Woodruff County news., 1908-10-01

Senator Albert J. Beverdige of Indiana
 and former Mayor Seth Low were the
 principal speakers.
 The cholera epidemic in St Peters
 burg, in the opinion of experts, now | has reached it's maximum and hence forth the number of new cases daily
 Is expected to remain about stationary 1 for week or ten days.
 Regarding the cholera at Manila
 ending at 8 o'clock Friday morning l there were 40 cases against 36 the day 1 before.
 The funeral of Lieutenant Selfridge,
 who was killed in the fall of the
 Wright areoplane at Fort Myer few
 days ago, was held at Arlington Ma | tional Cemetery, Friday.
 On account of a high wind which prevailed Friday, Lieut.. Lahm made
 no flight in dirigible balloon No. 1 of | the war department which expert
 ments are being made in St Joseph Mo, this week.
 | The call for the twenty eighth an
 nual convention of the American Fed eration of Labor has been issued. The convention will assemble in Denver Monday, November g.
 Mrs. AliZa Bragg, widow of Major | General Braxton Bragg, of the Confed- | crate army, died in New Orleans Fri | day.
 At the Chicago Association of Com
 merce banquet in Chicago October ',
 at which w. J. Bryan and W. H. Taft will meet, there will also be present
 the leaders of other political parties, l if invitations dispatched Friday are
 accepted. The invitations were sent l to the president and presidential
 candidates of the prohibition and the
 independence parties.
 With a view to bringing about a | better understanding and closer rela-
 tiOns between the commercial organi- cations of Japan and this country, l forty of the leading merchants and
 manufacturers of the Pacific coast,
 sailed Friday on the Japanese liner l Tenyou Maru for an extended tour of | Japan.
 Following many rumors on the sub | ject Chairman Hitchcock of the Re
 announced that Gen. T. Coleman
 Dupont of Delaware, head of the Bureau of Campaign Speakers of the National Committee, had resigned as head of that bureau and also as a
 member of the executive committee of the National Committee and that his
 resignation had been accepted. Governor Haskell at midnight Fri day resigned as treasurer of the Demo- 1 cratic National Committed His resig
 nation was announced by himself | three hours after his arrival in Chi | cago from Guthrie, Okla, and after he had conferred with officials of the Democratic National headquarters here In giving out his decision, MT. Haskell, in response to a question de- clared he did not desire to be respon- sible for any embarrassment which
 might result to the Democratic party by his retaining the office of treasurer. Before a crowd of curious spectators
 which taxed the capacity of the court
 room, the preliminary hearing of
 Charles Edward Davis on the charge
 of having murdered Dr. Frederick
 Rusin was begun at Omaha, Neb,
 Thursday morning.
 Twelve speeches to enormous of
 William J. Bryan. Democratic candi- date for president. into Ohio during the present campaign.
 Eastbound Frisco flyer No. 304 for
 St Louis, plunged 50 feet down an em- bankment into Spring River Thursday near Webb City, Mo-, Thursday morn ing, killing two and injuring 29 per sons.
 A crowd which blocked the passage
 ways of the Lake Shore station which
 waved blue flags with the candidates
 picture on them and which fairly
 drowned the music of band with it's
 cheers. greeted Judge Taft upon his arrival at Chicago, Wednesday after noon.
 President Roosevelt replies to the demand of Bryan for proof of charges against Haskell, with a dismissal of the Ohio bribery charges as being Of common notoriety, and makes vigor' ous assault upon the Oklahoma gov
 ernor for alleged improper conduct in the Prairie Oil case in Oklahoma, for
 his veto of the child labor law, for his dealings in Indian lands, and for gen eral unfitness Haskell replies to the Presidents s assault by challenging his veracity, declaring he is member of the Ananias Club of high standing, de- lending his record and promising to go into Ohio and make wGrm campaign speeches on the controversy. Denvers historic old pavilian, the Coliseum, has been destroyed by fire. The building and grounds were re- gently purchased from "Reddy" Gal