Woodruff County news., 1902-03-06

1eIIy McOOFefn QeIeateQ Lave Sullivan in the fifteenth round of a hard fought battle at Louisville, Ky.
 The house committee on territo- rles have unanimously reported a bill favoring the admission of New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma as states.
 A masked mob went to the home of Rufus Brumnet in Morgan coun- ty, Tennessee, and after giving him a severe whipping warned him to go to work and support his family or the dose would be repeated
 Negroes taken to Alvin, Tex, to work on railroads were forced to leave by the people of the town. The attorney for tI.e Santa Fe has de- cided to make an appeal to the gov ernor for protection for the men.
 Gen. Chaffee has notified the war department of the capture of Gen. Iuchban, an insurgent leader Off cials of the war department regard the capture of Lucban as the most important event since Aguinaldo's capture. He was run down on the island of Samar.
 The French bark Los Adelpher, bound for Portland, O., arrived at Seattle last week after a terrible ex- perience at sea. For twenty days the crew subsisted on one biscuit per day to each man and were for days without fresh water. All the men are suffering from scurvey.
 The most terrible snow slide ac- cident ever known in Colorado caused the death of from thirty to seventy-fiye men at the Liberty Bell mine on Smuggler mountain Feb ruary 28. Nearly all the buildings of the Liberty Bell mine were car ried down by the slide, all the books which show the number and names of the men employed being lost
 As a result of a pistol duel at Lawrenceburg, Ky, Ali Wither- spoon, president of the local bank, was fatally wounded by Police Judge Walker. The trouble was of long standing, Walker having fined With erspoon for carrying revolver. Walker acted in self-defense, With erspoon making the first break to draw weapon.
 Deputy Marshals last week sue ceeded in breaking up notorious band of outlaws in the Indian Ter ritory by arresting Bert Wilson, Bill Watson and two others named Mot and Williams. With the outlaws were recovered six horses, two mules, six buggies, fifteen saddles, 500 rounds of ammunition, twenty-five Winchester rifles and a stack of smaller guns.
 Germany now contends that she placed her claim for indemnity from China on account of the Boxer trou- bles too low, and demands an in crease of 1O,000,000 taels. The United States government has pro- posed to the powers concerned that they consent to a pro rata reduction of claims so as to maintain the to- tai within the sum of 45O,000,000 l taels, which the powers agreed to | accept from China, as full indcmni- ty.
 Four of five members of the Earl family, living near Welsh, La, were found butchered and the father Is missing. It is supposed his body | was taken to the woods by the mur- derers Mrs. Earl had the whole front of her face mashed in with some blunt instrument, one of her sons was shot through the head and the throats of two others cut. The deed was committed while the vic tins were asleep.
 In the case of the United States vs. The St. Louis and Mississippi Valley Transportation Company, the United States supreme court has de- cided that the United States Is re- sponsible for damage done in colli- sion with its war vessels, when such collision is dne to the ncolioence of