Woodruff County news., 1902-05-15
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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 Five hundred people perished in an earthquake in Guatamala.
 Potter Palmer, the well known Chicago millionaire, is dead.
 Santos Domingo, capital of the Dominican government, is in the hands of revolutionists.
 The Melart Pulley Company's plant at St. Louis was destroyed by fire, caused from lightning. Loss, $300,000.
 The new state bill admitting Ok lahoma, Arizon and New Mexico has been passed by the lower house of congress.
 The American civic federation has been unsuccessful in its efforts to settle differences between employ CT and operator in anthracite coal regions, and strike may yet occur.
 The president has summarily dis missed John Grant, United States marshal for the western district of Texas. On April 1 last the attorney general charged Grant with receiv- ing fee of $2,000 for service, in securing for a Beaumont national bank a designation as United States government depository. Grant is said to have admitted that he received the $2,0O0.
 Gen. Chaffee reports that on the 4th inst. troops attacked and cap tured the principal port of Sultan Bayan, one of the Moro chiefs, to- gether with eighty-four surviving Moro survivors. Hundreds of the insurgents were slain, while the American losses were one officer and seven enlisted men killed, four off cers and thirty-seven enlisted men wounded The Moros are said to be the widest tribe in the Philippine archipelago.
 The town of St. Piere, on the is- land of Martinique, was completely wiped out by volcanic eruption. It is estimated 10000 people on the island perished Martinique is one of the West Indian islands be- longing to the chain of the Lesser Antilles, lying thirty-three miles south of Dominica and twenty-two miles north of Saint Lucia. Its greatest length is forty-three miles; ; mean width, nineteen; surface com prising 244,000 acres, or 380 square miles. A cluster of volcanic mountains in the north, a similar group in the south and line of low CT heights between them, form the backbone of the island, which cul- inmates in the northwest in Mont Pelee (4,430 feet). The great mass of the population consists of Creole negroes and half castes of various grades. Since the earthquake of 1S49 nearly all the houses were of wood, having only one story. St. Pierre, the commercial center of the island, stood on bay on the west coast.
 Six lives were lost in a cloud burst at the town of Floss, in Okla homa, on the Choctaw road. Eff teen houses were washed away and Choctaw train had a thrilling race to escape the flood that followed. Foss was a town of 800 people. It was built mostly on high ground. but extended into the valley. The cloudburst struck Turkey creek some distance from Floss, coming with such suddenness that the peo- pie in the valley could not reach high ground. From Elk City to Floss the Choctaw railway follows Turkey creek for distance of six teen miles. Below Floss the creek crosses under the Choctaw track and empties into the Washita, which the Choctaw crosses further east The train crew saw the wall of wa ter descending the creek and began a race for the bridge across the Washita. The train barely got into Floss in time, or just ten minutes before the bridge over Turkey creek was swept away A few minutes later the bridge over the Washita was washed ont