Woodruff County news., 1908-09-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreiun Lands, Throughout the Ma ton, and Particularly from the
 Great Southwest.

The first break in the scheduled itinerary of the American fleet occur red Thursday when it was founded in- advisable, owing to the delay in coal ;po in set sail for Manila until Friday morning. The leave-taking could have taken place Thursday, but it was de cided to spend one more night in King Georges Sound.
 More than $1,000,000 has been left by John Burnham Brown, a pioneer msiness man of Chicago, who died Thursday. for the founding of one of the most unique schools in the coIntry The institution will fit young men and women to enter busi- ness careers. One of the peculiar provjsions imposed is that the bodies of Nr. Brown and his wife, who died suddenly Jan. 8, be buried under the rotunda of the main building. Only s900O0 of the estate goes to relatives.
 If Count Bonl de Casteiane viii ac- cept an offer of 5000 a week for 10 weeks to appear in vaudeville, the former husband of Anna Gould will be seen on the stage in New York during the winter
 The Michigan Central Railroad com panv has closed a contract with the American Car &S Foundry company to repair 5000 cars This will keep one plant busy until January ?, adding 1000 men to the pay-rolls.
 A verdict of not guilty was return ed by the jury trying Congressman Jay F. Laning of the Fourteenth Ohio district charged with embedding from the Ohio Trust Co.,, of Norwalk, O., of which he was an officer
 The United States will be rid of Emma Goldman, champion of anarchy, for a time She is going to forsake the shores of America for Australia, where she will make a lecture tour.
 The "standpatters" of Iowa have selected as their candidate for the United States senate nomination against Gov. Cummins, eX-Congress-
 
 ing down E. F. Clarke, Roosevelts appointee to the Interstate Commerce Commission, on the theory that he is not we'll enough known.
 Six hundred persons were made homeless, half million dollars worth of damage done, and 9,000,000 feet of Diamond match lumber destroyed when fire swept over Saco, Me, con- suming S5 tenement houses and threatening for a time the complete destruction of the place. There were many heroic rescues and narrow escapes from death, and it was only after long, arduous struggle that the tremen were able to subdue the flames.
 William Irwin. former Judge of the criminal court, one of the oldest and most prominent jurists in Indiana, fell dead in court, while arguing a case. Heart disease was the cause.
 Determined to pry Col. Wm. F. Stewart loose from the army, war de- partment officials will shortly call that officer, who has been living in exile, at Fort Grant, Ariz., before a retiring board.
 The Government is determined to get out of the employers liability law all the potential power that is in it. W. k. Harr, of the solicitor generals oflce, has been sent to San Francisco to prepare brief, and make argu- ment in a number of such cases be lore the circuit court of appeals. Harr had had charge of the employers liability cases before the supreme court.
 Developments indicating that A. Booth < Co.,, who were placed in the hands of receiver last week, had not ceased to operate as trust and were nxlng the prices of fish and other pro uucts throughout the United States, are being made the subject of a rigid investigation by the United States district attorneys office. It may be followed by the prosecution -of direc- tors of the company.
 Trials of participants in the Spring held riots of one month ago begin in the Sangamom circuit court before Judge James A. Creighton They will De preceded by the trial of Joe James, 'he negro who killed Clergy Ballard, ana who may be said to have lighted 'he hrst sparks of lawlessness in the city
 Premier Asquith, who at the last moment interfered in the great Cath oiic procession of the Blessed Sacra- neht and caused the parade to be rob- 'eu CT all ceremony, may have to "us~er to Parliamtnt for his action
 A Well-acthenticated report, said to nave Its orgin in the castle of the haiser, has 1t that it is the wish of emperor William that President roosevelt will visit Germany upon his return from his African hunting ex- petition.