was mad« about 10 o’clock Wednesday morning, a s a sail through the waters of the sound and Turtle river was one of the features of the program. This was taken on the Colfax, the revenue cut- ter which has been at the president’s disposal during his stay. The whole Jekyl colony was down to wave a farewell to the distinguished visitors, Tom Reed using his mam- »•«■ 1 ®®’ ThomasVe^n -f f r „ W p Cannon,Mr. n ihornas Page ® and ® "* f this sail, P ied the party 1 J or ^ « ^^Ick • i j P 'the Colfax docks at Bruns- and after farewell hadbeen said be«n i ts return ^.P 4j ^ waR without Bpecifll in ent , and soon Georgia’s distin- 8 gnisbe d visitors were safely and com- *>rtably settled . . at Senator q , 8 nnne. SENATOR TELLER’S VIEWS. -- Colorado Man Ialks of the Democratic Issue In Next Campaign. A special from Cleveland, O., says: g ena t or M. H. Teller,of Colorado, was asked whatf in , hig judgement, would z&sszzxr “ the *“ think there is no doubt, n replied Seilator Teller, “that the democratic par tissue.” t y will make the financial question “Who will be the democratic presi- dential nominee?” “Undoubtedly Mr. Bryan will be the choice of his party,” promptly re- plied the senator. j n re gard to W. J. Bryan’s contro- versy with Perry .Belmont, Senator Teller said: “I think Mr. Bryan did exactly right in taking the position he did. Those fellows in that organization are not democrats. They are republicans masquerading under democratic, col- ors. They opposed Mr. Bryan’s elec- tion in 1896, saying his election would ‘endanger the nation’s welfare,’ and he. did perfectly right in declining to accept their invitation.” TO TRANSFER CONVICTS. Old Lease In Georgia Will Expire on Last Day of March. The twenty-year convict lease in Georgia expires on April 1st and the felony convicts of the state, more than 2,000 in number, will- be turned over ; to the state and will then be hired to the nineteen bidders who made con- i tracts less than twelve months ago for the labor of the wearers of the stripes, i The expiration of the twenty-year lease will witness a radical change in the working of the state convicts, and will bring a vast amount of revenue to the state which has for the full term of the long lease been reaped by the lessees. TENNESSEEANS ORDERED HOME. The Transport Dixie Will Be Sent to Trinidad After Them. A Washington dispatch says: The transport Dixie has been ordered to proceed with haste from New York to Trinidad to bring home the Fourth Tennessee volunteers. General Brooke has been directed by the department to have tbe regi¬ ment in readiness to embark when the transport arrives. EMBAL/TED BEEF EXPOSED. Hotel Bell Boy Testifies Before Board In Chicago. The members of the government court of inquiry finished their labors in Chicago Wednesday and left at | once for New York. | The testimony of Governor Theo- ; dore Roosevelt will there he received, j after which the court will proceed to Governors island. The evidence brought forth during the day was largely cumulative m its character, consisting mainly in criti- ! eisms of the canned beef and refriger- ated beef from soldiers who ate it and cfh i Is in Cuba and I oi to lvico. j j) nvid FleiscRniau, a bell lmy in the Hotel Morrison, told of a visit to the stockyards in the company of an un- known man, whose purpose he sup- posed to be an experiment in chemical tlie mat- ter of preserving beef, by trea t me nt. , : Fleischman testified as follows: j gentleman “One day in in June,” 131 asked he said, if “a I room me j would be at leisure to go to the stock yards with him. I went out there | with him and had to carry two boxes, tin or galvanized iron boxes. He went ont *° Bee 80me ma » about some meat, he told me. We took the boxes and went io a car where there were three j or f our rows G f meat. In each of the | boxes there were four smaller pack- a g eg( containing, as I fecollect it, a . Mack or rather a light gray colored I substance. He put this into perforated | trays made for that purpose, set fire to d and placed it under the meat. I asked him what that was dona for, and | he said it was done as an experiment to preserve the meat. “Next day I w as to go back and get the cans. I asked him whether it was to kill germs or any king like that, and be said no, to the nieat. I put my finger on the meat and ( as ted it and it burned the end of my tongue. I called attention to the f ac t that the meat looked rather larger than when we were there before. He said that was simply an enlargement c { the meat from the ice. There was a sulphurous smell in the car and an- 0 tber odor which I caunot describe, I took the cans back to the hotel. I noticed iu one end of the car there was a card marked‘Tampa, Fla.’ “This was at Armour’s packing house; there was only one car; there were only about-three rows of beef. I think it was halves. I asked him wh** he was, and if I am not mistaken, lie told me he was a quartermaster ora quartermaster general or something like that/” - CHATTAHOOCHEE BOATS BURN, - Three Fine Vessels Are Victims of the n.