Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-29
NEWS OF The WEEK
THE LATEST EVENTS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.


at Newport, and the series of enter
tainments in his honor at once begins.
the first affair being dinner by Mr..
and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish at Cross
ways.
Walter Wellman, writing from Spitz-
bergen on July 10, tells of the success
full fight of the explorers party to save
the big balloon house from destruction
by high Arctic winds.
Text of the American proposal for
permanent peace court is completed
at The Hague in agreement with Ger
many and Great Britain.
Wall street is cheered by the report
that Secretary Cortelyou will come to
the relief of the situation by deposit
ing $25 00000 in national deposito
ries.
Chicago bankers expect further re-
cession in general business, but do not
take such a pessimistic view of the
situation as is held in the east.
Plans are being drawn in Chicago
for $4,000 building for the teach
ing of domestic science at the state
school at Normal, Ill
New speedometer, tested by the
Chicago e Northwestern railroad, is
designed TO improve passenger serv-
ice.
Police crusade to rid Chicago Of
criminals begins, twenty-one we'll
known thieves, burglars and conf
dence men being arrested in the first
roundup
Man who rocks boat to scare girl
causes the craft to capsize, and dies of
heart failure while struggling in the
water.
President Small, of the telegraphers'
union, declares that secret spies in the
union are trying to cause dissension
and break the strike.
!. Serious disagreement between H. H.
Rogers and William Rockefeller is re-
ported over the question of passing
the regular quarterly dividend on
Standard Oil as a result of Judge Ian
dis big fine.
Officers of the New York Electrical
Workers union are charged with
wrongfully appropriating money.
Secretary of War Taft opens state
campaign in Kentucky and appeals to
southern voters to join with the re-
publican party to secure the influence
to which they are entitled in the coun,
ellis of the nation.
Government Attorneys Sims and
WilkersOn, back from Washington, re-
fuse to discuss Alton case, but i'm
preston is that fight will be dropped
Government bureau issues warn
ing against carelessness in the use of
concrete in construction of buildings,
recourting the dangers.
Photographers are engaged to take
snap shots of men of the New York
navy yard absent from their tasks but
supposed to be at work.
Nathan Perry Beers, noted New
York educator loath to part with
wife, keeps her dead body in home
and sits constantly beside it.
Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of
the treasury, says that with the i'm
mense sources of national wealth I'M
impaired there is ne reason for de
preston
alexander Jester, tried and acquit-
ted a few years ago ON the charge of
numbering the brother of John w.
Gates, dies at the age of 80 at Shaw
nee, Okla.
International socialist congress
opens in Stuttgart, with delegates rep
resenting twenty-five nationalities.
Herr Bebel refers to the ''scandalous
persecution" of Haywood in Idaho.
Judge advocate general of the army,
an MS report, says the passage of the
ahtrcanteen act has been destructive
ol discipline by causing the establish
ment of saloons near military posts.
Senator Dubois, of Idaho, at Aurora
chautauqua, advocates federal juris
dicton and prison for Mormon leaders
as only way to stamp out polygamy
ana end growing power of Mormon
church.
Hetty Green, in New York, scores
me smart set, declaring that modern
girls are extravagant and should have
work to do, and that women of fash
ION spend their time gambling, smok
ing and drinking.
SQUIRT appointed guardian for infant
sud OF Mary A. Dixon; she claimed
raenek McCarren, Brooklyn demo
erauc leader was it's father.
government said to have secre
eerVlce men on pay rolls of railway
anu trust combinations. Alleged t.
oe seeking violations of law.
new York police believe they have
eiue leading TO solution of Hunchakis
murder.
victim of Pleasant Prairie, Wis.
pomaer mill explosion on his deathbet
n'aAes will leaving property t.
sweetheart.