Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-09-03
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.


their red brothers threaten to take the
war path. Following the fining of the
chiefs, they were put in Jail and the
other Indians Immediately swooped
down upon the Jail, rescued them and
fed.
Bloodshed is threatened in a fight
that has developed in Houston, Tex,
between the Southern Pacific railroad
and an interurban company engaged
in building a competing electric line.
Alarmed at the prominence given
by newspapers at home and abroad to
stories of Russian discomfort, plots
and executions, the car directed the
St Petersburg telegraph agenty, prac-
tically the only channel through which
such news can reach the public, to
stop giving out such stories.
The seed of revolution sown in Tab
riz is bearing bloody fruit all over
Persia and Shah Ali Merza faces the
alternative of conyoking a parliament,
in accordance with his promise or
yielding his crown.
Dispatches were received reporting
the loss of the British steamer Dun
earn with 81 members of her crew in
typhoon off the island of Port Katu,
China. Only two members of the
crew were saved.
Jesse L. Livermore' attempt to
make himself the cotton king was
definitely abandoned when the price
of October options tumbled $3.50,
dragging others with it for dollar or
more. Livermore is said to have lost
100000 of the profits he had piled
up in his remarkable campaign.
Determined to Guido every other
country in it's welcome to the Ameri-
can fleet Oct. II, the Japanese govern
ment has decided to send the entire
navy, in battle array, to act as an es-
cort for the 16 American ships. Japan
will utilize the occasion for a series of
naval maneuvers before the arrival OF
Uncle Sans feet.
Despondent because an illness that
was largely imaginary prevented her
marrying George NJ. Mansfield, trav-
cling salesman of Ell Paso, Tex, Miss
Mary Field Verne of Chicago, pretty
and talented young woman, committed
suicide by walking into the lake.
Cigarette smoking is henceforth for
hidden, on the Rock Island system.
Supt F. ]. Eisley has just issued
bulletin to the effect chat any en-
ploye caught using the white-ribbed
stick will be discharged.
Canned campaign speeches" may
be driven off the market by canned
campaign songs" if the Prohibition
national committee has its way. 1t
has been announced that in addition
to Photographic records of speeches,
it has decided to send broadcast cam
paign songs on talking machines.
Worsting a burglar who had invad-
ed her home, Mrs. P. H. Cannon, wife
of tax collector of Newton, Conn,
saved the funds of the town which
were in the safe in the house and is
the heroine of the whole community.
Mrs. Jack" Gardner, whose rela-
tons with the U. S. customs officials
in connection with the demand for
$4,000 duties on art treasures brought
to this country by her friend, Mrs.
Chadbourne, of Chicago says that no
demand has been made upon her by
the government and disclaims all the
responsibility for the importation of
the articles.
Funeral services for Baron Speck
Won Sternberg, the German ambas-
sador to the United States, who died
in Heidelberg will be held at Lutch-
ena, near Liepsic. Many men promi-
nent in Germany's public life as well
as members of foreign diplomatic
corps will attend.
Competitor that promises to mean a
cut in meat prices is scheduled to
make an appearance in the beef trade
about Oct. l. An independent concern
has been incorporated under the name
OF the Chicago Stock Yards and Tran
SIT Co. 1t has a capital stock of 81
100000 of which nearly half is to be
spent for a packing house and other
structures.
Receivers of the Minneapolis and
Northern Elevator Co., a subsidiary
company of the Piilsbury-Washburn
Co., have called on Minneapolis banks
Tor $1,000,000 and have failed to get
IT, They have in their hands 80 ele-
Vators in Minnesota and North Dako-
Ia which they are unable to run be-
cause they no funds.
G. P. O'Neal, right-oI-way agent for
the st. Paul, is authority for the state
ment that the cost of construction of
the road between Taft and st. Joe,
Idaho, sixty miles, will be $11, 100000.
There will be S5 tunnels on this piece
OF road