Woodruff County news., 1902-10-16
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

France Is threatened with a fuel famine, owing to general strike of coal miners.
 Rhode Island Republicans, in state convention, indorsed President Roosevelt for nomination in 1904.
 Some of the railroads are con- verting their locomotives into wood burners, owing to the coal famine.
 President Roosevelt's physicians report that he is fast recovering from the operation recently per formed on his knee.
 Mrs. Josie Carson Squires, daugh- ter of Kit Carson, the famous scout, died last week in an insane asylum at Las Vegas, N. M.
 Emile Hartman, one of the fugi- tives wanted in St. Louis to answer charges of bribery, was captured last week at South McAlester. I. T.
 The Mississippi building at the St. Louis worlds fair will be re- production of "Bouvoir," the home of Jefferson Davis at the time of his death.
 President Roosevelt was able to review the G. A. R. parade at Wash ington from his carriage. Twenty five thousand veterans were in the line of march.
 Ten bodies that had been stolen from a graveyard were found in the basement of a medical college at h. diapapolis, Ind. Several arrests have been made.
 As a large amount of coal con- fumed in Canada is shipped from this country, there is much con- plaint as to high prices, and great suffering is already reported.
 The attorney general of Illinois has ruled that it is unconstitutional to lease state convicts, and steps will be taken to annul several con- tracts for convict hire entered into with manufacturers.
 Gen. E. s. Bragg, consul general at Havana, has been transferred to the post of United States consul general at Hong Kong, taking the place of Vim. A. Rublee, transferred to the Havana consulate. The change was made on account of a letter written by Gen. Bragg criti- cling Cubans.
 Utt Duncan, colored, was taken from jail at Columbus, Tex, by a mob and hanged. Duncan entered the telephone office at a small place near Columbus, where young lady was alone, and insulted her. The negro was frightened away by the young lady's screams, but was cap tured in few hours.
 In a quarrel between a school teacher and the board of trustees at Altoona, N. D., six persons were fa- tally wounded. The teacher first shot down three directors of the school and then attacked the 8 and 10 year old daughters of Director Kuhler. With the last bullet in his pistol the enraged teacher took his own life.
 According to the annual report of the paymaster general, army ex- penditures decreased during the past fiscal year $91s,S19, as com pared with the preceding year, part ly owing to decrease in the pay of the army and in part owing to a re- duction of claims for extra pay by volunteers. The total expenditures made by Paymaster General Bates were $52,523,479
 MT. Root, secretary of war, will recommend that congress at its next session repeal the law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating beverages on military reservations. He will urge that the canteen system, which has been a source of agitation for many years, be re-established. The secretary will make this recommen- dation upon the strength of reports made by department commanders and upon investigations which the war department has conducted rel ative to the effect of the abandon ment of the system.
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