Woodruff County news., 1902-08-07
Joe Goddard, the pugilist, was

Joe Goddard, the pugilist, was shot and fatally wounded by negro constable at Camden, N. J., during a political riot.
 A rough estimate of the number of acres of cotton and other crops practically ruined by the floods in the Brazos bottoms in Texas is 20,- 900.
 Senator Platt, of New York, says Roosevelt will receive the solid sup port in the republican national con- vention of the delegation from his state.
 Dave Witt, night watchman for a Des Moines wholesale house, went to sleep on duty, when fire broke out in the building and he was burned to death.
 The United States will have no special representative at the corona tion of King Edward, Whitelaw Reid and his staff having returned to this country. The coronation is to be a very quiet affair.
 Experiments are being made to determine if paper cannot be made of chaff of sugar cane, thousands of tons of which are annually de- stroyed on the sugar plantations of Hawaii.
 A man named c. A. Hall made a bold attempt to rob a bank at Fort vile, Ind. The bandit stepped up to the window and, with a drawn revolver, demanded that the cashier give him 2,500. The cashier dodg- ed behind the counter and the robber fired two intellectual shots at him. This attracted people on the outside and Hall made a dash from the building, firing on his pursuers. He was shot in the hand by an officer, and, being unable to further use his revolver, surrendered.
 A most disgraceful affair oc- cured in New York City, when a Jewish funeral party engaged in a riot with the employees of a big man. ufacturing house. The procession is said to have been delayed more than an hour, during which time many persons were severely injured, and the windows of the factory al- most completely demolished. The first interruption was from the up- per stories of the factory from the windows of which pails of water were emptied on the heads of those who were in the line of procession. Then followed retaliation, and final ly bricks and other missiles were hurled from both sides.
 The striking coal miners of Penn sylvania are daily becoming more demonstrative, and clashes between the strikers and non-unionists are of frequent occurrence. The most se- rious trouble since the strike was ordered occurred at Shenandoah, where no less than forty people were wounded. An officer attempted to escort two strike breakers into mine when they were attacked by mob. One of the non-union men was clubbed into insensibility and the officer and third man took refuge in the depot building, which was soon surrounded by an infuriated mob of 5000. A brother of the deputy at bay in the depot. building at- tempted to go to his assistance, when he was attacked and beaten nigh to death. By this time the police had gathered and fired into the mob, wounding several. The shots of the officers only infuriated the mob the more, and the bowling army made dash for the police, some armed with guns, sticks and stones. The off, cers were unable to make a stand, and fled for their lives. The dep uty and his companion in the depot, when the mob was paying its atten- tion to the officer, mounted a loco- motive and escaped. After the riot was over the doctors reported that they had dressed the wounds of for ty people, ten of whom will die.
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