Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-08-16
NO. 80.

| Atlantic fleet from the presidents
| yacht Mayfower. That vessel is now
at Santo Domingo, but will return to
New York and be put in readiness for
the review.
BY the explosion of a gasoline stove,
Mrs. Harry Brown, aged 20, and re-
Gently married, was burned to death
in her home at Burlington, Ia She was;
alone, and when the firemen arrived
they found her lying dead on the kitch-
en- floor, with her clothing all burned
from her body.
News comes from Lake Tahoe, Cal,
that Congressman w. Bourke Cochran
is seriously i'll of heart disease A
short time ago Mr. Cochran went to-
Tahoe with party, one member of
which was Miss Annie Ide, daughter
of the encouragement of the Philip
pines, to whom she is betrothed. His
fancee remains at the bedside and
nurses him.
According to a census just taken by
the health department of the Isthmian
canal zone, the population of the zone
is %, 1877. A census showed the popu-
lation OF the city of Panama was 22,-
SAT.
The Standard Oil Co. has been in
dicted on 10 counts for accepting re-
bates by Chicago federal grand jury.
Investors approve of Voliva plan to
pay 100000 Zion City debt by issu-
ing 1S-year bonds.
Secretary Hitchcock says he is de-
termined to prosecute all land graft
ers, great and small.
Five young children of Thomas
O'Daniels We're cremated in a fire
which destroyed their home on the es-
tate of Dr. George L. Miller, the vet
cram journalist, at Seymour Park, near
South Omaha, Neb.
In their expressions for publication,
state department officials make it ap-
pear that there is no possibility of in
ternational complications arising from
the killing of Japanese seal poachers
in Alaskan waters.
LIE Matin says that the pope's in
structions to the French clergy as to
the course they shall pursue with re-
gard to the church and state separa-
ton law have been received in Paris.
The text of them has not been pub
Iished, but it is believed that the pope
refuses to accept the law, though he
agrees to a temporary arrangement
under it.
The most remarkable adventure
which a woman ever planned is to be
undertaken by Miss Ida Vera Simon
ton, sister-in-law of Morris d. Goul-
den, son of Congressman Joseph A
Goulden, of the Bronx. She will sail
for Africa, where she will isolate her
self in the heart of the jungle to learn
the language and habits of the ape
and monkey tribes
President of Arkansas Farmers I'M
ion advises cotton growers to sell their
product direct to spinners.
Hartje divorce case is ended at
Pittsburg, but a decision is not expect
ed until some time in fall.
Thomas Houlihan, aged 100, died at
Rich Valley, Ind. He was very feeble,
but walked, unassisted, until a few
days before he died. He was born in
Ireland and came to Wabash county
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where he died.
The speech-making programme for
the Madison Square reception to VIM
J. Bryan, August 80, has been made
out. Henry w Walker will open the
meeting and introduce Gov. Folk of
who will introduce Mayor
Tom l.. Johnson of Cleveland as pre-
siding officer. Bryan will also address
an overflow meeting in Madison
square.
The doors of the Milwaukee Avenue
nue., Chicago, are closed, and the bank
is now in the hands of examiners. One
of the leading officials is reported
A practical test is to be made of the
railroad telephone invented by ]. W.
Tatum, of Durham, N. c. With this
invention, it is claimed, that engineers
will be enabled to talk to each other
while their train are running at fun
speed.
The arbitration committee of the
Pan-American congress presented a
resolution urging all the countries rep
resented in the Pan-American con-
gress to send to The Haugue peace
conference delegates instructed to
make every effort for the adoption Oh
a general arbitration convention. The
report of the arbitration committee
was adopted by reclamation, marking
Among the recent recruits for the
navy have been a number of young In
dams who were educated at the Car
Isle Indian school in Pennsylvania
Edward M. Ellis, grandson of Red
Cloud, the famous Sioux chief, is one
O. these. He is petty officer.
Heavy rains have prevailed in south
" est Texas, and the Concho and Colo
RADIO rivers are the highest for years.
A number of lives are reported lost,
and much live stock and crops de-
stroyed Railways were greatly dam
aged
With 1400 women and children ex-
cursionists on board, the steamer
Ox.>x- ~. -. IL