Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-05-10
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.

The house completed and passed the
agricultural appropriation bill. 1t car
ries $7,4S1 ,440, including the usual APP
preparation for free seed distribution.
The house passed the military acad-
envy appropriation bill, carrying $780,
lis
The house adopted a resolution Oh
thanks, on behalf of the people OF the
United States to Gen. Horace Porter, late
ambassador to France, for his untiring
efforts to discover and disinter the body
of Admiral Paul Jones; also that his
speech, delivered at Annapolis on the
occasion of the refinement of the body
be printed in the Congressional Record.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Superior Judge Murasky, at San
Francisco has passed on the sanity OF
upwards of eighty persons whose
minds have been more or less de-
ranged by fright consequent upon the
great disaster.
The savings banks of San Francis
co have reopened for business and
all the commercial banks report bust
uCoo llNGly anu W lIluI WI dis DEdSliC-
ally discontinued.
Mrs. Serena Lang, of St Joseph,
Mo-, aged &C, died as the result of in
juries received by being thrown down
stairs by Ruth Mayes, woman she
had befriended
A large number of WASHINGTON
newspaper correspondents and repre-
cpntatiUnc of dot
pers met the president at the execu-
tive offices and listened to his views
on railroad rate legislation.
AS the result of collision with
COW and calf a Texas Pacific passen-
ger train was wrecked at Sodus, La
The engineer and firemen were killed
two passengers seriously and several
others slightly hurt.
Former President Cleveland was
the guest of honor at dinner given in
connection with the annual jaunt of
of the Periodical Publishers Associ
alton of America at Atlantic City, N.
j. There was a distinguished COM
pany of authors, artists and publish.
ers present
A report that a revolutionary out
break had occurred in eastern Cuba,
under the leadership of Leal, former
agitator, is denied from Havana
A big charity fete in aid of the San
Francisco sufferers was held at
Friendship the beautiful country
home of John R. Mclean near Wash
ington, d. c.
Owen Harris, the negro who was
arrested in st. Louis on suspicion of
being the murderer of Mrs. Elizabeth
Mize, in Chicago established a clear
albi.
Upwards of $4,000 was realized
from an all-day benefit performance
in the Metropolitan opera house in
New York in aid of the San Francisco
sufferers.
AS the result of a shooting ARRAY
at Birmingham, Ala, Thomas G. Hew
lit is dead, John 7. Shupart was ex-
pected to die AMI Frank Lee and Leon
ard Potts, bystanders slightly
wounded
France, Italy and Russia are siding
with Great Gritain in the Tabah dis
pute with Turkey.
Ten persons were reported killed
as the result of head-on collision
near Williamsburg, Pa, on the Penn
sylvania railroad
The official canvass of the result of
the Cuban presidential election has
Deen made ana Tomas Estrada Palma
and Mendez Capote declared elected
president and vice-president reSpec
lively.
1t is announced that Mr. and Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth will be among the
guests at the coronation of King Haa-
kon and Queen Maud of Norway.
The federal grand jury in New York
mas returned seven indictments against
railroad companies and sugar refining
concerns for violation of the Elkins
antitrust law, in the alleged sugar re-
batting case.
During the disturbed period in Rus
sla fugitiyes are said TO have deposited
SlSt00O in German banks.
Sir Mortimer Durand the British
ambassador in Washington, has gone
nome for a months visit.
In an unfortunate collision between
state constabLlary and a mob made ur
mostly of foreigners, at Mount Carmel
Fa, several men were wounded, three
probably fatally, by the constabulary,
VINO hred into the mob after submitting
10 being pelted with rocks until for
Ds2rance ceased to be virtue.