Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-07-25


gill and his bride from San Diego.
The power to go to municipal own
ership at any time is said, in a report
to the National Civic Federation, to
prove an effective weapon in the hands
of English cities to compel better serv-
ice from private corporations.
Facts brought out in the trial of
Karl Hau at Karlsruhe, Germany, for
the murder of his mother-in-law, point
to the love of the young professor for
his wifes sister as the cause of all
| the troubles.
Captain Winslow's experience was
similar to that of many other naval Of
| ficers returning to their own country
after a long cruise in foreign waters,
in that he was charged with having
sought to evade the payment of du-
ties ON large quantities of expensive
| wines and thousands of high grade
cigars and other table luxuries as well
as on curios of great value secured
! abroad.
The facts are very different, accord
ing to the statement made to the de-
When he learned, later in the day,
and indirectly, to the contrary, Com
mander Winslow informed the collec-
| tor of the nature of the contents of
the boxes, adding that he did not be-
lieve that they were duitable, but that
if there was the slightest question he
preferred to pay the duty in full. He
says he supplied a complete list to the
| collector, and paid in any case where
there was a doubt in his own mind
as to whether the articles were pur-
chased in New York or foreign coun-
try, the total amount paid being small.
The state of Idaho rests content
with the evidence it has introduced to
secretary-treasurer of the Western
| Federation of Miners, conSpired to
kill and therefore murdered Frank
Steunenberg, former governor of the
Jack Johnson stopped Bob" Fitz-
simmons in the second round of six
round boxing bout before the Wash
ington Sporting club, at Philadelphia.
Fitzsimmons did not show a trace of
his former prowess and it is probable
that Johnson could have stopped him
in the opening round if he had cared
| to do so.
DR.. Edward r. Taylor, dean Of Hast.
ing Law college and acting president
of Cooper Medical college, received
his commission as mayor of San Fran
cisco from the clerk of the board of
supervisors. He Immediately pro-
ceeded to the office of County Clerk
Harry l. Mulcreavy, where in the pres
ence of newspaper men, the oath of
| office was administered.
Missouri, Kansas & Texas line will
be double-.racked in Kansas and
portion of the Territory
Florence Wood, arrested in Chicago
in connection with embezzlement of
$4,000 from a New York bank, is
sent to Bellevue prison.
The convention of the Army and
Navy union voted in favor of the
restoration of the army canteen and
for an increase of 10 per cent in the
pay of petty officers and enlisted men
of the navy on every four years of
service.
Hector Henri Mallot, the novelist, is
dead He was born in 1880.
Colorado is pictured by Judge Ben
B. Lindsay of Denver as being the
most corrupt state in the union.
Question of guilt or innocence OF
Fred H. Magill, of Clinton. Ill, charged
with wife murder, rests largely on the
genuineness of letter left by first wife.
Ben B. Lindsey, Denver's fighting
Judge" in an interview at Chautau'
qua, N. Y, declares Senator Guggen
helm, of Colorado, should be hanged
Leading Chicago bankers denc 'pce
as ill-advised and premature pethAon
fer Paul o. Stenslands release from
prison.
Woman tells deaconness convention
that it's members have enough clothes,
but is voted down.
Private car owners plan a move
ment to get so cents a day from the
railroads for the use of their prop
erty.
Proposed move to secure Paul o.
Stensland's release from prison is de-
nounced by losers in the bank crash.
Clinton Qll.) officials start for San
Diego, Cal, to bring back F. H. Mag1ll
and his bride, who are held on the
charge of poisoning Magill's first wife.
state.
Charles w. Anderson, who, as Will
liam January, will be released from
the federal prison at Leavenworth
Friday by executive pardon, has been
offered several chances to enter bust
ness for himself
The North Coast Limited, the crack
fyer of the Northern Pacific railway,
was ditched three miles east of Gar
rison, Mont The locomotive over
turned and Engineer James Graha
of Butte was found dead with his
hand on the brake lever