Woodruff County news., 1901-05-02
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Capt. Wilson Chase, with a detach. ment of the Twenty-first infantry, on the 26th, surprised and captured the camp of the insurgent Gen. Cailles, Ut Dugot, nine miles northeast of C;.- tinti, in the Province of Laguna. Cailles was at his camp at the time of the American attack, but managed to escape. Capt. Chase's force captured his adiutant general, five others of his staff officers, IA men, 20 rifles, a large amount of ammunition and stores and all the papers and personal effects of the Filipino general.
 In the case of James Callahan, on trial at Omaha, Neb., on a charge oi Kidnapping young Eddie Cuhady, the jury brought in verdict, on the 18th, finding the prisoner not guilty. In place of the usual thanks and compliments, the judge scored the jury in unmeasured terms, ending as follows: q do not know what mo- tive actrated you in reaching this de- cision, but I hope none of you will ever appear again in this jury box"
 In fire at Houston, Tex, which de- stroyed livery stable and three res idences, on the 2sth, five persons were burned to death and several others were injured. The dead are Job Cop ping, a florist, his wife and three chil- dren. A negro has been arrested on the charge of having started the fire ta hic for. having discharged him.
 The London Daily Chronicle says it learns that Dr. Ludwig Mond has dis covered method of producing illumi- hating gas at two pence per 1000 feet, which will effect revolution by cheapening electric power and also as bearing upon the production of open hearth steel.
 Carefully compiled statistics by the Colorado Springs (Col.) Gazette show that the gold production of the Grip pie Creek district up to the close of hundred million dollars. Guld dust was first discovered in that camp in 1889.
 The department of agriculture has received no information bearing on the reports that lave been circulated in England, charging Boer emissaries with inoculating horses shipped from this country to South Africa with glanders and other maladies. It is reported from Belgrade that the Albanians in old Servia are com hitting wholesale atrocities. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Yerlies has held that express receipts for goods and merchandise to be transported from the United States to a foreign country are not exempt from tax under decisions of the Unit ed States supreme court in the mat tel of export bills of lading. At meeting of the board of over seers of Harvard university, held in Boston, OIL the 29th, the question of granting the degree of doctor of laws to President Mckinley was taken up informally, and the sentiment eX- pressed was unanimously in favor of the step.
 The American ship R. D. Rice, of San Francisco, Capt. Vim, which ar- river at Hioga, Japan, April Il, from Philadelphia, was burned, on the 29th. and is a total loss. The Rice sailed from Philadelphia on November 20, 1900, making the voyage to Hioga in 142 days.
 James Leatherman, deputy game warden for Wyoming, has found a wa terfall BOG feet high in Yellowstone National park, which he named Lost Falls" The falls are in Box canyon, two and half miles northwest of Hell's Half Acre.
 After announcing various opinions and hearing a number of motions, on the 29th, the United States supreme court took an adjournment till the 18th. The meeting then will be only for the announcement of opinions.
 The notorious "Jack the Ripper,' who has assaulted and mutilated IS women, has been caught at Ludwigs- hafen, Baden, red-banded, by two de- tectives attired as women. The steamer Ophir, bearing the duke and duchess of Cornwall and York, was sighted, on the 29th, of Cape Leeuwin, the most southwestern point of Australia.
 The board of directors of the Pan- American exposition at Buffalo, N. r., have reconsidered their action in re- ducing the price of admission to 25 cents on Sundays.
 State Senator Lemuel R. Bolter, prominent politician, died at his home in Logan, Ia., on the 29th, after brief illness.
 The British have enlisted number of Chinese at Tien Tsin for the Wei Hai-Wei regiment.
 Up to March 31, 1901, the war reve- nue act of June 13, 1898, had produced goGQ S0d 1A-