Woodruff County news., 1908-10-15

and there were those who saw the fight who said Jeffries won by a chance blow.
 Every important tusiness place in the city of Inkster, N. D., except drug store, bank and hotel, was burned in the fire which started in the Minnea- polls and Northern elevator, and, crossing the street, swept the main business block clean The loss is estimated at $150,000.
 The Bryan campaign fund is to be boosted in novel way by the Demo cratic women of Belle Rive, III. They have formed their plans to hold pie supper-every woman to bring a pie and sell it to the highest bidder, the purchaser getting the privilege of eat ing the pie with it's maker.
 After an all night session, Mrs. Rose de Rittman of Minneapolis defeated , Mrs. Elizabeth Rodgers of Chicago for the office of high chief ranger of the Women's Catholic Order of Foresters by the slender margin of a single vote The count showed Mrs Rittman re. ceived 400 votes to 399 for her op- ponent. Nineteen ballots were thrown out as being improperly marked.
 Tortured by robbers, beaten, kick ed, pricked with pins for hours, sub mitted to dozens of indignities savor- ing of the days of the inquisition-this is the fate meted out to William Chambers, 74 years old, in an unsuc- cessful attempt to wrest from him the hiding place of his reputed hoard of gold
 A mighty Japanese fleet of 29 ships, now assembling at Yokohama. was de signated by the Mikado as a welcoming escort to the American fleet. The ships will sail out of Yoko hama harbor two days before the ad- rival of Admiral Sperry's vessels, anu on the last day of the cruise from Manila the two fleets will sail to- gether.
 Forced by the head of one of the semi-ciyilized Tartar tribes in the Caucasus to wall up the chieftains daughter in a living tomb somewhere in or near the town of Baku, Peter Kavulitch, an Austrian mason, has gone made with horror and has just been committed to an institution ill Odessa.
 The Island of Crete, which occupies the same position toward Turkey as Bulgaria did, is momentarily expected to declare her independence and effect union with Greece.
 Germany looms up large as an Ob- stacle in the way of an international conference for a settlement of the aBl- kan imbroglio, according to the opin- ions expressed by the British dipio- mats today. No matter what reasons may be officially assigned for failure of the proposed conference, which seems possible, England will hold the kaiser responsible.
 An appeal has been taken in the Hepburn commodity clause case by the government on the ground that the lower court was wrong in holding the clause not to be proper exercise of the congressional powers as to the regulation of commerce. It is conten- ded that the court erred in ruling the caluse confiscatory. It is under stood the government will ask the supreme court to take up the case immediately, owing to the importance of the case,
 Thirty days more time was given the Bucks Stove and Range company of St. Louis for taking additional testimony in it's suit against Samuel Gompers and others of the National Federationist.
 Miss Ruby R. Woten. prominent young woman of Paris Tex, was found in Cliff Park lake ill Dallas. The body was discovered by her father. The girl left home Friday and came to Dallas.
 Any student of the University of Missouri who prefers riding the blind baggage" to paying railroad fare is invited to become a member of the Quo Vadis club, unique organization in American college life.
 William R. Hearst carried his fight against the junior cenator from Texas into his own state, when he read in the course of speech at El Paso, letters from J. w. Bailey to H. c. Pierce, copy of a note for SS0G0 and extracts from speech by Bailey in defense of Joseph Sibley
 After 50 years James Sherman ot Bristol, Eng, has received the medal for service in the Indian Mutiny, and also a special campaign pension.
 Wilbur Wright made a crushing answer to his critics of the last few days by marvellous flight of one hour thirty-one minutes and twenty seconds, during which time hetraveled an actual distance of ninety-eight kil- ometers, or nearly sixty-one miles. By this feat he established a new worlds record, beating his brothers best performance by more than a quarter of an hour, and demonstrating