Woodruff County news., 1901-04-04
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

said: Interest in the capture and fate of Aguinaldo is wellnigh over- shadowed in Manila by sensational de- velopments, present and prospective | of frauds in the comlnissary depart ment. How widely these extend has | not yet been ascertaiped, but enough | is already known 10 justify the belief | that they are far-reaching." Advioes from Washington of the same date | say that nothing on the subject had been. reported to the government.
 The president, on the 30th, an nounced the Louisiana Purchase worlds fair. commission as follows: Ex-Sentators ThEston, of Nebraska; Carter, of Montana; Lindsay, of Ken lucky, and Mcbride, of Oregon; ex- Representatives Allen, of Mississippi, and Martin H. Glynn, of New York; P. D. Scott, of Arkansas ;John r. Mill Ter, of Indiana, and F. A. Betts, of Connecticut. Joseph Flory, of Mis- souri, will probably be chosen secre- tary.
 At seven o'clock. Fon the morning of the 31st, fire was discovered in the sail room of the United States gum boat Petrel, Lieutenant-Conm Jesse Nfims Roper commanding, lying at Cavite, P. I. In attempts to eNtin- gliish the flames and efforts. to safe the imperilled ,Lieutenant-C -Commander Roper lost his life, and many of his crew were seriously ovsrcome.
 The president, on the evening of the .3Oth, announced the promotion of Gen. Fred Funston to be brigadier- general in the regular army, in rec ognition of his gallant service in the capture of Aguinaldo. He also an nounced the promotion of Brig.Gen. Lloyd Wheaton to be major-g general, and Col Jacob Smith to be brigadier-
 general.
 Andrew Carnegie, has offered to give sac. .0oG to fhcscit.y of Port lalst., e-1-,., for free public libi cry building, pro- vided the city will guarantee 8 site and an annual income sufficient for is maintenance. The Portland Library association now ha> building and li- brary' valued at 'S360,oGG, and the two will probable be consolidated.
 The St. Petersburg Novosti, unlike most Russian journals, professes to see, no occasion for rivalry between Great Britain and Russia for China. ''The. legend of AngloRussian cnmi ty," it says, rests upon 8, crude mis- understanding. Russa's natural spheres do not touch Engla1d's in tbe .anGtse vallev."
 For the first time in the history of Havana the month of April began without a single case of yellow fever in the city Maj. w. c. Gorgas, chief sanitary officer. is confident that, with the sanitary measures now being iu- forced and the valuab information gained during the recent investiga tions of the yellow fever commission, there will be but few cases during the coming season.
 A heavy snowstorm prevailed all over Kansas, on the 1st, beginning ;n the western part of the state in the morning and sraveling cast. At Buingt on, the heaviest fall of the winter was reported. General good to wheat will doubtless result, but in the southeastern corner of the state damage 10 peaches is feared.
 Hon. D. R. Woodward. aSsstan. commissioner general of the Caited | States at the Paris exposition who, re- turning home last December, broke l his leg on board the steamship St. l Louis, has recovered and took passage | on the same ship, on the 3d, for Paris | to close up the work of the American 1 commission
 The St. Petersburg correspondent l of he Lokal Anzeieer announces that l an examination of the accounts of the | Russian imperial controller general | shows what are Believed to have been | syst stematic defalcations between the | years 1893 and 1s9S. The sums not | accounted for aggregate 44,000,00o | roublcs.
 Recent Filipino Surfenders include Gen. Gonzales, II officers and l men, with 45 rifles, at Malabon, and Col. IIerrara, three officers and 25 men, with rifles, at Laguna, and Colonels Fable, Tecson and Sibul, at Bulucan With view to bringing about d uni form German orthoeraphy confer ence will be held in Berlin next sum- mer of experts sent by each German state. The conference is chiefly pro- noted by the king of Wurtemburg. Herr Carl Laeisz, the chairman of 1 the board of directors of the Ham l burg-American steamship line, who | died in Hamburg, March 22, left that | city 100000 marks for the construc- | tion of concert house.
 The National City Bank of New York, on the 2d, exported S50o,ooo in gold to Europe.
 Dr. Schlichter, he African traveller | and geographer, died in Berlin on the list,
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