Woodruff County news., 1902-09-04
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Alfonso, the boy king of Spain, is said to be unbalanced mentally.
 Tom Jcnes, a negro, was lynched near Raleigh, N. C., for assaulting 6 white woman.
 President Roosevelt has accepted an invitation to address the annual convention of locomotive fremen, to be held at Chattanooga, Tenn, Sep tenlber 8.
 It is charged that the owners of the coal railroads in Pennsylvania are violating the interstate con- merce law, and an investigation is being made, and suits are likely to be instituted by the government.
 The conditions in the Beaumont oil fields are said to be alarming. The gas is so dangerous to the lives of the operators that over 100 are overcome by it daily, and danger of total blindness is greatly feared as result of constant contact.
 Near Lexington, Okla, Chas Da- wis, a young man, shot and killed his grandmother as she lay asleep beside Miss Davis, the murderer's sister. Then Davis ran to the house of Frank Clines, neighbor, and at tempted to shoot the latter He was disharmed, but escaped. Davis is believed to have gone suddenly in- sane.
 James s. Pendleton, mayor of Gentry, Mo, resorted to novel plan to escape punishment for bigamy. Pendleton, under the name of c. $. Morris, married at Emporia, Kan, without securing divorce from wife No. l in Missouri. Fearing discoy- cry of his duplicity, he secured coffin, placed therein dummy and had it buried as the body of Morris. His ruse was discovered, and he is now in jail awaiting trial for his crime
 George E. Roberts, director of the mint, has issued his final estimate of the production of gold and silver in the United States during the cal endar year 1901. MT. Roberts state ments show that during the year the United States produced 3,805, 800 ounces of gold, valued at $78,666,- 700, decrease of $504, 300, or 0.636 per cent, as compared with the yield of 1900. The silver yield for 1901 amounted to 55,214,000 ounces, of the commercial value of $33,12S,- 400, which was 2,433,O0O ounces, or 5 per cent, less than it was in 1900.
 A dispatch from Johannesburg says the worst feature of the situa- tion in South Africa at present is that many of the natives have pro- cured firearms. The British au- thorities have disarmed the white inhabitants and thus the colored na- tives are the only ones armed. There are unconfrmed reports that these armed natives are murdering the Boers who are returning to their homes. The Boers, the dispatch says, are most concerned over sev- eral recent attempts by the blacks to outrage white women. The whites are unanimous in their opinion that it is necessary to disarm every na tive.
 Russell Sage, perhaps the great est individual capitalist in the coun- try, his wealth being estimated at $100,000,000, takes direct issue with MT. J. Pierpont Morgan regarding gigantic combinations and the con- solidation of great industries. To fellow-passenger on the steamship Oceanic, Mr. Morgan said during his trip to Europe that the era of combination has just begun and that he has other vast schemes which are to dwarf the billion-dollar steel trust and the shipping combine. It is this announcement by MT. Morgan that leads MT. Sage to sound note of warning. The veteran fnancier declares that such gigantic combinations are a menace; that they will inevitably result in one of the greatest financial crashes this country has ever experienced, and that ultimately the American people will DO longer tolerate them.