~. »• Columbu., fia. At an early hour Wednesday morn- ing fi re destroyed three fine Chatta- hoochee river steamers at Columbus, Ga. The C. D. Owens, the Flint: and the Bay City, all large and finely furnished boats, were destroyed at the city wharf. The loss will aggre- gate between twenty-five and thirty thousand dollars; it is estimated. Th. boats were insured The fire originated on the steamer ?. D. Owens, anew vessel of the in- Independent L, line, and was quickly com n icated to the steamer Flint, which was moored near by. From the Flint the flames spread to the steamer Bay City, which burned like so much tinder. It was not long before the ropes holding them were burned or cut, and the three steamers began to float slowly down the stream. It was a The boats floated a goodly distance down the stream, the flames leaping high into the heavens. The boats burned rapidly and were soon totally destroyed. What fragments were not burned were broken up and floated away by the waves, aud thus the steamers were a total loss. The cause of the fire is unknown. The watchman on the Owens says that be had just finished making an inspee- tion of the hold at 3 o clock vvlien fire was discovered near the end of the boiler. He had no idea how it started. There were two or three persons on board the boat at the time. The flames spread rapidly, audit was impossible to extinguish them—in fact, the small force present had not the slightest hope of stopping the fire, being fortn- nate in getting out of the boat with their lives. MILES GIVES DENIAL To Reports That He Is Fighting Pro¬ motion of Wheeler. A Washington dispatch says: The attempt to make General Miles respon- sible for the attack upon General Wheeler, reoently emphasized before the war department with a view to preventing his becoming a fixture in the regular army, is another act in the anti-Miles crusade. Now General Miles indignantly denies that he has been in any way a party to the fight 0 n General Wheeler. He has friend been of | a li along the consistent Wheeler and now wants him given a : permanent and prominent place in the : army. PETERSON QUITS NAVY. Charges That Mere Preferred Against ««•» Are Withdrawn. The resignation of Cadet R. L Pe- fce^sou, of the sclioolship Chase, o the rejvenue cdpted by cutter the treasury service, department has een ac- j Charges were filed against him, but hjs resignation being was pressed, accepted without the charges said be engaged Cadet Peterson is to to Miss Charlotte Crane, the actress. SEVEN LYNCHED i IN ARKANSAS j RaC0 Troubles Prevail In County j ! of Little River, THE TERMINATION NOT YET Besidog the Seven Ki!led Many Others May Be Doomed. ----- A special from Texarkana, Ark., J . “A race war is on in Little Riv- er county, and during the past forty- , eight hours an indefinite number of negroes have met their death at the > hands Qf ftU infuriated white p0 pula- f , lon - Seven are known to have been lynched, shot to death or slain in some manner, and the work is not yet done, The bodies of the victims of the mob’s vengence arc hanging to the limbs of trees in various parts of the county, strung up wherever overtaken, while that of another who was shot to death while trying to escape was thrown into a creek and left there. The couutry is in a state of the most intense excitement. White men are collecting in mobs heavily armed and determined; negroes are fleeing for their lives and the community is in an uproar. The exact number of negroes who have been summarily dealt with, or those who may yet fall into the hands of the mob before order is restored, nxay never he known, Seven bodies have been found dead and other victims are being hunted and wili meet a similar fate when run to earth. The known dead so far are: General Duckett, Edwin Goodwin, Adam King, Joseph Jones, Benjamin Jones, Moses Jones and one unknown. Joe King and John Johnson were also tuken into hand by mobs and whipped. They were afterwards turn- ed loose and have disappeared. Little River county is in the ex- treme southwest corner of the state, bordered on the west by the Indian Territory and on the south by Texas. The negro population is large and has for a long time proved trouble- some to the whites. Frequent murders have occurred and thefts have become common af- fairs. One or two negroes haveyire- viously been severely dealt with when the people found it necessary to take the law into their own hands, but it was not until last Tuesday that the trouble took on a very serious aspect, It then developed that carefully laid plans had been made by a number of to ptocipitat, . r and 111 een ma - i t01 . -roes’were „ this ” implicated 1 in plot and ^ar^ , bent on meting out - J conspirators. Seven have , killed k,! and “ n f.JContinue® the work of wiping SLSSS wHhoat *»£ plicated Lai in the plot are known and 1 J parties of white men varying in nnmb r from twenty-five to fifty are ; scouring the c » ountry n nntrT fm fo r ttipm them. j Three Lynched in Mississippi. A special of Thursday from Jackson, Three negroes were ta- “ ten froni an officer of the law and I ^ yLoo , an ftrmed moh uetu . silver q Uv ’• in county, last Saturday After being “hot to death the bo dies of the victims were weighted *- - | The nesroes were Minor Wilson C. p d Willis Bovd. They were tbe ringleaders of the negroes in a race encoun *„ on the Midnight ” plantation 1 , some aays ag ’ ___ BODIES OF MINERS FOUND. ---- Were Buried In Cave-In of Cliumbley Hill Shaft. a Cartersville, Ga., dispatch says: j rppe bodies of Frank McEver and Qh ar l e s McCulver were reached about 12 o’clock Thursday in the Chumbley ml] 8haft Both bodies were buried j n the mud and showed that the mi- ! ners live but a short time after the oave . in Rescue work is stilt goin^ on in fieftrch of the body of Thad Chastain, ad bope 0 f ijf e ba s boen given up f or b im. FUMIGATION MUDDLE. War Department Rules Regarding Baggage of Returning Soldier. There has been considerable corres- pon d e nce between the war and the treasury department over the hold up Q f t b e Olivette at Tampa, Fla., with meQ 0 f tbe Second South Carolina volunteers. When