Woodruff County news., 1902-11-20
News of the World

IcSlucHI hOOoeNelC Will NlSlL Memphis on the 18th inst.
 The French arbitration board has decided against the striking coal miners.
 A. L. Pennock and Pat Doyle, railroad laborers, were instantly killed by the premature explosion of charge of dynamite near Un- ion, Nc.
 Marshal Nicholas Hofferton, of Independence, Ky, was killed in a desperate battle with a farmer named William Rice, who was him. self fatally wounded.
 Striking girl employees of a wool en mill at St. Joseph, Mo, attacked four non-union girls while they were on their way to work and al- most stripped them of their cloth ing.
 Dr. G. A. Charlton, an eminent pathologist ot Montreal, claims to have discovered a serum for the cure of scarlet fever. Out of fifteen cases recently treated with the ser um, thirteen recovered.
 Secretary Hay has informed the navy department that conditions on the isthmus of Panama have as- sumed so favorable a phase that he no longer has any suggestions to offer as to the further disposi- tion of the American sailors and marines who have been doing guard duty at the terminals and on the railway line itself for many weeks past.
 The exports of manufactures from the United States in the nine months ending with September, 1909, are larger than those in the corresponding period of any other year in the history of our country, with the single exception of 1900. The total for the nine months Is $31I,302, ,441, against $29S, ,66O,5 ,551 in the corresponding months of last year, and $358, 8,67S,243 in the cor responding months of 1900.
 Roland B. Molineaux was set free by jury in New York City, after having once been sentenced to death and after spending four years in prison Molineaux was accused of murdering Mrs. Katherine Adams by forwarding poison through the mails. The case has been one of the most sensational in the history of the country, and at tracted unusual attention on ac- count of the prominence of the ac- cused and his accusers.
 Col. Ed Butler, the millionaire politician of St. Louis, on trial charged with attemptings to bribe | Dr. Chapman, of the St. Louis board of health in order to infu- ence his vote on the endorsement of garbage contract with the city, has been found guilty by the jury, which assessed the punishment at three years in the penitentiary. An appeal has been taken to the su- preme court, and Col. Butler was released on $1O,0O0 bond. The preliminary estimate of the average yield per acre of corn, as published in the monthly report of the statistician of the department of agriculture is 26S bushels, as compared with an average yield of 167 bushels in 1901; 25.3 bushels in 1900 and 1899, and a ten year average of 23.4 bushels. The aver age yield by states shows Missouri in the lead with 32 bushels per acre, Ohio next with 30 bushels per acre, while the lowest in production is Texas, with S.01 per acre. The executive board of districts 14, 21 and 25, representing coal mi ners of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Indian Territory and Texas, held a secret conference at Pittsburg last week, the object being to formulate plans by which they can make joint demands on the Central Coal and Coke Company, the Western Coal and Mining Company and the Southwestern Coal and Improve ment Company for recognition of the union. These are the only com