The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-04-30
NEWS BREVITIES

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Charles Howard seized 16 cases OF
whisky from the Oklahoma state dis
relsary headquarters The inspector
alleges that it was shipped into Ard
more, where the state took possession
OF 1t under violation of the United
States revenue law, and therefore The
state has no right TO sell it again
through its dispensary agents.
John McCarty OF Fort Worth, Tex,
vas shot and killed at Claremore.
Okla, and William Howell is held.
The shooting took place at the Ok
ford hotel. McCarty was shot through
the heart.
After losing the sight of one 80
when a hot bolt flew into it, Arthur
Bre ckwith, an iron worker Of Sheboy-
gan, Wis. resumed work, wearing
green goggles. An Italian whom he
had displaced hit him for revenge,
smashing the glasses into his good
eye and making him blind.
a bill prohibiting the use of Indian
figures as cigar or tobacco signs has
been introduced in the Oklahoma leg
ielature by Senator Landrum, a Cher
olIee. AS the large Indian vote is the
balance of power, the bill i. reported
as certain to pass.
Railway officials are stirred over
the operations OF an employee OF the
interstate commerce commission who
Hobbies openly for legislation favor
able to labor interests and inimical
to the roads.
Eugene Munsell president of the
Mica Insulating Co, New York, sends
his wife from the room and then
leaps seven stories TO his death.
Gigantic irrigation project is the
forerunner of the opening to settle
ment of Indian lands in Montana.
Paris papers do not spare the mem
DRY of the dead Duke de Chaulnes,
raking up the escapades of his youth.
Canadians are planning to build
big refinery In opposition to the In
ternational Nickel Co, intending to
lower price of product and make it
available in rail making and ship
building.
Fighting is threatened between Guat-
emala and Honduras, according to
semi-official information from both
countries over the attempt in Guate.
mala City upon the life of President
Cabrera. Cabrera suspects the Hon.
duras government of completely in
the assassination plot. DIR. Bustillo,
Honduras minister at Guatemala City,
is in hiding.
The Chicago limited express on the
Erie was ditched at Canisteo, \. Y,
while going 80 miles an hour Every
car except the rear Pullman left the
rails, but the coaches remained right
side up. Twenty persons were thrown
from their berths and badly bruised
Thieves robbed the bank at Banda
ma, Ballard county, KY, taking $500.
After trying to rob several residences,
they went to the telephone exchange.
Finding three young men there, one
the assistant cashier of the bank, they
proceeded to hold them up. They found
the keys of the bank on one of them,
b. H. Hahs. They gagged and tied
the men, and, taking Hahs away, com,
PEELED him to go to the bank and
open the safe
Nine. Anna Gould has arrived at
Naples. where Prinse Helie de Sagan
has been awaiting her. The prince
was on the dock when the Friedrich
der Crosse drew in, hurried up the
gang plank. met Nine. Gould on
deck. was evidently graciously re-
ceived, kissed the American woman's
hand and escorted her to waiting
auto, In which they were driven at
top speed to the hotel where Nine.
Goulds apartments have been en-
| gagged
While his wife and two little daugh-
ters lay asleep in bed, Lewis Flecken-
stein. wealthy resident of Johnstown,
| Pa, entered their bedroom and, with
| Ratchet, scalped his wife. Then
he went downstairs and hanged him
self