Woodruff County news., 1908-10-08


 Judge De Lacey, in the United States Supreme Court, has rendered a decision maintaining the constitution ality of the act to regulate child labor in the District of Columbia. and de- cided that newspapers, in the sense in which they are named in the act, are not merchandise.
 The largest German steamship ever built, which will typify the greatness and power of the German nation, now is being constructed and when it is launched, Oct. 31, it will be named George Washington.
 In the hope of prolonging the life Of Marquis Inouyo, who is seriously ill at Okitsu, Fukumora Takoho, a girl or 17, and an orphan, stabbed hersell to death and gave her blood to the fast sinking nobleman according to advices received from Japan. The girl died in the belief that her blood could be used to help the marquis to re- covery.
 Following a fsiag visit to the Paci- fife coast cities President A. J. Earling of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, is on his way east. He stated before leaving that he expected the extension of the St Paul to Seattle and Tacoma, Wash, to be finished by July l.
 'Loeomotor ataxia" hitherto con sidered incurable, has at last surrend- cred to the advance of science, accord ing to claims made before the New York Academy of Medicine by Dr. Legrand N Denslow, which are oc- casioning wide comment
 A special dispatch from Rome says that the Duke de Abruzzi and Miss Katherine Elkins, daughter of Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia Official notification of the wedding will be given out in November
 That a repetition of the fatal Hub bard expedition into Labrador barely was averted in the Arctic regions bor- dering the mouth of the Mackenzie River Alaska. last month, became known when three letters from Vilh- jahlm StefanSson and Dr. R. M An derson, leaders of the Alaskan-Arctic Pathological expedition of the Ameri- can Museum Of Natural History, were received by the museum authorities,
 Three million persons are shelter less. facing starvation and threatened with a fever pestilence, as the result of the flood that has devastated the city of Haldarabad and the entire Musi River Valley in Indian.
 President Roosevelt will give all the trophies collected in his African hunt next spring to the National Museum. This was the official announcement made together with few other details regarding the presidents forthcoming trip.
 The Aero Club of France sent Will bur Wright it's check for 5000 as the winner of it's prize for the longest flight over a prescribed course, his official flight of l hour minutes, and 11% seconds, made Sept. s, not having been approached by any other con- testant.
 Chicago was chosen as the place for next years meeting by the American Bankers association.
 A gang of masked men held up tho postoffice at Slater, la, and escaped with $G00 worth of stamps and money. One man has been arrested as sus pect.
 HenCaforth a one ounce letter to England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales will need only 2-cent postage stamp, instead of 5-cent one, to insure de- livery. This remarkable reduction in rates has been agreed upon between the two governments as the best means of promoting commercial and friendly relations between the United States and Great Britain.
 At the Children's Hospital in Wash ington, 10 little patients have been in oculated in the interests of science and humanity with the deadly germs of both human and bovine tubercu- losis. The experiment, which is to de termine the value of new method of diagnosis advanced by Dr. Laszios De tee, professor of bacteriology at the University of Budapest, Hungary, is being watched with keenest interest by the delegates to the International Congress of Tuberculosis
 Thousands have been drowned, towns wiped cut, an area many miles in extent turned into an inland sea, and the bodies of flood victims found lodged in the branches of trees and lining the banks of the terribly swol- len streams as the result of a hood that is now ravaging the Deccan region in East India
 Forest and meadow fires are raging in Ohio. West of Cleveland hundreds of acres of wood and meadow land are afire and are travellng rapidly toward Rocky River, few miles from the city square Hundreds are tght ing, apparently in vaip, to check the