Woodruff County news., 1908-10-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
roreion Lands, Throughout the Ma ton, and Particularly from the
 Great Southwest.

Turning suddenly from an inoffen- sive lunatic to a bowling manlac, tbirstv for human blood, and armed with short crow bar, Andrew Light foot A powerful mulatto inmate ot the Government Hospital for Insane at Washington, ran amuck, killing two nersons and breaking the arm or third before he was shot and over powered.
 The British government has lifted inc ban which was placed on American beef following Upton Sinclair's agita- tion and the revelations resulting from it.
 In remarkable telegram to the President of the United States, calling m him to prove the charges he in- dorses against Gov. Haskell or else admit their falsity, William ]. Bryan Tuesday offers to submit Gov. Has kelrs alleged connection with the Standard Ail Co as a bribery agent to President Roosevelt as judge, and II he finds Gov. Haskell guilty, to dis miss the governor from his position as chairman of the Democratic Finance Committee.
 William J. Bryan, Jr.. has the habit, too. The scion of the house of Nebraska's three. time candidate for president entered the race for the presidency of the sophomore class at the University of Nebraska. Like his distinguished father, young Bryan al so has a redhot -ght on his hands, anu he purposes gettin.5 a little practice in practical politics by making a re- gular "whirlwind campaign
 Mark L. Demotte, former congress- man from the Tenth Indiana District and dean of law for many years in the Valparaiso University died at Valparaiso, Ind, Wednesday, at the age of v.
 Interstate Commerce Commission at the Southwestern rate hearing in Atlanta calls for production of all letters relating to advances in freight rates.
 A. Russell Peabody. counsel of re- cord for Harry K. Thaw, in his two trials for the killing of Stanford White, died suddenly at his home in Babylon, L. l.. Wednesday,.
 Orville Wright, the aviator, who has been at the Fort Myer Hospital since the aeroplane accident in which he was injured and Lieut. Selfridge was killed continues to improve
 Reports are coming in of the de- struction wrought by a typhoon that swept through the central portion of the group Philippine, including part Of Samah. northern Leyte, southwest ern Luzon, northern Panay, Nasbate and part of Romblon.
 Boston paper publishes the dis closure of an alleged filibustering ex. petition which intended to start from Boston on October l. composed of 200 men fully armed and equipped for the overthrow of the United States of Colombia.
 The president has decided not to give permission for the establishment or wireless telegraph statiCl on the Washington monument
 The commissioner of the general land office has ordered the with draWal of 2G3,000 acres of public land ID Modoc county. Cal.
 A race war between whites and Greeks, who have made this city lheir home, is Waging here. with pro- Spects of serious trouble Citizens de ciare they will drive the Greeks out Of town
 While playing with goat, 6-year- oid Hal Kerr. son of Mr and Mrs. "ill Kerr of Jonesboro, Ark, was ontted. Appendicitis resulted and an operation was performed The child IS not expected to live.
 An unidentified young man killed hi'Aset at Jonesboro Ark, by jump Ing Tn front of Frisco passenger tram He was found to have been suhering with smallpox and was buried immediately.
 pesertion is the charge upon which wat Goodwin, the actor, is passing the suit Tor divorce which he has brought asalnst his wife, Mavine Elliott. in Reno. Nev.
 TOUT states are endangered by iofest fires. owing to the continued drought, and everywhere in the wood peits of Wisconsin, Michigan, Min nesota and Western New York farm CTS and inhabitants of towns border eu by forests, are praying for rain, "liie they fight back the flames. or, eAhausted, fee for their lives to some nearby village.
 Aufenholtz, Cal, town of several hundred persons, has been destroyed forest fires, which are sweeping He mountain ranges in the vicinity, ahu The inhabitants barely escaped N..h their lives after running for Aii'es through burning forest.