Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-03-19

ployment, at union wages, to all men
not otherwise earn livings.
Leo Grub, aged "a, shot and killed
his wife, aged II, attempted to kill
their 6-month-old infant sleeping in
baby cab and then ended his own life
on crowded street corner at Oska-
loosa. The tragedy caused panic.
Miss Theo Baird, a student of chem
istry in Highland university, High
land, Kas., was found dead in the
laboratory of that institution. The
young woman is said to have been
| respondent over a love affair, and
swallowed carbolic acid Her home
was in Highland.
The death of Vernon Bidwell, II
years old. at Urbana, H., has been
declared to have resulted from lock-
| jaw, following vaccination. This
declaration has caused renewed oppo-
sition to the order of the state board
of health. that all school children be
vaccinated, and litigation is likely to
! follow
Three men on horseback rode into
Tyro, Kas., and while one stood guard
the others entered the only bank in
the town, held up three men and Sc
cured 81, 500 in cash.
A copy of the cipher used in con.
| fidential correspondence between
| Washington and the various legations
has been stolen at Bucharest. The
theft is attributed to a French EN-
ploye at the legation now in Constan-
tinople
| Evidence is being collected on which
| suits against police officials can be
instituted on behalf of Olga Averbuch
and Rose Stern, whom the police ar
rested after Lazarus Averbuch was
killed by Chief Shippy. The suits, it
is planned will be for damages for
false Imprisonment and for the treat
ment received by the women when un-
der arrest
Governor Folk has announced that
in case the supreme court should hold
the new Missouri primary election law
| to be unconstitutional, he will con
vene the legislature in extra session
| to enact another law.
Secretary Metcalf announced that
the battleship feet will leave San
Francisco July to continue its jour
ney around the world via the Suez
! canal. The first stop will be made
at Honolulu, thence the fleet will pro-
| coed to Samoa and Australia, then to
Manila, where the fleet will engage
| in fall target practice On the home
voyage via Suez, stops will be made
at Colombo, Alden, Port Said and
! Gibraltar
Reports from Premier Sir Henry
bell-Bannerman's sick room are
that the invalid finally confesses that
he has reached the end of his strength
and must lay down the leadership,
both of the cabinet and of his party in
| the house of commons.
| Denial is made that President ROose-
welt is planning a message to con-
gress favoring increase of freight
rates.
Machine guns operated by the gov
eminent forces of Chile in a conflict
with strikers at the nitrate beds and
in the City of Iquique laid $500 men
! low, most of them being killed, &C
cording to advices received by the
| Norwegian steamer Christian BOrs, ar
irving direct from that South Ameri-
can republic.
Otto Fehringer, druggist of Colo
RADIO Springs, Col, died as the result
of a gunshot wound received at the
hands of an unknown highwayman,
who assaulted and robbed him Feb 19.
BY vote of 81 to 10, constitutional
prohibition was defeated in MISSISSIPPI
pi The defeat of the measure was
not surprise.
A speed record for balloOning in
| New England which, it is thought. is
possibly better than has been made
anywhere, was established in voyage
from Pittsfield Mass, to Hampton
Falls, N H., a distance of about 100
miles, in three hours time.
The case against Bearch Hargis, for
the murder of his father, Judge Har-
gis, was continued to the seventh day
of the next term of court on motion
of the defense.
| The Atlantic fleet will arrive az
San Francisco May 5; the Pacific fleet
will arrive there May 6, and the
grand review of both fleets, under
command of Rear Admiral Evans, will
be made by Secretary Of the Navy
Metcalf on May 6, according to an an
nouncement made by the navy depart
ment.
| Papers in the suit of Evelyn Nesbit
| Thaw against Harry K. Thaw and his
mother. Mary Copley Thaw, as next of
kin. asking the annulment of their
marriage on the ground that Thaw
was insane when it was contracted.
were served on Thaw at Matteawan,
and on his mother, at the Hotel Lnr-
raine. by representatives of the young
er Mrs Thaw's lawyer, Daniel O'Reil-
"