Woodruff County news., 1902-09-11
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

throughout the country.
 Forest fires started by lightning have laid waste large areas of tim Der in the forest reserve of western Wyoming.
 In fit of jealous rage Calvin Tol- ten, of Indianapolis, Ind, aged 55 years, shot to death his wife on a public street and then sent a bullet through his own head.
 On the night of the first inst. the local safe on the express car of the Louisville & Nashville north bound train were robbed of its con- tents by two masked men eighteen miles from Nashville. The robbers secured only a small amount of money.
 The receipts of the treasury de- partment for the month of August exceeded the expenditures by $5,- 955,812, an unexpectedly large sur plus. The total receipts were $4S,- 605,s12 and the expenditures $42,- 650,000. For the same month of last year the total receipts were $45,- 394,125 and the expenditures $39,- 351, 1,497, a surplus of little over $6,OoO,OOO.
 Hon. Tom l.. Johnson, mayor of Cleveland, O., and his followers controlled the democratic state con- vention of Ohio, dictated the plat form and shaped the policy of the party in that state in the forthcom- ing campaign. Ohio democrats will undoubtedly present the name of MT. Johnson as the nominee of the party for president at the next na- tional convention.
 Fifteen hundred people, residents on Isle of Martinique, lost their lives from eruptions of Mont Pelee from August 15 to September 3. The destruction has been greater than on the memorable occasion of May II, when the whole world was startled by the devastation of vol canic disturbances, though the loss of life was not as great from the fact the inhabitants had left the threatened territory.
 Reports are still being received at the war department concerning the devastating effects of the chole- "a epidemic that is raging in the Philippines. Although the officers in charge of the medical department of the archipelago and the physi- clans attached to the civil commis- sion have been doing their utmost to stop the ravages, they have been unsuccessful in even checking the spread of the disease, and now it is believed only the typhoon season will bring relief.
 Arde Wilson, a negro, had a nar- row escape from death at the hands of mob at Sparta, Ill. The negro entered the bed room of young lady, who grabbed and held to him until help arrived. He was placed in jail but a mob gathered and overpowered the guards. Battering down the jail door, rope was placed around Wilson's neck and he was started toward a nearby hill. In the confusion the moose parted and before the crowd realized what had happened the negro had slipped out and had darted down the street. A fusilade of shots followed but he es- caped in the darkness.
 While rounding a curve near Der ry, Ala, the engine and four cars of a colored excursion train on the Southern Railway left the track and the coaches were completely demol- ished. Twenty-one persons were killed outright and about eighty others injured, many fatally. Among the killed were H. M. Dudley and Roscoe Shelby, white trainmen. There were ten cars to the train, but the fourth broke loose from the fifth. The four cars turned com pletely over a number of times, and were crushed like eggshells. The only cause known for the car leav- ing the track is the high rate of speed at which the train was going.