Woodruff County news., 1902-08-14

The IeXaS cotton crop has been cut short one-half by the boil weevil and the floods.
 Several funerals had to be post poned because of a strike of grave diggers in Chicago.
 Two men held up c. B. $ Q. ex- press train two miles from Savan- nah, H., and secured in the neigh borhood of $2O,OOO
 During heavy storm several un- completed structures on the worlds fair site at St. Louis were blown down. The damage is placed at $3O,O0O.
 One of the bandits who held up a O., B & Q. train near Savannah, H., was killed either by the express messenger, who fired several shots, or one of his companions.
 On the face of the returns, as shown by the census bulletin just issued. the 921 slaughtering and meat packing establishments of the United States made a profit of $101,- 978,856 in the year ending June 30, 1900. That was prior to the era of high prices which have prevailed during the last year.
 Armed with dynamite to blow his way out of prison, Gus Hyatt, a train robber and desperado, led desperate band of sixteen convicts to liberty from the Tennessee peni- tentiary at Nashville. Fifteen of the escaping party got entirely clear of the premises and only one, Ed Carney, safeblower, paid the pen alty of death in the bold undertak- ing. The prisoners were furnished dynamite from the outside which they used in blowing out an open ing in the main wing of the prison. Hyatt stood off the inside guard with brace of revolvers, which had also been furnished him from the outside, while the other convicts made their exit.
 Harry Tracy, the notorious out law who, with David Merrill, escap- ed from the Oregon penitentiary at Salem June 9 last, killing three prison guards and convict at the time, committed suicide after being wounded and run to bay in wheat field in the state of Washington on the 9th inst. Tracy was hunted down by four citizens and deputy sheriff, who will. divide a reward of $500. The outlaw was located on a ranch belonging to man named Eddy. He made bold dash for the brush, firing no less than twenty shots at his pursuers, but his aim | lOI Lllc lISL Jl1llc was Udu duu hOuC of the party were injured. Keeping up a running fight he was pursued to a wheat field, when he was seen to stumble as though wounded. He crawled into the grain, and in few moments a pistol shot was heard. An entrance was made into the field and Tracy's dead body was found lying amid the grain with his face turned toward the sky. His left hand, thrown over his head, held a revolver, which had inflicted the death wound. The thumb of his hand was on the trigger of the pis- tol. His right hand, thrown across the lower part of his body, firmly grasped the barrel of the famous ri fle. Two bullet wounds on the left leg showed the cause of the mans de- spondency. One shot had broken the leg between the ankle and the knee. The other cut the tibial ar tery. which of itself was sufficient to cause death. On June 2S Tracy killed Merrill near Napavine, Wash, shooting him from behind and leav- ing his body in the forest, where it was found on July 15. On July 3, near Seattle, in a fight with a posse, Tracy shot and killed Charles Ray mond, deputy sheriff, E. E. Bresse, policeman, and mortally wounded Neil Rawley, who died on the fol- lowing day, and wounded Carl An derson and Louie Seafrite, newspa- per reporters. He committed many feats of daring during his flight, in