Woodruff County news., 1908-04-23

Frank Monaco, arrested in Hunting ton, Ind, charged with the murder of the aged millionaire Julius T. Rosen. heimer, at the latter's country home in New York last June, still insists that he is the innocent victim of his wife's jealousy and desire to get him out of the way.
 As the resalt of ill feeling over the tobacco situation, Joe Gerhart and Ben Rinehart fought a street duel at Clarksville, Tenn. Gerhart was wounded slightly, as were also Tom Williams and Dub Smith, bystanders.
 Rev B. H. Fulkerson, pastor of the Huntland (Tenn.) Methodist church, is under $10,000 bond at Winchester on charges of bigamy and abduction It is charged that he deserted his fam fly and eloped with an unmarried woman. He was arrested in Riverside, Cal.
 According to dispatches from Ko- req, the Japanese and the natives are in desperate conflict, the Japanese storming villages and killing native men, women and children. The southeastern interior is held by Ko- rean rebels and Japan is rushing troops into the country.
 Four alleged night riders are re- ported to have been captured by the sheriff of Harrison county. Ky, after they had attacked a Bracken county grower and had held up a party of farmers. One of the men is said to have been caught with his mask on.
 Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas, in temporary charge of the battleship fleet during the absence of Rear Ad- miral Evans, has applied to Washing
 ton to relieve him from duty and the | command of the fleet early in May It is proposed to hold national spelling contest in connection with
 the annual session of the National Educational association, to be held in Cleveland, beginning June 29. As a means of reimbursing the Mer- chants National bank of Carlisle, Pa, from which he is accused of stealing $45,000 John V Harris, former teller,
 wants to commit suicide so the bank
 can recover his insurance. Harris
 holds several large policies which, he
 thinks, will cover his dedication. Five persons were seriously injured
 when a limited traction car on the Shelbyville line of the Indiana Trac-
 tion Go. was wrecked at the junction
 of Prospect and Michigan streets, in
 the suburbs of Indianapolis Sorority girls of the University of Wooster threaten to strike because of
 an order of the faculty which practi-
 cally abolishes the local chapters of
 their organizations
 Korean rebels control most of the Southeastern Korean interior, accord
 ing to private advices from Seoul and Tokyo. Most of the Japanese settlers
 have been driven from the district and those who remain are in the great
 est danger Several colonies are re- ported to have been completely
 wiped out
 If the injunction suit instituted by
 Attorney General West to compel Ok lahoma newspapers to cease publish
 ing whisky advertisements proves sue cessful it is the intention of the state
 officials to attempt to shut off the sale
 in the stae of newspapers, magazines and publications of all kinds that car " whisky advertisements
 Because he is a Republican before
 he is a tariff reformer, President
 Roosevelt has asked that his name be
 stricken from the rolls of the Reform club in New York.
 The Memphis police department is
 mystified over the disappearance of G. Lawson, a wealthy Englishman,
 who, it was learned has been missing
 since March 2S, when he dropped from
 sight while going to the depot. He
 carried a large sum of money with him.
 Senator J. B. Foraker of Ohio again hurls denunciation at the head of President Roosevelt because the chief executive had dismissed three regl- ments of negro soldiers as a result of the Brownsville riot.
 After two weeks of probing by the federal grand jury, assisted by Spe- cial Agent H. s. Smith of the inter- state commerce commission. indict- ments were returned against the St.
 Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.,, against a former trathc manager of that line and against k. H. Bunch, a prominent commission mn of Little Rock, Ark
 The supreme court of Missouri, in a decision handed down Tuesday morn | ing, upheld the constitutionality of the state primary law enacted at the last session of the general assembly. Declaring that this is measure ot peace, and not of war" President Roosevelt Tuesday appealed to con | gress in a special message for appro- priations for four new battleships. Two thousand persons are reported dtad in disastrous floods which have