Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-01-14
NEWS Or THE PAST WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERsELY TOLD,
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Eoreiqn Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.

The first GGnnlC6 development or the
visit of Philander C. Knox the next
secretary of state, with President
elect Taft is that r. M. Thompson of
New York is out Of the running as
a possibility for the navy portfolio
The Earl of Granard and Miss Jane
Beatrice Mills went to the city hall
marriage license bureau in New York
and obtained license to be married.
Miss Mills is the daughter of Odgen
Mills. The earl signs himself" Gran
nard," but gave his full name as
Bernard Aruthr William Patrick Hast
ings Forbes, Earl of Granard. He is
81 years old.
The naming of Wilbur Wright, the
world-famous American aeroplanist,
as correspondent in the divorce pet
ition of Lieut.. Goujarde of the Cuiras-
siers has created a tremendous sensa-
ton in the American colony and in
scientific, social and army circles of
Paris. The trial of the suit is set for
February.
The body of Lieut. Foertsch, the
pilot of the German balloon, Hergesell
which was lost in the North Sea in
the International races last October
was taken from the North Sea Friday
by the crew of the trawler Orion. The
body was sent to Hamburg.
By the use of compression, or the
printing method, instead of impact
and the hammer stroke, company,
which is just organized intends to
put on the market an absolutely noise
less typewriter. The stock of the COM
pany is $3,OOO,OO0.
George Frankhouser, noted train
rObber, who has just been taken to
Montana from Minnesota, was ar
raigned in federal court and his trial
set for Jan. 10. Frankhouser is
charged with robbing a Great Northern
train and securing $4,000. The day
before his trial was to begin he made
sensational escape from the Helena
jail
The preliminary hearing of the
charges made by choir boys against
Rev. Robert Horris Kemp, rector of
st. Chrysostom's Episcopal church
Chicago, is begun in the criminal
court before Municipal Judge Blake.
Herbert Littman, IA years old, was the
chief witness.
Thomas A. Edison has announced
the perfection of storage battery
Su1hclenuy powerful to operate a
street car 100 miles without recharg-
ing and with life of from five to
twenty years.
Ihos. l.. Lewis has been reelected
president of the United States Mine
Workers of America over John II.
walker of Illinois. The work of the
national tellers counting the votes
East last month has progressed far
enough to make the statement of
Lewis election a positive assertion.
With one propeller blade smashed
and collision with the Nantucket
hght ship averted only by the alert
ness of her captain, the White Star
inner Oceanic reached New York City
ner decks buried beneath two inches
Vi snow after fighting the storms.
The body of Mrs. Maud McCreedy,
VINO escaped from health resort near
"lhnetka, was recovered from the
Lake iIichigan, near Evanston. The
oooy was clothed only in a night robe
Forty-hve convicts Thursday tun-
neied their way to liberty through the
walls OF the city jail of Oklahoma
eily' only to be greeted by tempera-
lure OF 80 below zero. and all but
,hfee surrendered. These are now be-
ine searched for by posse.
v M. krutcher of Kansas City, a
member of the state board of charity
anu correction has laid before Gov.
rolK affidavit in which are serious
eAdrses against certain persons of the
confederate Home at Higginsville
neV' DR.. Krutcher refuses to discuss
'ne nature of the charges.
HAi'er accepting a bride of 81 from
TWO White men, John Mcdaniel, negro
BRAKEMAN in Mississippi, slowed
'nehl away in refrigerator car. Then
mneh a white brakeman reproved Nc
D'llel the negro went back, called
.Ae younger of the two tramps to the
'op OF the car, shot and killed him.
several persons were reported TO
nave been killed and the lives of a
lumber of others endangered when a
lame dwelling at North Sixty-fourth
anu Madison avenue, Irving park, Chi
Vago blew down.
AFTER stabbing his aged mother to
e'th IN their apartments in New
-ork' Arthur Cotter, SO years old, at
sssinpted to kill himself by jumping
aolh the window. Cotter was taken
prisoner. charged with homicide to
Bellevue hospital.