Woodruff County news., 1907-10-24

the charge of murdering Mrs. Pet | Magill, the first wife of Magill. In his instructions to the jurors the | judge said the state had failed to prove the corpus delecti. The verdict was greeted with applause.
 The peace conference at The Hague has finished it's work. The delegates have agreed on thirteen conventions. At the semi-annual conference of l English Mormons at Finsbury, it was stated that no less than 300 mission | aries are working in Great Britain, and that they have gained approxi- mately 15,000 converts within the past | seven years.
 There is some speculation as to the whereabouts of Mrs. Upton Sinclair,
 wife Cf the Socialist and novelist. Her | continued absence from the Sinclair
 given rise to rumors, one of which is that she may never return. Four masked robbers, after binding and gagging c. D. Cash, the night ope- ator at the Missouri Pacific depot | at Webb City, Mo-, cracked the safe and escaped with $500 in money and 1 checks.
 Between twenty-five and fifty dead, GCA injured and city of 1000 people wiped out. Such is the fate which Pct powder works exploded Tues day. Where stood a thriving and busy town of 1000 people, there is ! ruin and scattered wreckage. The dead and more seriously injured have been taken away. Five hundred in- habitants, all more or less wounded, remain to gather their scattered house. hold goods and sleep under tents and cots guarded by soldiers of the state. A train made up of passenger coaches bound from Scotland and the North of England to Bristol left the rails as it was entering. the station at Shrewsbury. Sixteen persons, in- cluding ten passengers, were killed and many were injured.
 Monroe M. Deaderick, grandson of the late Chief Justice Deaderick of the Tennesse Supreme Court and Miss Hazel Wilbur of New York eloped on a handcar from Unatra Springs to Edwin. Tenn, the county seat of Uni coci County, and were married.
 Among the concerns against which fraud orders have been issued for fake mining and land development compa- nies appears the name of T. K. Ha- mer, a convict who has been in Carson City penitentiary since last April for swindling. Hamer operated his pres ent venture, the Pitt-burg- Manhattan Mining Company, from his cell
 Helen Maloney was not welded in Canada. Uncle says license was is sued but was not used.
 Arrivals from the Bear Lake en- csnpment tell marvellous stories of the presidents hardihood and capacity for roughing it. When he carried his blan- kets with him from the upper camp last Friday and that night and next morning ate only cold bread and meat he had taken in his saddle pock- cts they marveled that president could be so easily satisfied, but when he jumped into Bear Lake for a swim, with the temperature at 40 degrees, their astonishment was almost with out bounds.
 That railroad executives generally approve of the plan for government control and regulation of the trans portation lines of the nation, as advo- cated by Robert Mather, president Of the Rock Island railroad, in his speech to the Chicago Association of Con- merce, was strongly indicated by vari- ous officiGIs.
 The announcement that William G. Rockefeller. assistant treasurer of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey has been notified by Frank B. Kellogg, special assistant attorney general, to be in readiness to testify before Ex- aminer Ferriss in the governments suit seeking to dissolve the New Jer- sey corporation under the sherman antitrust law, has been received with interest
 me DOuy OI G6u. WSDD oyCh, a Civil War veteran, was found in the yard of his home in Fairview, Ky, and that of his young wife, a bride of two weeks, in her bed. It is be- lieyed Gen, Syck killed his wife and then committed suicide.
 With a series of flashes that filled the Marconi station with blinding hglt and of booms that fairly rocked the station, William Marconi launched the first commercial message by wire less across the Atlantic ocean.
 Miss Alice l.. Stanton Smith of St. James, L. l., heiress to $100000, and a cousin of Mrs. Stanford White, has appealed to the Society for the Pre- vention of Crime for protection against relatives who, she says, are seeking to send her : m insane asylum for a fourth time.
 Col Alfred I. Dupont .vice-presideEt of the Dupont Powder Co.,, accompa h,- .i,,fO