Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-11-22

ants.
Alleged New Jersey anarchists ar.
rested in Naples on charge of plot to
kill king of Italy.
Former Gov. Thomas T. Crittenden
of Missouri and wife celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary at Kan.
sas City.
There is foundation for belief that
the Bank of France has come to the
relief of the Bank of England, and is
furnishing that institution with gold
caused by the millions drawn from
the bank by Americans and shipped
to this country. The United States
government has the greatest amount
of gold in it's treasury vaults of any
nation in the world. The tremendous
amount of gold this country has taken
from England in the past year has al
most stopped speculation in London,
according to dispatch from that city,
for the reason that money is too
scarce and dear there to speculate
with
The Midland National bank in New
ton, Kas., was held up by one man
and robbed of about $1,000 in currency.
Five or six persons were in the bank,
and all were ordered into the vault
and locked in. The robber then Sc
cured what currency was in sight and
escaped
John E. Wilkie, chief of the secret
service, announces that the SCI, 500
shortage in the sub-treasury in ST.
Louis is up to D. P. Dyer, Jr., and
Ralph P. Johnson. The federal grand
jury is investigating the affair.
V. G. Sweatman, of Philadelphia,
dropped dead at Trenton, N. j., while
running to catch train He was IS
years of age. Mr.. Sweatman was one
Of the heaviest dealers in malt in the
United States.
Bradstreets, in their review of trade,
say: Marked advances in wages OF
railway employees, greatly improved
collections, large filling in orders Tin
1icating heavy consumption), good
business on spring account, a contin-
ued scarcity of labor and record-brealI
ing outputs of iron and steel, are pre-
eminent business features"
At Ashville, N c.. Patrolmen Chas.
Blackstock and William Bailey were
killed by negro desperate named
Will Harris; the chief of police was
wounded, one negro killed and another
fatally wounded, all by the same des-
operate character, who escaped to the
mountains.
Thomas Dougherty, a prominent
young man of Dunmore, Fa., died in
the state hospital at Sacranton, as the
result of being stabbed by an I'M
known woman. The corner says the
flicted by bat pin.
Mrs. Esther Summer Damon, said
| to be the last surviving widow of
soldier of the revolutionary war, died
at her home in Plymouth Union, Va,
aged SO. She was married in 1885,
when 81 years old, to Noah Damon,
who was them Is years old. Damon
served through the revolutionary war,
having enlisted in ITS.
The federal grand jury, in its inyes-
| tigation of the Shelby tube scandal at
| Pittsburg, Pa, returned indictments
against three individuals, charging
| .hem with conspiracy to defraud the
government by selling it defective
boilers. Some of these tubes, accord
Ing to the grand jury, are in use on
the battleship Louisiana, on which
President Roosevelt is making his
| PaDasaa trip.
! A lone boy bandit, weighing scarcely
ITO pounds, held up the Golden State
Limited, the fast Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific train, near Slater, Mo-, and
| telling the passengers that he was
from Missouri, robbed the rear Pull.
man car, forcing the porter to collect
in his cap the booty from the occu-
pants OF each berth. He allowed the
women in the car to go unmolested.
saying that: Jesse James never
robbed ladies'
A complimentary dinner was given
10 William Randolph Hearst, in New
York city, by Lewis Stuyvesant Chan
Ter, W. s. Jackson, John S. Whalsn,
| Julius Hauser and F. w. Skene, his
| associates on the democratic and in.
] dependence league state ticket.
The payment Of some $72,O00,00O
| on account of new ST Paul stock was
the cause for a furry in money in
| Wall street.
S. j. Demaresque, at Fitzpatrick S
camp, on Hotkam's sound, British Co
| lumbia, shot down a single fiume
5000 feet, tossed 25 feet, falling into
the ocean. He swan to the rocks and
| chung there until rescued by his wife
He went down the fiume SO fast that
/ his clothing was torn off and then his
| skin was burned off.
Emboldened by the apparent help
lessness of the police and detective
/ forces of the city, the highwaymen
| and burglars that have terrorizeo
Pittssurg, Pa, for several days have
extended their operations into broad
daylight as we'll as working under
J cover of darkness.