Woodruff County news., 1902-05-29
The seventeen year locusts have appeared in several states.

appeared III several SldCeS.
 The machinists of the Texas Pa cifc system are on strike for short sr hours.
 Coal miners in the Springfield, H., district have signed scale to hold good for twelve months.
 Mrs. Carrie Nation was last week sentenced to thirty days in jail at Topeka for smashing saloon in 1901.
 A cloudburst in Illinois destroy ed thousands of dollars in property in the vicinity of Independence and Dubuque.
 The Illinois Central will expend in the neighborhood of $1,000,000 in the erection of new shops at Memphis.
 King Alfonso, of Spain, took the oath of office on the 17th, and is now king in fact as well as in name. The young ruler is but 16 years of age.
 The last rail of the Choctaw completing the line from Memphis to Amarillo, Tex, was laid May Is, opening up new route to Den yer and the Pacific coast
 Junius Lehman, a wealthy brew eryman, has been sentenced to two years in the penitentiary on the charge of bribing members of the St. Louis city council.
 The town of Goliad, Tex, was visited by severe wind storm on the 18th. It is reported from for ty to sixty people were killed and a part of the town blown away.
 Because he was rejected as a suit or for the hand of a 13-year-old girl, w. NJ. Austin, aged 25, mur- dered five members of the family of Wm Wilkinson near Hastings, Fla. The dead are: William Will kinson, aged 52; Mrs. Wilkinson, his wife; Miss Abitha Mccullough, aged IS; Miss Wilkinson, sister to William Wilkinson one child; Will liam Austin, the murderer and sui eide, aged 25.
 The first chapter in the beef trust suit instituted in federal court at Chicago ended in the granting of temporary injunc- ton against the packers. The de cree of the court is so wide in it's scope that if the packers or their agents continue with their present alleged uniform arrangements, they will be taken into court on con- tempt proceedings, and the burden of proof will be on them to show that they have not violated the or der in any particular.
 The most appalling disaster in the history of East Tennessee oc- cured at Coal Creek, in the coal mining section May 19. An explo- sion of gas accumulated in the Fra terville coal mine probably brought death to as many as 300 men and boys. Superintendent George Camp, of the mine, states that on account of the large number of boys and day laborers employed, of whom no tag checks were required, the number in the mine may have been from 250 to 300. A peculiar accident befell Will liam Ray, a watchman of Smith vile, Ind. He was putting on his coat when his revolver, A caliber, fell to the floor and was discharged. Only one bullet was fired, but it made eight holes in his left arm. The arm was bent in such a way that the bullet entered the hand, passed through the wrist, again through the fleshy part of the fore arm, then out and through the bi- ceps muscle and then through the shoulder, making eight distinct holes,
 The French colonial experiments in the island of Martinique, the scene of the recent awful disaster, have not, according to the publica- tion of the treasury bureau of sta- tistics, Colonial Administration" " been altogether satisfactory. While many of the French colonies have