The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-04-02
NEWS BREVIT,lES

Fright OccaSloned by a small fire a.
her home caused the sudden death !,
Mrs. Anna l.. Brown at Brownsdala
w. Va. She was GS, the wife of tba
Hon. w. +. Brown, one of the moS.
prominent men OF the vicinity.
Charles Wickliffe, leader of the No.
torious gang of Cherokee Indian ont.
laws. long sought by the authorities
was shot and killed at the WickliYa
home in the Spavinaw hills, Cheroke.
Nation, by his brother Thomas in .
drunken quarrel,
In order to combat the wave of nro
hibition in Oregon, the wholesale
liauor dealers of the state have q,
nounced that they would take stems
to weed out the bad saloons and placs
the business on a footing that would
call forth the least opposition. An
official statement from the Oregon
State Brewers association lines thu
liquor men up with the very issues
that have been urged by the reform.
ers.
Archbishop ireland writes 2 letter
to the clergy and laity of his archdio
cese, declaring that America leads an
other nations in the race to do honor
to the empire of divorce.
J. Pierpont Morgan shows himself
the accomplished courtier; when
Alexandria admires a miniature be
promptly presents it to her.
CONSERVATION is caused on the hon
exchange in London when it is learned
that the Adriatic is bringing an un.
precedented load of the American
product to the English market.
Mysterious woman who lived at
Cambridge. Mass, for years, and who
always went about thickly yelled. is
found after her death to be a negress.
Suit that attacks state control in
any way, and denies right of the
Nebraska railway commission to reg.
ute traffic, rates or service, is be.
gun by the Missopri Pacific road
Honors and Offices held by the late
duke of Deyonshire will soon be re.
turned to king and conferred upon
others.
Pennsylvania railway fixes upon
plan for the ventilation of its cars and
coaches, after expending 100000 in
experiments; systems dopted wins ap-
proval of the health commissioner Of
Chicago.
Thomas W Lawson's call to the
public 10 buy Yukon gold shares
brings 5000 persons to the curb mar.
ket and extra police are called in to
quell the riot.
After a night spent in prayer, Leo
c. Thurman. condemned to die in
Norfolk, Va. as murderer, was
granted a respite shortly before the
hour Of execution until April 10
Thurman almost collapsed from the
reaction. after nerving himself TO
meet his fate peacefully.
Massachusetts has opened a new
calling tor women. A bill just signed
by acting Gov. Draper authorizes the
fair sex 20 act as deputy tax col
lectors. When he appended his sigma
ture, the governor remarked that he
thought the law would prove big
revenue winner
AS the result OF feud, which had
its inception at Mirano, Italy, Anthony
Comporti and Selementa Montelan
were shot, probably fatally, at South
Bend, Ind Their assailants have
been traced to a wods five miles nortn
east of Niles. Mich. Officers are
pursuit Comporti came here rev
days ago from Chicago,
Postofflce Inspector r. NJ. Fulton re
ceiyed telegram from Postmaster
J. S. Redman, at Shipley. Mo, in
forming him that he was without
work" inasmuch as the pos;ottce
building. with its contents, was De
stroyed by fire Thursday night,
The oil trust has grasped another
oil property The Minnetonka OIL co
Of Illinois. which was formed during
the early days Of the oil business
that state. has been transferred to
the Ohio Oil Co by Pittsburg capitaf
lists who were at the head OF the ID
dependent concern. The considers
tior v,a.c q 0=O 0OO