Woodruff County news., 1902-09-04

H. V. IlCh, o4 IIle SCeel truSt1 is candidate for the United States senate from Pennsylvania in oppo- sition to Senator Quay.
 Attorney General Knox has gone to France to take up the investiga- tion of the Panama canal title held by the French company.
 In the democratic primaries of Alabama, W. P. Jelks, present gov ernor, defeated former Governor Johnston by 10000 majority.
 An electrical company at Lynn, Mass, is building a train, which is soon to be used in Illinois, and make 90 to 100 miles an hour.
 Miss Maude Thompson, prom inent young lady, was brutally mur- dered near Huntington, Tenn, by James Greer, her sweetheart, be- cause she would not elope with him.
 Postmaster General Smith, in answer to an inquiry as to the course to be pursued by a federal office holder in political affairs, says: "There is no reason why you should not be delegate to the conventions of your party, but you should not serve as chairman of any state or county convention or committee, and should not take an unduly act i've part in either local or state poli- tics"
 A clash between striking miners and troops occurred August 30 at a colliery near Tamaqua, Pa. Sev- eral parties on both sides were in jured and a score of strikers arrest ed. All efforts to resume operation in the anthracite territory have fail ed from the fact that men cannot be induced to take the place of strik- CTS. There is being less than 5000 tons of coal mined daily in the strike district, where the daily aver age when the mines are in full op- eration is 20,998 tons daily.
 Dr. Peyrat, French physician, has called to the notice of the acad- emy of medicine a case in which a man hit in the heart by a revolver bullet had been completely cured. The wounded man was attended in one of the Paris hospitals, where pr. Launay successfully stitched the wound. Some time ago Dr. Le Dentu reported several cases of sue cessful treatment of wounds in the heart produced by knives, etc., the proportion of cures being from 30 to 42 per cent, but this appears to be the first case of success in dealing with man shot in the heart.
 Judge Henry c. Caldwell, the only surviving appointee of Presi- dent Lincoln on the federal judi ciary, has reached the age of 70 years. At this age Judge Caldwell is entitled to retire on full pay, but as he is still hale in body and wig orous in mind he has no idea of re- signing. Judge Caldwell's home is in Little Rock, but for several years he has been spending the sum- mer at Wagon Wheel Gap, in Col orado, near which place he has re- gently entered 160 acres of land as a homestead, and built home upon it. Here he has been living the rugged life of the mountains, to which he ascribes the perfect health he possesses at an age when the or dinary man Is broken in body and mind. His nature is as rugged and as stalwart as the mountains among which he lives, and he Is capable of as much labor as the hardest moun- taineer.
 The epidemic of cholera is reach ing alarming proportions on the other side of the Pacific, the out break extending further and hav- ing more victims than ever before reported. It extends from the is- land of Java to Japan, and almost every city on the coast and many in the interior are affected. The dis ease, too, is being contracted by Eu- ropeans as well as natives In Hong Kong, from the first of the outbreak to August 16, there had been 525 cases, six of the patients being Europeans, and 511 deaths of |