Woodruff County news., 1902-06-26

IS threatened, the operators having refused to sign the wage scale de- 
 At the end, of the sixth week of the anthracite coal miners strike both sides stand firm and there is no prospect of an early settlement.
 The governor of North Carolina offers rewards aggregating $30,00O for the arrest and conviction of the person who, on June II, took two negroes from jail at Salisbury and lynched them.
 Adyices from Rome state that the pope has accepted the Ameri- can proposition for the withdrawal of tht friars from the Philippines and the purchase by the government of their lands.
 Secretary Root has assumed full responsibility of the payment of a pension to Gen. Gomez during the American occupation of Cuba, and says the course pursued was wise and statesmanlike.
 Illinois democrats in state con- vention adopted platform in which the Kansas City platform is not specifically endorsed. Bry- ans name was not mentioned in any of the resolutions adopted
 Charles F. Jones, who was valet to Wm. M. Rice, the Texas mill lionaire, and who confessed that in conjunction with Albert T. Patrick, he caused the death of Rice, has been admitted to bail in tho sum of $1,000. Jones will be taken to Tex as by brother.
 Gov. Heard, of Louisiana, has been notified by the British consul that Louisiana cattle will be shut out of South Africa. This action is believed to be in retaliation for Heard's protest to the state depart ment about mule shipments and op- erations of the British military camp at Chalmette.
 The supreme court of Alabama affirmed the decision of the crimi- nal court of Jefferson county in the case of Will Dorsey (colored), con- victed of highway robbery and sen- fenced to death, and fixed the date for his execution at August 8. Dor sey was indicted for holding up a white man and robbing him of $7.50.
 The senate committee on naval affairs has authorized favorable report on Senator McComas' bill giving Admiral Schley the full pay of a rear admiral on the active list of the navy. As a retired officer he now receives only three-fourths of the pay of a rear admiral on the act i've list. The bill was amended by the committee so as to eliminate the preamble reciting that the admiral was in absolute command of the American forces at the time of the battle with Cervera's fleet off San- tiago.
 Admiral Dewey is to go to sea again, flying his flag with the four stars, in command of the greatest fleet in numbers the United States has gotten together since the days of the civil war, and far more pow erful in offense and defense even than any of those war fleets. Secre- tary Moody has conceived the idea, and after consulting the pleasure of Admiral Dewey it has been arranged that he shall be placed in supreme command of the fleet Comprising the North Atlantic, the European and the South Atlantic squadrons), which is to assemble near Culebra island i'll the West Indies next De cember for the winter maneuvers.
 King Albert, of Saxony, died at Dresden on the 18th, aged S2 years. Prince George, duke of Saxony, sue ceeds to the throne. The dead mon- arch was the eldest son of King John and of Queen Amalie, who was the daughter of Mayimilian I, king of Bavaria. He was educated for the career of a soldier and en- tered the Saxon army at the tender age of 15. At 20 the young man saw his first service in actual fight