Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-01-14


AleXian Brothers hospital from a
bullet wound through the head and
other injuries is Arthur Campbell. a
wealthy boot and shoe manufacturer
of Milwaukee, Wis.
City Magistrate Otto Droege of New
York, is found guilty of the charges
presented against him by the Bar as
ISOLATION and was ordered removed
from office by the appellate div
vision. Droege is a graduate of the
university of Maryland. He was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1890. He came
to New York in 1896
At the suggestion of the civic league
of st. Louis, Representative Bartholdt
Friday introduced a bill providing for
the construction of a national highway
from the southern limits of the city
to the national cemetry at Jefferson
Barracks.
The verdict of the jury in the night
rider case finds six men guilty of
murder in the first degree with nit
igating circumstances. Bob Hoffman
and Bud Morris murder in the second
degree
The vacancy in the office of assis-
tant attorney geenral caused by the
retirement of Alfred w. Cooley, will
probably not be filled under this adj
ministration. Attorney General Bona
parte intimated that President-elect
Taft would be given the privilege of
selecting the man for the place.
Adolphus Busch, the st. Louis mil
lionaire brewer, who is spending the
winter at his country villa at
Pasadena, has signified his intention
of contributing $4,000 to fund be-
ing raised to build museum which
will rival the Smithsonian Institute.
About $2000,000 has been donated.
In response to a general alarm, all
the police and detectives in Greater
New York are working on the
mysterious disappearance of Mrs.
Elizabeth c.. Burke Harrison, wife of
F. P. Harrison, a wealthy New York
merchant and president of the F. P.
Harrison Electric and Manufacturing
company.
Harry K. Thaw's appeal to the ap-
pellate division of the supreme court
from the decision of Justice Nor
schauser, in dismissing his writ of
habeas corpus and demanding him
back to Matteawan, will be argued
Jan. Is.
Two masked highwaymen entered
the dining room of the Railway
Cleveland Y. M. C. A. and robbed the
diners at the point of revolvers.
Admiral Capps of the bureau of
construction of the navy department,
has disclosed to the senate naval
committee members that it is the de-
sire of the department to make the
next battleship bigger than anything
now afioat in any navies of the
world.
President Roosevelt nominated Col.
Geo. H. TOrney to be surgeon general
of the army to succeed Surgeon Gen
eral O'Reilly, who retires. Colonel
Torney is now stationed at the
general hospital at San Francisco.
President Roosevelt has made the
following appointments to the An
napolis Naval Academy for 1909:
Stephen Elliott, son of Captain
Charles P. Elliott of the army, retir-
ed George NJ Tisdale, a son of the
late lieutenant R. D. Tisdale, of the
navy and Stewart B. Whitney, son of
Chief Gunner Frank H. Whitney, of
the navy.
Glen K. Shurtleff, general secretary
of the Cleveland Young Mems
Christian Association, died of brights
disease. Secretary Shurtleff was one
of the best known Y. NJ C. A. men in
the United States He came to
Cleveland from Denver, where he had
been the general secretary of the as
ISOLATION. Before that he was the
secretary in Syracuse, N. Y.
1t is learned that negotiations have
governments of the United States
Colombia and Panama whereby all
matters in controversy between them
are settled. The treaty or treaties
have been signed by Secretary of
State Root for the United States,
Minister Cortez for Columbia and
Minister Arosemena for Panama.
The body of Father John of Cron-
stadt, the famous Russian priest who
died last week, was inferred in St
Petersburg in the presence of small
body of his immediate followers. It
is evident from the excitement that
Fathers Johns death is evoking that
his following will be greater in death
than in life
Sixty-one indictments charging Re-
publican politicians with perjury and
rauds at the Illinois primaries on
Aug. at which John j. Healy was de-
feated for denomination as states at
torney, were thrown out of court.
This sweeping action was taken with
the consent of Special States Attorney
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