Woodruff County news., 1902-01-23

A 1ull1lly VI oCNClI lJC1oOuS udllCN Pearlstein, consisting of husband, wife and five children, were burned to death in a ire which destroyed their home at Boston.
 Gov. Van Sant will call an extra session of the Minnesota legislature to deal with the question of the re- cent consolidation of principal rail- roads trayersing that state.
 A telegram from the city of Mexi- co says the city of Chilfeucingo, state of Guerrero, suffered severely from an earthquake shock, over 600 peo- pie being killed. The shock lasted for nearly a minute and was one of the most destructive seismic distur- ances ever recorded in Mexico.
 Those Confederate soldiers whose horses, saddles and brides were talk en from them by the Union forces in violation of the terms of surrender agreed upon between Gen. Grant and Gen. Lee at Appomattox are to be reimbursed by the federal gov ernment. Bills for this purpose have been favorably reported to both the house and senate, ard will be- come law at an early date. A sim liar bill passed both houses during the closing hours of the last con- gress, but failed to receive the presi- dents signature owing to the large number of bills presented for his approval on the 4th day of March, immediately before final adjourn ment.
 According to the report of Chair man Mcleod, of the Western Pas seager Association, showing the number of immigrants arriving in the United States through all ports for the year ending June 30, 1901, the ten states receiving the larger number of immigrants were: New York, 167, 7,241; Pennsylvania, 99,- 456; Massachusetts, 1,189; Illinois, 30,509; New Hampshire, 23,344; North Dakota, 13,754; Connecticut, 12,925; California, 11,601; Michi- gan, 10,S10; Minnesota, 1O,223. This total is the steerage immigra- tion. The table shows that of the total arrivals 469,287 came from Flu ropean countries, 13,593 from Asia, 113 from Africa and 4,915 from all other sources.
 The following is an official state ment furnished by F. A. Molitor, chief engineer of the Choctaw, Ok lahoma and Gulf, of track laid on extensions and branches of this sys- tenn during the var 1901: Wealth. .erford, west to Wheeler, Texas, 102 miles, of which S6.6 miles are in Oklahoma Ardmore Junction (2.8 miles west of Hartshorne, I. T) southwest to Wapanucka, 63 miles :; Choctaw Northern, from Gary to Ava, 104 miles, with a branch from ingersoll to Anthony, Kan, B miles, of which 14.6 miles are in Kansas. Hot Springs extension, Benton westward toward Butter field, eight miles. No track was laid on the extension of the Tecum- sch short line, which is under con- struction.
 The southbound Kansas City Southern passenger train was held up at II o'clock on the night of the 18th half a mile north of Spiro, 1. T., fifteen miles from Fort Smith, by seven masked men. The express and mail cars were entered The To- cal safe of the express car was op- encd. but nothing was secured from it. The robbers tried to open the through safe, but failed Then they rifed the mail car, and, it is said, secured a quantity of registered mail. The robbers fagges the train between Spiro and Redland. While two of the seven men covered the engineer and fireman with re- volvers, others forced porter, who had appeared on the steps of the forward coach, to uncouple the bag gage car from the rest of the train. John Block, a travelling salesman from Fort Smith, alighted from the train and was about to fire upon one of the robbers when he was pre- vented by Conductor Sullivan, who II | ,..N,,1l ErA 1,tn