Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-10-11

Sclsmographs at Goettingen. Prus.
STA, Sydney, n. s., and on the Isle of
Wight recorded a powerful earthquake
at the same hour. AS no part of the
world accessible to the telegraph has
reported disturbance, it is believed
mat some vast unidentified region has
been shaken, probably around thu
poles, or in Africa or Central Asia.
The japanese naval department has
decided upon a naval programme for
the Improvement of the Japanese navy.
the expansion to cover a period OF
eight years. The diet is asked to vote
$l3O,000,000 for the purpose. It is
proposed to construct eight battleshIDs
and % cruisers.
In an address to the students of the
Havana university, Secretary Taft told
the Cubans that they need to stop
Quarreling and get to work
Insurance men, after careful exam
ination, place the loss at Mobile. Ala.
from the hurricane and tidal wave al
one million dollars.
Charles e. Magoon, the retiring min
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canal zone, says conditions on the
isthmus are most favorable, and the
canal zone we'll governed. He said
that work on the canal was progress
ing satisfactorily. There are from
1000 to 5000 Chinese on the isthmus,'
said Gov. Magoon, "and | do not think
they make desirable laborers. They
can not be depended upon. AS soon
as the Chinaman has earned enough
money he starts a shop, and the gov
eminent loses man"
In discussing the Cuban question
with members of his cabinet, and with
callers at the White House, President
Roosevelt stated that the interven-
ton in Cuba was solely for the benefit
Of the people of the island, that he
had no thought of annexation, but the
formation of a stable government
Following an assault upon a girl by
negro, near Mobile, Ala, a mob
stormed the Jail, thinking the negro
was there, but he was not. In a fu
sillada, Roy Hoyle, special officfer
and Alderman Sidney Lyons, chairman
of the city council, who were with the
sheriff and deputies in the Jail, were
shot, the alderman in the hand and
Hoyle through the lungs. Hoyle died
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., son of the
president OF the United States, who
is a student at Harvard, has been
summoned 10 appear before the grand
jury of Suffolk county, Massachusetts,
to give testimony in regard to an as
sauit on an officer on Boston com
mons.
Several Russian newspapers have
published editorial articles on the
events at Atlanta, Ga, comparing
them with the anti-Jewish massacres
in Russia The Novoe Vremya eX
presses the hope that the United
States excuses to official provocation
instead of admitting that they are the
result of natural racial animosity.
In making its report on the case of
an unidentified man found dead in St
Louis, from accident, the coroners
jury said: We, the jury, are unable
to ascertain the. manner in which the
of the failure of parties who, perhaps,
Witnessed the occurrence, to take
enough interest in human life to re-
port the matter to the proper authori
ties
An American won the James Gordon
Bennett cup in balloon race. going
from Paris to point 80 miles north
of Hall, England
The monthly statement of the gov
eminent receipts and expenditures
show that for the month OF Septem-
Der, 1906. the total receipts amounted
to 51,497190 and the expenditures
$40,250,174, leaving a surplus for the
month of 81, ,0S6.
Custer suits based On charges of
violation of the Kansas antitrust laws
have been filed in the supreme court
of Kansas against the Standard Oh!
Co. and the International Harvester
Co. The suits were filed by Atty.
Gen. Coleman.
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana
speaking at Lincoln, Neb., declares
Bryan would have been greater
preacher than Beecher.
The nineteen sailors sentenced to
death for participation in the mutiny
of last August, at Cronstadt, Russia,
have been executed.
This year is the first time in 16
years that the populists are not rep
resented on the official ballot in Tex
as.
Hartman and Gould have entered
into lively contest for an all-rail In
let to San Francisco via Dumbarton
Point.
Speaker Cannon declares that Cuba
will be annexed If necessary.
The Mexican supreme court has
handed down a decision affirming the
death sentence in the cases of DR.. c.
S. Harle, Leslie e. Hurlburt, alias
Richardson, and William Mitchell
alias Mason, the New York Life Insur
ance Co. swindlers. They are Ameri
cans, and they are charged with in
surfing men and numbering them
They will be taken out and shot