Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-11-19

crutches to congratulate the president
ships. Evans has been advocating this
action 80 years.
In a boiler explosion of the Miller
Lumber company plant at Pound Gap,
KY, four men were killed and four
seriously injured. The dead: John
Hubbard, Rollo F1emming; Willie
Tackett Mullins Ebert and Manager
Miller of the plant will die.
The Zeppelin Airship company,
headed by Count Zeppelin, has an
nounced it's intention of seeking the
north pole by means of a dirigible
balloon An airship will be built to
meet the special demands of polar
trip and the start will be made from
Northern Sweden.
In announcing for the last fiscal
year the biggest postal deficit in the
history of the country $16,910, 27S99,
Postmaster General Meyer suggested
a means by which deficits can be pre-
vented in the future. He wants
special local parcels post established
on rural routes.
Greatly angered because he failed
to have the pope annul the marriage
of his daughter, Helen, from Samuel
Clarkson, Martin Maloney may pro-
badly renounce his papal title of
nobility and also his post as chamber
lain which gives him a right to wear
a cap and sword.
The secretary of the navy has
awarded the contract for the con-
struction of the 21,S25-ton battleship,
the Utah, to the New York Ship Build
ing company of Camden, N. j., at its
bid of S3,046,000 for 20A knot ship.
Notice was served upon James g.
Woodward nominee of the city pri-
mary for mayor of Atlanta under
orders of Chief of Police Jennings
that he must appear in the recorders
court to answer the charge of being
drunk on the streets.
Despite the reassuring words OF
Governor General Magoon, there is
every indication that the national
election will be a riotous affair. Bet
ting is beginning to favor Gen.
Gomez, of the Liberal leader.
Henry Leidy, negro, attacked MiSa
Elizabeth Hauser, white, 16 years old
near Biloxi, Miss. He was arrested and
identified by his victim. A mob
stormed the Jail and taking Leidy to
Point Cadet lynched him.
of
Rapids, Mich, shot and mortally
wounded his wife, who is slightly over
II years of age. He then shot himself
death being instantaneous.
The financial department of the new
Japanese cabinet announced that the
budget for next year calls for an eX-
penditure of 517,120,000 yen.
Larger than any deviation of his
tory or fable, the North Dakota, great
est of Uncle Sans battle ships, took
her place Tuesday at Quincy, Mass.
IN the element fer which she was
fashioned. The launching at the yards
of the Fore River Ship Building COM
pany was witnessed by distin-
guished gathering that came from the
state for which the monster is named.
and from Washington and Boston.
Major General Leonard Wood, for
several years commander of the
United States army of the Philip
pines, arrived in New York Monday
from the Philippines. He came on
the steamer Noordam.
Dutch traders have decided to boy
colt German goods, owing to the un-
friendly attitude of the kaiser as re-
vealed in his interview in the London
Telegraph two weeks ago.
Ex-United States Senator Carmack,
editor of the Nashville Tenneessean,
was shot and killed by Duncan c.
Cooper in a street duel. The assault
was the result of politics in Tennee-
see.
The number of saloons in Chicago
has been steadily decreasing until
there is now almost 1000 less than
1905. The failures have not been
among the women saloonkeepers, in
the opinion of the city clerk and col
lector. but among the men. They esti-
mated that Chicago women own as
many barroosas today as they ever
did.
Professor Peser Kramer, of ST.
Louis was dashed against the CHM
ney of the Methodist church and killed
at Princeton, ILL.,, while making bal
loon ascension at the farmers car
nivaI Glen Hayden, a 7-year-oid boy
who was standing near the church
was struck by brick falling from the
chimney which was wrecked by the
balloon, his skull was fractured and
he may die.
At a meeting of the Manufacturers
Association of Lynn. Mass, Secretary
Sawyer said the shoe business would
start up Immediately, and that he
looked for a prosperous year. General
Manager Fish of the General Electric
company said he looked for more pro-
sperous conditions.