Woodruff County news., 1901-06-20
CONDENSED TEl EGRAMS,

On the 1eth Lord Kitchener cablcd from Pretoria as follows: 'Near Vel mansrust, 20 miles south of Middel- burg, 250 Victorian mounted rifles from Gen. Beaston's column were sur prised in camp at Steenkoolspruit by a superior force of Boers at 7:30 p. m., June 12. The enemy crept up to within short range and poured a deadly fire into the camp, killing two officers and 16 men, and wounding four officers and 3S men, of whom 2S were slightly wounded. Only two of ficers and 50 men escaped to Gen. Beaston's camp. The remainder were taken prisoners and released. Two pompons were captured by the ene- my"
 Colonels Infant and Guivara, repre- sentatiycs of Gen. Cailles, at Manila, on the 18th, signed the name of their principal to an agreement to sur render. Under the terms of this agree ment Gen. Cailles is to assemble his men at Santa Cruz, Laguna province, as quickly as possible, and there sur render himself and his command 10 the American authorities. The exact number of his force is uncertain, but there will probably be more than five hundred.
 At Roswell, N. M., on the 16th, Ar thur Kline, well-known stockmall, shot and killed his wife, Beatrice Kline, dangerously wounded Marshal Maddox and probably fatally wound ed the landlady with whom Mrs. Kline was living, who attempted to inter- fere, and then committed suicide. Kline was crazed by jealousy, his wife having deserted him.
 The Mexican government has com edifice in the City of Mexico which will be built near the School of Mines, in what is now the center of the city. The building will be wholly of steel frame work, and freproof. A Chicago firm of architects received part of the contract.
 Gen. William Montgomery Gardner, veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, died at Memphis, Tenn, on the 16th, aged IS. Gen. Gardner gradu ated from the military academy at West Point in the class of 1S46.
 The steamer Lucania, the first of the Cunard vessels to be fitted with the Mdrconi system of wireless tele. graphy, made communication with the shore, on the 16th, when 20 miles out from Liverpool.
 William Fitzgerald, a farmer, 40 years old, living five miles southwest of Oshkosh, Wis, was struck by lightning while standing in the door of his barn, on the night of the 16th. and instantly killed. A COW in the barn was hit by the bolt and James Fitzgerald, father of William, en- gagged in milking, was pinned under the animal when it fell over. He was not seriously injured.
 A cablegram received at the state department, on the 17th, from United States Minister Ryan, at Metropolis, announced that the Brazilian govern ment had paid the indemnity request ed for the destruction by a mob of a Baptist chapel in the province of Nictheroy, maintained by the Ameri- can Baptist mission.
 Ambassador Cambon, of France, left Washington, on the 17th, for Chicago, to receive the degree of IL. D. from the University of Chicago. This is the second American university to give this high degree to the French ann bassador, Harvard having bestowed the doctorate upon him two years ago.
 Charles Betts, 13 years old, who was charged with the murder of a farmer near Winfield, kas., was put upon the stand, on the 1Tth, for cross-exami- nation. The boy was cool and was not mixed in his answers. His recital of all the details of the story had good effect on the jury.
 Asa, eight years old, and Carl, aged II, sons of Adam Roger, of Laketon, Ind, were drowned in Eel river on the 16th. They, with several companions, were bathing, when the younger boy got beyond his depth, and in attempt ing to rescue him the elder was dragged down.
 A. N. Townsend, agent in New York city for the Hong Kong and Shanghai banking corporation, received cable message, on the 17th, saying that 250,000 Mexican dollars, stolen from the company on May 24, at Singapore, had been recovered in Ceylon.
 Miss May Hossmer, the actress, and George Russ Fiske, actor and singer, were married in Chicago on the 17th. Mir. and Mrs. II. w. Fiske, of Salem, Mass, parents of the groom, came west to witness the ceremony.
 A fishing schooner named the Lady Clare was lost, on the 17th, by being crushed in the ice in the Strait of 'Bene Isle. Forty-seven persons on bco ,.I xxyora rnvo,,aI