Woodruff County news., 1902-11-20

N0H- IIcu OIdIC IeCeIIIly dp- pointed commander of the depart ment of Texas, with headquarters at San Antonio, has assumed com mand.
 Secretary of War Root, in his an- nual report, will recommend the re- establishment of the army canteen, abolished by act of the last con- gress.
 A general fight followed an at tempt to force negro workmen to leave Beaumont, Texas, in which Max Weylich, a white man, was killed.
 Rev. Charles Cox, aged 65, pastor of church at Morehead, Ky, elop- ed with 17-year-old girl, a mem- Der of his congregation, deserting wife and five children.
 President John Mitchell, of the miners union, refused to stan@ for election as president of the Amer ican Federation of Eabor, Ho sue ceed MT. Gompers.
 Henry Youtsey, now serving a life sentence under conviction of complicity in the murder of Gov. Goebel, of Kentucky, is alleged to have made a confession, implicat- ing several parties not heretofore suspected in connection with the crime.
 The St. Louis city school board has decided to supply free text books to the children of that city.
 J. H. Bingham, collector of rev enue for Alabama, has been re- moved from office, it is claimed, on account of his activity in what is called the lily white movement to exclude negroes from the councils of the republican party.
 The reply of President George F. Baer of the Philadelphia and Read ing Coal Company to the charges of President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers, as presented to to the arbitration commission, ignores Mitchell as an official of the union. and suggests that the commission exclude the union from any recog- milton in their conclusions of the matters in dispute.
 It is stated on the authori- ty of a man who has the closest personal and political relations with the Ohio senator that Mir. Hanna will not be a candidate for reelection to the senate; will not, under any combination of condi- tions, be a candidate for the repub- lican nomination for the presidency in 1904 and will not, if he can pos sibly avoid it, continue as chair man of the republican national committee after the meeting of the republican national convention in 1904.
 A lone bandit, attired in Indian costume and streaked with war paint, held up the village of Oak land, Ind, in broad daylight. The stranger rode down the main street of the town, firing right and left through the windows of the busi- ness houses He ordered every one he met to hold up their hands, and when he reached the principal store of the village he entered and rid dled the glass front with bullets He then helped himself to all the money in the cash drawer and rode out of town.
 That the anthracite coal-mine owners will resist to the utmost every effort to make the recognition of United Mine Workers of Ameri- ca an issue in the arbitration which is now in progress is made evident by the replies to the statement of President John Mitchell of the mi ners' organization, which has been filed with the strike commission. There are five of these answers, in addition to that of President Baer, and all dwell with especial empha- sis and marked unanimity on this point. They also agree in resisting the demands of the miners for an increase of pay for piece work, a reduction of hours for time work