Woodruff County news., 1902-03-20
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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 It is reported that Congressman Moody, of Massachusetts, will sue ceed MT. Long as secretary of the navy.
 A wireless telegraph station of the Marconi system is to be establish ..at ed at aana4, Annapolis 40r the benefit of
 Unknown parties near Luling, Tex, went~to the home of Nathan Bird, negro, and took him and his son out and killed them.
 President Roosevelt has accepted the resignation of Secretary of the Navy Long and appointed Hon. W. H. Moody, of Massachusetts, as his successor.
 A strong flow of gas has been struck in Kansas City, Kan, where the Wyandotte Coal and Oil com pany has been drilling a prospect shaft for the last two months. The strike was made at a depth of 495 feet. It is believed that the yield will be 100000 or 30O,OO0 feet per day. Other wells will be sunk at once.
 Officers of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf have decided to extend the line from Amarillo, Tex, to Alber- querque, N. M This extension is to be provided for by an issue of $6,- 500,000 5 per cent bonds under the consolidation mortgage of 1902, is suable at the rate of 5000 mile, and by the issue of $6,500,000 com mon stock.
 Five persons were killed outright and many more seriously injured at the village of Montgomery, Miss, on the Illinois Central railroad ny a tornado. At Brookhaven, two resi- dences were demolished. A passen- ger train on the Illinois Central ran into the tornado near Wesson, Miss, and almost every window in the coaches was broken by hail. Several passengers were badly cut by glass.
 The negroes of the Tuskegee in stitution, who were engaged the lat ter part of 1900 by the German government to teach the natives of Togoland, German West Africa, how to grow cotton, have, according to the report of the colonial commis- sion, succeeded in producing cotton which is graded on the Berlin ex- change above the American mid ding.
 At a meeting of stockholders of the Missouri Pacific system at St. Louis, the following board of di rectors, was elected for the Iron Mountain: George J. Gould, Rus sell Sage, John T. Terry, R. NJ. Galloway, Howard Gould, Frank Jay Gould, G. c. W. Lowrey, Thos. T. Eckart, Henry Marquand, New York; Henry Wheeler, Jr., Phlla delphia; W. H. Thompson, c. c. Warner, Russell Harding, St. Louis.
 The steamer Providence, plying the Mississippi, was overturned dur ing a squall at lola landing, near Yicksburg. Most of the crew and passengers were asleep at the time of the accident, which occurred about } o'clock at night, and twenty-one lost their lives. The dead: Capt. Wm. Cassidy, Vicksburg, master; Chas. Roup, of Vicksburg, chief engineer; Clyde Scott, of Vicksburg, cotton seed buyer; Dr. N, A. Lancaster, q prominent physician and planter of the Palymra neighborhood; sixteen colored roustabouts and deck passen- gers.
 Gen. Methuen and four guns were captured by Gen. Delarey on the 7th. Gen. Methuen was wound ed in the thigh. Three British off cers and thirty-eight men were kill oJ Eiva British officarS and soy entv-two men were wounded. One British officer and 200 men are missing The fight in which Gen. Methuen was captured occurred be- tween Wimberg and Lychtenberg, Orange River colony The British Boers captured all the British bag gage and hold Gen. Methuen as a