Woodruff County news., 1902-05-15

St. Louis for $1.20 per bushel.
 Hon. H. Clay Evans has been appointed consul general at London.
 Disbursing Clerk Burrows, of the census bureau, is short in his ac- counts $7,4O0.
 Frank Smith, young while man, died from injuries received in prize fight at Allentown, Pa.
 Twenty-four persons were badly injured by an explosion of natural gas in rooming house at Marion, Ind.
 United States marshals. had des- perate battle with moonshiners in east Tennessee, in which one officer was fatally injured.
 Members of the crew of the battle ship Chicago arrested in Venice for engaging in scrap with natives have been pardoned by the king.
 At the meeting held in Denver of the National Association of Club Women, the question of admitting colored women's clubs to the asso- citation was defeated.
 St. Louis and Kansas City butch CTS have given some strong testimo- ny against the beef trust in the in- vestigation being made by the Mis- souri supreme court.
 A company composed of retailers of meat has been formed, with a capital of $1,OOO,0O0, and will erect independent packing plants at Omaha and other points.
 Russell Sage, who celebrated his 95th birthday few days ago, says he has not taken a vacation in fifteen years. He now works longer hours each day than any of his clerks
 Hetty Green, the woman million aire, has been granted a permit to carry revolver in New York. She says the weapon is carried to defend herself from probable highway rob- rey.
 The officials of the war depart ment fear that the recent outbreak of cholera in the Philippines will continue for several weeks, owing to the climatic conditions at this time. There is some alarm that it has spread to the soldiers, and every effort is to be made to keep it from becoming epidemic among the troops. Gen. Chafee has issued special instructions to the army for the prevention of the disease, eau tioning officers and men against drinking unboiled water and eating fruits and vegetables without being | cooked.
 The betrayal of the plans of ex- isting Russian fortresses on the German and Austrian frontiers has cost the Russian government 4,200,- rubles, or about $3,150,000. The government has decided to rebuild the Notifications at once. Col. Grimm, the man who betrayed his country's military secrets, was re- gently tried and convicted. He act ed the part of traitor for many years, according to disclosures made during the trial in Warsaw, and many arrests have been made as result of these disclosures.
 The department of agriculture is preparing to fight the ravages of the San Jose scale throughout the country with its natural enemy, the ladybug, brought from the interior of China. Assistant Botanist Mar latt has just returned from the Orient, where he sought the original home of the dreaded scale. Far in the interior of the latter country, where European plants had not pen etrated, he found the scale and also the ladybugs, which kept the scale in subjection and permitted the native plants to flourish.
 In order to prevent recurrence of the boxer outrages of 1900 the powers will insist upon severe punish ment of the men engaged in the re- volt which has broken out in the southern portion of the province of Chilli. The rebellion in Southern China and the outbreak in Chilli .1ox,x 4lo4 IL = xx.l |. |