Woodruff County news., 1902-08-14
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

OOA OO NOA hAoIlJ, hdo lCSlS HULL V1i' Whites resignation was due to i'll health.
 Thirty-fve buildings in the busi- ness section of Washington, La., were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $1O0,00O.
 A number of people, said to have taken part in the lynching of ne- gro at Leesburg, Va, have been in- dicted by the grand jury.
 Harry Benton, negro boy IF, years of age, was lynched near Ho- mer, La, for criminal assault on . little 4-year-old child.
 Charged with paying rewards for assaults on non-unien workmen, the scale varying according to the de- gree of injury inflicted, eleven union brass moulders were indicted by the grand jury at Chicago. This is said to be the first action of the kind ever taken against laboring men in the west.
 Tracy, the outlaw who escaped from the Oregon penitentiary sev- eral weeks ago, is still at large. Tracey declares that he wants to hold up a bank or rob an express car. He says that he has promised to give the sum of $5,000 within one year to the parties who helped him escape from the Oregon peniten- tiary. He is making his way to the "hole in the walP' country in Wyoming. When there, he declares he will be a thief among thieves and thinks he will be safe.
 Two of the robbers who held up a Mexican Central train and se- cured $50,000 from the Wells-Fargo express car have been captured at Gomez Palacio and nearly $30,000 has been recovered. The first rob Der to be caught has been fully iden- tified as 'Bill" Taylor, who held up a Santa Fe Pacific train in Texas and killed two men. He was sen fenced to death for that crime, but escaped to Mexico. Fifteen thous- and dollars of the booty secured in the recent robbery was recovered from Taylor.
 About 30,000 bound volumes of the census report for 1900 have been issued and mailed to those entitled to them, and 10000 more are to be printed and mailed before the work is finished. Two volumes are devot- ed to the report on population and two each to agriculture and vital statistics. Four are for manufac- lures. The latter will require an edition of fully 5000 to meet the de- mand, and calls have been made for more of the others than have been printed When the work of publi- cation is completed there will be made an abstract of the entire work of the census bureau and statistical atlas.
 Commodore Montgomery, noted Confederate naval officer, who on one occasion during the war came near capturing Gen. Grant, died a few days ago at the home of his son in Chicago. Commodore Montgom- cry was born in Carrollton, Ky, in 1877, and from his youth until the war broke out was engaged in river traffic. At the battle of Mobile Bay he played a conspicuous part. He was in the engagements at Fort Pillow and New Orleans, and at Memphis he lost hls feet.
 According to statements obtained from reliable sources, it is the in- tention of the vatican that the friars of the Augustinian, Dominican, Franciscan and Recollecto orders now in Manila, who number about 45O men, should leave there in small numbers at different times, so that when the moment comes to resume negotiations between Gov. Taft and the apostolic delegation, all the frl- ars will have left the archipelago in such way that the friar question will have resolved itself without tho