Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-16

During a heavy storm several un-
completed structures on the worlds
fair site at st. Louis were blown
down. The damage is placed at
100000.
One of the bandits who held up a
c., B & @. train near Savannah,
ILL.,, was killed either by the express
messenger, who fired several shots,
or one of his companions.
The 7-year-old son Of Ira Bolton,
living near Bolton, Tenn, shot and
killed his fve-year-old brother be-
cause the latter would not give him
tomato. The elder boy is said to
have cried: 'If you don't give me
that tomato l will shoot you" He
pointed a 22-calibre target gun at
the fve-year-old, and it discharged,
killing the boy instantly.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Shandrow, a
wealthy but childless couple living
near South Haven, Mich, recently
adopted a whole orphan asylum. To
please. his wife, Shandrow wrote to
the Smith founding hospital in
Minneapolis asking them to send
him several children for a summers
outing, with the privilege of choos-
ing from them in case he should
want to adopt boy The Minneap-
oils institution is a small one, and
the management promptly forward
ed the visible supply of children
over three years of age-no less
than twenty-five boys and girls.
The couple became so attached to
the homeless children they conclud-
ed to legally adopt all of them, who
will not only have a comfortable
home during the lifetime of their
benefactors, but will be left a for
tune each at their death.
Harry Tracy, the notorious out
law who, with David Merrill, escap-
ed from the Oregon penitentiary at
Salem June 9 last, killing three
prison guards and a convict at the
time, committed suicide after being
wounded and run to bay in a wheat
field in the state of Washington on
the 9th inst. Tracy was hunted
down by four citizens and a deputy
sheriff, who will divide a reward of
$4,000. The outlaw was located on
ranch belonging to a man named
Eddy. He made bold dash for the
brush, firing no less than twenty
shots at his pursuers, but his aim
for the first time was bad and none
of the party were injured. Keeping
up running fight he was pursued
to wheat field, when he was seen
to stumble as though wounded. He
crawled into the grain, and in a few
moments a pistol shot was heard.
An entrance was made into the field
and Tracy's dead body was found
lying amid the grain with his face
turned toward the sky. His left
hand, thrown over his head, held
revolver, which had inflicted the
death wound. The thumb Of his
hand was on the trigger of the pis-
tol. His right hand, thrown across
the lower part of his body, firmly
grasped the barrel of the famous ri
file. Two bullet wounds on the left leg
showed the cause Of the mans de-
spondency. One shot had broken
the leg between the ankle and the
knee. The other. cut the tibial ar
terry, which of itself was sufficient
to cause death. On June 28 Tracy
killed Merrill near Napavine, Wash,
shooting him from behind and leav-
ing his body in the forest, where it
was found on July Is. On July 3,
near Seattle, in a fight with posse,
Tracy shot and killed Charles Ray
mond, deputy sheriff, E. E. Bresse,
a policeman, and mortally wounded
Neil Rawley, who died on the fol-
lowing day, and wounded Carl An
derson and Louie Seafrite, newspa-
per reporters. He committed many
feats of daring during his flight, in
the course of which he eluded va
rious posses when apparently sur
rounded, and held up numerous
farmers whom he forced to furnish |
food and clothing and by threats of
numbering their families, compelled
them to cover up his tracks. Tracy
was serving term for a double mur-
der committed in 1897 at the time
of his escape.
The war department has issued an
order to enforce the standing regu-
lations of prohibiting foreigners
from visiting military posts con-
nected with the coast defense.
Commissioner of Pensions Ware
says legislation enacted by the last
session of congress will result in at