Woodruff County news., 1902-04-24
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

D. O. hduHDOne, COnV1clou WlUn Nicely in the Cuban postal fraud case, has been released on $100,000 bond.
 Fire insurance companies threat en to cancel all policies in force iH Vicksburg, Miss, unless the city af- lords better protection from fires
 Major Waller, of the marine corps, has been acquitted by court martial of the charge of killing na tive Filipinos on the island of Samar without a trial.
 Mrs. James McGowan, of Ulster county, New York, aged 28 years, gave birth to five children, all girls, who are perfectly formed and doing well. Her other children are son and twin daughters.
 The worlds record has been brok- en in run of 14.S miles on the western division of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railway, when speed of nearly 100 miles an hour was made by regular passen- ger train.
 Henry Flutcher, colored was hanged at St. Louis for the murder of Louis Roth, aged 16 years. A few minutes after the trap was sprung the sheriff received a tele gram from the governor granting a respite of fifteen days to the con- demned man.
 It is reported the Louisville & Nashville railroad has passed to the Southern railway. Indications seem to point to the fact that the L. & N. will be turned over to the Rock Is- land, and the Southern and Rock Island systems will affect some kind of community of interest deal
 Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, the noted Presbyterian minister, died at his home in Washington on the 18th. Dr. Talmage was born Jan- uary 7, 1882, in Somerset county, New Jersey After graduating he studied law, but a few years later entered the ministry of the Presby terian church.
 Miss Carrie M. Jennett, school teacher, was brutally murdered at Detroit, Mich, by Prof. Joseph Mil Ter, who beat the girls head into an unrecognizable mass with hatchet. Miller had wronged the girl, and when she asked him to leave his family and go with her he planned the murder He was convicted ln less than seventy-two hours after the crime, was committed. and given a life sentence in prison.
 An Illinois Central passenger train colided with a switch engine at Memphis. The passenger engine, two baggage cars, the mail car and a second class coach were derailed. Fireman Wm Goodloe, colored, was killed. Engineer Chas. J. Barnett, badly injured about the body. Ex- press Messenger Vim. E. Pink of Cairo, H., sustained fracture of the skull and severe bruises, and an unknown man, supposed to be tramp, lost hand and one of his eyes.
 The census bureau has issued preliminary report on the cotton crop of 1901, in commercial bales, gross weight, as returned by the cot ton ginners, showing an aggregate crop of 9,952,9S2 bales. This is 533, 3,166 bales less than the 1900 crop. The 1900 crop, expressed in 500-pound bales, was O,123, ,O27, or 363,121 less than the number of commercial bales, the gross average bale weight being 4s3 pounds. Fol lowing are the figures of the crop of 1901, together with those of 1900, respectively, in commercial bales, by states and territories: Alabama, 1,162,739 and 1,061 ,679; Arkansas, 736,740 and S2S,S20; Florida, 57,- 19s and 55,696; Georgia, 1,4O1,S and 1,27O,597; Indian Territory, 2SO,175 and 2SS,114; Kansas, ITO and 151; Kentucky, 40 and 133 /; Louisiana, S5S,661 and 714,073; Mississippi, 1,279,2s6 and 1,O55,- 96S; Missouri, 27, 987 and 27, 9S0; North Carolina, 454,354 and 509,- 341; Oklahoma, 149,415 and 116,-