Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-08

since 1897 aged "a years.
The Wheeler elevator, on BuT~l 10 riv-
er, at Buffalo, n Y, was burned: loss,
SITS, 900
j. w. W White, a wealthy tanner
near Sparks, Okla, was shot and killed
by James Crane, an employee whom he
had accused of stealing.
| Sifted down TO actual facts it appears
that the recent trouble at Nanchan, Chi
| ma, was DOT a Boxer outbreak at all,
but a purely local affair, the rioting
and killings being the result of objec-
ton TO French Catholic priests assum-
| ing to eX;S'sise civil functions.
A prairie fire swept 80 square miles of
the riches riches, farming lands in Rice coun-
| ty, Kans;f9, resulting in damage esti-
mated at $4,000
Miss katherine O'Brien, daughter of
the American minister, Thomas j.
| OBrien, n Copenhagen, and Henry
G. Chiffon secretary of the British le-
cation there, are to be married April 81.
Bishop Potter, of New York, and his
daughter are spending a month in
Rome.
Il ClSl4-i4SS liz ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS les ~
lature, Gov. Sir William MacGregor, re-
ferred glcwingly to the colony's unex-
ampled prosperity.
Mrs. j. l.. Brock, the wife of a far
mer, was aW arded $1,000 damages in
the district court at independence,
Kas., aga. nsa George Francis, one of
the wealt'hest men in Kansas, for in
juries received in runaway caused by
an automobile driven by Francis.
Walter Scott, the Death Valley miner,
and his brother, Warner Scott, were
| fired upon from ambush at Windy Gap.
1873 miles from Barstow, Cal, and War
ner Scott was dangerously wounded He
is now in hospital at Los Angeles.
Judge " orthington, in the circuit
| court at eoria, ILL.,. has ordered the
eight school inspectors Of Peoria who
| have yeal yet to serve, to appear in
court, March II, and show cause why
they Should not be elected from Office
| on the ground of Illegal election.
| Constable Joseph Fleis was shot and
| instantly killed by Mrs. Lawrence Ba-
ker, in Chicago, while attempting to
levy upon some property in Mrs Ba-
ker's home without having shown his
authority.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows nat at the close of business
Februar the total debt, less cash
in tl,,-.S-ass4s-5 ,,sas $S7S, 5af ,y55, a de-
crease fer the month of $4,003,0 41,
principally accounted for by large in
crease in the amount Of cash on hand.
| Dr. William Hill, a well-known Hi
nois politician, died at his home in
Bloomington, aged II years. He was
present, in az official capacity, when
| William ]. Bryan was born.
At last accounts the mob still held
partial sway in Springfield, o., seem
| ingly bent on driving the negroes out
of town. The presence of several COM
panies of state troops was the only
thing that deferred them, and they
didn't seem to be very much afraid Of
them as the military was handled very
| glngerly
| A. w. Moerki postmaster of Column
bia Isle of Pines, has been taken into
| custody because he refused to pay the
| storekeeper's tax, on the ground that
the Isle of Pines is not under Cuba's
! jurisdiction
Under Sheriff John E. Sealy was shot
| and killed at Hurley, Wis, by George
| Greenwood, a Wisconsin Central OPP
orator, who mistook Sealy for burg
| lar. Sealy likewise mistooE Green
wood for a burglar who had taken ref
uge in the station
The terrible drought which for years
has paralyzed the industries of Aus
tralia has keen broken, and record
| breaking crops and plentiful pasturage
marks the return of normal conditions.
Having been unable to obtain an in
! definite leave Of absence, Maj. Cassius
| E. Gillette, one of the best known en-
| gireers in the United States army, has
| resigned his commission, and has been
appointed by Mayor Weaver Of Phila-
delphia chief engineer of the bureau OF
| filtration, a position paying $4,000 a
year
The native population of Nanchang,
| China, where the recent murders of
missionaries were committed, is flee
| ing, dreading the arrival of armed forces
| from European and American gunboats.
Samuel j. HUMPHREYS, Douglass E.
Smith, Charles Augustus Seton and
| Charles T. G. p. Colmey, indicted in
| connection with Norfolk & Western
| $4,50G,000 bond forgery, were arraigned
| before Recorder Golf, in New York, and
all pleaded guilty but Colmey. They
were remanded one month for sentence.
A bill has been introduced in the
| lower house of the New York legisla-
ture making it felony to advocate or
teach the duty, necessity or propriety OF
| shortening the lives of incurably dis
| eased or imbecileS.
A Shanghai dispatch reports the
death of Rev. II. c. Kinghams eldest
daughter, from the effects of injuries
inflicted upon her by the Chinese mob
that killed her parents at Nanchang.
The citizens of Bath, England, by
vote of two to one, decided to reject
Andrew Carnegie's offer of S65,000 for
| a public library.