Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-04-08
The instruction in Korea is

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Servia has surrendered to the de-
mands of the European powers.
Ex-President Roosevelt made a
short stop in the Azores Islands.
The British House of Commons
sustained the governments naval
policy.
1t is reported that King Peter of
Seryie is preparing to abdicate ais
throne.
Rear Admiral Converse, U. S. n,
retired, died at Washington of urae-
mic poisoning.
One man was killed and property
valued at $4,000 destroyed in a fire
at Rochester, N. Y.
Chancellor Won Buelow outlined
the foreign policy Of Germany in
speech in the Reichstag.
A man on board the steamer Ham
burg made an attempt to assassi-
nate ex-President Roosevelt.
Congressman Bennett of New
York introduced a bill in the House
to reduce Southern representation
in Congress.
st. Petersburg newspapers con-
tinue to attack Russian Foreign
Minister Iswolsky, terming him a
"diplomatic Kuropatkin.
DR.. William Adler, a dentist, was
shot four times by Harriet Pace, a
full-blooded Chickasaw Indian, at
Madill, Okla, and died from the
wounds.
A clash between the criminal
court of Cook county and the Uni
ted States circuit court of vast i'm
portance in the criminal prosecu-
tons growing out of the failure of
A. Booth & Co. took place at Chi
cago.
A delegation of negroes from Mis-
sissippi, comprising bankers, bust
ness men, lawyers and educators,
called at the White House to tender
to President Taft whatever assist
ance they could in helping him to
work out the so-called negro prob
lem in the South.
A daring mail pouch robbery, in
which the thieves secured probably
more tnan $4,000 in currency and
checks, was made public at George
town, KY, when the iron and char
red leather of two pouches were
found by boy near the crane, from
which they had been taken.
There was a double funeral at
the home of Mrs. Charlotte Van
derlip Of Chicago, the mother of
Frank A. Vanderlip, president of
the National City Bank Of New
York. Her mother, Mrs Sarah
Woodwork, who was IS years old,
died 24 hours after her daughter.
A tie-up in building operations,
which were struck a first blow by
the walkout of the tilelayers and
glaciers March /, was made more
complete when about 1000 union
steamftters and electricians went
out on strike, as a result of refusal
of their demands for increased
wages at Chicago.
Attorney General Wickersham
gave a hearing to the governor and
other officials of Kansas on the ques-
ton of the right of national banks
to participate in the benefits and
assessments of the bank guaranty
fund created by recent law of that
state upon the same terms and con-
ditions as apply to state banks.
After they had dynamited safes
in two stores in Spickard, Mo-, and
shot and seriously wounded Mar
snail George Caraway Of Jamesport
when he attempted to arrest them,
three robbers were surrounded near
Jamesport, Mo, and in the pitched
battle that followed one of the yegg-
men was probably fatally shot. An
other was captured and the third
escaped.
The national Legislators can now
come out of their stormhouse. They
are safe, at least for a time, from
concerted attack from the indignant
women of the United States. The
increased tariff on stockings, as well
as other articles Of women's apparel,
which is provided for in the Payne