Woodruff County news., 1902-08-28
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

H1fS WOHlCu W0T0 CIoIlIdJcu HI d burning New York tenement house. American interests in Venezuela are being guarded carefully by the navy.
 Justice Shiras, of the United States supreme court, will shortly retire.
 Chas. Johnson, colored, was hanged by mob at Walnut Grove, - Miss, for assault on a white wo- man.
 : Twelve thousand people saw L. A. Sartell, an eronaut, dashed to death at Danville, Ill. When he cut loose from the balloon his para chute failed to open.
 Geo. c. Gilmore, a wealthy Cali fornian, who died recently, buried all his wealth, which he had convert ed into gold, and now his heirs are praying for some mind reader to locate the hidden treasure. Gilmore left note stating that he had bur jed the money but left nothing by which may be located.
 Edmund Butcher, fullblood h. dian, walked seventy-fve miles to Muskogee to surrender to the of fcers, stating that he had killed his brother-in-law in self-defense. Witt him were his wife and two children The jailer pointed out the jail and Butcher walked into it without an officer or commitment.
 A Celestial marriage" ordered by Brigham Young and carried out in accordance with the rites of the Mormon church, has been declared legal by the supreme court of Utah. A woman, who had been married to a wealthy Mormon according to their faith, bat who was not re- garded as legal wife, brought suit to recover her share of the. dead mans property, which she will re- ceive under the ruling of the su- preme court.
 The agent of the American Ex- press Company at Fordsville, Ky, says he was held up and robbed of $28,000 in money sent to one J. H. Boatner. Both the agent and Boat ner have been arrested, the company alleging they conspired to defraud the company out of the above sum- Boatner holds the company's receipt for the money and claims it was nev- CT received by him, and unless the package is found or evidence se- cured against the two accused men the company will have to make good the amount.
 Emilio Aguinaldo, former chief of the Filipino cause, is coming to the United States on lecture tour. The war department has decided that he may do this, as he was in- cluded in the amnesty proclamation of July 4, and is on the same foot ing occupied by any other man. In preparation for his lecture tour he has been perfecting his knowledge of English by associating with army officers.
 During the fiscal year just ended the exports to Porto Rico from this county amounted to $10,719,444, while the imports amounted to $SS,- 297,422 To the Philippines ex- ports were $5,261, ,S67 in 1909, com pared with $94, ,597 in 1897, and the imports from the Philippines were $6,612,700 in 1902, compared with $4,3S3,740 in 1897. To the Ha- waiian islands the exports in 1900 were, according to the best estimates of the collector of Honolulu, $19,- 000,OOO in 1902, compared with $4,- 690,075 in 1897, and the receipts of merchandise into the United States from Hawaii in 1900 were $24, ,7OO,- 429, compared with $13,6S7,799 in 1897. To Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines combined the ship ments in 1902 were $34,971,310 in value, compared with $6,773,560 in 1897, and the receipts of merchan- disc from those islands in 1909 were $39,610,551, compared with $20,- 252,563 in 1897. Shipments by the