Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-11-15

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sylvania, is assuming a serious char.
acter
The Riga correspondent of the st.
Petersburg Bourse Gazette has sent
in narrowing details of the execution
by shooting OF three boys, who had
been condemned by court-martial
for robbery. The firing party was COM
pletely unnerved at the sight of mere
children before them for execution
and fired wildly. and it was only after
several volleys that all the condemned
were killed.
Mrs. Henry Williams, about so years
old, was found murdered in her home
near Stafford Springs, Conn. Robbery
apparently was the motive, and the
murderer is believed to be a tramp.
By the election of j. T. Harahan as
president of the Illinois Central Rail.
road Co. tosucceed Sturyvesant Filth,
1t is believed that E. H. Hartman has
at last realized the fulfillment of his
plan to control a railroad line from the
Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. In this
great plan the Illinois Central was tho
one link missing to complete line
of track from New York to San Fran
cisco and Portland, Ore, from the
great lakes to the gulf of Mexico and
from the gulf to the Pacific ocean
again
Reports from Washington of a case
in preparation for prosecution of the
Standard Oil Co. has received some
attention in Wall street and on the
stock market.
After stormy scene, lasting
several hours, the coroner's jury at
Atlantic City agreed to place the
blame for the Thoroughfare wreck of
Sunday, Oct. %, upon Daniel Stewart,
the aged bridge tender.
OOngressman-elect Judge Geo. X.
Favrot shot and instantly killed his
lifelong associate and former school
mate, DR.. H. H. Aldrich one of the
best known citizens at Baton Rouge,
La, while hundreds of persons were
near the scene of the shooting, but
none knew what happened between
the two men. Judge Favrot refused to
talk beyond letting it be known that
the matter was a private quarrel.
Secretary of the Interior Ethan Al
len Hitchcock will retire from the
cabinet March 4, and will be succeed
cd by James R. Garfield, son of
former President James r. Garfield,
who is at present commissioner of
corporations.
A report is in circulation in Moscow
that the League to Combat the Re.
volution" has sentenced former Pre-
mier Count White to death in the event
of his return to Russia.
Il is stated at Washington that the
president has decided to discharge
rioting negro soldiers.
The interstate commerce commits
sion modifies it's ruling and permits
railroads to issue mileage for adver-
Using.
Texas railroad commission takes
steps to compel the Pullman company
to reduce it's charges 20 per cent.
Henry w. Herring, cashier of Paul
Stensland's bank in Chicago, goes to
join him at Joliet penitentiary.
George T. Dexter, vice president of
the Mutual Life Insurance Co., has
announced that he will not go from
New York to Tennessee in response
to the summons of Insurance Com
missioner Folk to answer complaints
of policy-holders that their money was
being used in an effort to re-elect the
present management of the company
He intimates that if the commissioner
desires to see him, he can be found in
his office.
Dispatches have been pouring into
Halifax, Nova Scotia, bringing news
of vessels wrecked or in distress, of
wires Frustrated, and of damage done
by gale and sea along the coasts of
Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, N. B., and
Prince Edward island
District Judge Stanly WEIGH was
assassinated at Rio Grande City, Tex.
The Judge was asleep in bed at the
time.
Because she feared her husband
was going to leave her, Mrs. Vivian
Garfinkle, of st. Louis, aged 25, and
handsome, fired bullet through her
heart, at New Orleans. Garfinkle's
relatives in ST. Louis did not know
that he was married.
While a westbound Santa Fe pas
senger train was standing on the
tracks at Gallup, n NJ, three men,
armed with revolvers, entered the
coaches and forced the passengers to
hold up their hands. They secured
several hundred dollars in money and
several grips and overcoats from the
passengers, and made their escape.
The crew at the time were in the
dining room.
At San Francisco, Louis Dabner has
confessed to Chief of Detectives Duke
that he and John Siemsen had COM
mitted a number of crimes that re-
Gently have startled that city. He
stated that he and Siemsen killed
William Pfitzner and William Friede,
merchants, robbed the Japanese bank
and murdered Cashier M. Munataka,
and also robbed DR.. T. d. w. Leland,