Woodruff County news., 1901-08-22
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.


 The Mexican government has de. cided to wage war on all gambling houses, and Minister of War Reyes will issue circular order to all army officers notifying them that if they are found in any gambling establish mept they will be dismissed from the service and turned over to the civil authorities. All the public employees are to be warned that gambling will involve their dismissal. Merchants and bankers sustain this move heart- fly.
 An explosion of ten tons of molten metal in the blast furnace depart ment at the Ohio plant of the Nation al Steel Co.,, at Youngstown, on the 18th, resulted in the death of three worllmen and the injury of Il others. The machinery which controlled the ladle containing the molten mass broke and allowed the metal to drop into vat containing water.
 Secretary Hay has appointed Dr. J. J. Rodriguez, of Washington city, as secretary of the delegation to the h. ternational Conference of American States to be held in the City of Mex ico next October. MT. Rodriguez is a lawyer and served as a special coun- sel to the American peace commis- sioners in Paris.
 A great forest fire is raging on North Pine and Fish creeks, near Baker City, Ore, and the destruction of vast amount of timber is threat ened. The weather is so dry and warm in the mountains that it will be impossible to stop the fire, which is likely to prove destructive to much ranch property.
 The Echo de Paris, on the 18th, pub lished an alleged interview with Count Von Waldersee in which he highly praised the French soldiers and eX- pressed belief that war between France and Germany was an impossi- bility.
 Over two thousand carriage work CTS were notified by seven shops in Cincinnati, on the 17th, that their services were needed no longer, and that the places would be opened Sep tember as non-union shops.
 James McCue, connected with Bar ney Schreiber's racing stable, of St. Louis, was fatally injured at the Saratoga (N. Y.) race track on the 18th.
 The Winona Bible conference opened it's seventh annual meeting ht
 
 While at target practice, on the 18th, at Fort Riley reservation, in Kansas, a seven-inch, 107-pound shell exploded as it was being placed in the breech of the third section gun of siege battery o, Seventh artillery, commanded by Capt. Van Dusen, kill ing Private Watson, and fatally in- turing three others. Several men were less seriously injured.
 Little Wonder, the celebrated hack ney stallion, owned by A. J. Cassatt, of Philadelphia, and imported by him in 1882, died, on the 10th, from peril tonitis. Little Wonder was the first hackney stallion imported to this country. He had been exhibited at all the principal horse shows in the country, winning many first firizes.
 The steamer Islander, sailing from Skagway, when nearing the south west end of Douglas island, at p. m. of the 18th, and running at full speed, struck floating iceberg, and in less than 20 minutes went to the bottom of the deep channel. From 60 to 70 persons and much treasure went down with the vessel.
 A monument to commemorate the ffty-ffth anniversary of the peaceful annexation of New Mexico to the United States, was unveiled, on the 18th, on the plaza at Santa Fe, in the presence of a vast concourse. The monument was erected by Sunshine Chapter of the Daughters of the American revolution.
 It was reported in Glasgow, on the 10th, that J. R. Ellerman, of the Ley land line, had purchased the old-es- tablished City line of 14 steamers, en- gagged in the East India trade, the price being nearly one million pounds sterling. Mir. Ellerman, according to rumor, acted for J. Pierpont Morgan and his associates.
 The Corean government has forbid den the eXportation of rice, on ac- count of the short crop. The Japan ese government has instructed it's minister at Seoul to inquire whether the measure is justifiable. Japan has an agreement with Corea forbidding such action except in case of dire ne- cessity.
 Adam Rest and Joseph Eugine, two of the workmen who were trapped in the Cleveland (O.) waterworks tunnel 200 feet below the surface of Lake Erie by the burning of Crib No. 2 re- gently, were rescued from their dan- gerous position, on the 18th, after five days imprisonment.