Woodruff County news., 1903-01-15
News of the World

The government reports winter wheat in good condition. Webster, Col, summer resort, has been totally destroyed by fire.
 The State University building in Norma, Okla, was totally destroy ed by fire.
 The town of Vista, in southeast ern Oklahoma, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $25,000.
 Senators Penrose of Pennsylva- mia and Hansbrough of North Da- kota have been reelected.
 Bishop Gulston F. Report, head of the Roman Catholic church in the Hawaiians islands, is dead.
 The Houston, Texas, labor coun- ell has invited the trades unions composed of negroes to affiliate with it.
 Capt. Marmadukc and his crew of Americans, who about six months ago took charge of a Colombian gunboat, have resigned.
 Ex-Gov. Hogg has disposed of his oil holdings in the Baumont field. It is said the ex-governor has cleared about $2,000,00O on his in- vestments in oil lands.
 Hon. W. J. Bryan, who has just returned from a tour of Mexico, declined to be interviewed by re- porter on the financial conditions of the above country.
 A a result of a collision between passenger train and the rear end of freight train on the Mononga- hela division of the Pennsylvania railroad near Pittsburg. Pa. seven men were killed and five bad ly injured.
 J. A. Traylor, manager of mine near Eureka, Neb., was attacked by crowd of miners, when he drew q pistol and killed three of them and wounded two others. The miners had delcared they would run Tray Tor out of the community.
 Fire followed by an explosion al Hobart, Okla, caused a loss of $50,- 900. The fire started in hardware store where dynamite was kept The force of the explosion was SC great that towns thirty miles from Hobart reported the shock.
 It is understood President Roose- welt will shortly appoint Governor Taft to be associate justice of the supreme court to succeed Justice Shiras. Gen. Luke E. Wright, oi | Tennessee, is to succeed MT. Taft as governor of the Philippines. l The census bureau report on the cotton ginned from the 1902 crop up to and including December 31 last is 9,311,S35 bales, irrespective of shape or weight, equal to S,005,- 503, according to the commercial counting. The ginners' estimate is : 1,057,7?1 bales. This is 90.2 per cent of the crop.
 The president has directed the appointment of Capt. Louis B. Lawton, twenty-sixth infantry, to be major in the judge advocate gen erals department Maj. Lawton was badly wounded while with Col. Liscum's column on the assault on Tien Tsin. His injury is perma- nent and he will be retired at once with his increased rank.
 The bureau of insular affairs of the war department has prepared , for publication comparative statement showing that for the ten months ended October 3l, l9OS, the customs and revenues in the Phil ippine archipelago were STATS, ,5S6, against $6,921, ,559 in 1900, and $3,- , T59,993 in 1899. The figures rep resent the total customs house re- ceipts expressed in United States F currency value.
 MT. Wilson, secretary of agricul- ture, has ordered printed 100000 copies of the report made by MT. w D. Hunter, specialist of the de 3 pertinent, on the results of his in 3 tvestigations in Texas during the past year on the ravages of the cot ton boil weevil. MT. Hunters re. port is the most complete that ha.