Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-10-03


Proposition to cut off two of the
five presiding elders in the Wisconsin
Methodist conference and divide their
salaries among the poorer pastors
causes clash in the conference. in
session in Milwaukee.
Establishment of a great central
bank as cure for tight money mar
ket Is advanced by a German dele
gate in an address before the Amer
can Bankers Association at Atlantic
City, N. j.
A monster petition signed by hun
dreds of British Columbians is on it's
way to the premier, Sir Wilfrid Lau-
rier. 1t prays that the government i'm
mediately pass legislation to insure
the absolute exclusion of orientals
from the Dominion of Canada.
Paul Meliege, 40 years old, was res
cued at Chisholm from a mine cham
Der 265 feet below the surface, upon
which there had been a sinking de-
preston. When found Meliege was in
an exhausted condition
Standard Oil Co. prevents independ-
ents from using its pipe lines by "cre-
ating' town on the New York-New
Jersey state line and nominally doing
away with interstate business, testi-
mony of witness at the New York
hearing shows.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, recently COM
mitted to the workhouse for disor-
derby conduct, has been released, her
fine having been paid by a friend
The cruisers Cincinnati and Raleigh,
recently home from the Asiatic sta
ton are to go out of commission in
about ten days at the Mare Island
navy yard. They are to be thoroughly
overhauled.
The British schooner Princess of
Avon, bound from Parrsboro, N. c., to
Boston, was capsized off the Graves,
the entrance to Boston harbor. Her
crew of five men was rescued by a
government tug.
Mrs. Silas Baldwin of Hampshire,
Ill, is beaten to death and her aged
husband is said to have confessed the
crime.
Seventeen Illinois counties soon to
vote on question Of saloons or no sa-
looms.
Methods in Chicago hospitals criti-
cised by Miss Jane Adams, who finds
patients sometimes suffer while nurses
are kept busy at needless details.
1t is understood that Frank B. Kel-
logg, the governments counsel in its
suit to disso'-e the Standard Oil Co.
of New Jersey has important evidence
in his possession bearing on alleged
relationship between railroad rebates
and the prohts of the corporation in
the last eight years.
Mrs. Marguerite Carter, who COM
mitted suicide at the home of her ben
efactor, John }. White, was the daugh-
ter of a countess, and was deserted by
her husband just after her honeymoon,
it was learned. She tried fourteen
times to commit suicide. Before her
marriage she was Marguerite Louise
-rarie de Marideau. Left an orphan,
she spent her girlhood in a French
convent, inherited a small fortune from
her grandmother and went to live with
a grand aunt.
An official report on the relation in
France of alcoholic excess to mental
alienation, shows that in the public
asylums for the insane there are 1882
cases affected by alcoholism out of
total of 71,547. Of the cases of alco-
owe their degradation to absinthe.
After having been in session over
three months and with adjournment
probably month in the distance, it /
recognized generally, and even by the
most optimistic in the peace move
ment, ina. the second International
Peace Conference has been and will be
at its conclusion barren of results lead
ing to permanent measures of benefit
to the peace of the world.
While the government is grilllng
Standard Oil officials in New York, the
monopoly is going ahead from western
PENNSYLVANIA with its plans to extend
operations to every part of the world.
It's latest field for investigation is ia
pan. Col. John j. Carter of Titusville,
Pa, head of the Carter Oil Company,
Standard concern, is now on his way
to Japan with corps of experts, to
investigate the oil fields in the mika-
dos kingdom.
Pre- sident Roosevelts speeches will
no longer be sent to the Wall street
ticker service in advance of delivery,
Neither will they be distributed among
the publishers of Wall street newspa-
pers. They will be sent to the three
| regular press associations only.
Judge Ludwig of Milwaukee stops
| proceedings in the suits against the
street railway companies, awaiting his
| decision on an injunction under adj
| visement.
Wierd ceremonies at funeral of Chi
| nese ENJOYS wife caused amazement
| to Romans.
John Leavell and John Mclaughlin
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