Woodruff County news., 1908-10-29

that body finished it's months labor and was discharged without handing up any indictment against Earle. This to all intents and purposes, quashes the case against Earle.
 The state bank of Virgil, s. D., was robbed of $4,700 in cash and valuable papers by cracksmen. The robbers dynamited the vaults and safe, and took everything in sight, escaping be- fore citizens could reach the scene.
 MT. eHarst's Thieves" is the cap- tion of an article appearing in Col Hers Weekly, purporting to be the real story of the "Archbold Standard Oil Letters" read on the stump by Wm. R. Hearst during the political campaign. The story sets forth how negro file clerk in John D. Arch bold's private office at No. 26 Broad way and messenger conspired to steal and photograph the letters and sell them to Hearst for $12000. The messenger is quoted as saying Hearst has not read the most sen sational of the letters.
 To guard against indiscreet utter ances of chiefs of bureaus at the navy department during the cam paign, Secretary Metcalf directed that nothing contained in any regular annual report of those officers shall be made public until after the cleo tion in November.
 A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Miss Edith Wirt, a school teacher in Kansas City, Kan, be- cause she pasted strip of court plaster across the lips of Harvey Galloway, 9-year-old pupil who talked too much in school. The war rant was sworn out by the boys father and charges cruel punish ment.
 One body and seven injured em- ployes have been taken from the debris which buried from 40 to 50 men and boys when the roof of the Lehigh Valley railways roundhouse collapsed at North Wilkes-Barre, Pa The body recovered is that of Peter Mullen. It is feared that number of bodies still remain under the wreckage.
 Destructive forest fires are raging in western Kentucky The smoke is so dense that it obscures the sun. In Caldwell county 300 acres of fine tim Der has been damaged, the damage to fences, barns and hay stacks is esti mated at $24, 900. Farmers, are working night and day to save their property.
 Herman Billek. fortune teller and lecromancer, must hang for the mur Ger of six members of the Vrsal family. The supreme court of the United States at Washington dismiss sed, for want of jurisdiction the plea of the condemned murderer for a writ of habeas corpus The writ had been demanded of Judge Landis, but he refused to issue it. Appeal was then made to the United States supreme court.
 The German balloon Hergesell has been picked up in the North Sea. There was, however, no sign of the oc cupants, and the two are supposed to have perished The Hergesell was 1 found floating half deflated 100 miles northwest of Heligoland by the Nor wegian steamer Naddod and brought | to Yarmouth, Eng.
 Mrs. Catherine T. Gelshenen, widow tf the former president of the Gar | field bank, who. it is rumored two years ago, Charles w. Morse would marry, made $13,000 dealing in ice stock through Morse, according to | testimony at the trial of the former ice king and Alfred H. Curtis before Judge Hough in the United States | circuit court.
 A dispatch from Paintsville, Ky, says that George Stafford's residence | caught fire and he and three children were roasted alive Mrs. Stafford tried to save herself by jumping from a second story window, and broke her neck. The entire family was wiped cut by the disaster The Staffords were prominent.
 The English court of appeals has found that the fire which swept the business portion of Kingstown Jan. IA of last year, the day of the great earthquake, was not caused by the earthquake, but proceeded it. The in surance companies will therefore. have to pay, several million dollars to Kinkstown policy holders.
 Mrs. Rosa Stone of Myrtle, Va, was given a $400 verdict against the Norfolk x Western railroad for being compelled to ride seven miles in Jim Crow car with negroes. She asked for $1,000. This is the only case of that sort ever tried in Virginia. The jury allowed her $40 minute for actual riding time.
 Sixteen American battleships, con stituting the American fleet on it's peaceful cruise around the world, are riding at anchor in the bay of Tokio occupying a post of honor in front of a number of Japanese men-of-war, the