Woodruff County news., 1901-06-06
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

humanity Which the ewly-incofpor-
 ated Rockefeller Institute of Medical
 Research is to carry on, will be start
 ed in the pathological laboratories of
 half a dozen universities in this coun- try and one in Canada and in the lab
 oratory of the health department of
 New York city. Among the centers
 of the work will be the University of
 Chicago.
 The comparative statement of the | government receipts and expenditures
 shows that during the month of May
 the total receipts were $52 2,629, ,44O and
 the expenditures $42, ,136, ,560, leaving a
 surplus for the month of $10,492, ,SS0
 and a surplus for the II months of
 the present fiscal year of $5S, ,135. By collision between a car on the
 United Traction Co.'s line and train
 on the McKeesport & Belle Vernon
 branch of the Pittsburgh &y Lake Erie
 railroad, at Mckeesport, on the Ed,
 nine people were more or less seri-
 ously injured, one perhaps fatally. l Prussia's losses on account of crop
 shortage a.re estimated by the presi- dent of the standing committee of the Prussian board of trade and ag-
 riculture, in his report to Count Won Buelow to be: Wheat, 1S3, ,750,0O0
 marks, and rye, 103,O00,00O marks.
 It is officially stated that the Unit
 ed States will remain in control in | Cuba until the Platt amendment has
 been substantially" adopted. This
 has been made known to Gen. Wood
 by Secretary Root, and his action has
 been approved by the president.
 On the 2d Gov. Gage of California | offered . reward of $5,000 for the ar
 rest and conviction of the persons implicated in the lynching of the five | men at Lookout, Modoc county, on the 31st.
 Capt. Henry w. Howgate, formerly signal officer in the United States
 army, died suddenly, on the 1st, of
 cerebral hemorrhage, at his home in
 Washington city. He was 67 years 1 old.
 President Castro of Venezuela has dismissed Senor Galavis, the attor- | ney general, because of his opinion | on the last judgment in the case of | the New York and Burmese Asphalt | Go.
 It is said that the captain-general
 of Spain has been warned of foreign
 anarchist plot to kill the king and | queen regent.
 Chy Min Hui, the newly-arrived Cor.
 can minister, called at the state de- partment in Washington, on the 3d, | and paid his respects to Secretary | Hay and the other officials, arranging | to present his credentials at the White House on the 4th. The minister
 brought with him to America Messrs.
 Ye and Min, two young Japanese mo-
 blemen of high rank, who will soiourn
 for while in the United States. The State Bank of Indiana at h. dianapolis, closed business on the 3d. The gilt-edged assets and deposits were transferred to the Columbia na- tional bank, which opened it's doors the same day. Other paper was placed in the hands of the Security Trust Co. as trustee, for collection. All depositors of the State bank will be paid dollar for dollar on demand. The Terre Haute Ond.) Street Rail- way Co. was tied mp, on the 3d, by strike of all the men in the employ of the company. The men claimed that the company had failed to give the firemen employed at the Brazil plant an advance from 12 to 16 cents per hour, according to an agreement reached after the strike of last Octo- Der.
 From many districts of Germany come reports of great damage caused recently by lightning and cloud- bursts. The districts of Wurtemburg. Hesse, Waldcck and Thuringia have been especially affected, and Thurin- gia railroad communications have been interrupted.
 The San Dominican government has issued q decree storing the constitu- tional guarantees which were sus- pended on account of the last revo- lution. The political prisoners have been released, the country is quiet and confidence has been restored Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, of Topeka, kas., has been granted leave of ah- senee from his church, and will, dur ing the month of July, have charge ot the South Congregational church in Chicago.
 Reuben H. Donnelly was, on the 3d, elected president of the Chicago ex- change. and John J. Mitchell was chosen treasurer. There was but one ticket in the field for those offices. It was reported, on the Sd, that President Hayemyer would soon re- sign the presidency of the American l Sugar Refining Co.,, and be succeeded by W. 5. Thomas, of Boston.