Woodruff County news., 1902-04-03
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

The New York general assembly appropriated $1O0,OOO for the erec- tion of monument to the late Pres ident Mckinley at Buffalo.
 Mrs Hattie Hand and her two children were caught in a prairie fire near Anadarko, Okla, and all three perished.
 During the week ending March 2S Lord Kitchener reported the capture of 135 Boers and a large quantity of ammunition and sup plies.
 A passenger train on the Southern Railroad was wrecked near Char louisville, N. C., by landslide, caus- ing the death of a porter and an un- known white tramp
 Mr. Tsilka, husband of the wom- an held prisoner with Miss Stone by Bulgarian brigands, has been ar rested by Turkish officials charged with being responsible for the kid mapping.
 News comes of the massacre of sixteen Christians by Chinese reb- els in Pi Yang Province. The throne has issued an edict ordering the execution of the rebels when captured.
 W. II. Wallace, negro sleeping car porter, was lynched in a corner of the court house square at Lajun- ia, Col, by being hung to an elec tric light pole by mob at 1000 people. Walker was charged with assaulting a woman 65 years of age who occupied berth on the train on which he worked The woman is not expected to live,
 Heavy rains fell over portions of Mississippi and Louisiana March 27. At Vicksburg the precipita- tion reached a fraction less than eight inches, and the damage at that point is placed at nearly half a million. Traffic north and south of Vicksburg was at complete standstill for thirty-six hours, owing to heavy washouts. At Yazoo City the town was flooded and many buildings were undermined. In the lowlands of Louisiana many families were compelled to make a nasty exit to the hills. It is i'm possible to estimate the loss from fences destroyed and cattle drowned.
 A sensation was caused in the lower house of congress by the pre- sentation speech by Mir. Richardson of Tennessee, of charges alleging the corrupt use of a fund of $500,- 900 in connection with the sale of the Danish West Indies. The charges were contained in an alleged secret report of Capt. Walter Christ mas to the Danish government, which declared that he had employ ed corrupt means to bring the ne- gotiations for the sale of the islands to consummation According to some of the extracts recited from Christmas alleged report, he him. self, while acting in diplomatic capacity for the Danish government, was guilty of bribery.
 A disastrous wind storm swept through Vermillion parish, Louis jana, on the night of March 24, causing the loss of number of lives and destruction of thousands of dollars in property. The home of John Cellis, near Crowley, was blown down and his sister was con- siderably bruised by the falling tim bers of the house Delmas Richard was buried in the ruins of the house and was killed A young man who was sleeping in an upper room felt the house moving, and as it was about to go over he leaped from the window and was caught up by the wind and carried several rods to an adjoining field and fell into a wire fence. The fence broke the force of his fall and with the exception of a few scratches he was uninjured At | another place few miles away a man named Stills was killed. At | least a dozen houses were demolish- l ed and 1t is feared the loss of life | is greater than at first reported
 President Roosevelt has given no-