Woodruff County news., 1902-07-10

DCClI ICliOllll1loiCQ 1Ol q oCCOIlO ICA LII | by the republicans.
 President Roosevelt has issued a proclamation, formally postponing the St. Louis fair until 1904 The supreme court of Missouri, in the suit against the packing son. bine, has sustained the antitrust law of the state.
 Mike Burke, a farmer near St. Joseph, Mo-, was shot and killed by his wife. He was under the infiu- ence of liquor and had viciously as- saulted his wife.
 William Coates, aged IF, murdered his mother at her home near St. Joseph, Mo. The boy confessed to the crime, declaring his father told him to kill his mother.
 Senator Bailey, of Texas, lost his temper and assaulted Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, in the senate chamber a few moments after the body had adjourned for the day. The episode was the result of a heated controversy which the two senators had, when Senator Beye- rige had said that Senator Bailey had made an "unwarranted attack" on Solicitor Penfeld of the state de- partment.
 Acting Secretary of War Sanger sent communication to the house in answer to a resolution di- recting the secretary of war to furn- ish information as to what amounts have been paid out of the Cuban people to r. $. Truber or any other person, corporation or associa- tion for advocating reciprocity with the United States. The answer of the war department consists of cer- tified copies of vouchers covering the payments referred to 1t in the resilu- ton, amounting to $15,626.
 A Rock Island passenger train was held up on the night of the 3d, near Dupont, IL Express Messen- ger Kane was Shot through the groin by one of the robbers. The local safe was forced open, but the amount of the booty secured is not known. One party has been arrested, but declares that he was forced at the point of a pistol to climb on the engine and demand that the train l be stopped.
 The annual report of Chief Wilkie, of the secret service division, submitted last week to Secretary Shaw, shows that during the year there were 573 persons charged with l various offenses against the federal
 
 l statutes, New York leading with eighty-fve prosecutions. Of the of- lenders, 415 persons were of Ameri- can birth, the next largest number of offenders being Italians. Sixty three per cent of those arrested were convicted. The report shows the fact that during the fiscal year but one dangerous spurious note was put in circulation, a $5 silver certificate, while there was but one other even passable counterfeit-a $1 silver certificate, whose makers, with their complete plant, were captured in Chicago the same day they attempted to put one of their notes in circu- lation.
 The monthly report of the sta- tistican of the department of agri- culture shows the average condi- ton of cotton on June 25 to have been S4.7, as compared with 95.1 on May 26, 1909; 81.1 on June 25, 1901; 75.S on July 1, 1901, and ten-year average of 85.6. With the exception of North Carolina, where there seems to have been slight improvement, and Virginia, where there is no appreciable change in every cotton-producing state shows decline during the month, the de- cline being greatest in Texas, where it amounts to 22 points, and in Louisiana, Indian Territory, Mis- sissippi and Alabama, where it is In 10 9 and & points. respectively.