Woodruff County news., 1902-08-28

-lSnlng house Ill Cn1na.
 An American combine has pur- chased all the principal tobacco of Mexico.
 James Shannon, an escaped con- vict from Oklahoma, was surrender ed to the officers by his father.
 Missouri is one of the great corn producing states. Her yield this year is estimated at 300,000,000 bushels.
 The prospects of securing an ear ly ratification of the canal treaty by the Columbian government are not very bright on account of interna- tional strife in that country.
 Germany has given notice that she intends to occupy Venezuelan port to enforce the payment of claims for damages her subjects sustained during the revolution.
 Frank c. Andrews, a millionaire of Lansing, Mich, has been sen- tenced to fifteen years in the peni- tentiary for wrongfully using funds of a bank of which he was president.
 Botha, De Wet and Dilarney, leaders of the Boer forces in the late South African war, were the guests of England during the coro- nation ceremonies, and everywhere received warm greeting from the English people. The triumvirate will visit the United States before returning to South Africa.
 Tennessee coal miners and opera tors of the Coal Creek and Jellico district have agreed on a wage scale, covering the next twelve months. The miners get 9-hour day, as heretofore, with an advance of 1 1-2 cent per ton on screened coal and l cent per ton on run of the mine, or unscreened coal.
 The total number of miners in- .yolyed in the anthracite strike IS 179,000, The census bureau says the average family consists of five members, and on this basis the hi ners' union, with the assistance of other unions, is caring for S95,000 men, women and children. The strike has now been on for nearly four months, and the strikers show no signs of weakening.
 Three life prisoners in the peni- tentiary at Frankfort, Ky, caused consternation among the officers by g mutiny. Some one had smuggled revolver to one of the prisoners, and two guards were disarmed, then the trio took refuge in the third story of a building where a portion of the convicts are employed. They defed the authorities and held them at bay for five hours, but when their ammunition became exhausted sur rendered. Two guards were wound ed and one of the convicts killed.
 At Mira, La., a horrible tragedy was enacted. As Ambrosio Ogol- 1io, Mexican, returned home to dinner he found his wife in coa- pany with Joan Emilio. Ogallio alleged that his wife and Emilio were packing goods to leave together and had loaded part of them on a wagon. Ogallio caught Emilio by the throat, and, drawing his still letto, carved him to death. He '
 then took an axe and cut off the dead mans arms and head.
 The Morgan combine has made an offer for majority of the stock of the American Ship Building Company, which has its own con- yards, machine shops and foundries in Cleveland, O., Lorain, Detroit and Wyandotte, Mich. :; West Superior and Milwaukee, Chi cago and Buffalo. Its property is valued at $15,000, ,00O, with an ex- tra reserve fund of $3,O00,000. It is doing an immense business. It is said that the aim of the Eastern people is not only to get control of the American Ship Building Com