Woodruff County news., 1908-10-22

near Hickory, Miss, a mob of fifty 1 men has hanged one innocent negro and shot two others to death The mob completed it's work by burning a negro church and lodge hall near the scene in the negro colony.
 Five men were blown to atoms and from 15 to 20 others badly in- jured some fatally, by premature explosion of dynamite at the Great Wester Sugar companys lime rock quarry near Fort Collins, Colo.
 Boldly stopping the motor of his aeroplane while 65 feet above the earth Wilbur Wright proved his con tention that accident would not fol low. The big machine glided a dis tance of 65 yards with wonderful ease and steadiness alighting on the earth without even a serious jar.
 Rendered desperate by fire which destroyed $50O,000 worth of property in that city, already staggering under the loss of the great flood a few months ago. Bisbee business men are planning to abandon the town site.
 The chemists of the department of Agriculture believe they have solved the problem of cheaper paper that will dispense altogether with the use of wood fiber. The new material from which five grades of paper al ready have been made is the ordin- ary cornstalk, and the officials pre- dicted when the manufacture of the new kind of paper is started on a large scale it will be at least 50 per cent cheaper than the print paper now made from wood pulp.
 Fearing exposure of his forgery of deeds to neighbors farms, D. o. Sea man, wealthy farmer, respected 1 throughout Macon County, Mo, stood his three children in row in the barn, made them little speech, then mort ally wounded one, killed another and sent bullet into his own head, ending his life instantly.
 King Peter of Servia is in imminent aanger of assassination as the result of his refusal of the war partys de- mand to abdicate the throne in favor of Grown Prince George.
 A kingship awaits the Duke of Abruzzi, whose engagement with Miss 1 Catherine Elkins was recently broken off, if the proposed international con ference will grant the Balkans their independence.
 The body of Charles Mcconnell, who two years ago died at hospital at Wheeling, w. Va. has turned to stone The body has been kept since l death at the city morgue, in hopes that relatives might claim it. It is be- lieved that this is the first case of body that was never buried under ground turning to stone.
 The Chicago Cubs again are the baseball champions of the world. For the second tune they won a series that means the title from the Detroit Tigers pennant winners of the American 1 League. Of the five games played this 1 year for the championship, Detroit won only one Last year the Tigers tied and lost four. Of the 10 most i'm portant games they have played in the past two years, therefore, the Cubs | have won eight, lost one and tied one
 J. w. Lewis, chairman of the Dem ocratic State Speakers Bureau, in Kansas received a telegram stating that William J. Bryan will spend the | last day before election, Monday Nov l ember 2, in Kansas. It is likely that he will travel in the state in special | train, returning to Lincoln Neb. where he will speak at night
 Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist candi- date for president, who was taken ill while making a campaign tour on his Red Special" was so i'll that he could not meet a delegation of Social ists who had called to express sym pathy. His physicians says be is sui fering from tuberculosis to a small | degree.
 Before quitting the military grounds at Auvours, where be has won all the worlds aeroplane records, Wilbur Wright announced Tuesday that he would attempt to sail his aeroplane at height of 1000 meters, or 3250 feet,
  sails. discarding his motor.
 Invoking an old blue law which makes it a crime for man to kiss his wife in public on the Sabbath. Dennis Burns was arrested at Nauga- tuck, Conn.,, and spent the night in the lookup He was then fined.
 George Roeman, son of the superin- tendant of the municipal electric light plant at Escanada, Mich while testing wire connections, received a shock of 300 volts and was killed in- stantly.
 Bonner Springs, Kan, was almost entirely destroyed by fire early Tues day Nine of the largest stores and one residence were burned to the ground and scores of other buildings and res idence were scorched or badly burned. The dust and soot in the admo sphere of Chicago, as shown by tests | just taken by the health department