Woodruff County news., 1903-01-08

hrst message having come through on Thursday night. The message was from Gov. Dole to President Roosevelt and was purely a formal greeting. The line is now open for business.
 During the year just closed, 4,000 new oil wells were completed in the state of Indiana. Of this number 631 were failures, so far as the securing of flow is con- cerned, but produced in the end a flow of gas large enough to pay the cost of drilling the holes.
 Caleb Powers, who is shortly to be placed on trial for the third time for complicity in the murder of Governor Goebel, has appealed to his friends for financial assist ance. Powell, who was twice con- victed, has been in jail three years, and the expense of his former trials has exhausted his means.
 Mrs B. Lane, of Deatsville, Ala, shot and killed a negro burglar named John Watkins. Mrs. Lane, who was alone, awoke and found the negro ransacking the house. She ran from the house and went to her fathers. Watkins followed and at tempted to kill Mrs. Lane, but she secured a shotgun and emptied both barrels into his body.
 Santos Dumont, the great aero- naut, declares the time is fast ap- preaching when the building of air ships will be as common as the nowaday construction of ships. Du- mont at present is at work on an air ship which he declares will easily carry dozen persons and will be used in transportation of passcn- gers in Paris.
 Brig Gen. Hasbrouck of the ar tillery, recently promoted from the rank of colonel, will retire in order that the pesident may fill the vacan- cy by advancing another of the old colonels who served during the civil war. This is in keeping with the recommendation made by Sec retary Root and indorsed by the president in his annual message that officers who served in the civil war should be allowed to retire at an advanced grade. Bills are pend ing in congress making this provis- ion.
 There has been much skirmishing and many fierce sallies on the part of the sultan's troops around Fez, at which place the rebels have shut in their ruler. The rebellion Is rap
 
 idly spreading throughout the prov inces and from all reports to the advantage of the insurrectionists. The Spanish troops at Cadiz and Algeciras have been ordered to pre- pare to move -on short notice. The British wafships, Canopus and H. lustrious, and cruisers Bacchanta have been ordered to join the de- tached fleet at Gibraltar. The sit uation, is assuming serious aspects and grave consequences are facing the several powers whose interests are at stake.
 Recently published estimates of the production of pig iron in the United States. during the calendar year 1902 put the total production at 17,500,000 tons. This is an in- crease of nearly 2,000,000 tons over last year, and is more than double the production of 1896, three times that of 1886, four. times that of 1881, six times that of 1879, eight times that of 1875, ten times that of 1872, and twenty times that of 1865. The steel production of the year is estimated at 15,000,000 tons, which is practically 50 per cent more than that of 1900, nearly three. times as much as that of 1896, ten times as much as that of 1884, and twenty times the production of 1878.
 The crown Princess 'of Saxony, who deserted her husband and five children for teacher named Giron,