Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-10-25

schools at San Francisco, instead OF
being relegated to the oriental schools
with Chinese. Indians and negroes.
Announcement OF carefully-planned
campaign to secure the repeal of the
10th amendment of the constitution
OF the United States, that which gives
the negro equality with the white man
as a citizen, was made by Gov. James
X. Vardaman of Mississippi, while in
Chicago
Two hundred and fifty-eight skilled
Flemish weavers, with their families,
nave left Client for Bremen, from
whence they will sail on steamer OF
the North German Lloyd line direct for
Charleston. S. G.
George B. Cortelyou to be secretary
of the treasury, George Won L. Meyer
TO be postmaster general, Victor
Howard Metcalf to be secretary of the
navy, Charles Joseph Bonaparte to be
Charles Joseph BonaparIe to be
attorney general, is the programme
January /.
Stuyvesant Fish, president of this
Illinois road, and William Nelson
Cromwell, representing E. H. Harri
man. president Of the Southern Pacific,
clashed openly before $50 stockhold
ers, at Chicago, who had come from
various parts of the country to attend
the meeting. On the face OF the re.
cord, Mr.. Fish appears to have been
the victor, but that the victory is not
final one is insinuated by Mr.. Crom.
well.
A verdict OF guilty OF granting re-
bates on sugar shipments has been re-
turned by jury in the United States
court at New York City against the
New York Central Railway Co. and
Frederick l.. POmeroy, the company's
general traffic manager.
Fire, which caused a loss estimated
at 100000, destroyed several build
ings at Birmingham, Ala.
D. C. Johnson's Roseben, carrying
1875 pounds, created a new worlds
record for seven furlongs, when he
won the fifth race at Belmont park,
New York. He stepped the distance
in the fastest time ever made on an
American race course, 1922.
After a trial lasting about ten days,
Dr. Frank l.. Brouwer, indicted for
the murder of his wife by poison, was
acquitted at Toms River, N. J. The
jury brought in a verdict OF mot
guilty" inside of an hour.
The grand jury of the special term
of the United States district court at
Jac.son, Miss, Judge John E. Mccall,
presiding, has returned a voluminous
indictment against the Standard Oil
! Co. Of Indiana. The charge is trans
portation of separate carloads of oil
at rates discriminating in favor o.
| the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. AL
| legged shipments for the past three
years are covered.
Capt Lloyd Arson Ryder, known
| in California as "Old Grizzly" and
one of that states pioneers of 40,
! died at the residence of his grand
niece, Mrs. Thomas H. McClintock in
Brooklyn. He was SO years of age.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the
| president of the confederacy, who had
| been i'll for week, died at the Hotel
Majestic, in New York city. Death
was due to pneumonia, induced by a
! severe cold, which Mrs. Davis con-
! tracted upon her return from the Adj
rondacks, where she had spent the
summer months. Relatives were at
the bedside. 1nterment beside Mr.
Davis at Richmond. Va.
Samuel Porter Jones, evangelist,
| MI hn
Jones, died on railway train near
Little Rock, Ark, while on his way
from Oklahoma City to Gainesville,
Ga, his home, where he intended to
celebrate the forty-ninth anniversary
of his birth with family reunion.
His wife and two daughters We're
with him when he died, as also his
friend and coworker, Rev. Walter
Halcomb.
Fourteen OF the II balloons which
started from Tagal, near Berlin, In
the race for Emperor Williams cup,
reported landed the following day. 1t
appears to be certain at this moment
that the Ernest, the smallest of the
balloons, won.
Dr. M. G. Pingree, a cousin of for
mer Gov. Pingree of Michigan, com
mitted suicide in Chicago by locking
himself in his bathroom and turning
on the gas. No cause ror the suicid ;
is known.
The middle of October having been
reached, the time set for receiving
news from the Peary Arctic expedi'
ton, hope practically was abandoned
of hearing this year from the band OF
explorers which sailed from New
York fifteen months ago. If Peary had
decided to spend second winter in
the Arctic circle, it was expected that
news would come from the expedition
through the whalers when they sail
into Dundee, Scotland. at the end OF
their cruises this fall.
Gen. Miguel Nibold has been ap'
pointed Mexican consul at st. Louis
He succeeds Rafael p. Serrano, who
was dismissed from the service by
President Diaz because of his alleged