she arrived at Tampa the of- ficerg sa j d tbe y did not want to stop ber to ba ve the baggage of the troops fumigated. Surgeon General Wyman stdd the treasury department officials agreed that the fumigation of baggage Bbou l d take place. Acting Secretary Meiklejohn sustained the action of the treasury department. SHERMAN IMPROVES Condition of Ex-Secretary Grows More Favorable. A digpatcll o{ Thursday from Santi- states that Mr. Sherman is feeling yery • muc j 1 better, and his physicians £ hig cou(lition as much im . yed During a part of the afternoon he sat on the deck of the Paris, viewing Santiago. The anxiety of his relatives on the Paris is now nearly at an end. ATLANTA’S NEW CAR SHED Seems Now to Be No Longer a Myth¬ ical Project, The Atlanta, Ga., city council, Thursday afternoon, agreed to accede to tho conditions named by the rail- roads as necessary to be settled before any move could be made toward build- ing a new depot. The city has designated its willing- ness to co-operate in the erection of a passenger station on the present site, with elevated tracks and lowered street crossings. There is still a slight dif- ference between the roads and the city, however, relative to the clear¬ ance under the raised tracks at the central . . , but .... this . crossings, is a mere (leta j, J n the resolution passed by the council it is especially required that and • !'><' clearance at Whitehall, Pryor Loyd streets shall be twelve feet. 1 he railroad companies had calculated on only an eleven foot clearance at White- ball street, which would give a J per cent grade for the tracks, and a five- f o0 j excavation for the street, The city agrees to the excavation, but requires another foot of c earauoe. In order to make the twelve feet un- * der tbe tracks it will he necessary to ra j se the Broad street bridge and to begin the raised tracks at a point six- ty or 100 feet west of the point it would have been necessary to start with an eleven-foot clearance and a 1 per cent grade. The main object for inserting the twelve-foot clearance clause was t< let the street cars pass under the tracks. The property owners along Whitehall and Pryor streets are said to be heart- ily in favor of allowing the cars to pass oa these thoroughfares. It would bo impossible for an electric car of the present type to pass through an eleven- foot clearance. It can, however, pass through a twelve-foot clearance, In case the reads agree to build the do p 0 t. with twelve feet under the tracks at the central crossings, the Conaoli- dated street railway will in all proba- bility run its cross-town cars under the tracks at Pryor, Whitehall and perhaps Loyd streets, instead of Lav- j ng to go three or four blocks out of the way over the Broad street bridge as at present, The action of the council is consid- ered most favorable for a magnificent new station. The city has agreed to make certain sacrificesinordertose- cure the depot, and the success of the now rests with the railroads, LABORS OF CONGRESS Compiled In a Statement By Enrolling Clerk Platt. B. S. Platt, enrolling clerk of ‘.lie senate, Las prepared a statement giv- JJ«» Jf™ The statement shows that 1.-157 bills aud joint resolutions became laws out of a total of 18,463 introduced iu both houses. Of the measures intro- 'tuced 12,608 were presented in the house and 5,855 in the senate. Of those which became laws,942 originated in the house and 515 in the senate during the congress one of these ap- plying to a senate bill and the other to a house measure. There were in addition to these, four bills wjhich failed to become laws because they were not approved by the president. The record shows that the senate passed 1,173 of its own bills and that the house acted favorably upon only 517, or fewer than half of them, while the 1,081 houge bills passed by ihe house the senate acted favorably upon 946. A larger number of bills were in- troduced than in any previous con- 8 ress * MET REBEL RIFLEMEN. American Troops at Hollo Face a Hot Filipino Fire. Details of the fighting at Iloilo on March 16th show that 400 rebel rifle- men from Pallia were met by seven companies of the Eighteenth regiment of United States infantry and a bat- talion of Tennessee volunteers. As supports these troops had three two- inch Hotchkiss guns, under General Miller, north of Jaro, across the river, The Americans met with a heavy fire. One of the men was killed and fifteen were wounded of the Eighteenth regiment, and there were several cases of sunstroke. General Miller esti- mates that fifty rebels were killed and one hundred wounded. WITNESSES FOR QUAY TRIAL Subpoenaed By the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It was announced in Philadelphia, Thursday, .that the commonwealth lias subpoenaed all itB witnesses in the trial of former United States Senator Quay and his son, Richard R. Quay, which begins April 10th. Between fifty and sixty persons have been summoned to testify for the prosecution. said that Assistant District It is At¬ torney Clement personally attended to the summoning of two Pittsburg bank cashiers. The trial is expected to take place before Judge Beitler. LAWMAKERS DOWN CIGARETTES Arkansas Legisiarure Prohibits Both Thair Manufac'.ure and Sale. A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark., says: A bill prohibiting the manufac¬ ture, importation, sale or giving away of cigarettes or cigarette paper to any person whomsoever, adult or minor, under penalty of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000, passed the Loubo Wednesday by a two to one ma¬ jority.