Woodruff County news., 1906-07-26
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 1udge John A. Rich, in the criminal court at St, Joseph, Mo-, decides that the general Sunday closing law Of Mis- souri applies to cities of the second class. Notice of appeal was given.
 The London Standard says that the death of Lady Curzon is made sadder by the fact, known only to few, that lord Curzon is himself threatened with fatal disease.
 syzran, Russia, according to Sa- mara dispatch, is heap of ruins from the recent fire. Hundreds of persons lost their lives and several men sus- hected of incendiarism were sum- marily dispatched. Four thousand houses were burned.
 The opening of the bids for the S30,000,000 Panama canal bonds lnd1- cated that the entire issue had been subscribed for many times over at an average of 103.94.
 The will of the late Alfred Belt, the South African Croesus, leaves millions to various public benefactions, largely fin South Africa, $6,00O,000 in one lump being devised to aid in furthering methods of communication and trans portation in that part of the world. Large sums are left to relatives, friends and servants, his brother Otto Belt being made residuary legatee ab- solutely.
 A treaty of peace between Guate- mala and Salvador and Honduras was signed on board the United States cruiser Marblehead, at sea, July 20, tnus ending a war that threatened to involve several other Central Ameri- can republic besides those concerned in it's beginning The United States has added another plume to it's cap of peace.
 A decree appears in the Official Journal in Paris nominating Maj. Al fred Dreyfus to the Legion of Honor. Brig. Gen. Edmund Rice, retired, died at his home in Wakefield, Mass, after a brief illness of heart disease, aged GA years.
 Japanese public sentiment is mex pressihly shocked at the finding of the Russian court of inquiry, which recommends that Gen. Stoessel be shot. All say the verdict is at variance with the facts in the case
 In fire at Yokohama, Japan, 1000 houses were destroyed.
 In honor of Colombian independence day the government released all po- iitical prisoners.
 Andrew D. White, former president of Cornell university, in an address before the Cornell summer school, de clared the time had come when techni- cal appeals in criminal cases should no longer be allowed by the courts.
 Ground has been broken on the Jamestown (Va) exposition for Penn sylvania's state building, which will De replica of Independence hall, Philadelphia, and which will be pre- sented to the state of Virginia
 portrait of the late Secretary of State John Hay, three-quarters life slze, the work of Miss Ellen Emmett, ol Salisbury, Conn.,, has been placed sh the diplomatic reception room iu the state department in Washington.
 LIT. w. D. McAfee, known in G. A. R. circles in the United States as a lead Ing marcher at national encampments aieo at his home in Rockford, H., aft Sf lingering illness.
 neV B. Royal Cheny, pastor of the second Congregational church at Be- 'olt' Wls., was killed in an elevator ac- eident at Florence, Italy.
 By the burning of the big bonded marehouse of James Watson & Co., at ouhoee, Scotland, loss of $1,250,00O was sustained. The streets in the vii e'nity of the fire literally ran with turning whisky.
 rracueally all the large cotton niiiis or New England have voluntarily announced increases of five to seven PCT cent Ill wages to begin August 1.
 massachusetts will turn over $40O,- soV ol It's San Francisco relief fund Aeiu pack owing to lack of confidence Al the san Francisco committee, to 'ne rehabilitation company.
 me executive committee of the Ma siohal Wholesale Grocers' association, ., meeting in Chicago, adopted a res niu'ion mdorsing the new pure food .aw With determination to obey it's mandates to the letter.
 wren the announcement was made m DenVer that Philadelphia had been s"oSeh Tor the next Elks' convention,
 oand from the Quaker City an- aeaieu and started playing "Therell be r, noe tune in the old town tonight" :" pn'.. vote stood: Philadelphia, 495; 6altimore, 2s5.