Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-09-10
NEWS OF The WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton, and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.

John Early, the leper, has been Off
cially exiled from his home state. The
attorney general of North Carolina has
rendered an opinion that the state is
not called upon to care for it's citizens
outside it's jurisdiction and that Early,
as a discharged soldier, should be
cared for by the federal government.
The embargo extends also to Mrs.
Early.
Within sight of their frantic families
on the shore, only 100 yards away, SO
of the crew of the Portuguese steamer
Luisa were drowned in the stranding
of the vessel off -Figuera de Foz.
Charles B. Roberts, the Baltimore
clubman and financier, who was shot
while riding in rolling chair with
Mrs. W. s. G. Williams, also of Bal
chance he will recover.
one dying as the result of asphyxiation
by Illuminating gas in the home of
Peter j. Schollert, an old resident of
St. Paul The dead are Peter J. Schol-
lert his wife and Lewis Christensen,
Mrs. Schollert's brother, Hans Chris
Hansen, cousin of Mrs. Schollert, is
dying in the city hospital. A leak in
a tube filled the house with gas.
Editors of official publications of in
tenational trade organizations met
and formed a permanent associa-
ton. L. W. Quick of St. Louis, secre-
tary Of the Order Of Railway Tele
graphers, was elected president, and
j. E. Mulkey of the Brotherhood of
Maintenance of Way Employees was
chosen secretary. The meeting adopt
ed a lengthy set of resolutions pertain
ing to labor questions.
In addition to remaining in the air
10 minutes and 40 seconds in
the most successful flight that he has
yet made in France, Wilbur G. Wright
succeeded in making his aeroplane
rise by its own mechanism, discontinue
ing the weight and derrick arrange
ment
Emery Storrs, %, who says he is
son of Emery A. Storrs, Chicago
lawyer, now dead, who was the friend
Of Grant, Garfield and Mckinley, is in
jail here today, the confessed burglar
of number of Harlem flats.
Smothered in a dense fog, an I'M
known ship was pounded to pieces on
the Point Arenas rocks, 100 miles
north of San Francisco, and it is be-
lieyed that every soul on board per-
ished.
Pope Plus X. in an interview with
Bishop Burke of Albany, N. Y, ex-
pressed the fear that he has but a
short time to live.
Rising TO height of SO feet and sail
ing rate of 40 miles an hour, two
Cornell students who have become in
terested in aerial navigation have sue
cessfully sailed an aeroplain built by
themselves.
Now that he has almost attained his
ambition to control a railroad empire,
E. H. Hartman is going after oratori-
cal honOrs. He left Pelican Lodge. his
summer home, for Portland to
begin series of speeches which he
mas mapped out in response to invita-
tons from several civic bodies
throughout the state.
A furore was created in Lincoln by
the news that the engagement of Will
liam J, Bryan Jr., son of the Demo-
cratic presidential candidate, to Miss
Helen Berger of Milwaukee had been
announced in the latter city.
Hypnotism was injected into the
testimony being taken by the commits
sion IN lunacy appointed by Judge
roster of the general sessions to de-
termine whether Mrs. Charlotte Hitch
COCK of New York is sane or insane.
REV. DR.. Fainsford, former rector of
o. Georges, who is now on a trip
through Africa, will join the Roosevelt
african hunting expedition. DR.. Rains
iofd and the president are warm
trends. The rector's plans were
made known by Rev. Hugh Birckhead,
VINO has been in communication with
Dr Rainsford's friends.
Plans for the new Grand Central
railroad station in New York are com.
pieted. The building will cost $780,
VoOo00. The station will set back 40
!eet from Forty-second street and 70
ieet from Vanderbilt avenue.
Inc Brooklyn fire department had a
pad scare when flames, which origin
ated IN pile of waste paper, threaten
Gu 10 destroy Paine's fireworks scenery
At Brighton Beach and came within a
new feet of the building where ex-
piosives of all kinds are stored. The
Afe was kept under control however,
ana did less than $1,000 damage.
hear Admiral Henry Glass, retired,
tofmerly commander of the Pacific
meet, has been taken to the Paso
,tooles Springs in last effort to save
nis ME- Two months ago he under
vent an operation. He has been suf-
'efing from complication of diseases