Woodruff County news., 1902-04-10
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

A strike of cotton mill operators involving ten thousand people is threatened in Georgia.
 The prospect of canal legislation during the present session has be- come exceedingly remote.
 All hopes of passing the ship sub sidy bill at this session of congress have been abandoned by the friends of the measure.
 Fire at Atlantic City, N. J., de- stroyed twelve hotels and a number of smaller buildings The loss is placed at $750,000.
 James R. Goddard, the man who located Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, died at his home in Marl- borough, Mass, last week.
 A. T. Patrick, convicted murder CT of Millionaire Rice, was married in his cell in New York City on the 1st to Mrs. Addie Francis, his form CT landlady.
 A passenger train on the Great Northern was snow bound from March 2S to April 3 on the prairie in North Dakota. There was much suffering among the passengers. many of whom are seriously i'll from the exposure.
 Chicago and Kansas City pack CTS have advanced the price of dress ed beef 1 cent per pound. An ordina ry steak now costs the consumer about 30 cents, while enough choice meat for meal for family of four will cost 50 cents.
 W. H, Lane, a negro, shot and killed Mrs. E. J. Furbush and her 12-year-old daughter at their home In fashionable suburb of Phila- delphia, Pa. Mrs. Furbush was quite wealthy and maintained a mag nifcent residence. Lane was her butler. He was caught stealing from his employer and says he com mitted the two crimes to escape ar rest. Lane also attempted to mur- der Mrs. Furbush's 7-year-old daughter.
 Charles M Dickinson, of New York, United States diplomatic agent at Sofia, Bulgaria, has been declared persona non grata by the Bulgarian government on account of his attitude in the case of Miss Ellen M Stone, the American, mis- sionary, who was abducted by Mace donian political and religious en- thusiasts. MT. Dickinson is now in Constantinople. In view of the declaration of Bulgaria, this gov ernment is obliged to consider his position at Sofia as vacant
 An explosion of gas occurred in the Nelson mine at Dayton, Tenn, igniting the dry coal dust in the mine and causing a second explo- sion. Twenty-Five men are known to have been killed and many more injured. The bodies of the dead miners were torn and mangled in terrible manner. The explosion was caused by defective fuse In 1889 a similar explosion occurred in this mine, four men being killed, and in 1895 an explosion of mine dust occurred in which twenty-eight men perished. The last disaster occur red after the men had quit work, but all of them had not left the mine
 Under the name of the allied peo- ple's party of the United States, a new political organization was form ed at Louisville last week, composed | of reform elements, opposed to the democratic and republican parties. The platform of the new organiza- tion embodies the platform adopted | at the conference held in Kansas City last September, when call for a convention was issued, ''to unite reform forces against plutocracy." It reaffirms the spirit of the decla- ration of principles adopted at the national convention of the peoples party in St. Louis, Omaha and Gin cinnati, and the demand for the ini- tiative and referendum and the gov ernment ownership of all public utilities are the principal blanks.
 Fire destroyed S35O. 900 in nron-