Woodruff County news., 1901-09-05

burned to death at the Ot. LOUIS Ad1H grounds race track.
 The new town of Anadarko, Okla, was almost wiped out by storm, III which four people were killed.
 The census of New Mexico shows total population of 195,310, 7 per cent of which is foreign born.
 The wreck of a passenger train on the Pennsylvania railroad near New ark, N. J., resulted in the death of eleven persons.
 One man was killed and seventeen injured by a head-end collision on a rapid transit line, suburban road, near Atlanta. Ga
 The threatened rupture between Turkey and France has been averted by the former government granting certain demands of the latter.
 The transport Sheridan sailed from San Francisco August 31 with large number of teachers for the public schools in the Philippines.
 Nine people are known to be dead and nineteen are missing as the re- suit of the explosion of a boiler on the seamer City of Trenton near Philadelphia.
 The fall season for active recruit ing for the navy is soon to begin. The middle, western and southern states are expected to furnish large number of men.
 Since September 1, 1900, seventy five Filipino natives have been con- victed by the civil authorities and paid the penalty of death for their crimes; eighty-nine sentenced to death have had their sentences com muted to life imprisonment or stated periods of time in five cases the sen- tence of death has been dlsapproved, and seventy-fve sentences to impris- onment for periods of time exceeding ten years have been confirmed.
 The third death from yellow fever caused by the bite of a mosquito is reported from Havana. The vic- tim was Miss Clara Maas, of New Jersey. Of the six persons bitten by mosquitoes recently in the course of the yellow fever commissions ex- periments, three have died, and the doctors say the other three are suffer- ing from light attacks of the disease. Miss Maas was nurse at Las Ami mas and wished to become immune.
 Governor Longino, of Mississippi, has suspended State Treasurer Stow CTS. A count of the cash by an agent appointed by the governor, showed shortage of $1O7,0OO. The treasurer asked for a recount, and when made all the funds were found on hand, Stowers stating that when the first count was made the de- ficiency was on deposit in a local bank. As the law requires that all the funds be kept in the treasury, Governor Longino suspended the treasurer.
 An Associated Press dispatch from New York says: "Since it became known that the Gould inter- ests had made an offer for the con- trol of the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf railroad, there has been active movement in the previously dormant shares of the Colorado & Southern railroad in the New York stock mar ket, with rumors that George J. Gould was buying the property. There is trustworthy authority for the assertion that the Colorado X Southern will in the future be con- trolled by interests friendly to both MT. Gould and Mr. Hartman. This road, which includes about eleven hundred and fifty miles of line, has important connections with the Un- ion Pacific, as we'll as with the Gould-Southwestern roads. The Rio Grande Western, a Gould road, Is joint owner with the Colorado X Southern of the Colorado Midland. Tho No1oroJo opJ So,+Lo,,, oc,,o,,o,,,,