Woodruff County news., 1902-05-01
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Hot, dry winds have injured Kan Sas wheat, and only half crop is predicted.
 Political leaders admit there is no chance for trade reciprocity legisla ton at this session of congress.
 Santos Dumont says the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy can be used in connection with his air ship
 Ex-Gov. Bob Taylor, of Tennessee, has accepted an offer of $25,000 from lecture bureau for 100 dates, to be filled in six months. At Kansas City John Calhoun was shot five times by his son Row. land and fatally wounded. The father had attacked the boys grown sister when he interfered.
 Fifty dwelling houses in the south western portion of Kansas City were destroyed by fire, rendering home less sixty families, many of whom lost all their household goods.
 It is claimed that unless the pow CTS use their influence with King Charles as to the treatment of Jews in Roumania, thousands of those people will perish from starvation. Besides being denied the right of citizenship, the authorities are now making it impossible for Jew to earn a living.
 There is pending in congress bill opening to settlement 100000 acres of the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache lands in Oklahoma. The opening is to occur within three months after the law goes into eff feet and the lands are to be taken under the general provisions of the homestead law.
 J. P. Morgan evidently intends to Americanize Europe by securing a monopoly on all the paying enter prises of the latter country. His latest is to build new underground railroad system in London, which will rival C. T. Yerkes' scheme of obtaining possession of all the inter- rural transportation.
 At the Dallas reunion Sons of Confederate veterans, the following officers were elected: Commander in-chief, Thos. P. Stone, of Waco :; Army of Northern Virginia, Jesse N. Gathright, of Louisville, Ky; Army of Tennessee, N. B. Forrest, of Memphis, Tenn. Army of the Trans ns-Mississippi, Dr. w. D. Buck her, of Arkansas. The constitution was amended to exclude the use of by officers of the organization of mil itary titles used by Confederate vet erans.
 There will be a worlds fair con- gress of editors at the Louisiana pur- chase exposition in St. Louis. Five hundred members of the National Editorial Association, in session at Hot Springs, unanimously passed resolution, introduced by MT. R. M. White, corresponding secretary of the Missouri Press Association, pro- viding for the appointment of special committee of seven members from the National Press Association to arrange with the exposition off cers the details of the International Congress of Editors.
 Dallas, Texas, entertained the largest number of people who ever visited that city on one occasion at the Confederate reunion, which opened on the 2sd. Gov. Savers on the part of the state, Gen. Ben Cab ell Gold Tige) on the part of the city, and Hon. G. B. Gerald, on behalf of the Texas veterans, de- livered addresses of welcome, which were responded to by Gen. Gordon, commander in chief, "Private" John Allen, of Mississippi, was the orator of the occasion For the twelfth time Gen. Gordon was elected com mander-in-chief, Gen. Lee com mander of the army of the Tennes- sec, Gen. Cabell commander of the army of the trans Mississippi de- partment, and Gen. c. D. Walker commander of the army of Northern Virginia, to succeed the late Gen. Wade Hampton.