Woodruff County news., 1902-03-27

The democratic members of the house in congress adopted a resolu- ton to the effect that congress should express sympathy for the Boers.
 The Mississippi deaf mute insti- ute, located at Jackson, was de- stroycd by fire on the 18th All the inmates were rescued from the building.
 Five thousand Americans from all sections of the country travelled to Juarez, Mex, to witness a bull fight, in which twenty horses and five bulls were inhumanely put to death.
 Rev MT. Houst, pastor of Lu- theran church at Patterson, N. J., was attacked and fatally stabbed by anarchists. Just after the assassi- nation of President Mckinley the minister preached a sermon severe ly denouncing anarchy, which is no doubt the cause of the assault. Complete reorganization of the Dawes commission, with the selection of a man at the head of the commis- sion who will take active steps to wind up the affairs of the Indians of the five civilized tribes, Is proposed by the senate committee on Indian affairs and will probably be adopted as an amendment to the Indian ap- propriation bill now pending. The position of commissioner gen. eral of immigration has been tender ed by the president to Frank P. Sar- gent, chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen, to succeed T. V. Powderly, the present incumbent. It is understood the reasons for the presidents action in desiring to re- lieve Powderly is because he has not worked in harmony with the higher officials of the treasury department, which has resulted in more or less friction.
 | An explosion in the powder mix ing department of the Fairmount Manufacturing Company at Cleve- land, O., resulted in the death of one girl employe and the wounding of seven other persons. The name of the dead girl is Annie Fritz. The injured are: Miss Christine Smitz- CT, probably fatally burned; Miss Ki-ie Howard, will probably die {; Frank Grosch, arm broken and body bruised and burned; Miss Augusta Alden, burned and injured by jump ing from second-story window; Lena Kots, back injured in jumping from second-story window; Mrs. Liza Cot till, burned and bruised; Miss Helen Carey, jumped from second-story, window, back injured.
 A gang of robbers and wholesale murderers has been run down at Beaumont, Tex, to whose operations may be due the numerous mysterious disappearance of people from that city. A negro woman named Bennett made a confession, on the strength of which several arrests were made, one of them being John Welsh, a white man. Five of the supposed victims of the gang were found in | thea Neches river, which skirts the town. It is about 150 feet wide and 30 feet deep. In some places swamps run back. A body thrown into the swamps stands small chance of being found. The alligators would devour them. If 1t is true that fifty persons have disappeared from Beaumont this may be the solution of the mystery of the missing bodies. The case in some of its features re- calls the Bender family murders in Labelle county, Kansas, thirty years ago. The Renders for months en- trapped travellers and killed them. The family consisted of man and his wife and grown daughter. When l the murderers were finally discover ed the Renders fled. The Bennett woman in her confession says the gang was composed of negro women and white men. The victims were lured to a house occupied by the women, who would dug them, then the men would bear them into un- consciousness, taking what money I