Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-04-26

and was sentenced to six months
IN the workhouse.
John Babe, aged Ga, a painter,
fell from the roof of house in
st. Louis, and was impaled on a
picket fence, causing almost in
slant death.
At a mass meeting Of the citi-
zens of Hobart, Okla, a commit
tee composed of six business
men, appointed at former meet
ing to call upon A. Wooten, man
ager of the Hobart Oil Mill Co..
and request him to discharge his
large force of negro help, report
ed that Wooten said that it was
impossible to operate the mill
without thera. A petition was
formulated demanding that the
negroes be discharged at once.
At Tulsa, I. T., Marshal w. +
Baber shot and killed R. A. West.
brooks, negro from Dallas Tex.
i'll a cab while taking him to the
city prison on a charge Of drunk
enness. Westbrooks was armed
with razor and tried to slash
the officer.
The Arkansas state board Of
railway incorporators has grant
ed a charter to the Hot Springs.
Ouachita & Mena Railroad Co.
The capital stock is 100000.
Arthur Fowler, aged 81 years,
son of Col. Pleas Fowler, of Val
ley Springs, Ark, was drowned
while fishing at night in Buffalo
river.
At Greenvilie, Miss, Charlie
letter was fatally shot by J. E.
Lenz. The trouble followed the
receipt OF ugly letters by letters
sister, and it was thought by Je-
ter that Lenz was the author.
LEM was chief electrician for the
Delta Light Co. Jeter is an en-
gineer on the Southern railway.
A. ]. Foster, business man of
Berwyn, l. T., committed suicide
by cutting his throat. He was
insane.
R. A. Chitwood, former clerk
in the Hot Springs (Ark.) post
office, has been sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary for
rifling letters.
Fire destroyed the Simon
building at Shreveport, La.
William Beckers, millionaire
of Milwaukee, Wis, committed
suicide at Mobile, Ala.
Fire swept the town of Mari
quina, in Rizl province, island OF
Luzon, destroying 1000 dwell
ings. Many thousands of people
were made destitute. Two hun
dred houses in the town of Pasil,
near Cebu, were also destroyed
The Philippine government is af
fording relief.
The two hundredth anniver-
sary of the birth of Benjamin
Franklin was httingly celebrated
at Philadelphia.
Many babies were born in the
relief camps at San Francisco.
The United Mine Workers of
America have again notified the
soft coal operators of their will
ingness to arbitrate. The OPP
orators and miners in Iowa have
signed the 1908 scale.
Father Biever, president Of the
Jesuit community at New Or
leans, says that one of the Fran
ciscan friars, who founded San
Francisco in 1916, predicted that
the locality would some day be
destroyed by an earthquake.
The San Francisco disaster is
the greatest in loss of property
in the history of the United
States. In the Chicago fire there
were I7,45o buildings destroyed
in San Francisco 10000. In Chi
cago the monetary loss was
$500, 100000; in San Francisco
$3oo,ooo,ooo.
Representative and Mrs. Long
worth will sail for England June
?, returning by way of France,
%.
The prohibitionists have placed
a state ticket in the field in He
nois.
Senator Hopkins, of Illinois,
delivered bitter deaunciation OF
Senator Tillman in the senate.
The London papers had great
scare heads" that the entire
North American continent west
of the Sierra Nevada mountains
was breaking up.
Rurolars blew a safe in Fergu-