Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-09-12


Fire chief of Franklin, O., shoots
down man who eloped with his wife.
Attorney General Bonaparte says
he wrote Mr.. Sims that the agreement
made with the Alton should be kept;
he expresses confidence in the sound
ness of Mr.. Sims reasons for ask
ing delay.
Receiver is appointed for the Union
Iron and Steel corporation.
Two New York firemen are fatally
burned by an explosion of gasoline.
William ]. Bryan will make a
speechmaking tour of New York under
the auspices of the Progressive Dem
ocratic league.
Gathering of railway presidents in
New York starts rumors of a confer
ence on hostile legislation in various
states.
One armed George R. Clark, wanted
for Hagamann jewelry store robbery,
is caught in New South Wales, but
may go free, as Illinois has no money
to send a policeman for him.
Edward Hagerup Grieg, famous
Norwegian composer and pianist, dies
in Bergen, his native city.
Last of the semi-annual statements
of fire insurance companies operating
in Georgia are filed.
Railroad men of three sections meet
and take steps looking toward uni
form classification.
Reaction follows the advance in
Wall street and bears bring out more
rumors Of trouble to come.
Joe Yeager, the plunger, is credited
with winning heavily on the victory
of Keep Moving at Sheepshead Bay.
Many star athletes expect to enter
University of Chicago this fall.
President Roosevelt has written
Gov Kirby of Arizona that he will
take no further action looking toward
the joint statehood of New Mexico
and Arizona.
Admiral Capps and Admiral Cowles
of the navy department returned to
Washington from the Pacific coast,
where they made preparations for
the reception of the Atlantic fleet next
spring.
The Rapid Transit Co. of Philadel-
phia has proposed that it will inaugu-
rate a 4c fare on all lines, surface,
elevated and suburban, and that all
free transportation, transfers and
tickets shall be abolished. The an
nouncement has been made to test
public sentiment
The navy department has instructed
the board of experts known as the
preliminary report on how best to pro-
tect the men in the turrets and the
| ammunition men on Admiral Evans
battleships during the target practice
which will begin Monday off Province
| town, Mass.
| Dr. William H. Abercrombie, fos-
merly United States consul at Nagas-
aki Japan, committed suicide by as
| phyXiation in his apartments in Stone
leigh court in Washington.
Bodies of young man and woman
| clasped in each others arms were
found in the Mississippi river near
| Muscatine, la. There was nothing on
| the bodies to establish identity.
Members of the Structural Iron
| Workers union in San Francisco, re-
| turning from the funeral of one of
their number killed in the Labor day
riots, made an attack on street car.
The prompt arrival of the police
| checked the riot. Five men were ar
rested.
Judge Robert l.. Stout Of the four
teenth judicial district in Kentucky,
| in which the Goebel murder was COM
tilted, said that if w. S. Taylor will
| return to kentucky and testify in the
| Powers case he will see that Taylor
| is not arrested and that he is safely
returned to Indiana.
Attorney Chambers, who has had
| charge Of the collection of evidence
! for the Voters Civic league in the tax
receipt fraud cases in Pittsburg, said
| that there would be 200 additional
| indictments in these cases He said
| that a thousand men had confessed
to handling bogus receipts.
In the hearing of the North Carolina
|
Plant of the Southern Railway Co.
| testified that the method employed
in computing the earnings of the road
were those used by the interstate COM
merce commission and the North Car
DINA corporation commission.
At the convention of the National
Postal Clerks association in Peoria,
Frank T. Powers of Chicago was elect
! ed president. Congressman Overstree'
| suggested that the postoffice depart
ment offer rewards for the best ideas
| for increasing the efficiency of the
| service. The convention voted $500
| annually for these rewards.
A report is being circulated in Wash
| ington that President Roosevelt, dis.
| satisfied with the peace conference at
The Hague, will call conference OF
| his own, assembling the ambassadors
| Of the powers accredited to Washing