Woodruff County news., 1902-08-28
Anthracite coal is selling for $11 a ton in New York City.

Tn a rlot at Iupelo, Miss, three negroes and one white man were killed. The trouble originated over an attempt to arrest two negroes on the charge of larceny.
 Commissioner of Immigration Sargent will increase the force of inspectors on the Mexican border to prevent Chinese from entering this country through Mexico.
 Many railroads throughout the country will give a rate of one cent mile to and from the reunion of the G. A. R., to be held in Wash ington, D. C., the first week in Octo- ber.
 Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, in speech at Morristown, Vt., de- clared in favor of revising our pres ent tariff laws, but declared the re- vision should be made by the party pledged to protective tariff.
 Fred Hammann, a patient with nasty consumption, selected by New York paper from 100 other cases, and sent to Prof. Hoff, the specialist at Vienna, to prove to the world that the disease is curable, has returned home, completely cured. The treatment is to be tried on large number of patients, which will determine positively as to its merits.
 Henry Glcnny, a Choctaw rail road man, was shot and killed on street car at Memphis by Cobb Feel. It is said Feel and several compan- ions were in street car and used profane language to the conductor. Glenny, who was accompanied by his wife, objected and in fight he was shot by Feel.
 In a recent interview with a southern politician, according to a Washington dispatch, President Roosevelt said some very severe things about certain type of re- publican factionists-the type which exerts itself only to ohtain recogni- tion as the leading faction, to mo- nopolize patronage and get delegates to conventions, and never is known by effective work on election day.
 The interior department has al- lowed James Riddell $70O in pay ment of his claim against the gov- ernment for property destroyed by fire on the government reservation at Hot Springs, in 1878. Some twenty claims of this character are still pending. The houses were de- stroyed by fire after they had been condemned by the government and ordered removed. Officials of the in- terror department are working upon the cases, and expect to have them all settled within the next two months.
 The government report shows that the total output of petroleum for the whole world in 1900 was 155,- 000,000 barrels. The production in this country for the same year was 63,000,000 barrels, but in 1901, as the result of the exploitation of the Texas oil fields, the output increased to 720,0o0,00O barrels, or more than five times the total output of the world for the previous year. There seems to have been an enormous in- crease also in the worlds output. There are now at least 260 wells in Texas alone, which up to a recent date have developed capacity of from 50,O0O to 16O,O0O barrels day. It is estimated that about S,ooO,O0o,0oo gallons year come from the Texas oil fields alone.
 Appropriations footing up $Soo,- 624, 4,496.55 were made by congress during the last session, the report of the chief clerks of the committees of appropriations for the house and senate being just issued. The de- tails of appropriations by bills are as follows: Agricultural, $5,20S,- 9so; army, $S1,73O,136.41; diplo- matic, $1,957,925.59; District of Columbia, $s,544,569.97; fortifca- tion, $7,s9s,955; Indian, $s,9s6,- | 1sS.1o; legislative, $25,396,6s1.5O l military academy, $2,627,32442 naval, $7s,e56,363.13; pensions,