Woodruff County news., 1902-09-18
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Brig. Gen. Forwood, surgeon gen, eral of the army, has retired under the age limit and is succeeded by Brig. Gen. Robert O'Reilley.
 On September the amount of gold in the United States treasury was $573, ,936,194 the largest sum on hand at any time in the history of the country.
 President Roosevelt delivered an address to the convention of locomo- tive fremen at Chattanooga, and was elected an honorary member of the brotherhood.
 The navy department is planning to place all Americans on board the new vessels as they are built, and to eventually retire all foreign born persons from the naval service.
 Gen. Chaffee, since repeated un- looked for attacks on American pick cts, has inaugurated a vigorous campaign to subdue the hostile Moros in the province of Mindanao, P. I.
 A revolt against the sultan of Morocco, headed by the sultan's brother, has grown to such propor- tions as to alarm the monarch in power, who is collecting large army for defense.
 Prosecuting Attorney Folk, of St. Louis, who is prosecuting the mu- nicipal boodlers of the above city. has been threatened with assassina- tion. Mr. Folk says such threats will have no effect upon him, and that he will send every guilty man to the penitentiary.
 Mrs. Joseph Leslie, aged 2S, was shot and killed at Bloomington, H., by Miss Daisy Carlton, aged 20. Mrs. Leslie had come into posses sion of some endearing letters writ ten to her husband by Miss Carlton and was administering punishment on her with cowhide when shot.
 Catholic missionaries of the Ger man colony of Togo, west Africa, have appealed to the kaiser, ''be- cause their own and the labors of other Christian missionaries among the blacks are in vain, as the Ger man schnapps barons flood the coun- try with cheap fusil, turning the na- tives into drunkards." The report says that on an average 2,889 quarts of rank potato schnapps are intro- duced into that small colony, con- taining 118 Europeans, all told. "Rum," say the missionaries, Sac companies the German black from the cradle to the grave; when com ing into the world he is saluted by schnapps orgie; the young buck buys his bride with German schnapps; schnapps makes brothers out of the chief and the wicked fe- tich priest, schnapps is used to rob the blacks of their land and schnapps plays leading part at their canni- bal festivals. The black is getting more and more demoralized by the wholesale introduction of schnapps.
 J. K. Murrell, one of the members of the municipal assembly under in- dictment in St. Louis for bribery, and for five months fugitive from justice, has returned to St. Louis from Mexico and made complete confession, which caused the arrest of eighteen other members and ex- members of the house of delegates. In his confession Murrell states that majority of the delegates, compos- i ed of men under arrest, formed combine, and sold their votes for the passage of numerous franchise and contract bills, notably the light ing bill and the suburban railway bill. To secure the support of the combine for the lighting bill $47 ,5OO, or $2,5OO each, was paid the -bood- lers, and $75,OOO was deposited in a safety deposit vault, to be delivered when the suburban franchise was granted. Each of the parties under arrest is held in $3O,OO0 bond. and only a few have been able to make the bond. The men under arrest belong to both the democratic and re- publican parties.