Woodruff County news., 1902-09-04
A general strike of Missouri coal

A general SCr1Ke or MlssOurl coal miners is threatened.
 Six oil wells have been brought in at Chenute, Kansas.
 Anton Ambrose, wealthy New Yorker, has contributed $58,O0O to the striking coal miners of Pennsyl- vania.
 A Baltimore chemist claims to have discovered a process to convert common dirt into fuel that will equal the best of coal
 The United States steel corpora tion owns property valued at ST. 400,000,000, which earns annually $150,0OO,00O.
 A new packing plant, with a ca pacity to handle 1000 head of cat tie per day, is to be established in Chicago to compete with the trust.
 Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has requested national banks. in or der to avert any stringency in the money market, to increase their cir culating certificates to the amount allowed by law, according to their capital stock.
 Rev Sam Small, the Georgia  evangelist, is said to have been talk en from lecture platform at Bat tlesboro, Vt., in a drunken condi- ton. Small appeared to lecture in the interest of the prohibition can didate for governor.
 The Chattanooga Tradesman re- ports the following new organiza- tions in Arkansas last week: Fay etteville, $25,0O0 ice and cold-stor- age plant; Fort Smith, $20,O00 broom factory; Hope, $15,OO0 gin and grist mill Little Rock, $10,000 boat-oar factory; Texarkana, $15,- 900 lumber company.
 The ancestral home of the Wash ingtons in the village of Banbury, eighty-six miles from London, is ad- vertised for sale at public auction in September. It is possible the house may be purchased by a sym dicate of Americans and rebuilt at some point in this country in honor of the first president.
 Pope Leo has consented to the American terms, settled by Gov. Taft, for the purchase of the eccle- siastical lands in the Philippines on condition that the money be not paid to the friars, but expended by the apostolic delegate for the pur- pose of creating new bishoprics and supplying other church require ments in the archipelago
 Henry H. Marmaduke, of Missou- ri, graduate of the United States naval academy, veteran of the civil war, ex-officer of the Confederate navy, and survivor of the memor- able battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac, has become soldier of fortune. Capt. Marmaduke left Washington several days ago, after resigning his position in the war department, and accepting a com- mission as captain in the navy of the Colombian government. He Is now en route to the country in which ] he has decided to cast his lot. Mar maduke Is the brother of ex-Gov. Marmaduke of Missouri, of family wealthy before the war and ruined by that conflict. Shortly after his graduation from the naval academy, the civil war began and Capt. Mar maduke resigned his commission in the United States navy and took service under the stars and bars. He participated in many engage ments and was } an officer on the ironclad Merrimac during her bat tie with the Monitor, and later served on the ram Alabama during her battle with the Hartford and other vessels of Commodore Farra- gut's Mississippi squadron. He was watch officer on the Alabama when the ram was sunk by torpedo fired by Lieut. Cushing. After the close of the war Capt. Marmaduke en- gagged in private business, but was