Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-03-26

heaviest week of last year, manufact-
uring concerns employed 1871 per-
sons in st. Louis and the commission
er thinks that about 10000 of these
are idle and another 10000 working
on half time.
Three men were killed and another
seriously injured in a collision be-
tween two freight trains on the Bos-
ton & Maine railroad about two miles
south of Haverhill station, N. H.
Frank H. Hosford, at one time read
ing clerk of the house of representa-
tives and for many years a newspaper
man, well known in Washington and
throughout the state of Michigan,
committed suicide
Unless some sort of relief is forth
coming Immediately for the inmates
of the Bethesda home, 80 Belden
place, Chicago, suicide pact, involv-
ing probably dozen lives, may be
carried out. This was learned follow
ing the death of John Koch, an in
mate, who drank carbolic acid. pre-
ferring death to slow starvation.
Emma Goldman, anarchist leader,
has suffered a mental and physical
collapse and is now confined at the
home of Dr. Sidney Kuh in Chicago.
For assembling peacefully at Char
koff, Russia to discuss their races
condition under Muscovite rule, 62
delegates, representing a Jewish or
ganiZation of national scope, have
been arrested, frightfully tortured and
are still imprisoned without trial or
even formal charges.
Five posses searched in vain for the
two bandits who held up the officers
of the Davis bank at Hoffman, Okla,
and secured $1,000, all the money
that was in sight 1t is said that
Henry Starr and kid" Wilson, two
of the gang that recently robbed the
Tyro (Kas.) bank, are responsible for
the Hoffman robbery.
Lewis Kruttschmitt of the Southern
Pacific railroad confirmed the report
that the company will construct
tunnel through the Sierra Nevada
range. The tunnel will be the long
est in the country and will cost about
$1O,00000O.
General StoessePs health has failed
SO rapidly in the past few days that
his friends are much alarmed for him.
fearing he will not live even to begin
his 10-year term of Imprisonment. The
authorities are not insisting on his
incarceration while he continues dan
gerously i'll.
Abe Hummel, when released from
Blackwell's Island prison, took the
first ferry to Manhattan, was met there
by friends, leaped at once into an
automobile and disappeared. 1t is be-
lieved he has gone into hiding till
such time as he can arrange to leave
this country for a European tour.
William Dulaney, the negro barber
who has been at the White House
ever since Mr.. Roosevelt became pres
ident, has laid aside the official razor
to become a bookkeeper in the office
of the auditor of the navy. His ap-
pointment, which carries with it a
salary of 81 1000, was made at the re-
quest of the president several days
ago.
Representative Lilley has practice
ly withdrawn from the investigation of
the charges he made against the Elec-
trio Boat Co.
With a few changes, the interna-
tional convention of mine workers
adopted its scale committees report.
Briefly stated the policy is that the
separate districts may adopt wage
contracts with their operators; that
such contracts shall be for one year,
and that the scale shall provide for
mot less than present wage rates.
Alonzo F. Shriner chief clerk in the
office of the surveyor of customs III
st. Louis, is charged by Charles G.
Daues, assistant United States dis.
trict attorney, with embezzlement of
$35334, and with failure to deposit
$2,442 at the proper time.
Judge Wood, in the district court at
Caldwell, Idaho, sentenced Harry Or
chard to death for the murder of ex
Gov. Steunenberg and recommended
that the board of pardons commute
his sentence to Imprisonment in the
penitentiary. In a written ruling,
Judge Wood gives as reason for his
recommendation that Orchard told
the truth in his testimony in the Hay
wood and Pettibone trials.
The entire north side of the bust
ness street of the town of Carrier
Mills, H., was destroyed by fire. 1t is
believed the fire was the work of an
incendiary. The loss is $4,000.
The federal government announces
that it will file suit against the Chesa-
peake & Ohio railroad at Richmond,
Va, for favoring certain shippers in
an illegal manner and at the expense
Of other roads.
Kate Trainer, who shot and killed
Samuel Roberts. her sweetheart who
had discarded her at Xenia, o., has
been sentenced to 20 years in the per-