Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-09-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN EPIToME OF THE MOST I'M
PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Digestsd and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANY OUS.


crowu ever gathered at the Columbus
(OO track, was successful in not only
lowering her own record of 2:03%
but in establishing new trotting
mark for the course. Her mile in POP
fiat is a quarter of a second better
than the time Cresceus made on the
same track in 1901.
1t is believed that over ten thousand
lives were lost in the typhoon at Hong
Kong Six hundred vessels &erey
wrecked.
Twelve deaths, the injuring of scores
of other persons, and five hundred
thousand dollars worth of damage to
property was caused at Jellico, Tenn,
when a carload of dynamite standing
on a track near the Southern railway
depot, exploded with a report that was
heard for 20 miles.
At Cape Girardeau Mo, in the fed
eral court, the jury in the Smith CASE
returned verdict of guilty against
Charles NJ Smith and Charles M
Smith, Jr., and the five tenants of
their farms, on the eleventh count
in the peC&age case.
Fowler Mccormick, aged nine years,
son of Harold F. and Edith Rockefel-
Ter Mccormick, is staying at Forest
Hill, Cleveland, o., his grandfathers
home' The lad plays about the
grounds near the house, but never
for an instant is he left by a French
maid. Within calling distance two or
more stalwart guards walk about
Vice-President Fairbanks laid the
corner stone of Chicago's new county
building which, when completed, is to
be the largest courthouse in the
world
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. has
awarded contracts for the construction
of 2,400 freight cars, at an estimated
cost of $15,000,OOO.
The establishm of a permanent
peace in Cuba without armed inter
vention on the part of the United
States is apparently impossible
Raisuli, the bandit chief in Morocco,
is seriously i'll. He is believed to have
been poisoned by an agent of the
foreign board
Count Boni de Castellane may delay
divorce proceedings by demanding to
be paid alimony
Paraguay diplomat says South
American nations fear annexation and
Latin races cling together.
Four proposals have been submitted
to the isthmian canal commission for
the furnishing Of Chinese labor to be
employed in the construction of the
Panama canal, but the award, if any,
will be announced later. One firm
agrees to furnish $4,000 Chinese la
borers at 8 cents per hour.
A crowded express train on the
Great Northern railway in England
Jumped the track near Granthan, the
engine and several coaches going off
the bridge to roadway. The debris
caught fire, but neighboring fire
company extinguished the flames. At
least ten people were killed and many
others were injured.
General Nikolaieff, of the Russian
army, was assassinated at Poland. He
was enormously thought to be a mem
Der of the field court-martial
The president has issued a procla-
nation opening the Kiowa and Co
manche and Apache Indian lands in
Oklahoma. The interior department
Will announce the date for the recep-
ton of bids for the 505,000 acres Of
land to be disposed of to homestead
erS.
Secretary of War Taft and Assis-
tant Secretary of State Bacon, on
their arrival in Cuba, began to hear
the stories of both sides of the Cuban
difficulty. 1t is believed that the
United States administration will de-
wise a means of settlement which
Will mean virtual occupation of the
island.
John Prick, aged 55 years, car
penter, went into Mayor Boehne's Of
nee at Evansville, Ind, and, it is de-
clared, made threats. The mayor,
Tearing the man would assassinate
him, called for help, and Prick was
locked up. Both Frick and his
wife were declared to be insane by a
commission later. 1t is said Frick
had made several threats against
Mayor Boehne, because he imagines
he is a relative of Henry c. Prick.
All counties in Arkansas have re.
ported the vote on the educational
amendment, showing that it received
9S237 votes, with 47,375 votes
against.
At their Virginia home, directly
across the river from War Eagle, w
va, DIR. E. R. Hatfield fatally shot
1t is charged. his brother, Captain
Hatfield, son of Devil Anse Hat
neld, who gained much notoriety be
cause of his connection with the IA
nous feud of that name.