Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-04-08
A posse found George Hoopfer

and confessed that he killed his
wife and child. HOPPER claims his
wife wished to die.
Crazy Snake, the Indian chieftan,
leader of the clan of negroes, half
breeds and Creek Indians tnat have
been terrorizing Oklahoma, is
prisoner under a heavy guard. He
was captured by state officers and
was found to be badly wounded in
the hip. He surrendered without
fight near Thompson, west Of Che
cotah.
A detachment of militant suffra-
glsts, ~ strong, made another at
tempt to raid the House of Com
mons in search of Premier Asquith
in London, but we're quickly scat
tered by detachment of mounted
policemen. About a dozen of the
women were taken into custody.
They will be charged with beating
the policemen as they resisted ar
rest.
A general orGer for vaccination
of engineers and fremen operating
on railroads runnig west of Chicago
was issued by DR.. Herman Spald-
ing, chief of the contagious disease
department. This action was due
to the discovery that recent cases
Of smallpox brought to the atten-
ton of the department have been
confined exclusively to railroad men
on Western lines.
Thirty-fve American employees of
the Boyle mine near Jacksonville,
Ind, were prevented from going to
work by rs Hungarian miners.
They had been warned against try
ing to go to work and shots were
fired into a number of their homes.
The Hungarians purchased reyolv
ers and ammunition and paraded
the streets. The Americans have
sent to neighboring towns for help.
Miss Zella Clark, a pretty young
domestic of Washington, Ind, was
shot while in the act of picking up
box supposed to contain $4,000
deposited in secluded place by N.
G. Reid, president of the First Ma
tional Bank, after he had been
threatened with death in a letter.
A man who was with the young wo-
man when she was shot escaped.
The girl maintains ne is a stranger
to her.
Senator Money of Mississippi
would have the validity of the four
teenth amendment to the constitu-
ton tested This amendment regu-
lates the franchise, and has been
construed to authorize the reduction
by Congress of the congressional
representation of states which deny
voting privileges to some of the citi-
zens. 1t has been frequently in
voked by authors Of bills reducing
the representation Of Southern
states because negroes are not per-
mitted to vote. Mr.. Money has in
troduced a resolution directing the
attorney general to submit to the
court all information available as
to the method of adopting the
amendment, so the court may de-
terlaine whether the amendment is
valid and binding.
The Southern Child Labor Con-
ference at its session at New Or
leans, adopted resolutions embody-
ing number of important recon-
mendations for legislation on the
subject of child labor in the South.
The principal features were: The
employment in factories of no child
under the age of II years; the en-
ployment IN a mine or quarry OF no
child under the age of 16 years; the
employment of no child under the
age of 16 years in any gainful occu-
patton, except agricultural and do
nestle service, unless such child can
read and write simple sentences in
the English language; that no bow
under the age of 16, or girl under
the age Of Is years, except in agri-
cultural or domestic service, be en-
ployed between the hours of p. m.
and a. m. an eight-hour day law
for children under 16 years of age.
and for all women; employment I'M
der the certificate plan; the en-
ployment by the state of proper Of
ficials for the inspection Of all mines