Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-02-07

Byron Webster, former editor of the
Marshalltown (Ia) Statesman is dead
He was the first editor to suggest the
name of Grover Cleveland for the pres
idency upon the election OF Mr.. Cleve
land as governor of New York in 1882
Solomon Turck, the oldest explosive
powder manufacturer in the country
died at his home in New York city.
aged 49, Mr.. Turck was twice dem
ocratic mayor of Dubuque, la.
A letter from President Roosevelt
to Mrs. Maud Nathan, president OF
the Consumers league, was read al
the annual meeting of the league in
New York city. The president wrote
that if state authorities did not dc
their duty in matters of so vital i'm.
portance as child labor, there was no
choice except for the national govern.
ment to interfere.
The will of the late Senator R. A
Alger, filed in the probate court at
Detroit, Mich, leaves all of his es-
tate, except $4,000, to his widow and
five children. The senator's brother,
Charles M. Alger, Hannibal, Mo, is
left $4,000, and any debts owed by
Charles M. Alger to the estate are
Cancelled.
A loss roughly estimated at $T50,000
resulted from a fire that burned out
the garage of the New York Trans
portation Co. in New York city.
Because the Bell Telephone Co. in
sisted on increasing the working hours
of the girls from five to eight day.
about 400 girls have gone on strike at
Toronto, Ont. The company offered
more remuneration, but the girls
claim they could not stand the physi-
cal strain.
Two dozen women and children mar
rowly escaped death when flames at
tackled the Lanphere apartment build
ing at Sixty-siXth street and Monroe
avenue, Chicago. The fire blocked the
main stairway. Fifteen people, penned
in by the flames, on the fourth floor,
were carried down ladders by the
firemen.
At Chicago, Joseph S{anska was
found guilty of wife murder and SEN
fenced to IA years in the penitentiary
The bill prohibiting Sunday baseball
was killed by the Kansas senate.
Clash between Clemenceau and Bri-
and may end in dissolution of French
cabinet
A band of terrorists shot and killed
lice of Warsaw, Russian Poland, as
he was driving in a cab. The muir
derers escaped. Many suspects are
beng arrested.
With a detonstion heard for miles,
and hurting debris hundreds of feet
in the air, dust in the Stuart mine
near Fayetteville, w. Va, exploded,
bringing a terrible death to so or more
miners who were at work 500 feet
below the surface.
The international phase of the King
ston (Jamaica) incident has been
| finally closed by Gov. Swettenham
formally Withdrawing his letter to
Rear Admiral Davis and expressing
his regret for having written it.
| Australian coal is being shipped to
| San Francisco for use for locomotives
on the lines of the Hartman system.
An expenditure of nearly 100000
! for the purchase of cattle to supply
| the needs of the Indians on reserva-
lions in North and South Dakota,
| Montana and Arizona will be made by
the interior department within short
time.
Western lines will make no more
special or reduced rates for the trans
portation of United States troops.
Oklahoma and Indian Territory ship
pers ask the interstate commerce COM
mission to eQualize rates on grain
and flour to all export points assert
| ing that pres 1nt rates discriminate
| against them.
Texas legislature enacts law COM
polling railroad companies to furnish
cars to shippers on six days notice.
Germany enters ST. Louis balloon
contest and will send three aeronauts
| to compete for honors.
Edmund E. Price, for two score
years we'll known as criminal law
ye,, died suddenly in New York. Mr..
Price was also a playwright. For
| John l.. Sullivan, one of his closest
friends, he wrote Honest Hearts and
Willing Hands," "One of the Bravest'
and "A True American
The first international contest be-
tween German and American yachts
! In German waters will be held next
| August, when another series OF races
| for the socalled Sender type of boat
will be sailed at Kiel for cup offered
by the emperor
American consuls in China report
| the famine the worst in 40 years. In
one city 10000 refugees are huddled
and parents are offering their children
fer sale Brigandage is rife.
Dry, hot weather in Argentina is
running the growing corn crop.
Because all the evidence for the
prosecution had been spoiled by a
! lynching, the district court at Char
| lotte. N. c.. ordered verdict of not