Woodruff County news., 1902-08-07
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

history of the South African war.
 The rapid spread of cholera is the cause of panics throughout Egypt.
 John Wise, colored, was lynched at Pembroke, Ga, for assaulting white woman.
 The midway" at the coming St. Louis exposition will be known by name as "Skinker Road"
 Floods in the western part of Tex as did considerable damage to crops, and several lives were lost.
 A colony of fifteen Filipinos have taken up their residence in Caldwell county, Texas. These colonists are direct from the Philippines, and af- ter establishing homes will send for other members of the race.
 The coal mine operators of Penn sylvania have not been able to se- cure a sufficient number of non union men to start up any of the large mines, and as a result the price of anthracite coal has climbed to $10 a ton. President Mitchell, of the miners union, says the men are in good condition, and with the system adopted of raising funds they can hold out indefinitely.
 Gen. Dalgedo, who commanded the Cuban sharpshooters operating against Weyler's black Spanish ~guerrillas in Havana province dur ing the last revolution, now an of ficer of Cuban guardia rural, or mounted genarmes force, and act ing as chief of police of the town of Punta Prava, where Maceo was am pushed and killed, is under arrest charged with having assassinated prisoner.
 The absolute control of the meat and packing industry of the coun- try by the Big Three," or what is termed the beef trust, and which is now being investigated by the gov ernment, is best shown by an official census bulletin just issued at Wash ington. It states that capital of $19, 9,199,264 is invested in the busi- ness, and also shows that the value of the yearly production reaches the amazing figures of $785,562, ,433.
 Several severe earthquake shocks were felt at Los Alamos, Cal, July 31, and the damage done was very heavy. Not a brick structure in the town escaped serious damage, and most of them were razed to the ground. The shocks seemed to have a spiral motion. Goods were hurled from the shelves of stores and piled in the middle of rooms. Even such heavy articles as desks were thrown about. Not chimney is left standing in the town, and all brick walls are badly damaged, but frame structures generally escaped serious injury In the drug stores not a single bottle escaped, and the saloons were flooded with liquor from broken bottles. The whole town was arous- ed and people fled from their homes to the streets in panic.
 For the first time in the history of future dealing, several members of the board of trade of Chicago who had been caught short in the oat corner, resorted to the courts for protection. The parties were grant ed temporary injunction, restrain ing the holders of contracts from forcing up the price of oats, and is- sued the following in explanation of their course: "For year or two there has been regular epidemic of manipulation and attempted cor ners in the market of the Chicago board of trade, which inflicted in- jury to the grain interests of this city and the country tributary to Chicago. These attempts to squeeze the trade have now become so ex- treme and interruptions that it has become high time for some one to make fight and find out where the trade stands and whether it is to be for all time possible for groups of mililonaires to turn upside down the grain business of the country and inflict heavy losses on the trade" The final outcome of this litigation will be watched with in-