Woodruff County news., 1902-05-22

AccorulHS to recent QlSpatcn Pat Grove, accused of kidknaping the son of Edward Cudahy, has re- appeared and is now at a point near Omaha.
 It is believed the government will shortly take steps to discover if a combine exists between anthracite coal mine operators and railroads, as is alleged.
 St. Louis and Kansas City butch CTS have given some strong testimo- ny against the beef trust in the in- vestigation being made by the Mis- souri supreme court.
 Twenty-nine people were injured, five fatally, during the progress of a fire which destroyed the lard re- fnery of Armour & Go. in Chicago. The loss of the company is placed at $900,000.
 The overthrow of a government by insurgents with total casualty list of two killed and three wounded is an unusual occurrence, but such a fact is reported from Hayti. The uprising at Port au Prince termi- mated in less than one hours fight ing, when the government troops surrendered.
 A bill of complaint prepared by Attorney General Knox, asking a permanent injunction against the beef trust was filed in the United States circuit court at Chicago last week. The bill is quite lengthy, and alleges the existence of combine between leading packers to control the price of meats, in violation of the Sherman antitrust law.
 A peculiar fight is on at Marion, Ind, between the telephone compa- ny and retail grocers. The grocers' association determined as a body to resist an increase in the rental of phones, and each subscriber had his instrument taken out. The tele- phone people retailated by engaging in the meat and grocery business, and declare they will sell groceries at cost unless the boycott is raised.
 It Is announced that a new com- bination of interests in the steel in- dustry has just been perfected. The name of the new company is to be the American Steel Foundries Con- pany, with capital of O,O0O,0OO equally divided between common and preferred stock. The compa- nles that will enter the combination are engaged in the manufacture of steel castings, about the only branch of the steel business that has not been consolidated.
 British physicians and deep-sea cable constructors are taking a pro- found technical interest in the vol canlc destruction of St. Pierre. In the midst of hurried preparations in many parts of the United Kingdom to cooperate with France in reliev- II
 ing the population of Martinique that depended on the business capi- tai of the island for food, scientific societies are formulating plans for the investigation of the causes, character and results of the erup- ton. It is the purpose of the socie- ties interested to thoroughly explore and reduce to recorded knowledge the physical condition of the lesser and greater Antilles, together with the entire eastern coast of South America.
 News comes from the orient of bloodshed and death following on the trail of tax collectors who are attempting to collect the indemnity to missionaries and converts who suffered during the Boxer disturb ance of 1900. In Shante Chi Ii province the inhabitants turned on the tax collectors and, shouting that they would die sooner than give money to the foreign devils, stoned the tax collectors, killing some of them with clubs. The governor call ed out the militia, but the villagers, armed with Mausers and breech- loading rifles, kept the soldiers, al- though ten times their number, at bay until the arrival of natives of H.