Woodruff County news., 1902-01-16


 re-entered Pekin on the Eth inst.
 Fifteen miners lost their lives by a cave-in at a coal mine near Ne gaunee, Wis.
 Masked men entered the National Stock Yards bank at East St. Louis and made haul of $5,000.
 Perry Belmont, democrat, was de- feated for congress from the seventh New York district at a special elec- ton, by Montague Lessler, republi- can, the latter's plurality being only 394 votes.
 Col. Maristigan, Major Cabrera and a renegade priest named Castil- To, have surrendered unconditionally to Gen. Bell, who is conducting the campaign against the insurgents in Batangas province, P l. They had control of the district of Toael, ex- tending westward to the sea.
 The Boer delegates in Holland ev- idently anticipate that some kind of peace overtures will shortly be made to the British, though they are reti- cent as to their reasons for this be- lief. They maintain, however, that the demand for an unconditional surrender must be abandoned.
 The statistician of the depart ment of agriculture estimates the average yield per acre of wheat in the United States in 1901 at 14.9 bushels, as compared with 12.3 bush els in 1900, 12.3 bushels in 1899, 15.3 bushels in 1898 and 13.3 bush els the mean of the average of the past ten years.
 The division of insular affairs of the war department has made public a statement showing that the total customs revenues for the island of Cuba during the eleven months end ed November 30, 1901, were $14,- 355,000, as compared with $14, 4,565,- POP for the same period of 1900, and S13,373,557 for 1899.
 Senator Hanna, of Ohio, had an extGnded conference with President Roosevelt one day last week Many contests over southern appointments are referred to Senator Hanna as chairman of the republican national committed, and these matters were under discussion Senator Hanna pronounced his interview very sat isfactory.
 Two local passenger trains col lided in the New York Central tun- nel that burrows under Park avenue, New York City. Sixteen passengers were killed and thirty injured. The engineer of one of the trains made a mistake in orders. The scene of the wreck was appalling, many of the injured being scalded to death by escaping steam.
 Secretary of Agriculture Wilson reports that it has been fully dem- onstrated by experiments conducted by his department that we can raise in the country all the wrapper tobac- co necessary for domestic use, of as fine quality as can be grown in Cuba. Last year the imports of wrapper tobacco in the United States amounted to s6,O00,OO0, and of filler $S,O00.0OO.
 Mrs Kate Mason, of Waco, Tex, wife of John Mason, gave her life to save her husband, who is a par alytic The house caught fire, and Mrs Mason remained with her hus- band until help came Meantime her clothing was ignited, and she was burned to death. The heroic woman, who pushed her husband to the door while her body was envel- oped in flames, was 70 years old.
 There were 135 lynchings in the United States during 1901, eight | more than the preceding year. Of these lynchings 121 are credited to the south and fourteen to the north. Of the total number 101 were ne groes, twenty-six whites, one Indian and one Chinaman Thirty-nine | were charged with murder, nineteen with criminal assault, nine with assault and eight with n +too pta1 criminal occault and Inc |