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


a writ of habeas corpus, declaring
there is not sufficient evidence on
which to hold Lamphere The papers
will be filed in a few days.
After a world wide chase lasting
| three years and extending over three
continents, Bella Valdez, a Hungarian
nobleman accused of forgeries amount
ing to 100000 was arrested in Chi
cago. He is held for extradition. The
charges state that Valdez forged the
name of his uncle, count in Hungary.
to notes.
Bryan is greatly interested in the
recent declaration by w. R. Stubs.
Republican nominee for governor Of
Kansas, in favor of a guaranty of
bank deposits. Bryan, it is well
known, regards the platform declara-
ton in favor of such a guarantee as
one Of the most important issues of
! the campaign.
Twenty-three alleged Mormon con-
Verts are held at the immigration BID
reau in Boston for further investiga-
| ton. Thirteen have been barred by
| the board of inquiry and must be de-
| ported.
A passenger train on the Galena di-
vision of the Northwestern collided
head-on with a work train near Platte
vile, Wis. The engineer and fireman
OF the passenger were killed and the
fireman of the work train and II pas
sengers hurt
Not satisfied with banishing his
! younger brother, Archduke Louis Vic
tor, from court for alleged immorali-
ties, Emperor Francis Joseph took the
formers magnificent palace on the
Schwarzenberg platz away from him
and gave it to Nine. Catherine Schratt,
the actress, to whom the emperor has
been devoted for years
CraZed by cocaine, Gus Bullock,
negro, killed two white men and
wounded another and was himself shot
to death by a posse at Mount Olive,
Miss.
Mrs Cecil Overton, companion of
Mrs. Kate Howard, the leader of the
Springfield mobs who committed sui
eide when informed of her indictment
for murder, made the statement that
all the druggists of the city had been
warned not to sell Mrs. Howard any
poison
The American Bar association is on
record as favoring a restriction of APP
peals to higher courts, in cases where
actual prejudice is shown rather than
on purely technical grounds The
association took the action when it
adopted by division, the report of a
ago to support methods to prevent
needless litigation.
A fine of $40 and costs mas been i'm
posed on David L. Frank, campaign
manager for Richard Yates, defeated
candidate for the Republican nomina-
ton for governor, charged with caus-
ing a disturbance in attempting to in
stall a challenger for the Yates fac
ton.
Jesse Coe, negro desperate, who,
killed Policemen Petticord and Rus
sell in Indianapolis, Sept. 80, 1906, and
who had been sought ever since, was
shot and killed on the Chamberlain
river in Monroe county, Ky, by Sher-
iff Bryant and posse.
A decomposed skull of woman
found in II feet of water in the Ohio
river at Rising Sun. Ind, and the grue-
some leg of a woman discovered in a
sand bar in the river at the foot of
Bridge street, Cincinnati confront the
police with the most battling mystery
in years
Freiherr Speck Won Sternberg, Ger
man Ambassador to the United States,
died in Heidelberg following an oper-
alton for cancer
The death list as the result of the
wreck of a Southern Pacific freight
train near Eugene Ore, mounted to
five when Engineer John Nichols sue
cumbed to his injuries. The others
dead are: Three tramps and Frank
Boulton, fireman.
Affairs in the United Mine Workers
of America, which have for some
weeks been muddled, seem to be grow
ing serious. Pres. Lewis who sue
ceeded John Mitchell at the head OF
the organization, is openly defied in
few districts and the national officers
are issuing appeals for loyalty and or
ganizers are working night and day
trying to increase the membership,
especially in the anthracite regions.
While the national target shooting
tournament is taking place at Camp
Perry, o., arrangements are being per-
fected for a tournament at Sea Girt,
N. j., which in Importance in mill
tary circles compares favorably to the
national contest 1t will follow the
Camp Perry tourney and will run sew
en- days from Sept. 4.
Twenty more indictments, making
so all told, were returned by the spe-
cial grand jury of Sangamon county.