Woodruff County news., 1908-11-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK
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Forejqn Lands, Throughout the Ma ton. and Particularly from the
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Ten million dollars, in round figures ont of a total of $1S,000,000 put up by investors for the bankrupt Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railway Co.,, has gone into something else besides con- struction, according to reports ot certified accountants to the receivers appointed by Federal Judge Grosscup.
 The Boston Herald has announced the abolition if it's comic Sunday sup plement, declaring that the funny side" which delight the children have outlived their day.
 For the first time in history of the wireless a steamer between San Fran cisco and Honolulu has been in com munication with both stations at the same time This took place aboard the steamer Lurihe Of the Matson Navigation Co.,, which talked at the same time to both ports when 1400 miles out of San Francisco bound for Honolulu.
 The abdication of Abdul Hamid, Sultan of Turkey, either forced or voluntary, is expected in the immedi- ate future by the Russian govern ment
 David H. Andrews, president of the Boston Bridge Works, and Charles N. Ftz, head of the New England Structural company, were fined 5000 each after pleading guilty to indict- ment of conspiracy by means of col lusive bids to mulct the city of Boston in securing contracts.
 Wall street believes that Daniel J. Sully, Jesse Livermore and Theodore H. Price, who manipulated the great cotton corner several years ago, are leading a cotton pool and forcing up the price of the commodity Cotton has advanced points since the so- called pool is supposed to have been formed.
 One of the most important post election events that official circles in Washington are interested in is the launching of North Dakota, the big gest battleship in the United States Navy, if not in the world. The vessel will be larnched November 10 at Quincy, Mass.
 Mrs. Cora Hinkle, who has been con fined in the jail at Benton Mo, since February last, charged with giving her husband poison with fatal results has confessed the deed.
 The motor of Wilbur Wright's re- cord-breaking aeroplane exploded while he was making a short flight. Wright was unhurt The motor had been acting badly for several days.
 The Duluth Limited on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha rail road was wrecked near Kempton, Wis The engine and all of the eight cars, save the last two on the train, were derailed and overturned. No one was killed though 10 passengers were more or less seriously injured.
 William Randolph Hearst, father of the Independence party, and five of his lieutenants in the new political movement, were made defendants in a suit filed in the Marion und) superior court, by Henry w. Bullock of Indianapolis for $700 wages, Bull lock sets forth that he performed work for Hearst and his associates by circulating petitions.
 The last vestige of the Balkan war cloud has disappeared as the result of the yielding of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria to the proposals laid down in the tentative program for the international conference, announce ments of which are expected to be re- ceived soon by the various European chancelleries.
 Charged with conducting the most extensive matrimonial agency swindle ever unearthed in Pittsburg, James l.. Leclaire and Miss Lena Miller are prisoners. More than 2000 letters rom men and women and about 800 photographs have been confiscated by the police. The police say that close to 5000 men and women, representing every state in the Union, have each paid $1 after being promised to be in troduced and welded to an affinity.
 While 6,000 feet iL the air the Parseval dirigible balloon met with an accident and dropped to the ground, causing great damage to the apparatus with which the balloon was equipped. Maj. Perseval and his assistant were badly shaken up by the fall. The bursting of the compart- ment forming the tail of the ship, caused the accident
 Silas c. Mcfarland. consu1 general at large and inspector of consulates Tor Europe, shot and killed himelf on railway train between Hamburg and Berlin. The state department was ad- vised of his death by Consul General Thackeray, at Berlin.