Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-10-04

insane az DlAluOHL, I'd, since ner con-
viction of the murder of her aged
mother eight years ago, escaped from
the institution at night, and her pres
ent whereabouts is unknown. 1t is
said she left by the fire escape and
was whirled away in an automobile.
News has been received here, saws
a Honolulu dispatch, that Along, the
we'll known Chinese capitalist, for
merly of Hawaii, died in China on
Tuesday, September %. Along mar
ried half-breed white woman, by
whom he had two sons and thirteen
daughters. The daughters are ex-
ceedingly handsome, and married
we'll, one becoming the wife of Rear
Admiral Whiting of the United States
navy.
A gulf hurricane caused great loss
to shipping at Pensacola, Fla, also
to wharves, warehouses, residences,
railroads and farms. The storm ex-
tended along the coast from New
Orleans to point south of Atlanta,
moved northwest into Mississippi,
Alabama and Tennessee, continuing
northwest to the st. Lawrence valley.
In the gulf states great damage was
done to cotton, rice and other crops
Complete plans for a campaign
against the Standard Oil company
have been drawn by the department
Of justice. Attorney General Moody
has returned to Washington from his
vacation and will take them up at
once, and if he approves, as it is ex-
pected he will, hostilities will be be-
gun against the great oil concern
as quickly as possible. and pressed
with vigor until the supreme court
determines whether the Standard Oil
company can exist under the Sher-
man antitrust law.
William Randolph Hearst was nomi-
nated by the democrats for governor
Of New York.
The republicans of New York nam
mated Charles E. Hughes for gov
ernor
Able De Larue, cure of Chatenay,
France, who disappeared about two
months ago, and who was thought to
have been assassinated, has been
found to be alive and well, living in
Brussels with a teacher, formerly
nun of the same town, with who, it APP
pears, he eloped.
Six are known to be dead, So injured,
several probably fatally, and two have
been driven insane from injuries and
shock, as the result of wreck that
j Iy,I fo- tao, ~
eastbound from st. Louis, struck an
open switch at Catlin, a siding six
miles west of Danville, H., and crashed
into a freight.
Committees of switchmen, in pur-
suance of a general movement, have
and increased pay. 1t is asked that
response be made to the request with
in thirty days.
The Pulaski county (Ark) grand
Jury has indicted Will Gay, a negro
for murder in the first degree for kill
ing Mrs. Charlotte Leetham, in Little
Rock, on the night of June 4. Gay
worked as houseman for Mrs. Leet-
ham, He intimated that he was hired
to commit the murder. Sensational
reports that Mrs. Leetham knew some
thing about alleged boodling in the
last legislature were current soon after
her death.
The proclamation for opening the
Kiawa lands in Oklahoma to settle
ment, which was signed at Oyster Bay,
recently, has been made public at the
state department by Acting Secretary
of State Adee. This proclamation
names no date for disposing of the
lands, and has nothing to do with the
regulations of the interior department.
Paul o. Stensland, to whose self
confessed. embezzlement of 100000
was due chiefly the collapse of the
Milwaukee Avenue State bank. was
given an indeterminate sentence In the
penitentiary within three hours after
his arrival in Chicago.
The members of the Cuban cabi-
net presented their designations to
President Palma, and it was an
nounced that the president would call
congress together and present his
own resignation. This will practic-
ally leave Cuba without government,
and American Intervention is newt
able. The United States has seven
thousand marines and bluejackets
ready to land in Cuba, and force
near at hand sufficiently strong to
back them up.
Rev. r. Amos, a negro preacher,
who had been advising his people to
assert their alleged social rights
against white people, was shot ans
fatally wounded Dy train news agent
on the Iron Mountain road Lear Boeuff
Station. La.
Paul o. Stensland, the Chicago
banker, says he wants full justice,
and will both protect the innocent
and tell of the guilty.
A 500-pound octpus was caught by
a fishing party in Mississippi sound,
and killed. after a struggle which
lasted eight hours. The octopus
towed the boat of the party, stern
first, for ten miles. 1t was finally
killed with rifles.