Woodruff County news., 1907-11-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST WEST, SOUTH
Foreiqn Lands, Throughout the Ma lion and Particularly From the
 Great Southwest.

Justice Brewer of the supreme court questioned regarding his New York speech, in which he criticised President Roosevelt, expressed sur prise that such wide publication had greeted his statements, but stood to his guns upon all that he said.
 The jury in the case of Mrs. Sarah M Garrett against the Wabash rail way awarded her $5,00O. Her hus- hand was killed by the cars at Jones' burg, Mo.
 Frederick w. Mclean, former as- sistant cashier of the Chicago Ma tional bank and confidential man to John R. Walsh, testified in the Walsh trial that on Feb. 27, 1904, he, at Walsh's direction, forged the names Of five men to six notes of $100,000 each and that Walsh drew the money from the bank.
 A battle in which the police and a score of deputy sheriffs, armed with riot guns, were on one side and 300 striking quarrymen employed at the plant of the Western Stone Co.,, just southeast of Joliet, H., on the other, was fought, one man being seriously Injured and a score of others slightly hurt. More than 200 shots were fired by the police, and for time it was feared that the officials would be overpowered and the big plant of the seone company wrecked
 England has seized Pedro Blanca Island, near Hongkong, and is fortify- ing it. It is a strong strategical point. Pedro is named in no atlases, and IS probably known also by some Chinese name.
 in the case of Edward G. Lewis, the publisher, charged with misusing the mails in connection with the Peoples United States bank, informed Judge Garland in the United States circuit court at St. Louis that the members were unable to agree.
 A general government guarantee of the security of deposits in all nation al banks, with similar guarantees by the various states of the deposits in state banks, is proposed by William J. Bryan as means of restoring con fdence in the financial world imme- dately.
 Poking her nose through a dense curtain of fog that hid the coast, her topmast lost from deck view in the enveloping shroud the biggest, the most luxurious ship ever run on any sea, finished in safety her bridal voy- age, when, at 11:03 o'clock Thursday morning the Cunard Line steamship Mauretania, came to anchor off Sandy Hook lightship, five days, five hours and ten minutes from Queenstown.
 dispatch from Bokhara, Central Asia says that two officials of the bokhara treasury were attacked in that city, mortally wounded and robbed of $6QOOO. The robbers were captured, but the money was not re- covered.
 Robert Sawyer of South Mills, N. C.. ana posse are searching the country TOT Edmund Daily of the same town, "no' after the fashion of the blood anu-tnunder drama, stopped his sweet Aedrt and her successful rival as they were on their way to be married, shot cue man, dragged the young woman .n'o nls buggy and disappeared with
 d. Plerpont Morgan. the financier qua George F. Baker, president of the rnsC National Bank of New York
 guy arrived at the White House Fri n'y TOT a conference with President Roosevelt.
 h3oneration from the charge of eNiess .s navigation which endangered S. sue iie of the president of the United sa.es during the river trip from Cairo ~ menpnls, Tenn, October 8 was ob-
 lneu Thursday for the officers and ws e" or the steamer Dick Fowler, who sta.o round not guilty by United Ms inspectors Waltz and Hodge of
 empnls' anl after a trial Wednesday. +h Judgment of president of are, ohited States should only be ex- s.u,sed r',.n in important matters coming sa,a ene province of his office," Int. ousuce David J. Brewer of the ing ea <. states supreme court in speak meoti. iarge audience at the opening bns ban or the civic forum in Carnegie nsa New York. Tt is foolish for spa,,in to quarrel over simplified roar ns he added, bringing out certisoo hundred take United States ment,s t,s' subscriptions in Govern 100000. A range rom sSo to 2,1s5 n,i,o on the East Indian railway, est 1inn lnes long and the second larg paralr' e m India, Is rapidly becoming '~siyzed by strike.