Woodruff County news., 1907-10-31

as oil on the troubled waters of finance, and New York, which has been the center of a money storm for several days, in which many in- terests have been sorely buffeted, has begun business again under conditions or the most optimistic nature.
 The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'S crack oriental liner Empress of China sank Wednesday evening alongside her docks in Portland, Ore. Her sea- cocks must have been opened, but how, no one seems able to ascertain. With the completion of the dirigiEle race and awarding of prizes to the winners Wednesday afternoon the great balloon tournament, conceded to have been the greatest in the his tory of aeronautics, came to an end at St. Louis amid the plaudits of over 40,000 people and the strains of mar tial music.
 It is announced that Don Enrique c. Greet will soon retire as ambassa- dor to the United States from Mexico. The great international balloon con test for the James Gordon Bennett cup ended Wednesday with the Ger mans, the Pommern, and the French, Isle de France cars, two out of the nine starters, so equally divided for Eonors that it will be necessary to await decision from the war depart ment at Washington tell who wins. The discovery of Mile. Lusson, 65 years old, dead in her bed, her head cut off and twenty-seven stab wounds in her body, adds another atrocity to long list that has recently ap- palled Paris.
 Probably 10000 people were in dan ger of injuries at the Central Sta tion at Chattanooga, Tenn. when President Roosevelt's special train rolled into the shed. It was a surging mass of humanity that could not be controlled. The demonstration was so great that 1t was practically im- possible for the president to speak. He made many attempts, but finally gave up.
 President Roosevelts latest hunt in the Louisiana canebrakes is made the subject of bitter criticism and sar- castle comment by Rev. Dr. w. J. Long, who has been attacked by the president as a nature faker.
 After writing to his wife, I'm tired of you," Leo Antone of Charleston, w. Va, sat down on IA sticks of dyna- mite and fired a fuse attached to one of them. Fellow workmen had tried to get him away, but failed, and had to flee. Antone was literally blown to atoms.
 A verdict for $25,000 was awarded by the jury in the suit of Mrs. Ellen E. Kenyon Warner, writer on edu- cational subjects, against Dr. Flavins Packer and Dr. Sidney D. Wilgus for $50,000 damages because they ad- judged her insane and caused her com mitment in the Middletown (N. J.) in- sane asylum.
 French troops caught in trap by Moors and only timely arrival of re- endorsements saves accommodating party from annihilation. Cruiser shells
 
 Seven thousand photographs of the planet Mars, taken in Chili, promise to reveal remarkable discoveries re- garding the proofs of life on the planet
 Thirty bandits are still disturbing the peace of the Sancti Spiritus dis trict, Santa Clara province, and the authorities are endeavoring to effect the capture of the leaders.
 No. mixing mill of the Atlantic Dynamite Co.'s factory, six miles southwest of Ashland, Wis, blew up. Two hundred pounds of nitrogrlycerin exploded The cause is unknown.
 William Lepper, for 30 years resi- dent of Laramie, Wyo., shot Judge Charles w. Brammell three times in the law office of the latter, then turn ing the revolver upon himself, blew out his brains.
 The ceremonies marking the formal completion of the Hennepin canal between Lake Michigan and the Mis- sisissippi river were attended by many thousands of people, all sections or Illinois being represented.
 The Aero Club of St. Louis awarded S2,500 cash prizes to the winners ot the dirigible balloon race in Forest Park, at the close of the aeronautlc carnival, which will go down in his tory as one of the greatest ever held.
 With him will go Mrs. Lemieux; his secretary, Hector Vorrette; Under Secretary of State Joseph Pope and Mrs. Pope.
 An unknown man, who was found dead in a standing posture in a slough off of Macoupin creek. north of Alton, H., is believed to have be- come mired in the quicksand of the creek and succumbed to starvation or exhaustion and exposure. His clothes were found 200 yards away. He had apparently been dead for several days
 A bank robbery and murder unpre cedented in the criminal annals of