Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-09-10

paralytic stroke that he suffered about
two months age. He was a former
chief of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen.
The state saloon" or liquor dispen-
sary system in Oklahoma, as salary
producer and money maker, is not
proving the success anticipated. The
Rev. j. j. Thompson, who left the pas
torate of Presbyterian church to &C.
cept a position as district dispensary
inspector, has reported that the county
dispensaries in his district are not do
ing thriving business.
| Fire in Sumner, Miss, a town of
1000 inhabitants, wiped out the bust
ness section and part of the resi-
dence section, causing loss of $780,
900. A. M. Phipps, newspaper man,
who was asleep in the office of the
Sumner News, with which he was con-
nected, was burned to a crisp before
aid reached him.
The old Secoy cabin in Oklahoma, ir
which Jesse James passed several
weeks, has been destroyed by fire. In
1873 James assisted in the capture OF
desperate in the cabin The cabin
stood in dense wood some distance
| from road
| Chester S. Jordan accused of the
murder of his wife and the attempt to
throw her dismembered body into the
ocean, stoically answered the ques-
lions of Judge Wentworth in the
Somerville station, when he was
| brought in for his preliminary hearing.
Three st. Paul pioneers are dead and
On the ground that there was no in
tention to deceive, the National Base
ball Commission has decided that no
| penalties shall be imposed on Cleve-
| land, Nashville, Columbus, Toledo and
Portland for irregularities in transfer
ring players.
Going in direct opposition to His
| Majesty, King Edward, who had ex-
pressed the hope that she might wed
member of royalty he had picked
out for her, Mrs. Marshall Field Jr of
Chicago, became the wife of Baldwin
A. Drummond, second son of the late
Edgar A. Drummond, at the Registry
| Office.
Frederick M. Stoller, alias Prof.
Kyro, barber-hypnotist, after winning
hearts and money of number OF
South Chicago women, is in the county
jail awaiting action by the grand jury,
He is held under $500 bond.
That Helen Maloney, daughter OF
Martin Maloney, is preparing to enter
a convent as the solution of the matri-
monial complications into which she
has plunged herself, is now virtually
assured as the result of recent devel-
| opments at the Maloney summer home
at Spring Lake, n. ].
A negro who had attacked Mrs.
Foster, residing near Wesson, Tenn,
was shot and killed by the husband of
the woman. Foster was at work in a
| field when he was attracted to the
house by hearing his wife screaming.
Capt. G. A. Merriam, United States
navy, commandant of the Portsmouth
navy yard, died following an operation
for appendicitis. He was SIS years of
| age. He commanded the battleship
Missouri on the recent cruise of the
battleship fleet from Hampton Roads
to San Francisco.
The sunken hulks Of the Japanese
battleship Yashima and the Russian
| warship Sebastopol, which went down
in an engagement during the recent
war, have been found b. a Japanese
| salvage vessel
The initial work on the Union Pa
cific new s1,OO0,O0O extension from
Seattle to Black River Junction has
begun. Further extensions, which will
be pushed at once, will cost the road
several times this omunt.
An official order calling off the
strike of coal miners in the Birming-
ham (Ala) district was issued to all
camps in that section. 1t was signed
by President Lewis, Vice-President
White and Secretary-Tr Treasurer Ryan
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea. The order ends a strike which
began July and which has been
marked by much violence.
Chicago has suddenly become the
hub of the movement to dethrone King
Peter of Servia Formal proclama-
ton was made that Theodore Max
Obilitch de La Zarre, an employee OF
the Rock Island railroad, and resident
of Numia, Ia, is the rightful king. 1t
was announced that all that is need
ed TO enforce the claim is $250,000 and
few thousand more men.
Rev. d. r. Ellis one of the two sur
viving members of the crew of the
historic old Monitor, the conqueror of
the Merrimac, is dying of Bright's dis
sease at his home in Annville, Pa.
After the war Rev. Mr. Ellis moved
to Stony Creek Valley. For number
of years he was pastor of the Somcr-
set United Presbyterian church.
The Federal government has taken
hand in the prosecution of George
w. Fitzgerald, former subtreasury tel