Woodruff County news., 1908-04-16

I
 the federal grand jury now in ses-
 sion at Little Rork, Ark.
 The financial panic of last fall has
 so increased the number of insane per
 sons in public hospitals that Dr. Fer
 ris, president of the New York state
 lunacy commission, has been led to is-
 sue public statement, showing the
 necessity for the immediate construc- tion of a new hospital near New York | city.
 | France and Portugal have closed an
 agreement to exterminate cannibalism l in Guinea. The Portuguese troops
 and native allies in the recent cam l paign there have made it an invari- | able rule to eat the bodies of the 1 enemies they have killed in battle and
 several Europeans are said to have
 met the same fate.
 | Letters have been sent to all na- | tional banks by the comptroller of the currency reminding them that they
 must not contribute from bank funds l to political campaigns. A law forbid ding such bank contribution was
 passed by congress last spring and
 the letters are merely a reminder to 1 the banks.
 Following an attack on 12-year-old l May Morris at Longview, Tex, Albert
 Temple, a negro, was captured by a posse and lynched. He confessed and was taken to the courthouse yard. A | rope was placed around his neck, a horse driven from under him and he was left hanging.
 Ten miners were killed by a gas explosion in the Norton Hill colliery at Somersetshire, Eng. The first par ty of rescuers narrowly escaped death from the fumes and several are yet in a critical condition.
 Fearing that others might be in jured by his example, Day E. Elmore of Los Angeles began eating after fasting for 43 days. Recently a St. Paul man died as the result of pro- longed fast to reduce his flesh, and | Elmore concluded that the example was bad. Elmores fast reduced his weight 3S pounds.
 Eight hundred dollars in currency being sent from the treasury depart ment at Washington to the Farmers and Merchants National bank at Pla- no, Tex, were stolen from the Pa cific Express office at Plano After working several hours at blowing the safe in the postoffice at Ketemy, Tex, robbers had to leave unrewarded for their efforts. The postmaster had carried the money home with him.
 Grover Blake, the Anderson Qnd) youth who recently murdered his mother with a claw-hammer, for the purpose of robbery, went before Judge Mcclure of the circuit court and pleaded guilty to first degree murder. The penalty will either be the peni- tentiary for life or death by hanging. Blake appeared unconcerned. Bernard Carlin, A years old, who swore two years ago when he was sent to jail for robbery, that he would some day kill his whole family be- cause they had abandoned him, car ried out his fiendish VOW when he returned to his home, 5S7 Quincy street, Brooklyn, and shot and killed his mother as she opened the door to him.
 Suspected of murdering IS of their ox,,, ob;1<l,op tho jet Molina and Francesca Herrara, with whom he has lived for 29 years, have been ar rested at Seville, Spain, on a charge of wholesale infanticide. A mob made a desperate attempt to lynch them when they were arrested and the police saved their lives.
 The 26 delegates from Wisconsin to the Republican national convention will go instructed to work for the nomination of Senator Robert M. La Toilette. In spite of the efforts of his enemies to defeat him, he won in all parts of the state and people of Wisconsin showed that he is their choice for the presidency.
 John Lang, Jr., and James Smith, both of Houston, Tex, are believed to have been drowned during a squall on Galveston Bay. Both are missing and relief parties in motor boats find no sign of boat or missing men.
 The jury in the crimina1 suit of the government against the Great North ern Railway Go. on charges of grant ing rebates to the American Sugar Refining Co.,, brought in verdict of guilty.
 When Clarence Hayes of Alton was given a life sentence for numbering his wife, Emma Hayes, his mother-in- law laughed in his face and seemed overioyed at his doom. Hayes shrank back as the hysterical woman laughed shrilly and the court officers shud- dered at the sound, for there was something almost fiendish in her mer- riment.
 One dead and 20 injured, several probably fatally, is the casualty list