Woodruff County news., 1907-11-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST EVENTS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST WEST, SOUTH
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma tion and Particularly From the
 Great Southwest.

Pleas for "dry" Sunday for. Chi cago will be made by 1,200 or 1900 pastors in as many churches Sunday, Nov. 24 recognized as Worlds Tenn perance Sunday" in many of the churches.
 The big aeroplane invented by Is rael Ludlow of New York, which has repeatedly refused to fly, though lowed by fast tugs and torpedo boats, has gone to smash.
 J. B. Rutherford his wife and E. H. Peets are dead, and man named Lu- ther wounded, the result of domestic differences from which grew suit for divorce. The quadruple shooting took place in a boarding house conducted by Mrs Rutherford in Memphis, Tenn.
 The decapitated body of an unidenti- fled white man was found on the rail road track near Hollywood, Miss Be cause of an absence of blood, officials believe that the man was killed before being placed on the track.
 Because his physician said he could not live, R. w. Kerwan and wife shot themselves at Springfield, Mass, in accordance with suicide pact.
 Mayor Dahlman issued an order di- recting all places of business and amusement in Omaha, Neb., to close on Sunday hereafter. The order was issued on the demand of Editor Fields of the Protector, the official organ of the Nebraska Liquor Dealers Associa- tion.
 A fight between the undergraduates and theological students of North western University ended in riot, in which thirteen of the former were locked in the Evanston jail and eight of the "theologs" were thrown into Lake Michigan. Many of the stu dents were severely burned with hot water in the melee. One fell down and broke his leg, lot of noses were dattened and the contending factions had a perfectly beautiful time.'
 Mrs Emma Traunmiller, formerly of St. Louis, gets a divorce at Rolla, Mo, her allegation being that her husband treated her cruelty.
 St. Louis delegates to Transmissis- sippi Commercial Congress discuss plan for meeting at Muskogee Novem- Der 1922, in Merchants Exchange.
 Herr August Ferdinand Bebel. one of Germany's greatest men, and the acknowledged foremost figure in so- cialism in the world, is soon coming to America on a lecture and study tour.
 Insanity is to be the plea in the de- fense of Harry Kendall Thaw, whose second trial for the staying of Sanford White will be on Dec. 2. Martin w. Littleton, chief counsel for Thaw, 1t is learned, has decided on this course.
 In a battle between United States troops and Indians which occurred in southern Utah several days ago three Indians were killed and another was wounded.
 The engineering corps of the Okla homa national guard, called out by Acting Governor Charles Filson, pre- vented the lynching of John Hopkins, in jail at Lawton for killing his wife.
 The war of the Society of Equity against the tobacco buyers in western and central Kentucky is secoming se- rious. Every effort is being made to force growers to pool the 1907 crop and induce the buyers to leave the field Interest centefs in Mclean county.
 T. E. Mcdonald, superintendent of the United States Express O., an nounced officially that the amount or money stolen from the company at night of Oct. 23 was $1S,500. The amount embraced gold and currency.
 Following quarrel over money mat ters, Reuben Green and John Griffith, young farmers, mounted on horses, fought duel near Keystone, Okla. Green received a wound in the neck from which he died.
 Oscar Erbsloeh, winner of the James Gordon Bennett International Aero nautic Cup, is the latest claimant for the Lahm Cup, based on the record of S76% miles he made in travelling from St. Louis to Asbury Park, N. J.
 A new high-pressure reservoir has been added to the water supply Of Hoiyoke Mass, about 800,000 gallons oally being used from this source, which gives a pressure of from 72 to S0 pounds in various sections of the city.
 Engineer Charles Jones was killed ana six persons were injured in the wreck of Wabash passenger train No. ~ near Thompson, Mo.
 The city of Bokhara, in Central Asia, Is reported destroyed by earthquake on Oct. 21, and 1,500 people buried in the ruins,