Woodruff County news., 1901-09-26

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 Crazy Snake, the Creek leader, has again been trying to incite his peo- pie to rebellion
 Emma Goldman, the arch female anarchist, arrested at Chicago, has been released under $20,000 bond. Chas. Miller, thought to be of un- sound mind, was arrested in New York for declaring it his intention to assassinate President Roosevelt. Portions of Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina was vis- ited by terrible rains on the 18th, lasting for twenty-four hours. The damage to crops was appalling.
 Great Britain expresses no alarm at the accession of MT. Roosevelt to the presidency, while Russia is pessimistic and Germany sees in the new president a formidable ob- stacle to the carrying out of some of their pet commercial schemes in va rious ports of the world, particularly in South America.
 The 2-year-old daughter of Geo. Klosterman, of St. Louis, had a re- markable escape from death. The child was playing at an open win dow in the third story of a tene- ment house, when she lost her bal ance and plunged down toward the street below. She struck an avn ing about eight feet from the pave ment, which broke her fall and the only injury sustained was a slight bruise on the head.
 The census bureau has just is sued a bulletin showing the popula- tion of Tennessee by sex, general na- tivity and color. The tables show that in Tennessee the population is composed almost wholly of persons of native birth, the foreign born ele- ment representing only nine-tenths of per cent of the total population. The males constitute 50.5 per cent of the population, while the females constitute 49.5 per cent. The whites constitute 76.2 per cent and colored 23.6 per cent.
 A dispatch from Lord Kitchener from Pretoria, dated September IS, announces that the Boers, Septem- Der IF, ambushed three companies of mounted infantry with three guns, commanded by Maj. Cough, in the vicinity of Scheeper's Nek. After severe fighting the British were overpowered and lost their guns, the sights and breech-blocks of which were first destroyed. Two officers and fourteen men were kill ed, and five officers and twenty-five men wounded. Five officers and 150 men were made prisoners. Maj. Cough, who escaped during the night, reports that the Boers num- bered 1000 men and that they were commanded by Gen. Botha. Gen. French reports that Commandant Shuts, in order to break through cordon, rushed on a squadron of the Seventeenth lancers at Elands river port, killing three officers and twenty men and wounding one officer and thirty men. The Boers, who were dressed in khaki and who were mistaken for British troops, lost heavily.
 In an address to the students of Princeton University, ex-President Cleveland paid the following trib- ute to our dead president: To-day the grave closes over the man that had been chosen by the people of the United States to represent their sov- ereignty, to protect and defend their constitution, to faithfully execute the laws made for their welfare and to safely uphold the integrity of the republic. He passes from the pub lie sight not bearing the wreaths and garlands of his countrymen's approving acclaim, but amid the sobs and tears of mourning na- tion The whole nation lovad tbair