Woodruff County news., 1902-12-04
News of the World

A IOnQOn SclonUlSC JnredJeuS ue- struction to the liquor traffic by a process which he declares will make alcoholics misunderstanding.
 Superintendent Finley, of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail- way, has announced that his road will build to Arkansas City.
 Theodore Stenbel, young Ger man, is under aSrest in New York City, charged with sending letters to J. P. Morgan threatening his life.
 Francis l. Gowan, formerly pres ident of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf, has been appointed gen. eral solicitor of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
 A break in tie furnace of an iron foundry at Birmingham, Ala, caus- ed a mass of molten iron to gush forth and T. J. Edwards, the man. ager, was burned to death.
 A bloody fight occurred between students in the State University at Iowa City, during which windows were smashed, and property valued at $1,00O was destroyed. The police had to be called to put down the riot.
 The republican candidates for congress from the several districts, comprising the city of St. Louis, have decided to contest the seating of their democratic opponents, who have been given the certificate of election.
 Gen. Luke E. Wright, vice gov of the Philippines, is in Washing ton, it is said, to assist in srepar- ing several bills pertaining to the government of the archipelago, which will be presented at the forth coming session of congress.
 ". G. Hunter, son of the United States minister to Guatamala, shot and killed William Fitzgerald at Guatamala City. Fitzgerald is said to be the man who made charges against Minister Hunter and which resulted in the decision to make change at that diplomatic post. The dead man was private secretary to the president of Guatamala.
 At Kingston, Tenn, Vess and Carrie Jenkins were found guilty of murder in the first degree and will be sentenced to hang They were charged with having caused the death of Mart Plemins by poison. At the time of Plemins' death, last spring, the woman was his wife, and she has since married Jenkins. An infatuation between the two is al- leged to have led to the death of Plemins
 The American Federation of La bar, in session at New Orleans, re- elected all the old officers, as fol- lows: President, Samuel Gompers first vice president, James Duncan, second vice president, John Mitch ell; third vice president, James O'Connell; fourth vice president, Max Morris; fifth vice president, Thomas l. Kidd; sixth vice presi- dent, Dennis A. Hayes; treasurer, John B. Lennon; secretary, Frank Morrison; fraternal delegates to the next labor convention of Great Britain, Max s. Hayes and Martin Lawler; fraternal delegate to Cam ada, John Coleman. The next con- yention will be held in Boston in 1903.
 After proposing that the differ ences between themselves and the miners be settled outside the strike commission the Pennsylvania coal mine operators refused to grant an interview to President Mitchell and associates of the miners union. They base their refusal to treat with Mitchell on the ground of op- position to recognition of the union.
 The president has decided to ap- point Ashley M. Gould, United States district attorney for the Dis trict of Columbia, associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, to succeed the late Justice Bradley He has also de cided to appoint Francis M. Wright