Woodruff County news., 1903-01-15

A|' AA' | NpACOli3 OI NAANNSt0Ss ht"S given $50,000 to the endowment fund of Pomona College at Clare mont, Col.
 The representative of Porto Rico at Washington has announced that the island aspires to statehood in the Union.
 A masked mob released two par ties from jail at Lewisburg, Tenn, who were charged with taking part ip lynching.
 Mrs. Mary A. Morgan, woman who had lived in three centuries, died at her home in Dubuque, Iowa, aged 105 years.
 In wreck on the Southern Rail way near Birmingham, Ala, the en- gineer was killed and twcnty-seven passengers injured.
 The Eastern Steel Company has begun work upon four open hearth furnaces which will have capacity of 150,000 tons per year.
 At Joplin, Mo, because the wa ter company established a minimum rate, the city councilmen voted to purchase the waterworks. | Chicago factories will ship $2,- 500,000 worth of harvesting ma chinery to be used by the wheat growers of southern Russia.
 At Oakdale, La., thieves broke into the Watkins railway office, blew thc outer door of the safe off the hinges with gunpowder, and se- cured $4 and some express pack ages.
 Because his brother refused to give him H cigarette paper Pink Grove, young man living at Grove Park, Fla, plunged a knife into his heart, killing his brother in- stantly.
 Five men entered the First Ma ton Bank at Abingdon, H., bound and gagged the night watchman and blew open the vault, securing $4,. 200. Two of the men were captured and portion of the money recov. cred.
 Rev George C. Rankin, pastor o1 q church at Dallas, Tex, made q personal tour of gambling houses ir the above city and succeeded in hay. ing the proprictors indicted by furnishing evidence to the grand jury.
 Miss Etta Alldridgc, the 22 year-old daughter of the sheriff al Oneonta, Ala, liberated two prison. CTS during the absence of her faith CT. She accompanied enc of the prisoners, Mayhernc Murphee, 6 young man charged with murder.
 The army is suffering from : shortage of officers in both the medi. cal department and ordnance de. partment. Neither branch of the service seems to offer sufficient in. ducement to secure the necessary number of officers to perform tho work of these departments, and notwithstanding several recent OK. aminations, the surgeon general o1 the army has been able to obtain but few properly qualified medical officers. The conditions prevailing in the ordnance corps are nearly as serious in the navy, where they arc no naval engineers.
 Miss Tony Dunlap was acquitted at Aledo, H., of the charge of murdcring Miss Allie Dool, after a trial lasting three weeks. The girls were old acquaintances. Miss Dool vas clerk in dry goods store, ant one day in company with an other young lady, Miss Dunlap visit ed the store and tender Miss Dool girl some chocolate drops. Shortly after eating the candy Miss Dool was taken with convulsions and died in great agony. The prosecution proved the chocolate candies con- tained poison. and that Miss Dun- lap gave them to Miss Dool was ad- mitted. The testimony also devcl- oped the fact that Tona Dunlap and another young woman had eaten candies taken from tho same paper bag, and that neither suffered in-