Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-04-12
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.

CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
By a vote of 202 to &c, the house
passed the national quarantine bill,
which places the control Of all quaran-
tine stations, grounds and anchorages
under the secretary of the treasury,
and carries an appropriation Of $780, DOC
to carry the law into effect.
The house, with but little opposition,
passed the employers liability bill,
which makes the railroad companies
engaged in interstate commerce liable
for the injury or death of an empoye
The conference report on the anti
Lazing bill was agreed to. The prin-
cipal feature Of the measure is the
graduating of the penalties for hazing
at the naval academy
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The belief is prevalent among the
church officials of Zion that Dowie
was plucked for about S1,2O0,00O by
Wall street sharks in stock deals.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius,
overlooking the Bay of Naples, is ere,
ating CONSERVATION among the vii
layers, whose homes are threatened
by the steadily advancing streams of
lava. The scenes are described as of
mingled grandeur al | horror, espe-
cially at night.
Fire destroyed the upper story OF
the Chamber of Commerce building
in Portland, Ore, causing a loss of
100000, and, indirectly, the death OF
Homer H. Hallock, prominent rail,
road man, who in a frenzy of fear
jumped down the light we'll and was
instantly killed. There were some
spectacular rescues by the firemen
Att'yGen. Hadley of Missouri Is re.
covering very slowly from his recent
attack of pleurisy.
The business portion OF the town OF
Butler; Ca, was destroyed by fire;
loss, $4,000.
Typhoid fever. is almost epidemic
In Pittsburg, Pa, due, it is said, to the
len condition of the rivers.
e secretary of the navy has ac-
cepted the, resignation of Midshipman
John c. Campbell, fourth class, at the
naval academy on account of defec,
tive eyesight. He halls from Mis-
souri,.
D. G. Smith, president; Conrad
Luppe, cashier; D. c. Smith, Jr., book
keeper; Habbe .Nelde, Henry Block
and E. F. INLAND, partners in the
Ties-Smith bank lat Pekin, H., which
failed April 2, have been arrested on
charges of embezzlement, on com.
plant OF depositors,
Gen. Russell A. Alger has an,
nounced his determination, on &C.
count of failing health, to not again
be candidate for the United States
senatorship for Michigan
The steamer Burrsfield is detained
at quarantine at Philadelphia with
cases of suspected bubonic plague on
board. A archaeological examination
Will be made.
DR.. Charles A. Snodgrass, health
commissioner of st. Louis, died oil
pneumonia
Ex-United States Senator John R.
Henderson, who has been critically i'll
In the Pennsylvania sanitarium, Phil
delphia, is recuperating.
Clarence M. Stark, the Louisiana
(Mo.) nurseryman, has been declared
insane by the probate court at San
Antonio, Tex, and his wife will take
him to sanitarium at ). Waukesha,
Wis.
Benjamin F. Ellis, OF Peoria, H.,
and Mrs. Louisa ]. Pratt, of Sharon,
ILL.,, have been declared the joint heirs
to the $750000 estate of Miss Susan
Murdoch, of Carver, Mass, deceased.
There were about eighty claimants.
Jennie Rogers, ST. Louis panel
worker, told the board of police COM
missioners that in two houses she
operated during the Worlds fair an
average Of about 5000 daily was taken
from suckers" and that she paid
three policemen SIS a week regular
and a percentage of the spoils.
John Norcross, who was arrested in
northern Mexico in connection with
the recent hold-up of the Dolores mine
treasure train, has confessed and |
named his alleged accomplices.
The license of the Metropolitan Coal |
Co, of Boston. has been revoked by |!
the secretary of state because of ex-
tortionate prices fixed for coal since
the strike movement was inaugurated. |
Capt. Curtis w. Benton, First Kan
sas infantry in the civil war, died at
MS home in Leavenworth, aged so
years
With the consent of the war depart
ment, Geronimo 0, the aged Apache war;
Iior' has joined Wild West show for
the season.