Woodruff County news., 1902-05-01

AhO NAIC1 oA POllCC Ol -hCLl PAAAo | has given orders that all saloons | close on Sunday and at 12 o'clock at night.
 A bill has been introduced in the lower house of congress abolishing all duties on meats imported into this country.
 Several regiments of cavalry will shortly be sent to the Philippines to relieve the infantry now doing mounted duty.
 Several parties are under indict- ment in Chicago, charged with jury bribing in connection with suits against the Union Traction. Con- pany.
 Influential republican members are said to be interesting themselves in the Miles case, urging upon the president that he should not be re- moved.
 All the leading transatlantic steamship companies have been con- solidated. The deal was made through the Morgan banking house and the capital stock is $150,00O,- 900.
 Striking dye workers at Patterson. N, J., started fight with policemen and non-unionists in which pistols and clubs were used. Many per sons on either side were seriously injured.
 In recent public address Gen. Funston is credited with criticising the attitude taken by Senator HQar as to the Philippine Islands. This led President Roosevelt to request the Kansas general to cease speak ing in public while holding a com mission in the army.
 Several fires occurred at Dallas, Tex, on the 20th, thought to have been the work of incendiaries and as result Fireman Will Span and Will McAgee are dead. The prop erty loss is placed at $400,000. The first fire was the Dorsey printing plant, and while the entire depart ment was battling with the flames at that point a second alarm was turn ed in from wholesale district, where twenty buildings, business houses and residences, were consum- ed.
 Wesley Atkins, who when 12 years of age murdered his father and stepmother at their home in Clayton county, Iowa, has been granted a conditional pardon, after serving ten years of life sentence. The boy had been corrected for some trivial offense and at night secured his fathers revolver and committed the double crime. He then went back to bed, slept till morning, when he went to a neigh Dor and told that his parents had been murdered by robbers. He was suspected and when arrested broke down and confessed.
 An awful river disaster occurred a few miles from Cairo, H., on the 20th, when the steamer City of Vicksburg was burned. At least 75 of the 150 people on board the vessel perished. The vessel was dis covered to be on fire about f o'clock in the morning, and a panic follow ed among both crew and passengers. One of the surviving members of the crew gives this account: '"The fire was discovered at 4:05 o'clock in the forward hold. By 4:15 the entire boat was in flames and at 80 the whole boat was wreck The front stairways burned, cutting off any avenue of escape. We alarmed the sleeping passengers, bursting open their doors to awak- en them. They ran out without put ting on life preservers, and crowded aft. The officers held them back while the one yawl was loaded with women and children. The scene was awful. About twenty or thirty were taken off in the boat and then those in the water were rescued. The water was very cold and the passengers were in their night clothing. Those who were not burn ed up in the boat drowned in the