Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-11-22
NEWS OF The WEEK
al epIToME OF THE MOST I'M
." ooerANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Olsestad and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.

The first trip of a president outside
- the main boundaries of the United
n ctotes was successfully concluded
,ybon the battleship Louisiana, having
~ hoard President Roosevelt and his
aortv dropped anchor in the harbor
If Colon. Extensive precautions had
haen made to protect the president
while ON the isthmus. Several per-
sons known to have anarchistic ten
doncies were locked up and remained
IN iai until the president departed.
n The United States census bureau
estimates the total wealth of the coun-
trv in 1904 to be $1O6, 1881, 415,009. This
shows an increase in wealth over the
estimates for 1900 of nearly Il per
cent and of Ga per cent over the esti-
mate for 1890, when the total wealth
N was So ,0S7, 091 1877.
Satsuma, the biggest battleship in
the world, was launched in Japan. The
vessel embodies all the lessons OF the
last war. Details in the main follow
n those of the British battleship Dread
naught whose steaming capacity she
is expected to exceed.
81 Rear-Admiral Robely D. Evans is
= quoted as saying: AT the present time
we have nothing more than respecta-
n Bile nucleus for a navy adequately to
81 represent the United States. 1t is not
nv business to criticise, but it some
times puzzles us of the navy to know
what congress is driving at
According to the Iron Trade, a
M Cleveland CO., publication, 1.-The car
shortage is an increasingly heavy
handicap to many industries. Deliv-
cry of southern iron is much delayed,
and it is estimated that in the Pitts
burg district and in the Mahoning and
Shenango valleys there is a shortage
of 100000 cars
tribunal in Paris, France, has
granted divorce to the Countess de
Castelane, formerly Anna Gould, of
La New York, and has given her the Gus
. tody of her children, who, however,
II will not be allowed to be taken from
q France without the consent of their
# father Count Bopi de Castellane.
At Fndlay, o., it was reported that
the grand jury had indicted John d.
Rockefeller, M. G. Villas, treasurer OF
the Standard Oil Co. of Ohio; J. M.
Robertson, secretary, and H. p McIn-
tosh, director, alleging violation OF
= the Valentine antitrust law of that
state.
AT meeting of the Pullman Palace
Car Co., in Chicago, the capital stock
OF the com pany was increased by $685.
VOO,OOG, bringing the total capitaliza-
tion up to s1O0, 100000.
The attorney general has sent let.
ter to the United States district attor.
neys, calling attention to the eight
hour-law. He says the governm ent
intends to enforce it strictly.
Six men were killed and five seri
ousy injured when a boiler in the
power house of the Lake Shore &
Michlsan Southern railroad, in Col
hhgewood, suburb of Cleveland, O..
blew UP.
Giovanni Bruno, a Sicilian, believed
70 De one of the most dangerous and
aaring Italian anarchists, was arrested
~ heon, a small station on the Bur
inston railroad, forty-seven miles east
Vi Denver where he was employed as
3 section hand
Mal-Gen. William Rufus Shafter
y 3 A., retired, died at the ranch Of
oap'' W. Fl. McKittrick, his son-in-law
o miles south of Bakersfield, Cal.
si'ef an illness of seven days, despite
cue pest medical attention available ir
california.
Inc United States grand jury a
ensacola has returned indictments
salnst IL persons, charging peonage
u connection with cases which orig
mated at the Jackson Lumber Co.'S
lamp several months since.
miiilam Randolph Hearst has gone
y california for recuperaticn from the
Campaign.
o. Louis chapter of the Daughter.
me Confederacy have subscribed
'o"dru the erection of a mOnu
en' 70 the confederacy in Fores
parry in that city.
me preliminary returns to the de
u'ln'eht OF agriculture on the pro
aao,ioh Of corn in 1906 indicates {
H. vlsla of about 2,SS1,O96 bush
se ,.' or an average of S0.2 bushels pc,
, as compared withan avera Z
ID az, :, u 900 bushels as finally estimat
r. ~ lsoo, 26.S in 1904 and ten-yeal
s.ase OF 25,2 bushels.
sons, me first days session of thu
ron asnesh immigration and Quarantine
raoa 0lenee at Nashville, Tenn, tn
bsl;a question came to the front. Som
rono eSeu that immigration from Ell
btbena "ouid settle the problem, Will
h US thought the only way to settl
rus 10 remove the blacks.