Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-04-26


At the annual convention of Ar
kansas Bankers association a res
olut1on was passed requesting the
legislature to pass the uniform
negotiable instrument law.
Much sickness seems inevitable
In the camps at San Francisco.
Typhoid fever is feared. The SAN
ltary conditions are unavoidably
bad
The race feeling engendered at
Springfield, Mo-, by the lynching
of two negroes charged with a
crime against white woman, and
another who was charged with
murder, was further intensified
by the killing Of negro by boy
OF 10. The youth was escorting
a girl OF IS, at night, when they
were set upon by two negroes,
who assaulted them. The youth
used his revolver. He surren-
dered to the authorities, but was
tSlCdSCu n special
grand jury was convened, many
bench warrants issued for the ar
rest OF alleged participants in the
affair, and number of arrests
made. The governor offers re-
ward Of 5000 for every lyncher
convicted.
At the convention of the South
western mercantile associations
at St. Louis, a resolution was in
PRODUCED indorsing the efforts of
Gov. Folk of Missouri to appre-
bend and punish the members of
the mob that lynched three ne
groes at Springfield, Mo. 1t was
voted down. Former Mayor Pad
dock, of Forth Worth, Tex,
6tampeded the convention against
the resolution when he said: MIR.
Chairman, | move to table that
resolution. The people Of Spring
field did just exactly right. They
ought to do more like it, & *
A communication was read from
negro of Bonita, Ariz., styling
himself president of the Black
Movement Association" request
ing influence to induce the fed
eral government to lend aid to
transport negroes to Africa. This
also was tabled. George Russell
Brown, of Little Rock. Ark. de-
clared Arkansas needed the ne
gro.
A fierce riot occurred in the
southern part of Phillips county,
Ark, between Greeks, Roumani-
ans, Poles and Slavs, at work on
a railway. They were drunk, and
used knives, pistols, guns and
axes on one another. The fore
man and five men were killed.
The next morning hostilities
were renewed, and three others
were killed. The sheriff and a
posse attempted to restore order,
killed three others, and then tel
egraphed for the militia.
One of the most systematic oil
robberies on record has been I'M
earthed in the Sour lake and Bat
son fields, in Texas. 1t is esti-
mated that nearly 100000 barrels
Of oil have been stolen. Two
pipe lines were tapped by the
thieves, and the mouths of the
false lines extended to point on
the bayou, where the oil was
loaded into barrels and then
shipped to New Orleans.
In order to get into the United
States, after being rejected by the
immigration authorities, four
Italians now under arrest at San
Antonio, Tex, swan the Rio
Grande river near Laredo. After
they landed on the Texas shore,
they walked $50 miles to San An
tonic, only to be arrested. They
are afflicted with tracoma, dis
ease of the eyes, and will be de-
ported.
The United States supreme
court has decided that both par
ties to a divorce suit must reside
in the same state in order to
make the decree effective. A New
York man fed to Connecticut,
leaving his wife in New York.
He obtained divorce in Connec-
ticut, service being made on the
wife by publication. This was in
1881. Returning to New York |
in 1890, his former wife sued for
divorce, securing personal serv-
ice on him. She was granted di-
vorce, on the ground of desertion,
and also granted alimony. The
case was appealed to the United
States supreme court, and the de-
cision, as announced, will, it is es-
timated, cast a stigma upon thou
sands of children, and prove