Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-05-31
DOMESTIC.


Near Ardmore, l. T., construction
train plunged through a high trestle.
Four men were killed, and 21 injured,
seven of whom may die.
As he was leaving the senate Blind
Chaplain Milburn was struck by a
runaway horse attached to buggy.
The large toe of one foot was cut off.
A total of 80 bodies have been recov-
cred from the Fraterville mine near
Coal Creek, Tenn. Ernest Mcdonald
was taken out alive, but so badly man
gled that he cannot live.
The thirty-fifth annual encampment
of the Illinois G. A. R. is in session at
Rock Island. At Des Moines the twen-
ty-eighth annual meeting of the Iowa
G. A. r. is under way.
A schoolhouse near Brandon, Mimi,
was demolished by a tornado. Ida
Hanson, the teacher, was killed, and
several scholars injured.
A temporary injunction against
packers was granted by the United
States court in Chicago, preventing
operations under the alleged trust
agreements. The packers did not re-
sist, but denied charges and asked
full hearing. The latter may rot come
till August.
A waterspout killed six persons in
Covington, KY, caused $1,Oo0,00c
loss in Cincinnati, and damaged prop
erty in the Miami valley as far as
Dayton.
Judge John Fl. Baker, of the United
States circuit court at Indianapolis,
notified the president that he is ready
to retire when his successor is ap-
pointed.
The French battleship Gaulois, bear
ing delegates to the Rochambeau
statue unveiling at Washington, has
anchored near Annapolis.
President Roosevelt. at the unveil-
ing of the Colonial Danes monument
in Washington to soldiers of the Span
ish war said the United States had re-
deemed its promise to Cuba to the let
ter.
Two companies of the Twentieth
United States infantry from Fort Sheri-
dan, ILL.,, will participate in the cere-
monies of the unveiling of statue to
the late President Mckinley Mt Mus
kegon, Mich, May 30.
Crazed by his infaturation for little
Abitha Mccullough, 13-year-old girl,
William Austin killed the girl and four
other persons and then committed sui
eide in a lonely farmhouse of William
Wilkinson, near Hastings, Fla.
Two hundred and twenty-five lives
were almost certainly lost through an
explosion in the Fraterville shaft at
Coal Creek, Tenn. Thirty-four bodies
have been recovered. The workmen
are entombed three miles from the pits
mouth without hope of rescue.
William Leet, who was last week
convicted in the superior court at
Grand Rapids, Mich, of the murder
of his wife, Nellie Leet, by choking
and burning her, has been sentenced
by Judge Newham to 80 years in
prison.
School teachers are making prep
arations to attend the National Edu-
cational association convention, to be
held at Minneapolis July s-11.
Ed Boatmann, of Marinette, Wis,
and Caroline GARNER, aged 16, of
Menominee, Mich, were drowned in
the river at the latter place by the
capsizing of a rowboat.
Gonzales de Quesada has been
named Cuban minister to Washing
ton; Sagasta is to be consul general
nt New York.
Ninety-eight are known to be dead
and 103 injured as result of the tor
nado which swept over Goliad, Tex.
It is said that Samuel Hoar, of Con-
cord, Mass, has been rendered by
President Roosevelt the position on
the United States supreme bench now
occupied by Justice Horace Gray, and
that Mr.. Hoar has accepted. Judge
Cray is said to have notified the
president Of his intention t0 retire,