Woodruff County news., 1901-07-11
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NcW EnglanQ, southeastern, western Southwestern and Trans-Continental Passenger associations and the As sociated Railways of the Virginias and Carolinas have made reduced rate. two associations granting one fare plus two dollars, the others one fare.
 The excursion steamer Queen a1- rived at Port Townsend, Wash, on the 7th, from the north. Her officers re- ported Glacier bay one mass of ice, and that no nearer than If miles of Muir glacier could be reached, an ice jam from thirty to forty feet high extending clear across the bay. inc ice foes iii the channel were greater than ever known before.
 The Kansas state supreme court, on the 7th, handed down a decision de- claring the Kansas irrigation law to be constitutional and that the con- demnation of land by the Pawnee Lake and City Irrigation Co. is valid. This will make it possible to carry into effect the biggest irrigation scheme ever attempted in Kansas.
 There was shortage of cars to move the Kansas wheat crop before the marketing of that cereal had bare ly gotten under way. The wheat movement started much earlier than usual this year owing to the fine harvest weather, and the railways, it is reported, are unable to care for it.
 A number of Japanese war ships will be present, in addition to the four American war ships under Rcar-Ad- :niral Rodgers, at the unveiling, on the 14th, at Kurihama, Japan. of the monument to commemorate the land ing there of Commodore Perry, July IA, 1853.
 At Louisiana, Mo-, on the 7th, Don ald Nichols and Samuel Taylor, each about five years old, were burned to death locked ill an cut-building. They had been playing and probably set fire to a can of oil. The door was fastened and they were unable to es- cape.
 On the 7th Silveton Green, of Me Dowell county, West Virginia, fatally stabbed his wife and beat out the brains of his child with rock be- cause the wife refused him money with which to gamble. Green es- capped to Kentucky.
 Gov.-Gen. Wood of Cuba who had been suffering from mild case of ty- I'hoid fever, was reported, on the 7th, as much improved.
 The official reports to the New York bureau of vital statistics of deaths fO. |. H. al 6 show that the actual number in the five boroughs of Greater New York was 0S9 For the boroughs of Man. haitian and the Bronx the number was 699; for Richmond, 12; for Queens, 24; for Brooklyn, 264. The records cover the days when the heat was most in- tense.
 The United States Philippine com mission has ordered H. Phelps Whit marsh, governor of Benguet province, to Manila to sumbit to an investiga- tion, on account of the allegation that he has been using his position to his personal advantage in acquiring land and mining rights from the natives. He is at present charged with indis- erection and violation of his instruc- tions.
 Mrs. Philip D. Armour, of Chicago through her attorney, on the sth, de- clined to take one-half of the estate of her brother, Frank Ogden, who died recently in Cincinnati. Mir. Ogden left an estate which, by his will, was to be equally divided between his wife and li isfa Arr, ho la f ter's action the whole estate will go to the widow.
 The financial secretary of the Brit ish war office, Lord Stanley, in the house of commons, on the Sth, in an swer to question, gave the total number of Boers killed, wounded or made prisoners. from among the ac- tive commands, recently, as follows: March l, 472; April ?, 434; May ?, GAO; June, incomplete, 1,53S.
 In the suit at Santa Fe, N. M., of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. against the United Mine Workers, growing out of the coal miners strike at Gal lup, Judge McFie made permanent in- Junction restraining the strikers from interfering with the working of the mine by non-union men.
 Three explosions at the powder works at Santa Cruz, Cal, on the Sth. wrecked the corning mill and resulted in the killing of w. R. Darling and serious injury of Joseph Maynard, em- ployes. The corning mill was com pletely demolished. Cause, of the ex- plosions unknown.
 Howard B. Rodgers, a nephew of the late Jacob s. Rogers, of Paterson, has been served with notice from the relatives of the deceased millionaire that the latter's will, bequeathing the bulk o3 his estate to the Metropolitan museum ef arts, will be contested.