Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-01-31


VIM. Whitley, we'll known citizen
of London, Eng, was shot and killed
by young man who claimed to be his
son. The youth then fatally wounded
himself 1t is believed to be the re-
suit of a fancied grievance.
Says dispatch from Berlin: cat
the annual reception at the palace
more Americans han usual were pre-
sented to tie emperor and empress"
The Kentucky court of appeals up
held the constitutionality of the legis-
lative act of 1904, making chicken
stealing felony.
Secretary of State Root and Mrs.
Root have returned from Montreal
The secretary said he found the Cana
dams very friendly to Americans.
The executors of the Marshall Field
estate have filed with the probate
court in Chicago an inventory of the
late merchants possessions. The APP
proXimate value of the estate is placed
at $75,000,000
Andrew Carnegie is to have his
versity bearing his name. Articles of
incorporation have been filed in the
county recorders office whereby the
new institution is allowed to teach
many sciences.
1t is reported that Pope Plus will
ing the entrails of the deceased pontiff
and preserving them in the parish
church of the quirinal, consequently
Leo XIII will be the last pope to be
thus mutilated.
Senator Russell A. Alger of Mich
igan, died in Washington. Senator AL
ger was born in 1885, in Ohio. He
started in farm boy, became a school
/ teacher, then a lawyer, soldier, specu-
latcr, governor, cabinet member and
| senator.
Friends of Senator Bailey, of Texas
posing forces being regarded as omin-
Gus.
can troops and Yaqui Indians, in
which the latter were defeated with
heavy loss, but carried away their
dead. The MeXicans lost 20 killed.
Mrs Louise NJ. Este died at Balti-
more, Md, aged 104. Her father,
Judge William Miller, was the agent
of France in the Louisiana purchase.
Twenty miners, according to the
most authoritative information obtain
able, lost their lives as the result of
an explosion which occurred in the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Co.'S mine near
Primero, 20 miles west of Trinidad,
| Col.
Following the Jamaican earthquake,
the southern Texas oil fields show
heavy decrease.
The Texas legislature reelected Jo-
seph w. Bailey to the United States
senate In Illinois Shelby M. Gull
Iom was reelected; in Wyoming, Sen
ator Warren; Elkins in West Virginia,
and Tillman in South Carolina.
According to private cablegram
received at Washington from a promi-
nent government official at Manila,
Gen. Luke E. Wright, American am
bassador to Japan, has made known
to his friends that he will retire from
the diplomatic service next August
and return to his home in Memphis,
Tenn, to resume the practice of law
The mayor of Kingston, Jamaica, in
his official capacity, has appealed to
the generosity of the American people
on behalf of the Kingston earthquake
sufferers.
! William M. Robertson, aged ST, re-
publican national committeeman for
Nebraska in 1888, and for many years
a prominent politician, died at Norfolk,
NeJ., of cirrhosis of the liver.
Advices from the Dutch East Indies
tell OF tidal wave that devastated
the island of Tana on Jan. IL and the
southern coast of the island of Simula,
causing a loss of 1900 lives.
| Federal official at st. Louis refuses
naturalization to a Hindoo and appeal
will be taken to Washington.
American refugees from Kingston,
Jamaica, tell stories of selfishness on
the part of the English after the earth
quake. They declare that the captain
| of the English steamer Port, Kings
| ton. on which were Sir Alfred Jones
and party, refused to allow American
women to sleep on the bare decks of
his ship and put them ashore on the
| d. "ks, where they remained three
days, and that this English noble
man never once sent them coffee or
food of any desert lion, but that the
captain of the ressel visited the docks
| once and talked very uncivil. The
! Americans who underwent this expe-
rience adopted resolutions and gave
! them to the press of the world, de-
nouncing the acts of the English and
! declaring that the much-talked-of
bonds of blood and language when
tested, a mockery and a diplomatic
| phantom.
| Senator Sutherland, in speech be-
fore the senate defending Senator
| Smoot, declared that the accused had
| always led pure life.