Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-09

AS a result primarily, of one man
! failing TO pay his union dues, between
| 5000 and 1000 men employed by the
| Boston & Montana company, at Butte,
in the mines, the smeltermen at the
Great Falls smelling plant and the
train crews engaged in hauling all are
| idle.
| From 1881 to 1905, inclusive, 4,425
miners and 2,452 mine laborers were
killed in Pennsylvania due largely
to their own negligence carelessness,
wrecflessness and ignorance.
Battling Nelson and Joe Cans are
expected to contest for $4,000 purse
at Goldfield, New, Labor day.
Maj.-Gen. A. w. Greeley has been
ordered to ST. Louis to take COM
mand of the Northern division of the
army, succeeding Maj,-Gen. Henry G.
Corbin.
| Brig Gen. Albert L. Mills, comman-
dant of the military academy at West
Point, has received orders to proceed
to the Philippines and relieve Brig
Gen. Winfield S. Edgerly, in command
of Fort William Mckinley, who is Or
dered to San Francisco.
Ed. Misener. accompanied by his
wife and son, has just completed
trip from Chicago to Red Wing, Mimi.
via the Chicago drainage canal, the
Illinois and Mississippi rivers, in an
18-foot launch, without a mishap on
the trip.
E. A Gage, son of former Secretary
of the Treasury Lyman ]. Gage, shot
himself through the heart at the Tour
ist hotel in Seattle, Wash. Acquafnt.
ances said he had been acting strange,
ly for some time.
The federal department of justice
has taken up the case of the alleged
burning of rebate evidence by the Bur
lington Railroad Co., when two cars,
loaded with documents, were burned at
Belfast siding in Greeley county, Neb,
James B. Postlethwait, employed In
the clerical department of the Michi-
gan Central Railway Co., at Detroit,
tasted 40 days for the benefit of his
health and then died of exhaustion.
Mrs. Grace Hutchinson was acquit
ted of the charge of murder in the
killing of Mrs. Mary Bode at Salida
Col, last June, after her husband had
confessed intimacy with Mrs. Bode
An investigation of alleged irregu
larities in the Philippine islands is be-
ing conducted by Col. Wood, inspector
general, under the direction of Maj.
Gen. Leonard Wood.
Floyd Carmichael, a negro, was shot
to death at Lakewood, suburb Of
10 hn h honn i6eT1-
tilted by Miss Annie Poole, aged 10,
as her assailant.
The United States government has
paid Germany the award of 100000 in
the Samoan case. Great Britain paid
her damages in the spring, and the
matter is therefore settled.
Baron Komura, the recently APP
pointed Japanese ambassador to Great
Britain, arrived at Victoria, B. c., en-
route to London via Quebec. He ex-
pressed regret at his inability, at this
time, to visit the United States and
renew former pleasant acquaintances-
The number of people receiving re-
lief in San Francisco has been re-
duced from 225,00O during the first
week after the fire to less than 1900
at the present time.
The battleships Alabama and Illi-
nois were in collision, during fog.
southeast of Brenton's Reef lightship,
and several of the forward plates of
the Alabama were dinted. Seaman
Corbett of the Illinois was severely
injured by the fall of a lifeboat davitt,
and 1t was found necessary to ampu-
tate one of his legs.
Terrible heat conditions are report
ed from the Myo county California;
gold fields and adjacent desert, and
mining prospectors are said to be dy-
ing daily from the heat.
The state of Illinois has secured
judgment against former State Treas
urer Henry Wulff and Floyd K. Whit.
temore, his bondsman, for $6,532.50
before Judge Creighton, in the Sanga-
mon circuit court, being the amount of
fees retained by the former treasurer.
Emil Lesser, president of the Gel.
man immigration Society of Alabama,
reports, after personal investigation
at Lockhardt, that no trace of peon-
age exists in the camps of the Jack.
son Lumber Co.
The Spanish generals who were con.
cerned in the surrender of Santiago,
Cuba, will reply to attacks in the press
by issuing manifesto laying the
blame for the surrender upon the
politicians.
A movement is under way in San
Francisco to fix a charge of criminal
conspiracy on the insurance brokers
who have compelled policy holders to
accept less than was due them on their
losses in the great conflagration.
Gen. Oku, the victor at Nanshan
and Telling in the Russo-Japanese
war, and whose command succeeded
in isolating Port Arthur, has beer
appointed chief of the general staff
of the Japanese army, vice Baron
Kodama. deceased.
T. NJ. Campbell, the union labor