Woodruff County news., 1908-10-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
roreion Lands, Throughout the Ma ten, and Particularly from the
 Great Southwest.

of America: President w. V. Lock ho,t ofthe Chester (Pa) union, and l2 strikers of the Chester Traction Com many were indicted by grand Jury for alleged conspiracy and dynamitlng 9O cars of the company.
 Ohio is going after the saloons With vengeance. Already 16 counties have held elections under the Rose local option law, and all the 1G coun' tos have gone dry" driving several hundred saloons out of business.
 One fireman killed and four injured, me seriously, with a property loss ot between $15OO0O and $200,000, was tbe result of a fire which ragged in Dallas, Tex.
 The American paitleship fleet, which passed Perth, Australia, last week. is due off Manila Friday or Sat mday Because of the cholera out break in Manila all arrangements for the reception and entertainment ot the officers and men except the water parade upon the fleets arrival, have been postponed. The fleet will ln' dulge ill target practice as preVlouSly arranged and then depart for Japan,
 The St. Petersburg correspondent ot the London Times says that Russia and Great Britain have demanded clearer reply from the shah to their representa ations on the subject of the elections.
 The proceedings of the opening Ses' sion of the Sixteenth National Irriga, ton Congress which met in conVen- tion hau at Albuquerque, N. M, Tues, day. were impressive. and the specta. tors who crowded the galleries were moved to repeated demonstrations of approval Two letters and telegram were read to the congress from Presi. dent Roosevelt.
 Conducting one days campaign in South Dakota Monday William J Bryan poured volleys of criticism into the Republican platform, MT Taft and President Roosevelt. He covered a good deal of ground in the state and Monday night stopped in Sioux City, Iowa and left Tuesday morning for Rock island, III.
 There were fourteen new cases and three deaths reported for the twenty four hours ending at s o'clock Monday morning in Manila Practically the entire staffs of the bureau of sciences and the local schools have been draft ed into the service to fight the dis ease The staffs of medical schools are acting as nurses and attendants at the various hospitals for cholera patients.
 That the suit for civil damages which Gov. Charles N Haskell prom lSes to bring against President Roose- welt in connection with the Hearst charges against Haskell, that the President took up as his own, may delay Roosevelts proposed hunting ulp immediately upon his retirement ds chef executive, is the declarauon made Puesaay by several of Haskell's friends.
 "ltn characteristic aggressiveness FfeSldent Roosevelt made reply Sun, uay mght to William J. Bryan's recent le'ter and speech. in which he main. tanned the Democratic party and plat toiHl Were not getting square deal Ill me campaign The president sets lorlh III detail what has been accom- pi'shed by the Republican party since the last Democratic administration, ana compares it with the work accom- plShed under Democratic rule. The president says that under the last nentocratic administration not Siugie indictment was returned "ea'hst shippers for receiving secret iepales Under Republican manage "ieN' lorty-nine indictments have been 'o'ufhed for secret rebates, with 'shteen convictions. In only four N"ses nave the indictments failed. The o'ner twenty-seven cases are still pending.
 n reports to the Washington Weather nurean from the West indicate that .ne orouth is broken in practically all ". ,eii iltory lying east of the Mississippi p'ser- Forest fires are extinguished a"u streams which had reached low ""'ef mark heretofore unknown will .ooh De at normal The sudden drop Ill temperature will do no damage to crops
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 ihFee Americans and two Italians "eie blown to pieces in an explosion
 dynamite while working at Cross
 Fs cut on the Delaware, Lacka- wanna & Western railroad near Toby hanna, Pa.
 D. ne British ship Loeb Finlas, from s'' @ rirle, South Australia, for Callao, n @ wrecked off Foster Island, Tas- ana a,'ia' at daylight Sunday morning u n. twenty of the crew of twenty-four ~eie drowned The other four men S'e picked up by passing steamer.