Woodruff County news., 1901-05-16
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

arrived in San Francisco quietly, on the 18th, several hours ahead of the time scheduled, where the attending physician ordered a weeks absolute rest for the invalid, which, he pre- dicted, would result in her complete recuperation.
 The Brussels Independence Beige publishes affidavits signed by Count Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy before the French consul in London, admit ting the authorship of the Dreyfus bordereau and declaring that the bordereau was written with the con- nivance of Col. Sandher, ex-chief of the secret intelligence bureau.
 A dispatch from Lima, Peru, on the 18th, said: ''The comet which was first seen from South America about fortnight ago, and which had been invisible from here for three nights, heappeared last night. It apparently has two tails, enc of which is now longer than when it was first seen." The International Power Co.,, of New York, has closed an order for a 1luIAOCI Ol lOSOIllOtlfCo 1O1 OlIC IAbOhl- son, Topeka & Santa Fe railway, call ing for the entire capacity of it's plant for the remainder of this year. These locomotives will be built in Provi depce, R. l., and Paterson, N. J. ''The sultan, I learn," says the Con don Daily Chronicle, connected the plague scare, in order to enforce a quarantine that would exclude band of anarchists who, he had been in- formed from Austria, were coming to assassiIate him.
 | The Hamburg marine board de- clared, on the 18th, that the Hamburg schooner Arina. Capt. Mack, had been lost with her entire crew. The vessel left Hamburg May ?, 1900, for Matupi, on Henderson island, in Blanche bay, German New Britain, and has not been Iheard of since.
 | Tucker Woodson Taylor, aged 46, Twas found dead in his room at Green castle, Ind, on the 18th. It is believed to De case of suicide. NIr. Taylor was for years confidential secretary of John Clark Ridpath, the historian. He wes also a poet of some reputa- ton.
 M. Henri Francois Charles de Yer ninao, vice-president of the French senate, died in Paris on the 18th. He was born May IS, 1S41.
 Prof. David Shepard Holman, of Bangor. Me, known throughout the scientific world as the inventor of the Holman life slides, so extensively used by microscopists, died on the 18th. Dr. Holman was a member of the Academy of Natural Science of of the faculty of Girard college and of Franklin institute. He was born in 1926.
 l Twelve men were indicted by the New York city grand jury, on the 18th, for keeping gambling houses. time, the evidence presented by the committee of fifteen against the Isen arrested and bound over through Jus tice Jerome's personally-conducted raids. In every case considered an in- dictment was quickly rendered.
 At the monthly meeting of the Methodist ministers in Worcester, Mass, on the 18th, clergyman said that an eyewitness had told him that President Mckinley drank a glass of champagne on board a battleship. 1 Several of the clergymen present vig- orously denounced the president for the reputed act.
 | The representatives of Oxford and Cambridge universities who will com pete with the representatives of the universities of Harvard and Yale in the international games on the Berkc- l ley oval, New York city, September 21, were chosen at a meeting held at | the Queens club, London, on the 18th. | Prince Munster von Derneburg, ac- cording to the Berliner Tageblatt, IS going to his Derneburg estate, where he will complete his memoirs, which will deal elaborately with the Dreyfus affair, as he was German ambassador in Paris during the Dreyfus period. | Superintendent Cherry of the trans portation department of the Pan American exposition at Buffalo, N. Y., announced, on the 18th, that so per cent. of the exhibits were in place and that by the 18th 90 per cent. would be complete.
 At 6:30 r. m.. of the 18th, brilliant meteor was seen at Lima, Peru, which suddenly divided into two parts, one | fiery red end the other a bright, bluish white. They seemed to fall into the ocean.
 l Vice-President Roosevelt has ac- lcepted an invitation to make an ad- dress at Minneapolis. during the Min nesota state fair. The address will be made September 3.