Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

1t appears that the original general
memorandum Of Lord Nelson to his
captains, on the eve of the battle of Ira
falgar, which was recently sold at auc-
ton for $4,000, was the property OF
a London omnibus driver, given to
him by his father, and he had no idea
of it's value until recently.
Several hundred Pennsylyanians,
headed by Gov Pennypacker, visited
Vicksburg, Miss, to dedicate the
monument and markers erected in the
national park in memory of the Penn
sylvania troops who took part in the
siege
On account of the expected strike OF
coal miners, all repair work in the
shops of the Erie railroad system has
been suspended throwing 5000 men
out of work.
Walter Potee, aged % years, while
insane, opened fire with revolver on
a funeral party in his brothers house
in Brooklyn, Md, drove all out, set
fire to the house and then committed
suicide Nine persons were wounded,
two probably fatally.
Mrs. Miguel Ahumada, wife OF the
governor of Jalisco, Mexico, died at
Chihuahua.
The death list resulting from the
explosion in the Century CIV. Va.)
mine, after a thorough canvass of the
district, is placed at %, with upwards
of a score injured.
Several thousand native Kentuck-
ians. residing in other states, are eX-
pected to be present during home-com-
ing week, in Louisville, June Is to II,
preparations for which are under way
Hon. Henry Watterson will deliver
the address of welcome and former
Gov. Francis, of Missouri, the response.
In anticipation of miners strike,
coal in the Pittsbarg district is ad-
vancing rapidly. and large orders are
being received from manufacturers as
far west as Chicago.
The development of another case OF
yellow fever at Panama has set the
sanitary authorities at work in eff
forts to avert an epidemic.
Acknowledgement Hadley of Mis-
souri, was the guest of honor at the
annual banquet of the Missouri society
of New York city, and delivered an
address on Present Day Evils"
Rtv William Rees Goodwin, D. D.,
a former professor in Illinois Wes-
leyan university, at Bloomington, and
who filled pastorates in several OF the
larger Illinois cities, and in San Fran
cisco, died in Los Angeles, Cal
Frank E.. Moores. mayor of Omaha,
Neb., is dead after a long illness with
throat trouble and general breaking
down. He was &C years of age and
was serving his third term.
Japanese employees of the Edison
Electric Co., at Kernville, Cal, were
driven out of town by mob of tran
silent laborers under threats of being
dynamited.
S. E. Peate testified, at Kansas City,
Kas., that by paying $40 to the col
lector for the county attorneys office
he was permitted to pull off a prize
fight and chicken fight.
Several master printers of Boston
nave DlCu d DClibloH lOl q
to prevent the use of the union label by
the municipal printing plant.
Criminal and civil proceedings are
forecasted against certain men and firms
in Philadelphia who performed work on
municipal improvements.
A fast east-bound Burlington train
was partially wrecked at Lockridge, Ia.
One man was killed and about a dozen
persons seriously injured.
The authorities of Kansas City, Mo,
are on the trail of and expect to expose
a widespread plan of illegal registra-
tion.