Woodruff County news., 1902-02-06

Former President Cleveland has recovered from an attack of pneu- monia, and is on a hunting iaunt in South Carolina.
 Chicago coal dealers threaten to boycott users of gas for fuel by re- fusing to sell them coal during the extreme cold weather.
 John A. Hinsley, former head of the insurance department of the K. of F., has been acquitted by a com- mittee from the order of the charge of misappropriating $500,000, the money having been paid into the treasury.
 II. c. Clark, general superintend- ent of the Missouri Pacific system at St. Louis, has been appointed gen eral manager of the Choctaw, Okla homa X Gulf Railroad Company, with headquarters at Little Rock. Mr. Clark will have entire charge of the operating department Of the system.
 According to statistics on the sub ject there were sixteen train robber- ies last year and twenty-nine in 1900 In the past twelve years 306 trains have been ''held up' by robbers, and 95 persons killed and 105 injured by being shot. In the past two years five train robbers were killed and two wounded, and two passen- gers and trainmen killed and ten wounded.
 Fire in the wholesale district of Mobile destroyed property to the | value of at least $300,0O0, and caus- ed the death of Richard H. Widmer, a leading society man, and Bat Thomas, negro laborer from New Orleans. Three fremen were injur- ed, two slightly and one painfully | Widmer and Thomas were assisting the firemen and were caught by fall ing walls.
 Seven men engaged in a battle in Owsley county, Kentucky, six of whom were wounded. The partici- pants were: Dan and Newell Brew CT and Robert Lynch on one side and George Scott, Lucian and John Treadway and Dan Allen on the oth- CT. Five of the men were armed with pistols and two with knives. The Brewers and Scott were fatally wounded
 The senate committee on the Phil ippines has decided to enter upon a thorough investigation of the entire Philippine question, and Senator Lodge, chairman of the committee, was authorized to present to the sen- ate the usual resolution authorizing the committee to sit and to send for l persons and papers. The investiga- | ton will be undertaken for the pur- | pose of arriving at correct conclu- sions to guide the committee in formulating government for the Philippine archipelago, and will be on the basis of the Lodge bill.
 A naval retiring board has de- clined to recommend the retirement of Capt. Richmond P. Hobson. He has complained of his eyes, which suffered from heat and glare while he was working on the Spanish yes sels sunk at Santiago, and afterward in the dry dock at Hong Kong, where two vessels of the Spanish fleet sunk by Dewey were repaired. Capt. Hobson himself applied to be retired, but the board of physicians which examined him found that his eyes were not permanently injured, and refused to recommend his retirement | He has been ordered to return to l duty III connection With the CnafleS- ton exposition.
 Edward and John Riddle, con demned murderers, escaped jail at Pittsburg, Pa, by the aid of the prison warden's wife, who furnished them revolvers. The prisoners wounded two guards and locked a third in dungeon. The woman had become infatuated with one of the men, and deserted her husband and four children, but all three were captured after a desperate battle in which the Biddles were fatally wounded by officers. The woman was with the mon when Oyertaken