The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-03-19
NEWS BREVITIES

Murdered for one months pay by
a chance acquaintance on a lonely
road, Harold Dick, an Illinois Central
railroad brakeman, was placed upright
in hollow tree across the MISSISSIPPI
pi river from Cape Girardeau. The
boGy fell out into the roadway and
was discovered by school children.
Preparations have already begun
for the reception and entertainment
Of the officers and crews of the Amer
lean lattleship feet at Manila. The
formation of a large reception COM
mittee made up of Americans and Fill
plnd5 will be undertaken Immediately.
nto3ring along at almost a mile-a-
minute speed through tunnel forty
feet below the heart of Chicago. an
electric train jumped the track and
crashed into a solid wall of concrete.
The cars were smashed to atoms and
one ran was fatally injured and two
others were seriously hurt.
The St Louis Union Station was
threatened with destruction by fire
which caused 100000 damage by the
burning of several railroad cars and
nearly half the train shed. Two men
were injured and the guests of the
Terminal and other hotels in the
| neighborhood were thrown into
panic.
Two persons were killed. one fatal
ly hurt, seven more or less injured,
an scores of lives were imperiled
when st. Louis & San Francisco pas
| senger train No. 40S, northbound,
was wrecked on a high trestle across
Spring Creek, eight miles west of
| Bristow, Okla.
ID over Eastern Oklahoma in the
counties formerly Indian Territory,
| thee IS a distinct and growing dis
| position on the part of white citizens
to force the full-blood Indian chill
drel out of the schools.
| Anniversary of wedding of king
and queen of England recalls fact
that they are oldest married couple
among the crowned heads of Europe.
Heary Coch, elevator boy in New
York, rescues many girls from dan
gerous fire by GOODNESS and courage.
Proposed local option plan is OPP
posed in Indiana as a brewers scheme
| to 1uliify the remonstrance law and
wipe ont dry" districts.
Kansas people resent literature sent
| out by the distilling and brewing in
terests intending to show that prohi-
bit.ol restricts the growth of states.
Giuseppe Alio, condemned murderer
of Father Leo Heinrichs. makes
desperate dash 10 escape from the
the c, unity Jail in Denver, slashes the
throat Of trusty but is finally over
powered.
Eev. j. NJ. Cooke, who elOped last
year with F'loretta Whaley, says he
has learned the bitter lesson, that the
world is hard to buck"
The dowager empress, with the
courts support, has forbidden the re-
lease of the Tatsu Maru to Japan,
| preferring war to surrender.
The House of Commons has reject
| ed, by a vote of 241 to 80. the bill pro-
| viding that municipalities or other
| local authorities shall furnish employ
ment, at union wages, to all men ask
ing it and showing that they can not
otherwise earn livings.
Leo Grub, aged "a shot and killed
his wife, aged II, attempted TO kill
their 6-month-old infant sleeping in
baby cab, and then ended his own
life on crowded street corner at
Oskaloosa, IA. The tragedy caused
a panic.
Miss Theo Baird, a student of chem
istry in Highland University, High
land, kas., was found dead in the
laboratory of that institution. The
young woman is said to have been
Respondent over a love affair. and
swallowed carbolic acid. Her home
was in Highland.
Denial is made that President
Roosevelt is planning a message to
congress favoring increase of freight
| rates