Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-09-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK
PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Dleestsd and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.


While a score or more of fireme1
were hghting a fire in a retail grocery
in st. Louis, gasoline in the basement
exploded, and dozen were severely
burned.
Roger Sullivan, democratic nationa
committeeman for Illinois, has made
reply to W. J. Bryan's attack and
demands that he resign as commit
teeman. He asserts that Mr.. Bryan's
political assets consist in having lead
the party twice to defeat.
Under the floor in a lonely hut oc
cupied by hermit named James
James, near Sault Ste Marie, Mich.
the skeleton of a man was discov
cred The hermit committed suicide
and the authorities, in searching the
place in which James had lived alone
for years. made their gastly find.
The king underwent an excellent
cure Cat Marienben, Bohemia). is in
splendid health and the best of spir'
Its, and has lost the proper amount
of weight"
The sultan of Morocco is willing tC
give up Stensland, the default.nG
Chicago banker.
The state department is probing the
seizure of an American fishing smack
by a Mexican gunboat.
Secretary Shaw has issued an order
prohibiting national banks from send
ing federal deposits to New York to
be loaned on call for speculative pur-
poses, ordering return to the treas
ury of such portion as can not be
absorbed by their respective commu
mites.
Washington authorities are said to
have instructed immigration Inspec-
tor Dunn to look after the Mexican
junta in ST. Louis.
Forgeries for more than $250,000 by
Frank K Nipple, the suicide presi-
dent of the defunct Philadelphia Real
Estate Trust Co., have been discov'
cred by Receiver Earle.
Reports Of Mexican uprising against
Americans are lacked upon as ride
ulous by leaders in that republic.
Citizens of La Ceibe, Honduras, at
tackled an American physician who re-
ported yellow fever there. He took
refuge in the United States consulate,
which American citizens were called
upon to guard for a week.
Earthquake shocks shook south
western Indiana, but caused no dam
age. About the same hour, so dis
patches say. shocks were felt in the
Windward islands, southeast of Pee
to Rico.
Former Gov David r. Francis, of
Missouri. had an audience with EN-
peror Francis Joseph, for the presen-
tation to the emperor of the st. Louis
exhibition commemorative medal.
Capt. VIM. Matteray assembled in a
balloon at Oconte, Wis. sailed over
Green bay and Lake Michigan, land
ing 20 miles from Wolverine, Mich,
having travelled over 200 miles. He
was up during the night. The CAPT
tan was almost exhausted when he
reached terra firma once more.
Emperor William has decorated Car
dinal Kopp with the order of the
Black Eagle, the highest Prussian
decoration. This is the first time the
order has ever been conferred on a
Catholic prelate.
The newspaper, Kysten, of Chris
tiania. Norway, states that United
States Senator Knu4e Nelson of Min
nesota has proposed that the Ameri-
can government purchase the steam
er Gjoa, which recently completed a
voyage through the northwest pas
sage, in order that she may be the
first vessel to go through the Pana-
ma canal, and thus be the only ship
that has sailed around America.
DR.. F. B. Gault of Tacoma has been
appointed president of the South Da-
kota university This ends long
controversy and POLITICAL fight.
The grand Duke of Baden, celebrat-
ing his eightieth birthday anniversary
at his castle at Mainau. Lake Con-
stance, received a deputation of Ger
man Americans, who crossed the
ocean for the purpose of presenting
him with an address.
State Aenator Edgar b Bracket OF
Saratoga has announced that he is a
candidate for the republican nomin-
alton Of governor of New York.
1t is remarked thai the relations
between the German government and
the vatican have grown closer since
the church and state situation in
France became acute.
Mendall Burnett, a merchant, com
mitted suicide at ST. Joseph, Mo-, by
saturating his clothing with kerosene
and applying a lighted match. His
body was badly burned when he was
found dead in the basement of his
place OF business. the scene o: the spi
eide.