Woodruff County news., 1902-05-29
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

land last week.
 The purchase of mules by the British in this country has ceased, by order of the London war office.
 An oil gusher with flew of TO- 900 barrels of oil per day was brought in at Jennings, La, last week.
 Jeffries and Fitzsimmons have at last come to terms, and will bat tie for the pugilistic championship in San Francisco in July.
 American sovereignty over the island of Cuba ceased May 20, when the new republic was formally turn ed over to President Palma and other officials.
 The late Admiral Sampson left an estate valued at only $25, 1000, all of which he bequeathed to his wife, with the exception of $1,00o to each of his four daughters.
 Mont Pelee is still in eruption and the people on the island of Martinique are panic stricken. Hun dreds are frantically watching for an opportunity to escape from the island, which they believe is doom- ed, and the consternation which prevails is indescribable. A large portion of the island of St. Vim cent is threatened with complete ob- liberation.
 Dudley Morgan, a negro rapist, met horrible death near Lansing, Texas. Morgan assaulted the wife of a section foreman, for whom he was working. For several days the people of the surrounding country searched for the negro, and when he was captured it was decided he should perish at the stake. Several hundred people wit1tssed the exc cution. and the husband of his vic tim set fire to the faggots piled about his body
 At the Dallas conference of the M. E. Church, South, it was decided that the money voted the church by congress to reimburse for property destroyed during the civil war be returned to the government, should demand be made for it There has been much dissat- isfaction since the claim was settled on account of the course pursued by the church's agents in Washing ton. Some allege lobbyists were em- ployed to work in the interest of the claims, and that therefore the church should not accept the money.
 Once more Goliad, the scene of the massacre of Texans in the struggle for independence, has be- come the center of attraction. This time it is because of the greatest catastrophe that has befallen any town in Texas in years, with the single exception of the Galveston disaster. The storm which swept Goliad May 19 was hurricane that came from the southeast with a most terrific force It struck the western end of the town, which was largely populated with negroes. The path of the fearful wind was about five hundred yards wide and two miles in length. The storm struck shortly after 3 o'clock in the after noon, moving northwest with ve- locity of seventy-two miles an hour. The scene that met the eyes of sur vivors after the awful speed of the hurricane had passed was terrible in the excitement. Houses that stood square and bravely to the weather but a moment before were fattened as if by huge roller, and out of the piles of wreckage came the shrieks and cries of the injured. All that was possible to be done had been done by the stricken citi- zens and the surrounding towns hurried to the scene as soon as they could reach it. It is believed over 15O people were killed and as many more injured. Gov. Savers issued a call for relief, which was respond ed to by citizens of every town in the state.
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