Woodruff County news., 1902-09-25

Pacific will certainly bridge the Mississippi at Memphis unless tolls are reduced over the present bridge at that point.
 The democratic convention of Massachusetts repudiated the Kan sas City platform and nominated Wm. A. Gaston, a gold standard man, for governor.
 Lieut.. Peary and party, who in 1901 sailed on the steamer Wind ward on an Arctic expedition, has re- turned. Lieut.. Peary reports important discoveries in natural his- tory.
 The prize fight between Terry Me- Govern and Young Corbett, sched- uled to take place at Louisville, did not come off in that city, as an in- junction was granted against the club promoting the battle.
 In fit of jealousy, Mrs. Emma Poindexter shot and killed her hus- band at Rockford, la. The woman crept into her husbands room when he was asleep and emptied the con- tents of revolver into his body.
 Secretary of the Treasury Shaw says the scare of financial strieng- ency in the east, on account of the necessity of large sums needed in the south and west to move crops is groundless. That there will be no further drains on the eastern banks IS shown by the large sums being sent to New York from the west for investment in call loans and secur- ities.
 A settlement of the Pennsylvania miners strike seems to be as remote as at the beginning of the trouble. The operators say the only way to settle affairs is for the men to return to work, while the officials of the miners union declare they will hold out indefinitely. In the meantime the price of fuel is soaring skyward, and at many points is beyond the reach of large class of people.
 Speaker Henderson has declined to accpet renomination for con gress from the third district of Iowa. This action of MT. Henderson was a great surprise to politicians all over the country, as well as to those in his district, especially since a re- nomination was rendered unani- mously. Mir. Henderson gives as his reason for the course he pursued that his views on treatment of trusts are not in accord with the views of his party in command in Iowa.
 Two women, disguised as negroes and in the act of robbing neighbor, after murdering his wife, were them selves killed near Ashland, La. It seems the husbands of the two wom- en burglars enticed the husband of the murdered woman from home at night, and his dead body was found the next day in the woods. The women, disguised in mems attire, were ransacking the house when peddler, who was sleeping in an ad- joining room awoke and opened fire, killing both of them. When he aroused the neighborhood and an investigation was made the two bur glars proved to be the wives of the white men who had persuaded the husband of the murdered wife to go hunting. The wives killed the wo- man to secure $500 pension money in the house.
 The mystery surrounding the dis appearance about ten years ago of George Nipper, wealthy cattleman of Claremore, l. T., has at last been cleared up. Nipper left home for Texas with large sum of money, and as his people could find no trace of him it was concluded that he had been murdered and robbed. His wife collected portion of his life insurance, and in a few years married again. A few weeks ago a man who had known Nipper we'll at his old home recognized him on the streets of Denver in the person of cripple mendicant. An inves- tigation brought to light the fact that Ripper, shortly after leaving home, was stricken with paralysis, and for seven years was a public