Woodruff County news., 1901-07-18
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ment to commemorate the landing there of Commodore Perry, July IA, 1853, was performed by Rear-Admiral Rodgers commanding the United States visiting squardon. Fire at Enid, OEla., that broke out early on the morning of the 14th, de- stroyed four blocks of business houses | on the public square, involving a loss of $100,000. Owing to the continued drought the buildings burned like so much finder.
 George Gould has closed his home at | Lakewood, N. l., and, with his wife and four children, is spending the time, when not at his office, on the magnificent yacht Sybarite, cruising around awaiting a visit from the stork.
 A number of the Epworth League eXcursionists, en route to San Fran cisco, were the victims of a gang of picIpockets at Colorado Springs, Col, who despoiled them of money and transportation, leaving them strand ed.
 Salt Lake City, Utah, was invaded, on the 14th, by an army of Epworth Leaguers and their friends, en route to San Francisco. The visitors spent the day in attending divine services and viewing points of interest. Dick Liddell, the former Missouri bandit and train robber, died at Gin cinnati, on the 14th, where he was racing string of horses. LiddeIl was an associate of the James and Young CT boys.
 Army officers returning from the Philippines report that Gen. Fred Funston expects to tender his resig- nation as brigadier general in the regular army and. engage in private business.
 Gov. Sage of Nebraska has paroled Joseph Bartley, former state treas urer, convicted of the embezzlement state funds and given 20-year sem tence.
 The emigration from Germany by way of Hamburg and Bremen, during the first six months of this year, reached 112,96S, as against 115,37O for the corresponding period last year.
 Reports from the west, northwest and southwest, on the 14th, indicate no let-up in the hot weather and drought. The corn crop will, in soma sections, be complete failure.
 The first meeting of the trustees of the Carnegie educational fund of $10,- 100000 was held at Edinburgh, on the 18th, Lord Elgin presiding. A letter from Mr. Carnegie was read announce ing that he had signed the deed plac- ing the fund at the disposal of the trustees.
 Several hundred negro eNcursionists from Macon caused riot at Ameri- GUS, Ga, on the 18th, which resulted in the shooting of two police officers and the instant killing of Ball English, a Macon negro, the ringleader of the disturbance.
 As the result of flash of lightning striking a straw shed on a farm mile north of Newcomerstown, O., on the 18th, three persons who had taken shelter from a prevailing storm were killed and two others seriously in jured
 Mrs. Fillmore Fetrow, living on Round island, four miles below Lam sing, Ia., found, on the 18th, pearl weighing 139A grains of the size and shape of chocolate drop.
 Five persons-engineer, two brake men and two tramps-were killed in c collision of Missouri, Kansas 6 Tex as freight trains near Muskogee, l. T., on the 10th.
 The annual report of the auditor for the treasury department shows that during the last year accounts were eN- amined involving an aggregate of $5,- SOC, ,761 ,O14.
 In the Ellis Glenn trial at Parkers- burg, W. Va, the forgery issue in the ease has almost been lost sight of in the effort to prove the identity of the prisoner.
 Shamrock IT. had her final brush with Shamrock l. on the 18th. She will now receive her ocean rig and will start across the big pond in a few days.
 Amob of negroes at Courtland, Ala, on the 18th, hanged Alexander Her man, negro charged with killing Sal lie Swope. Herman made confess sion.
 At Herrenberg and Wurtemhurg, Germany, the crops have been half ruined by hail, and thevrhave been badly damaged in othor sections. Fire of mysterious origin destroyed three buildings on the Des Moines county Qa.) poor farm, on the 18th. Loss, S40,000, insurance, 24,000. There was an enormous cloud-burst at Potsdam, Germany, on the 18th. Two men and many cattle were killed in the mountains by lightning.