Woodruff County news., 1902-05-29

anSVllIe, Inu., were dIldckeu py SoO women, wives of strikers, with stones and clubs.
 The steamer John K. Speed, ply ing between Memphis and New Or leans, was burned at the latter place May 23.
 During the present session of con- gress 12,200 private bills have been introduced, less than 1000 of which have been disposed of.
 One hundred switchmen in the NJ. K. & T. yards at Denison struck on the 17th, completely tieing up all outgoing trains for several days.
 A wind storm demolished the baseball grandstand at Birmingham. The storm came a short time before a crowd was due to witness a game of ball. One boy was killed and another was seriously injured.
 Several earthquake shocks were felt at St. Augustine, Fla, May 22. The earthquake was accompanied by a succession of short but decisive reports, like distant cannonading, seemingly from far out at sea. The sounds were unlike thunder, having no reverberating roll, and were ac- companied by decided tremors, while the sky in the southwest was suf- fused with a glow. The reports came at intervals of perhaps three minutes, and persons who remember the earthquake at Charleston say the noises were very similar to the subterranean noises accompanying that occurrence. The sound travel ed from the southeast.
 A water spout caused the death of six people in Covington and Gin einnati and millions of dollars worth of property was destroyed in the Miami valley. In the lower part of Cincinnati sewers overflow ed, and the water poured through the grating into cellars and be- heath the wholesale houses.-The dead: Willie Willen, aged f, drowned in Covington; Mrs. Flach- ner, drowned in Covington: Ciem Davier, teamster, drowned in Gov ington; George Becker, teamster, drowned in the streets of Cincin- natl; Ferdinand Rapp, pcddler, drowned in a cellar in Cincinnati ; D. W. c. Belleville, carpenter, blown from roof in Cincinnati.
 A bloody fight took place just outside the corporate limits of At lanta between officers and negro outlaws, in which eight men were killed. In order to quell the dis turbance the governor was compell- ed to call out the militia. The of l fcers located a negro named Hunt ington, for whom they had war rant, in store house. The store was a small arsenal in which were a number of winchester rifles and small gatling gun. It was a ren- dezvous for a gang of thieves and murdcrers At daylight the officers approached the building to place its occupants under arrest, and were met with fusilade of shots, one of their number falling with bullet through his head. Seeking shelter, the officers kept up continuous fire on the building, but without apparent effect. Whenever one of them emerged from view he was shot down by the negroes. News of the affair spread rapidly and soon hundreds of people were has tening to the scene. Finally a torch was applied to the building when the occupants made break to escape, but were shot to pieces by the enraged people. Hunting ton, the leader, was the only one who remained in the building, and his body was almost completely burned up. By this time state troops arrived on the scene and sue ceeded in quelling the riot. The dead: Officers Ed Battle, H. c. Osborn, Thos. Grant, Edward Crab tree; Will Richardson, the negro who killed the men, and John liar rington, Chas. Clisby, Will Gregg, all colored. Wounded: s. A. Ker-