Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-23

sets, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Hartman is reported to have Sc
cured control of the St. Paul system.
The annual convention of the Inter
national Typographical union in 1907
will be held at Hot Springs, Ark.
At their recent meeting King Ed
ward and Emperor William kissed
one another on each cheek. Paris
newspapers say the meeting has lit
tie political significance.
Rudolph Pfraffer, socialistic cand!-
date for congress, and Orator DR..
Knopfnagle were locked up in Jail at
Brimfeld, ILL.,, for making a social
istic talk at the old settlers picnic
Oil at a depth of 40 feet has been
struck on farm near Canton, Ill
Heavy rains in Oklahoma cause
farmers to lose heavily in crops and
live stock.
Oklahoma board of agriculture takes
steps to enforce stock food inspec-
ton.
David R. Francis, president of the
st. Louis worlds fair, who has jour
neyed to Berlin to present the kaiser
with medal, learns that he will be
granted an audience as soon as the
maneuvers are over, which will be
some time the coming fall
The attorneys for Mrs. Aggie Myers,
the Missouri woman under sentence to
hang, announce that they will take
case to United States supreme court.
Simultaneous outrages and assassin
ations broke out in Warsaw, resulting
in at least a score of deaths. They
are ascribed solely to the terrorists
and revolutionists.
1t is reported from Washington that
Mile Smernoff, granddaughter of
Henry I. Blow, of St Louis, was given
q lashes by guards in St. Petersburg.
dispatch from Chihuahua, Mexico,
states that carload of dynamite ex-
ploded on a siding there, and that be
tween 80 and so Mexican laborers and
Onlookers were blown to pieces. Por
tons of bodies were found a mile
away.
Western lines settle grain rate diff
ferential controversy on export traf-
f1c moving from the Missouri river to
Corporation Counsel Lewis, of Chi
cago, demands an increase more than
$4,000, 900 in the Pullman assessment.
He claims that Chicago is the home
of all Pullman cars, and should be
assessed there.
The pope advises church officials to
oppose French law separating church
and state by legal means, and dis
countenances violence.
At ST. Joseph, No. bargain store
rush resulted in the serious injury to
one woman and shocks to many 9TH
ers. The police were called to quell
the excitement.
Fifteen thousand old veterans par
ticipated in the G. A. R. parade at
Minneapolis. Several deaths occurred
as the result of the march.
In an interview in Florence, Italy,
VIM J. Bryan holds the trusts are the
paramount issue. and that absolute
freedom should be given the Philip
pines.
About 20 negro federal soldiers
"shot up" the town of Brownsville,
Tex, killing one man and wounding
another. 1t is said that they were in
censed because a white woman
charged a negro soldier with making
improper advances, and another re-
port is that they were made angry
by being refused drinks at white sa-
looms
1t is stated at Fort LeaYenWOrth,
Kas., that plans are being perfected
to have all colored troops in the Unit
ed States army stationed at one post,
because of the race feeling that eX-
lists at many points where both white
and colored soldiers are stationed. 1t
is said that a southern post probably
will be selected for the colored troops,
Joseph Ramsey, Jr., backed by for
eign capital, states that he will build
short line from Chicago to New
York via Pittsburg and the Pennsyl-
vania coal fields.
T. NJ. Campbell was nominated gov
ernor of Texas by the democratic con-
vention in Dallas after long session.
Nebraska democrats and populiSts
effect fusion upon state ticket.
SAdllSS DlOW1Cy IOl IL CAoAlA-
liner of silks in the government Gus
toms service in New York. has been
ordered released from Sing Sing
prison by Judge Hough of the United
States court, on a writ of habeas cor
pus. Browne was recently brought
back from Canada. and was impris
oned, it is alleged, for an offense for
which he was not extradited. This, it
was set forth, is contrary to the
treaty between the United States and
Canada, and the court said >he was
ordered released to- save the nations
honor
Two hundred kegs of powder ex.
ploded in the press mill of the local
powder plant at Fontanet, Ind, killing
one man. The explosion was felt at
Terre Haute and Greencastle, and was
at first thought to have been an earth
quake.
After an unexplained absence of 81
years, Prof. Charles H. Frye, former