Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-10-03
NEWS OF THE week
THE LATEST EVENTS OF TIE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST WEST, SOUTH
Eoreiun Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.

Automobile plungeS seventy rect
into stone quarry and man is dashed
against rocks. His companion escapes
nv clinging to fence post.
Chicago bomb throWerS resume op-
erations and set off charge in rear
of Mont Tonnes cash register store
On Clark street, over which pool
room is operated.
Sir Thomas Upton will consult WIN
Fife before sending a second challenge
for the Americas cup.
President Harahan of the Illinois
Central declares he has enough
proxies to give him absolute control
of the Illinois Central annual meeting,
and that Stuyvesant Fish will be pow
erless.
]. Pierpont Morgan and other New
York fnanciers are told by Bishop
Ingram of London, in sermon in
Trinity church, that rich men are
merely the stewards and not the own
ers of their possessions.
Paula Klippenburg, Viennese act
tress who came to America to sue
Newark On j. man for breach or
promise, weeping Historically when
she finally learns that she must be
deported starts on her return trip to
Europe from New York.
Unable to live on their salaries, pas
tors are being forced to other lines of
work, and increases in their pay are
necessary to fill the pulpits, delegates
to the Wisconsin Methodist conference
are told.
National Association of Local Fire
Insurance Agents, at its convention in
Richmond, Va, hears addresses by
several speakers.
Secretary of State Root, accompa-
MED by his wife, daughter and private
secretary, passed through st. Louis
on their way to Mexico City.
Missouri Pacific passenger train No
% ran into a freight at Barnett's Sta
ton, Mo-. injuring Harry Ewing, con-
ductor, and a brakeman, and demol-
ishing two box cars.
Replying to the claim railroad COM
panies made in st. Louis recently that
they had lost $1,500,000 from COM
pliance with the &c fare law in Mis-
souri,, Attorney General Hadley said
said that did not believe the railroad
companies knew whether the opera
ton of the law will result in an in
crease or decrease in net earnings.
Former American circus man and
globe trotter given job as official
boomer of British East Africa, praised
by khedive.
States Attorney Healy of Illinois
may order investigation of charges
That Stuyvesant Fish misused the
finances of the Illinois Central rail
road.
Herbert Knox Smith, federal com
missioner of corporations, visits Chi
cago and confers with District Attor-
ney Sims on the Standard Oil case
Work on the construction of the
evansville auxiliary channel of the
drainage canal formally begins when
girl shovels first spade of dirt.
Defeat Of Chicago charter changes
political condition in Illinois.
Judge Lands scores methods of
standard Oil Co. in issuing pamphlet
rejecting on his action in fping the
company, and summons the president
u the Indiana corporation before the
grand jury to prove the charges.
D. l. Harahan in a statement ac-
cuses Stuyvesant Fish of loaning to
himself and others large sums from
'he illinois Central treasury upon
worthless security and of serious
breaches of faith.
New system of street nomenclature
tof Chicago is ready for the city coun-
vi, and the entire city is dizzy
FIRST year of Illinois Central under
Tue hartman Harahan management
SHOWS an increase net of $1,34G,OO0.
III response to letter from a little
maryland girl, saying that naval mill
-,ainen had taken her pet dog and that
cue was lonesome, the navy depart
back.
ohlted States circuit court of ap-
eeals at Denver confirms a fine OF
Tlo'ooo imposed on the Great Northern
.S Snway Tor rebating, and gives hope
'lat the big Standard Oil fine will be
upheld.
.'aiiroads in Kansas and Pennsyl-
U"ia decide to put &c rate into effect
Us demanded by state commissions,
~. reserve right to contest.
~ nierlcans migrating in large num-
80 s 10 the Canadian Northwest. In
~ years 272,609 leave this country.
Mt OF former Senator Spooner to
ST son starts report that he is plan
70 line up delegation for Taft