Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-09-27

fort. five years of service. He will
be succeeded as chief of artillery By
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Murray
There is tendency to underesti
mate the importance of the American
mission to Fee. Minister Gummere
will not only present his credentials,
but also will lay before the Sultan
his governments views of the exist
ing state of anarchy in Morocco, and
demand the payment of American
claims and punishment for offenses
against American citizens.
Rear Admiral Sir Edward Chiches-
ter, who commanded the British
squadron at Manila during the Span
tsh-American war, died at Gibraltar of
pneumonia. He was chief of the sea
transport service during the South
African war. His work in transport
ing 100000 men 5000 miles to South
Africa won him great praise. 1t was
Sir Edward Chichester who, according
to report, stood by the Americans in
Manila bay at a time when friction
between Admiral Dewey and the Ger
to serious consequences.
A typhoon ragged two hours at Hong
Kong, destroying and damaging many
vessels and causing much loss of life.
The harbor was strewn with wreck
age and the city with debris.
Charles M. Floyd was nominated
oy the republicans of New Hampshire
rs their candidate for governor, de-
seating Winston Churchill, the novel
ist
Final preparations have been made
or filing objections to the probation
If the will of the late Russell Sage
Several OF the fnanciers relatives
nave expressed their intention of try
ng to get bigger share of the estate
han is coming to them according to
he provisions of the will. 1t looks
low, however, as if the brunt of the
contest will be borne by Edison Con
cad, the eight-year-old granddaughter
Of Mr.. Sage, in whose name papers
will be filed
Wilbur Glen Voliva has been chosen
by the people of Zion City as their
leader, by vote of 1911, to for A.
n. Bliss. This practically makes Al
9xander Dowie, the self-styled prophet
and Elijah H." founder of the order,
an outcast.
During an address at High Point,
n. c., William Jennings Bryan stated
that it was not free silver that de-
feated him in 1896, but arbitration.
He stated that he believed in arbitra-
ton between capital and labor, and
on the free silver question he believed
in the past that he was right, and ne
still believes so.
A dispatch from Vladivostock states
that a number of Japanese were
caught sketching the Notifications. A
fight followed, in which nineteen Rus
slams and twelve Japs were killed. 1t
is said the guns of the fort opened fire
On the Japs.
The Universal Peace Congress at
Milan, Italy, has sent a telegram to
King Victor Emanuel, expressing the
nope that he may live in history as
he Sovereign of Peace"
Cash wheat strong in Chicago; re,
ceipts by northwest elevators almost
nothing.
Paris and Berlin have increased the
rate of discount
No further tightness of the money
market is looked for in New York.
Locomotive engineers in the west
are said to have organized a move.
ment for universal advance of the
wage scale.
Secretary Taft counsels Cubans to
avoid Intervention, and expresses the
belief that when they are brought
face to face with the danger of losing
their independence forever all patri,
concessions.
George w. Ryder, of Youngstown,
O., who is charged with blowing up
cemetery where the father and
mother of William j. Bryan are buried
has been sued by woman whose rel
atives were inferred there. The CEN
etery is at Bears Den, and Ryder
bought it recently to add to his farm
The Ross and other families have
been buried there since 1872. Head
stones were used by the owner for
walks. Bryan in 1896 attempted to
locate his parents graves there, but
failed to find them.
Further rulings in connection with
the enforcement of the meat inspec'
ton law after October l next have
been made public. Frankfurter sau
sage can no longer be known as such
but must be called "Frankfurter style
sausage"
According to figures compiled in the
state auditors office, 70 out of the q
counties in Arkansas have 17S,95s
white poll taxpayers, to 49,966 negro
taxpayers.
John T. Morse, who was Harvards
oldest living graduate and sole sur
vivor of the class of 1892, died at his
home on Beacon street, aged SO. He
was born in Boston, and came of
long line of Harvard graduates. He
fitted for college at the Old Round Hill
school at Northampton when 1t was
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