Woodruff County news., 1902-08-21

TOT the Un1CeQ OtaLeS senate rom Michigan to succeed the late James McMillan.
 Officials of the G. A. R. are plan- ming to establish permanent head quarters of the organization at Washington.
 A new gold field has been dis covered in South Africa, said to be more promising than the territo- " already developed.
 Ex-Senator Thurston, of Nebras- ka, is in Honolulu on the mission of syndicating the big sugar plan tations on the islands.
 Albert Ullman, of Woodland, Wis, has confessed to assassinating his grown daughter, who was to have been married in few days. United States Senator James McMillan, of Michigan, died from sudden attack of heart disease on the 10th. He was GA years of age
 Secretary of the Treasury Shaw will have coined $1 gold pieces bear ing the face of Thomas Jefferson as St. Louis worlds fair souvenirs. A damaging storm swept over Kansas City and several people were injured by flying timbers. The wind reached velocity of fifty miles an hour.
 Twenty-Five deputy sheriffs guard ing a mine at Duryea, Pa, were placed in jail on charge of riot ing The deputies, it is alleged, fired on mob of strikers, who were endeavoring to prevent non-union men from working.
 F. H. Gerdes, a prominent Mem phis business man, hearing a noise in his back yard, took his revolver and went to investigate when he stumbled and fell, the weapon be- ing discharged, the bullet entering his brain.
 J. F. Gaynor and Capt. B. R. Greene, under arrest at Quebec, Canada, in connection with alleged frauds in harbor work at Charles ton, gained a victory in their fight against extradition, and have been released. The United States gov ernment will endeavor to get re- hearing in order that the accused may be brought back to this coun- try for trial.
 The treasury department is sending out millions daily to banks through out the country, the money to be used in marketing this years crop. These funds are secured by depos- its of bonds, and on account of the enormous yield of grain and other farm products the volume of circu- lation throughout the country has increased during the last year by large amount. On the 1st of July the total circulation was $2,260,- 750,242, or nearly $200,000,000 more than it was at the end of the fiscal. year 1901.
 Members of religious orders ex- pelled from France, especially the sisters, are applying to the vatican authorities for permission to settle in the United States. Several of them went to Rome personally for the purpose of urging their requests. A reply has been sent to them point ing out that there are no vacancies in the United States, and besides, calling attention to the difficulty arising from the fact that the ex- pelled sisters do not speak the Eng fish language. Canada has been suggested as a better field, as the sisters are comparatively scarce there, and because French is spoken in large area of the dominion.
 Seven people perished by the burning of frame hotel at San Marcus, Texas, summer resort. The building was frame structure. The dead are: Mrs. J. c. Landon, San Angelo; B. Hendricks, Waco; Mrs. Frank Schlupinsky and two children, Houston; Mrs. N. A. Fow- Ter and grandchild, Houston. Gut off from all avenues of escape, this little group, huddled, panic-stricken,