Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-11-19
news OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton, and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.

Raymond Hitchcock, the actor, who
| has been out on $500 bail since his
acquittal on two of six indictments
| found against him on charges brought
| by three little girls, was discharged
| from the necessity of continuing the
| bond, and District Attorney jerome
acknowledged in court that the actor
would never be brought to trial on the
four remaining indictments.
Fourteen true bills, charging Il
linois Republicans and Democrats with
having fraudulently conspired to de-
feat John J. Healy, states attorney for
denomination were voted by the
special grand jury in Chicago.
1t was announced Friday that Prof
Mark W. Harrington, once one OF the
best known scientists in the country,
has been found a hopeless lunatic in
the New Jersey asylum for the in
sane, after a search for him that last
cd ten years.
Following a midnight conference at
the department of justice over the $29-
Sans legal sharps began the work OF
writing a petition for writ of GER
tiorari before the supreme court OF
the United States. Several important
questions raised by the circuit court
OF appeals at Chicago in its recent de-
NAL of the government motion for
rehearing will be solved
William j. Bryan and his wife will
leave Lincoln in a few days for an eX-
tended western and southern trip,
which will probably include stay at
q health resort in Mexico.
In an interview Senator J. P. Dol
liver of Iowa, declared he expects to
retire from public life soon. Dolliver
said his private interests demand that
he retire from active participation in
politics
The United States has decided to
recognize the new government estab-
lished in Paraguay as result OF the
successful revolution last spring.
Federal Judge TAYLOR held that the
lease Of the Cleveland Railroad COM
panys lines to the Municipal Traction
company, is void This indicates the
appointment of /: receiver for the
Clevelnaa tr3Ga ~ system.
Twentv.J.s- L, ..,s IS have been Kill
e0 go .b.fty-seven wounded in the
Wisconsin woods during the past few
weeks despite the fact that the deer
season only began Wednesday. Many
of the victims were hunting deer out
of season. but the majority were duck
hunting.
Oryille B. Wright, the famous await
or has enlisted the support of Russell
A Alger, the Detroit capitalist and
son Of the late Senator Alger, and an
aeroplane factory will be built in De-
troit at once The first order to be
executed will be the aeroplanes or
dered by the United States govern
ment following the success OF the
trial at Fort Myer.
Three masked men entered the
Hotel Keokuk at Keokuk Ia, and
rifled the cash drawer after holding
up the night clerk, a porter and a
travelling man named Unger. The
victims We're forced to go into the
baggage room which the robbers
locked The masked men then fled
with $73 in cash after firing once In
the air.
The New York Shipbuilding COM
pany of Camden, N. j., submitted the
l. 4
battleship Utah Monday, offering to
construct the ship under the depart
ment's plans with turbine machinery
in thirty-two months, with a guaran-
teed speed of 2O% knots for So
$4,000.
Mayor Tom L. Johnson may be
hailed into the federal court under
charge of contempt. During a master
commissioner hearing in the re-
Ownership proceeding for all Cleve-
land traction lines, Johnson refused
to produce the books of the fare box
company.
President Nicholas Murray Butler
of Columbia university, pleads for
500 900 600 to make the institution
the success he thinks it should be.
In a letter to an intimate friend,
Ruth Bryan Leavitt states that divorce
courts are horrors to her entire family
and that every member is utterly OPP
posed to divorce on principle.
The Boston Herald has announced
the abolition if its comic Sunday sup
plement, declaring that the funny
side" which delight the children have
outlived their day.
Charles w. Morse, the former ice
king, who is now under sentence to
fifteen years in the Atlanta prison,
was denied bail in tn appellate branch
Of the United States circuit court
pending the disposition of a writ of
error.