Woodruff County news., 1902-09-25
NEWS OF THE WORLD,

months, has reported for duty.
 Early frosts have caused big loss to truck farmers of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Kansas.
 Justice Gray, who retired from the supreme bench last spring, died at his home in Lynn, Mass, of par alysis.
 King Edward of England has en- tirely recovered from the illness and operation which caused much anx- iety throughout Europe.
 It is reported that between 300 and 1000 Chinese converts to the Catholic faith have been killed the past month by Boxers in the prov ince of Sze Chuen.
 President Roosevelt, on the 18th inst, entertained between six and seven thousand friends and neigh bors. at Oyster Bay. It was the first reception of the kind ever giv- en by president, and all classes, white and black, rich and poor, were in attendance.
 Twenty lives have been reported lost in fighting forest fires in Ore gon and Washington, and it is esti- mated $2,000,O00 worth of property has been destroyed during the last few weeks. Many more people ara missing, but it will not be known how many are dead until reports from remote districts come in. The estimate of the property loss does not include standing timber, but covers sawmills, houses, barns, shops, cord wood and farm implements.
 An explosion in the Big Four mine at North Fork, w. Va, caused the death of fifteen miners. The ex- plosion is said to have been caused by an accumulation of gas catch ing on fire from the lamp of a mi her who was going to work, and this in turn fired six kegs of blasting powder that had been stored back in the mines. The explosion knock ed down all the brattices for a quar- ter of mile back toward the mine entrance, thus cutting out all of the air from the men imprisoned be- hind the debris.
 Corners in grain are forever ren- dered practically impossible by a decision handed down by Judge Chy- traus, of Chicago, if sustained by the higher court. The case was for an injunction asked by Waite, Thor born < Co. against prominent com mission houses in the recent July oats corner. The most important ruling is that the Chicago Board of Trade loses the power to pass on property rights where margins are involved, and denying its authority to discipline members for refusing to put up all called margins.
 China is on the verge of another boxer uprising, which may equal that of 1900, according to advices received from Minister Conger. The troubles appear to arise principally from eXtortionate taxation, com bined with resentment against the presence of missionaries, thus jus tifying the judgment of the depart ment of state which pointed out to the powers that the demand for ex- cessive indemnities would result in serious internal troubles in China. MT. Conger's first advice bears date of August ,, from Pekin, and he re- ports serious anti-foreign riots near ChenTu, in the province of Sze Chuan, in which a number of native Christians had been massacred and chapels destroyed.
 It is feared the Mississippi river will in few years cut a new cham nel above Memphis and leave that city, unless something is done to hold the stream in its present course. Discussing the situation the Com mercial Appeal says: "Should the river do its worst it would mean that Memphis will be without a water highway It will mean that the present bridge of the Frisco system will be useless, and that new one will have to be built. In addition to these great and almost incaleula- ble injuries to the prosperity and fu- ture of the city, and the annihila-