Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-11-01

| in Paris, France, winning a prize of
$4,000 as the first successful mechan-
ical flying machine.
| At East st. Louis, ILL.,, while in de-
lirium of fever, Samuel Blankenship
muttered words that resulted in his
arrest and return to Huntington, W.
Va, on the charge of manslaughter.
The total immigration to the
United States may reach 100000
people this year." Secretary Metcalf
of the department of commerce and
labor is quoted as saying.
James w. Forsyth, major-general
U. S. A., retired, died at his home in
Columbus, o., of paralysis. He had
distinguished civil war record and
one as an Indian fighter.
| A notable feature of the autumn
maneuvers of the Chinese imperial
army has been portable wireless
telegraphy apparatus carried upon
| light wagons, and so adjusted that it
can be erected in less than thirty
minutes. These stations were operat-
ed by Chinese officials of the tele-
graph corps.
The board of bishops of the Metho,
dist church has decided to raise $780,
| 600 to rebuild the churches destroyed
by the San Francisco earthquake. A
committee has been appointed to re-
port on some plan for raising the
money.
Attorney-General William H.
Moody will be appointed to the SUI
preme bench to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Asso-
ciate Justice Henry Brown" is the
statement made in unofficial circles
in Washington.
Midshipman Kitigald, Japanese,
has resigned from the United States
naval academy by order, it is said,
of the Mikado. This is indicated as
an Endorsement of the i'll feeling of
the Japanese people against Ameri-
cans, caused oy the exclusion of Jap
anese children from the public schools
attended by white children in San
Francisco, and the geenral anti-Japan-
csc agitation on the Pacific coast.
Former Senator Burton of Kansas
is now in the Iron county (Mo.) jail
serving the six months sentence i'm
posed upon him for acting as attor-
ney for a firm, while senator, against
which the government contemplated
proceedings.
statement has been issued from
the White House setting forth the
following contemplated changes in the
presidents cabinet: Secretary of the
| treasury, Hon. George B. CortelyOu;
stmaster-general, Hon. George Won
L. Meyer; attorney-general, Hon.
Charles j. Bonaparte; secretary of the
navy, Hon. Victor H. Metcalf secre-
tary of commerce and labor, Hon Os-
car S. Straus. The appointment of
Mr. Straus will be the first time that
citizen of Hebrew faith has been
made cabinet member.
The Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, on behalf of it's switchmen, has
presented demands to all the rail
roads centering in Chicago for an
eight-hour day.
The Standard Oil Co. of Iowa has
transferred its holdings in California
to the Standard Oil Co. of California.
1t is understood that the consideration
amounted to several millions.
R. E. Short, of Hugo, l. T., was as
sassinated, being shot through the
window of his home in the presence
of his wife and three children. The
weapon used was shotgun loaded
with buckshot, and the shot was fired
at close range.
Lord Aberdare has practically re-
nounced his son for marrying Camille
Clifford, an American actress. 1t is
! said he told his son lever to darken
| his door again.
| Apparently without cause, Mrs. May
Bremen, aged 20, of Evansville, Ind,
took poison, while sitting at the side
| of her 7-months-old baby's crib, and
died
| Three thousand negroes assemble
| in front of a Philadelphia opera house
and endeavor to prevent the produc-
| ton of a play distasteful to them.
| Seventy-fve policemen prevented vio-
! lence. The mayor prohibited its pro-
duction in the city.
At Chatha., n. j., John Jacob
Sacco. aged seven years, while play
ing with a rife. shot and killed his
mother as she was clearing the sup
| per table.
The continuous rains and the warm
weather of the last two days hav :
caused all the streams of the North.
west to rise to height never before
| known.
Thoms c. Dawson, United States
| Minister to Santo Domingo, accom-
! panied by his family, arrived at New
| York, on the steamer Seminole from
| Turks Island.
The statement was made by 4
Cabinet officer Thursday that the APP
pointment of Governor of the Pan
ANA Canal Zone in all probability will