Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-05-17


sage, delivered at the Winter palace,
was brief document, remarkable more
for what it didn't say than for what it
did. The affair was accomplished with
all the pomp and ceremony usual on
great occasions i'll Russia
Stephen Sylvester, apparently insane,
shot and killed his brother, w. H. Syl-
vester, president of the First national
bank of Montezuma, Ind, and was later
arrested by the sheriff and taken to
Rockville after he had barricaded him
self in shed at his home and declared
he would never be taken alive.
The $5,200,000 in gold, found intact
in the vaults of the San Francisco city
treasury, has been removed to the
United States mint
The four cardinals who attended the
dinner given by United States Ambas-
sador White, in Rome, in honor of
Archbishop Ireland have been called
upon by Cardinal Oreglia, dean of the
sacred college, fo- an explanation.
President Roosevelt has promised to
attend the opening of the jamestown
(Va.) exposition April rs, 1907, and
deliver an address,
Out of 124 coolies attacked with
cholera on board the steamer Fauk1a,
en- route from India to Suva, Fiji ISL
ands, 81 died.
DR.. George Scott, former United
States consul at Odessa, Russia, died at
his home in Neigh, Neb.
The readers of the Christian Herald,
Of New York, have closed their Jap
anese famine relief fund, having sent
through the state department at Wash
ington 100000, in addition to $500
cabled direct to the famine center
The fresh eruption of Mount Vesu
vius continues, but it is of small pro-
portions.
The government of Panama has been
notified that revolutionary movements
Or other troubles in Panama which in
terfere with work in the canal zone
will justify interference of the United
States in support of the Panama gov
eminent.
Joseph Dickson, one of the most
prominent lawyers in st. Louis, died
after an extended illness, aged 60 years.
Hon. Carl Schurz is seriously i'll at
his home in New York, and on account
Of his age (76 years. his recovery is
hardly looked for.
Thirteen frame houses were destroyed
by fire on the main street of the little
town of Edgerton, Kas.
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indianapolis to the extent of 100000.
Three firemen were slightly injured by
falling cornice.
Advices from Cleveland, O., say that
the longshoremen's strike has been set
tied, the men returning to work on the
basis of last seasons wages pending a
further conference.
The people of Healdsburg, Cal, were
much disturbed by published story
that the damage by the earthquake
there was $1,OOO,O0O. The amount
should have read 100000.
BY a vote of Is to the board of
overseers of Harvard college gave au-
thority for the resumption of football,
which had been ordered discontinued on
account of brutality in the contests.
The heresy trial of Rev. DR.. Algernon
A. Crapsey, rector of st. Andrews
Episcopal church at Rochester, N. Y,
has been concluded at Batavia and the
findings forwarded to Bishop Walker at
Buffalo.
Clico Gonzales Vigiez was inaugurated
president of Costa Rica, amid great re-
joicing.
The senate, in executive session, re-
jected tie denomination of Edward A.
Winstanley to be receiver of public
moneys at Missoula Mont. Protest had
been made concerning his conduct in
Office
The yacht Nahma, with Mrs. Robert
Goelet on board, collided with an Ital-
ian warship while entering the harbor
of Venice. Both vessels were somewhat
damaged
Edwin S. Greenfield, aged 80, the
trusted confidential clerk of the Ph1la-
delphia brokerage firm Of Harrison Sny-
der & Co.. is defaulter to an amount
that may reach SITS 900. He lays his
bowman 10 DuCh6lSuOp opCNuAoIAoH'
The concern has gone into the hands OF
a receiver
State Senator Patrick H. McCarren,
of Brooklyn, N. Y, is charged by II.
Milton Kennedy with having exacted
S25. 900 for having secured Kennedy the
contract for the removal Of refuse and
ashes from Brooklyn.
TIE Canadian Pacific Railroad Co,
will give 81 900 reward for the capture
of each of the robbers who held up
their train near Kamloops, B. G., or
S., 900 for the three, dead or alive. The
Dominion government offers $1,000
and the provincial government $500.
William w. Rose was reelected
| mayor of Kansas City, Kas., by plu-
rality of 1,60U over his republican and
socialist opponents. The question OF
his eligibility to the office, having been
ousted by the state supreme court. after
resigning, will be tested in the courts.
The troubles reported in Guadeloup,
French West Indies, were the out
| o,,ou,th of on axciting election cam