Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07

to establish new long-distance bal loon record, and will sail for his home in Germany Nov. 5.
 Uncle Joe" Cannon, speaker of the national house of representatives, has become a full-fedged candidate for president. He will be backed by the solid republican delegation from Hi nois in congress.
 The action of the United States su. preme court in assuming original jur, isdiction in the Minnesota contempt case will test the power of federal courts to prevent by injunction the en- forcement of state laws.
 Seven fremen were overcome by smoke and loss of $300,00O was caused in a fire in the five-story build ing at State and Quincy streets, oc- cupied by the Holden Shoe Co.,, of Chicago.
 Holden Lewis, 9 years old, a saw yer employed in a mill at Mayfield, Ky, met death in buzz saw.
 Editor Maximillian von Harden of the zukunft, Berlin, was acquitted in The civil court on the charge of lib cling Gen. Count Cuno von Moltke. The count was ordered to pay costs of the case.
 In the hands of kidnapers in the heart of London, the 1S-year-old Princess Barbara La Poukine of Rus sia has sent word to friends that she is about to kill herself to escape i'll treatment at her captors' hands.
 Because he failed to carry out an errand of the Black Hand society, iVte Greinaldi, member of the Black Hand society, was stabbed to death by members of his own band on Knoll street, Brooklyn.
 Eaten by cannibals was probably the fate of the crew of forty sailors that took the big sailing ship Arthur Sewell out of Philadelphia April 3 on the start of her long voyage to carry coal to the Philippines.
 Western lines have decided to post pone until Dec. 10 putting into effect the use of interchangeable mileage tickets. The original date set was Dec. 1.
 Charles Hughes of Till City, Ind, is in custody, having surrendered after killing his brother, Mortimer, aged 26. Charles claims his brother was intoXi- cated and was abusing their father.
 President Roosevelt has announced through Senator Flint of California that he will use his influence for sepa- rate statehood for Arizona and New Mexico.
 President Roosevevlt praises J. Pier pont Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, who hitherto have been objects of White House denunciation, in letter to George B. Cortelyou, secretary of the treasury. The letter was made public in response to urgent demands from many sources for statement on the financial situation.
 The railroad conductors on all the lines running into Pottsville, as well as the ticket agents, report that it is simply impossible to keep enough pen uies on hand to make change, owing to the new 2-cent fare law. One ticket agent at Pottsville, Pa., supplied him. self with 5000 pennies, and yet did not have enough to last him through the day.
 The keynote to the financial situa- tion is that the developments of the past week have brought out the fact that the economic status of the coun- try was never more sound than it is right now.
 Paris already is charmed with the possession of women lawyers, physi- clans and cab drivcl5, and women sandwich men. It is now soon to have a woman jockey. The name of the young woman who is expected to enter on this new career for women is said to be Miss Mary Money, who now is a guest of the Countess de Mo lima, at Chantilly. She is an Ameri- can girl.
 Greater than 'Salome. in a musical sense," one hears of Richard Strauss's new opera. Electra" which will have it's first performance soon after Christ mas. The story of the opera follows that elaboration of the myth seen in Hoffmanstahls drama The composer keeps as strictly to this authors ter rible text as he did to Oscar Wilde's in the case of Salome.
 British-American Tobacco Go. was created especially to violate the laws and to carry conspiracies into effect, government charges in information filed at Norfolk for the forfeiture of S,750,000 cigarettes owned by the com pany.
 The king and queen of Spain mar rowly escaped death or serious in jury in an accident to their train in the outskirts of Cherbourg on their way to England. Though their ma jesties were unharmed, widespread comment has been caused by the se- ries of mishaps which seem to occur wherever they go.
 Alleging that she had been desert
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