Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-08-20
NEWS OF The week
THE --LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreiqn Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton, and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.

of Wllk6SDdTTe, I'd, W do dllCotSu III
the alleged embezzlement of $4,000 of
the banks funds. The fact that Fogel,
who drew a salary of $1,000, sported
an automobile, drew suspicion on him.
He is held in $4,000 bail
The Netherlands government an
nounces that it has refused to &C
cent Robert E. Lozz. recently appoint
cd Venezuelan consul to Curacao. This
action. it is generally understood, fore
Swallowed a sweeping demand for
redress from President Castro.
Returning from the important con-
ference of officers at Newport, Naval
Constructor Robinson has immediate
" set to work completing the original
specifications for the two new big bat
tleships, the Florida and Utah.
The life of her son or $4,000 is the
demand made by the Italian black
hand on Mrs Henry Kiel, wealthy
New Orleans dealer in antique jew
elrv. The mother, who is very ill, has
employed police and private watch
men to guard her child, but despite
the precautions, the black hand has
delivered letters to her
Determined that the vessels of the
Pacific fleet shall have full compile
ment of enlisted men, as we'll as
officers, on the approaching cruise
to Samoa, orders were issued by Rear
Admiral Pillsbury, acting secretary
of the navy, for an additional draft
of 250 men to be rushed to Mare
Island as quickly as possible.
Mehmid Ali Bey, until recently the
Turkish minister to the United States,
is stranded. 1t develops that the rea-
son he has not yet left Washington
is that he has no ready cash. He is
waiting for a special messenger who
is said to be en- route Washington
from Isset Bey, his father, bringing
the necessary money.
A suggestion that the National
Catholic Total Abstinence union join
the work of the Anti-SaloOn league,
made in the session of the national
convention started lively discussion
which eliminated when formal reso-
luton favoring the idea was present
ed
Senator La Toilette will soon start
a paper along the lines of Bryan's
Commoner canvass for subscr1D-
ers is now being made. La Toilette
will personally edit the publication.
Thomas L. Hisgen, presidential
nominee of the independence party,
will open his western campaign, ac-
cording to plans, at Indianapolis on
Aug. 80. Indiana is Hisgen's native
state.
Government statistics just issued
show an enormous growth of the cigar
cite habit in the United States in the
last year, 55,402, 336,113 of the pa
per pipes" being smoked.
Archbishop Farley of New York IS
slightly indisposed owing to stom-
ach trouble, due to change in climate
and food. The physician advised the
archbishop to go north to cooler eli
mate as soon as possible.
Americas naval expansion has but
one object in view-an ultimate clash
with Japan for the mastery of the Pa
cific," was the gist of an interview
given out by Count Okuma, one of the
foremost Japanese statesmen.
Capt Baldwin has succeeded in full
filling the first requirement of his
contract with the government for sup
plying dirigible balloon for the sig
nal corps of the army. The board OF
officers at Fort Myer accepted 1t as
far as it's construction is concerned;
the other requirements remaining to
be fulfilled are the speed and endur-
ance qualities of the aerial craft.
Mentally unbalanced by the unex-
pected information that he is heir to
fortune of s7,000,000 and to the Ital-
ian dukedom of Verona Bartholomew
Albanese, "a years old, once night
Waterman for a railroad, but for ten
years man of no occupation is con-
hned to his home, No. 170S South
Rampant street, New Orleans, and Is
permitted to see no one.
Gottfried Probst. waiter en-
ployed in a bakery and lunchroom in
Brooklyn, is living in hopes and
dreams since a friend in Germany
sent him newspaper clipping which
indicates he is one of the heirs to $780,
VoO,000 left by relative, Paul HOE
man, wealthy merchant of Bombay.
india. Probst's share, according 70
MS figures, would approximate S16,-
100000.
Mrs Louise Chanler Moulton, the
wellknown authoress, died at her
nome here after an illness of nearly
nine months. She wrote a large num-
Der of short stories for children, as
Wen as novels and poems. She spent
many years of her life in London.