Woodruff County news., 1902-04-17
Fire at Columbus, Ga, destroyed valued at $25O,OOO.

The Kansas City, Mo, democratic ticket was elected by plurality of 2,000 votes
 R. J. Wynne, a newspaper man of Washington, has been appointed first assistant postmaster general.
 Eight hundred hands employed in cotton mills at Augusta, Ga., are on strike for an increase in wages of 10 per cent.
 Miss Helen Stone, the missionary who was captured by brigands in Bulgaria, arrived in this country on the 10th inst.
 H. G. Squires, secretary of the legation at Pekin, has been rendered the post of United States minister to Cuba.
 Maj. Gen. W. R. Shafter, retired, has agreed to accept the republican for governor of Califor- nia should 1t be rendered him.
 Three milGonaires-N. B. Scott, Henry Schmulback and James Cald- welfare opposing candidates for United States senator from West Virginia
 Mrs. Mary Mcdonald was fatally shot by Mrs. John Kane at Clinton, a suburb of Terre Haute, Ind, as the result of a quarrel between the children of the two households The two elderly women joined in the dis pute, and when Mrs. Mcdonald threw a rock at Mrs. Kane the latter went into the house and returned with revolver, firing two shots, one of which entered Mrs. McDonald's abdomen
 A desperate negro named Key holds shot and killed Sheriff Gassa- way, P. A. Prout, Jesse Davis and another officer at Tuscombia, Ala The officers went to arrest the negro when he opened fire with a Win chester Reynolds was himself kill ed in battle. Following the tragedy, an order was issued forbidding the assembling of negroes, for fear that a clash between the races would oc. cur. At Florence a negro who ey. pressed qualification over Reynolds fiendish success as a murderer was killed by butcher, who cut his body almost half in two with a meat knife.
 Plans have been completed by the navy department for important changes in the existing system of training enlisted men for the ser vice, and a policy adopted which, f carried out, will give the navy an aggregated force of 5O,O0O seamen in the next nine years. It Is pro posed to add 5000 men annually to the navy, beginning this year and extending until 1910. There are now nearly 23,000 men in the ser vice, including apprentices, and with the increase that is expected to be authorized this season, the navy must make provision between now and July 1, 1903, for 6,79S men.
 Almost the entire population of Zapota county, Tex, is in deplora ble condition and many persons are on the verge of starvation. There has been no rainfall there for two years, and former fertile acres are now nothing but ghastly, glistening sand dumps The bones of thousands of animals strew the plains, and death and desolation are to be seen on ey- cry hand. Citizens of Texas have contributed to the sufferers, and the governor has done all in his pow CT for their relief, but outside aid is badly needed. Many of the people will remove to other parts if assist ed to do so.
 Wheat was cultivated on 209,- 460 farms, covering S07, ,136 acres and producing 11,237,O05 bushels of a farm value of $5,748,371. Corn was cultivated on 4,697,799 farms, 2,666,436,279 bushels on 97,916,S66 acres of farm value. of $S30,257,726. On 2,114,559 farms oats was cultivated over 29,539,- 597 acres, producing therefrom 942,- 3S7,375 bushels, of farm value of Rye was cultivated