Woodruff County news., 1901-05-09
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

train of five cars, which was standing in frot of the building, and which the crew failed to move, blocked the fire men, who were unable to get near the burning building with their engines until it was too late to save the in- mates.
 The Gardo house, known as Amelia s Mansion," built in Salt Lake City, Utah, by Brigham Young for his favorite wife, Amelia Folsom Young, and for years occupied by her, has the property being sold in the name of President Snow, as trustee of the church, to Col F. E. c. Holmes, of that city.
 The United States cavalry and ar tillery left Pekin, on the 5th to march to Ton-Ku Imposing farewell ceremonies attended their departure. Sir Alfred Gaselee and the other Brit ish generals, with their staffs, were present, and the British commander sent a detachment of Beluchis, who escorted the Americans outside the city wall.
 The Ohio special, bearing Gov. Nash and staff and about one hundred citi- zens of Ohio to San Francisco for the launching of the baitleship Ohio,
 passed through Kansas City, Mo-, soon after noon on the 5th. Religious serv- ices were held on board the train at II o'clock.
 It is reported in Shanghai that fanl- inc will make it impossible for the Chinese court to remain longer in Stn Fu. and that the court is now only waiting for the astrologers to fix all suspicious day for beginning the jour- ney to Kai Feng Flu, in the Province of Ho Nan.
 / After careful consideration of the situation in the Philippines as it eX- ists to-day. the administration has de cided to reduce the army in the archi- pelagc to 10000.
 The Flussian government has bought the coal mines in the Ruhr dis trict known as ''1he Minister Achen- bach" and the " Altrop," for 25,0OO,00O marks.
 The Geneva correspondent of the London Daily Mail asserts that Presi- dent Mckinley has informed MT. Kru- ger tlat he can not receive him either officially or unotticially.
 Mariana lgnacio Prado, ex-presi. dent of Peru, died in Paris on the 9th. Mariana Ignacio Prado was born in 1926. He participated in Gen. Cas- tilla's revolution against Echenique's government in 1854. He marched against Lima in 1865, and entered the capital. November 6, at the head of victorious army. On November 26 he declared himself dictator and was subsequently elected constitutional president by the Peruvian congress. He was again elected president in 1876.
 The late Count St. Quen de Pierr- court, whose family date back to Will jam the Conqueror, bequeathed to the city of Rouen. France, his fortune of ten million francs on the novel con- dition that the city annually give a marriage gift of 100000 francs to 2 couple of giants, in order to regener ate the human species. The candidates are to be medically examined and the healthiest couple will be chosen.
 Milton k. Arnold, aged Al years, died at Kansas City, Mo-, on the 9th. of heart disease. Arnold was the son of a wealthy cotton broker living near Atlanta Ga. He was graduated from the University of Georgia and later studied law, being admitted to the bar on the same day as Hoke Smith, who was his classmate. For several years he had been a curbstone vender.
 The British war office, on the 9th, gave out the total number of deaths in the South African war at TIA officers and 14,264 men. Four off cers and 314 men have been invalided home and subsequently, died. Two thousand four hundred and ninety three non-commissioned officers and men have left the service unfit for duty.
 With her hull gaily decorated with flags and her deck we'll filled with sailors the yacht Constitution was christened, at Bristol, R. l., on the 9th, by Mrs. w. Butler Duncan, who broke the traditional bottle of wine on her glistening bow just as she started slowly down the ways into the sea.
 The determination of the joint smashing colleagues of Mrs. Nation to stay in jail at Wichita, Kas., till their trial commences was broken, on the 9th, by Mrs. Julia Evans giving bond for her appearance. The other women, except Mrs. Nation, also in- dicatei their purpose of giving bond.