Woodruff County news., 1901-05-30
 CONDENSED TELEQRAMS.

Has pfeSenUeu u ctilll to Iue OIltcu States authorities at Manila for 2,- 300,0G0 for damages sustained during the insurrection.
 The Pretoria correspondent of the London Daily Mail says that Gen. Louis Botha has asked Gen. DeWet to meet him to discuss the situation.
 A Washington dispatch says that Agliilaldo is likely to come to the United States next fall and spend the winter at the national capital.
 Ernest Dutton, colored, who plead. ed guilty to administering poison to Wm. Elgood, his fatherin-law, with murderous intent, was sentenced, at Wilmington, Del, on the 18th, to re- ceive 60 lashes, to stand one hour in the pillory, be imprisoned four years and pay a fine of $5.000.
 Switzerland has awarded a con- tract to Herr Krupp for the equip with Krupp guns.
 The anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria was observed at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 24th, as a public holiday. Special Victorian services were attended by large crowds.
 A statement by the internal rev. enue bureau shows that the total re. ceipts under the war revenue act up to April 30, 1901, were $500, 1884, oi which $105, ,702, ,142 came from docu, mentary stamps; 94,361, ,12S from beer, and $45 5,264,714 from tobacco.
 Moses T. Hale, for eight years city treasurer of Colorado Springs, Col and Charles F.. Smith, formerly city clerk, are under arrest, as principal clement of $20,000.
 The published repurt that the pope intended to abolish the apostolic del egation in Canda and annex it to that in the United States is denied in dis patch fl om Rome.
 The Mark Lane Express expresses the belief that the British wheat har, vest can not begin until August, ow. ing to the backward weather.
 Lewis W. Stone, wealthy Chicago real estate owner, was beaten and checked into insensibility, in his barn. of $11. The robbers evidently expect ed to secure his days rept collections, estimated at 1000, but he had banked them.
 Five persons were killed outright and 40 others were seriously injured, on the 26th, in a collision between trolley cars moving at 40 miles per hour, two miles from Greenbush, N Y. Both motormen were among the victims. The scene presented after the wreck was awful to behold. The kinglingwo cd to which the two cars and margled bodies.
 A great strike of oil was made at Sour Lake, 20 miles northwest ot Beaumont, Tex, on the 26th. A well was struck in the rear of the Sour Lake hotel, and at once became a gusher, flowing 15,000 barrels day. This new strike so far from the Beau mont field has caused renewed excite ment all over Texas, and rush to the new district commenced immedi- ately.
 A commission from the state of Wisconsin arrived at San Francisco, on the 26th, with $1O,00O silver ban quet service to be presented to the battleship Wisconsin by the state whose name she bears. In addition to the silver service there was also bronze badger four feet high cast from Spanish cannon captured dur ing the recent war.
 Up to the 26th 32 bodies, some If them terribly mutilated, had been re- covered from the Universal colliery in Senghenydd, in the Rhonda valley, in Wales, where the recent explosion oc- cured. The gruesome worked pro- ceeded very slowly, and many painful scenes were witnessed at the pits mouth.
 A Sunday-school class of over five thousand people was a spectacle pre- sented at the Dunl<ard national con- ference in Lincoln, Neb., on the 26th. I he meeting was an inspiring one. The international Sunday-school les- son of the Dunkard quarterlies was used.
 Chief Examiner A. R. Servon, of the civil service commission, left Wash ington, oil the 26th, via New York, for Honolulu, where he and Civil Service Commissioner Rodenberg, who will join him en route to Kansas City, will look into the civil service in Hawaii.
 Thomas Morris Avery, founder of Elgin National Watch Co.,, died in Chi cago, on the 26th, from a stroke of paralysis. Mir. Avery, who had been i'll for the last two years, was born 70 years ago in Madison county, New York.