Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-09-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN EPiToME OF THE MOST I'M.
PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Ml NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Edward Rosewater, proprietor and
editor of the Oman (Neb.) Bee, was
found dead in court room In the Bee
building, having passed away, it is
presumed, from heart disease, Mr..
Rosewater had been prominently iden-
tilted with the political, financial and
business affairs of Omaha and Ne
braska for forty years. He was born
in Bohemia in 1871, came to America
in1864, and during the civil war was
trusted telegrapher under Gen.
Grant.
The Constancia Sugar Plantation
Co., in Cuba, has asked for American
government protection for their prop
erty against raiding parties of insur-
gents.
Kentucky democrats have started a
movement to secure the national dem
ocratic convention of 1908 in Louis
vile.
The interior department promises
to establish agents with data about
the lands in Oklahoma at various cen
ters; the sealed bid plan is I'M
changed.
Oklahoma may be able to formally
enter the union of the United States
by July 4, 1907, but it has many de-
tails to work out before entering.
Texas Cattle Raisers' association
and others seek to reopen the cases of
rate complaints before the interstate
commerce commission.
The last day of August broke all
heat records in England. The official
instruments at 2 p. Ia. registered 81
degrees in the shade and 129 in the
sun, a degree of heat the average
Englishman is not used to.
James Van Peyma, aged so, a we'll
known politician of Kansas City, Kas.,
and formerly president of large
hardware company that failed recent
ly, committed suicide at his home by
shooting. He had been Respondent
over financial losses.
The wedding ceremony of Thomas
E. Mcclure and Miss Pearl Miligan
had just been completed at the home
of the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
s. c. Miligan, few miles north of
Kingman, Kas., and the wedding party
had seated themselves to partake of
tefreshm ents, when a terrible bolt of
lightning struck the house, badly
wrecking The building. Rev. Davis c.
Mcclure and Ernest Johnson and sew
eral others were badly stunned.
Word has reached Washington that
many members of the two houses, and
particularly the senate, do not take
kindly to the Roosevelt method of
spelling These public men have init
mated that as long as the control of
the government printing office re-
mains with congress, as it undoubted-
ly does now, they will oppose radical
spelling departures.
The express companies have notified
the officials of the various railroads
that the express company and the car
rying road expose themselves equally
to the penalties of the Hepburn act
(the rate bilD by carrying the prop
erty of one road over the lines OF
another, and as consequence this
| practice will be discontinued at once.
The closing of the two weeks grand
circuit meeting at the New England
breeders track in Readville. Mass,
| saw two worlds records established by
Ecstatic, who paced the second heat
of the final free-for-all in 2:01%, and
the third in 2:O2%. The first is the
fastest by a second ever made by a
| pacing mare in race, while the com
| bined time of the two heats average
faster than any previous time by a
! pacing mare in competition.
VIM Jennings Bryan received an
ovation at Madison Square garden,
| fully twenty thousand people being
present. Mr.. Bryan declared the trusts
would be the important question in
| the next presidential campaign, He
| favored an income tax, arbitration be-
TWEEN capital and labor, government
ownership of railway trunk lines, and
| independence for the Philippines.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson in
sists on plain labels. stating that pack
ers must place tags on packages stat
| ing ingredients.
Turkey and Bulgaria believed to be
on the verge of actual hostilities.
The public will reap no benefit in
express rates under the new rate law
| The rates of every company will be
identical with those of every other.
The Japanese have opened Dalny as
free port.
The son of Grown Prince Frederick
| William OF Germany was baptized at
Pottsdam. After the ceremony Prin
cess Sophie, the mother held a levee,
seated beside the cradle. A dinner
followed, at which Emperor William
| toasted his first grandson, who some
! day may be kaiser.