Woodruff County news., 1902-01-09
A fatal accident occurred at shaft

the cage was ascending, with eight men, and about eight feet from the bottom of the shaft, it jumped its guidings and six of the eight occu- pants were instantly killed. The bodies were horribly mangled be- tween the cages and the buntings, and were dropped to the bottom of the shaft.
 A dispatch says: Many Filipinos who accept service under American rule are visited with awful venge- ance by their fellow-countrymen. Three native policemen who had been sent from Laoag to San Mich olas, Ilicos, north, for duty at the latter point, were seized and bound by an armed band of Fili- pino outlaws, taken before a priest to be confessed, and then flung alive into well, after being hacked with bolos. American officials report many similar cases to the authorities at Washington.
 Joe Gibbs, said to be a western desperado, was captured while en-  gagged in what is thought to have been an attempt to hold up and rob the westbound mail and express train on the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific railroad. Gibbs and two com panions boarded the train at small station between Delhi and Rayville, La. Passing through the smoker, Gibbs fired number of shots from a Winchester through the car win dows, effectually terrorizing the pas sengers. From the smoker he en< tered the frst-class coach and start ed the same performance. The des- perado then returned to the combi- nation mail, express and baggage car and demanded of Messenger Pep per to open the door, Upon the messengers refusal Gibbs attempted to batter the door down. While en- gagged in this Conductor Frank San ders, having secured a pistol from a passenger, appeared, and, getting the drop on the desperado, disarmed him, and, with the assistance of two passengers, bound him hand and foot.
 Secretary Gage furnishes the fol- lowing brief review of the treasury situation atethe close of the year.:
 ''For the calendar yess ss shew receipts l-. sSce $ sfsordiaairi'y1e sex- penditurea amounting roundly to one hundred million dollars Since April 1 last the treasury has re- deemed and cancelled United States bonds to the par value of $5S,714,- 800, which have been applied to the sinking fund, and the disbursement resulting therefrom was $72,226,- SAG. The available cash on hand is about $30,000,000 larger than the amount held a year ago. On April l, last year, the treasury held mon- ey of all kinds to the amount of $250, 0,S73,000, including $100,000,- 900 as a gold reserve, leaving, there fore, $150,000,000 as cash balance Today, in money of all kinds, the treasury holds $296,659, ,0OO, and if we deduct the $150,000,000 now held as a gold reserve the balance stands at $146,000,000, or $4,00O,- 900 less than it was April 1, 1897. The volume of money on March l. 1897, outside the treasury was $1,- 675, ,694,953, and the amount per capita was $23.14. On the first ot December last the amount of money outside the treasury was $2,250,- 256, ,230, and the amount per capita was $28.73. The increase in amount was $574, ,561,277, and in per capits $5.59. The amount of gold coir and gold certificates in circulation increased from $553, ,S60,515, or March l, 1897, to $914,3O0,oS9 or December 1, 1901. Every othel kind of money in circulation i greater Tn amount now than o1 March l, 1897, with the single ex ception of treasury notes of the ac of July IA, 1890. The amount o. these in circulation December 1 1901, was only $4O,O12. .622 a,