Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-08-27

week at his home in Brooklyn, N.
Y, but the news of his passing away
did not become generally known for
twenty-four hours. Mr.. Sankey was
6S years old. For the last five years
he had been blind and had suffered
from a complication of diseases
brought on by overwork. But al
most to the very last he worked at
hymn writing. His tours through
out this country and Europe with
Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist,
brought him into wide prominence.
SanSey, it might be said, wrote the
gospel hymns of the world, In
China, Egypt, India, Japan, in al
most every language known to man,
Sankey's hymns are sung. He re-
ceived large income from his pub
locations and leaves a considerable
estate. Among Mr.. Sankey's most
familiar compositions are ''The
Ninety and Nine" and 'When the
Mists Have Rolled Away" His songs
are said to have had circulation Of
more than 50,000,0OO copies. He
was rapid composer and wrote book
after book Of gospel hymns. At the
same time he saved his wonderful
voice for posterity by singing into
monographs.
The cruiser Colorado, which went
on the rocks at Double Bluff, Puget
sound, Saturday afternoon last, was
more seriousluy damaged than at
first was supposed. An examination
at the Bremerton navy yard showed
that her forward plates were badly
dented in several places and that the
plates were sprung. 1t will be nee
essary to put the vessel in dry dock
for perhaps thirty days to make re-
pairs. The Colorado will be unable
to join the Pacific coast fleet on
its cruise to the Samoan islands,
but it is expected that she will join
it probably on the return trip from
the Samoan islands to Honolulu.
A special from Cranbrook says
a Canadian Pacific railway fire
ranger, just in from Kimberly, says
the fire is in a worse condition than
ever, if the wind changes. The Sui
Ivan buildings are in danger and
Kimberly by no means is out of it.
Heavy clouds Of smoke from that di
rection can be seen from Crane
brook. The ranger is trying to get
fifty men to go out to fight the fire.
Contributions to the Fernie relief
fund continue to- come in The
total to date is 100000. The Cana
dian Pacific railway wired $4,000.
Twenty-Five cavalrymen and ff-
teen foot soldiers were sent out from
Nogales, Ariz., Saturday by the
Mexican authorities upon receipt of
news of a Yaqui raid at the old
Montezuma copper camp in Sonora.
An American named Rucker was
taken prisoner by the Indians, but
escaped. Two rurales who returned
to the camp from Montezuma.
where they had gone with civil
prisoners, were also killed by the
Indians. A detachment of soldiers
has also been sent to the Montezuma
camp from Nacozari, Sonora.
If Judge Taft should be elected,
six native Ohioans will have occu-
pied the White House, coming with
in one of equaling Virginia, the
mother of presidents and in adj
ton one adopted son, William Hen
~ Harrison, was sent from the
Buckeye state, equaling the record
of Virginia in the total number of
presidents sent from that state. The
presidents who were natives of Ohio
were Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Ben
iamin Harrison and Mckinley.
Ed Spiyey, young negro, driv-
ing horse and buggy in the south
ern part of Hattiesburg, Miss, Sat-
urday, was thrown out Of the buggy
when the horse ran away and the
buggy struck a tree at the roadside.
He was tossed up in the air, came
down on the sharp spikes of an ircn
fence and was spitted on the palings.
Persons who saw the accident rush
ed to his help and had to cut away
the flesh before they could release
him. He will survive.
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