Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-11-26

| government, which she directed With
out successful interference since
1861 and without protest since 1881,
died at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
The announcement Of the dowager
empress death was official and fol-
lowed closely upon the announcement
that kuang Hsu, the emperor, had
died Saturday at 5 o'clock in the
afternoon, but it is believed the
deaths of both the emperor and
| dowager empress occurred consld-
cradle time before that set down
IN the official statement. An
edict issued at 6 o'clock Sunday
morning, placed on the throne Pu-
Vi, the 3-year-old son of Prince
Chun, the regent Of the empire, in
accordance with a promise given by
the dowager empress soon after the
marriage of Prince Chun in 1908.
An edict issued on Friday made Pu-
VI heir presumptiye.
The British attitude toward the
new rule in China is one of hopeful
expectancy. 1t is recognized that the
empires future progress depends
upon what person or faction secures
control of the new administration.
The real management of affairs, it is
believed, probably will come into
older hands than Prince Chun's. He
is considered progressively inclined
but is young and inexperienced.
Those best acquainted with China
hope that Yaun Shi Kai will be the
power behind the throne. Among
commercial houses having Chinese
interests, it is period of anxiety,
lest the Chinese revolutionists should
consider the time ripe for rising
against the Manshu dynasty, but the
general feeling in London is opti-
mistic.
A. P. Sims, a liquor dealer, of
Matches, Miss, is arranging to meet
the prohibition law on Jan. /, 1909
He will have a place in Vandalia,
La, across the river, and will secure
a charter for the Sims Express and
Telegraph Co. The company will
issue and sell express money orders
and run rail, electric, gasoline boats
or barges as may be necessary in the
conduct of the business.
The objection of the japanese to
the circular note sent by China to
the representatives of the powers in
Pekin at the end of September, deal
ing with the restriction of morphia
importations into China, has been
withdrawn and measures intending
to suppress the traffic in morphia
will be commenced by the customs
officers on January /, 1909.
Mrs. Irvine, of Poplar Hill, Ky,
hearing an unusual noise, got up to
see what was the matter She dis
covered the house on fire and part
Of the roof falling in. She and her
oldest child ran out, but it was inn
possible for her to save the two re-
naming children, and they were
burned to death.
As result of a shooting affray near
Alliance, Neb., Lizzie Braner was
fatally wounded, and her brother,
Charles Braner, who did the shoot
ing, and her sweetheart, Frank Au-
gustine were put in the county Jail.
Braner objected to the attentions Of
Augustine to his sister.
The Board of Supervisors of Har-
riston, Miss, has appropriated $3.50
with the stipulation that like sum
be raised by popular subscription to
defray the expenses of a representa-
tive from each of the five districts
to visit Texas for the purpose of
studying the boil weevil.
Rather than face his father after
spending two weeks in dissipation
in Memphis, Leslie Vance, member
of a prominent family of Pittsboro,
Miss, swallowed laudanum, death
ensuing shortly afterward. The sui
eide left a note stating, Il am not
crazy
While climbing out of the boat in
when he had been hunting ducks,
Ben B. Burnett shot and instantly
killed himself near Paris, Tenn. The
hammer of the gun caught when he
made a misstep and the ball pene-