Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-04-01

Considerable dissatisfaction was
evidenced by several senator's in the
Republican caucus over the COM
mittee assignments.
Senator Aldrich is opposed to
special taxes and is framing a tar
if bill of his own, with revision
upward instead of downward.
Delegations of Porto Ricans will
appeare before Congress and ask for
protection of the islands products
in the Payne tariff bill and for
home rule.
Henry L. Wise was appointed dis
trict attorney for New York, and
Mr.. Stimson becomes special assist
ant to the attorney general to pros
ecute sugar cases.
A woman's suffrage bill in the
Massachusetts House Of Representa-
tives was defeated by vote of 43
to 100 The galleries were throng-
ed with women during the debate
Governor Harmon of Ohio has
issued a proclamation prohibiting
the importation into Ohio hereafter
for dairy or breeding purposes of
cattle which have not been tested
and found free from bovine tuber-
culosis.
Minister Espinosa of Nicaragua
left at the state department for
Secretary Knox the reply Of Presi-
dent Zelaya Of Nicaragua to the de
mand of his government that the
Emery claim, which has been pend
ing for years, be submitted to arbi-
tration.
Local option elections were held
in Benton, Greene and Montgom-
cry counties, Indiana, and it looks
as if the temperance forces had won
the day in all three Montgomery
county will run to 1900, possibly
1900. Free lunch was served in
many precincts, and the women
were especially active.
The Bank of Hemple, Mo-, was
wrecked by safeblowers The
cracksmen used dynamite in an eff
fort blow open the vault. The
vault was uninjured, but the fix
lures were completely ruined, The
reports of the explosion aroused the
villagers, but the thieves escaped,
going toward St Joseph
Just at the moment that the
body of Henry Tinker, the million
ARE carriage manufacturer of Ohio
and st. Louis, was being lowered
into the grave at San Diego ceme-
terry, a 1S0-foot tower on the eight
story block under construction for
Mr.. Timken, crashed to the ground,
injuring two persons slightly.
The hiring out Of convicts to con-
tractors was condemned in the Mis-
souri, Senate by Senators McDavid,
Eads and Lane when the latter's
bill to abolish the system and use
the convicts in the manufacturing
of clothing and other supplies for
the state educational and eleemosy-
nary institutions was called up for
engrossment.
Patrick Brennan, president Of
the Independent Packing Company
of Chicago, charged with cruelty
tc animals, was placed on trial be-
fore Judge Foster in the municipal
court 1t is alleged by Miss Anna
Wyatt of the Anti-Cruelty Society
that Brennan allowed the old-fash-
Toned practice OF branding hogs
with a knife, and that his employees
carved the initials 81. p. c." on
hogs before sending them to the
slaughtering pen.
With the intention of aiding Ok
lahoma in resisting the boycott
against the katy by the Kansas
City shippers, Attorney General
West of Oklahoma has addressed a
letter to Governor Haskell suggest
ing that a communication be sent
to Oklahoma bankers carrying re-
serve deposits in Kansas City in
stitutions asking that they protest |
with the Kansas City bankers
against the embargo. The attorney |