Woodruff County news., 1901-04-11
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

WhO were fcctnUly arrested III Ne- braska, and who were wanted by the federal authorities in Cincinnati and other cities for robbing the United States mails, made sensational dash for liberty in the Union station at Chicago on the 7th. Grant made his escape, but Tilier was recaptured. In the volunteer cyclists maneuvers ordered by the British war office, the attack on London, on the 7th, proved that the military value of wheelmen is largely dependent on the weather. The attacking force outgeneraled the defenders, put lost so many men in the rain and owing to the bad roads that it was unable to attack in force at the proper time.
 Fifteen hundred pounds of dyna- l mite were used by the authorities of the port, on the 26th, in blowing up | the forward superstructure of the sunken United States collier Merri- mac, which has long impeded entrance to the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. | The explosion was plainly heard in the city, five miles away.
 | MI .. 1odDCI 1nOIlDSOD, dScu Ot years, was fatally wounded in Kansas City, Mo-, on the night of the 7th, by a footpad, who, in attempting to rob the woman, crushed her skull with a coupling pin. She was returning home from church when assaulted, at Seven teenth end Holmes streets, an unfre quented part ot the city.
 | ticipated, on the 7th, in the dedica- tion of the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, at Wrightwood and Pine Grove avenues, Chicago. So great was the assemblage that a quadruple service was held, the church being as often filled with new and different congregations.
 At the services, on the 7th, of the Syrian Greek Orthodox church, in New York city, it was announced that Car Nicholas II. of Russia had given 2,000 roubles, or about one thousand dollars, toward the building fund of the church which is soon to be erect ed in Brooklyn.
 According to the St. Petersburg cor respondent of the London Daily Mail, | import duties for Vladivostock have steel and machinery.
 The St. John schooner Wendall Bur pee went ashore on the cape near Portland, Me, about noon on the 7th, and the mate only was saved.
 Mrs. Prudence Smith and Mrs. Jane McNutt, her daughter, were arr raigned in Judge Manning's court, in Kansas City. Kas., on the Sth, on the charge of destroying property in an Armourdale joint, March Il, and the county attorney dismissed the case. The women refused to say whether they intended to continue their crusade against the joints.
 Mrs. Carrie Nation says she will sue the city of Topeka, Kas., for some of her hatchets which are now Tn the possession of the police department. The hatchets were taken from her on | the occasions of several arrests dur ing saloon smashing days. Shc made demand on the chief of ,olcr for i the hatchets, On the Sth, but was re- | fused.
 i Congressman R. B. Gordon, of the Fourth Ohio district, and other mem bers of congress, will visit the Phil | ippines this summer They will leave the first of the month. Congressman Gordon says it is his desire to make study of the actual conditions, and thus be better able to handle Philip pine matters in the next congress. Thelma Taylor, the four-year-old daughter of Chas. Taylor, Fort Wayne Qnd.) railway conductor, re- siding in Chicago, died at Laporte, Ind, on the 7th, as the result of ar senical poisoning caused by eating 1 paint samples off an advertising fold l CT.
 | According to expert opinion China would be able to pay from twenty to thirty million pounds sterling indem- nifty without crippling her financial resources, while the amounts which the powers at present demand aggre- l gate from eSO,oo00o0 2 to Z 100,00o,oo0 | Ten new cases of smallpox were re-
 
 | Sth. There were nearly on hundred smallpox patients in the pesthouse | Of the 915 sufferers since the out 1 break of the epidemic only four had died up to the Sth.
 | The naval ship Supply is to be over hauled and reftted as q station ship i for the Island of Guam. She will take the place of the collier Brutus, which l is now on her way to the United States ! to be laid up for repairs.
 Large and excited anti-clerical meetings at Malaga, Corrnna and else | where have passed resolutions de I manding that the government expel the religious orders from Spains
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