Woodruff County news., 1902-11-27

A freight depot at Pell City, Ala, was wrecked by an explosion of dy- namite and four men working in the building were killed.
 Senator Cullom, of Illinois, has announced his intention of introduce ing at the next session of congress an antitrust bill.
 Miss Florence McFarlan, aged 21, was stabbed to death at Roch- ester, N. Y., by Mrs Lulu Young. Jealousy prompted the deed.
 President Roosevelt did not get an opportunity to shoot bear in his Mississippi hunt, but one ani- nal was run down and killed by guide.
 Harry Allemang, the baseball player who was shot at Mason City, w. Va, by burglars, will recover. It was thought at first that he was mortally wounded.
 Capt. Edward Williams, wanted in Chicago on the charge of acting as brlbe giver for large property in- terests in evading paying taxes, has been taken into custody.
 The czar has issued a proscriptive order in regard to foreigners visit ing Turkistan the object being to keep secret the movements of Rus sian troops in that territory.
 For the first time since the civil war there is one regiment in the United States army without an off, cer in it who participated in the great battles between the states.
 At the annual meeting of the American Federation of Labor held in New Orleans, a resolution oppos- ing ship subsidies and in favor of the lsthmian canal was adopted.
 Sylvester Richardson, a 15-year- old boy, is under arrest at Mays field, Ky, on the charge of attempt ing to wreck a fast mail train by placing Instructions on the track.
 The Baptist state convention ap- pointed committee to confer with the other faction, known as the Baptist State Association, and it is probable peace will be declared and the two bodies united.
 The Northern Central and Phil adelphia, Baltimore and Washing ton Railroad Companies have an- nounced an increase of 10 per cent in wages of all employees receiving less than $50 per month.
 W. J. Lomasney, young bank teller, committed suicide in justice of the peace court at St. Louis, where he was in attendance as a wit ness. An investigation of his ac- counts revealed no shortage.
 A vast vein of ore, running $44 per ton of gold and silver, has been discovered half a mile from Silver Cliff, Col. The ore is lying just be- low the surface, on government land, and everything for miles around has been staked.
 Four masked men held up a pas- senger train on the Colorado and Southern near Trinidad, but secur- ed no money on account of the re- sistance of Messenger Sherwick. One of the robbers was shot by the plucky messenger, when the other kicked him up and disappeared in the woods.
 An Italian anarchist fired three intellectual shots at King Leopold while he was passing through the streets of Belgium. The -would-be assassin was rescued from mob by the police. The unfred cartridges in his revolver were found to be blank, and it is thought those dis charged were also harmless.
 Not until they went.to attend his funeral at Marion, Ind, did the two wives of Thos. N. Davis know that he was leading a dual life. Both women were mentioned in the deceased's will. One lived at Ma rion and the other at Bowling Green for years without any knowl- edge of the'r slations of each to Da- wis.