Woodruff County news., 1907-10-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST EVENTS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST WEST, SOUTH
Fcreiqn Lands, Throughout the Ma ton and Particularly From the
 Great Southwest.

Sensations followed each other in eanid succession in the financial dis trict as the result of the collapse Of the protected corner in United Copper and the suspension of a permanent hrokerage firm. The firm of Otto Heinze & Co. was suspended on the stock exchange. F. Augustus Heinze, the Butte copper magnate, resigned the presidency of the Mercantile Ma tional Bank of New York. The Anal gamated Copper Co.,, at its directors meeting, cut it's quarterly dividend from 2 per cent to 1 per cent. The di- rectors of the Boston & Montana Cop per Co. declared a quarterly dividend of s6 in place Of former dividend of $12.
 Kaiser Wilhelm has been sum- moned to the witness hcair in a most unsavory case as one of long list of royal and aristocratic personages, on whose testimony Editor Maximil- lian Harden of a Berlin weekly news paper relies to win the libel suit brought against him by Gen. Count Guno Moltke.
 The first railroad ever built in Low CT California will be in operation in few days under E. E. Calvin, gen. eral manager of the Southern Pacific. This line was built by E. H. Hartman and runs 37 miles southward from Calexico as far as Paradones.
 C., have prepared an elaborate defense in the governments suit for dissolu- tion of the oil combine, which they say will be developed in it's entirety.
 One man, Harry Bausch, was killed and 20 passengers injured, several so seriously that they may die, in the wreck of a street car in Cincinnati.
 With impressive ceremonies and a significant speech by Secretary of War Taft, the first Philippine assembly was opened in Manila
 Capt. Roland Amundsen the Arctic explorer, who arrived on the steam snip Oscar H., said he will make an attempt to reach the north pole in
 
 four big polar bears trained to haul sleds and intends to use them in the far north.
 The governor of Connecticut is or Junket to the Jamestown exposition; 1ne heutenant governor is on a trip to Europe; Senator Stille Judson of olratlord, president pro tenn of the s'ate, IS on hunting trip; but Con- nectlcut is not suffering, for woman seated in the official chair.
 immediately attired as a minister ol the gospel, a stranger entered the once of the Indiaia state prison at Michlgan City, Ind, and declared he was an escaped convict and had come 'o serve the rest of his sentence. "Mv n"ine IS Allen J. Lawrence, and I es- oaped rom this prison in September, lSO6,' he said.
 David Redfield Proctor, S1 wears olu cousin of United States Sena- cur hedheld Proctor of Vermont, was .ouhu dead in cheap lodging house "' I4S south Clark street, Chicago.
 1erflhc storms, torrential down. pourS or rain, high wind and floods gre prevailing to an extent never be- aOie realized in France, Spain, Italy nu ureat Britain. The storms have ,D0en so general that an accurate esti -Date or the loss of life is impossible. ~, "iSs Rose L. Fritz of New York ,s mas successfully defended her .,Ne or champion typewriter at the Sacional Business Show at Madison soeudre Garden, defeating Paul Hunter
 Oncago, from whom she won the championship three years ago.
 put three out of crew of twenty. san ne nave been saved from the Dan sl steamship Alfred Erlandsen. ua1 un went ashore near St. Abb's tt eau' and was battered to pieces by e SUIT during the night. Eighteen oie swept by the mountainous waves rum the deck and drowned Of tho eu' m5 one was a woman. , ne sult of the territory of Okla roa against the Rock Island rail timo @nieh has been pending for some cons, was dismissed by the supreme tbat or the United States. ."e railroad company which onens ro. onicago' The order of the court 3fcat'I tpldctically identical with the mod Harri '.ion asked by the attorney of MT. der co on'anet, Ind, the Dupont Pow ot oo' has telegraphed the governor extent s to draw on them to any H r TUT the aid of the sufferers. man I 1 williams, Rock Island brake New was was killed in the corridor of the W 'rate hotel at Chikasha, I. T. bellows is under arrest.