Woodruff County news., 1902-02-13
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

VI IiAo PleolueHt, IS SuHeflng rom pneumonia
 Euless Whitaker, colored, charg- ed with murdering a white man, was hanged by mob at Lynchburg, Tenn.
 A special bill has been introduced Tn congress to retire Capt. Hobson, the naval board failing to grant his request.
 The recent election resulted in the selection of natives as governors In four-ffths of the provinces of the Philippine islands.
 Lord Kitchener reports that Gen. DeWets last field gun has been cap tured and three of his principal lieu tenants are prisoners.
 Tobacco manufacturers of Sweden have petitioned the government to increase the duties on the manufac- tured product from this country.
 The chief surgeon of the Philip pines has reported to Gen.. Stern berg, chief of the marine corps, that bubonic plague has reappeared at Manila.
 Cattle in the Jimpson valley and Red river country, in the Indian Ter ritory, are reported as dying by the hundreds, there being no grass to feed on.
 The laboratory and office building of the famous Keeley institute at Dwight, H., were destroyed by fire on the 4th. The loss Is placed at $25O,00O.
 Heater and James Turner, broth CTS, fought duel at Alexander, Ky, the former using a shotgun and the latter a hatchet, and both of them were killed.
 Edmond A. Dubose and Lewis Russell, two American soldiers of company B of the Ninth infantry, were hanged in the Philippines on the 7th for desertion.
 The bill creating a department of commerce and labor, new cabinet position, has passed the senate and it is predicted will meet with little opposition in the house.
 A gang of race track followers skinned Coyington and Newport pool rooms for $20,000 by tapping the wires and placing bets after they discovered the result of races.
 Congress has been asked to ap- propriate the sum of $20,000 to be expended in making test of Texas oil to determine whether or not it can be used in the place of coal for fuel in the navy.
 Mrs Jesse Benton Fremont, daughter of Thomas Benton, and widow of John C. Fremont, now liv- ing at Los Angeles, Cal, is said to be seriously i'll and is compelled to accept financial assistance from friends to secure the proper atten- tion.
 The Minnesota board of pardons has declined to grant an absolute pardon to the Youngers, now on pa role, but who cannot leave the state. In their petition, the Youngers stated 1t was their desire to be per mitted to return to their old home in Missouri.
 Damad Mahmud Parla, brother in-law of the sultan of Turkey, has been sentenced to death on charge of conspiring to assassinate the sul- tan. The condemned man is now a fugitive in Paris, together with his two sons. He claims that he is be- ing persecuted by political in triguers.
 Nine times married and eight | times divorced is the extraordinary | matrimonial record of Mrs. Bebonia Arms Hoop, of Elwood, Ind. Her ninth matrimonial venture has by no means been a successful one, for she is now preparing to file her ninth application for a divorce from her present husband, Noah Hoop. Hoop is alleged to have deserted her after two days of their honeymoon had been spent.
 Tom Brown, colored, accused of a..o,,l4;nr 1e-vear-old oirl. was