Woodruff County news., 1902-10-23

Emile Hartman, one of the fugi- tives wanted in St. Louis to answer charges of bribery, was captured last week at South McAlester. I. T.
 Hon. Allen Hyden, county judge of Owsly county, Ky, was murdered by an assassin while driving along public highway. The dead man was recently defeated for the republican nomination for judge, but ran as a fusionist candidate and was elect ed.
 Earl Whitney, a young white man, has confessed to murdering A. B. Chinn, prominent merchant, and seriously wounding his son while burglarizing his house at Lexington, Ky, duplicating Claude O'Brien. The murderer escaped lynching by being removed to Louisville.
 Gen. Grant, who arrived in San Francisco few days ago, says of one of the most rebelHous islands in the Philippines: "Samar is enjoy ing the first period of peace 1t has ever known, and I am entirely satis- fled that the inhabitants of the is- land VII not attempt to make any further trouble for our govern ment."
 The trial of Ed Butler, the St. Louis politician, on the charge of bribery, has been postponed to Mo- vember 10. The case was called at Columbus, when attorneys for the defendant made a motion to quash 1 the indictment. This motion was overruled after several days of argu- ment, when a motion to postpone to November was granted.
 The formal sale and transfer of Bouvoir, the home of Jefferson Davis, by Mrs. Davis, to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, was con- summated last week at the opening session of the reunion of the Mis- sissippi division Sons of Confeder- ate Veterans, held at Jackson. The home will be used as home for in- digent Confederate veterans. Mrs. Davis received $10,00O for the home property.
 The prolonged Pennsylvania coal miners strike has been settled, off, cials of the miners union having accepted the proposition of the ' ' {loperators for the appointment by Presid Roosevelt of a commits 6i6n o rkifxate the grievances, af- ]: z ';' !! !!||| || lIIIii;I ? Gen. John M. Wilson, Q. s. 1.. 11 tired, late chief of engineers, U. S. A., Washington, D. C., as an officer of the engineer corps of either the military or naval service of the United States; E. w. Parker, Washington, D. C., as an expert mining engineer. Mir. Parker is chief statistician of the coal divis- ion of the United States geological survey and the editor of the Engi- neering and Mining Journal of New York; Hon. Geo. Gray, VII mington, Del, as judge of United States court; B. E. Clark, Cedar Rapids, Ia., grand chief of the Order of Railway Conductors, as sociologist, the president as- suming that for the purpose of such a commission the term sociologist means man who has thought and studied deeply on social questions and has practically applied his knowledge; Thomas H. Watkins, Scranton, Pa, as man practically acquainted with the mining and selling of coal; Bishop John L. Spaulding, of Peoria, H., Hon. Carroll D. Wright has been ap- pointed recorder of the commis- sion. Immediately upon reaching an agreement, President Mitchell notified the district officers to call conventions, and recommended that all strikers return to work as early as possible. This strike, which last ed nearly six months, was probably the most stubbornly contested bat