Woodruff County news., 1906-12-06

augurated, is seriously ill in Wash ington.
 The president believes the Porto Ricans are ready for American citi. zenship.
 An unknown man in a small boat was swept over the Horseshoe falls at Niagara. Two men in boat made daring attempt to rescue him.
 Congressman Bartholdt of Missouri, in Washington, says he will ask for an appropriation of $5,00O,00O for the Missouri river.
 A high Vatican authority says the death of Monsignor Stabllinskie, at Posen, German Poland, relieved the Vatican of a serious situation The pope was expecting Emperor William to request the removal of Stableinski. The priest was insisting that the chill dren of Posen be taught the Polish guage in the schools. The emperor would not listen to the proposition, but the priest was insistent.
 Capt Hugh H. Henry past national commander of the Army and Navy union, and chief of staff of the present national commander, Browne, died in Washington.
 Aggie Myers, the Missouri woman under sentence of death for accessory to the murder of her husband, has been refused more time by Justice Brewer of the supreme court of the United States in which to file com plete record in the case.
 Not single American has died on the Panama canal zone in the last three months.
 The official vote of Illinois gives the republicans plurality of 5,5G0.
 Caruso, the Italian opera singer, was granted right to appeal from the decision of the New York magistrate court that fined him $10 on the charge of annoying women at the monkey house in Central park, New York
 Active military preparations are be- ing made by Japanese in northern Ko- req, according to advices received by steamer from the Orient, at Vancou- yer, B. c. The Korean Daily News says the preparations indicate Japans intention to pick a quarrel with China regarding the ownership of Kando, the island province inclosed by the head waters of the Yalu at Tumen river.
 MT. and Mrs James M Scott Mitch ell, of Salem, Mass, were found dead in rooming house at Bellevue, east of Oa1 n n show that Mitchell drugged his wife and caused her death, and then com mitted suicide by the same means.
 Following a three-inch fall of snow, nearly two inches of rain has fallen over Kansas during the last "A hours. Reports to Secretary Coburn of the state agricultural department, and to railroad offices say the wheat never went into winter in better condition. Compared with conditions year ago, experts say the Kansas outlook now warrants the prediction that next years crop will reach the 100,000, ,000- bushel mark.
 In an interview in the City of Mex ico William Randolph Hearst is quoted as saying that If circumstances made it imperative he would once more be candidate for office." He did not designate the office.
 Ten deaths, all men, resulted from a fire in a Salvation Army hotel ia St. Louis. There were no fire es- capes on the building.
 Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern Railway Co.,, and recognized as one of the foremost men in the development of the southern states, was killed in collision on his own road near Lynchburg, Va. Besides MT. Spencer, Charles D. Fisher, of Bal timore; Philip Schuyler, of New York; Francis T. Redwood, of Baltimore, guests of MT. Spencer, and D. w. Da- wis, of Alexandria, Va, private dis patcher for MT. Spencer and two ne groes were killed. The party were occupying a private car, were on a hunting trip, and were all killed while asleep with the exception of MT. Da- wis.
 George B. Pollock, chief of Depart ment B of the interior department, en- ters an emphatic denial to testimony given at Salt Lake City, Utah, by M. A. Myendorff, a special agent of the government, that MT. Pollock had in structed Myendorff to destroy aftida- wits procured against the Union Pa cific Coal Go. in alleged coal land fraud investigation.
 roburite factory near Amen, Ger many, exploded. demolishing every house in the town and breaking win dow glass for miles around. Fifty, perhaps 100 people, were killed and several hundred wounded. The explo- sion was heard for 40 miles, The ear drums of people near the explosion were bursted and the were made deaf.
 Prof. Burgess, dean of Columbia university, will lecture in Cologne, Germany. on American Liberty" It is said that Emperor William has di- rected his fourth son to hear Prof. Burgess.
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