Woodruff County news., 1907-01-03
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Alexander Johnston Cassatt, presi- Aent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Cc died suddenly of heart disease at his residence in Philadelphia. He was rocognized as one of the foremost rail road men of the country. lie leaves . fortune estimated all the way from s5OOOO,O0O to $75,0000Oo.
 Tn a railroad collision near Ar broat1. town between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Scotland, caused by heavy snow. 16 persons were killed and over thirty seriously injured.
 Arctic weather has prevailed throughout central Europe. In Great Britain violent gales and snowstorms were accompanied by thunder.
 Efforts on the part of the United States to effect 8 peaceful settlement in Cuba are not meeting with encour- agement from the Cubans. It is the impression of public men generally In Washington that the better element of people of Cuba desire annexation.
 Bishop A. Coke Smith, of the Meth odist church, south, died at Asheville, N. c.
 The director of the mint has pur- chased 100, 900 ounces of fine silver, to be delivered at the Philadelphia mint, at 7015S cents per ounce.
 Sneaker Cannon wins fight for precedence over the chief justice of the supreme court at social functions.
 Mrs. Russell Sage has given out statement in which she declares that 1t is not her intention to distribute immediately the money left by her husband and much less does she in tend to distribute it everywhere and to everybody.
 w S. Reyes, a banker and pioneer business man of San Francisco was found dead at his club from natural causes.
 The internal revenue receipts for the first five months of the fiscal year amounted to ,407, an increase over the same period of 1905 of $9,722,- s5S.
 United States Senator Beveridge, of Indiana addressed the school teachers of Nebraska, and was introduced by Wm J. Bryan
 It is stated that James J. Hill will retire as president of the Great North ern railroad July l, and will be sue ceeded by his eldest son, Louis J. Hill.
 Lawrence Leberg, who was lynched at Las Animas, Cal, for murder, was recently released from the asylum at Promo, Utah. The superintendent of the Utah institution believes the Colo rado mob lynched a lunatic
 The statement Is issued from the White House that the president does not contemplate trip to the Philip plnes next summer
 It Is stated that Germany has signed peace treaty with the Hereroes, the Alrlcan tribesmen who have given trouble for several years.
 Wear Muskoday, N. D., the process or thawing dynamite was being car fied on. It exploded, blowing two men to atoms. e
 It mas been announced at the state uepartment in Washington that the onlted States will support measure auopted by England to ameliorate the eunefihgs or people in the Congo country.
 MT and Mrs. Louis Bischoffesheim. Ul London, have donated s20o, ,OO0 to Ne imperial cancer research fund. ,, m an interview at Topeka, Kas., Wiiilam J. Bryan stated that ''such nsn honor is the presidential nomi- Aauioh that no man should decline"
 Yauqi Indians, in the state of So. a0Id' Mexico, are on raid, murdering ana plundering.
 n IS stated that thirty million peas ants VIII need assistance In the Rus Sian famine districts
 oouht Eugene Zichy, who died al nuudpest recently, left an estate val uea at slO,O00,Ooo. He b,oueathed a o.p op.enoid collection of paintings and pest. '' 'nure Giron, who achieved notoriety hos years ago by eloping with the A crown princess of Saxony, has .iieu 10 Mile. came Bream, who is N years older than Giron. The crown neeSs ran Of Saxony lost all her royal cina Sn's through her escapade, while mn n, went unpunished. v,a,. coasts of England have been ,o '.tea 11 by terrific gales, causing loss ,noo 1'l 'ne town of Africa, in the prov hr VI lacehle, has been destroyed tbo s "h earthquake, and other towns in or ,a neiehoorhood have suffered more VI less severely.
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