Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-09-20
Speaker Cannon says he will moi

| OlHSIdl TeIuTnS from tn2 Arkansas
election give Little, democrat, 81 ,O33
plurality over Worthingtcn, republi-
can, for governor. The totsl vote cast
in the state was 146,807
Revolutionists, it is reported, have
destroyed property belonging to
Americans in the province of Pinar del
Rio.
Frau Krupp, widow of the great
gunmaker of Essen, and her daughters,
Bertha and Barbara, recently visited
Berlin, for the purpose of buying the
daughters trousseaux. Notwiths and
ing their immense wealth not more
than $3.50 was spent for each outfit,
it is said
1t is stated that Edward H. Harri-
man has acquired control of the Balti-
more & Ohio system, the Chesapeake
& Ohio and the Norfolk & Western
railroads With these acquisitions the
Union Pacif1c-Southern Pac fic will add
approximately 5000 miles of railroad
to its lines and become by far the
most extensive system in the world,
it's total mileage aggrega.ing 22,2S7.
President Roosevelt keeps informed
OF the progress of the revolutionary
movement in Cuba, and the response
bility of the United States in case the
conditions grow worse, and interven-
ton becomes necessary. 1t is known
that the president will not intervene
unless it appears absolutely necessary,
yet steps have been taken which
would make such intervention effec-
tive.
Municipal ownership of street rail-
ways was defeated in a special cleo
ton at Seattle. Wash, by a decided
majority
Senators Dick and Foraker and
the Ohio republican state convention.
The platform declares for a revision
of the tariff as needed.
l. The national council, Order United
Mechanics, has voted to change the
name of the order to that of the Ma
tional Order of Americans. The prop
osition will be submitted to the sub
cember for ratification.
Henry NJ Neill, one of the best
known cotton statisticians bith in this
country and in England, was struck by
a street car, in New Orleans, and died
from his injuries. Mr.. Neill was born
in England, and was IS years old.
Total public school registration in
Greater New York, 546,941; average
attendance, 465.132.
Southern Pacific strike in Louisiana
settled.
At the session of the polar con-
gress in Brussels DR.. Jean Charcot an
nounced that he was organizing an
expedition to the South pole, and
Charles Bernard, president of the Bel
gian Oceanographic society, stated
that the society was organizing an ex-
pendition to the North pole. The
two expeditions will operate stimuli
taneously and in concert.
1t is conceded by prominent re-
publicans throughout Maine that, de-
| spite the declaration of the party
| platform in favor of the prohibitory
liquor law. the lessons of the republi-
can losses in the recent election is
| that the people want a resubmission
of the constitutional prohibitory
amendment. and that the next legis-
| lat!lre must vote to resubmit."
Surgeon J. H. White of the marine
hospital service, in statement, says
that New Orleans need never have
any fear of another yellow fever cpl
! demic because, even with the i'm
| perfect screening of cisterns that has
prevailed this summer, there has been
an almost entire absence of the
stegomya mosquito in the city, and
as the new waterworks will be in
operation in a few years. and then
all cisterns can be abolished, the city
caa claim immunity from the disease
According to the correspondent at
Hamburg of the London Dali Mail.
during the German naval maneuvers
on the night of September 10, thirty
six torpedo boat destroyers accom-
plished the sensational feat of dash
ing for and reaching the British coast,
returning without having been de-
tected.
In the national individual shoot
Ing maJcn at o6d dlII, N. D., A4ACuI-
Theodore H. Dillon, United States en-
gineer corps, won the first prize, AMI
is thus officially the best shot in the
United States.
The official report of the August
gold output on the Rand shows an
increase of no less than 1882
ounces over the July production, and
reached a total of 509,1 15 ounces for
the month. The rapid increase prom
Uses large new supplies to meet the
new demand for gold throughout the
world.
The spectacle of a father placing
his own son under arrest was wit
messed at Sedalia. Mo, when Clyde
Burns, of Vermont, Lawrence county,
Mo-, was apprehended by his father,
Frank Burns, sheriff of Lawrence
county. Clyde Burns, 1t is alleged, de-
serted his wife and went to Sedalia
with another woman.
The republicans carried Maine, but