Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-12-17


suffering from serious injuries
Gov. c. S. Deneen is to become a
student of the agricultural college at
| ire state university of Illinois. He
Will attend the state school during the
short course which begins in January
and will seek special instruction in
cattle and corn judging.
An order for the arrest of P H.
Keiran, head of the Fidelity Funding
company of New York, was issued, but
Keiran had disappeared when officers
arrived at his hotel, the New Willard.
He had packed his trunk and left the
hotel
William Nelson Cromwell in 1000
word statement makes sweeping de.
NAL of all charges of graft and crook
edness in Panama canal deal.
A transaction involving millions of
dollars has just been closed in New
York City, whereby the United States
Steel Corporation takes over the
Standard Steel Car company, with
plants at Butler and Newcastle, Pa,
and Hammond, Ind, and the Pressed
| Steel Car company, with plants at Nc
KEGS Rocks and the lower North Side
| Pittsburg
President-elect Taft and Speaker
Cannon had an hour and a half con-
| ference Wednesday morning At it's
conclusion Judge Taft said that both
had agreed not to disclose the details
| at this time.
Richard Davis, once prominent
| druggist of Cleveland, Ohio, tried to
elicit sympathy in Judge Reiland's
/ court at East Chicago when arraigned
| for Drunkenness by declaring that he
had voted three times for Bryan and
that Bryan successive defeats had
| driven him to drink.
Robert Bruce Kelly, native of Ma
coupin county, ILL.,, Union Army
veteran of the Forty-first Illinois In
fantry, was killed by an electric car
in South Dallas, Tex. He was "
years old
The Dutch commander of the fleet
now off the shores of Venezuela has
been given full discretionary powers
in the matter of opening fire on
| Venezuela according to a statement
issued by Dutch court officials.
President-elect Taft declared in
favor of an educational qualification
for suffrage in the southern states in
order to free them from the DONNA
ton of ignorant classes, white or
! black, in his speech at the annual
! banquet of the North Carolina society.
The secretary of treasury in the
book of estimates advises the appropri-
alton for the new St. Louis postoffice
be increased from less than 100000
to 100000, that the building may be
faced with stone instead of brick.
When the contract was let, provision
was made for the proposed change.
Francisco Martinez, who murdered
! four members of the Garcia family at
| Tecolte, Las Animas county, and
then kidnapped Margaret Garcia and
fled, murdered the girl and committed
miles from Tecolte when overtaken
by an armed posse.
Justice Stafford at Washington i'm
posed a sentence of two years i'm
prisonment and $4,000 fine on Fred
erick A. Hyde, millionaire real estate
operator of San Francisco, and one
year and two months and $1,000 on
Joost T. Schneider of Tucson, AriZ.,
convicted of frauds. Bonds were given
by the defendants to carry the case to
the appellate court.
The Chicago city pure food ordin-
ance for condemnation of food found
to be deleterious to the public health,
was upheld as constitutional by the
supreme court of the United States.
The case came to the highest court
through appeal by the North American
Cold Storage company.
Mrs Emma R. Chesebrough one of
the best known society women of
Rhode Island and chum of Mrs. John
d. Rockefeller, Jr., committed suicide
by shooting herself through the head
with small-caliber revolver. She was
so determined to die that when the
nrSt SlOt QlQn XIII HeT INSTANTLY, oh0
fired another in almost the same
place.
Plans are said to have been ar
ranged in Nebraska whereby Gov
ernor Sheldon will be pitted against
Bryan for the senatorship two years
hence, which means the retirement OF
Senator Burkett.
Mysterious movements by Dem
ocrats in Indiana lead Republicans to
believe that a contest of the entire
state ticket is planend, but Republi-
cans assert no serious errors exist in
the returns.
Senator Isaac Stephenson Of Wis
consin while in Chicago declared him.
self in favor of radical cuts or re
moval of the tariffs on raw materials.
Rear Admiral ]. B. Coghlan, COM
mander of the Raleigh at the battle
of Manila Bay and famed for his re-
citation of "Hoch der Kaiser" dies.