Woodruff County news., 1902-05-08
Cotton is now worth nearly $5 . bale more than on June 1.

had followed the calling of an actor since 1869.
 Ex-Councilman Kratz, under in- dictment at St. Louis for bribery, and who forfeited $2O,O0O bond, has been located in Mexico.
 G. H. Goodnow, general manager of the Rock Island, announces the appointment of Hiram $. Cable to be superintendent of the lines west of the Missouri river. The changes to follow this appointment, it is said, are to be far reaching. Mir. Cable is a son of R. R. Cable. chair man of the board of directors of the Rock Island.
 Col. J. P. Morgan is said to have received the following fees for pro- noting combines: United States Steel corporation, $10O,O0O,O00; Metropolitan Securities Company, $30,0OO,000; American Bridge Company, $t5,OOO,OOO; ship com- bine, 12,5OO,0OO; Northern Securi- ties Company, $15,OOO,0OQ; total, $172, 100000.
 Following the precedent set in the case of Gen. Smith, the presi- dent has ordered the trial by court martial of Mai Edwin F. Glenn, Fifth infantry, one of the officers re- ferred to as a participant in the administration of the water cure" in the testimony developed before the senate Philippine committee re- gently.
 A terrible storm swept over the town of Glen Rose, Tex, demolish- ing buildings in which eight persons were killed outright and several fa- tally injured. The tornado literally devastated farm property and crops for distance of five miles north of Glen Rose and several miles south, and more than 100 families were rendered homeless.
 Dr. J. W. Taylor, grand high priest of the grand chapter of the Masonic order in the United States, has granted dispensation for Ma sonic lodge in San Juan, P. R., and will soon grant another for a lodge in Manila. These will be the first lodges to be instituted in the new insular possessions. pr. Taylor has also called the meeting or ~le next grand chapter at Little Rock, in 1903.
 Rioting by peasants are of daily occurrence in Russia, and in several instances troops of the czar have refused to fire on mobs with loaded shells. Government ministers are being threatened with assassination and a strict guard is being main- talned in all government buildings. So serious Is the agitation at Mos cow that the czar has abandoned his intention of spending the Russian Easter there.
 Gen. Powell Clayton, who is now in Washington, expects to return to his post in Mexico about May 20, He will visit Little Rock, Hot Springs and Eureka Springs before his return.
 Frank Moore, a negro, was caught in the act of opening a safe in a store at Pine Bluff and placed un- der arrest. Moore confessed to hay ing committed a number of burglar ies.
 Fulton county drouth sufferers have appealed to Kansas City busi ness men for aid.
 Clarendon has a curfew law that will send the youth of that town home by : o'clock in the evening if it ! is enforced.
 Major Waller and Lieutenant Day | of the marine corps, who were tried by court-martial at Manila on the charge of executing natives of the Island of Samar without trial, have been acquitted
 A Santa Fe passenger train was derailed five miles from Medil, Mo-, while going at fast rate of speed. The mail car, dining car and two forward sleepers went into the ditch. Five people were killed and twenty three injured.