Woodruff County news., 1901-10-26
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

LIT. OdHluelS, SIepldtIler OI IHe James boys, has been placed in the Missouri insane asylum.
 Gen. Otis, in his annual report of the department of the lakes, reports assertions on the increase.
 Senator Frye has prepared bill and will renew the fight at the com ing session of congress for ship sub sidy.
 The betting on the New York mayoralty race is $100 to $75 in ia yor of Shepard, the Tammany can didate.
 Ex-Gov. Leedy, of Kansas, was recently elected city attorney of Val des, Alaska. Leedy removed to Alaska about two years ago.
 The treasurer of Richland county, Ohio, has brought suit against the estate of the late John Sherman for $277, ,174, claimed as back taxes.
 The United States department of agriculture estimates the worlds wheat crop to be larger than that of either of the two preceding years.
 Prince Edwards, colored, who murdered John G. Foster, promi- nent planter near Shreveport, last June, was captured in St. Louis on the 18th inst.
 The Turkish government will be asked to repay the ransom demand ed by Bulgarian brigands for the liberation of Miss Stone, the Ameri- can missionary.
 An American syndicate is nego- tiating for the transit system of St. Petersburg, Russia, and will change the same from the old horse tram way to an electric system.
 The first witness introduced in be- half of Admiral Schley, in the court of inquiry, was Nunez, the Cuban pilot, who testified that he carried the news to Admiral Sampson that the Spanish fleet was in San tiago harbor, by direction of Admir- al Schley.
 The twenty-seventh annual con- vention of the American Bankers Association was held in Milwaukee on the 18th and 18th. The report of the executive council stated that the membership had grown from about 1,500 in 1895, to 4,500 in 1900, an increase of 200 per cent in five years.
 John W. Harding, agent for the Yankton, s. D., Indian reservation, has been removed, to take effect on the arrival of a special agent, who has been ordered to relieve him. The action is the result of a num- Der of charges filed at the interior department, alleging, among other things, violations of the department regulations.
 The directors of the new Panama canal company have issued circu- lar to the shareholders stating that Colombia is willing to sanction the transfer of the canal to the United States An estimate of value is therefore being prepared at the re- quest of the canal commission, and it is believed that this will be ready by the time congress meets.
 The war department has made public the annual report of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, commanding the department of Cuba, for the last fiscal year. Gen. Wood says the general conduct of the American troops in Cuba continues to be excel lent, and, as heretofore, complaints against them from civil authorities and individuals are extremely rare. The total number of deaths of off, cers and enlisted men during the year was sixty-seven, a percentage of less than 125. Yellow fever has now been almost driven from the is- land, owing to the energetic war upon mosquitoes and the sanitary precautions adopted. However, during the past summer, five off cers of Gen Woods staff were taken L C