Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-12-31
NEWS OF THE week
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreiqn Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton, and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.

The First National bank OF MOnrO-
via Cal, has been robbed of $29,700.
The money was carried off in such
mysterious manner that the officers
of the bank and the detectives work
ing on the case are not yet certain
how the thief operated.
A pistol duel was fought in the
J. W. McCullom drug store in Dexter,
Mo- by McCullom's sons. Harry. q
years old, shot and instantly killed
Fred. his junior. The store was crowd
ed with Christmas shoppers. Though
several shots were fired, only one
bullet took effect.
DR.. Charles B. Smith, prominent
physician in Washington, N. j., and
mayor of the town, was disfigured
for life and perhaps blinded in one
eye Wednesday afternoon by carbolic
acid thrown in his face. He charges
Mrs Alice Cashier, daughter of John
Bowers, one of the wealthiest resi-
dents of this place, threw the acid and
that Mrs Cashier also tried to shoot
him
President Castro will return to
Venezuela as quickly as possible to
personally lead a movement to regain
the presidency. Choking with rage as
news of the demonstration against him
was reported to him, Castro declared
that he would sail at once
A difference in ideas as to the raise
in NV hn
in Independent shops in the central
west threatens to bring on a strike
which will include 10000 workmen
in forty factories in Ohio, Indiana,
and Illinois.
Real work on behalf of woman suf-
frage will begin with the establish
ment in New York City of bureau of
publicity and propaganda by the
Equal Franchise society, which has
been organized at the home of Mrs.
Clarence H. Mackay, who has been
chosen president
Fire destroyed an entire block of
apartment house and private dwell
ings in Brooklyn, driving more than
a thousand persons into the snow
covered streets, homeless and half
clad.
James p Ferrill Irish Nationalist,
OF North Langford who has been
advocating the boycott of certain in
diyiduals in the Longford Leader of
which he is editor and proprietor re-
fused to give sureties for his future
good behavior and Thursday was
sentenced in the Kings Bench division
to six months Jail
Edward Hines, who by the organiza-
ton of five great lumber interests into
a single company becomes the I'M
questioned lumber king of the United
States, began his business. career as
a tally boy" in a Chicago lumber
yard 81 years ago.
One of the objects of the trip OF
the members of the committee on in
terstate and foreign commerce of tbs
mouse Of representatives to the Pap
anna canal zone during the holiday
recess will be to investigate the need
lor a new form of government for
'AiN lanai ZOu6.
having, as he expressed it, spent
~ years in the railroad business, the
last years as president of the New
YORK Central lines, and was therefore
entitled to have some fun President
w. H. Newman rendered his resigna-
uon TO the board of directors and at
their meeting in New York Tuesday
1t was accepted with regret, to take
erect Feb. l. c. W. Brown, senior
nrst vice-president, was chosen pres
luent to succeed Newman.
according to a statement before the
referee in bankruptcy the liabilities of
Che Fidelity Funding Co., of which P.
D. heiran was the head, are $3,951 ,037
and the assets as $3.50 315 showing
deficiency of $3G1,722.
Inc breaking up OF the Atlantic
steamship pool and the Inauguration
vi fierce ocean rate war are fore
shadowed in the report that the White
o'af Line intends to enter the
canadian trade under its own flag. If
ms Is done, the Allan Line will retire
from the Atlantic combination and
start the rate war.
appropriations aggregating $636,300
were made at the annual meeting of
'ne board of trustees of the Carnegie
lAsulatlon of Washington. This
anlount is to be used merely to con-
.ilue projects heretofore initiated, and
10 not intended to cover any new
WORK The amount will cover the opera
Ions OF the institution CLAIMED for
the year 1909.
hasing their action upon ancient
anu obsolete antiseinitic statutes, the
russian authorities in Finland have
.aausurated wholesale persecution
the Jews and are driving them
a mon their horces into the fields to
s'arye and freeze.