Woodruff County news., 1902-05-08

Herkimer, Kas., was destroyed by fire.
 Hon. J. Sterling Morton, of Ne braska, former secretary of agricul- ture, is dead.
 The new steamship combine is meeting with opposition from the British government.
 W. M. Rodgers, aged 76, of John son county, Tennessee, murdered his 30-year-old and-daughter and kill ed himself.
 Martin Lynch, a wife murderer, committed suicide in jail at Cleve- land, O., by hanging himself from the doorknob.
 Hon. H. Clay Evans will likely be appointed consul general at Lon don to succeed the late Consul Os- borne, who was a cousin to Presi- dent Mckinley.
 The public building bill pending in congress contains the following items: For postoffice, at Fort Smith, $100,00O; and for postoAice at Batesville, $3O,000
 Alanson Wood, of Toledo, O., has invented an air ship and will enter the contest of the St. Louis fair for the $200,000 prize for the best in- vention of the kind in operation.
 When the new department of com. merce is established it is probable that George B. Cortelyou, now sec retary to the president, will enter the cabinet as secretary of com merce.
 Admiral Schley arrived in Mem phis April 28, and on Monday was presented with a magnificent silver service, purchased with money do- mated by citizens of the entire south.
 Berry Howard, the man who was alleged to have fired the shot that killed Senator Goebel, has been ac- quilted. Three others are serving life sentences for complicity in this crime
 A tornado struck Joplin, Mo-, April 27, causing the loss of two lives and the destruction of $150,- 900 in property. The storm also did considerable damage in Kansas, Nebraska and Illinois.
 The Osage and Ponca Indians have determined that the beef trust shall not do business within their reservations, and to this end they have decided to cancel and withhold all further leases of grazing land. About 30,000 acres of grazing land remain under this order in the Pon- ca reservation, and 100000 in the Osage reservation.
 Senator Hanna, in an interview, declares that he Is not a candidate for president, and desires his friends to so understand. He says that ire quent mention of his name in con- nection with the office handicaps his labors as head of the civic federal tion, whereby he hopes to bring about a better understanding be- tween wage earners and employers.
 The first regular contract ever made in the world to pick cotton by machinery was closed in Greenville, Miss, few days since, and the first experiment with the machine will be made next fall. A Pittsburg man named Thomas R. Morris is the in- ventor of the device, and for the past ten years he has been conduct ing experiments.
 An unsuccessful attempt was made to hold up Frisco passenger train between Seligman and Wash burn, Mo, by two men. The rob- bers boarded the train at Seligman and just after the train pulled out climbed over the tender into the cab l and covered the engineer and fire man with revolvers They ordered the engineer to increase speed, but to stop when they gave the signal. Two miles beyond Seligman they or dered him to stop. Seven or eight | men appeared at the spot designated as the train approached. Mean while the engineer had pulled his