Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-01-23

to dispose of their coal mine holdings
by May of this year, the government
will not prosecute the roads for fail
ure to obey the law.
0. B. Hewitt, an attorney of Taylor
vile, ILL.,, shot and perhaps fatally
wounded Donald w. Stevenson, min
ing promoter of Kansas City, Mo-, in
a drunken brawl on the public square.
Hewitt shot four times with a re-
volver, two of the shots taking effect.
Only one of them is dangerous.
Augustus Hartje has at last decided
to abandon his litigation to obtain a
divorce from his wife, Mrs. Mary Scott
Hartje.
More than 100,O00,O0O ties were used
I in railroad construction and renewals
during the year 1906, according to
circular issued under the joint
auspices of the Forest Service and
Census Bureau of the government. Inc
figures show that approximately three
fourths of the ties were hewed and
the others sawed, while the average
price paid per tie was 48 cents.
Charged with having operated upon
and wilfully caused the death of a
woman hospital patient while he was
under the influence of drugs, Dr. P. H.
Dahl, one of the wealthiest and most
prominent surgeons in Northwestern
Iowa, is under arrest at Fort Dodge.
Skeletons in the family closet of
Col. Thomas Smell the dead million
aire, whose will is in danger of being
declared invalid, were exposed for the
benefit of jury in the circuit court
Letters which he wrote and received
were produced and their contents ere
ated the greatest sensation.
The daily export of manufactures
from the United States during 1907 av-
eraged in value more than $2,000,000,
according to a bulletin issued by the
bureau of statistics of the department
of commerce and LABOR.
Mrs. Lydia Bradley, millionaire
philanthropist, founder of the Bradley
polytechnic Institute, died in PEORIA
ILL.,, aged SO.
AS a result of a decision handed
down by Justice Hough in the United
States circuit court, e. H. Hartman
will be compelled to appear before the
interstate commerce commission and
answer all questions put to him save
those relating to the purchases OF
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
stock in connection with the dividend
of August 1906. In the same order,
Justice Hough directed that Otto H.
Kuhn of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., do like
wise.
England is alarmed for Japan's flu
ture. British statesmen think the
combined political and financial crisis
there about the most serious any ma
ton could possibly face. 1t needed
only a glance at the country's balance
sheet to tell some time ago just what
was coming, but no one seemed to ap-
preciate the imminence of the danger.
Mae Wood. in her divorce suit in
New York, declares Senator Plat
paid $4,000 for the return of letters.
Plans are under way for the boring
of a test oil we'll in White county, IL
linois, and nearly $4,000 has been sub
scribed in Carmi. The first well will
be put down in Emma township, to
a depth of $500 feet if necessary. The
Jennings interests of Pittsburg have
taken leases on 10000 acres of ground
in the county.
The coroner's jury has returned its
verdict in connection with the investi-
CATION Of the Monongah mine disas-
ter. 1t finds that the explosion was
due to either a blown-out shot or to
ignition of powder which in turn ig-
nited the gas in the mine.
The desire of woman scorned to
have vengeance on the man she had
once loved enough to forSake for him
husband and friends, was revealed as
the cause of the shooting which broke
up the trial of former Banker John r.
Walsh and sent Attorney Samuel X.
Hamill of Walshs counsel scurrying
for shelter from the rain of bullets
which swept the corridor of the fed
eral building in Chicago.
A sensation has been created in
American circles by the resignation OF
the Rev. j. E. Dickie, the veteran
pastor of the American church in Ber-
lin. The resignation is the outcome of
a bitter quarrel between the minister
and Ambassador Tower.
The first day of shore leave for the
men from the American battleshlp
fleet at Rio Janeiro was marred by
collision of large proportions between
about 800 of the bluejackets and at
least 1000 natives, following the ar
rest of native by the fleet police
The Norwegian Storthing was for
mally opened by King Haakon. In
the speech from the throne he referred
with satisfaction to the conclusion OF
the Norwegian integrity treaty and to
the part played by Norway in the
peace conference at The Hague.
In a quarrel over the cutting of CO.
dar posts at Burnt Springs, Col, Da-
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