Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-11-01
NEWS OF The WEEK
AN EPIToME OF THE MOST I'M.
PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Digestad and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.

The months statement of the collec-
Yions of internal revenue shows that
for the month of September, 1906, the
total receipts were $21, 362,639, which
is an increase as compared with Sep
TENDER 1905, of $13S, Isl.
Increased shipments of wheat from
Argentina has had weakening effect on
the wheat market Weather there was
said to be favorable for the growing
crop.
Reports of labor scarcity are still
we'll nigh universal says Bradstreet,
and the movement of the cotton crop
the shipments of lumber, the outputs
of coal and the deliveries of various
mills are still restricted from this
cause, or by reason of inadequate car
supply.
Moroccan crisis becomes acute and
France sends warships, while Germany
holds hers in readiness
Great Britain, France and Italy form
defensive alliance to safeguard peace
of Europe.
New York jobbers report the largest
business ever known to date in Octo-
Der.
The first test of the federal eight
hour day law ended IN a victory for
the government at Cincinnati. After
being out only Is minutes, the jury in
the United States court found the
Sheridan-Kirk Contracting Co. guilty
of violating the law in The construction
of the big Ohio river dam at Ferpbank,
nine miles below Cincinnati.
A drastic measure against the. rebel
lious clergy according to well-informed
persons, has been decided upon by the
French cabinet which intends to deal
with them as foreign officials.
President Roosevelt has directed
Victor H. Metcalf, secretary of the de-
proceed to San Francisco, and make a
thorough and complete inquiry into the
situation affecting the exclusion of
Japanese children from the schools
provided fof white children and the
determination to place Japanese pupils
in separate schools
Mrs. Robert E. Peayy wife of the ex-
ploref'is quoted as saying: I feel just
as sure as | am living at this moment
that my husband has found the north
pole, and that he will soon be home to
tell us about it,"
The Spanish minister of war has in
troduced bill in the cortes calling
for the complete reforming of the army
and bringing it up to modern require
ments.
u. {. Rose md Mrs. Winnie Wheeler
leaders of the Brotherhood of Lights,
who conduct a home for poor children
On a farm near Arbeles, Col, were
arranged before a justice on charges
OF manslaughter in connection with
the death of six babies on the place.
and sent TO jail
Carrying out further the policy
under which arms surrendered by the
cuban insurgents have been destroy
ed, orders have been given that a
great quantity of arms, the accumu-
latlon OF forty years, now stored in
the easements of MORO castle,
Havana be thrown into the sea.
AT dinner given in his honor by
the brooklyn Yacht club, Sir Thomas
Apton, declared that he hoped he
hlisht be privileged to challenge for
we American cup, the International
trophy, and intimated that he would
issue challenge next year for a
race, possibly in 1908 or 1909
by a remarkable achievement in
wireless telegrpahy at the Pensacola
d. station, that plant has been able
W keep in communication with a
steamer from the time she left New
iolA' until she arrived at Honduras.
hurricane swept southwestern
'apan, Several hundred coral fishing
ooats are reported missing. Each boat
manned by at least two sailors
before the San Francisco earthquake
rnere were separate schools in San
ridhelsco for the Japanese. These
- me'e destroyed during the calamity
ne city authorities are merely re.
Duiialng the schools which existed be.
lore they were destroyed and not dis
Vliilhihatlag against the Japanese in
That respect.
me statement made by Secretary
u war Taft. on the eve OF his de.
pafture from Cuba, that he would put
i arms surrendered by the insur
Sents Where they would do no further
Aaim' was verified when a company
- me Cuban artillery spent an after
ION throwing these weapons into
s1 e sea from the outer bastion OF
MORO castle.
A
ioKlo correspondent says the
Japanese are greatly agitated against
me United States on account of the
eAciusion of Japanese children from
NC pubic schools attended by white
lupus IN San Francisco. Separate
1ioois are maintained for Japanese,
enlAese, negroes and Indians