Woodruff County news., 1902-12-04

COllA IL. tOulllN dll, CA-CIldll IJlOu pugilist, has beer declared a bank rupt.
 W. J. Decarz, a Hot Springs dry goods clerk, has fallen heir to a large fortune in France.
 The First National Bank at Mor- gan, Tex, was dynamited by rob bers, who secured $6,0OO.
 John Godbey, college student, was probably fatally injured in a football game at St. Louias.
 The republican delegation of Ohio has endorsed Cannon, of Hi nois, for speaker of the house.
 The police are complaining of the large number of beggars and idlers Hooking to the larger cities since cool weather set in.
 The hints of Siam have been closed to the free coinage of silver, and the currency of that country is now on a gold basis.
 c. J. Horton, county commission CT of Tunnels county, Texas, shot and killed his wife and Earl Moore, a business man. The tragedy was
 The revolution in Colombia, which started three years ago, has ended by the signing of a peace treaty between the warning factions.
 The Goulds have decided to build a branch of the Missouri Pacific to Springfield, Mo, and there come into direct competition with the Frisco.
 The right of the new constitution of Virginia to bar a certain class of colored men from exercising the right to vote is to be tested in the courts. Hon. John G. Carlisle has been employed to conduct the case for the plaintiffs
 The commission of Sheriff Dud- ley, of Sullivan county, Indiana, has been revoked by the governor for failure to protect a negro from mob. The Indiana law provides that a sheriff shall vacate his office when a prisoner in his charge is lynched
 Rev. James w. McGarvin, presi- dent of the bible college of the Ken lucky university at Lexington, has withdrawn his membership from a local church, of which he was for merly pastor, because the congrega- tion decided to use an organ in the services.
 Sam Miller, a tailor, shot and killed his wife at Memphis in the l presence of their 11-year-old daugh- ter. About a year ago the couple separated, Miller going to Kansas City. Upon being notified that his wife had instituted suit for divorce, Miller made threats that he would kill her, and immediately upon ar irving in Memphis he went to the woman's home and shot her four times.
 Secretary Hay will take up nego- tiations direct with Colombia on the questions involving the building of the Isthmian canal, There are in dications that Colombia has listen ed to the representations of foreign governments who hope to secure a foothold on the isthmus, or to the representatives of private corpora tions who hope to see this govern ment abandon its plans for a canal and then take it up as private en- terprise. The administration will indicate to Colombia that under the Monroe doctrine this government will not tolerate an indefinite lease to a foreign government of a canal strip.
 John W. Yerkes, the commission CT of internal revenue, in his report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902, says that by the two acts abol- ishing the war revenue taxes inter nal revenue taxes have been reduced about $100,00O, ,000. There has been, however, an increase of reve- nue from taxes laid on distilled spirits and other objects that were not affected by war revenue legisla- ton. Receipts of the bureau for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, ,,-o,, dOAp ON1 eco Al H..