Woodruff County news., 1902-07-31

A new postal card is being issued from the postoffice' department at Washington which bears the pictuse of President Mckinley.
 After burning for six days, the Jennings, La, oil well which was struck by lightning was gotten under control and the flames extinguished
 Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina, has declined to accept the appointment of President Roosevelt of place on the United States court of claims.
 Ashley Cooke and Tom Lunder- dale, members of old and wealthy families, were hanged at Greenville, Miss, on the 22d. The crime for which these two men paid the penal ty with their lives was the cold blooded murder of G. NJ. Wray, on a passenger train.
 In four handed fight at Greeh- vile, Miss, Neal Conley was shot through the heart Officer Burns received a fatal wound, Ed Schraw- Der was shot through the left should CT, and Chief of Police Quinn re- ceived a bullet in the right hand. The fight was the result of an old feud between Schrawber and Con- ley.
 Mrs. Ellen Wright, of I.aSalle, H., lost her life in an attempt to protect her pet dog. She was walk ing along the railroad track with her pet dog, and passenger train was almost upon the dog when Mrs. Wright leaped to its rescue. She tossed the animal to safety, but was unable to avoid the train, which crushed her to death
 The largest annual seed distribu- tion ever made by the government will be begun early this fall. Some important changes in the plan of conducting this distribution will be established by the department of agriculture. With view of hand ling the seed to better advantage, the country has been divided into six districts, and seeds and plants particularly adapted to each district will be distributed therein. In years past much complaint has been made that the seed is received too late in the season, and this fault is to be overcome by starting the distribu- tion this year September 1.
 A statement has been prepared at the immigration bureau in Wash ington, showing the number of inn migrants who arrived in the United States by countries during the fiscal year 1909, as compared with 1901. The total arrivals for the last fiscal year were 64S,743 immigrants and 52,055 other alien passengers, mak- ing a total of 73O,79S. This is an increase of 160,S25 immigrants over 1901. Of this number 17S,375 came from Italy, 171,9S9 from Aus tria-Hungary. 107,347 from the Russian empire and Finland, 30,- 394 from Sweden, 29,13S from Ire land, 2S,304 from the German em- pire, 17,4S4 from Norway, 14,270 from Japan and 13,575 from Eng land
 The wave of seismic disturbances which has travelled around the world this year was felt in Bandar Abbas, at the eastern end of the Persian gulf, on July 9, when there was severe earthquake which lasted from three to four minutes. All the chief buildings suffered. The shock continued until July 10. Each of the five continents, except Aus tralia, have this year suffered from earthquakes, volcanic eruptions ac- companying them in five places. The following is the list: January, Nova Scotia, Croatia, Mexico, Lis bon; February, Russia, Schemacha; March, Turkey, Italy, Tchangerian and Lucca, respectively; April, Guatemala. Iceland; May, Martin ique (volcanic), St. Vincent, Spain, France (South Bordeaux), Wash ington (Mount Redoubt), (volcan- ic), Crotia, Mexico, San Francisco, Florida, France (the Cruesot dis trict), the Cape peninsula and l aa.,l