Woodruff County news., 1906-11-29

confessed to burning her house for the insurance, and was sentenced to prison for two years. She is a widow with six children
 The official canvass of the vote cast at the late election in Ohio has been completed by the secretary of state. The total vote was 12,263, and the republican plurality 56,39O.
 The annual report of Commission. CT of Navigation Chamberlain states than on June 30 last the documented merchant vessels of the United States numbered 25,006 of 6,674,989 gross tons. Of the 1,221 vessels constructed during the fiscal year only three were ocean steamers.
 The Bank of France continues to assist the Bank of England in the de. mand for gold made upon it.
 Secretary Taft overruled by Roose- welt, directs that the negro troops be discharged, as previously ordered.
 Wheat receipts in the northwest are far below what they were last year at this time, and there is an impress sion that the farmers are holding and waiting for raise.
 The rivers tributary to the Ohio are bank full and in several instances over the iowlands. The Ohio is rising rapidly. Millions of bushels of coal have been shipped by river from Pitts burg to the south, and millions more will follow.
 Heavy wind and rain storms visited various localities in Indiana, Illinois. Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky, doing considerable damage.
 The railroads of the entire country have decided to inaugurate an era of most rigid economy, according to the Chicago Record-Herald The plans which have been decided on will re- st.lt in decrease in expenditures dur ing the next twelve months of between $S0,000,000 and S120,000,O0C. as com pared with the sum spent during the year just closing.
 President Hill of the Great Northern railroad declared before the interstate commerce commission that he does not own any elevator stock, and thas no man connected with the Grea' Northern can own any stock in an.'~ thing along the line of the road
 David R. Francis, president of the Transmississippi Commercial con gress, during the convention at Kan sas City, came out strongly in favor of the Monroe Doctrine, expressing himself as unalterably opposed to any European power acquiring addi- tional territory in America, North or South.
 On January 1 a branch of the Deutsche Sud Amerikanische bank of Berlin will be established in Mexico City. The banks will have paid-ap capital of 10,000,000 pesos.
 It is reported in St. Louis that An drew Carnegie has set aside fund of $1,009,000, the income of which is to be used to further the propaganda for international peace, and that Con- gressman Richard Bartholdt is to have charge of it.
 Forty-two passengers were drowned following the sinking in Puget sound, near Seattle, of the steamer Dix, which collided with the steamship Jeanie. Thirty-nine were saved. Only one woman passenger was among the rescued.
 John D. Rockefeller Jr., son of ths richest man in the world, told his Sun day school class that the man who has to work for living is the hap .,est man of all 'All the money in the world will not take the place of friends" said he.
 Acting under orders from Secretary of War Taft, further discharge of troopers belonging to the three col pred companies charged with shoot ing up" a Texas town was suspended. to await further advices from the president.
 Before the TransmissiSsppi Com mercial congress at Kansas City Elihu Root secretary of state, delivered an address telling of his recent trip to South America and the wonderful commercial possibilities of the coua- tries there He came out strongly in ldNOI Ol d ouDolulHSQ Sittl lAist rine, as that is the only way, he said that the United States can compete with the subsidized lines of England. Germany and other nations.
 In an address at Kansas City E. H l Hartman, the railroad magnate, said; "The impression prevails that l cen trol more miles of railroad than any other one man. That statement is made frequently. I deny it; is is not | true. I do not control one mile Of railroad. There are 14,000 or 15,000 | persons who cooperate in the control | of the railroads and other corporations | in which am interested. No one maa | could do the work and do it right
 King Victor Emmanuel of Italy has | received David Lubing, of California, in private audience. MT Lubing is, the promoter of the plan for an in ternational institute of agriculture. which has been taken up by the king.
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